Disclaimer: I am not assuming anything about the lives of anyone in this story. Many may wish things to be true, but who knows so don't be offended, just enjoy. If you're UNDER 18, stop reading this, and all that other legal stuff.
This is my first attempt, and I know this story lacks sexual adventures, give it time, I want them to get to know eachother first, okay?
Lance walked up to the other car. "Well guys," he said with a false cheery look, "what are we waiting for? Let's get to that food that smells so good from out here!" Lance grabbed JC's arm and they both led the way into the pizza parlor.
After they'd sat down [think: round table- Chris, Joey, Justin, Lance, JC, and Jason ending up on Chris' other side] and ordered Jason turned to JC and then the other guys and started talking excitedly.
"Hey guys, guess what?! I heard your song today!"
"Cool," Chris said, munching on a bread stick, "which one?"
"Oh, well um, I don't know. The DJ said something about it being the latest. . ." Jason looked blankly around, trying to remember the lyrics.
"Oh with Gloria Estefan?"
"Um, I don't remember there being a woman's voice?"
"Well, what were the words?"
"I was afraid you'd ask that. . .um, I love it your way? I love to hear you say? Something like that?" Jason looked up to see everyone laughing at him.
"What's so funny?"
JC looked over at him, still laughing. "Well, you've experienced the Backstreet Boys."
"Oh no!"
"Yep, that's THEIR new song."
"Well the DJ said your `favorite guy group' or something. I figured you guys were popular if your concert was sold out and tonight."
"Well, it was a nice try, guess you'll just have to be fresh meat tonight." Justin said, laughing louder.
"Yep, a music virgin." Joey threw in, causing Lance to spit out his pop.
"Uh, excuse me, I'm going to go to the bathroom to clean up," he sputtered out while quickly getting up.
`God, I don't know if I can take much more of this. Just knowing what's going on and me being the only one to know about it. . .you'd think Justin would know, of all people. . .maybe he does know?. . .no, he would have told you when you told him you were gay. . .of course he is very loyal to JC. . .but no, he was totally cool about it when you were asking questions earlier, he doesn't know. . ."
Lance rejoined the group just as the food arrived. They all dug in, and thankfully JC and Jason were too busy eating to give eachother looks; at least none Lance could see. Half their lunch period was over and Lance was finished eating, and getting extremely agitated. Justin looked up from his food, laughing at one of JC's corny jokes, but secretly plotting a way to leave early, when he noticed a bothered look on Lance's face. `Leave him alone, maybe his food didn't settle right or something. . .but still, if you leave now you guys could go hang out somewhere away from the guys. . .why would I want to do that? We just spent the entire day together yesterday, I should see if Chris or Joey or both of them want to ditch out with me and go shopping. . .but Lance is more fun. . .and he never makes fun of everything you buy. . ."
"Hey Lance," Justin leaned towards Lance to whisper so he didn't disturb Chris' joke, "ya want to take off soon? I kind of want to look for a new pair of tennis shoes, it'll help me relax before more rehearsals."
`It'll be fun to spend time with Justin, he's a blast to hang with and it'll get your mind, and eyes, off JC and Jason for a while, just go.' "You bet, Curly, let's get out of here."
"Hey guys?" Justin asked, waiting for them to stop laughing. "Lance and I are going to head over to that mall a few miles back, I want to check out some stuff, alright?"
"Sure thing guys, we'll catch up with you at the arena." Chris said, grabbing for another piece of pizza.
"Cool, laters."
Justin and Lance walked out to the jeep in silence. `Oh cheer up, it's not like you had a chance to begin with. The guy didn't even know you were gay, let alone how much you were in love with him, why would you expect him to consider you first? He's found someone nice, you liked Jason before you found out, so drop it. . .but, I loved him SO much. . .you still do love him, but you can learn to love someone else, sometimes love is right in front of. . .'
"So whaddya say?"
"Um, say to what?"
"Earth to Lance, I've been talking all this time and you weren't even listening. So I SAID, whaddya say about us hitting up that little mall back there, and then maybe just cruising around town for a few before heading back?"
"Yeah, sounds great J, why don't you drive?" Lance said, throwing him the keys.
"Oh tight! Strap up Scoop, wouldn't want you hurting yourself!" Justin said, whipping out of the parking spot.
"Maybe I shouldn't have let you drive again! So quickly I forget your previous driving experiences." Lance joked, being thrown into his seat.
"It's your old age, by tonight, you'll forget we even went out today!"
"Oh, funny. Seems to me I'm not all that much older than you, my child. But maybe I should check your diaper and see if you've become a big boy yet?"
As they pulled into the mall they looked around and then back at eachother.
"Well at least we don't need to worry about getting mobbed?"
"I guess not, there's practically no one here!" Justin said back, laughing as he took his hat and sunglasses off. "I'm glad, though, it's been a while since we could go out without these `disguises'."
"How true!" Lance said, laughing as he took his off and threw them back in the jeep. "Shall we?"
"But of course!"
They walked into the makeshift mall and looked around for a few minutes. The `mall' contained two clothing stores, a shoe store, a used music instrument/cd shop, a junk store where everything was under a dollar, a coffee shop and two fast food counters.
"Well, the shoe store contained about 2 pairs of shoes I liked, except they didn't have them in my size, did you see anything you liked?" Justin said, laughing.
"They had some awesome warm-up pants at one of the clothing stores, but I don't need any more."
"Yeah, let's go try the music place."
They went into the music store and began to look around. Up on the wall were various guitars. Lance checked them out and began to freak out when he saw a fairly nice condition PRS electric. He picked it up off the wall and went to find the clerk.
"Hey, can you give me the cords so I can hook it up and check it out?"
"Yeah, here's the cord, the tester amp is over in that corner, by the window?"
"Cool, I see it, thanks." He said, hurrying over to the amp. He plugged the guitar in and started strumming various chords. This was only "crowded" store in the whole mall, and it had like 10 customers in it, but they all came over to listen to Lance play as he started the chords to "Everything I Own". Justin looked up from the other side of the store and came over, sitting down next to Lance. After a minute he started to sing, and Lance joined in, balancing the harmony. When they finished, the customers began to clap and Lance and Justin just smiled and bowed. Leaving the store they went back to the jeep to start heading back.
"That was fun Scoop, you should definitely sing more solos on the next album, none of those people knew who we were and they loved your voice!"
"Yeah, well, they're not fans, and the fans want to here more from you and JC."
"Oh screw us, it'll give me a well needed break on tour, that's for sure! You can go out during the concerts and sing all the leads, my voice is getting tired." Justin said, laughing.
"Well I hope it's plenty rested for tonight, we've got a show to put on in 6 hours."
"I'll just take a nap!" he said, causing them both to laugh at the idea of actually having time to sleep before the show.
At the arena:
All the guys were sitting around, waiting for Justin and Lance to return as the trainer was getting angry.
"Well I honestly don't see what part of 90 minutes those two got confused with." He said for the third time in the 45 minutes since everyone else had returned.
"Don't worry Jeff, Lance is always on time, there must be a reasonable explanation," JC said, hoping there was one that didn't involve Justin and Lance being in a ditch somewhere. `God, don't think like that.'
Jason looked over at JC to see a pained look in his eyes. `He must be getting worried, god I wish I could go hold him to cheer him up.' Jason fought to get JC to look up into his eyes and finally got his wish. As JC looked up Jason smiled, the corners of his eyes crinkling up and looking around to make sure no one can see mouthed "I Love you". JC smiled back and nodded, feeling warm all over.
As JC looked back down again, he heard noises heading their way, and soon boisterous laughter as Justin and Lance made their way on stage.
"Hey guys," Justin said, noticing their stares, "sorry we're late. Jason, ya didn't warn us lunch-time traffic by the arena was a madhouse!"
"Yeah, it can get kind of bad." Jason said, noticing everyone's relief and obvious stress from being angry at their late return.
"So glad you could join us guys!" The trainer said, not even bothering to allow the group's discussion Chris, Joey and JC were about to start. Let's get to it, we still need to recover the new routine at least twice and go over the first set once by 5 and it's now almost 2:30."
The guys set to work while Jason found a spot on the side of the stage, watching JC dance. `God, he's so graceful, his body flows with the music. . ."
"Hey sexy, room for me on this bench?" Jason heard someone whisper in his ear. He turned to find a grinning JC starting to sit down next to him.
"Well actually sir, I'm waiting for my boyfriend to come back. He's very famous you know, perhaps you've heard of him?"
"Oh quiet you!" JC said, kissing him briefly on the cheek. "C'mon, it's my break time, like 15 minutes, let's go to the dressing room." JC said, pulling on Jason's arm.
Once they got into the room and had the door closed, JC had his arms around Jason's waist and his head on his shoulders. "God, I've missed holding you, touching you, all day long."
"Me too," Jason said, returning the hug.
JC started to sway to the faint music he could hear from the stage and he began to hum along to "God Must've Spent".
"Sing to me?" Jason whispered into JC's ear.
"Nuh-uh, not until tonight! You won't hear us sing until the lights go down."
Jason broke the hug and walked towards the door, stunning JC.
"Where're you going?" he whimpered.
"Nowhere." Jason said, turning around as he shut the lights off.
"Very funny!" JC said, finding his way to him in the dark and grabbing ahold again, kissing his neck. "Except now you're alone in the dark with me. I must warn you," he said, his voice getting very quiet as his lips traced up Jason's neck towards his ear, causing Jason to shiver, "I've been known to bite." He finished, nibbling on Jason's ear as he moaned.
"But," JC said quickly, pulling away and turning the lights back on, "I must get back to work now." JC turned around to give Jason a playful smile.
"Oh so I'm just thrown off like that, huh? Work's more important than lil ol me? Who am I to take you away from your work even the slightest bit? I mean, I'm just your boyfriend. . .just the love of your life. . .just your, what'd you say last night? Your heart and soul and every other part that no one could ever live without? Something like that?"
JC burst out laughing. "Well, after that, who could resist at least a goodbye kiss?" They started to make out, but as JC began to roam down Jason's neck this time it was his turn to stop.
"C'mon sweetheart, if we don't leave now they'll send a search party after us. Well mostly you!"
"Alright, alright." He said, kissing Jason on the lips one last time and squeezing his hand quick before they left the safety of the dressing room.
JC returned to the stage just as Lance was getting his break Lance smiled at the two guys as they walked out of the dressing room and then turned around to face them again.
"Hey Jason?"
Jason turned around as JC continued back out to the stage. "Yeah?"
"Can I talk to you a minute?"
"Um, sure?"
"Cool. Why don't we go in here, I need to make sure all my outfits are set up."
"Alright."
Jason followed Lance into the same dressing room JC had brought him in just a few minutes before. This time he had a chance to look around, though, and noticed it was surprisingly roomy, with big comfy couches all around. Jason sat down on one as Lance sat down on the other side of him.
"So what's on your mind Lance?"
"Well, here's the thing. You're very cool, and I'm real glad we met you at the courts the other day."
"Yeah, I'm glad, too. You guys are all real great."
"It's nice to know you think that. We usually each end up meeting someone in a town where we're going to be at for awhile, and then that person gets a new friend, so it's nice, and keeps our lives interesting. We get pretty sick of eachother sometimes, you know?"
"Yeah, I can imagine." Jason said, not having any idea where Lance was going with this.
"So, anyway, I've noticed you and JC have really, well clicked, and I'm glad, it's been a while since JC has made a friend on the road, so it's well past his turn. But here's the thing, I know you didn't know who we were, and I believe that because I think you're just a good guy, but if you do anything to hurt JC after he put his trust in you as a friend, I will not be very happy, you know?"
"Lance, honestly, I think JC's a great guy, and I'm very happy I had the chance to meet him and become close friends with him, as well as the rest of you guys."
"Alright then, I just needed to say that. As the one who takes care of most things around here, it's kind of my obligation, but I also am very protective of JC, and I want to make sure everything's ok."
"Well, rest assured Lance, I'm not going to do anything to jeopardize my friendship with JC or any of you, you guys have all been really great, especially JC. He's helped me with a lot of, problems, I've been having lately."
"Yes, that's the kind of guy JC is. Well, I must go now, thanks for putting up with me Jason."
"It's no problem, Lance, I completely understand about how that was necessary. You guys are famous, even if I haven't heard of you. It's good to know you look out for everyone that way. I'd like to think that you'd look out for me as a friend half as much."
"Anytime." Lance said, exiting the room. `God, how can I hate him when he obviously loves JC as much as I do?'
As Lance walked out, Justin started coming down the hall.
"Hey Scoop, how's it going?"
"Oh great, `cept I don't want to go back out there!"
Justin started laughing. "Oh I know! This guy is working us real damn hard, just `cuz we were a little late!"
It was Lance's turn to laugh. "A little late? Besides, if we had been 2 minutes late Fatima would've grilled us to the extreme, guess we should be thankful for small blessings?"
"Too true, ya best get out there!"
Justin walked into the dressing room to find Jason sitting there, pondering his conversation with Lance.
"Oh hey Jason, didn't know you were in here. What's going on man?"
"Eh, not much, just chilling in here, was talking with Lance on his break. Your turn now?"
"Yep. So, I figure I need to have this talk eventually, so what better time then now?"
"Oh not you, too?"
"Whaddya mean?"
"Well, Lance just gave me the third degree on my motives. I mean, he was pleasant about it, but still I feel dirty, like I'm using JC, and I didn't even KNOW you guys were famous."
"Oh don't worry about Lance, he's just very protective about us. Making sure our new friends our good people. He's actually the best judge of character I know. He's always been the first one to suspect people that were using us. I'm sure if he thought you were he wouldn't have been so pleasant about it."
"Oh cool. I was just starting to worry, he kept talking about me and JC especially, I thought maybe he knew."
"No, he's just protective, and very observant. He just noticed that JC's the one to latch on this time, we usually all make new friends in one town or the other, so he probably assumes you're JC's pick this time."
"Yeah, that's what he said."
"So, doing my protective duty for my big bro, be good to him or I'll be bad to you, and don't mess with his trust, `cuz he's such a great guy I'd hate to think of him ever hurt because he thought you were good."
"I won't, swear to God."
"Yeah, I know, I just need to say it is all."
"I understand."
"But, enough of this crowded space, let's get out to the stage and watch everyone else."
`Crowded? Geez, this room is almost the size of my studio!'
They made their way to the stage and it was going on 4:30.
"Alright guys," the trainer was saying, "it's almost five, let me hear "I Want You Back" one more time with those new steps I just showed you and you're free until concert time."
They finished the song and headed to the dressing room. JC walked kind of slow and fell into step beside Jason.
"Hey, how you holding up?"
"Great, I can't wait to see you up there!"
"I can't wait to be up there and see you on the side of the stage. Here's your official passes, tickets, and some stubs if you want to get something to drink or eat while you wait, ok?"
"Thanks." Jason said, looking up at him expectantly.
JC quickly drug him behind a large curtain and gave him a very passionate kiss. "I love you, sweetie, now go find your seat and explore. Careful, though, the girls will be let in soon, like 5:30ish because we go on stage shortly after 6, they may attack." He started to laugh.
"Well," Jason said, laughing as well, "I'll just be sure not to mention you're my boyfriend or they'll get really upset!"
"Good idea. See you soon!"
"Yep, I can't wait, you'll be wonderful as always!"
"Thanks."
And with that Jason went to find his seat, anxious to hear JC's voice to all of the music he'd been hearing all afternoon.
To Be Continued.
Send all comments to jas_stories@hotmail.com. A special thanks to everyone who keeps reading. I know it's hard to keep interest without the sexual excitement found in so many other stories, but I really am trying to build some love first, I just think it's a necessity. And also thank you all for your patience and understanding about the delays to come. Those who have wrote me help me keep my confidence that I am doing well with this story if you're willing to wait for it. I'll try my best to get another installment, as short as it may be, out by Labor Day.