I thought I would faint. Just as I started shaking violently, Jayme grabbed my arm and whispered fiercely, "Don't you dare keel over now; I wouldn't let you miss this for the world!" So I took a couple of deep breaths and stepped forward. "Hi", I said to Kevin, "I'm Samantha."
He said hi and then he hugged me. As I went up to each of them, I got a "hi" and a hug, and I handed them the envelope I had for them. Finally, I reached the end of the line. There stood my crush, the guy I had admired for almost 2 years: Nick Carter. He looked right into my eyes and I felt a jolt of electricity as I looked back at him. "Hi", he said, "how are you?" "Uhhhhhhhh", I managed to get myself together and tried again. "I'm great, how are you?" "A little tired", he said, "but I'm glad you and your friends came to see us." I must have looked so goofy with that dazed look and big grin on my face. Just then Jayme nudged me and pushed her way in front of Nick. "Hi," she babbled, "I'm Jayme and this is my sister Natalie. Glad to meet you! We've all been waiting so long for this, although neither of us are as big a fan as Sam...I swear, she worships you guys!" I kicked her and shot her a dirty look. Nick just laughed and asked us to have a seat. So we all sat down and started chatting.
As fate would have it (or just dumb luck possibly), Nick sat down right beside me. I almost had to sit on my hands to keep from fidgeting. We asked them a lot of questions and they asked us some, and as we were talking, I suddenly felt something touching my hand. Before I knew what was happening, Nick had taken my hand in his and he had scooted closer to me so no one else could see that we were holding hands. I felt an adrenaline rush go through me as I glanced at him. He gave me a shy smile and then looked quickly away.
"....Samantha....Sam?" All of a sudden I heard someone calling me. I looked up, and everyone was looking back at me, except Nick. "Huh?" I responded. Everyone laughed, and then Brian spoke up. "Would you like some water? You look awfully pale." "Um, no, that's ok thanks...actually, could you show me where the washroom is? I just need to splash some water on my face." Quickly, Nick answered, "I'll show you. Come with me." We walked to the door and he called "Be back in a minute."
Nick showed me where the washroom was and told me he'd wait outside for me. When I came back out again, he was standing right by the door. He looked at me shyly and whispered "I really like you Samantha. Do you think we could exchange phone numbers? We're in the city for a day yet before we go to the next venue, so maybe...I mean, if you're not busy tomorrow..."
"Sure," I replied, as I took a piece of paper and a pen from my pocket, "as long as you give me a number I can reach you at." "Yeah, absolutely!" he said, and he wrote down his cell phone number for me. As soon as we'd exchanged phone numbers, we walked back to the lounge. I thought ‘Wow, this has been the most amazing night!'
After we got back to their place, I told Jayme and Natalie what had happened. At first they didn't believe me, but then Jayme said, "Yeah, I did notice Nick acting a bit strange, and he answered pretty quickly when you asked to go to the washroom." We sat and gabbed about our amazing night, but after a while we drifted off to sleep.