Written By Dana

"Yeah, that was me" Rachel weakly replied, slightly embarrassed for blurting that out, but justified in her own right.
"I guess we should take separate cars then, you might not like the way I drive" AJ said, trying to make it a little more humorous.
"It's not that-"
AJ interrupted her, “It's OK, why don't we meet at the little place on the corner of 5th Ave and Park Ave?"
"Sure, I've heard it's pretty good, and I have to stop at the ATM anyway." Rachel didn't exactly know why she should go to the ATM, as if she even had that much money in her account anyway.
"Hey, I got it covered, don't worry" AJ said, trying to be as gentlemanly(is that a word??) like as possible.
"Nah, I'll just make a quick stop, but thanks"
With that, they both got into their cars, and drove to >the set destinations.

*5 MIN. LATER*
Rachel glanced over at the magazine rack to her right as she tried desperately to be patient with the person in front of her at the ATM. For a second, she thought she saw AJ behind her, but then realized it wasn't him, it was a PICTURE of him. Rachel almost fell over at the site of the man who's hair she just died blue on the cover of a teen magazine!
"OH MI GOD" Rachel said under her breath, “is that who I think it is??!!"
She quickly disregarded the long line that she was in the front of and jumped over to pick up the latest issue of "Teen". Without a doubt, it was AJ....
"A Backstreet Boy??!! God, if Belinda knew that I'm about to go have lunch with a BSB, she would flip!...Wait, what am I waiting for? AJ is waiting for me!!"

Rachel quickly purchased the magazine with the few bucks she had on her, just for proof. As she quickly jumped into her car, she realized she was getting all worked up, and going faster than she normally drove.
"OK Rachel, you'll be OK. It's just a normal person, besides, he already has showed that he is attracted to you, calm down, it's in the bag!" She told herself, trying to calm herself down.

*10 MINS. LATER*
"I was afraid you weren't gonna show" AJ said, obviously relieved, as Rachel sat down next to him at a cute little table for two.
"No, I was just getting mon-" Rachel just realized that she hadn't even gotten any money, she bought the magazine instead!
"What is it?" AJ said, a little concerned.
"well, ya see..."Rachel had no idea how to explain “the line was soooo long," she continued, “I didn't want to keep you waiting so-"
"It's alight, like I said earlier, I got it covered" the calm AJ said, he was very happy that he could have a normal conversation with Rachel, she obviously had NO idea who he really was. But he was wrong.
"Look, I think I know who you are, but I feel really stupid for not knowing earlier" Rachel said, the truth was, she wanted him to know that she knew who he was, that way, if this did turn into something serious, it will have started out well.
"Huh?" AJ said, thinking that he could just pretend he had no idea what she was talking about, he didn't want another teeny bopper girl all over him.
"Your AJ, huh?” Rachel asked
"Well, I thought we cleared that up when I introduced myself" AJ replied cleverly.
Oh geez, Rachel felt sooo stupid, “I mean, I saw this magazine, and ya see, I know it was stupid of me not to know who you were in the first place, but you see-"
"SHHH! It's ok, I like being able to have a normal conversation with a person every once in a while, why >don't we just forget about what you saw, hmm? That way, you can get to know me, AJ, and not AJ McLean, Backstreet Boy."
It really had been going well, no one had mobbed him yet, in fact, he realized that no one really recognized him at all, which was nice, but after getting used to it, a little disconcerting.
He sure knew how to make her feel stupid, although she knew he didn't mean to. “I'm sorry, it's forgotten, so, what should we talk about?"
After a nice lunch and a few interesting conversations(if you consider family, jobs, and cars interesting), they decided that Rachel would come over to the Bell Tree Hotel, where the Boys were staying, and they would all try to catch a movie.

*3 HOURS LATER*
"Guess what?!!" Rachel got home and after calling all her closest friends, she realized that she HAD to call Belinda, she would feel awful if her one boy band-loving friend didn't know about what was happening.
"Oh My FUCKING God!!!!!!!!" that was about the only thing that came out of her mouth for 10 min.
After continuous begging, pleading, and even crying, Rachel ended up calling AJ, to ask if one of her very "normal" friends would be able to tag along with them that night, it wasn't like it was a real date.
Then came screaming and praising, and in the end, Belinda would be coming with Rachel that night, on the one condition that Belinda NEVER overreacted and was very calm.

*THAT NIGHT-6:00*
Rachel and Belinda nervously stepped into the elevator of the hotel, as they nervously made her way up to room #376-the suit.

KNOCK-KNOCK
A very sweet looking blond answered the door with a "Hey, are ya Rachel?"
"Uhh, yeah, and this is my friend Belinda" Rachel replied", his eyes had her in a daze, they were so sweet, so childlike.
"C'mon in, AJ's in the bedroom, but I'm Nick, and these are the guys, B, Howie, and Kev." Nick said, as he pointed to each one of the guys.
Rachel saw AJ strut into the room, and crazy as it seemed, she was almost a little disappointed. She had no idea why she would be disappointed with seeing the guy who asked her out, but as she saw the rest of the guys, she felt her attraction start to lose it's zest. She had no idea that the same exact feeling had struck AJ, there was this beautiful, sweet girl, but, there was something about her that was only friend-quality. On the other hand, this friend of hers, Belinda, well, AJ, seemed to be quite a bit more attracted to her. This was a very strange and abrupt change in the two hearts, but at the same time, Belinda was doing all she could to running up to AJ, her favorite(BSB that it is, remember, this girl is obsessed).
"So, I was thinking we could all go see Sleepy Hollow tonight, I'm in the mood for scary" AJ said, which was followed by 6 sure's and nods and yeahs.

*IN THE CAR*
It seemed to Rachel, that Belinda was obviously flirting with AJ, and the funny thing was, he was flirting back. She couldn't help but smile, now she could actually do what she wanted, talk to Nick. he was in the front seat, and she was sitting diagonally to him, in the back seat.
"So, Nick, what's your favorite video game?" Rachel had done some reading in that teen magazine, but realized that was the stupidest thing she could have said.
"Hmm, well, that's hard to say"(I really just don't >know, so kill me!) It appeared that Nick was obviously flirting with her, he couldn't have cared less what she asked him.
They continued to talk the whole ride to the theater, along with AJ and Belinda.

*AT THE MOVIES*
Strangely enough, the expected seating was not used, instead of Rachel sitting next to AJ, it was Belinda. Instead, Rachel was oh-so casually resting her head on Nick's shoulder. Unexpected, but welcome changes.
It might have been AJ that Rachel met, but it was Nick that Rachel held onto.

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