Warnings and Disclaimers:
I don't know any of the members of NSYNC, BSB or any celebrity mentioned. I don't know anything about their sexual orientation or the orientation of any other celebrities in this story (even though I wish some of them were gay). This story is fiction and you shouldn't take it for anything else but that. This is only for entertainment value only folks. Hope you enjoy the show oh I mean reading.
"I could never love again the way that I loved you, I could never cry again like I did when I left you...I could never love again now that we're apart" Debbie Gibson
Foolish Beat Chapter -- 48 by JT Poole
// Memphis TN -- Starlight Hotel -- Sunday Afternoon -- Sean and Joey's Room //
"Still no sign of Lance?" Sean asked walking into to the room.
"None baby. No one has heard or seen him." Joey answered, sitting down on the bed.
"Has any of Security gotten any leads?" Sean asked, as there was a knock on the door.
"Lonnie and Carl are out with the others, but nothing so far." Joey spoke, opening the door to let Justin, Kevin and Brian in.
"Any news?" Sean asked.
"None." Brian replied. "Are you sure you guys don't know where he could be?"
"If we knew Brian he would be here right now." Sean answered. "This is really fucking great. Wait until Johnny finds out about this."
"Finds out about what?" Johnny asked walking into the room with Chris, AJ and Nick.
"Ah...well...ah...damn, oh what the hell. Lance is missing Johnny." Sean spoke, as the guys stepped away from Johnny.
"What! He's missing?" Johnny asked. "For how long?"
"Since yesterday afternoon." JC answered looking away, still crying.
"Why is his missing?" Johnny asked. "Does this have anything to do with Justin?"
"No it has nothing to do with me!" Justin shouted, standing up. "Ask
Josh!"
"I already said I was sorry Curly, I didn't mean it, I didn't mean to hurt him." JC spoke through his tears.
"It's too late now, he's missing and he can be God knows where." Justin said, walking over to the window as Kevin got up and walking over to where he was. "See what happens when you play with someone's heart!"
"Yeah I see, I really see." JC answered, walking out of the room.
// Across town at another hotel //
"Wake up Jamieboy, you can't sleep all day." The man spoke, smacking Lance in the face.
"I'm up, I'm up." Lance replied, shaking his head and rubbing his eyes.
"Here." The man said, throwing a bag in Lance's lap. "Eat."
"I'm not hungry." Lance replied, pushing the bag away.
"I don't care if you are or not. Eat!" The man shouted.
"I'm not hungry Lou. When I am hungry I will ask for food." Lance spoke, rolling away from the man.
"Look man you need some food in you." The man said. "You did a lot of shit last night. You need to eat something."
"I said I wasn't hungry Lou, leave me alone." Lance said, as the man, who was just identified as Lou sat down and shoved a piece of bread into his mouth.
"You need to eat and you will eat. I am not going to have you passing out or dying because of starvation." Lou said, opening the rest of the containers in the bag, feeding Lance.
"Stop!" Lance shouted, trying to spit the food out.
"You stop!" Lou shouted, smacking Lance across the face. "Eat that damn food before I whip your ass!"
"Fine, I'll fucking eat." Lance said, picking up the container and eating the meat that was in it.
"Good. When you are done, we are going to have sex some more." Lou spoke, getting up. "Damn I can't get enough of that ass."
"Yeah okay." Lance spoke, still eating the food in front of him.
// Across Town at the Super 8 Hotel //
"He's going to pay for cheating on me, me his own wife!" Kristin screamed, pacing back and forth in the room.
"Girl calm down. Don't go working yourself up over a fag." Leighanne said, taking a swig from her glass. "Here girl, have some of dis."
"What's that?" Kristin asked, accepting the glass from the woman.
"It's Gin, Vodka, Whisky and some OJ." Leighanne answered, pouring some more vodka in her own glass. "You need this more than I do."
"Well I wouldn't be this way if I hadn't seen my husband with another man. I would be okay if it was another fucking woman, but it was a man, a fucking man, with a fucking dick!" Kristin screamed, picking up the chair and smashing it against the wall.
"Girl are you crazy!" Leighanne asked, moving out of the way.
"Damn right I'm crazy! How do you expect me to act Leighanne? Hell I just found out my husband is one of those freakin' fudgepackers!" Kristin screamed, pushing the table over.
"Girl you are nuts." Leighanne stated, standing in the corner. "I would not loose my sanity over him. Just think about it, let him be gay and take him for all his money. Blackmail pays the bills."
"How am I supposed to blackmail him?" Kristin asked.
"I told you girl. Just threaten to tell the world what you know about him and I assure you he will pay up." Leighanne answered, walking closer Kristin. "Girl I know just the thing."
// Back at the Starlight Hotel -- Sean and Joey's Room //
"Still no word from Lance?" Sean asked, sitting down on the couch next to Joey, wrapping his arms around him.
"Nothing yet baby." Joey answered him, kissing him on the cheek.
"We should turn up something soon." Sean stated. "We are checking around to all the hotels and any place where there could be bad activity."
"Baby I don't believe Scoop would be drinking and using drugs like AJ said." Joey stated.
"Well I don't believe it either, but you know he has been keeping to himself as of late." Sean stated, getting up to walk into the bathroom.
"I still don't believe it baby." Joey said, walking to the door to see who was knocking.
"Any word?" JC asked, flopping down on the couch where Joey and Sean were just sitting.
"Nothing yet Josh, but give it a lil more time. I am quite sure he will turn up soon." Sean stated, flushing the toilet and walking back into the room.
"He's not coming back Sean, I hurt him really bad." JC replied, holding his head in his hands as he cried.
"Now now Josh don't say that." Sean stated, sitting next to JC and hugging him. "Lance might be hurt, but he will show up again."
"I really hurt him Sean, really I did. I told him that I wanted to death a woman." JC stated, standing up now.
"You told him what!" Joey screamed, walking over to where they all stood.
"Yeah that was our fight. I was worried about us getting caught again, so I decided to just break it off. I told him I would rather be with a woman." JC explained as Joey punched him.
"Joey!" Sean shouted, helping JC up.
"You bastard! How could you do that to him!?!" Joey shouted as AJ, Chris and Justin ran into the room. "If I was him I would have left your ass
too!"
"What the hell is going on in here?" Howie asked, walking into the room too.
"It seems JC and Joey are having a little disagreement." Sean answered.
"Little disagreement my ass! C's a jerk!" Joey stated, walking out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
"Oh great. Is there going to be any good news today?" Sean asked as Johnny walked into the room.
"What's wrong with Joey?" Johnny asked, handing Sean a folder.
"He's upset right now." Sean answered, opening the folder. "What's this?"
"I know where Lance is." Johnny spoke as all the guys in the room stopped what they were doing and surrounded Johnny.
"Where the hell is he? Why isn't he here now?" JC asked.
"He's at the Shangri-La Hotel with Lou Pearlman." Johnny replied, sitting down.
" How do you know that?" JC asked.
"The desk clerk saw him go in and the security camera there has a photo of him walking through the lobby and getting into the elevator." Johnny explained.
"Then why are we sitting here waiting, let's go get him." JC stated, getting up and walking towards the door.
"It's not that simple Joshua. Something's going on with Lou and Lance and it doesn't seem like Lance is himself." Johnny replied, picking up the folder and pulling out a picture. "Is Lance a drug user?"
"No he's not a drug user." JC spoke as AJ stood up.
"That's not true." AJ stated.
"What? What do you know Alex?" Kevin asked, standing up now.
"I know that Lance is using drugs. He almost admitted it to me the other night when he and JC had the first fight." AJ answered, thinking back to that night. "I told him that I knew the signs of a drug user and I told him if he ever needed to talk, I was there for him but he ignored me and went on about his business."
"Why didn't you tell us this if you knew the signs?" Sean asked.
"Well I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt." AJ replied, tears in his eyes.
"Too late for that now." JC stated, tears flowing freely now. "He's gone and I...I will never see him again. What am I gonna do?"
"Ah Josh...Josh he's going to be alright." Justin spoke, hugging JC as JC cried on his shoulder.
"I...I love him and now he could be out there with Lou hurt or something." JC spoke, sniffing as the phone rang.
"Hello?" Sean spoke into the phone.
"Baby its me. I found Lance." Joey spoke, tears apparent in his voice.
"You found him? Where are you Joey?" Sean asked.
"We are at the hospital. He wasn't moving baby...so...so I got us to the hospital." Joey spoke.
"The hospital? Which one?" Sean asked, pacing the floor now.
"We are at the Baptist Medical Center." Joey answered.
"We are on our way baby. Stay put." Sean stated, hanging up the phone.
TO BE CONTINUED...