"What? Who's they? And why are they here?" Brian asked, trying to make sense of what she was saying.
"He's here! The guy that called me! Omigod, he knows where I am," she cried.
"The guy that called you? I'm not following here."
Annie took a deep breath, "OK, a couple of months ago, I got this weird phone call. He played that song that was on that tape. He kept saying I was bad girl and I have no fucking idea what that means! It freaked me out and I started getting paranoid, I kept thinking people were following me. And now this, I don't know," she explained.
"So some guy has been stalking you?" he asked.
She shook her head, "No, see that's what worries me. I only got that one weird phone call then nothing else. But today the song was on your tape. I know you don't listen to music like that, so it's not yours."
Annie took the tape out of the stereo, "See, it's a really old tape, you don't have any of those do you?"
Brian was deep in his own thoughts, 'It can't be...Nah, it's not,' he shook the thought away.
"Brian?"
"Huh?"
"I asked if you had any old tapes?"
"Oh, no I don't."
"OK, now I'm getting scared, this guy obviously knows where I'm at to put this tape in your bag."
"Maybe we should get extra security to come to her house, " Nick suggested.
"Yeah, that would be a good idea, just to be safe," Brian agreed.
A.J. and Kevin walked up to them, "Hey you really ought to take a swim, the waters great!" he said grabbing a towel, "Hey guys cheer up, you look like you've seen a ghost," he laughed.
"Yeah, what's up?" Kevin asked taking a seat next to Nick on the blanket.
"Some strange guy called Annie and started talking some shit about how' she's been a bad girl and playing some song, then we think he put a tape of the song in my bag. Because when Nick went to look for music there was only tape in my bag and that was the tape with the song," Brian said getting angry and he held up the tape.
Kevin grabbed it, "Wait let me play it again," he said and took out his Walkman and popped the tape in. He listened to the song a few seconds then stopped it, "I know this song it's...uh...Criminal by that Fiona Apple girl."
Annie's eyes got wide, "Oh my God!"
Everyone looked at her, "What?"
"I know who the guy is."
"Well," they all urged her to continue.
"That's the song that I broke up with my boyfriend to. I mean when we were breaking up that song was playing, he always had this obsession with me. That's why we broke up! I should've recognized his voice!"
"He's not laying a finger on you, if I can help it," Brian said moving closer to her.
"You still want to do the concert? We could cancel, I mean some psycho is trying to stalking Annie," Kevin said.
"No, it's for charity. That wouldn't be right letting all those kids down, we'll just have to have tighter security that's all," Brian said, "You still want to come?" he asked, Annie.
"As scared as I am.....Nothing sounds better to me right now than seeing Enrique Iglesias!" she said.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
~the next day~
They went to the concert as planned and talked to security. No one was getting in or out of the arena without a pass. Even though it would be harder to monitor everybody, since it was easier to sneak in. The concert was outside and it was still light out. Brian asked, Lonnie, one of their closer security guards to stay with Annie who had Lina with her. If it was a regular show, Brian would've canceled, but he couldn't let all the kids down, he just that kind of person.
"Oh my God, can you just think about it! Enrique will be on that stage in less than five minutes!" Annie said to Lina.
"I know! I might faint when he comes out," Lina said getting her camera ready to take lots of pictures.
"You guys just keep a low profile and try not to draw so much attention to yourselves, OK? It makes my a job a little easier," Lonnie said.
"You act like my dad," Lina said annoyed.
"Well, don't act like you're 12 when he comes out,"
Lina narrows her eyes, "don't act like you're twelve when he comes out," she mimicked him under her breath, then turned her attention back to the stage when she heard the music for 'Wanna be with you' start.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"You are a very beautiful lady, no? How would you like for me to kees you?" Enrique said, laying on his Spanish accent thicker than it really was.
Annie giggled, "Okay."
He took her hand and brought up to his lips, "You smell sweet, like a rose."
She giggled again, "Okay."
Meanwhile Brian, Kevin, and Nick were watching the whole thing a few feet away.
"You smell sweet like a rose," Brian mimicked in his best Spanish accent, "Why doesn't she act like that when I kiss her?"
"You're not....Enrique," Nick said, and acted like he fainted when he said, Enrique.
"Oh shut-up, here she comes," Brian nudged Nick.
"OMIGOD! OMIGOD! OMIGOD! He kissed my hand and gave me an autograph!" Annie squealed jumping up and down.
Lina came right behind her, "ME TOO!!! AHHHHH!" they both screamed and started to compare the different photos.
"Yeah, but mine is better, he's wearing leather pants in mine!" Lina protested.
"So, he didn't kiss you!"
"Yes he did!"
"Then where did he-what the?" Annie said when the lights went out backstage.
"Annie?" Brian called.
"I'm right here, what the hell happened to the lights?" she asked grabbing Brian's arm.
"What the? The door won't open!" Kevin said fidgeting with the knob.
They all stopped what they were doing when they heard a voice.
"I'm back, baby."