The Backstreet Boys were all sitting in front of the tour bus, riding silently to the next city they were supposed to play in. The previous night, Liam had been arrested. He was in the hospital. He had been shot when he threaten to shot a policemen. He was wounded, but not dead.

Their managers had suggested that they cancelled a few shows, but Brian said no. They didn't need to stop everything because of him. Also, he didn't want anyone to wonder why they had cancelled. The press knew a lot about his life. That's an aspect that he didn't want them to know.

Howie was the first to break the silence. "Are you going to press charges, Brian?"

"I don't know. I don't think so, but I'm not sure yet."

"How comes?"

"I know it's gonna be a big thing, if a newspaper or a magazine gets a hold of the story... I just don't wanna have to talk about it all the time, in interviews and stuff. I just wanna get pass that. It happened, there's nothing I can do about it. Now I want to move on."

"But you know that if you don't press charges, they'll release him." Kevin said.

"That's the only reason I'm still thinking about it."

"At least you've got time. He's gonna be in the hospital for a while." AJ said.

"Yeah, but right now there's something more urgent to take care of. We might have another 'problem' amongst out crew."

"It's probably not even true."

"But what if it is?" Brian said. "Then who is it?"

Donna, who'd been on the phone, joined in. "It might've been Greg. Remember that him and Liam were hired at the same time."

"That's true." Howie said. "If Liam really did have a friend in our crew, it's gotta be someone he knew before he got in. He was only here a month and a half."

"So that's gotta be Greg then." Brian said. "Should we fire him?"

"Can you fire someone for that? What are we going to say to him? 'Uh, hi, we fire you cause you might be a potential rapist' doesn't sound that good to me." AJ said.

"Yes, we can fire him for that. I already did it." Donna said. "He told me he wasn't the one we're looking for, but since he had no way of proving it, he preferred leaving than having everyone suspect him. I really hope he was lying."

"What if he was telling the truth?"

"Then Nick's in trouble."

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