Great chapter! I love that Nick and Brian are messing around in secret, but Brian needs to man up and break it off with Leighanne instead of cheating on her behind her back. I also enjoyed the meeting scene. It makes me so angry to think about their managers making Brian postpone his surgery, forcing him to go back on the tour so soon afterward, and making him feel like his health was less important than sticking to the group's tour schedule. Ridiculous. It was sad to see that none of the other guys were really sticking up for Brian, except Nick, and even he wasn't very vocal during the actual meeting. I've probably said this before, but I love how you're interweaving the romance with the real life drama with Lou and the heart surgery and all of that.