Kidnapped

Part 4

The sun came up on the huge house but there was no movement inside. Brandi’s eyes opened slowly. She looked around her room. Her room was done up in retro-hippie stuff and anything else she could find that was a little different. She glazed at the huge tie-dye smiley face flag she had hung on the far right wall. She smiled then noted that the house was still quite. She found this to be odd, it was all most 8:00 a.m. And Kim always got up before everyone. She couldn’t sleep any more so she slid to the edge of her bed and put her fuzzy slippers on and headed for the door.


Her door opened with a slight creek. She stepped out on to the green carpet that was in the hallway. All the other doors were still shut. Once down stairs she headed for the living room where she flipped on the TV and turned it down low. She quickly got bored. “I should go check on the guys.” She said to her self. She ran into the kitchen and got the key to the basement door off the top of the fridge where Kim had left it. As soon as she got to the door she popped the lock and turned it. With a light click she opened the door.


She hoped some one was up so she could have someone to keep her company. She got to the bottom of the step then looked around. JC was asleep on the couch and Lance was the floor in front of the couch. Joey was reclined the chair and Chris was in his chair asleep. Disappointed Brandi turned to go up stairs. But she stopped when she herd Chris whispered her name. “Brandi?” Chris called lightly. “I didn’t know you were up already?” Brandi said walking over to him keeping her voice low too.

“Yeah well this isn’t the most comfortable thing to sleep in.” Chris whispered wiggling in the chair. Chris looked her up then down, checking her out. “What on earth are you wearing?” He asked. Brandi looked down at the cloud tank top and pants that she was wearing. “I like this nightgown.” Brandi said looking back at him.


Chris smiled. “No one else is up yet. Do you want to come upstairs with me and talk or something?” She asked. “Sure, I’d love to. I’m sick of being down here.” Chris said. Brandi undid his handcuffs. She grabbed his hand a lead him to the steps. She looked over the others before going up the steps.


Once up stairs they sat down on the couch. “Are you hungry?” Brandi asked. “No. Not really.” Chris said. The two were quite for a minute. “So tell me about your self?” Chris asked finally. “Like what do you want to know?” She asked. He smiled and looked down. “How old are you? What do you like to do? Stuff like that.” Chris replied. “Oh, um… well I’m 18. And I don’t really have any hobbies. I just like to do stuff that’s a little different.” She said.


Brandi and Chris sat there for a half an hour talking. Come to find out they had a lot in common. Every so often Chris would say something funny and Brandi would laugh. “You’re a very pretty girl.” Chris said taking his hand and brushing her face. Her skin was soft to the touch. Brandi looked up at him; his brown eyes gleamed back. “Thank you, you’re very kind.” Brandi said sliding closer to him. He placed his arm around her and they sat that way for a few minutes, enjoying the peacefulness of the quick house.


Brandi turned to him and was about to say something when Chris’s lips meet hers. The kiss was short. Chris pulled his head back to see what she would say. She looked at him and blinked, but said nothing. Her brown eyes gleamed back at him showing a strange mix of love, lust, and confusion. Acting on instinct he pushed her back into the couch and pressed his lip agents hers once more. This time placing one hand on her back and the other at her waist. She wrapped her arms around him and they draw each other closer. They were in the middle of a very passionate kiss.


There was a sound of someone coming down the steps but they were both too busy to notice. “Oh, my! I’m Blind.” Kim screamed as she reached the bottom of the steps and saw the happenings that were taking place in the living room. They stopped kissing. Brandi looked at Kim then at Chris and began to giggle. “What so funny? And please tell me he still has his pants on.” Kim begged. Brandi smiled, “Yes, sadly his pants are still on.”


“Yeah I’m … um just going to go in the kitchen now. Bye.” Kim said leaving the room in a hurry. Brandi watched her friend leave then looked back at Chris who was just smiling. She began kissing him again when the doorbell rang. “Brandi take a break from your making out and answer the door.” Kim yelled from the kitchen.
Brandi pushed Chris back and slid out from under him. “Duck or something, don’t let anyone see you.” She told Chris then headed for the door. She peeked through the peephole in the door a realized it was her friend. He had clearly come to give her the tape. She opened the door. “Hello Brandi!” The guy said giving her a hug. “It’s good to see you Nick.” Brand said.


Nick reached in his pocket and pulled out an envelope then handed it to Brandi. “Here you go. I’d love to stay and chat but I have to get back home. But you call me.” Nick said. “Yeah okay go. I’ll call you. I promise.” She yelled at him and he headed for his car.


Brandi turned and headed back in the house. Chris met her at the door. “What’s that?” He asked. “It’s the song tape.” Brandi said opening the envelope and showing it to him. “Okay, so when are we going to get to work?” He asked. “After Breakfast. Let’s go talk to Kim.” Brandi said turning to go into the kitchen.


“Who was that at the door?” Kim asked when she saw the two enter the kitchen. “That was Nick he brought the tape for ‘If I’m not the one’ Not ‘I’ll be The One’.” Brandi said eyeing her. “I make one little mistake and you rub it in.” Kim wined. “That’s what friends are for.” Brandi said with a smile. Kim looked around the kitchen. “I don’t want to cook, we can have cereal for breakfast.” Kim said setting a stack of bowls down on the table.


“Sounds great what kind do you have?” Chris asked. “All kinds go look in there.” Kim said pointing to a cabinet. Chris ran over and began searching through them to find what he wanted. They heard footsteps on the stairs then they saw Mandy round the coiner. “Good morning.” Mandy greeted. She turned and saw Chris going through the cabinet. “What’s he doing up here?” She asked. “Oh I woke up early and I went to check on them but he was up so I brought him up here so I would have some one to talk to.” Brandi explained.


“You weren’t talking when I came down.” Kim smirked. Mandy just looked at her. “I don’t want to know.” Mandy said joining Chris at the cabinet to see what they had. “Have you been down to check on the others since?” Kim asked Brandi. “No I figure they would say something if they needed anything.” Brandi replied. Kim rolled her eyes. “I’ll go check on them.” Mandy said skipping out the door. “She needs help.” Chris said watching her leave. Kim and Brandi just laughed.


Mandy slipped down the to step to the basement. When she got down there the TV was on. And JC and Joey were up watching it. Lance was still sound asleep on the floor. “Hi, Where’s Chris?” Joey asked when he saw her. “Hi, He’s upstairs Brandi is watching him. Did you sleep well?” Mandy asked him. “Not really.” Joey said and JC agreed with him. “I’m sorry we’ll figure something out.” Mandy said. “What’s for breakfast?” JC asked. “Cereal. What kind do you want?” Mandy asked them. “What kind is there?” JC asked. Mandy listed a few then waited for the guys to chose. “Okay I’ll go get that for you.” Mandy said turning to leave. “What about Lance?” Joey asked. “Let him sleep a little longer.” Mandy said then left.


Mandy went back upstairs to get their food. Chris sat down next to Kim and started eating. “Why are we letting him walk around anyway? He already tried to get away once?” Kim asked looking at Brandi. Brandi just sat there. “I won’t run away. Even if I got away I wouldn’t know where to go.” Chris said looking up from his bowl. “It’s not that hard just pick a direction and go that way till you find some one. But it doesn’t matter we locked all the doors and widows.” Katy said butting into the conversation.


“Good morning, sleeping beauty where’s prince charming?” Brandi said. “Justin? He’s still asleep.” Katy said going over to the cabinet to fix her breakfast. “So how was your night?” Mandy asked. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Katy said playing dumb. “Sure what ever. I have to run these down to the guys then you can tell us all about it,” Mandy said heading for the basement. “There’s nothing to talk about.” Katy said sitting next to Brandi.


“You can’t lie to us Katy.” Kim said. Katy looked up at all of them. “Can’t two people sleep in the same bed together and not get it on?” Katy asked. “Not when one of those two people is Justin.” Chris replied. Katy just smiled. “So how was he in bed.” Brandi asked trying to get on her nerves. “Drop it!” Katy yelled.


“Here you go.” Mandy said handing Joey his breakfast. “Thanks.” He said setting his game pad down. She handed JC his. “What kind of milk it this?” He asked. “I don’t know. Why?” Mandy asked. “I can only have 2%.” JC said. “Then that’s what it is now just eat it.” Mandy said getting very annoyed by him. “It’s almost 11. You should wake Lance up.” Joey said. “Why don’t you?” Mandy asked. “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Joey said with a laugh. “Fine.”


Mandy went over to where Lance was asleep on the floor. She knelt down beside him. “Lance wake up.” She said in his ear. Lance moaned and took his hand and brushed her away. “Lance I mean it. Get up.” She said a little louder. Lance went to roll over to ignore her but some how he took her with him. Mandy lay on top of Lance; they were stuck in the blankets. “Let me out.” She yelled not really meaning it. After all she liked being this close to him. Lance realized he wasn’t going to be able to sleep any more but he figured he’d have fun with her. In one swift monition he rolled over on top of Mandy and looked her in the eye. “How’s it going Baby?” He asked in his deep voice. “Fine. Now get off me.” Mandy yelled trying to wiggle free. “Come on you know you like it.” He said running his hand down the side of her leg. “Man now I’m glad I didn’t wake him up.” Joey laughed.


“You’re a cutie but get off me, now!” Mandy said kneeing him the crotch. Lance yelled in pain and rolled off her. Mandy jumped up while Lance lay on the floor holding himself. “Serves you right.” Mandy said pointing at him. “I think you broke it.” Lance moaned still rolling on the floor. “Good. Now what do you want for breakfast?” Mandy asked. “I don’t care I’ll eat anything.” He said setting up. Mandy smiled a then headed up stairs.


As she entered the kitchen Kim, Katy and Brandi had cleared the table and spread drawings and notes over it. “What are you doing?” Mandy asked. “Looking at the sketches Katy made for the video. They look great.” Brandi said pointing to her favorite one. Chris was sitting quietly in a chair looking at the drawings too. “This is going to cost you a ton. Where did you get that kind of money?” He asked finally. The four girls looked at each other. But said nothing. “What did you guys do?” He asked again. “We borrowed some money from where we work and our parents.” Katy said. “These people don’t know you borrowed it right?” He asked. “Yeah they know that’s why we’re here.” Mandy said with a smile.


“You guys are what 17, 18?” Chris asked. “Yeah, but we just wanted to do this so bad. You know one last wild thing before we go are own way.” Brandi said. Chris figured it was better not to ask any more questions about that. “I know we’re your prisoners but do you think we could take a bath or at least change out clothes?” Chris asked. The girls looked at each other. “Well… you guys have been here 4 days.” Mandy said looking at the other three.


“I guess they can but we don’t have anything for them to change into.” Kim said. “We could go to their houses and get them some clothes.” Katy said. “Okay, Me and Brandi can go get them some clothes and you two can get them started on the song.” Mandy said. “Sound like a great plan to me.” Chris said. “Okay I think me and Katy can handle it here.” Kim said.


Katy jumped when she felt a hand grab her shoulder. She relaxed when she saw it was only Justin. He wrapped his arms around her waist and started to kiss her neck. “How did you get out?” She asked him. “You forgot to lock the door so I just walked out.” He said. He stopped kissing her and rested his head on her shoulder. Since Katy was so much shorter that him he had to slouch.


“So it’s set then? We’ll go and you two will stay?” Mandy asked pointing to Brandi. “Yeah but you don’t need to go to Lance’s house we have his bag from the airport in Katy’s trunk.” Brandi said. “Justin give them your address so they can get you some clean clothes.” Katy ordered him. Mandy wrote down word for word what he said then headed for the basement to find out there the other’s houses were.


Once they got everything together Mandy and Brandi got ready to head out while Katy and Kim were down talking to the guys about what there plans were for the rest of the day. Down stairs the guy were listening carefully to the girls. “Now were going to re-record the song to day. This it what we’ll use and a play back for the video.” Katy explained. Outside they heard the driango pull out of the driveway. “Okay lets go then.” Kim said Pushing JC toward the sound stage. For safety reason they left their hand handcuffed.


Once all five were inside the sound stage Kim and Katy locked the door and went into the mixing part of the stage to listen. “Okay guy ready?” Katy asked pushing the speaker button. The nodded yes then each grabbed a Microphone.


“If I’m not the one you want. Take you time to figure out.” They sang in synch. “I’m staring at your picture every night, the scent of you still lingers in my mind. I wander if you’ll only fell all right. And the sun has come out of the clouds.” JC sang. Justin smiled he was ready for his part. “And some time when I listen to our song the nights seem cold and far too long. I want to call you up because in the end I keep writing letter to my garbage can.” Justin sang pointing to Katy. Katy smiled then laid her head down on the mixing board to hide that she was blushing.


“Baby, It feels like I’m going crazy, come and lay down beside me.” JC sand then the joined in again. “If I’m not the one you want. (You’ll see) Take the time to figure out (You’ll see) If I’m not the one you want I’ll be the one you need.”


Kim looked at Katy and smiled. It sounded great coming into the mixing room. They sang the whole song once then the worked on what needed it.

**At Joey’s house. **

“Are you sure this is his house?” Mandy asked stepping over the bush in front of the window. “Yep. Look at the superman blanket that’s on the chair.” Brandi said pointing in the window. Brandi got out of the bush and walked to the back door. She used the key Joey gave her, to open the back door. Mandy followed her inside. Of course the house was huge. “Were does Joey keep his clothes?” Brandi asked. “How should I know just look in every room.” Mandy said pushing a door open, but inside was the kitchen.


“Let’s check up stairs.” Mandy said pointing to the steps. “Good Idea.” Brandi said running up the steps. On the second floor they found many bedrooms. “Which one is his?” Mandy asked. “That’s not hard it’s the one with all the superman stuff in it.” Brandi replied opening the door to the biggest bedroom. On the bed was a superman comforter. They walked in; Mandy noted Joey prize autograph, of the old actor that played super man, hanging on the wall.


Brandi opened the dresser. Inside she found tons of superman shirts. She grabbed Joey’s fave superman jersey and a pair of jeans. She also took something a little nicer for him to wear in the video. “Come on lets go.” Brandi said throughing the cloths in Mandy’s hands then walking out the door. Mandy had to run to keep up with her. “Why are you in such a hurry?” Mandy asked once they reached the car. Brandi turned and looked at her. “Because this is so illegal and it’s the middle of the day are we nuts?” Brandi asked.


“Well it looks worse when if some one were to see us running from the houses rather that walking clammily.” Mandy noted. Brandi smiled after all she had a point. They got in the car and headed for JC’s house.

**Back at the house**

After an hour of singing they gave the guys a break, all of them but JC. JC was in the mixing room with Kim trying to get the first part of the song. Katy was Play the game system with the rest of the guys. Lance was kicking her but on Mario cart. “Man I suck at this game.” Katy stated tossing the controller to Joey. “Your just mad cause you lost.” Lance said sticking his tongue out at her. Katy returned the gesture. Katy got up; “You guys want some water or something?”


They all nodded yes so Katy turned to head up the steps when she heard Kim’s voice. “You are so egotistical, it’s sound awful.” Kim yelled through the thick walls of the mixing room. “What do you know about music? “ JC snapped. “I know what sounds good and that stinks.” Kim replied. “Do you think you could do better?” He asked. A blind monkey could do better.” Kim yelled.


“They sound like their married.” Justin said. “Why can’t they get along?” Katy asked. “Yeah like us.” Justin said grabbing Katy’s hand. “Well…maybe not just like us but anything would be an improvement.” Katy said looking into Justin’s shining blue eyes. “Awe mushy moment.” Chris interrupted. Katy and Justin both shot him a mean look.
“Your such a B****. I’m out of here.” JC said getting up and pushing the door to the mixing room open. He walked past Katy but she grabbed his arm. “What’s the deal?” She asked. “I can’t work in these conditions.” He yelled. “You mean you won’t lower yourself to.” Kim said joining them in the main room of the basement. “Would you shut up you don’t even know me.” JC said pointing at Kim. “I’ve been with you four days and I can tell you’re self-absorbed already.” Kim said. JC pushed Katy’s hand off his arm then ran up the stairs. Katy ran after him.


“You can leave.” Katy yelled. “Watch me.” He said reaching the front door. “No, I won’t let you.” Katy yelled grabbing his arm and spinning around. “I didn’t go trough all this just so you could walk out just because you have girl troubles.” She added. “I don’t have girl troubles.” He said yanking his arm free again. “You like her, face it.” She said. “What your crazy!” He yelled getting in her face. “How could anyone like some one who’s so judgement and just an all out b****?” He added. Katy said nothing. She really didn’t know what to say at this point. JC turned back to the door and turned the knob but before he could push it open he felt something cold and metal being pushed into his back. He turned and faced Katy who was holding the small handgun pointing it at him.


“You are crazy!” He yelled. “Yeah I hear that a lot. Now back down stairs. I’m not letting you ruin this are us.” Katy said leading him to the basement once more. Once downstairs JC stud silent while Katy kept the gun pointing at him. “Why couldn’t you just let him leave?” Kim asked. “Because we need him.” Katy said pushing JC into the chair close to Kim. “We could have just went and got AJ, from the backstreet boys, he’s way cuter.” Kim said with a smile.


“No we agreed to get Nsync.” Katy said sitting down on Justin’s lap. Justin smiled and placed his arms around her tiny body. “It’s not fair you have Justin drooling all over you and I have no one.” Kim said folding her arms across her chest. “There are four other guy here, Kim.” Katy replied. Kim didn’t answer. “I think you both need time to cool down. Kim why don’t you take 5 upstairs and JC you can hang out in there.” She said pointing to the bedroom by the bathroom. “You both need to take a nap or something.” Katy said watching Kim make her way up the steps. JC got up not saying a word and went into the bedroom and shut the door.

**At JC’s house**

“Hey look someone cleaned up the vase we broke.” Mandy said pointing to the stop where they had tackled JC. “That’s great now come on.” Brandi said grabbing her friend’s arm and dragging her into another room. Everything in JC’s house was clean and in it’s place. Unlike Joey’s house, which was a mess. It looked as if he’d had a party in there the night before.


JC only had a couple bedrooms in his house. So the girls carefully checked each one till they found what they were looking for. Brandi carefully went through all his clothes trying to find something that would look great for the video. She found pair of red snakeskin print pants and a black shirt then tossed them to Mandy. “He can’t wear this in the video.” Mandy protested. “Why not we can have them all wearing something plane.” Brandi said picked up a pair of jeans and a tee shirt for him to wear around the house. Mandy looked down at the funky pants but didn’t say anything. “Where to now?” Mandy asked. “Chris’s house.” Brandi said making her way to the front door.


As they reached the front door they heard some one talking out side. “Who is it?” Mandy asked. “I think it’s JC’s mom. Hurry we’ll go out the back door before she sees us.” Brandi said backing up. The two made a break for it just as they reached the back door the front door popped open. Mrs. Chasez walked in. Brandi and Mandy ran out the door and shut it quietly behind them. Sadly they didn’t know JC had a fenced in back yard. “We have to jump the fence.” Mandy said. “I know but it’s like a thousand feet tall.” Brandi said. “Look we can hop on the trash can.”

Mandy said pointing to the trashcan at her right. Brandi ran over and hopped on it.
With all her might she pulled her self over the fence. She waited on the other side for Mandy. Mandy looked around then jumped on the trashcan. She threw the clothes over to Brandi. Just as she was about to pull herself over her pant leg got caught on the fence. “I’m stuck.” She whispered. Brandi reached over and grabbed her hand and pulled with all her might. They heard a rip then Mandy came flying over the fence. There was a loud clang as the trashcan tipped and hit the ground. Mandy landed on Brandi and they both fell to the ground.


“That was close.” Mandy said. “Yeah now get off me.” Brandi said pushing Mandy off her then getting up. They heard the back door open. “Come on that’s probably JC’s mom coming to see what the noise was.” Brandi said. The two girls took off running and didn’t stop till they reached the car. Mandy got in and started it as fast as she could.

**Back at the house**

“I’m bored.” Lance said with a yawn. “Yeah me too.” Chris wined. “I know it’s boring. Why don’t you play the games some more?” Katy said. “But we’ve beat them all already.” Joey said. Katy thought for a minute. “I don’t know what to tell you.” She said finally. “Can’t we do something else?” Lance asked. “Like what?” Katy replied. “I don’t know do you have any playing cards?” Lance asked. “Let me go look.” Katy said. She got up and went to stairs to look for some. She went into the kitchen. Noticed something lying on the table. It was Mandy’s journal. “I wander what she write in that thing?” Katy said to her self. But she knew Mandy would kill her if she ever found out she read it so with all her might she walked away. After looking for 15 minutes she found some card then headed back down stairs.


“I found some.” Katy yelled running down the stairs. “Great what are we going to play?” Joey asked. “Let’s play poker!” Chris suggested. “We could play strip poker.” Justin said eyeing Katy. “Yeah!” Joey said. “No you we aren’t playing that game. It’s just a cheep way for you guy to see with out my clothes.” Katy said crossing her arms. ‘So?” Justin said. Katy looked at him then smiled. “Do you really want your friends to see me with out my clothes on?” She asked him. He thought for a minute. “That’s a bad idea let’s play something else.” He said changing his mind.

**At Chris’s house**

Brandi walked around the house first. After the close call they had at JC’s house she wanted to make sure Chris’s girlfriend wasn’t home. Luckily there seemed to be no one home. She they entered through the back door. They had no more than shut the door then Busta, Chris’s dog, saw them and started barking. “Shut him up before some one hears him.” Brandi said. Mandy walked over to the small dog slowly. “Hi sweetie.” She said lowering her head.


The dog ran over to her and latched on to her pant leg. Mandy began kicking and trying to get the dog off her. “Brandi, help me.” Mandy begged. “Why at least he’s not barking.” Brandi said walking off. “Where are you going?” Mandy asked following her friend and dragging the dog with her. “To get Chris some cloths.” Brandi said pushing the door to one of the bedrooms open. Mandy looked at her then at the dog, which was making a mess out of her pant leg. Then she had an idea. She kicked the dog off then headed for the kitchen with the dog close behind her.


Once there she looking through most of the cabinets till she found what she was looking for. “Hey Busta you want a doggie treat?” She said waving the box in the air. The dog stopped dead in its track then sat up and begged. “Good boy.” Mandy said giving him one. While the dog was busy eating Mandy slipped back down the hall carrying the box with her. Brandi had already found Chris’s room, which had all kinds of football stuff hanging up. “What did you do with the dog?” Brandi asked looking up from the pile of clothes in front of her. “I gave him a treat,” Mandy said holding up the box. Brandi smiled they went back to what she was doing. “Which pants should Chris wear in the video?” Brandi asked holding up two pairs of pants. One was black with weird things hanging off it and the other was a pair of jeans with black stuff on them.


“I don’t know. Why are you asking me you never asked me about the other?’ Mandy asked. “That’s cause Chris has to look extra hot in this video.” Brandi said with a smile. “Okay whatever, I’d go with the bondage scary thing.” Mandy said pointing to the black ones. Brandi smiled then through the other ones back into the pile. She grabbed the shirts and the kaki pants next to her the jumped up. “Let’s go.” Brandi said. The two headed out he door but when they reached the back door they stopped hen the heard the sound of Busta whining. They turned to see the poor doggie down on its belly inching for them.


“The poor dog, Brandi we can leave him.” Mandy said turning to her friend, “I don’t think anyone has been here to feed him since we took Chris.” Brandi looked at her then at the puppy. “But Katy doesn’t care for dogs too much.” Brandi said. “She likes some dogs and if it bothers her we can keep him in the basement.” Mandy said. Brandi looked back down at the dog; Busta looked up at her with his black eyes. “I guess so.” Brandi said finally. “Yeah.” Mandy said running over and picking the dog up. The happy puppy licked Mandy’s cheek and let out a little bark. “Come on we have only one more stop.” Brandi said opening the door. Mandy followed her with Busta in her arms.

**Back at the house**

“I should go check on them.” Katy said setting her cards down. “Can’t it wait just a little bit longer?” Justin said lopping his handcuffed arms around her. Katy nuzzled her head agents his neck. “No I really should go now.” She said slipping out from under his arms. “I’ll be right back.” She said making her way over to the bedroom JC had gone into a few hours ago.


She opened the door and stuck her head in. JC was laying on one of the bed staring at the ceiling. “Are you having fun?” Katy asked. “JC shot her a mean look. “What do you care?” He asked. “I care about you a lot.” Katy said stepping inside and shut the door. “Really you have a weird way of showing it.” JC replied. Katy smiled at looked at her feet. “I know this is hard for you to see now, but if I didn’t care about you I would have never done this.” Katy said. JC looked at her. “Are you on crack!” He yelled, “What in the heck are you talking about.” Katy sat down on the bed opposite him. “We love you guys, your music means so much to us. Well Kim like BSB. But that’s another story. Any way we wanted to have a chance to show you that we enjoy your music. Plus we just wanted to make an Nsync video of our own.

With the song we wanted and the things we wanted in it. That’s all.” Katy explained. JC looked at her for a minute. “I still say you’re on crack.” He said. Katy laughed. “You can go back out there with your friends or you can stay in here it doesn’t matter to me. “I’ll stay here.” JC said lying his head back down on the pillow.


Katy smile then walked out the door and back into the main room. “Are you done?” Justin asked. “No I have to go check on Kim.” Katy said walking past him the up the stairs. “You’re a poor excuse for a man, Justin Timberlake.” Joey said. Justin looked at him. “Really why is that?” He asked. “I real man would never give into a girl like that.” Joey explained. “Yeah Justin your like putty in her hand.” Lance added. Justin smiled and shook his head. “And that is why I’m closer to getting some than you’ll ever be.” Justin said.


“What do you mean?” Lance asked. “Girls like to think they're in control. While she thinks she has me eating out of her hand. I really have her eating out on my hand. When it’s the right time she’ll do anything I asked her to do.” Justin explained. “Oh, I thought you already got something the last night?” Chris asked confused. Justin shook his head. “No, it wasn’t time yet.” Justin said. “You mean she said no?” Joey said shocked. “Yeah, But I bet I get some soon, she crazy about me.” Justin said. “You mean some one said no to Justin Timberlake? That’s a first.” Lance said. Justin stuck his tongue out at him and crossed his arms.


Up stairs Katy knocked on Kim’s door. “Kim, It’s Katy, can I come in?” Katy asked. “Yes.” Kim said. Katy pushed the door open. Kim’s room was neat and plain. Her walls were light green and there was a BSB poster one of the walls. “I can’t believe you brought that thing.” Katy said pointing to the poster. “I like it,” Kim said sitting up on her bed. “Are you okay?” Katy asked sitting next to her friend. “Yeah, JC just gets on my nerves. He so perfect it bugs me.” Kim explained. “Yeah well he think I’m on crack if that helps you any.” Katy said. Kim looked at her and laughed. “Why does he think that?” Kim asked. Katy just shrugged.


“I guess I should start dinner.” Kim said getting up. “Yeah I’ll help you.” Katy said getting up and following her. “What about Justin?” Kim asked. “He’ll live.” Katy said.

**At Justin’s House**

“Are you sure this is his house?” Mandy asked. “Are you going to ask me that at every house?” Brandi asked. “I just want to make sure.” Mandy said. “Yes I’m sure. No one else would have a Basket ball court in their back yard.” Brandi said putting Busta in the back seat. They got out and headed for the back door.


Once inside they split up to look for his room. Brandi looked down stairs and Mandy went up stairs. The first room Brandi went in to must have been where the kept the award they won. She saw the VMA award, the blockbuster award, and many other all sitting in a trophy case. There were also some framed pictures hanging on the wall. The pictures were of them and other famous people they had met.


Mandy walked into several guestrooms before she found his. She knew it was his when she went in because it had a huge picture of Michael Jordan and other basketball player along with other stuff. It also smelled of his cologne. “Brandi I found it.” Mandy yelled. I few minutes Brandi joined her.


They were going through his clothes when Brandi opened the closet door. In side there must have been 100 pairs of shoes. “Gee that guy has more shoes than me.” Brandi said shocked. “Yeah come on Brandi just pick some clothes so we can get home.” Mandy begged. Brandi Picked out and outfit for the video while Mandy got something for him to wear around the house. “Do you think Katy will like this shirt?” Brandi asked holding up and light blue shirt. “Yeah but she also likes it when her wears his jean jacket and the dark blue shirt.” Mandy said.


After much debate the chose the light blue shirt and a pair of khakis for him to wear around the house and the jean jacket and dark blue shirt with jeans for the video. “Great now let’s go.” Brandi said heading out the door with the clothes in her arms. Mandy followed closely behind her. “By the time we get home it’ll be dinner time.” Mandy said throwing the cloths in the back seat just missing Busta. “Great I’m so hungry.” Brandi said starting the car.

**Back at the house**

Katy was in the kitchen helping Kim when she heard Justin calling her. “What do you want, sweetie.” She said yelling at the top of the stairs. “You said you’d be back down after you talked to Kim.” Justin yelled back. “I have to help Kim with dinner.” Katy said using a dishtowel to wipe her hands. She heard Justin let out a wine. “Later sweetie, I promise.” She said walking back into the kitchen. “He’s starting to get on my nerves.” Kim said throwing some pasta in a large pan. “I know but at least he’s not trying to get away or anything.” Katy said swirling her finger on the counter top.


“Do you really like him? Or is this just another one of your flings?” Kim asked stirring the pasta. “I don’t know. I thought it was just a fling but he’s not like the other guys. There something different about him.” Katy said clearly deep in thought. “That’s what you said about the other guys too.” Kim recalled. “Yeah but I mean it this time. And any way it’s not like it matters, after this I won’t see him again.” Katy said. “Why won’t you?” Kim asked. “I can’t stay here none of us can. We’ve done too much. My parents would kill me once the see what I did to there credit card and I stole two cars form them. We took money from the places we worked. The list goes on. And the guys will report us after this.” Katy explained.


“Justin won’t and I don’t think Chris will ether.” Kim said looking up at her friend. “Yeah but JC will, I know it. He’s very unhappy here.” Katy added. Kim said nothing she knew she was right. “That stupid prick could ruin everything.” Kim snapped. Realizing that was a sore subject Katy quickly changed the topic. “How much longer till dinner?” She asked to really caring about the answer.


They heard a car pull into the driveway and Katy went to see who it was. The black drango rolled to a stop. “It’s Mandy and Brandi.” Katy said. Mandy hopped out of the car her arms full of clothes. Katy ran to help her. “Hi did everything go okay?” Katy asked taking some clothes from her. Brandi walked around the car with Busta in her arms and followed them into the house.


Once inside Katy and Mandy set the clothes down in one of the chairs. Katy turned to see Brandi holding the dog. “Oh it’s Busta!” Katy said running over and taking the dog from Brandi. “I thought you didn’t care for dogs?” Mandy asked. Katy looked at her then at the dog. “I don’t but Busta so cute. How can anyone not like him? I just hate big dogs. I fine with little ones.” She explained. Katy set the dog down and it ran over to the basement door then went down stairs. They could hear Chris carry on when he saw Busta.


“What’s for dinner?” Brandi asked. “Pasta!” Kim yelled from the kitchen. “Yummy!” Mandy yelled running into the kitchen. Katy and Brandi followed her. “So how was your day?” Brandi asked sitting down at the table. “Great! We got a little recording done, Kim and JC got into a fight and I play card with the guys.” Katy said with a smile. “What was the fight about?” Mandy asked. “That egotistical prick was being Mr. Perfect that he think he is and…” Kim said, Mandy stopped her, “I get the pinot.”


“So how about you?” Katy asked eat one of the uncooked noodles. “About like yours only a bit more dangerous. That’s see you almost got caught by JC’s mom. Mandy was attacked by Busta, and just stuff like that.” Brandi said. “Oh well we have tomorrow to rest. The only thing we have to do is work on the song.” Katy said having a seat. Mandy sat down too. “Oh look I left my journal on the table.” She said snatching it up. “I still don’t get the point of that thing.” Kim said. Mandy stuck her tongue out at her. “Dinner’s almost ready got see what the guys want to drink.” Kim said.


“Yeah come on I’ll show you want we got done on the song while we’re down there.” Katy said hopping up and heading for the basement. The other two followed her. Once they reached the bottom Justin greeted Katy with a smile. “I’ll be right with you.” Katy said leading Brandi and Mandy into the mixing room.
Once inside they shut the door and Katy hit the red button the said play. “If I’m not the one you want. Take you time to figure out.” “I’m staring at your picture every night; the scent of you still lingers in my mind. I wander if you’ll only fell all right. And the sun has come out of the clouds.” JC sang. “And some time when I listen to our song the nights seem cold and far too long. I want to call you up because in the end I keep writing letter to my garbage can.” Justin sang in perfect harmony. “Baby, It feels like I’m going crazy, come and lay down beside me.” JC sang then the other guys joined in again. “If I’m not the one you want. (You’ll see) Take the time to figure out (You’ll see) If I’m not the one you want I’ll be the one you need.”


“That’s it?” Mandy asked. “Yeah like I said we were having problems. Kim was about ready to kill JC. I have no clue why. I think she likes him and doesn’t want to admit it.” Katy said opening the door and going back into the main door. They looked over at Chris who was busy playing with his puppy. “I’m so glad you brought Busta, my girlfriend would have forgotten about him.” Chris said lifting the dog above his head and then lowering it slowly. “So what do you guys want to drink with your dinner?” Brandi asked. “Milk!” The all yelled at once. “Okay that was easy.” Mandy said.


“Dinner’s ready!” Kim yelled. “Great, we’ll bring you guys some plates in a second.” Mandy said running up the steps. They quickly got their food and ran it down to them. The girls went back up stairs to eat and talk about what the plans were for tomorrow.


“So we have to work on the song there no way around it.” Brandi said taking a bite of her pasta. “Yeah we’ll let them bathe in the morning like right after breakfast the it of to the sound stage.” Katy said letting out a yawn. “Are you that tried, Katy?” Brandi asked. “Yeah I guess I am.” Katy said. “Gee Justin must have kept you up all night.” Mandy joked. Katy shot her a mean look. “Nothing happened, drop it!” Katy yelled.


I think we’re all very tired. Let’s get the guys ready for bed then turn in our selves.” Kim said gathering up the plants and heading for the sink. “Yeah I’ll go get them ready.” Katy said getting up. “I’ll go with you.” Mandy said running to catch up with her friend.


“Bed time fella’s.” Katy yelled as she hit the bottom step. “Can some of us sleep in there?” Chris asked pointing to the room where JC was. “Yeah there are 3 beds in there and JC’s on one so two more can go in there.” Katy said. “Me!” Chris and Lance yelled before the others had a chance. Mandy unchained Lance from the floor and led him to the room and Katy did the same with Chris. Chris picked up Busta and carried him with him. “What’s going on?” JC asked. “You have company.” Mandy said looping Lances chain through the bedpost and locking it. Katy followed her example. “What does your dog need?” Katy asked. “He needs his box and his fine dog food…” Chris said. “I get the point but he’ll just have to live with what I can find for right now.” Katy said


Once the got the settled in there they left and shut the door and locked it. “What about us?” Joey asked. “You two have to sleep out here then you can switch tomorrow night.” Mandy said. “Can’t I come sleep in your room again?” Justin asked Katy. Katy thought for a minute. “Please!” Justin begged. Katy didn’t really want him in her room; she knew what would happen. But yet she couldn’t say no to him. Though she tried it just seemed impossible and that worried her.


“Okay but don’t try anything.” Katy warned. “I won’t.” Justin said with a sly grin on his face. She went over and undid him. “Joey you can sleep on the couch.” Mandy said. “Yes I think that would be better.” Joey said as Mandy undid his chain so he could move. “Thanks.” Joey said resting his head on a pillow. “Your welcome and good night,” Mandy said going up the steps. Katy was right behind her holding Justin’s hand.


“And were are you taking him?” Brandi asked as Katy turned to go up to her room. “He doesn’t want to sleep down there. He needs to rest so he sounds great for tomorrow.” Katy explained. “Like he’ll get any sleep up there.” Brandi said with her hands on the hips. “But it’s not the amount of sleep but the quality.” Justin explained. “Whatever!” Brandi said as the two slipped up the steps.


Kim was so tired she had said good night after placing the dishes in the sink. “Good night, Katy.” Mandy whispered and she went in her room. “Good night.” Katy said pushing Justin in to her room. Then entering after him. Justin grabbed her quickly and threw her on the bed. “Justin?” Katy said shocked. Justin slid on top of her and began to kiss her neck. “Unhandcuff me.” He whispered in her ear. “No, I can’t you’ll ran away.” Katy replied. “No, I won’t go anywhere.” He said. Katy didn’t know if she could trust him. Plus she still wasn’t sure this was what she wanted. “I can’t.” She said pushing him away. “But we can’t fool around if you don’t.” He said running his finger down her stomach.


Katy jumped up. “Is that all you think about?” She asked. “No. I think about other things too.” He replied. “Like what?” Katy asked. Justin was silent. “But isn’t this what you wanted?” Justin asked changing the topic. “Isn’t what, what I wanted?” Katy replied. “Me. Isn’t that why you did all this or is it really about some stupid video?” Justin asked. Katy knew it wasn’t really about the video. But the video had a lot to do with it. But meeting Justin was a big part of it for her.
“Well?” Justin snapped. “I guess your right.” Katy said looking at her feet. “It’s all right babe. Your only human.” Justin said getting up and walking over to her. “What do you have to lose?” He asked placing his hands on her.

By Neko

Copyright October 2000