written by: Sarah Stackhouse
< So, I told my mom about the party and she said I could go. That
night I packed my stuff and then headed for bed. The next morning I
woke up at about 10:30 and took a shower. It was almost time to leave,
and I picked out a nice outfit to wear and headed over to the Carter
household. When I got there, there was about 7 or 8 cars parked in the
driveway and I could barely get my car in. I knocked on the front door
and BJ opened up.
"Hey! Come on in," she said. I walked in and there was like 30
people there. I didn't recognize most of them, but I followed BJ into
the kitchen where Kevin and AJ were. We walked up to them.
"Kevin, this is Sarah," BJ said.
"Hey, it's nice to meet you, I've heard a lot about you from Nick
and Bri," he said, shaking my hand.
"Hi! It's nice to meet you. And yes, I'm a Huskers fan!" I said,
giving AJ a look. AJ giggled.
"C'mon, I want you to meet some people," BJ said. After we had
gotten a drink, (not alcohol, don't worry...) I followed her into the
living room where most of the guests were. I walked behind her as we
approached a young guy, about in his twenties, with dark brown hair.
Very good-looking.
"Sarah, this is Brian's brother Harold," she said. I stuck out my
hand to shake his.
"Hi Sarah," he said.
"Hi, nice to meet you," I said. I could tell he was older than
Brian, just by looking at him. Then we walked around, and came up to a
bald guy, drinking something and talking to someone I didn't know.
"This is Tommy Smith, the keyboardist for the boys' band," BJ said.
"Hi Tommy! I wanna congratulate you on your website! It's really
good," I said, also shaking his hand.
"Thanks, I try my best," he said with a smile. We then went on to
another person. BJ tapped a short woman with red hair, talking to
Nick's mom.
"This is Denise McLean, AJ's mom," BJ said.
"Hello sweetie, how are you?" she said, shaking my hand. I could
see AJ's face in her's.
"Hi! I'm fine, how are you?" I said.
"Just fine! Jane was telling me you moved here from Nebraska."
"Yeah, I did."
"AJ's a big Husker fan." I looked at BJ and we giggled.
"Yes, I know. Well, it was nice meeting you Mrs. McLean!" I said.
"Please, call me Denise!"
"Okay. Bye!" i said as we walked away. This was so cool. I was
meeting all these people I had only read about. I was at a real
celebrity party!
I got to meet Leigh Ann, Brian's girlfriend. She was
so sweet and we talked for a while. I got to meet the rest of the
band, along with AJ's girlfriend Amanda. She was cool. I got to meet
Fatima Robinson, one of the bus drivers, Howie's sister Polly, the
rest of Nick's little sisters, and some guy from Jive records. I was
having a blast!
"Come on, let's go sit down. My feet are killin me!" BJ said, and
so we went into the den to sit. All the guys were in there except for
Nick and Brian, to our surprise. We sat down. We talked for a little
while, also watching TV. Then I realized I left my bag by the front
door from when I got there earlier.
"I'll be right back, I'm gonna go put my bag in your room," I said
to BJ. I got up and went upstairs. I noticed Nick's door was open, so
I walked in to find Nick and Brian looking at the pictures on the wall.
"Oh, hi guys, I didn't know you were up here," I said.
"Oh, that's okay, come on in," Nick said.
"These are some nice drawings," Brian said.
"Hey, you see that one?" I said, pointing to mine, thinking of what
they were going to say when I told them it was mine.
"Yeah, I really like that one," Nick said.
"It's mine."
"It is?" A wide smile spread across both their faces.
"Yeah, BJ showed me these one day, and I noticed it up there. I
drew it last year and sent it to the official address for you guys."
"WOW! That's amazing! You have a real talent, Sarah. You ought to
think about taking that up as a profession," Nick said.
"Yeah, I really want to. I was so psyched to see my own picture up
on your wall!" I smiled.
"It's very good," Brian said.
"Thank you. It's cool hearing that from the people I drew it for.
Well, I'm gonna go back downstairs, so I'll see you guys down there,"
I said.
"Bye," they both said. I walked out and shut the door behind me. I
dropped my bag in BJ's room, but as I walked out I heard Brian and
Nick talking. Me being kind of nosy, I walked up quietly to his door.
I couldn't hear what they were saying at first, but then I heard my
name. They're talking about me, I thought. Nick was talking. So, I
decided to stay a sec and see what he had to say.......