"Bone will you pick up your clothes." Howie looked around the bus and groaned. Abbie would be joining them in Chicago when they reached the venue. Emma had decided that Abbie would bunk with Howie and AJ, and Howie had spent the last hour trying to clean up their messy bus.
"D will you chill, Abbie is going to have to get used to the mess if she is going to be on our bus for the next month." AJ mumbled as he sat on the couch with his feet up on the table, eating a bag of potato chips, not minding that the carpet that Howie had just spent 20 minutes cleaning was now covered with chip crumbs.
"I just thought that you might have wanted to make a good first impression instead of coming off as a pig" Howie muttered with a hint of exasperation.
"I am a pig..oink oink" Now move out of my way I am watching Christina on TRL"
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"Spence I am here to do the job I was hired for..nothing more nothing less" Abbie was in the cab on the way to her hotel arguing with Spencer about his idea. "I am not being uncooperative and I am not being irrational..Dammit why is it so hard for you to understand that I just want to be left alone to do the job that YOU recommended me for" Abbie looked out her window and smiled as the cab pulled up to her hotel. The fans were lined up and crowded en masse hoping to catch a glimpse of their idols and objects of teenage lust. "I am at my hotel and this is not the place for me to have this conversation. I will call you later" Abbie hung up the phone and paid the driver. She was amazed at the different ages that the crowd of fans spanned. "I am going to come down here with a photographer and get some interviews, this would be a perfect lead in for the chapter on fans" Abbie thought to herself.
"Hi I am Abigail Foster" she explained to the front desk clerk as he looked her up in his computer.
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"Thank you so much" Abbie took her room key and followed the porter into the elevator.
"Wow...they don't spare any expense when it comes to rooms" Abbie sat down in the plush chair in the living room of her suite and looked over her itinirary that Emma had left at the front desk for her. "Sound check at 2" Abbie glanced at her watch and saw that she had 45 minutes to get settled in, showered and to the venue in time to see the sound check. She tucked the itinerary into her leather day planner and walked into the bathroom to take a shower.
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"Hi my name is Abbie and I am writing a peice on the boys' fans..can I ask you a few questions" Abbie had spent the last hour talking and meeting with fans and she was having a great time. She had learned that most fans thought Nick was the hot one. AJ was the wild one, Brian was the best singer, Howie was the sweet one and Kevin was the old one. SHe had managed to take a lot of classic pictures, some of fans with the boys names written all over their face, three girls who had travelled from Singapore to see the boys and a mother and a daughter who had driven for 2 days to come and see the boys, even though they did not have tickets to the show. "The guys have really touched so many lives..I wonder if they possible know what an impact that they have had on so many people's lives" Abbie thought to herself. The high pitched sqeals and the sudden rise in the decible level of the fan's screams tuned Abbie into the fact that the boys were arriving at the hotel. Abbie walked back towards the entrance of the the hotel and took her place behind the bodyguards who were forming a barricade of bodies so that the boys could pass safetly through the fans. Abbie could not help but smile brightly as she watched the men who she had not seen in 5 weeks climb out of the van and run by the screaming fans.
"Come on D you have to keep moving" Nelson, his bodyguard screamed at him as Howie signed autographs for the fans.
"Hang on Nelson I am just trying to make them happy" Howie calmly replied.
"Such a consumate gentleman" Abbie observed. She smiled when she heard him apoligize to the fans who he could not give autographs to. She waited until Nick and his bodyguard had passed and then she followed them into the lobby. She watched their guards run them straight past the fans who were camped out in the lobby and into the elevator. As she watched the elevator doors close she saw Kevin strain his neck to see her. "Abbie" Kevin screamed and waved for her to join them, he put his hand between the elevator doors to prohibit them from closing. Abbie walked quickly towards the elevator and entered the cramped elevator. "When did you get in, we were expecting you at sound check but when you didnt show we figured that your fight had been delayed" Kevin looked down at Abbie and smiled "I would hug you but we are a little cramped in here." The elevator doors opened and Kevin and Carlos got off on the floor. Kevin turned "what floor are you on?" he asked Abbie.
"7th"
"Let me take a quick shower and then I will come up to see you. It is going
to be really great having you on on tour with us" Kevin smiled and walked
down the hall to his room.
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