I hopped down the stairs.
"Ready?" she asked.
"You bet. Let's rock," I said, walking to her car.
We talked about the *N Sync show on the way there. We had been to some of their past concerts, but this time, it was just a performance. And we managed to get backstage passes.
It was still early once we got there so we got a pretty good parking spot.
After a while, *N Sync came on. The arena rumbled with screams. I swear I went partially deaf.
My favorite song they performed was 'God Must've Spent'
Finally, it was backstage time. Heather heard that only 2 passes were being given away so she made sure she called the absolute SECOND they started selling. And it payed off too. I was estatic.
We flashed our passes at the guards.
They nodded as we stepped into the narrow corridor.
I knocked on the door. Heather was standing as if she was frozen.
Then the door opened to reveal Justin Timberlake. He was wearing a black wife beater.
I was so nervous, but I tried to hide it. Heather's eyes were shimmering with happiness.
"Hey don't cry," Justin joked, hugging her.
I stiffled a giggle when she yelped, "Oh my god."
"One for you too," he smiled, hugging me also.
I ignored the sticky feeling of his perspiration.
Then we were welcomed into the room.
"Hey! We have visitors!" Justin called out.
They greeted us with random shouts of 'hi' and 'hey'
"Hey," I managed to say.
I glanced over at JC, who had his eyes on me. I noticed this immediately, for I flushed a crimson color.
He must've noticed because he said, "So what're your names? Angels from Heaven?"
I flushed even deeper. "Um, no. Actually it's Jessica. And this is my friend Heather."
When she didn't respond, I nudged her with my elbow.
"Oh hi."
I followed her gaze and saw that it was Lance.
'Oh brother'
My palms were wet from my nervousness.
"You want us to sign anything?" Chris asked.
"Now that you mention it..." with that, I thrust some posters at him.
He smiled and took the posters.
"You guys must be tired from standin'," JC said suddenly. "Take a seat."
I took a deep breath, walked over to him and sat down right next to him.
"Heather?"
She awoke from her trance. "What?"
"Are you gonna sit?"
"Sure."
She sat down next to me and Lance.
The posters went around quickly. Then we stood up to hug them.
First I hugged Justin, then Chris, Joey, then Lance. Last but definately not least, was JC.
I ended up hugging him for longer than expected. I didn't want to part from him. JC didn't even try. 'That's good'
"Hey! No fair! She only hugged me for 5 seconds!" Justin cried out.
I smiled and parted away from JC, not stopping my hands from going down his chest slightly. A jolt of electricity surged through me.
"That's because I hugged you before Justy."
"But-"
"No fair! Justin got seconds!" Chris exclaimed.
"Ok, ok," I laughed, going over to hug Chris.
Lance and Joey looked at me expectantly.
"Ok. You guys too."
"God enough of this hug-a-thon," Heather interrupted. "We gotta go!"
"Do we have to?" I partially whined.
"Yes! C'mon!"
"Bye guys," I sighed, turning to follow Heather, who already was out of the room.
"Wait! Jess!"
I spun around to see the source of the voice.
It was JC.
"We're gonna be around for a while...do you think you could...show me around?"
I brightened. "Sure! I'd love to!"
"Great. Just give me your phone number and address and stuff and we'll figure it out."
I scribbled my address and number and gave it to him "Here."
"Cool. See ya!"
I smiled. "See ya."
I walked out of the room. Before the door shut, I heard a "YES!"
I smiled and ran to tell Heather.