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Chapter 1

“ Please put all trays and seats in their upright position we will be landing shortly.” the flight attendant said as we started getting ready to land in Las Vegas.
“ Oh man I wonder how many people have really changed, too bad we both missed the five year reunion. And it's really hard to believe that we have been out of school for ten years now.” Melinda said as she put her tray up and then looked out of the window and saw the city of Las Vegas coming closer to us as we descended from the sky.
“ Yeah it really is hard to believe it has been ten years, You know I hope some of the old gang will be here, it's been a long time and it's to bad that we all have lost contact with each other, well besides you and me. You know I think Steve was just glad to get rid of us for the next four days.” I said as I heard the landing gears started coming down as we got closer to the ground.
“ Well I did hear from one and that Kimberly, but that was because she in charge with this years, reunion.” Melinda said as we landed on the ground.
“ Oh I see, well here we are in sin city, do you know what car rental that we need to go to from here?” I asked as the plane made it's way to the gate.
“ Um... I have it down in the day planner so when we get off the plane we can find a seat and I can pull out the planner from my bag, but I'm thinking it's Avis.” Melinda said as we stopped at the gate and then the seat belt sign went off.
We got up and started getting our stuff together while we waited for the plane's door to open up.
“ Man I can't wait for the show tonight and I wonder if he will be going out after the show too.” I over heard one of the younger girls who were here for a concert that was tonight playing at one of the hotels.
“ Who are you going to see tonight?” Melinda asked the girl who was standing next to her.
“ Oh we are going to see Nick Carter, he is doing a second solo tour for his new album.” the girl said as she reached up for her carry on bag.
“ Oh, hey Jenn didn't you once live behind Nick when you were younger?” Melinda asked me which got the two girls looking at me.
“ Um .... I think so why do you ask.” I said not really knowing for sure if he did live behind my house in Ruskin.
“ Well he is here for a show tonight.” she said as reached up and got her bag.
“ Oh... I didn't know that he was on tour.” I said as the people in front of me started moving down the isle and departing the plane.
“ I thought you knew him.” she said as we started walking down the isle and exiting the plane.
“ Um... no I don't him personally... but I did get to interview him just once and it was like five minutes and that was it and when the interview was over I left and went home.” I said as we stepped inside the airport.
“ Oh ok come over here and lets see what car rental we need to take.” Melinda said as the two girls just walked passed us and headed for their destination.
“ We need to find the Avis rental, and it is under my name, I just hope we get a cool car though.” Melinda said as she looked at the planner that she had pulled out when we came to the first row of chairs.
“ You did tell Kimberly that I was coming too right?” I asked her as she put the planner back in her bag and we started for the front of the airport to where the car rentals were
located.
“ Yes I did tell her and she was very happy to hear that you will be coming, she told me that she would really like to see you again.” she said as we walked through the area that was known as the food court area.
“ I'm glad to hear that because I'm really like to see her and the rest of the gang, I really do miss them, and it's really to bad that we lost contact after our third year from graduated from East Bay.” I said as we came up to the front of the airport and Melinda stopped and looked around until she saw the Avis rental.
We walked up to the counter and waited for the guy to get off the phone with a customer that he was helping over the phone.
“ Hello and welcome to Vegas, can I help you?” the guy asked as he hung up the phone.
“ Um... yes I have a reservation for a car.” Melinda said as she reached down and pulled out her planner again and got out the information that Kimberly gave her.
“ Ok and what name is the reservation under.” the guy said as he looked down at his computer.
“ It's under the name Reynolds, Melinda. A representative from the committee of East Bay High School reunion set up the reservation for me and my friend here.” Melinda said as she handed the guy the information that she had gotten in the mail from Kimberly.
“ Oh yes Ms. Reynolds we do have your reservation and the car is waiting for you as we speak, Frank can you get the car for Ms. Reynolds please.” the guy said to other guy who stepped out of the back office.
The guy handed the keys to the younger guy and he left, while the other guy started typing up the invoice for us.
“ Ok let me get this information down, while Frank brings the car around for you guys.” the guy said as he started typing the information that Melinda had handed him.
“ That's fine do you know a great restaurant to get something to eat for lunch?” I asked as looked around and watched the people coming and going from all over the airport.
“ The one place I love to eat at is the Hard Rock Cafe, but there is a great restaurant at the MGM hotel too.” the guy said as he finished up the invoice.
“ Oh we are staying there?” I asked as looked up from the broacher I was reading.
“ Yeah I thought I told you that we were staying there.” Melinda said just as the other guy came back in and handed the keys back to the guy at the counter.
“ Ok Ms. Reynolds here is your invoice and the map on how to get to your hotel and the key to the car. Hope you have a great stay here in Vegas and a wonderful day.” the guy said as he handed the keys to Melinda.
“ Thank you so very much and you have a great day too.” Melinda said as she took the keys and picked up her bag and we said bye to the guy and headed out the door the guy show us and there sat the car.
Man can you say they gave us a BMW Z class too, and it was the grayish – blue color and it was a convertible too.
“ Oh sweet can you say this is one of the cars that I want so badly.” I said as she unlocked the trunk of the car and we put our two bags in the trunk.
“ Yeah me too, well lets get to the hotel and check in before getting something to eat ok.” Melinda said as we got into the car and we took off towards the hotel.
“ You know I wonder what everyone looks like now, I can't wait to see how bad of an impact mother nature has had on some of the girls and guys here at this reunion.” I said as we stopped at a red light and I saw the Palms hotel and further down the road the large guitar of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
The light turned green and Melinda zoomed off again down the Vegas strip I was just looking at all the cool Hotels and Casinos there where, and yes even the wedding chapels too.
“ Ok here we are the Grand MGM Hotel and Casino.” Melinda said as she pulled into the parking lot and drove up to the hotel entrance.
“ Good Afternoon ma'am and welcome to the Grand MGM.” the valet said as he opened the car door for Melinda.
“ Good afternoon to you sir, and here you go.” she said getting out of the car and handing him the keys to the car.
He went to the back of the car and opened up the trunk of the car and started to get our bags out just as the bag boy came out with a luggage cart.
“ We really don't need the cart for our bags, because there is only two small bags.” I said as the bag boy still put our bags onto the cart.
“ Yes ma'am but this will be easier for you and your friend here so that way you don't have to worry about getting them to your rooms.” he said as the car left and we started walking towards the entrance of the hotel.
Once inside I was in total ah in how beautiful the main lobby was and how busy it was too.
The bag boy led us up to the front desk and to a waiting desk clerk.
“ Good afternoon ladies and welcome to the Grand MGM, I'm Tammy and I will be at your beck and call today and if there is anything you need just let me now.” she said as looked at both of us.
“ Hey Tammy, I'm here to check in, I have a reservation under Reynolds, Melinda.” Melinda said as she stepped closer to the counter and handing her the information that she had gotten in the mail and her ID..
“ Ah yes Ms. Reynolds we have you here for the High School Reunion that will be taking place this weekend. Tomorrow there will be a small dinner part in our main ball room.
Ok we have you for a double room, you are in room 2010. Here are your keys and other information of stuff and events that are going on this weekend.” the lady said as she handed Melinda back her ID and her information.
“ Ok well thank you so very much and you have a great day.” Melinda said as she took her stuff back and we followed the bag boy up to our room.
Man can you say the room was really big and beautiful it had two queen size beds and a small seating area, and a mini-fridge too.
We tipped the bag boy and then took our bags to our beds and put them on top of the.
“ Well let's check out the restaurant and see what's for lunch. And then we can check some of the shops, and Casinos too.” I said as we grabbed our room keys and headed down stairs to the restaurant for lunch.
“ Man there sure are a lot of young girls running around here, I wonder why?” Melinda said as the hostess led us to our table.
“ I'm really not sure, but there is a concert tonight, so I'm guessing they could be here to see the act.” she said as she handed us our menus.
“ I really didn't think of that, so who is playing here tonight then?” I asked as opened up my menu and started looking at it.
“ I don't know, if it's not country then I'm lost. Your waitress will be with you in a moment.” the hostess said before leaving us and heading back to her post at the front of the restaurant.
“ So I wonder who is playing and if there are still tickets to the show you want to go.” Melinda asked just as our waitress came up to our table.
“ No I think I'm going to see one of the Night clubs that is here.” I said looking up and seeing the girl standing there.
“ Hello I'm Karrie and I will be your server today, what can I get you ladies to drink today?” she asked as she smiled at both me and Melinda.
“ Um... I would like to have coke with both lemon and lime please.” I said as looked up at her and gave her smile.
“ Ok coke with lemon and lime, and for you miss?” she asked turning her attention to Melinda.
“ I think I'll have a coke too, but without the lemon and lime.” she said as she still looked at her menu.
“ Ok I have two cokes, and one with lemon and lime and the without.” she said before leaving our table and getting our drinks.
Two minutes later she came back with our drinks and took our lunch order too.
“ I have a question, that the hostess couldn't answer, I was wondering do you know who is concert tonight?” Melinda asked as the waitress put her hamburger down in front of her.
“ Oh yes ma'am the artist that is playing here tonight is Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, and from what I have heard his show is sold out.” the waitress said with a huge smile on her face, I could tell that she like him.
“ Oh well I guess we won't go see if there are seats left. Hey Jennifer this could be a great time to rekindle your friendship with him.” Melinda said as she smile over to me and the waitress turned to look at me with you know him look.
“ What are you talking about Mel. I not know him personally, I may have interviewed him a couple of times and lived behind him when we were little but that was all.” I said giving her this shut the hell up look.
“ You got to interview him and you lived behind him too. Oh wow.” the waitress said with omg look in her eyes, the kind that you see in fans.
“ I work for a local radio station back home in Tampa, and when I was little my house was behind or should I say across the canal from his in Ruskin. But know him as a friend or something like that then no I don't know him.” I said as that look faded from her eyes and then she just nodded and walked off to another table that she was serving.
After lunch we did a little site seeing and window shopping then we came back to the hotel where Melinda went back to the room and took a nap, while I headed to one of the casinos and tried my hand at the Black Jack tables, in which I did pretty good I came back to the room with $500.00 extra dollars.
Then I came back to the room and found Melinda gone, she left a note saying that she went down to the pool area and will stay there until an hour before dinner.
I took off my shoes and climbed into bed and took a small nap, which lasted an hour and half before Melinda came back and woke me up and we got ready for dinner.
Of course while we were downstairs in the lobby we bumped into a lot of Backstreet Boys fans that were here to see Nick who performing here at the MGM tonight.
Three hours later we where sitting down in a booth at a nightclub that we went to just to have some fun before the reunion that will take up the rest of our time while we are here.
“ I'm going to go to the ladies room and then go the bar and get a drink ok.” I said getting up and heading for the ladies room.
“ Oh man I can't believe that Nick is here, let's see if we can get into the VIP section and hang with him.” this one girl said as she and her friend stood by the sink and trying to make themselves look more like a tramp.
I went into the stall and did my business and then I went to the sink and started washing my hands and then just added just a little lip gloss.
I walked out of the restroom and somewhat walked right into the person that was also coming out of the man's restroom.
“ Oh excuse me.” I said as I looked up and saw the most beautiful blue eyes.
“ Oh hey no excuse me, it was me that walked into you.” the guy said as he looked down at me and gave me a wonderful smile.
“ Well let's just say we walked into each other, I'm Jennifer.” I said holding out my hand for him to shake.
“ Ok that sounds good to me, hello Jennifer, I'm Nick.” he said taking my hand and shaking it.
“ It's nice to meet you Nick.” I said giving a warm smile and taking my hand back from him.
“ It's nice to meet you too Jennifer, can I get you a drink just to say that I'm say that I'm sorry for almost running you over.” he said leaning against the wall.
“ Um sure that sounds great.” I said as he stood back up and too my hand and led me to a very dimly lit but cozy booth area in which I found out was his VIP table.
He sat down and took a nacho chip that was covered with chili, cheese, onions and peppers, and putting his hand under the chip he brought over to my mouth.
I took from him just as a waitress came over to the table.
“ Um... yeah I would like rum and coke and what would you like to have, Jen?” Nick asked me as he took a chip for himself.
“ I think I will have the same thing please.” I said taking another chip from Nick and saw the nasty look the waitress gave me too.
“ Man what a bitch remind me not to leave her a tip. Why do I have this feeling that we met before?” he said sitting back against the back of the booth and turning so he could get a better look at me.
“ Well for starters I did an interview with you about two years ago, but you may not remember me from way back, back when you lived in Ruskin.” I said taking another chip and eating it.
“ Ok I somewhat remember that interview it was right after I got arrested and when I broke up with Paris, you were the first person I talked to about what happen. What happen in Ruskin?” he asked getting a little confused look on his face.
Before I could answer him our waitress came back with our drinks, and Nick got up a little bit and shut the curtains that were up around the booth area before sitting back again.
“ I grew up in Ruskin too, and as matter of fact my house was behind your house across from the canal. Ok next to Brent's house I lived in the pale yellow house next to his.” I said taking a sip of the drink.
“ Oh yeah I remember a guy name Joey that lived there we used to play together over at Brent's.” Nick said as he too took a sip of his drink.
“ Yeah that was my brother.” I said as a tears started to come to my eyes.
“ Oh hey did I say something wrong.” he asked getting a napkin and handing it to me.
“ No you didn't, you see Joey died four years ago from a tumor.” was all I said before I started to cry a little bit.
“ Oh I'm so sorry, Here why don't you use my shoulder.” he said sliding next to me and pulling me into his arms and held me while I cried for a few minutes.
After a few moments of tears we started talking about other things like what I do and where I live now.
It was after the third rum and coke that I started feeling very strange, I also noticed that the last drink and a funny taste to it, but of course I blew it off because I was having to much fun with Nick.