~Chapter 5~ Kevin was pretty tired, so the other guys hung out at Brian's house.  They were watching Saved By The Bell when the doorbell rang. "Hello sire, my name is Brenda and this is Lucy and Chloe and we'd like to know if you would want some girl scout cookies." "Sure!"  said Nick.  He loved food.  "I'll take 4 boxes of everything." "Thank you sir!"  smiled Brenda.  "Um, may we please have your autographs?" "Sure!  Guys, get over here."  A.J., Brain, Nick, and Howie all signed there girl scout vests. "Sir,"  said Lucy, "Where is Mr. Richardson?" "Oh no!  He's sick girls, I'm sorry." "Oh I see." said Lucy sadly.  "May I have a piece of paper?" "Certainly!"  said Brain. Lucy sat in the front porch and made Kevin a get well Card.  She handed it to Nick, said thank you, and then the other girls left. "That was sure sweet of her!"  said Brian. "Yeah Kev goes out and gets drunk and then girls give him cards while we take care of him.  Why, I slaved over that chicken noodle soup and he didn't take one bite.  not one bite!"  explained A.J. "Uh...ok."  laughed the others. When Kevin read his card, he was so touched.  He sent Lucy and autographed picture along with some other things.  He even went to meet her in person. That same day, The boys had an interview with 20/20.  This time though, Nick was the drunk one.  Barbara Walters asked them what their favorite songs were.  Well, Nick started singing Micheal, Row The Boat Ashore over and over.  Finally, he collapsed.  Brain chuckled and sat him back up in the chair.  his eyes had a vacant stare to them, and his head was cocked to the side the entire time. Well Howie, Kevin, Brian, and A.J. spazzed out! "You moron!"  they screamed at him.  "You completely humiliated us on national television!  What do you have to say for yourself."  Nick let out a large BURP! and ran into the bathroom to throw up.  The other guys chased after. "You ok?"  Brian asked. "Yep!"  said Nick.  The vomiting helped his attitude. That day, the guys made a pact that there would be no more alcohol. ~Chapter 6~ Nick meets a girl. One summer day while surfing, Nick stumbled into a girl named Nicole.  But he didn't know that, "Excuse me, sir!"  he said.  He had to admit it was the ugliest man he ever saw.  All of a sudden, the person started pushing Nick. "Oh, to think you're so great, huh?  Mr. Big Shot Backstreet Boy.  Yeah well I am not a man!!"  Nicole threw a fit and started beating the pulp out of Nick.  When AJ and the others arrived, Nick was in bad shape.  He had a black eye.  Brian was infuriated. "Hey!  Get off him!  Man, get the hell off!" he screamed.  "God damn it, get off him!" Finally the guys jumped in.  It took all 4 of them to get her off.  She was large, and was built like a man.  When they pried her off, beach security took her away.  Nick had a black eye and plenty of cuts and cruises. "Are you ok man?"  AJ asked. "Yeah.  Will you guys get me a burger?" "Uh....sure!"  Kevin laughed. "Nick, all you ever think about is food!" said Howie.  Then the beach security guys came to check Nick out.  He didn't have any broken bones.  He was lucky too, because they had a concert later that week. More important than that, Nick's mom was coming over, she inspected his house down to every last dust molecule.  Nick loved her but he hated to see her go. ~Chapter 7~ Howie had been spending a lot of time in the doghouse lately.  They guys asked him what was wrong a bunch of times, but he never answered.  Turns out, Howie was writing his own rap song.  It wouldn't be done for a while, but he sure did spend lots of time on it Howie and Brian were getting to be pretty good friends.  They chilled a lot together, but they went down the most horrid things be each others sides, the bombing of Helsinki, Finland. The guys had flown up to Helsinki for a ski trip.  Finland was having disputes with Poland, but the guys decided staying in the mountains should be perfectly safe.  They were wrong. Howie and Brian were in a small cave when soldiers from Pollen came marching through.  They hid.  They were in shock that they Polocks were even up in the hills.  Then the bomb dropped.  It was dark and smoky.  The mouth of the cave collapsed.  Brian and Howie were trapped.  Brian started digging and Howie threw rocks and together they moved the larger boulders and were out in no time.  The problem was, everyone even Nick, Kevin, and AJ thought they died. They were so far into the wilderness that it would take them forever to get back to civilization.  News traveled to America fast, and the country wallowed in tears.  The Backstreet Boys wouldn?t be the same with only three.  When Howie and Brian got out, AJ and Nick and Kevin. hugged them with tears in their eyes,  That day, a lesson was learned, and on international TV, AJ said bawling, "I love you guys!"  They all broke out in tears.  That day, America and the rest of the world learned that the Backstreet Boys were more than just a group of guys who put up with each other to get rich.  No, maybe the other bands were like that, but not them.  They were best friends.  And it would stay that way. It took awhile for the chaos to settle in America.  The guys came back in two days.  Tabloids were haunting them already. "Howie is Paralyzed."  "Brian has permanent brain damage."  Although they only lasted about a week, they brought back the me painful memories for the guys.  What if that stuff could've happened to them?  Could they really have stuck together?  What do you think. After awhile, the pain was gone, but the guys were accumulating as many scars as AJ had tattoos.  They all decided it was time for a new look.  Nick started experimenting with hairgel and spiked it up.  I can't say it looked good.  AJ well, he dyed his hair blue, gold, and green.  Kevin and Howie got nose rings and Brian, well, he shaved his head.  They only lasted a week, because the new look disappointed everyone, even themselves.  No one believed the Backstreet Boys could be ugly.  They were terribly wrong.  Kevin sort of looked like a bull at the Chicago Bulls game.  He had red face paint and that god awful nose ring.  He actually looked like a bull!  It was pretty sad, and the guys got a pretty good laugh out of it. ~Chapter 8~ Howie's rap song was about the love going through the Backstreet Boys.  It hit the top of the charts and stayed there for a whole month.  This caused the Backstreet Boys to expand their ways of singing and the lyrics to their songs.  They moved to LA and lived among a tougher group who certainly did not pamper them because they were rich.  Although they only did a few rap songs, the change helped them learn that they were just people.  After some groups are popular for long enough, they lose sight of the fact of what they're in the biz for, is their fans.  In LA though, AJ got shot in the abdomen, which brought more reality to the boys than is imaginable.  AJ was hospitalized and put into ICU.  They guys visited everyday. "You doin' ok AJ?  asked Brian.  AJ didn't answer.  He was unconscious again.  Everytime he woke up though, they chatted. "How ya feelin' Bone?"  asked Nick. "I'm.....oh....I can't..." gasped AJ. "Just rest."  said Kevin. "Yeah.  Don't worry they'll operate soon."  explained Howie. AJ let out a weak "Thanks guys" before falling asleep.   The guys watched painfully through the window as they took the bullet out of AJ's stomach.  They knew he had been sedated, but it looked so bad to see AJ so helpless.  But when Dr. Peterson come out, he said all was well and that they could talk it out with AJ in an hour.  The time passed slowly, but they finally got to go in. "Well, you made it."  said Brian, half crying. "Us too!" said the others. "I know,"  said AJ.  "I love you guys.  I could've never made it without you." The End Chapters 1-4 Back to Fanfic Back to Main Page