Brian rubbed his eyes and looked at the girl in front of him, 'She looks just like Michelle, but she's dead. How could this be?' he asked himself.
She had the same big brown eyes Michelle had and the short wavy light brown hair. The same round face, the same....everything.
"No, it's not Michelle, It's Marcy. I'm Michelle's twin sister," the woman saidand extended her hand.
"Excuse me?"
Marcy rolled her eyes, "When Michelle told me she never told you about me, I thought she was kidding!"
"But, how...when did....you....but...it's not.." Brian stuttered, beyond confused.
"Stop babbling! Yes, Michelle has a twin sister, no she never told you about me, I have no idea why."
"It's just so....forget it, you want to come in?" he asked, opening the door wider.
"Well, it's about time you asked!" she said with an attitude and walked in.
'Geez, how could Michelle be so sweet and her sister be so snotty?' he thought, then walked into the living room and saw Marcy already sitting down on the couch.
"OK, I have a few questions," Brian said and sat down on the table.
"Alright, if have to annoy me with these questions, go ahead," she said.
'Man what's up her ass?' he thought, "First, how did you know where I lived?"
"I have my connections and let me tell you it wasn't easy tracking you down Mr. Littrell. You seem to be on the move a lot."
"Second, why are you here? Now? I didn't see you at the funeral?"
"My we are nosy aren't we? Well, I had other things."
"Other things?! What's so important that you couldn't come to your own sisters funeral?" Brian asked, his voice rising.
"Like I said other things and as for why I'm here. It's for Michelle."
"Michelle?"
"Yes, you see she wouldn't be too happy to see that you've found another love."
"What the hell are you talking about? She's dead!"
"She asked me to look after you if anything ever happened to her."
"If she did that, then why didn't she ever tell me about you?!"
Marcy sighed, "OK, now you're being difficult. I guess I'm going to have to do this the hard way," she said then walked out the living room and out the door. Leaving Brian sitting there, stunned.
"What the hell? Man this is a weird night," he said to himself and got up to continue looking for Annie's number.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The next 4 months went by quickly. After Christmas the BSB had a 3 month tour and were coming today. Brian was still a little spaced out from that visit from Marcy. He hadn't heard from her since that night and he was beginning to get paranoid. The guys were a worried about him. Nobody knew what happened, he hadn't told anybody about Marcy and he wasn't planning too. He figured if it was that bad she would've come back already, he just couldn't figure out what she meant by, 'she'd have to do it the hard way'. As for Annie, while Brian was on tour she had received a letter that said she would be eligible to get a scholarship to the University of Florida. But to get it she would have to work extra hard and study for the final exam they were going to give her at the end of 2 months, which didn't leave much time. So she had to quit her night job at the emergency room, but her Mom helped her out with the extra money. Annie was sitting on the couch with her laptop surrounded by balled up papers and text books.
Lina walked in the room and almost had a heart attack, "ANNIE!!"
"What? I'm really busy," Annie said never taking her eyes of the screen or her fingers off the keyboard.
"A.J. is going to be here any minute and I don't him to see this mess!"
"Oh calm down, he's a guy why would he care? You aren't even going out so why do YOU care?"
"It's the principal of the whole thing!" she said and started to pick up Annie's papers.
"STOP!" she yelled causing Lina to drop the papers she had.
"What?" "If you touch one more of those papers I'll kill you!"
"But what-"
"Shhh"
"All I was-"
"Shh!"
"You are-"
"SHH!"
"UGH!" Lina said and finally gave up and went to the kitchen to get a drink. A few minutes later the doorbell rang, "Ann could you-" she was about to ask Annie to get the door, but it was probably no use, she wasn't going to move anyway, "Nevermind, I'll get it," she sighed then answered the door and was greeted by a HUGE hug.
"A.J.!!" she shrieked and hugged him back.
"Hey Chica!" A.J. said.
"Lina! Hi girl!" Brian said then hugged her as she motioned them in. They walked towards the living room.
"I must warn you hurricane Annie has been through here," she laughed. The guys were about ask what she meant when they saw the living room.
Brian started laughing, " What did she do?"
"She's been studying nonstop since she got that letter about the scholarship."
"Really?" Brian asked.
"Yep," she turned to A.J., "So how's my favorite amigo? Let's go outside and talk," she said trying to give the hint that two love birds would probably want to be left alone.
"OH, ok, let's go," A.J. said and walked with Lina outside.
Once they were gone Brian walked in the living room and wrapped his arms around Annie from behind.
"HOLY SHIT!!" she screamed and nearly jumped ten feet high, she turned around and saw Brian there, "Oh, sweet Jesus! Don't do that!"
"I'm sorry sweetie, I didn't think I would scare you," he said.
She laughed nervously, "No it's OK," she said then kicked the bottle of pills that were on the floor under the couch.
"What was that?"
"Nothing, just trying to clean up," she said then walked around to hug Brian.
"Are you okay? I mean Lina told me that you were studying extra hard for this scholarship," he said with concern in his eyes.
"I'm okay, I just really want this. Sure I could get my Mom to pay for college, she even offered, but I want it to be me all by myself that got me in. I want to work for something for once in my life."
He kissed her, "As long as you're okay."
"Of course, I am, now we have alot of catching up to do!" she smiled.
"I like the sound of that!" Brian smiled and started to kiss her, soon they were making out heavily. They moved over to the couch and pushed the papers on the floor never breaking the kiss. Brian slipped his tongue in Annie's mouth and she did the same following his lead. Exploring every crevice of each others mouth with their tongue. Brian reached for Annie's shirt and started to unbutton it.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Did you have fun on tour?" Lina asked.
"Yeah, I'm just glad to be back! I really missed this place," he said looking out into the ocean.
"I'm glad you're back too."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I just have a question, though."
"Shoot."
"Well, I was wondering if, well," Lina started.
"Honey, just say it."
"Well, if you really liked me or were you just flirting with me?"
A.J. was a bit taken back, he never really thought of Lina like that, truth is he was really only flirting. That was something he enjoyed to do, so he did it
. "A.J.?"
"Huh?"
"Well,..."
"Oh, Lina...look I like you and all, but-" A.J. started, but Lina stopped him.
She put up her hand, "Stop, please, if there's a but I don't really want to hear it," she said.
"But, it's not-"
"Please don't," she said about to go inside when she heard moans, "Damn can't go in there," she muttered and turned around and ran down the steps that led to the beach.
"LINA!!" A.J. called after her, but she didn't stop, "Oh that's great, now you made her cry! Good going McLean!" he said to himself, then started to run after her.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
As for Tori, she heard from Lina that BSB were coming back from tour and she was interested in seeing them again, especially a particular Backstreet Boy, Nick. She was trying to find Nick's house, she got directions from Lina, not the best person in the world to ask, but she wanted to see Nick. She pulled up to a white mansion and checked the address on the paper again, "Wow, I knew he was loaded, but Damn!" she thought out loud to herself, then pulled up to the gate.
"Hello is um..Nick there?" She said into the speaker.
"Who is this?" a voice came from the little box asked.
"Um it's Tori, Annie's cousin, I met Nick a couple of months back. I just thought I'd drop by to say hi."
"I'm sorry ma'am, but-" the voice stopped and she heard Nick in the background, "Let her in, she's Brian's girl's cousin. It's OK, I know her."
The gate slowly opened, and she drove in. She saw Nick open the door and come out. She turned off the engine and stepped out the car, "Hey Nick!" she smiled and walked towards him, but stopped dead in her tracks when she someone behind him.