They threw another balloon but I saw it in time and since they weren't throwing incredibly hard I caught it. "Uhoh" I heard their five voices in unison. I turned around and chucked the balloon at Kevin, hitting him in the chest, he was soaked. Nick and Aaron started shooting at me with the water guns. I decided that I needed to either jump in the pool or try to grab one of the water guns. I ran towards Aaron who had realized what I was planning. I chased him around the pool twice before I caught him "Haha so you think you'll get me wet and get away with it huh?...." I said to him laughing as I picked him up and started tickling him and took his water gun. Howie and Brian had also picked up water guns. Randy, Denise, and Donna had obviously heard the commotion and must have thought we were getting jumped or something of the sort because they all came running out to see what was going on. "Man you guys had me calling half the security team.." Randy yelled at us after realizing what we were doing. Donna and Denise just went back to whatever they had been doing. Andre came out running too, the went back in and came back out with his camera. Jeff and a couple of the other security guys grabbed water guns and joined in on my team. We started shooting water back at the guys. Aaron just sat on a chair laughing his little heart out. I was glad there was no one in the pool or they would have gotten in the way. We ducked behind chairs trying to shoot each other without getting wet, like an army game. I ran out of water and was too far away to refill the gun. I decided that if I surrendered they might stop. I stood up from behind the chair dripping wet "OK you guys win...you are better at pranks than I am, I've lost."Hoping that it would target their egos I stepped on the pool deck.
They all stood up from behind their chairs laughing and dripping wet also. "Well, well well.. she has finally admitted to our superiority..." AJ said laughing in a deep voice. By now we were all laughing. "OK now can I go...?" Out of the side of my eye I caught Brian and Nick giving each other a strange look. All of a sudden the five of them and Aaron ran at me. I tried to back out towards the chairs but they got me before I could move. Nick grabbed me and tried to push me in but I grabbed his arms and pulled him in with me. As we fell in the deep end we grabbed each other's arms tighter and ended up in a big knot of limbs underwater. Even from underwater we could hear the guys laughing. As Nick and I pulled our heads out of the water at the same time and looked at each other I saw the security guards walk up behind the guys and push them all in. Within a minute the seven of us were wading in the deep end of the pool looking up at the security guards who were laughing their hearts out. Inevitably we all started laughing, even the guy at the pool bar was laughing."I'm gonna get you guys back sooo bad" Nick threatened the security guards "Just wait, we'll get you guys.." AJ and Kevin chimed in. We kept laughing. We finally decided to get out of the pool as we noticed that more people began filing into the pool area and the guys didn't feel like having to deal with fans. I climbed out of the pool first. As I stood on the deck Kevin was climbing up the ladder to get out. I walked over and stood over him "Well...well...well....isn't this an ironic turn of events...hehe?"Kevin looked up at me and realized what I was about to do "Ohh ET, come on I think you got us back enough..""Oh no Mr. Train your not gonna get away with it this easily...you have pushed me, thrown me, and knocked me into a pool so many times that well I've got to do this for the princible of the matter.."And with that I pushed Kevin back into the pool as he was trying to climb out. We all laughed including Andre who said "These are gonna be awesome shots".
I walked back to where I had been meditating when I was so rudely interrupted to find Nick and Howie eating the last pieces of fruit"Very tastey breakfast. Good choice" Howie commented "Thanks, I'm glad you approve on my food preference" I retorted smiling. "HMMHHMmm good, but they tasted a little like chlorine..." Nick said to me smiling with watermelon seeds purposely placed on his teeth. His wet blond hair clung to his face framing his blue eyes. He swallowed the seeds grinning at me. Kidding around and smiling I said "You know, now you'll get watermelon plants growing in your stomach.." He smiled as if the idea pleased him "Hey sounds good to me I'll never have to buy watermelon again." He responded with a smart ass grin on his face. I was still dripping. I leaned behind Howie and grabbed my towel and wrapped it around my waist. One of the bodyguards got a message from Randy to get us all back inside because there were too many people around so we headed back into the hotel. As we walked in a wall of frigid cold air hit my body and I started shivering "Dang its cold. I'm guessing its cause I'm WET" I said turning around and giving them all an evil look with a hint of sarcasm. "Man if looks could kill we'd be toast." Howie snickered. By the time we got to the elevator the guys had to stop twice to sign autographs and take pics with fans. We piled into the elevator and pressed the button to our floor. I was shivering uncontrollably from the cold since my bathing suit was still very wet. I looked around and the guys looked cold too, everyone except the bodyguards was freezing. "Man I think im loosing felling in my arms.."I tried rubbing my arms to get warm but it didn't help much since my hands were cold too. "Hey let me try.." Nick moved over behind me and started rubbing my arms. "You know I'm still mad at you.." I said turning around and looking at him "But you can keep going cause I'm getting feeling back in my arms...". The elevator stopped three times to pick up other people who couldn't fit in the elevator, but we finally made it to our floor. "Better...?" "Yes much thank you.." I smiled a thank you to him.
As we piled out of the elevator Denise and Nina came out of the room they were in "You guys have half an hour till the bus comes and we have to start moving things back into it." We responded with acknowledgement and agreement. I barely opened the door to my room as the phone rang. I threw my self across the bed and picked it up. "Hello?" "Hello Ms. Terrosa, you have a call from a Megan Sandin, she says its urgent, I'll patch you threw." "Ok thank you." Two seconds later "Hello, Erika?" "Yeah Mai what's up?" "Ok are you watching TV?" "No why?" "Well get off your lazy ass and turn on MTV right now" "OK hold on." I put the phone down, grabbed the remote and turned the tv on, the last thing I had watched the night before was MTV so I didn't need to change the channel. As the tv came on I saw Sara Ulchild talking about the guys' performance the night before and Nick's close encounter with a fan. "Yeah ok it's on, I was there. I already knew." I moved the phone near the edge of the bed and watched the tv with the phone receiver hanging off my shoulder "Keep watching you dork". As soon as she said that a shot of my exposed back flashed on MTV. "OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. HAS MY MOM SEEN THIS?" I screamed into the phone. I must have screamed extremely loud cause Nick came rushing through the door that connected our rooms, "WHAT WHAT HAPPENED are you ok?" All I could do was point to the tv. He came up next to me and watched the tv. "Megan has my mom seen this? She's gonna flip. When did it come on?" " I don't know but I imagine if she does you'll get a call from her. Its been on twice already, I tried to call you but the guy at the desk said you weren't in your room and he couldn't bother you were you were. Three people called me already to see if its true. Its in the paper and everything." "Yeah I was in the gym and then I was getting attacked in the pool." Nick gave me a sly grin.
He must have called the other guys to come see cause by now everyone including Randy was in my room, I was glad I'm a neat person. Sara had gone through the entire thing explaining everything that had happened including my exposure and Nick's hospital visit."Mai I'll call you back, knowing my mom she's trying to call and will be upset if she cant get through. OK I'll call you in half an hour and tell you everything, ok bye, oh and don't tell anyone anything, unless they already know, unless its heather and then you know the drill hehehe ok talk to you in a while, bye." I hung up the phone and kept staring at the tv. "Well looks like you just had your first encounter with the paparazzi, How do you feel?" Brian said to me laughing sitting down next to me. "Don't worry about it, it'll pass in a few days." Howie said sitting down next to me and giving me a big hug. "Erika, your mom knows already, I called her and told her this morning, she said to call her when you can." Denise came up to me and gave me a comfort smile and hug "Don't worry about it, Howie's right, it'll pass in a few days" "Thanks I'll try to keep that in mind hehe" Everyone went back to their rooms.
I got up and went to the shower. Half way through my shower somebody knocked at my door. "Room service I have your packages" a woman's voice said "Oh ok just go ahead and leave it on the bed please". I figured everyone in this place failed grammar or something. About 20 minutes might have passed before the woman left. I got dressed in the bathroom and went back into the room. As I walked back into my room I was in disbelief. There were 6 baskets of flowers on the table, 3 extremely large black cases near the dresser, and several packages and letters on the bed and night stand. I just stood there in disbelief. "This stuff must be to the guys." I walked over to the table with the flowers. One basket was full of purple orchids and pink and white roses, and had a little white stuffed bunny attached to it. I found the card attached to it and read it "Dear Ms. Terrosa, please accept these flowers and as a token of our apology to you for last night'sincident. We hope that this will not deter you from returning to our beautiful city. Sincerely The Mayor and staff of city hall".I held on to the card and smelled the flowers. Still in shock I read the cards on the rest of the flower baskets. All the messages were similar but from different people in the city. "Ok, well the flowers are for me but the rest of the stuff has to be a mistake." I thought to myself.
Not stopping to look at the rest of the notes I went to Donna's room. I knocked pretty hard and she rushed to the door "Erika, what's wrong?" Not stopping to explain I grabbed her hand and took her to my room "This is what's wrong, I don't know about the other stuff but the flowers are for me. Am I allowed to keep this stuff?" She was in as much puzzlement as I was. "Humh.... I don't know hold on a sec". She turned around and talked very quietly on the phone. While she talked I opened one of the packages on my bed. The message read "Hi Erika, you don't know me but I was at the concert last night and saw what happened. I just want you to know that not all of us are like that and I hope you are not mad at the fans. So as a peace offering I want you to have this...I hope you come back soon. Love Jessica KTBSPA -PS tell Kevin that I think he is hot." I thought it was very sweet. I lifted the cover to the package and inside was a stuffed puppy dog. It was a black and brown long eared hunting dog in a laying down position with big puppy eyes looking up. I went to the door connecting mine and Nick's room and knocked on it, still holding the dog. He opened the door with just pants on and his hair still wet from the shower. "What happened now?" As he opened the door I saw that his room looked almost exactly like mine, flowers and packages everywhere. "Huhm I guess you already know about this huh?" "WOW I thought it was just me..." I thought they screwed up and gave me stuff that was meant for you guys but its all addressed to me." Nick walked into my room his wet hair dripping all over the place. Suddenly Donna got off the phone and looked at me "Well I just got off the phone with Lou and Jive and they said that your welcome to keep it if you want it, same with you Nick. I'll leave you to unwrap presents I have some work to do. Meet down in the back parking lot in 20 minutes." We agreed and she left. I turned around and realized that Nick was dripping water all over the floor so I said to him "Would you please stop dripping water all over my carpet?" "Sure thing." and with that he started shaking his head around and throwing water all over the place."Aahh stop that!" I yelled at him. I grabbed a towel from off the bed and wrapped it around his head so he looked like a snake charmer. "Ok I get the point.. Well what's this stuff.?"