Chloe was so uneasy about the whole situation with Stace and Nick she did not want to let go of Kevin. She held his hand like a lifeline to keep moving on. They walked up the driveway and to the front door. "Well, do you wanna ring the bell or should I?" Brian asked whispering. He held his finger out to push the doorbell and when he did we didn't hear anything, he pushed it again. "What's wrong? Didn't you punch it?" asked Howie.

"Yea I did." Brian said in the darkness. He reached again and pushed it. This time, an old elderly lady came to the door. "Excuse me miss, but did our friends come in here?" Brian asked. The old lady just stared.

"Is she deaf?" AJ whispered.

"Howie, try Spanish." Kevin suggested. Howie asked the old lady again if their friends had come to her house with a man. There still was no response. Brian and A.J were definitely getting frustrated. Chloe for some reason had decided to take a summer Russian course and decided not to skip any options. She kindly asked the lady if two young people had come to her house with a man and if she'd seen them if they hadn't because they were getting worried. The lady smiled and immediately began telling her that two young people had come in her house with her brother because he had recognized Nick and asked him to come and sign the picture of him for his niece and to see if Nick could fix the radio. The guys looked at Chloe to find out what she'd said. She explained and then answered the questions in Kevin's eyes.

"I took a class. I thought it'd be cool I never thought I'd need it though." They walked in and followed the old lady up the stairs to get her brother and their friends. She knocked on her brother's door and when there was no answer tried the knob it was locked. She started yelling through the door trying to get it open. Everyone looked at Chloe trying to figure out what was being said. Chloe had a look on her face as if she was watching someone die in front of her and couldn't do anything about it. Kevin's instincts took over and he pushed the lady aside took his towel off and kicked the door open. When the door opened everyone ran in to hear Nick and Stace yelling through gags in their mouth. Chloe and the old lady stood in the doorway and the guys went over to them to untie them. The window was open indicating that the brother had escaped. Nick and Stacie had been tied together on the bed in a very incriminating position. There were cameras all over the place, video cameras and still picture ones. Nick and Stacie stood up and Nick held Stacie tightly in a hug that couldn't and wouldn't be broken by anything. "Nick, dude what happened!" Howie asked.

"I, I don't remember. We were at the car and we were about to unlock it and I kissed Stacie and then this old guy showed up and said he recognized me and wondered if I could help out. Well, I was feeling charitable so we came with him. Then we came up here and he tied us to the bed. He started videotaping us and was trying to make us have sex but we wouldn't do it, so he took pictures of us saying he would sell them to all these magazines and TV shows unless we had sex. And I just, man give me a minute okay?" He looked like he wanted to cry and just kept holding Stacie who was crying. Chloe came in and gave them both hugs. They stopped all the videocameras and rewound them to see what happened because absolutely, inevitably they'd be pressing charges and wanted to see this guy get in trouble. They called Chloe over to translate what was being said. Kevin held her in front of him while they watched these things being done to their friends.

"Uh, umm, he's saying that they need to be more passionate. That Nick need to caress, oh, need to uh, caress Stacie's chest and that he need to be forceful on her. And Oh lord, it's just bad. I don't, I don't wanna do this." Chloe said turning in Kevin's arms to hold him. They called the police, their manager and a lawyer. The manhunt immediately began for the man and he would be prosecuted to the fullest extent. After all the details had been discussed everything gone over several times the group was allowed to go. They all were going to the guys' hotel to kind of recoup even though it was kind of late.

"Kevin I don't think I can drive." Chloe said when they reached her vehicle. Her hands were shaking so bad she couldn't unlock the car. Kevin came over and kissed her forehead and took the keys. Nick and Stacie had gotten in the backseat already and Nick still had his arm protectively around her. Chloe wanted to give them both bugs and say she was so sorry but at the same time she wanted to scream at Nick for going with the guy. Even though she knew it really wasn't his fault. And all this happening on Stacie's birthday was not a good sign. She's definitely going to have some trauma. Chloe called her mom and told her she was staying at Stacie's and Chloe called Stacie's mom to tell her Stacie was staying at her house. They really were both staying at the hotel with the guys because they definitely didn't want to be alone after what happened. They rode to the hotel in silence and when they got their no one said a word in the elevators and Nick carried Stacie to the room. They all sat in the "living room" of the suite and for a moment they were in silence. "Nick, I want to tell you now, that even though I'm sure none of us says this enough (about anybody) that we care about you a lot. I know I love you like a little brother I always wanted and I just want you to know I'll never want anything bad to ever happen to you or Stacie like this EVER again. From now on we're gonna have better security." Kevin said in a low voice Chloe was sitting beside him clinging to his arm with her head on his shoulder. Nick and Stacie were in a chair together and the rest of the group was amongst them.

"Nick, I know this is probably a bad time but why in the world would you go off with someone like that?" Brian asked.

"I don't know man, I just, he looked like this little old dude in the dark. You wouldn't think he had that much strength but he did and it was by far the worst experience anyone could ever have and even though I'm supposed to talk about it I'm tired and I wanna go to bed." He got up and walked to his room. Stacie came and sat by Chloe and started to cry. She knew she wouldn't be able to go to sleep for a long time. Kevin said he was gonna stay up with the girls and so the other guys could go on ahead to bed. The next day Nick and Stacie were supposed to go see a clinical psychologist/counselor person who specialized in violent crimes. Kevin stayed with Chloe and Stacie all night he was amazingly supportive and didn't try to break their friendship telling of what happened. He just knew that him being there was a great comfort to both girls.

At 9:30 the next morning the guys started to wake up. BY 11 o'clock Nick and Stacie were ready to go to the counselor. They took to bodyguards and a dark van. Kevin and Chloe said they were gonna get a couple of hours of sleep and then would see the guys later. They went to Kevin's room and Chloe started crying. Kevin held her close and wiped her tears away. "Chloe, I would never let anyone hurt you in anyway. And I myself would certainly never would try to harm a hair on your head." He whispered. Chloe nodded and said thank you. They lay on the bed with Kevin's arm securely around Chloe and her head on his shoulder. They slipped quietly into a deep, soothing, very needed sleep...