Chapter Two

“Irresistible”

“Whoa, ladies. What’s going on?” Lance asked.

“I plead the 5th.” Justin replied.

“But they didn’t even tell you what’s wrong.” Wade said.

“Pleading the 5th is the safest thing with these two.” Justin said seriously.

“THIS!” the first girl said holding up a book.

“What in the world?” JC asked.

“AND THIS!” the other girls said holding up a magazine.

Reese took a closer look, curious at all the commotion. “Did someone draw all over that picture of Harry Potter?”

“Yes.” The girl with the magazine said. “Completely ruined. This was a collector’s issue you know.”

“And look at this book. You know that Lord of the Rings is my favorite book and ripping out the fifth chapter is so not cool.” The other girl said.

“Oh, hello. You’re Reese right?” the magazine girl said like nothing had happened.

“Um..yes. And you’re?” Reese asked.

“Rylie. Nice to meet you.” She said shaking Reese’s hand.

“And I’m Rachael.” The other girl said.

“Do you two work on the tour?” Reese asked.

“Yes, were in charge of costumes, basically all around fashion consultants….among other things.” Rylie said eyeing the boys.

“What does that mean?” Reese asked.

“It means we baby-sit these idiots around here.” Rachael said rolling her eyes.

“I’m offended honey. I thought you loved me.” Lance said with fake hurt in his voice.

“Okay…I’m way confused.” Reese said.

“Lance is my boyfriend.” Rachael replied.

“Oh, I didn’t know Lance had a girlfriend.” Reese said.

“We can’t exactly publicize that kind of information.” Lance told her.

“So are all you guys hooked up?” Reese asked.

“Rylie and I are.” JC said.

“Not me.” Chris said.

“Meaning you’re not hooked up with Rylie or anyone?” Reese asked.

“Ha! No, I meant anyone is general. So if things with you and Tyler don’t work out…” Chris said.

“Good to know.” Reese said laughing.

“That wasn’t a joke.” Chris said.

“Oh, my bad.” Reese said.

“Back to the situation at hand.” Rylie said. “What happened to our stuff?”

“Okay. Fine it was me. Are you happy?” Justin said.

Rylie and Rachael high fived each other. “Yes. We are so good.”

Reese smiled. She could see herself having a lot of fun on this tour.

The next evening…..

“So are you excited about starting rehearsal tomorrow?” Rachael asked Reese.

“Definitely. I can’t believe this is all really happening.” Reese said.

The crew was having a barbeque at the compound in order to welcome Reese to the tour.

“Hey Rachael, can I ask you something?” Reese asked.

“Sure.” She replied.

“There are three opening acts on this tour right?” Reese questioned.

Rachael nodded. “Yes, that’s right.”

“So how come this party is in my honor? I mean obviously I’m not the only opening act.” She said.

“No offense to you because I like you, and Rylie and I are sick of being the only girls on this tour so we’re glad you here. But we never have parties for the opening acts and if we did I’m pretty sure it would be for all of them. This was all Wade’s idea.” Rachael said.

“Oh, that seems strange.” Reese said.

As if on cue Wade walked over to the girls.

“Hey ladies, having a good time?” Wade asked.

Rachael rolled her eyes. “Its always a good time with you guys, its not like I get a chance to do this everyday or something.”

“Aww…Rachael where would we be without your sweetness?” Wade asked sarcastically.

“Who knows?” Rachael said seriously. “Anywho, I need to find Lance and bother him or something. See you kids.”

“Bye.” Reese said.

“Hey, I thought you said Tyler was coming.” Wade said.

“Oh, yeah. He’s probably on his way or something.” Reese replied. “He’s very busy.”

“It must be hard for you to maintain a normal relationship with your schedules and all.” Wade said.

“Yeah, but…” Reese started as her cell phone rang. “Excuse me. Hello? Tyler? Where are you? Oh, really, yeah I see. Okay. Yeah. I lov..”

“Not coming?” Wade asked.

“No, his manager doesn’t think it would look good for him to come to an *NSYNC party.” Reese told him.

“But this party is for you. It just happens to be here.” Wade said sounding confused.

Reese quickly jumped to Tyler’s defense. “No, it makes sense.”

Suddenly a loud scream was heard.

“What the?” Reese asked.

Wade looked over his shoulder. “Oh, Rachael and Rylie threw Justin in the pool. No big deal.”

Chapter 3

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