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Sunset Chapter 12 Next morning or should I say afternoon, we all met and tried to decide what to do about Brian in the hospital. It was one of the biggest shows that night and they wanted to give them five Backstreet Boys. “What are we going to do?” Kevin moaned. “I don’t know.” A.J. calmly said. “Does it have to be five Backstreet Boys?” Nick asked while looking at me. “What are you getting at?” Howie questioned. “Well Jem could do it.” I became alert. “What!?!” I screamed. “Jem you have a beautiful voice and you know the moves by now. You can do it. I know it.” “Nick I’m not doing it!” “Please baby. We need you.” He then whispered in my ear. ”I need you.” “Come on Jem. Just tonight.” Kevin said. I closed my eyes. “I’ll do it.” I whispered. “What?” Kevin asked. I got up. “Fine. I’ll do the show. But it’s only because it’s the biggest show on this tour.” Nick laughed. “What?” “It’s what I said to you isn’t it?” He gave me a sly grin. “Yes.” I said quickly and got out of the room even quicker. “What did you say to her?” A.J. asked with an edge in his voice. “You don’t want to know.” He got up and went after me. He caught up with me at the room. “Thanks.” He whispered as his arms encircled my waist from behind. “You know you really know how to get me to say yes.” I turned towards him and saw him smiling. “What?” “You’re cute.” “What’s that got to do with you smiling?” “Absolutely nothing.” He said slowly and kissed me. He then picked me up and carried me to the bed and sat down. He continued kissing me and laid down. He then put his hand up my shirt. I tensed up and stopped kissing Nick. “O.K. baby. I’ll stop. But you’re going to have to get a little more comfortable with me. We are engaged.” “I know. But I feel as if you’re going to take advantage of me.” “Jem I would never do that.” I love you too much.” “You’re sweet but I can’t help my instincts.” “You’re no fun.” Nick sulked. “Awe. You’re so cute when you sulk.” I kissed him on the nose. He sat up and laid my head on his chest. “Rest, it’s going to be a long night.” “All right.” I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. When I wok up I was at the place where the concert was. They were setting up the stage. “O.K. Now what?” I said. “Get make-up, get dressed, after they set up the stage let you see how the lifts feel, sound check, and the concert.” Nick told me. “That all? Great!” I said sarcastically. Well we did that and I had a separate dressing room. We then got set for our entrance. “Are you going to be O.K.?” Nick asked. “Yeah except I’ll feel pretty silly singing’ Hey mystery lad you’ve got something I like.’” Nick laughed. “You’re cute.” He gave me a kiss. The concert started and we did That’s the Way I like It. Nick started the introductions. “Hey! I’m Nick! As you’ve probably seen one of our members is looking a little strange tonight. That’s because Brian can’t be with us tonight. So my fiancee is filling in for him.” The introductions continued and we went into Hey Mr. DJ When it was time for when Brian usually had his solo I came out. “Now I know that Brian does That’s what She Said now but I’m not going to. One I’m not Brian and two I don’t know how to play guitar.” The audience laughed. “So I will sing Remember the Magic.” I stated singing. “Can you remember, back to a simpler time. Back to the water-colored days, that still run through you’re mind. Oh, I remember, just my old friend and me. Running through an open field, the way it used to be...” I continued to the end of the song. I got a thunderous applause. When I got backstage Nick wanted to know how I could sing so high since last night I was singing pretty low. “Jem how can you get so high?” “My range is basically from the G below middle C to two octaves about middle C.” His jaw dropped and he went on. Later A.J. came up behind me. “What’s your range?” He said with a tone I didn’t like and it sent a chill down my spine. “Almost 2 1/2 octaves.” “That’s not what I meant.” Nick was done so I elbowed A.J. in the stomach and ran on doing a roundoff into a series of backflips as Let’s Have A Party started playing. We finished the concert and changed. Then Nick’s cell phone went off, it was Denise. “Hey, how’s Brian?” “He’s....... |