Chapter 4

"Hey baby!" Leighanne said. All the way up the elevator she debated wheather to be happed or more scared. She finally decided to pretend like nothing happened before entering his room.

"I'm sorry," Brian said.

"Don't be, you have every right to be mad."

"Not at you, or my mom, or my dad, or my brother. Leighanne you're my wife and you were just trying to comfort me."

"Yeah you're right, apologize to me! You should be sorry!"

"Thanks a lot!"

She walked up next to his bed and kissed him.

"Brian, I'll always be here for you. I'm not saying this will be easy, but it will be worth it. Every single part of it I promise."

"I know. It's just scary. The thought of learning how to walk again, I mean... you always see little babies learning how and it's just like a miracle. I've already done this. It's gonna be so frustrating, babies never knew how to walk before then. Not only that, I won't be able to play basketball for a while, and when I AM able to, Nick will beat me!"

Leighanne laughed. She couldn't believe what he was saying. Although the first part had been true, she couldn't believe he was so worried about basketball. At least that would keep him going.

"Hey," she said. "At least you don't have to do it alone, I was with you through your heart rehab and I will be here now and forever."

"I'm so lucky to have you!"

"I know!"

"How's Nick?"

"He hasn't woken up yet. I'm sure he will eventually. Hey your cousins here!"

"Kevin?!"

"No James, I'll get him."

She came back with his younger cousin and his 4 other friends.

"Hey buddy!" James said.

"Hey"

"How are you?" James LANCE Bass asked (yes from *nsync)

"Alright."

"Oh yeah, *Nsync wanted to make sure y'all were doing ok."

"That was nice. hey guys."

"Hey Brian," Chris said. "Lance here told us what happened as soon as your mom called him. He was pretty worried."

"Thanks Lancey-boy," brian said looking at Lance.

"No problem. Aunt Jackie said you were in pretty bad shape."

"How are you feeling?" J.C. asked.

"Alright. Thanks. I have a lot of physical therapy to re-learn to walk again." Brian explained. "I took a really bad hit in the head."

"Don't worry," Lance said, "I'll be here for you the whole way."

"Yeah," Joey added, "We'll be here for y'all. It's gonna be a hard time, but you'll get through it. If you can get through open heart surgery, you can survive this. It's terrible what happened to y'all."

"Chris," Brian started, "I believe Howie's on this floor too."

"Oh," Chris said, "I'll go find him."

"I think he went to A.J.'s room 2 floors down. Try there first."

"O.K.," he said as he quickly left.

All of the *Nsyncers felt really akward, but they were there supporting Lance, and that's what they wanted to do. Even though them and the Backstreet Boys had always seemed like rivals, they truth was, that because Brian and Lance were cousins and Chris and Howie were friends, the groups got along quite well.