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I was getting ready to go to Southglen Mall with Hannie, Tic, and Cassie.

Cassie is a Nick/AJ fan who is really nice, but she always tries to steal the Treasurer position from Phanny and my Nick posters from me. We still love her anyway.

What should I wear today? Should I wear my Backstreet Boys shirt? Maybe I should call Hannie and ask her. I guess not. I think I’ll wear my mini-skirt and my zip-up black platform shoes. But I can’t go to the mall without a shirt, well I could, but I’d get kicked out. I think I’ll wear my plain white shirt and a jean jacket.
Now I have to grab my keys and get in the car. I’m driving to the mall. We're all going to meet in Sam Goody.

I walked into the mall through Dillards and saw Carrie looking at the hats.

“Tic,” I called, “What are you doing?”

“Looking at the hats,” Carrie replied.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because this one looks like one of AJ’s hats,” Carrie answered.

She held up a leopard print hat.

“Oh it does,” I agreed.

“Are you gonna buy it?” I asked.

“Oh yeah,” Carrie replied, “At the concert I’m just gonna waltz up to him with a hat.”

She then shook her head.

“Well we’d better get going to Sam Goody,” I informed her.

When we walked to the back of the store where Hannie and Cassie were standing, I over heard their conversation.

“Do these match?” Cassie asked holding up a blue sweatshirt and a black t-shirt, both made for Black & Blue.

“Well, it’s black and blue,” Hannie joked.

They both laughed.

“Hey guys,” Carrie and I exclaimed.

“Hey to both of you too,” Cassie replied.

Hannie nodded.

“Is anyone getting anything?” I asked.

“These!” Cassie exclaimed.

“Nope,” Carrie replied.

“Are you kidding?” Hannie asked.

“Ok Cassie, hurry up cuz I wanna go to the Gap and none of us wanna buy anything.”

Hannie and Carrie nodded their heads in agreement for the Gap.

“Okies guys!” Cassie called when she finished her purchase.

We started walking towards the Gap.

On the other side of the mall, in the video game store, were the Backstreet Boys.

“And I want this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this…” Nick said every time he passed a video game.

“Will he ever shut up?” Howie asked Brian.

“No,” Brian answered.

“I knew we shouldn’t have come in here,” Kevin said shaking his head.

“Ok, lets go,” AJ said, “Maybe Nick wont notice.”

The others nodded their heads and started walking out of the store.

“Wait, don’t leave me!” Nick yelled and ran after them.

“Where are we going now?” Kevin asked.

“Let’s go to the Gap!” Nick exclaimed.

Brian nodded his head.

“Alright,” AJ informed them, “the Gap it is.”

By that time we had reached the Gap.

“Look at these pants!” I yelled.

“Oh my god!” Cassie exclaimed.

“You look so perfect in those!” Carrie agreed.

Then I heard a scream.

I looked down and saw Hannie scramble into a circular ring of pants.

“Get out Hannie,” I ordered.

Hannie shook her head and said, “Whatever you do D, don’t look up.”

Whenever someone says that it’s like daring you to do it, I looked up and so did Carrie.

“Oh my god Tac,” she whispered, “it’s the Backstreet Boys.”

On the other side of the Gap the Backstreet Boys were having almost the same conversation.

“Guys, don’t look up,” AJ informed them.

Brian looked up.

“Oh my gosh, look Nick it’s that girl,” Brian whispered.

Nick looked up and smiled, he started walking our way but AJ pulled him back by the shoulder.

“Nick are you insane?” AJ asked.

Nick looked over his shoulder and then back at AJ and replied, “Maybe.”

“Don’t go over there Nick,” AJ warned him.

“Why?” Nick asked and pulled away seeing that AJ didn’t have an answer.

“Look,” Cassie exclaimed, “Nick’s coming over here.”

She and Carrie squealed.

Nick came over and stood right in front of me.

“Hi,” I said.

“I couldn’t help but wonder,” Nick informed me, “if you were the girl that’s the president of that music club.”

“Yeah that’s me,” I replied feeling so dumb only saying that to Nick.

“Oh wow that’s so cool,” Nick exclaimed, “we’ve heard so much about you and your club, haven’t we guys?” Nick looked at me and then at the other guys.

Brian looked back at Nick, where as Kevin looked down, Howie looked up, and AJ turned away.

Brian then walked over.

“That’s right Nick,” Brian agreed.

I looked at both of them and then over at Cassie and Carrie.

Cassie looked confused and Carrie was like running out of oxygen saying so many quiet ‘oh my gods’ that you couldn’t hear her.

Then I looked back at Nick and Brian.

Then I turned to Cassie and asked in a whisper, “Do you think Nick will let me give him a hug?”

“I guess so,” Cassie whispered back.

I went up to Nick and gave him a hug, it made me so happy and it felt like Nick was hugging me back.

I couldn’t see it, but Nick smiled at Brian and mouthed the words, ‘Look Bri, she’s hugging me.’

By that time Howie, Kevin, and even AJ came over. I stopped hugging Nick.

“I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced,” Kevin mentioned.

“Oh yeah,” I replied, “this is Cassie.” I pointed to my left.

“Hi, it’s nice to meet you,” Cassie told the Backstreet Boys.

They smiled.

“And this is Carrie,” I pointed to my right.

“Hi Carrie,” the Backstreet Boys said.

“Oh my god! This is so cool! I love you guys! I love you Brian!” Carrie screamed and ran up to Brian and gave him a hug.

Brian smiled.

After Carrie finished hugging Brian I went to introduce Hannie.

“And this is Hannie,” I pointed to the circular ring of pants.

AJ looked at me like I was insane and whispered to Nick, “What do you see in this girl, she thinks pants racks are her friends.”

“There has to be an explanation,” Nick whispered back.

I got down on my knees and pulled Hannie out from the circular ring of pants.

“But I don’t wanna get out,” Hannie whispered.

“They think I’m a nut case,” I whispered back.

“Alright, anything for a friend,” Hannie finally decided.

“Hi,” Hannie said after I got her out of the circular ring of pants.

The Backstreet Boys smiled.

“See I told you AJ,” Nick whispered.

AJ shook his head.

“And you are?” Howie asked.

“Oh, yeah,” I replied feeling stupid, “I’m Deanna, but you can call me D.”

Brian smiled directly at Nick.

Nick turned pink and quickly looked away.

“Hey guys,” Kevin asked, “wouldn’t it be cool if we went to one of their meetings and visited them?”

“Oh yeah,” Brian, Howie, and AJ agreed.

Nick smiled with agreement. His face was finally returning to its normal color.

“That’s a wonderful idea,” Cassie agreed.

“Where should we meet you?” Nick asked looking directly at me even though I hadn’t said anything.

I looked at Hannie quickly, my looked basically said ‘should I give them my address, or yours?’

Hannie nodded to my house, of course.

I quickly wrote my address on a piece of paper and said, “Here around 3:30 tomorrow.”

I handed the paper to Nick, who quickly looked at it.

He looked at Brian and smiled.

“Thanks babe,” Nick replied, “we’ll see you then.”

Brian smiled at us.

“Bye babe,” Nick said and added, “by the way the pants look good on you, you should get them.”

“See you later,” I called.

The other Backstreet Boys waved.

When they left I let out a sigh of relief, and then Carrie started laughing.

“What’s so funny Carrie?” I asked.

“That was cute,” She replied.

“It was so cute,” Cassie agreed, “Didn’t you hear D?”

“Hear what?” I asked.

“Nick called you ‘babe’,” Cassie replied.

“Yeah,” Carrie agreed jokingly, “I think he likes you.”

“How do you know?” I asked.

“When you introduced yourself and Brian smiled at him he turned pink,” Carrie replied, “and then he looked away.”

“Go buy the pants D,” Hannie urged me.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because he said they looked good on you,” All three of them replied.

Hannie then pushed me towards the cash register.

After I bought them Cassie smiled at me.

“What now?” I asked.

“I was just thinking how you’re probably gonna wear them tomorrow,” Cassie said.

I smiled back at her.

When I got home that night I opened the window and looked out at the stars, then I got thirsty and went downstairs to get lemonade.

When I got back upstairs I heard noises outside. I looked down and saw someone down there.