*Chapter 9* "Hey Fatima." Holly said when she saw her. "Hey guys, what are you doing here?"  She asked. "Well, we were just wondering if we could watch the guys practice." "Yeah that's fine."  We sat down and watched them practice many many times to get the dance for "Everybody" down. "OK guys, you can take a breather, cuz were going to take it from the top."  Fatima said. Fatima and the guys came over to talk to us. "Enjoying our practice?"  Nick asked. "Of  course."  Casey asked. "Fatima,"  Lori said, "we were just wondering if we could try out the routine with the guys once." "Sure, why not.  They seem to have it down.  Let me tell the rest of the dancers.  They probably won't mind."  She left to tell the others and when the music started we were practicing the routine with the guys.  We did pretty well, expecially since it was our first time actually doing it. "All right you guys!"  Fatima said.  "I'm impressed.  You guys were great.  Maybe we could us you in the video." "That would be nice."  Holly said.  So the next day we were at the set of their video.  It was so much fun, expecally seeing the guys look like they did. "Looks good Kev."  Holly said as he was sitting in the make-up chair. "Hey, at least half of his face looks good."  I said jokingly. "Yeah, the scaled part." "Ouch." I said. "Hey."  Kevin chimed in. "I'm just kidding." "I know." "OK, have fun we're going to find the rest of the guys."  I said as we started to walk away.  We walked around for a while till we saw Casey and Lori talking to Brian and Nick.  Brian was in the middle of his 'transformation'. "I love the hair Brian."  I said. "I know but with this humidity, I just can't do a thing with it."  He said in his gay voice. "So when are you going to look as good as the rest of the guys?"  Lori asked Nick. "He'll never look as good as us."  Brian said. "Of course, I'll look better."  Nick shot back. "Where's AJ, Lori?"  Holly asked. "In Africa."  She answered. "So you don't know." "Yep." "OK, Amanda, let's go on a field trip, what do you say." "All rightly, were off."  I said  We walked around for a little while till we found out that AJ was on his set.  We decided to watch for a little while.  At one point he looked really bored, and we couldn't exactally talk to him, so we went to go look for Howie.  We found him in wardrobe. "Hey D." I said. "Oh hey.  So what have you 2 been up to?" "Not much, we've wandered a lot though."  The three of us talked for a while.  We caught up with Lori and Casey and talked till it was our turn to get ready.  We saw the guys in the ballroom set. "Ready to do this?"  Brian asked. "Yep." We all answered.  The director call for us to get ready.  We really didn't mind since that ment for us to be in the guys arms.  The shoot went well.  It didn't take us that many takes to get it down.  The 4 of us watched the rest of the shoot, and left with the guys. "Man, that was a long day."  Casey said. "Yeah, but it was fun."  Holly said. "Hey, maybe you guys could be in another one."  Nick suggested. "You never know, it would be cool though."  I said. ~~~~~~~~~~ "OK, I think that I'll hand it over to my good friend Lori now." "Ah, I've tried to think of my moment.  The only one that comes to mind is when the guys insisted on coming shoping with us before the Grammys..." ~~~~~~~~~~ We were all sitting in the living room of Holly and Lori's place, watching T.V. "Oh my god!"  Lori said, "We should get going soon." "What? Where are you guys going?"  AJ asked. "Well, since you guys got nominated, the 5 of us need outfits for the Grammys." "So basically you could call this a girl's night out."  Kim added. "If you get girl's night out, why don't we get a guys night out."  Brian asked. "Excuse me, what about you leaving us for 3 months."  I chimed in. "That's totally different."  Kevin said. "So, she was just trying to make a point."  Casey said defending me. "But still."  Howie said. "OK, if we don't leave now, we'll never get to shop, so let's leave."  Holly said, stopping us from arguing anymore.  We all got up to leave. "If you want, you guys can stay here for a while."  Lori said.  When we looked at them, they all had their best sad puppy dog faces on. "Awe look, I think the guys want to go shopping with us."  I said. "Should we let them?"  Kim asked.  We looked at each other. Casey said, "All right you can come, but if we ask for an oppinion, make it honest, K?" The 10 if us headed for our cars, Holly and Lori were driving.  The mall wasn't that crowded for once, which was nice.  We made our way to a dress store.  Once we started looking, we all had a little fun. "Hey Lori, if you get this one, maybe AJ will lend you one of his hats."  I said holding a leopard print dress.  She just smiled and shook her head.  Nick was holding a dress for Kim to look at when Brian came up. "Nick, that's a nice color for you, but I think that it might look better on Howie."  He said. "Nah, pink isn't really my color."  Howie answered playing along.  After like a half hour, the 5 of us had at least 4 dresses each.  First we showed each other, then let the guys see.  But all of us went out at the same time to see if they were being honest or not.  Our first choices weren't our favorites, but we tried them any ways. "So, what do you think?"  Holly asked Howie. "Well, ummm, no." "Hey guys, we have one that was honest."  She told us.  It was back to the dressing room for us.  Again, these were rejected too.  Which was fine, since they were being honest.  Once more we tired, but no keepers.  We all had one more dress left, and hopefully these we good.  When we got out there, their faces were great. "You like?"  Lori asked turning around. "Oh yeah."  AJ said.  The reacting was the same for the rest of us. "I've got a keeper, how 'bout you?" Casey asked. "Yep, I think that Nick loves it more than I do."  Kim answered. *Chapter 10* "Nick, you hasn't talked in a while, so you go next."  Holly said. "My most mrmoriable moment actually didn't happen that long ago.  Think back a few months to when a certain Rolling Stones came out..."  He said. ~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin and Brian walked into our apartment after a photo shoot for their Rolling Stones article. "So what, you 2 don't knock any more?"  I asked joking. "Since when did we knock?"  Kevin said  coming over to give me a kiss.  Brian did the same with Casey. "How was the shoot?"  Casey asked as we all sat down on the couches. "It was, well, interesting."  Brian answered. "I've seen the covers for that magazine, what did you guys do?"  I asked. "We've made a promise to let it be a surprise, and to show all of you at the same time."  Kevin said. "When do we get to see?"  Casey said. "When ever they choose which picture they're going to use."  Brian added.  We sat there for a few minutes. "Wanna go see what Holly and company are doing?"  Casey asked. "Sure."  I said.  We went over there to find Howie and AJ there as usual.  All we did was talk for about an hour. *A few days later* "So we're going over to Kevin's for a change?"  Casey asked. "I guess so."  I answered.  "Oh, we're not picking Kim up on the way, so it's only the 4 of us in one car." "Good, you can drive." "Fine."  We got Lori and Holly and headed for my car. "Did Brian or Kevin tell you what they did?"  Lori asked. "Nope, what about AJ and Howie."  Casey said. "Nothin'.  We tried to get them to hint, but we couldn't make them talk."  Holly said.  I pulled into Kevin's driveway. "Hey, we're not late for once."  Holly said pointing out that Nick's car was the only one there.  The door was unlocked, so we went in. "Hello?  Anyone here?"  Lori asked.  We heard a faint 'yeah' from Nick, so we went into the living room to find him there. "Hey, where's Kev?"  I asked. "In his room or something."  He answered. "If I'm not back in 5 minutes, send a search party."  I got up to find him, and sure enough, he was in his room. "Hey sexy."  I said with a smile. "Oh, hi."  He bent down to kiss me. "What's with your shirt?" "I had a little fight with a soda." "Let me guess, it won." "Yeah."  He took off his shirt to put on a new one. "So, are you going to be nice and tell me what you guys have in store for us, or are you going to be mean and make me wait?"  I asked sitting on the foot of his bed. "I think I'll make you wait." "Please?"  I put my arms around his neck. "No." He kissed me, and I fell back on to the bed.  I ended up taking him with me. "Look's like I get here just in time."  Casey said walking into the room. "Has it been five minutes already?" "Yep, sorry to spoil your fun, but Howie, AJ and Kim are here." "Ok we're coming.  But first, Kev get off a me."  He pulled me off the bed and the 3 of us headed towards the living room. "So where is Rok?"  Howie asked. "I dunno.  Maybe he's trying to make a grand entrance for himself."  Lori answered.  Just then, the doorbell rang. "Wait, let me guess, it's Brian."  I said.  Casey ran to get the door. "Oh you're good."  She said. "I know." "Where's the magazine?  I wanna see this."  Kim said.  Nick pulled it out and said, "We'll show you, but first close your eyes."  So we did, but to make sure we didn't try to peak, the guys covered our eyes. "OK, open um." He said. "Oh my God!"  Holly said in shock. "My thoughts exactly."   Lori said. "Whose idea was it for you guys to drop your pants?"  Casey said.  The guys pointed to Kevin. "You thought of that?"  Kim asked, not believing in what they said. "Yeah."  Kevin answered. ~~~~~~~~~~~ "Since Bone hasen't talked in the longest time, which surprised me, he gets to go."  Nick said. "My moment, if you wanna call it that was when Lori surprised me on Valentine's Day."  He said. ~~~~~~~~~~~ It was Valentine's Day, and all of us were going to do our own thing.  No one really knew what was going ot happen. "AJ, you always do everything for me, so tonight, I wanna go something for you."  Lori said in her car while they were supposed to be driving to his place.  Insted, Lori drove to a beach.  "Come on."  She said pulling AJ out of the car.  They walked down the beach for a while till Lori stopped. "Remember this spot?"  She asked.  AJ thought about it for a second. "Yeah."  It was the spot where he first told Lori that he loved her.  They reminisced about the early days of their relationship.  After a while they took a romantic walk dovn the beach. ~~~~~~~~~~~ "Now, last but not least, our good friend Casey over there."  AJ said. "Sorry, but I've go nothin' mushy to back up that one. Mine is when we finally got to go skiing in Colorado."  She said. 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