"You're coming with us?" AJ asked, a little shocked to see Scott walking away and Justin staying with them.

"Uh, yah," Justin said as he reached up to run his hand through his hair but then realized he was wearing a bandana so he dropped his hand back down. "Why you look so shocked?" He questioned looking over to see Scott crossing the street, his shoulders kind of slumped and his head down. He turned his attention back to AJ and followed the rest of the guys into the van.

"I don't know," AJ said as they climbed into the van and got settled in.

Nick made a face as he sat down in his car seat but didn't say anything just started to play with his car seat toys.

Kevin shrieked again and glared at Howie. "Stop that!" he laughed.

Justin leaned forward and rested his chin on Brian's shoulder. "Nick needs a changing," he whispered and then looked over at Howie and Kevin. "You two..." He shook his head. "Did you guys switch bodies or something while I was gone?" He wasn't really expecting Howie, the sweet one, hell, he couldn't even wrap his mind around Howie being anything but innocent and not naughty. He'd always thought Kevin would be that type. But this. What he's seeing right now was baffling him.

Howie shrugged, as he kept a straight face. "I didn't do anything. I don't know what you're talking about," he said shaking his head.

"Uh huh...sure," Kevin laughed as he wiggled around in his seat.

AJ looked at Justin and bit his lower lip. He was getting worried because it was obvious that Justin would be rather spending time with Scott than with him and that really hurt him even though he didn't want to say it.

Brian nodded his head and then slightly turned his head so that he could look at Justin. "Thanks. So, how and what did you guys do today?" He questioned.

Justin shrugged, his chin still resting on Brian's shoulder. "Went to the park, ate pizza, Nick played with the swings and slide, and we're back here," he said and sat back in his seat. He reached his hand over wanting to hold AJ's hand but instead he bit his lip and pulled it back not really sure if that was a good idea. He didn't want to piss AJ off even more... it still hurt him a little that AJ had snapped at him earlier.

AJ felt tears come to his eyes when he saw Justin about to reach for his hand but then change his mind. He quickly turned to look out the window before anybody could see the tears begin to fall down his cheeks. He had been so scared about HIMSELF screwing up and falling for somebody else...he had never thought about if Justin would do it. And he never imagined it would happen so soon.

Brian looked over at Nick and smiled to see him happy, though he looked a little uncomfortable. He then looked over at Howie and Kevin who were now cuddled together and whispering something he couldn't quite hear or make out. Then from the corner of his eye, he noticed that something was wrong with AJ so he turned around the other way and looked at Justin, who almost had the same look as AJ. "Pssstch," he said in a really soft voice and when he got Justin's attention he nodded his head over to AJ.

Justin turned to look at AJ and his heart nearly broke. Fuck. He slowly reached his hand out and placed it on top of AJ's that was resting on his lap, right by his crotch. "Age?..." Justin whispered out and he leaned over , not wanting anyone else to hear this.

"What?" AJ whispered back, his voice breaking a little it was obvious he was crying now.

"Me pay on swings and slide," Nick said with a big smile, starting to tell Brian about his day

Brian smiled big and then snuck a quick glance back and saw Justin trying to comfort AJ. "What else did you do today?" He questioned, turning back to Nick.

"Age, please," Justin said as he brought his other hand over to AJ's face and turned it so that he had no other choice but to look at him. "Hey, I'm sorry. Please, don't cry."

AJ quickly brought his hands to his face and tried to wipe the tears away, totally embarrassed about crying. "It's okay," he whispered. "It's not your fault."

"Me color...me aways clolor," Nick said with a slight pout as he wiggled in his seat a little, sitting in nasty pants got kinda annoying after a while. If he had been on his knees it would have been fine but now he was actually sitting in a very full diaper.

Brian chuckled. "We're almost there, Nick," he said noticing Nick really starting to squirm. "What do you wanna do, if not coloring?"

Justin took in a deep breath as he put his arms around AJ and pulled him close. "I'm still sorry," he said as he kissed AJ's neck. On his spot. That little bit of information was not on Justin's mind because he just wanted to kiss AJ and the closet was his neck, so he kissed him there.

AJ was still too worked up to even really realize where Justin had kissed him and he snuggled into Justin's arms. "I wanted to cuddle with you...that's all...but I didn't mean for you to leave him," he whispered.

"Me no know," Nick said with a shrug.

Justin frowned a little at the way that sounded. "Why didn't you just say that?" He questioned with a pout. "And what do you mean by 'you didn't mean for me to leave him'? You're making it sound like Scott's my boyfriend..."

Brian scratched his head as he tried to think of what else Nick could do that was portable or easy to carry along with them. He had no clue.

It was then that they pulled up to the back of the hotel and they all got out of the van and headed inside. Nick was walking with a hand on his butt walking funny.

"I think our little man has a problem." Kevin laughed softly, mostly talking to Brian not sure if he knew or not.

AJ kept his hand in Justin's praying the teen wouldn't let go of it because he wasn't sure if he could keep from crying again.

"Yah, I know," Brian said looking over at Kevin and walking over to the elevator. "Justin told me."

Justin chewed on his bottom lip as they made their way inside the elevator, his hand that was holding AJ's, tightened, as he thought about what Scott said about AJ shooting daggers at him, and then something about being a threat. He knew AJ told him that he didn't like Scott and that he didn't trust the other man but Justin thought at least AJ could have trusted HIM if not anything else. He really needed to assure AJ that he wasn't going to leave him, not any time soon, anyways. He really liked AJ. And Scott was just someone he just met.

Nick whimpered as he leaned back against the elevator, holding onto Brian's hand. He felt yucky but he still didn't want to tell Brian what was wrong because he knew he shouldn't have done it. It was just he was having too much fun playing and didn't want to stop to tell Justin he had to go potty even though he knew the park had one.

Just then the elevator doors opened and Kevin and Howie got out first and headed down to their room obviously intent on having a little 'alone time.'

AJ glanced at Justin as he got his room key out of his pocket. "You...umm wana come to my room for a bit...or no?" he asked, not sure if he wanted to be with him or not.

"Where else would I be?" Justin questioned, still holding AJ's hand, and smiled at him.

"Your room?" AJ said with a shrug but ended up smiling a little too.

Justin scrunched his face up. "There's nothing in there that I can't live without," he said. He then put his other hand over AJ's that was still holding the keycard by the slot and stuck the card in for him. He didn't want to be standing out in the hall all day.

"Thanks," AJ whispered as they walked into the room. He was so frazzled over what happened with Lou to these weird feelings he was getting because of Justin. The part that scared him the most was the fact that he seriously felt himself falling in love with the other man and he wasn't sure he was ready for that to happen yet.

Justin nodded his head and closed the door behind them before walking with AJ over to the bed and just stood there. "Okay..." He let go of AJ's hand before bringing both his hands up to AJ's shoulders and turning him around. He started to knead the tense muscles on his back.

AJ was quiet for a second as he let his head hang and let Justin rub his shoulders. "I'm sorry I've been a jealous jack ass today," he whispered, still hoping and praying he was just mistaken and had no reason to be jealous.

"Baby, I told you before that you had no reason to be jealous," Justin said tilting his head to side. "And you don't need to apologize 'cause you were right. Scott was flirting with me and he is gay but that was before he knew about you and I... he stopped, baby." Justin leaned down a bit and kissed AJ's shoulder and then wrapped his arms around his waist.

"Really?" AJ asked, sounding hopeful that things were going to be okay. "I just got scared when you wanted to hang with him more then you wanted to be with me."

Justin raised his eye brow. "When did I say I wanted to hang out with him and not with you?" He questioned not remembering ever saying that. He tightened his hold on AJ. He was AJ's and AJ was his. No and's, if's, or but's about it.

"You wanted to stay at the park instead of coming back to the hotel. Whenever we go back to the hotel it's always 'our time'." AJ whispered, showing how much the time with Justin between their busy schedules made him feel. "But today you wanted to stay at the park..."

"Yah, sorry. I did want to stay at the park but not because of Scott or even Nick," Justin said. "It's been a while since I've actually gone to a park and relaxed and it felt good to do that today. Especially after this morning... and I thought if you guys had come we all could have just sat under the tree on the blanket and relaxed, cuddled, talked, or whatever. There were barely were any people..." Justin explained as he let go of AJ and sat down on the edge of the bed. "Sorry."

Now AJ felt like dirt as he moved to sit next to Justin. "I'm sorry...I didn't know...I guess we have to work on making sure we let each other talk and not make assumptions that the other person can read minds..huh?"

Justin looked over at AJ and nodded his head slowly. "But I told you the reason why I wanted to stay at the park... about thinking that you guys could use a bit of relaxation," he pointed out. "You snapped."

AJ looked down at his lap and sighed, knowing that was true. "Yeah, but I wanted to be alone with you...and not with Scott."

"Baby, we wouldn't have been all that alone if you guys came out to the park," Justin said as he scooted closer to AJ and put an arm around him. "Scott or not... the guys still would have been there but anyways you need to stop worrying about Scott..."

"Which is why I wanted us back here," AJ explained and sighed before nodding his head. "I know...I'm sorry I just get insecure I guess."

"There's no reason for you to get that way," Justin said. "I'm a loyal guy, Age, and I'm NOT going to do anything to jeopardize what we have. You need to TRUST me, please." Justin then got down on his knees in front of AJ between his legs. "Please." He looked up at AJ and smiled.

"I do trust you...I didn't think you would cheat on me or something," AJ said as he looked into Justin's eyes. "I was just more scared that you would end up liking him better and want to leave me. I know I'm far from perfect and can be a screwy boyfriend...but I don't want you to leave." There were tears in his eyes again so he broke eye contact. Only weak people cried, and he didn't want to be one of those people.

Justin reached his hands up and cupped AJ's face, getting the older man to look at him. "You need to stop putting yourself down. I'm not going to leave, he and I are just friends," he said and noticed that AJ was trying to hold back the tears. "It's okay to cry but I don't like to see you cry... it hurts to see you cry!"

"Come here," AJ whispered patting the spot next to him again. He wanted that snuggle time he had been wanting so bad. "If this all would have happened on a normal day I may not have acted so weird. It's just after all that happened this morning I guess I'm all weirded out." He wasn't going to mention the fact that he was so sexually frustrated right now too that he was being very emotional. Some guys got grouchy and evil when they were like this...he...well, he cried.

Justin nodded his head and sat down next to AJ. "I understand."

"I'm still sorry though," AJ said hoping that Justin really knew that.

"Okay, you're forgiven," Justin said. If he hadn't they'd be saying sorry forever. "C'mon, lie down on your stomach," he gently ordered, standing up.

AJ looked at Justin weird but did what he was told. "You gunna beat me while I'm down?" he said in a teasing tone.

Just for that comment Justin smacked AJ on the ass, gently though. "Ha. Ha," he said before straddling AJ's waist and then started to massage his back.

"Ohh," AJ groaned, Justin was working wonders on his tensed up muscles. All through rehearsal Lou had been watching them with unhappy eyes and that had put even more stress on his already beyond stressed body.

"Damn," Justin whispered out. "You're really, really tense." He started to work on one part of his back before moving to another tensed part. "How did sound check go?" He questioned, wondering what happened to get AJ this tense while he wasn't there.

"Shitty. Lou was watching us the whole time and he was not happy. I'm worried what he has to say after the show tonight," AJ said with a sigh.

"Good lord," Justin mumbled out. "What the hell is his problem anyways?" He questioned as he looked down at his arm that Lou had bruised. It was getting darker.

"He loves having power and he definitely has a lot of it," AJ said through a groan when Justin hit a really tough spot in his lower back.

"You guys really need to leave him." Justin worked on muscles on AJ's lower back and scooted further down AJ's body. He didn't want to think about what could happen if the guys continued to have Lou as their manager. He sighed.

"I guess Kevin is going to look into some things about our rights and shit. I mean we really need to get rid of him if not for us but for Nicky. I mean I'm surprised he's acting as well as he is right now compared to what happened this morning. I mean if that would have happened to me at the age of two I think I would have died," AJ said, really meaning that too. Nick was probably the strongest person he knew and he was just a baby.

"It's amazing though disturbing with what Nick had put up with all his life," Justin said. "And none of us really knew about it... until all this happened. I'm so surprised that he still had that innocent glow about it... you know?"

"I have a feeling he blocked so much of it out." It was then that AJ thought of something and it made him feel sick. "You know that look Lou was giving Nick today...that wasn't a new look...he used to always give Nick those looks...I have a feeling Lou's obsession for blonde boys actually didn't stop at just an obsession with Nick...I mean back before all this."

Justin paused his massaging long enough to wrinkle his face in disgust and cough. "That's just disgusting..." He visibly shuddered as thoughts of what all other boys Lou had used. "Someone should put him in his place!"

"I want to cut his cock off," AJ said, and he meant it too. "Then he couldn't fucking do anything else to anybody. I would also not mind doing that to Nick's father too."

Justin frowned as AJ's muscles tensed again, causing all his work to go down the drain. "Okay, as much as I agree with you on that and as much as I could talk about what I would like to do to them with you," he paused. "It's not helping relax you one bit. So, stop and think of something else..."

AJ took a deep breath and let it all out as he attempted to relax. It was then that he started to think about Justin straddling his hips and he groaned knowing that wasn't something he could think about either the way his body was working right now.

"Everything alright?" Justin questioned when AJ groaned. He began working the muscles again this time going under AJ's shirt so that his hands were directly on the warm smooth flesh. He leaned down and placed a soft kiss at the nape of AJ's neck.

AJ swallowed hard and nodded his head. "Yeah...that just felt good," he semi lied. Yeah, it had felt good but there were other reasons behind the groan.

"Okay," Justin said as he continued to massage AJ's back. "What time do you guys have to leave for the concert, anyways?" Justin questioned as he got a glimpse of the time. 6:16 P.M.

"We have to get there by seven thirty. The show starts at eight forrty five." AJ replied as he tried to think of other things besides Justin straddling him, touching his bare skin. 'My mom naked...Kevin naked...' he thought to himself.

Justin laughed. "You guys always say the show starts at so and so time but in reality it means add fifteen to thirty minutes to the time given," he said shaking his head.

AJ turned his head and playfully glared at Justin. "What is THAT supposed to mean?"

Justin chuckled. "It means what I said it means. Ya'll never start on time and you have your poor fans waiting there, chanting and chanting and chanting for you guys while you take your sweet ass time back stage," he said as he stuck his tongue out.

"Don't stick it out unless you plan on using it." AJ laughed, and then mentally hit himself for saying that because he had a feeling Justin might take him up on the offer and then he wasn't sure how much his body could take.

Justin pouted. "How am I supposed to use it when you got your mouth buried in the pillow?" He questioned and then got an idea. He leaned down and swiped his tongue across the nape of AJ's neck. "Did you mean for me to use it there?"

AJ closed his eyes tightly, willing his body to be good, but it wasn't working. He was so sexually frustrated that his dick was already hardening. "J...I love that...but don't baby please," he said hoping Justin would understand that it wasn’t that he didn’t want to...but that he wasn’t sure if he could.

"Don't what?" Justin questioned in a whisper. "I haven't kissed you since we left this morning... I don't even remember getting a good morning kiss," he said in a pout.

AJ gently turned over so Justin was straddling the front of him instead of the back. He knew Justin could feel what was going on now but tried not to make a big deal about it. "Your right...I guess we could fix that," he said with a smile, praying he could keep control.

Justin smiled but bit his lip. He could feel how hard AJ was and now understood why AJ had told him to stop. He looked down in to AJ's eyes and saw the lust there and he couldn't help but lean down and kiss the other man not only for the missing morning kiss but for all the times he'd wanted to kiss him that day.

AJ moaned into the kiss as he wrapped his arms around Justin and pulled him down closer. He kept the kiss as sweet and nice as he could when all his body wanted to do was go crazy and attack his boyfriend's mouth.

Justin stretched out his body before slowly resting it on top of AJ, his hands going up to run through AJ's hair. He moaned into kiss and licked at AJ's lips, asking for entrance.

It was against AJ's best wishes and he opened his mouth for Justin's tongue, his own tongue meeting up with his and soon they were fighting this passionate battle between each other.

A few seconds later they pulled apart to catch their breaths. "I still have to get that shower..." Justin trailed off when it all of a sudden hit him that he had yet to shower since yesterday morning.

AJ laughed a little and nodded his head. "Yeah because in the words of Nick you're tinky," he said holding his nose playfully...totally not thinking Justin smelled at all.

"That's it," Justin said pushing himself up but not off of AJ, yet. "I definitely need to get a shower." He chuckled. "I don't think I could get away with drenching myself in cologne... God only knows what Howie would do!"

"That little man has been acting very odd today." AJ giggled thinking about the way Howie acted that morning and then the way he as going around attacking Kevin all afternoon.

"You think the stench of me not showering and then the cologne I put on to cover it up caused some type of new chemical aroma that affected the chemicals in Howies nose that triggered some part of his brain causing this 'weird Howie' to emerge?" Justin questioned, really thinking about it.

"You make it seem like Howie isn't normally weird..." AJ giggled picking on his best friend. "I think he just might be really horny or something." He said making a face, not sure he wanted to think of his best buddy being horny.

Justin laughed at AJ's facial expression. "Hey, don't be thinking about anyone horny or naked besides me... you got that?" Justin questioned in a playful tone. "I always thought Howie was one of the more down-to-earth practical ones compared to the rest of you guys..."

"He normally is but I guess all guys have their moments of pure horniness." AJ giggled as he got sat up, stretching his arms over his head, Justin still sitting on his lap.

"Hmm," Justin said as he watched AJ stretch. "I should get that shower taken care off." He got up off of AJ and stood up. "Um, I'll be right back."

AJ nodded his head as he watched Justin head out of his room and back to his own. With a groan he flopped back on the bed and tried to relax.

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Brian sighed as he and Nick walked into the room. "We should get you changed, buddy," he said placing his bags on the bed as he waited for Nick to come to him.

Nick blushed a little and pretended to have no idea what Brian was talking about. "Me no need to be changed...me no know what you talkin about."

Brian chuckled. "Really? Darn... and here I thought that you squirming around with the uncomfortable look on your face and then walking with your hand on your butt... was because you went potty in your diaper," he said shaking his head. "Sorry." He shrugged and flopped down on the bed, on his back.

Nick giggled uneasily as he nodded his head. "Yeah, you going crazy," he said as he walked over to where Brian was, forgetting that he smelled far from perfect.

"But I'm only 23... I'm too young to be going crazy," Brian said pouting before sniffing the air. "Something tinky…”

"Must be Justin...he tinky today," Nick said giggling, still trying to put off the problem on somebody else...because he was embarrassed.

"But he's not in the room," Brian pointed out as he looked at Nick and sighed. Why was Nick making it this hard?

"Oh...yeah," Nick whispered as he looked around to try and find something else that could be stinky. "Maybe you tinky?" he asked softly.

Brian shook his head. "Nice try," he said with a small chuckle. "C'mon Nick, I know you went in your diapers. You know you went in your diapers. Why not just get changed and put on new diapers and then argue about who's stinky?"

"Me didn't go!" Nick exclaimed looking down as his face got red with embarrassment. He was sure Brian would be upset with him since he didn't go in the potty like he was supposed to.

Brian stood up and walked over to Nick. "Why do you look embarrassed?" He questioned. "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. C'mon, let's just get this over with, please? I'm tired and I just want to get at least an hour and half of sleep before we have to go back for the concert."

Nick looked up to make sure Brian wasn't really mad and nodded his head. "Otay...me sowwy dough," he had to say that as he walked to Brian and gave him a big huge hug.

"Don't be sorry Nick," Brian said as he hugged Nick back. "Why are you apologizing?" He then went about setting the place in the bathroom for Nick to lie down on.

"Me go potty in my diaper." Nick answered as he lied down but didn’t lift his legs like he normally did. He knew he was a mess and was kinda scared to have Brian see.

"I know you did," Brian said as he got the wipes ready. He knew from the stench that Nick must have done a number on his diaper. "Stop being scared, I'm not mad at you. You need to understand that potty training isn't learned just over night. It's going to take a while to learn and do it just right."

"Me having too much fun playing at da park. Me no wanted to go potty." Nick explained as he let Brian get his jeans off. It was then when Nick realized just how bad he was because there was even some stuff on his jeans. When he had sat down it caused it to come up the back of the diaper and onto his back. He got a guilty look on his face again. "Oopsy." He whispered.

Brian laughed. "Dude, maybe next time you'd tell someone you have to use the bathroom so you could avoid messes like this," he smiled showing Nick he wasn't mad. "Just 'cause you were having fun doesn’t mean that you can't stop for a minute or two to go use the bathroom. The park isn't going to go anywhere. I mean, think about it. If you went to the bathroom you wouldn’t have had to walk around uncomfortable all this time and you could have enjoyed playing in the park a bit more." He just hoped that pointing these things out would make Nick realize things so he could do better next time. He started to wipe off Nick's bottom, using a lot of wipes. He would have asked Nick to go and take a shower but getting Nick to just admit to have his diaper changed took this long... he didn't know much less want to think about how long it would take to him to get Nick in the shower.

"Justin busy talking to Scott," Nick said, one reason why he hadn't gone over. "Me no wana go when he busy...not nice."

"True," Brian said. "So, how do you like this Scott character?" Brian questioned. He'd read somewhere that kids were a good judge of character and they sensed things about people quiet easily... at least better than adults.

"He otay," Nick said with a smile. "He act weird to Justin at first...but he otay now," he said not sure how to explain how Scott had been flirting he just knew it wasn’t a good thing.

Brian nodded his head. "How was he acting weird at first?" He knew what Nick was talking about but he wanted to know if it was just him or was Scott pretty obvious.

"He talk ike AJ talk to Justin," Nick replied, showing that he knew in his own little way that AJ and Justin were together. "Ike Owie and Kevin."

"He did, didn't he?" Brian questioned. "Do you like AJ and Justin or Justin and Scott?"

"AJ and Justin," Nick said with a nod of his head. "Me ike AJ."

Brian laughed. "Next time, you ever see Scott act like AJ with Justin," he said. This was what he was getting at with these questions. "Do something, interfere. Don't let anything happen. You keep an eye on Justin, okay?" It's not that Brian didn't trust Justin, it was more like Justin was a teenager, probably a horny one. He just didn't want Justin letting his hormones go away with him. He noticed just how good looking Scott was and more likely than not he knew that Justin might have thought about him, just a little bit. And he knew just how much AJ liked the younger teen, if today was any indication. Plus, he didn’t want to see one of his brothers hurt.

"Even if he busy?" Nick asked in shock. He had been taught by both his parents and Brian to not interrupt when adults were talking.

"Sure," Brian said. "As long as you're polite like saying, 'excuse me,' before you ask them anything. And if you don't want the other person to know just what you want to talk about, you just say 'can I talk to you alone?' or 'can I talk to you in private?' and you pull them away and talk to them. But only if it's important, though."

"Ohh...otay," Nick said with a smile and then looked down at himself seeing he was finally all clean. He then just thought about something. "Why some boys ike girls...and some boys ike boys?" he asked, still not even sure what the difference between a boy and a girl was.

Brian scratched his head and then sat back on his knees. "Well, it all has to do with reproduction," he said. "Meaning, boys have what it takes to help the girls make more babies, so there can be more people on this earth... It's usually that boys are always with girls but sometimes... boys like other boys even though they can't make babies... it's all about love and feelings that you can't really help but have..."

"Ike Mommy and Daddy?" Nick asked, thinking about the baby part of things. His mommy had been pregnant and had just given birth a few weeks before his second birthday.

"Exactly like mom and dad," Brian said. "Is there anything else you want to know about?"

Still on this topic of things, Nick started thinking about when he had helped his mommy change Bobbie's diapers and she had looked...well funny to him. "Why Bobbie have no pee pee?" He asked, looking down at his own crotch that now had his diaper back on it since Brian was done changing him.

"Well, that's the difference between boys and girls. Boys, they have a 'pee pee' and girls don't.” This was getting a little weird for Brian because he had no idea if he was helping Nick understand anything much less if he was making any sense.

"She no supposed to?" Nick asked sounding relieved as he sat up and got up, knowing he needed to get new pants since his were yucky. He was just happy to know his baby sister wasn't like deformed or something.

Brian laughed at Nick's response. "No, buddy, she isn't supposed to," he said as he stood up and threw away the dirty wipes and diaper before picking up Nick's dirty pants. What was he gonna go with these? He scrunched up his face and decided to just wash them in the tub himself.

Nick saw the look on Brian's face and pouted a little. "Me sowwy," he said again just feeling bad that he had made such a mess since he knew they didn't have very much time.

Brian shook his head. "I told you, it's okay. Really. I just didn't know what to do with these, that's all. You're gonna have many more accidents, so don't worry."

Nick smiled before he walked into the other room thinking he could get himself dressed again so Brian didn't have to worry about it. He then found a pair of bright yellow track pants and put them on. He then giggled when he realized he was wearing a black shit. "BZZZZ," he said buzzing around the room now because he thought he resembled a bee.

Brian went about first soaking the pants in the tub before using the complimentary hotel laundry detergent to wash the pants. After a few minutes he'd finished washing the pants and put it up to dry. Walking out of the bathroom with a sigh he saw Nick 'buzzing' about the room. "Hey bumble bee," he greeted.

"Hewwo," Nick giggled as he buzzed over to where Brian was and stuck his bottom out and ran into him. "Me sting you!"

"Oh no you don't," Brian said as he moved out of the way and ran around Nick and then to the other side of the bed. "No stinging." He laughed.

"Me bee...bee sting," Nick said as he ran around trying to get Brian to 'sting' him again.

Brian shook his head and climbed on the bed, crawling across it to the other side. "Nuh uh," he said. "You're Nick, dressed up like a bee. You're not gonna sting me."

Nick giggled as he got down on the floor and crawled with Brian, thinking this new crawling game looked more like fun. "Me doggy now," he said as he stuck his tongue out, panting.

Brian couldn't help it. He leaned over and started to tickle Nick. "More like a golden retriever," he said between chuckles,

"Noo ickle...no!" Nick said as he giggled like crazy, rolling around on the floor a lot like a dog would if he was getting his belly rubbed.

"Yes, tickle," Brian said as he continued to tickle Nick.

"No, no no!" Nick laughed but when Brian was over the top of him a little Nick tensed up, not giggling anymore and got a freaked out look on his face. Everything that had happened that day had sort of reverted him back to how he was right when he first came to live with Brian. All the weird, bad memories of before had started to come back again.

Brian immediately stopped when Nick stopped and jumped off of Nick the second he noticed the horrified look on Nick's face. "No more tickle, I promise," he said. "I'm sorry, really. I didn't mean anything by it." Brian mentally kicked himself. What was he thinking?

"It otay," Nick said with a smile as he sat up trying to clear his mind of all the weird images in his head. "Me just...dat scare Nicky a widdle."

"I'm sorry," Brian said. "But I wouldn't do anything like that to you, you remember that okay?" He then sat down next to Nick on the floor and pulled him into a hug. "Do you want to get some sleep before we leave for the concert?"

Nick shook his head even though he WAS tired and hadn’t had a nap that day. "Me no sweepy." He lied.

Brian pouted. "But you haven't had a nap, at all, today. I'm sleepy, so I know you gotta be sleepy too."

"We sweep together?" Nick asked softly, thinking snuggling with Brian sounded really nice right then.

Brian slowly nodded his head. "Sure, if that's what you want," he said as he got up and held his hand out for Nick to take.

Nick took Brian's hand and then climbed onto the bed with him. "Me wana cuddle...me ike to cuddle."

"I know you do," Brian said as he got in next to Nick. He reached over to the phone and called the front desk for a wake up call in exactly one hour. Seven. When that was set he scooted down and got comfortable before throwing his arm over Nick's shoulders so Nivk could use that as a pillow. "Let's get an hour nap."

"Otay," Nick said with a yawn as he closed his eyes and almost instantly fell asleep.