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Part 13

It was all really overwhelming. I couldn't believe how many fans actually came to one of their Meet and Greets. Most of the little girls passed me and just looked at me like 'how does she get to sit there'. I just kind of laughed to myself, and continued to watch the girls go through. "Enjoying yourself?" JC asked me, as there was a pause in the line.
"It's very interesting. That's all I have to say," I said with a smile.
"This is what we do day-in and day-out. I guess it's worth it though."
"I would love to be an artist. I don't know if I have enough talent, but that's besides the point," I said and laughed.
"You have talent. Remember, I've heard you sing before."
The line finally started to continue again. JC didn't let the fans stop him from talking to me.
"That's what you should do. You need to become a solo artist and then go on tour with us."
I laughed, "yeah right. I could never hack it."
"I know you could. Trust me."
"So how old do you think most of these girls are?" I asked while one was standing in front of JC.
"I'm not sure. Why, how old do you think they are?"
"Twelve," I said with a laugh, "Does it ever get to you when all these girls are screaming how much they love you and how they think they are going to marry you."
"It doesn't really faze me. It's basically a lust that these girls have for us. None of them really care about us like you, Klaire, Nikole, and Amaya do."
"Maybe."
"Maybe?"
"Yeah. It just kind of gets to me. When they find out you guys have girlfriends, will they still feel the same way?" I wondered.
"Probably. Why wouldn't they?" he asked me.
"I don't know. I just think it's wrong. That's like another guy coming up and hitting on me. Don't you find that weird?"
"I guess I've never really looked at it that way. I guess it is pretty weird," he said with a smile kissing me on the cheek.
I looked around and saw about ten girls see him kiss me. I didn't know what to do.
"JC, are you sure you really want to kiss me in front of fans?" I asked.
"I don't care. Let them know about you. Sooner or later they'll find out anyway. Why not let it be sooner."
"It's fine with me, as long as you are okay with it," I said shrugging my shoulders.
The fan Meet and Greet only lasted about another five to ten minutes. I was actually glad that it was over. I was just sick of other little girls trying to hit on my boyfriend. Call me jealous, but anyone else would probably feel the same way.
I caught up with Klaire after the Meet and Greet. She didn't go to it
because she had to rehearse for the introductions of the bands tonight. I ran over to her.
"Klaire," I yelled running.
"Hey, girl. Did you get to go to the Meet and Greet?" she asked me.
"Yeah."
"So what'd you think of it?" she said with a smirk on her face.
"It was interesting. Did you have fun in rehearsal?"
"Ah, it's easy. I don't know why I have to practice what I'm going to say.
It's so lame. Oh well, I guess."
I just laughed at her. Klaire was always like this. She never saw the point of practicing anything. That's the reason why she didn't stay with playing the clarinet. She never wanted to practice, so the teacher told her to quit in her first year after the third day. I always reminded her of that incident, and just laughed at her.
"Klaire, Klaire, Klaire. You are so funny, my girl."
"Oh, shut up. Let's go backstage."
"Backstage," I said in confusion.
"Yeah. I'm not going to make you sit by yourself for the opening bands, and I can't leave from back here until 'N Sync is on stage."
"Oh. Okay, if you insist," I said with a laugh.
"Just come on."
We went and stood backstage. I tried to pier out and see how many people were there. I could already hear the girls screaming for the guys.
It was time for the Sugarhill Gang to play. Klaire went out onto stage and introduced them to everyone. They didn't sound bad, although, I wasn't there to see them, so I didn't pay too much attention.
Jordan Knight went on and did his thing as well with Klaire introducing him to the crowd too. I didn't care for Jordan at all, but I did respect him as an artist, however.
Finally it was just about time for the guys to go on.
"Come with me," Klaire said grabbing my arm and pulling me out onto stage with her.
The stagehands gave me a microphone as Klaire and me walked out onto stage.
I was scared, stage fear. I didn't know what I was suppose to do when I got out onstage.
"Hey everyone!" Klaire shouted into the microphone, "this is Rachael Stuart, give her a round of applause."
My face turned red.
"Say 'hi', Rachael."
"Hello everyone," I said with slight embarrassment.
The crowd just cheered. I'm sure they weren't cheering for me, but more so for the guys.
"Well here they are, girls, 'N Sync!"
The screams grew incredibly loud where I could hardly hear myself even think. The lights went off on stage and I had a hard time seeing where I was even going. I saw JC coming towards me.
"Good luck, hun," I said to him.
"Thanks, babe," he said giving me a kiss and then going off onto the stage.
* * * *
Part 14

They played through what seemed like about ten songs. Finally, they got to the song that I had been waiting all night to hear. 'God Must Have Spent A Little More Time on You', was the song that I wanted to hear. After having JC sing it to me, it meant so much more than it had ever in the past.
"Ahhhh," Klaire screamed.
"Settle down, Klaire," I said patting her on the shoulder.
"No!"
"Can this be true…" Justin sang.
He started making his way towards the front of the stage. About right in front of where Klaire and I were. He reached out his hand and she grabbed it. He pulled her up onto stage singing the rest of his part to her.
Finally JC's part came on.
"In all of creation…" he sang looking right at me.
Klaire was still up on stage and I felt weird without her screaming in my ear. JC came over right in front of me and reached his hand out for me to grab. I really didn't want to go onstage, but I grabbed his hand and did
anyway.
I turned to look at Klaire. She was smiling and looking into Justin's eyes. I just smiled at her, and turned back to JC.
They both took us to the back part of the stage to the stairs. They motioned us to sit down since they couldn't tell us to. We both sat down. Klaire just started screaming more. I didn't do anything but take the whole thing in, and watch all the little girls in the audience glare at Klaire and
me.
The song soon finished. I didn't know what to do. Before I could get up to go off stage, JC and Justin came walking over to Klaire, and me. I started to shake. I wasn't sure why I was shaking, but I was.
"How's everyone tonight?" Chris shouted into the microphone.
Screams came from the audience. Klaire and I got up from our seats.
"Well, JC and Justin have got some surprises for these two lovely ladies,"
he said making me really nervous.
Klaire had told me that they usually go off stage likes it's the end of the show after 'God Must Have Spent', so I was really puzzled.
"Take it away, guys," Chris said turning towards JC and Justin.
Both Justin and JC got down on one knee at the same time. I started to shake more. Klaire just smiled, like she knew what they were doing.
JC spoke first, "Rachael, will you marry me?" he asked me starting to put a diamond ring on my finger.
I didn't know what to say. I pulled my hand away before the ring was on my finger. Of course I didn't want to say 'no', but on the other hand, I didn't want to say 'yes' so soon after we met. I just stood there.
Klaire nudged me, but I just stood there.
"Rachael?" Justin said.
I couldn't answer him in front of so many people, with them all looking at me. I didn't know what else to do so I ran off stage panic-stricken. Klaire ran after me.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Rachael?" Klaire asked me as tears fell from my eyes.
"I don't know. What was I supposed to say? 'Yes' in front of all those fans, so that they would all hate me, or 'no' in front of them so that JC would look like a fool for asking me."
"If he would have done it anywhere else, what would you have said?"
"I would have told him that I've only known him for ten days, personally that is, and I don't know if we are ready for that kind of commitment quite yet."
"Why didn't you just say that out there?"
"I'm not like you, Klaire. I'm not an outgoing person that doesn't care what other people think."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"Just forget it, Klaire, alright," I said as the guys walked towards us.
"Rachael, can we talk?" JC asked me.
"Yeah," I said in a soft voice about ready to cry.
JC and me went into their game room, which had Chris's turntables and Joey's drums in it.
"What's wrong? Was it something I said? If it was, I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry I ran off stage like that and made you look like a fool. That was not my intention."
"That's fine. I just want to know what you were so upset over," he said putting his arm around me.
I shrugged his arm off of my shoulder; "JC, I like you so much. When you asked me to marry you, I really didn't know what to say…"
"So basically you just 'like' me? Is that it?"
"No, I'm sorry, let me rephrase what I said. I love you, but I didn't know how to react to you asking me to marry you onstage. It was a little overwhelming."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to get upset over it. I just wanted everyone to know how much I loved you, and that I wanted to be with you and only you."
I started to cry. I looked down so JC wouldn't see me cry. He tipped my chin up and just looked into my eyes.
"Rachael, I love you," he said, "I know I've only known you for a little over a week, but I love you. I love everything about you. I can tell you everything, you are so beautiful, and you have a wonderful personality. Everything."
"JC, I love you too, and everything about you too. You have brought nothing but pure happiness into my life. I've never had anyone do what you have done for me."
"I'm glad I've made you happy. Please, come back out on stage," he said clasping his hands together.
"Fine. You're going to get my answer then."
"Alright."
JC went to quickly change into a shirt with flames on it. It was for their song "I Want You Back". He grabbed his shirt and was putting it on as we walked back onto the stage.
My pulse rate went up again as we got to the stage entrance. None of the other guys had came to go out onto the stage yet. It was just JC and I going out there.
I could still hear screaming coming from the audience. It was unbelievable how long girls could scream.
"Hey y'all," JC said into the microphone, and the screams got louder, "We're going to try this again."
He got down onto one knee again. I heard a few boo's come from the audience, but I just ignored it.
"Rachael, will you marry me?" he asked placing the ring all the way on my finger this time.
I nodded. JC smiled and got up and hugged me. To my surprise girls actually cheered after he hugged me.
We walked back off of the stage. I didn't know if I was really ready to talk to Klaire again, and tell her that I had just said 'yes'. I knew she was mad at me, and she had every right to be.
Justin came out of the dressing room; "do you know where Klaire is?" I asked.
He didn't say anything to me; he just walked on past me. I went up to the door of the dressing room and knocked on it. Lance came and answered it.
"Hey, Lance, do you know where Klaire is?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. Check with Justin, or else she might have went back to her seat. So what'd you say to JC?" he asked.
"What do you think?" I said with a smile.
"Good. I'm glad you said 'yes'. You two are so great together."
"Thanks," I said, "so how serious are you and Nikole?"
"I can't talk, I gotta go. I'll talk to you after the show."
"Alright."
I went back to my seat, and Lance was right, Klaire did go back to her seat.
"Can we talk?" I shouted.
"What? I can't hear you," she said looking straight ahead at the stage.
"Nevermind," I said knowing that it would be useless to even try talking to her right now.
* * * *
Part 15

Before the concert, Klaire and I had decided to go with the guys to the next venue in Jackson, Mississippi. This was great, because it would give Klaire and I a lot of time to talk things over. She was stubborn, and I knew it would be hard to convince her to see another way than her own. We were in the bus on our way now, since the show had finally ended. It was such an awesome show. I couldn't wait till tomorrow night, which would probably be just as great.
I walked up to Klaire, who was in the back of the bus in the TV room; "Klaire, can we talk?" I asked.
"What for? You've decided you want to be 'cool' like me, and talk about thing?"
"Whatever, Klaire. I don't know why you are getting so defensive over me telling you that I wasn't like you."
"Just leave me alone right now. I'm not ready to talk yet," she said staring at the TV.
"Fine," I said walking out and shutting the door.
I walked down to the 'kitchen' area. Lance was sitting at the table. I remembered that I had told him that we would talk after the show, so I decided to sit down at the table with him.
"Hi," I said to him as I sat down.
"Well, hello," he said to me.
"Back to my question that I had at the show. How serious are you and your girlfriend?"
"Nikole?"
"Who else would I be talking about?" I said with a smile.
He smiled, "I don't know…" I interrupted him, "do you love her?"
"Yeah, I love her," he said blushing.
"That is so cute, Lance. You two are so cute together. Does she love you?"
"Yes, she loves me too. Well at least I think she does. What about you and JC?" he asked.
"What? Do I love JC? What?"
"I'm assuming you do, since you agreed to marry him. Don't you two look cute together? I think you do."
"I don't know if we do, and of course I love him. I wouldn't have agreed if I didn't. He means the world to me."
"So what are you going to do about college, your apartment, that stuff now that you and JC are together?"
"Well, I haven't really thought about it. I don't know. I might just try to do some classes over the Internet via mail."
"What were you going to go into?" he asked.
"I was thinking of something like producing or photography."
"That sounds pretty cool. I love taking pictures. They make memories last a long time."
"Yeah, they do."
I yawned. It had been a long day, and I knew tomorrow was going to be another long day.
"You should get some sleep. If you're with us, you won't get much. I need to get some sleep too."
"Yeah, you're probably right. Um, Lance, where am I suppose to sleep tonight?" I asked kind of embarrassed.
"Here we'll get you a bunk to sleep in," he said as we both got up.
We walked back to the sleeping area. Justin, JC, and Joey were all sleeping already. It still sounded like Klaire was up in the other room.
"How bout the one right underneath JC?" he asked as he pushed the curtain open.
"Sounds good to me. I really don't mind."
I laid down to go to bed. I was so exhausted. I couldn't sleep too well though. I kept thinking about JC, and Klaire. I couldn't believe that JC had asked me to marry him. My life was too good to be true, but I didn't want Klaire mad at me. I decided what I was going to say to her, but I was going to wait till at least morning to talk to her. I didn't feel like getting up out of bed.

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