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Chapter 17

"You're leaving?" JC asked, befuddled.
"Yeah," she choked.
"Why?" he asked, confused.
"I.. I have to." she shook her head, stuffing a bunch of her Beanie Babies in a suit case.
A blue one fell to the floor.
JC instinctively reached down for it. He handed it to her.
She sniffed. "Thanks, JC."
She finally looked up and JC noticed the tear stains on her face and her puffy eyes.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"Yeah.. or at least I will be." she said, smiling up at him slightly.
"Alright. But do you have to leave?"
"Yeah." she said, looking down again.
JC sighed.
"JC!" Justin and Lou's voices yelled.
"Coming." he said, looking over at Mandi. "I'll call you. Don't think you can get away from me this easy."
She smiled. "Wouldn't dream of it."
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Mandi sniffed, leaning back in her chair on the airplane, taking her to Orlando.
She remembered how JC had looked when she'd left. Half hurt the she was leaving, half hurting because she was leaving.
She was almost asleep when her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" she asked cautiously.
"Ohmigosh! Is this JC Chasez's cell phone?" a girls voice said.
"Do I sound like a JC Chasez?" she snapped.
"No.." the girl admitted.
Mandi grinned. "Isn't he a Backstreet Boy or something?"
"NO!" the girl said, sounding horrified. "*N SYNC!"
"*N STINC.. SYNC?" she giggled.
"Yeah." the girl snapped. "What's the matter with you? Are you crazy? Don't you know who JC is? He's like, the FINEST *N SYNC member there is!"
Mandi sighed. "I know."
"What's your name, anyhow?" the girl said. "I'm Mel."
"Mandi." she said without thinking.
The girl shrieked, "MANDI?? MANDI WRIGHT? The dancer?"
Mandi giggled. "Not anymore. I quit and you don't have this number, ok?"
"OK!" Mel said.
'What a ditz.'
"Great! Have a nice day! Love ya, mean it chow!" she hung up.
The phone rang again.
"Hello?"
"Why'd you hang up?" Mel asked.
"I have to go! Love ya, mean it chow!" she hung up again.
The phone rang yet again.
"HELLO?" she said through clenched teeth.
"I want to talk." Mel squealed. "Can you get me into an *N..."
Mandi hung up the phone, and it rang again.
"What?" she asked.
"Hey Sweetie, sup?" JC chuckled.
"Oh, I'm just getting harassed over the phone by your biggest fan." she said sarcastically.
He laughed. "Oh. Well, are you almost there?"
"Yep. In fact, I have to go. We're landing."
"OK," he said. "Talk to you later. I'm gonna call you everyday, ya know."
"You'd better." she smiled. "Talk to you later, Cutie."
"OK, bye."
"Bye." she said, hanging up again.
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**Three+Years+Later**
"no, no, no, no, NO!" Lou cried in frustration.
He looked at Tina and sighed.
"Tina, I know you have a bass voice, and that you hate to be heard over the girls when you sing, but, sweetheart, you are SUPPOSED to be heard here! It's only one little piece!"
"OK.." she said.
"Sing it girlfriend!" Mandi exclaimed.
Stephanie rolled her eyes.
"I KNOW you didn't just roll your eyes at me!" Mandi threatened, looking at her over the mic.
Stephanie laughed.
"OK, girls! That's enough!" Carmin said. "Take it from verse two, second line."
Mandi, Stephanie and Tina began to sing.
"Yeah, baby.. You know.. You know it's true.." Tina sang.
Lou clapped his hands in joy.
Mandi and Stephanie laughed.
"OK, girls! That's a wrap! Go home and get some sleep. I'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning!" Lou said, walking out the door with Carmin.
Stephanie and Tina pulled their headphones off.
"Aren't you coming?" Tina asked.
"No, I'm gonna stay here and work on some vocals." Mandi said.
"OK, see ya tomorrow!" Stephanie said.
"OK, turn the recorder on on your way out."
"OK!"
Mandi smiled as the song came on.
It was a new song that both KiLo and *N SYNC were putting on their upcoming albums, and Lou had given her a copy of the *N SYNC version.
She began the first verse with JC's recorded voice.
"Forbidden fantasy/You'll never know/What you mean to me/What I see/You don't/Understand.."
She sighed in frustration and pulled off the headphones.
She turned around and walked out of the room.
She was surprised to find the hall dark.
As she walked down the hall of Trans Con, she looked at the pictures of artists, some of which weren't with Trans Con anymore.
'Backstreet Boys, C-Note..' she counted them off.
Then she came to the big one at the end of the hall where the main lobby was.
"*N SYNC.." she breathed.
She looked at each one's face.
Her eyes came to the one she'd been dying to see for the last three years.
"JC.." she thought.
She smiled, remembering how fun the "Bring on the Millennium" tour had been.
Then she scowled and walked out the door.
She had to catch her shift as Sam Goody.

CHAPTER 18

Sheena decided to stay at the studio and mess around with the voice arrangements of one of the songs. After a while she got bored with that, but she still wasn't ready to go home so she thought that it couldn't hurt to practice her dance moves. So she walked over to the practice room and turned the radio full blast to the groups next single. While she was dancing, someone walked into the room and Sheena could fill it so she stopped and walked over to turn off the radio.
"I'm sorry, but your going to have to leave, the studio is closed", Sheena said without turning to the person.
"Do you really want me to leave? I haven't seen you in 3 months, baby.", the person said walking closer.
Sheena froze in her tracks when she recognized the the voice, finally she fit reality.
"Joey!", She said turning and practically tackling him down to the ground.
"I missed you too", Joey said catching himself from falling and kissing Sheena.
After a few minutes Sheena pulled away and playfully punched Joey in the chest, "Why didn't you tell me you were coming home!"
"I wanted to surprise you", Joey said pulling her back in to kiss.

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Skyler was in her car and on her way home from the store. She decided to call Justin since she hadn't talked to him in 3 days. She couldn't wait of him to come back from Europe.
She dialed his cell phone number and the phone started ringing.
"Hello?", Justin answered.
"Hey sweety!", Skyler said cheerfully.
"Hi baby, what's up?", Justin asked.
"nothing really, just missing you. I wish you were coming home soon", Skyler replied.
"I will soon don't worry we're almost finished here", Justin explained.
"Okay, i'm patient", Skyler said.
"Baby i hate to cut it short but i gotta go we have to get ready", Justin said.
"oh okay well, I love you", Skyler said.
"I love you more, bye", Justin said hanging up the phone before Skyler could say bye.
Skyler pulled up the house and walked up to unlock the door, but when she got to the door, it was wide open.
"Hello?", Skyler asked as she stood at the door she was afraid to go in cause she thought that there might by a burglar.
She walked in a little more and didn't see anyone in the living room so she started to walk to check the kitchen.
Justin jumped out of the closet just as she was passing it.
"AHHHH!!", Skyler said punching him in the stomach before recognizing it was Justin.
"Justin?", Skyler asked when she was his face.
"owww", Justin moaned in in pain as he rolled around the floor.
"baby i'm so sorry i didn't know it was you", Skyler said leaning down to comfort him.

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:ring:ring:

"Hello?", Tina said answering the phone.
"Hello?", Chris replied mimicking her.
"Chris?", Tina asked.
"The one and only", Chris replied.
"Boy why haven't you called me!", Tina asked.
"I've called you!", Chris replied.
"not in the last 2 weeks.", Tina replied.
"I'm sorry", Chris said. "Will you do me a favor?"
"Depends", Tina replied. "What is it?"
"Step outside for a minute", Chris said.
"What?", Tina asked. "Why?"
"Just do it please", Chris replied.
"Okay", Tina said opening the door to see Chris standing there.
"long time no see", Chris said with a cute smile.
Tina just stood there in shock.
"Tina you can hang up the phone now", Chris said laughing.

Chapter 19

Mandi sighed from her seat behind the counter of Sam Goody, waiting for her coworker Jade to come back from her break so she wouldn't be so bored.
'I hate having the late shift,' she thought.
She saw a guy walk by the store with what looked like the KiLo CD in his hand.
He looked over at her, grinned, and waved.
Mandi half wished he'd a cause a big commotion about it, even though KiLo was only really popular in Tampa and not Orlando where she was.
But, as she'd already known he would, he just kept walking.
"This is so boring!" she said.
"Boring? This? No possible WAY!" Jade said, coming up behind her.
"Many possible ways!" Mandi replied as Jade sat down behind the counter beside her.
Jade laughed and shook her head, her curly light brown pony tail slapped both sides of her face.
"You'll never guess who's autograph I got today!" she said, her hazel eyes twinkling.
"Who's?" Mandi asked, hopefully.
"Mandi's. You know, from KiLo!" she joked.
"Jade!" Mandi laughed.
Jade giggled.
"Well, you tend to all the customers while I got listen to some music!" Mandi said, walking over to the CDs.
"What customers?" Jade asked.
Mandi shook her head and put some headphones on.
She picked up an old 98* CD and put it on "I Do (Cherish You)."
She smiled and sang with the guys.
"All I am/ All I'll be/ Everything in this world/ All that I'll ever need/ Is in you eyes/ Smiling at me/ When you smile I can feel/ All my passion unfolding.." she sang the rest of the verse.
"I do/ Cherish you/ For the rest of my life/ You don't have to think twice/ I will/ Love you still/ From the depths of mt soul/ It's beyond my control/ I've waited so long/ To say this to you/ If you're asking do I love you this much.." she sang.
Someone taped her on the shoulder.
"I do..." she sang the end of the chorus and turned around.
'JC!' she thought.
"Hey.. um.." JC said.
"Hey," she said, giving him a weird look.
"Um.. do you have the KiLo CD?" he asked.
Mandi felt her pride shrink to its very lowest when she realized he didn't recognize her.
"Um.. yeah.. here.." she said, reaching behind him and pulling it off the shelf.
He smiled a little. "Thanks.. Um.. Do I know you?"
She scowled. "No, I don't know you." she said angrily.
A hurt look crossed his face.
"Mandi.." he started.
"I'm sure Jade would love to ring that up for you." she interrupted.
He smiled sheepishly. "I don't want it. I've got it already."
Mandi grinned in spite of herself.
"When do you get off?" he asked.
She looked at her watch. "Ten minutes."
"Don't you want to go out to eat or something? To catch up?" he asked.
"Yeah.." she said, smiling slightly.
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"So, not me, Tina, and Stephanie sing as KiLo, Sheena mixes the songs, is fixing up the show for the tour, and she's out choreographer, and Skyler is our manager." Mandi said as JC nodded, keeping him eyes on the road.
"Are we going to Justin's now?" she asked
"Yep," he said, turning.
Mandi looked over at him and smiled.
'He is so fine!' she thought. 'How could I have ever thought he could be like Josh?'
JC pulled the car into Lynn's driveway.
Mandi jumped out of the car excitedly.
JC laughed. "I'm so glad you're happy to see them." he said sarcastically.
"I am!" she exclaimed, walking as fast as she could without running to the door.
"You're supposed to say 'I was more glad to see you JC!'" he said.
"I was more glad to see you JC!" she said, pulling him to the door. "Open the door!" she commanded him.
"Why?" he asked, with a lopsided smirk.
"Oh no you don't! Open the door!" she laughed.
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"MANDI!!!" Joey exclaimed, running over to where JC had just walking in with Mandi.
"Ohmigosh! MANDI!" Chris and Lance said, hugging her.
Justin looked up from the letter he was reading. "oh, hi Mandi."
Mandi laughed, moving the note out of his hands and sitting in his lap. She wrapped her arms around him neck playfully.
"Getting a little big for your britches, Justin?"
"Aw... You know I love you!" Justin said, hugging her.
"I know," she said, standing up.
"MANDI!" Joey yelled again, trying to hug her.
"So, what's my shy little Mississippi albino been up to?" she asked Lance.
"The usual. You know, touring," he laughed.
"Girls?" she inquired.
"NO!" he exclaimed.
Justin, JC and Mandi laughed.
Chris was rolling.
After talking for hours, it was decided, not be Mandi, that she would stay the night over there with the rest of the guys at Justin's.
"MANDI!" Joey exclaimed again, mad that he hadn't gotten her attention yet.
Mandi smiled sweetly the guys.
"Someone needs to take me home so I can get my stuff.
"I will," Lance said, standing up.
"OK," she said, walking to the door.
"MANDI!!" Joey yelled.
Mandi turned around. "Ohmigosh! JOEY!!" she exclaimed, running and jumping into Joey's arms, knocking him onto the couch.
She kissed each of his cheeks twice then stood up.
"Gotta go! Catch ya later Cutie!"
Joey laughed as she ran out of the house and pulled Lance behind her.
"That girl is crazy!" he said.
"Yeah.. Duh!" Justin said.
JC just stared at the door where she'd disappeared.
"Crazy isn't the word I'd use." JC said.
The guys turned and looked at him.
"Oh no! Was that out loud?"
"Yeah, only a little bit!" Chris said sarcastically.
"You REALLY like her, don't you?" Joey asked.
"Yeah.." JC admitted.
Justin and Chris looked at each other.
"Since when do you notice stuff we don't?" they demanded.
"I don't," he said simply. "Lance told me."

CHAPTER 20

"I can't find my key", Mandi said as she tossed things around in her purse.
"Are you sure?", Lance asked as he waited patiently.
"Yeah, but it's okay i have a spare key", Mandi said pulling a key from under the doormat.
"You shouldn't leave your key there, anyone would look there if they wanted to break in.", Lance said.
"yeah but that's the only place i will remember it being.", Mandi said as she put the key back and walked into the house followed by Lance.

*RING RING*

"Lance will you get that!?", Mandi yelled from the closet.
"Sure", Lance replied.
"Hello?", Lance asked.
"Hello?", the person asked. "Is this Mandi's number?"
"yeah, who's speaking?", Lance asked.
"Sheena, who's this?", Sheena asked.
"Lance", he said.
"Omigod! Lance! how are you!?", Sheena asked excitedly.
"I'm good, long time no talk", Lance said.
"I know you act to good, to call a friend every once in a while.", Sheena joked. "Where's Mandi? i need to talk to her"
"she's getting her stuff ready", Lance replied.
"Why?", Sheena asked.
"She's staying over at Justin's with the rest of us", Lance said.
"YOU GUYS ARE HAVING A PARTY WITHOUT ME!?", Sheena yelled into the phone.
Lance pulled the phone away from his ear.
"LANCE, HELLO?", Sheena yelled.
Lance put the phone back to his ear, "Sheena don't yell into the phone again that hurt! It's not a party"
"It's a party! I'll meet you at Justin's", Sheena said.
"Sheena's it's not a party it's just to catch up with each other", Lance said but it was to late Sheena hand already hanged up.

"Who was it?", Mandi said coming out of the closet.
"Sheena, she's going to justin's cause she thinks it's a party", Lance replied.
Mandi laughed for a minute, "Okay what am i forgetting?"
She thought for a moment, "SHOES!", she ran back into the closet.
"Mandi can i ask you something?", Lance asked.
"SURE!", Mandi yelled from the closet. "Ask away"
"Come out here first", Lance said.
mandi came out and looked at Lance weird.
"Sit down", Lance said.
Mandi did as he said.
"why did you leave the tour?", Lance asked seriously. "I want the truth"
Mandi looked up at him with tears in her eyes, "Cause he found me"
"Who found you?", Lance asked.
Mandi got up and went threw one of the drawers at her nightstand, she something out and walked back over to Lance handing it to him.
"Who is he?", Lance asked looking at the picture mandi had handed him. "He looks like JC in away."
"That's Josh, he's my brother", Mandi managed to say. "And i know he looks like JC, that's why i was afraid of JC at the beginning remember?"
"Yeah, but i don't understand why are you so afraid of your brother?", Lance asked.
"Cause Lance, when i was 13 he started raping me, and when i was 17 i ran away, but he's looking for me and i don't know why i think he wants to hurt me", Mandi said as tears now were flowing heavily.
"Shh...", Lance said as he went over to comfort her.

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