Awwww so sad! I just want them to be happy... I LOVE BRIAN!!!!!

great story!

Author's Response: Thanks! I\'d like for them to be happy too...but, alas, it may never happen. Lol.

hehe I smiled at the chapter title. I really like the perspective changes. I like reading first person, but it's nice to have you change up which person is talking. Is it bad that I already feel sorry for Nick? He didn't seem to have much of a brain in this chapter and that won't go over very well with the others. Man, this situation is so awkward and I can't help but wonder what it was really like for them I mean they were thicker than blood, and then five years apart. It's got to be rough. lol at Brian's paranoia. I can see him being like that. And Kevin being grumbly about airports, that seemed to fit too. I'm excited for that all five of them finally together moment where they don't really know what to say or do. It will be interesting to see where you take this story. You said this is based on events and I have to say I was so out of the BSB world between their break and when the never gone album came out. It will be kind of nice to read a little about it. AJ and I sort of went off the deep end at the same time so I didn't really know much of anything in life back then. Like I've still never seen that Oprah episode and I only found out about never gone like the week before the album was released when I heard Incomplete on the radio and kind of went... hey, does that sort of sound like the Backstreet Boys to anybody else? Anyway, all I mean to say is that timing wise this brings back a lot of memories for me so it should be interesting and I'm really curious to read on because it's like the one point in time where I didn't know they boy's ever step. Oh, and I liked that whole bit when Brian and AJ were talking about being programed into each other's phones. I thought that was a really clever way to interpret how things are between them. I mean they're laughing and they can still talk to one another because they know each other and yet they aren't sure exactly how everyone else feels about them. Random, but it's the little things like that in stories that always stand out to me the most. I'm glad I made you smile, I shall try my best to keep it up. I don't think I'll get bored with the story. Even when something is not my usual read, if it's written well enough, I still get sucked into the stories and actually usually remember those ones more, because it's different. It's usually surprisingly refreshing, the hardest part is getting me to start it. Anyway, here's another random review for a finished story! More to come later I'm sure, but then... they really won't be random now will they?

Author's Response: Wow, so this is what a Kelly review is all about? I have heard about Kely reviews but it's mega fun to actually get one! I had just become a fan when they went on hiatus so I was intrigued by what they did on their down time. I wasn't a fan when AJ did the rehab thing so I never got into that whole thing. I did watch the Oprah episode but to me, it wasn't as big as it was to everyone else because AJ's mom annoys me lol As far as writing in all five povs. I write a lot of my stories like that because I get easily bored writing in one pov. Some of the chapters as you go along will only be a few boys but it's always at least two of them. I'm glad you're enjoying it so far. YAY!

awwww, I just feel so bad for Nick. I don't know how you do it, but you're very good at looking through all the different perspectives of the guys. And I love how you seem to give them each their own set of worries and insecurities. I felt so bad for Nick in this chapter (when the guys all made plans without him and then Kevin tired to force him into a pity invite...) There was something you said, I'm too lazy to go back and look, but when Nick was talking about how he loved the guys so much, but he also kind of hated being back because it was them that did this to him. (tore him up emotionally and made him a mental mess) I think you really nailed it there. It's almost like they aren't healthy for him because of how he is so self conscious around them. I can personally relate to that feeling and it is seriously one of the worst feelings in the world. The people you love the most and the ones that could help you the most are also the people that hurt you the most whether they know it or not. I can totally picture the Backstreet Boys like that. I honestly love the approach you're taking to this story. I love how you've managed to analyze every aspect of their relationships and are just compiling that into something that almost sounds like it could be a collective auto biography. Does that make sense? Like it's not really a "story" like most things you read here on AC. Like there's not necessarily a plot that I can see. It's more like an imaginary glimpse into the real life of the guys, and I'm surprised at how fascinating it is to me. I normally have the attention span of a fly when it comes to character studies so major kudos to you. I think it's because you portray them very close to the way I imagine them. Anyway, Yay Mare! I'm loving this!

Author's Response: I get what you mean about the people who love us hurt us most. I really could see Nick in that way, being overly sensivite to everything the guys think and especially with all the praise AJ was getting from them all back then. I'm sure there was a lot of hurt there especially since hs solo album flopped and instead of getting behind him they kind of stood aside and let him flop alone. THanks for the compliment about this story and your right. When I wrote it, I tried to go with more of a filming a documentary type thing than an actual plot. There isn't a storyline in this more like a timeline of events leading up to the release of NG. I took all the interviews etc...and blended them into what I think might have happened lol so many times i'll see them in an interview now and think wow that's a Why i'd do it all again moment lol I'm such a dork! Anyway i'm so happy you like this one thanks for reading it! :O)

what could go wrong? Oh lord... talk about famous last words. hahaha. LMAO at Brian watching the wiggles and then AJ actually turning it back on after he left. And seriously, how did they end up in a suite with only one bathroom. I can imagine the Backstreet Boys being worse about that than Dee and her sorority sisters. hahaha. *I love you Dee* There were so many funny things in these last couple of chapters. Yay for smart witty banter! And lol at the random poop in a sock comment. Can you believe that my brothers actually did that once and chased us girls around the house with it. I seriously about died picturing Nick and Brian having poop-sock wars! And seriously, Brian and AJ's relationship intrigues me. You must have picked up on the freakiness early, because all the gay banter you've written in there. I swear those two are really like that now but I never noticed it until this album. There's something about all those A-Rok interviews during their Unbreakable promo tour that makes me just wanna not ask. lol Anyway, I love it and yet I kinda shudder every time because I can totally picture them being like that for real. And again, I loved poor little Nicky in love. (grrrrrr why did it have to be HER!, maybe I should make her the villain in my story? Or better yet, find a way to kill her off!) Anyway, Nicky in love was so incredibly cute! But I wanted to smack him for some reason. The boy met her once and he's licking people? Lol sounds like so typical Nick, actually. I love how he could at least have his secret with AJ and I also loved how AJ turned around and blabbed it right to Howie. I bet AJ has a big mouth. Anyway, great couple of chapters!

Author's Response: LMao can't you picture AJ watching the Wiggles? I can totally see him sitting there entranced by them. I know, that was a hard unbelieveable element to this story but let's face it, more comedy when it's only one bathroom lol IThat poop incident distrubed me so I throw it in there from time to time. Should I be thankful I am brotherless? lol Those two (Aj and Brian) Do have a very special relationship and I do think AJ is infatuated for whatever reason, by Leighanne. Nick randonmly licks people a lot lol and I agree, I bet AJ has a huge mouth!

LMAO at the crayons thing. I love those books. Ok, must stop here for now, but I'm sad to have to stop. You always manage to suck me in and put a smile on my face. Even if some times it's a sad smile. I can't help but feel bad for them all. I love how you've made things between them all so complicated. It seems so realistic that way. But at the same time it makes me look at then now and I kind of get sad because they seem really distant from one another to me. Oh well, such is life I guess. Ok, shoot gotta run... but this boys night/ almost sleepover type evening was really cute and made me giggle. hehe oh to be a fly on the wall at a BSB sleepover.

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I love the thought of them just sitting there coloring. Is it wrong of me to think that maybe they would do something like that? Maybe not wrong but incredibly naive *sigh* but it makes me happy to think of them like that. Because like you said, I don't see the closeness as much as I used to. I mean I think they are still close but it's lost that brotherly thing for me. *kicks Kevin who I blame for that!*

Dude! It only takes kids like .02 seconds to destroy an entire house with perminant marker. I should know, mine did it a few weeks ago...

those guys are sooooo dead! all you ever hear about is how Brian and Leigh love Baylee's curls and wont cut the poor kids hair.

I hate her! haha! I wonder where this is gonna go. Let's go find out shall we?