A couple of days had passed and it was now time for their scheduled one day tennis lesson with a local instructor. Steve thought it would be a good idea for them to get a little practice in before meeting Anna. Both sides thought it would be good to see the boys on the tennis court playing a little tennis with Anna and Anna on the dance floor doing some Backstreet moves. They all sat around on the tennis court waiting,
"So when does this guy get here?" Steve looked over just as his cell phone started to ring,
"That's him now." He pointed as he started talking into his cell phone,
"Damn, my battery went dead. I need to go up to the club house and finish this call." He shook hands with the instructor and the guys watched them speak briefly before he trotted over to them,
"OK guys I'm Andy, nice to meet you." The guys all looked around at each other and Kevin finally spoke up,
"Hi, I'm Kevin and this is Howie, Brian, Nick and AJ." They all nodded, Howie stepping up and shaking his hand. Andy held on to his hand just a little longer than necessary while covering it with both of his hands and smiled,
"Well aren't you the kind one." Nick's eyes widened as he looked at AJ and they began to smile. Andy adjusted his bandana atop of his head and stood in front of the guys,
"OK, why don't we spread out and do a minute of stretching just to get the body warmed up." They nodded and followed his lead, as Kevin Howie and Brian were in a line Nick and AJ were just behind them. They were all bent over, their hands touching their toes when Andy came stood between Howie and Kevin and placed his hands on their lower backs very close to their butts. Nick's face had a comedic frown as his eyes were bulging out of their sockets as he giggled. As Andy walked around and stood behind Nick and AJ they looked at each other out of the corners of their eyes, when his hand slid down Nick's back he stood up straight,
"Is something wrong Nick?" Nick looked at AJ as the other guys looked at him,
"Um no, just felt a little dizzy." Andy grabbed a bottle of water and opened it and handed it to Nick,
"Here, take a sip." As Nick cautiously sipped the water he regretted bringing attention to himself as Andy began to rub his arm,
"Uh, I'm ok now, really." He nodded at Nick then winked before left and made his way back to the front. Soon after, Andy announced they were ready to get started,
"Ok, let me grab some balls so we can play." Nick placed his hands over his crotch and AJ laughed out loud. The others looked over but Nick had already removed his hands,
"What is with you two?" Nick shook his head,
"Brian, come on. I think he likes us." AJ nodded,
"A lot." Kevin sighed,
"You two think everyone, even men, want you." AJ shook his head as he licked his lips,
"Ok, why did he have his hands on you guys when you were stretching?" Brian, unaware that anything had happened during stretching aside from Nick's brief dizzy spell, became quite interested. Howie shrugged,
"He just wanted to make sure we were getting a good stretch." Nick laughed,
"Yeah he wanted to stretch you alright." AJ laughed out loud as Brian smiled,
"Whatever but it doesn't matter." Andy returned with their rackets and a basket of tennis balls,
"Ok, you're up first Kevin. We're going to start with the forehand." Kevin walked up and smiled as he took a racket from Andy. First, Andy demonstrated the proper technique without a ball then asked Kevin to step forward. He stood behind Kevin and placed his hand on Kevin's hip and the other held onto to Kevin's arm that held the racket as they went through the swinging motion. Brian looked over at Nick and smiled and rolled his eyes as he watched Nick, with his eyes wide, laugh silently and point at Kevin and Andy as if to say see. AJ slapped Nick on the arm as he laughed with him and they shook their heads at each other. Nick used a very limp hand and swatted back at AJ, which only made them laugh harder as Brian shook his head and mouthed for them to stop it, even though he was laughing now along with them. Only Howie seemed to be listening to the instruction as Andy spoke over his shoulder. After about a minute that included hitting a few balls Kevin made his way back to the group. He looked at the guys obviously not approving of the looks on their faces but it was evident he was a bit unnerved.
Howie stood up next and went over to Andy, this time the guys were standing to the side of them and they all looked at Andy's hand. Instead of on his hip like he did with Kevin, Andys hand was wrapped around Howie's waist, his hand flat on his stomach as they went through the swinging motion. Nick started to chuckle and pulled his T-shirt over his nose so only his eyes were in view, however, his shaking shoulders made it apparent he was laughing. AJ held his hand over his face as he held his head down and laughed along with him. Kevin shook his head but the corners of his mouth were turned up as he fought to contain himself. Brian seemed to be lost as he looked around, not believing what he was witnessing. He refused to look at Nick because he knew he would laugh.
"Howie you are a fast learner. That's good, ok Nick your turn." Nick quickly stopped laughing and looked around, his eyes showing the anxiety of having to work with Andy. As Nick stood in his position Andy began to rub his shoulders,
"You're quite stiff." Nick jumped and turned to see the others, including Howie, smiling. Andy turned Nick around and place his hand over Nick's on the racket and his other hand lay on the side of his waist, Nick wiggled and every now and then could hear someone mask their laughter by pretending to cough. Andy leaned close to Nick and whispered in his ear,
"Look over there." Nick looked in the direction Andy was pointing and saw and a yellow light began to blink,
"What's that?" Andy turned to the other guys and pointed out other yellow lights to them,
"They're hidden cameras. It's a new hidden camera show." Brian began to laugh,
"Like Candid Camera?" Andy nodded as he laughed,
"Yeah, its for MTV." Kevin shook his head as he laughed,
"Wait, so Steve-" Suddenly Steve appeared,
"-was in on it too. I had to get you guys back for what you did to me at the end of the tour." AJ was bent over laughing as Howie continued to smile and shake his head,
"I don't believe this." AJ walked over to Steve,
"Dude, that was like seven months ago." Nick wiped the tears from his eyes as he held his stomach,
"I don't believe this. This is gonna be on TV?" Steve nodded,
"Yep, you guys are the first episode. Instead of tricking ordinary people they wanted to play tricks on celebrities. When they called how could I resist?" Kevin shook his head and whispered,
"I should have known." AJ stopped laughing abruptly,
"Wait! So, Anna?" Steve laughed,
"No Anna, we made that up to get you guys out here." They decided since they were already out on the court they might as well hit a few balls and actually take someone lessons from Andy who was a tennis instructor but who had no interest in them or any other man for that matter.
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And to think I wrote this in 2002 before Punk'd. Think copyrights are retroactive?