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Finally things had changed. He finally seemed to notice her. She saw him watching her as she walked by, she felt his eyes following her. It wouldn’t be long before he would ask her out, she just knew it. And she couldn’t wait to say ‘yes’ to his invitation, she had already picked out a cute black dress to wear to dinner, which would come off easily as well when he’d want dessert at her place. Just thinking about it gave her butterflies. Soon Kevin Richardson, you’ll be mine, all mine...

Kevin watched Debra as she walked by, wondering why she still came over to check on Wendy, who wasn’t on her floor or anywhere near it. Katie was the one who was mostly responsible for his friend. He just had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right, but he couldn’t just figure out what it was exactly. Maybe he was seeing things that weren’t there, but..

“Cuz, are you coming? She wants to hear the story about the five of us, and I think we’ll be needing all the evidence you have with you to convince her..”
Brian chuckled as he walked in to her room, followed by Kevin.
“Goodmorning, sunshine.. Allright, this will be a long story.”
“No, it won’t. I’ll help you tell it, so it should take about.. 2 minutes!” A.J. replied with a funny face.
“I’ll help too, because knowing you, Alex, you’ll leave all the good parts out!”
“No I won’t Nick, I’ll just leave you out, so all the good stuff will be in it.”
Wendy threw a pillow in A.J.’s direction, and because he didn’t see it coming, it hit him straight in the face, which caused them all to laugh at him. Brian and Wendy high-fived and A.J. tried to give them an angry look, but failed miserably.

“Once upon a time..”
“In a land far far away, yeah Brian, we get the idea.” Howie replied.
“Allright, I’ll keep things simple then.”
“Please do, Rok, just for once.” Alex chuckled.
“Owh come on, you guys, just one at a time, or else..”
“Or else what, sunshine?”
“Or else I’ll ask Nick to use you as a bowling ball.”
“I can do that!! Please A.J. let me use you as a bowling ball!”
“Hell no.”
“Then be a good boy, maybe you’ll get some icecream from uncle Kevy later.” Wendy giggled.
“Hey, leave uncle Kevy out of this!!” Kevin replied with a smile.

“ONCE UPON A TIME...” Brian yelled, trying to get everyone’s attention in which he succeeded.
“Allright, that’s better. Well, as you know Kevin and I are cousins, so that’s obvious. But now how did we, the normal two, get to know the freak, the baby and the player?” Brian chuckled. “Way way way back, A.J. wasn’t a freak that much, and I once bumped into him while we were in high school. Maybe he had a crush on me or something, cause after that one time, we always ran into each other in the hallway or on the basketball court. Then after a while, he brought along some dork..”
“Hey man, I wasn’t a dork!!” Nick yelled.
“Okay, but you are now.” Howie chuckled.
“And I sure as hell didn’t have a crush on you! It was the other way around I think!”
“Nick, bowling ball time!!”
“Nooooooo! I’ll shut up!” A.J. replied, trying to look as if he was really scared.
“Okay, so he brought along Nick, who lived nearby him.”
“Yes, we had known each other for quite some time and we played basketball together and stuff like that. And then they had to renovate the court that was right down the street, so we played at my highschool, together with Brian, some other guys and Kevin whenever he was in town.”
“I’ll go and get some coffee.” Howie then said.
“Owh no, you’re staying right here!” A.J. held onto him as he was trying to leave the room.
“He just wants some coffee!” Wendy was confused.
“No, he wants to make sure that he’s not here when we tell you how we all met him!” Kevin chuckled. “You’re staying right here, D.”
Howie blushed. “Just get it over with then.”
“One day, the dork tried to pass me the ball, but he has no coordination whatsoever, so it went by me and.. hit Howie, who was talking to some girl, on the head, which caused him to pass out. Later we found out that he had a concussion, thanks to Nick’s bad coordination. So we visited him a few times, and he turned out to be a nice guy, even though he hates basketball now.”
Wendy couldn’t help but giggle as she looked at Howie whose head turned tomato-red..

After a few minutes she asked Brian: “So you guys became such close friends after just this? It’s kind of hard to believe for some reason.”
“Well, there’s more to it than this, but I think it’s hard for you to believe me when I tell you this.”
“Why?”
“Ehm, allright, here goes nothing. We found out that we all sang quite a lot. I did in church for example. Then someday, you came over to my house to do a science project together. What you didn’t know was that all the guys were there as well. You came up to my door, but then you heard us sing, just for fun. So you came in, which startled us to be honest, and told us that it sounded great. Well, after some encouragement in the months after this, we decided to do something with our talent..”
“And to make a long story short, you’re looking at the Backstreet Boys right now..” A.J. interrupted.
“What? Who?”
“The Backstreet Boys. I know, I know, this is hard to believe, but we became a vocal group who actually managed to succeed in the business. We’ve had some succes in the US and huge successes around Europe and Asia.”
Wendy just looked at A.J. as if he had just said that two and two makes six. Then she burst into laughter.
“You almost had me there, Alex. I can’t believe I almost fell for that.”
Brian smiled. “I told you we were going to need the evidence, cuz..”
Kevin got up and handed a bag over to Wendy. Inside were some cd’s, articles and merchandise. Wendy looked at a few things and her jaw just dropped. “Allright, so if you are that great singers, let’s hear it then.”

~~Later that night~~

Allright, they could really sing. They really managed to touch her soul with their magical voices, each with his one specialty. They even made her cry when they sang something like

“Don’t wanna lose you now
I know we can win this
Don’t wanna lose you now
Or ever again..”

Brian saw some worries in her eyes though after they told her about the group. So when everyone had left to go out for dinner, he stayed behind and asked her what was wrong. She told him that she was worried that they weren’t doing any shows or anything because of her situation. Brian told her that they were on a break for at least a year or so. Baylee was one of the reasons why, Brian wanted to spend more time with his son and wife, Howie had bought a new house which he wanted to decorate himself, so that would take ages and the others just liked the idea of a long vacation.

But now she just couldn’t sleep. Her mind was processing all the things she had heard earlier. Now she understood how they became such close friends, their voices bonded them and their friendship grew stronger while being in the band, seeing each other everyday and sharing the succes, even though they were very modest about it, but from what she had heard from Leighanne and Suzie, they were a huge succes over in Europe and Asia and famous in the US as well.

Wendy rearranged the pillows again and tried to empty her mind, which usually helped her fall asleep. But not this time. She kept hearing their voices, seeing the passion in their eyes while they sang and felt their special connection with each other. I love the fact that they can sing as beautifully as they do, but I would really like to get some sleep, she thought.

I don’t care who you are..

Ah men, that’s the 5th time already. Why do I keep hearing that sentence in my head? Why? I don’t understand. I just wanna get some rest. She yawned and closed her eyes again, longing for some eyeshut.

I don’t care who you are..where you’re from..

This is just nuts. Wendy looked at the clock. It was 1.25am. She didn’t really care where the sentences came from, no, she just wanted to get some rest, but for some reason, something wouldn’t let her.

I don’t care who you are.. where you’re from.. what you did..

She had had it already. “I know this is the most stupid thing I ever did since I ended up here, but I just have to know where this is coming from.” she quietly said to herself. She picked up the phone and dialed Brian’s number. She felt a bit guilty about waking him up, but something told her to just call him and tell him about this.

“Brian?”
“Hmm..what.. oh..” Brian yawned and felt drowsy, but then he suddenly realized it was Wendy on the phone and he was wide awake, praying that everything was allright. “Wendy, is something wrong?”
“Yes there is, I can’t sleep.”
Brian smiled. “And so you decided that if you can’t sleep, I can’t either?”
“No, you dork.. Something’s just on my mind. Brian, can you tell me what this means? I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, what you did.. Brian?? Hello?”
Brian didn’t answer, he had just dropped the phone on the floor.