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A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes Chapter 13 As they pulled off the main freeway to head to the small town where Kristy and Erin had grown up, Kristy could tell that Kevin and the other guys were getting more nervous. Kristy shook her head as she looked around the car at the handsome, talented men surrounding her. "You guys perform in front of thousands of fans and their parents practically nightly, and you often meet some of those fans and their parents, right?" Kristy continued, receiving nods from the guys. "So why are you nervous about meeting our parents?" "Because they're YOUR parents," Kevin said, caressing Kristy's face with his hand. "This is too important for me to not take seriously." Brian nodded, "And, whether we like it or not, we tend to be judged as a group, so it's important to Kevin that your parents like all of us." Kristy looked at her new friends and knew she'd never been more proud of them. "You guys are so sweet, you know that?" She looked at Erin and could tell her sister was thinking the same thing. "So, what do you guys do before you go on stage to get ready?" The guys all looked at her somewhat confused, "You were there last night," Nick answered her. "We stretch out, get into our costumes, goof around a lot..." Kristy giggled, "I mean right before you go on stage." "We sing and say a prayer," Kevin said, smiling at Kristy as he understood what she was suggesting. "What would you like to hear?" Kristy smiled and glanced over at her sister. While Erin was having a great time getting to know the guys individually Kristy knew she still wouldn't admit to being a fan. Kristy was happy to give up her own "fan" status, now that she considered the guys to be her friends... or more, but she wanted Erin to realize how incredibly talented they really were. "Show Me The Meaning..." Kristy said, knowing how good the guys sounded the night before when they did it accapella back stage. Erin raised an eyebrow in Kristy's direction, and thought to herself, 'Oh puh-lease! Just 'cause my sister is sorta dating one of them, and I'm kinda becoming friends with them, and OK.... they're going to meet our parents, doesn't mean I'm going to become a fan of the Backstreet Bo...' She stopped mid-thought as their five voices came together in perfect harmony. "Show me the meaning of being lonely." Kristy could tell that had gotten Erin's attention. One more thing that the two sisters shared was their love of music... and guys who could sing and dance. Kristy knew her sister would soon "see the light." Kristy watched Erin's big brown eyes widened as Brian started singing, his clear, beautiful voice filling the car. "So many words for the broken heart... It's hard to see in a crimson love... So hard to breathe... Walk with me, and maybe..." Erin turned as AJ's rough, sexy voice began, he and Brian harmonizing, "Nights of light so soon become... wild and free, I could feel the sun..." He sang the next line to her, "Your every wish will be done... They tell me..." The guys came together for the chorus, blending together in a beautiful mixture. "Show me the meaning of being lonely... Is this the feeling I need to walk with? Tell me why I can't be there where you are... There's something missing in my heart." Erin looked at Kristy, the expression on her face one of awe. Kristy quirked her eyebrows and smirked, sending her sister a look that said, �You ain't heard nothing yet.� Kevin's rich, deep baritone resonated throughout the car, and Kristy smiled contentedly as she let his voice fill her senses. "Life goes on as it never ends... Eyes of stone observe the trends... They never say forever gaze, if only..." Nick joined in, his and Kevin's voices harmonizing perfectly. "Guilty roads to an endless love... There's no control... Are you with me now?" Nick's strong, clear voice finished the line before the chorus, "Your every wish will be done... They tell me..." By the time the guys started the second chorus, Erin was a convert. She'd always dismissed them as "New Kid" wannabe's, but as she sat and really listened to them, she realized that they all were incredibly talented. 'Oh my God, those voices!' she thought as they repeated the chorus. Howie's turn was next and he sang to both sisters, "There's nowhere to run... I have no place to go... Surrender my heart, body and soul..." Their voices blended once again, AJ's powerful tenor filling the entire car with the last part of the bridge. "How can it be you're asking me to feel the things you never show?" Brian sang, his voice drawing Erin's eyes to his. "You are missing in my heart... Tell me why I can't be there where you are?" All five voices came together, layering and blending together as they repeated the chorus. "Show me the meaning of being lonely... Is this the feeling I need to walk with? Tell me why I can't be there where you are... There's something missing in my heart. Show me the meaning of being lonely... Is this the feeling I need to walk with? Tell me why I can't be there where you are... There's something missing in my heart.""So, now it's your turn," Howie said, turning to Kristy and Erin. Kristy smiled and shook her head, while Erin raised an eyebrow, "Why not?" "Yeah Kristy," Brian teased, "Why not?" Kristy sent Brian a squelching look, but much like what happened when Kevin tried that, Brian just grinned back at her. "And what do you propose?" she asked, directing the question mostly to Erin. "I don't suppose you guys have any Indigo Girls in here, do ya?" Erin asked, flipping through their CD holder. "I seriously doubt it," Kristy said with a roll of her hazel eyes. "You were saying?" Nick asked as he held up a fuchsia and white CD. Erin motioned to Howie to trade her places and then patted the empty seat next to her for Kristy to join her. "Six?" she half-asked Kristy and half-instructed AJ who was closest to the stereo. Kristy felt six pairs of eyes on her as she nodded resignedly. "Our usual parts?" Erin asked as the soft guitar music filled the car. Kristy started, "Guess I wasn't the best one to ask... Me myself with my face pressed up against love's glass...." she glanced at Kevin, her clear soprano becoming more sure with each word and Kevin's smile of encouragement. "To see the shiny toy I've been hoping for... The one I never can afford..." Erin joined in, her beautiful alto blending perfectly with her sister's voice, "The wide world spins and spits turmoil... And the nations toil for peace... But the paws of fear upon your chest... Only love can soothe that beast... And my words are paper tigers... No match for the predator of pain inside her..." As they started the chorus, the five men in the car sat watching and listening to the two beautiful women with equally beautiful voices in complete and utter awe. Kevin knew Kristy had a great voice from the evening before, but even he wasn't prepared for how wonderful she and Erin sounded together. He watched them closely as they seemed to really feel words of the chorus. "I say love will come to you... Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true... As if I've offered up a crystal ball to look through... Where there's now one, there will be two..." While all the guys realized that the sisters had sung this song frequently, Kevin recognized the meaning of it as he watched Erin and Kristy hold each other's hands. He correctly guessed that they'd sung this song together many times over the past years, after bad dates, breakups and during times of loneliness. He saw the love in Kristy and Erin's eyes as they sang, wishing love for each other. During the next verse, they played off each other. The lines were no longer in unison, but overlapped, creating a quilt with their voices. Kristy started off "I was born under the sign of cancer," and Erin echoed 'Love will come to you.' "Like brushing cloth, I smoothed the wrinkles for an answer," 'Love will come'. Kristy and Erin sang their respective parts, still overlapping their lines slightly. The words were different but complemented each other, Erin referring to her best friend, while the words Kristy sang were about to herself, �I'm always closing my eyes... Wishing I'm fine," then harmonizing together on their last line of the verse, "Even though I'm not this time." The guys were extremely impressed with the complexity of the harmonies and syncopation of the song. "I say love will come to you... Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true... As if I've offered up a crystal ball to look through... Where there's now one, there will be two..." The bridge followed a guitar and percussion section and resembled the second verse with it's staggered lines, the complex harmonies continuing through the final chorus. Once again Erin's voice layered with Kristy's, "Dodging your memories... A field of knives... " Both voices blended together, "Always on the outside looking in on others lives... I say love will come to you... Hoping just because I spoke the words that they're true... As if I've offered up a crystal ball to look through... Where there's now one, there will be two..." Kristy and Erin held each other gazes, and smiled as the car pulled into their driveway just as they were singing the last lines together. Kevin and the rest of the guys sat quietly, still mesmerized by the sweet combination of their rich, clear voices, "And I wish her insight to battle love's blindness... Strength from the milk of human kindness... A safe place for all the pieces that scattered... Learn to pretend... There's more... Than love... That matters."Next: Chapter 14 |