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| "I can't believe you have to leave at seven tomorrow morning!" Iexclaimed. "I know, I know...but we've gotta go to New York to do the Rosie O'Donnell show and meet a few fans..." "For what?" I asked. "FANatic," Lance replied. "I hope she doesn't come on to us like the last chick did." "What would, uh, happen if she *did* come on to you?" I asked. "I would tell her to go away...I've got a girlfriend," Lance replied. "Then I'd tell her to flirt with Joey." I laughed. "Good." "What are you gonna do to anyone who insists you're his girlfriend?" Lance asked with a smile. "I'm gonna tell him I don't think so and then I'll deck him," I replied. Lance laughed. "That's my girl. Osh, I don't wanna go!" "I don't want you to go either, but you have to...work takes priority over me by *far*," I said. "No, it doesn't..." "Of course it does honey, and you know it," I replied. "You're doing what you love to do." "I love being with you..." "That's sweet, it really is. Now stop whining!" I said with a laugh as my cell phone rang. "Hello?" "HI Ocean, this is Diana." "Oh, hi!" "I just wanted to tell you that rehearsals start next week," Diana said. "Oh, okay. What time and what day?" "Um, let me see here...on Tuesday at ten am," Diana replied. "Alrighty. I'll be there-same place as auditions, right?" "Mm-hm." "Okay, I'll talk to you later." "Alright, goodbye." "Bye." I snapped my cell phone shut. "Rehearsals start next week. i am so excited." "Next week? Why don't you fly out to New York with us for the weekend?" Lance asked. "Okay," I agreed. "If you want me to..." "Oh, wait-don't you have class tomorrow?" "I can miss a day of classes." "You sure?" "Yup." "Okay then, we'll come by and pick you up around six, six thirty." "Sounds wonderful." "Great. Well, I better take you back...I have to be back early...Johnny wants us to get some sleep tonight." "You'll need it...you'd have to go straight to Rosie's when you get off huh?" "Yep. You have to meet her, she's soo nice..." "I bet she is." "She'll love you." "I hope so." "*I* love you," Lance said when we reached the door of his hotel room. "I love you too," I replied, then kissed Lance lightly. "I'll see you tomorrow." "You're walking back alone?" Lance asked. "Yeah, don't worry, I'll be fine. Oh look-here comes JC and Rain. I'll ride back with her, okay?" "Alrighty, baby. I'll see you in the morning," Lance said and gave me a longer kiss. It turns out JC wanted Rainbow to come to New York too, so we were both up and getting ready at four in the morning. "This reminds me of getting ready for school in high school," I said as I tossed some clothes into a duffel bag. "Maybe for you...not me," Rainbow replied as she shuffled out of the bathroom and threw my toothbrush at me. "I am *so* tired." "So am I...we can sleep on the plane," I said yawning. Lance and JC knocked on our door at precisely six. Rain and I grabbed our bags and headed out. "Rain, you look more tired than I am," JC commented as we climbed into the limo where the other guys were yawning. Justin was leaning his head on the window, Joey had his eyes closed and Chris was rocking out to a song on the radio. "Geez, you guys look *dead*!" Chris exclaimed. "Thanks for the compliment," I murmured, leaning my head against the back of the seat. Lance turned the TV on. "Let's see what's on this early." "MTV," Rainbow said so Lance changed the channel. MTV News 15/15 was on. "Breaking news-it was recently revealed yesterday on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno that Lance Bass's girlfriend *may* have had an affair," the veejay said. My eyes snapped open. "*What*?" "Details are unclear at this moment, but apparantly Lance-who is a member of 'N Sync-apologized last night on the air for ignoring Ocean's attempts to explain her actions. He said, and I quote, 'And seeing Craig kiss you...it hurt bad.'" "Oh *man*," Justin said. "Do they have everything twisted around or what?" "No kidding," Rainbow agreed. "More on this story as details are released," the veejay said, then continued to report a story on Britney Spears. "Turn it off-I don't wanna see her," Justin groaned. "Close your eyes," Lance suggested. "Osh, don't worry about it-we'll get it all taken care of when we get to MTV, okay?" I nodded as we pulled up to the airport. "Oh crap," JC muttered when he caught sight of the photographers and reporters outside. "Rain, grab my hand or you might get lost." "Osh, same advice to you-take my hand," lance advised. "Gee, you ask too much of me, Lance," I said with a smile as I took his hand and we climbed out of the limo. As soon as we stepped out of the vehicle, camera flashes began um, flashing and reporters shouted questions directed at Lance and me. "Lance! Is it true your girlfriend cheated on you with a man named Craig?" "Ocean! Is it true Lance hit you?" Lance looked back at me with a startled look and laughed when he heard that one. "JC! are you and your girlfriend eloping?" I laughed. "Justin! Is it true you and Britney Spears are breaking up?" "Rainbow and Ocean! Are you two going to be on Mad TV?" "Lance! Are you and Ocean breaking up?" Once we entered the building, the reporters' questions and the flashes stopped. "Check that out! I didn't get any questions!" Joey said gleefully. "Yeah you did-someone asked if you had a cat named Peaches," Chris replied. "Ground breaking news of the century," JC said sarcastically as we approached our gate. All of a sudden shrill, piercing teenybopper screams broke the generally calm atmosphere. A crowd of teenagers were waiting at the entrance to the gate. "Here we go. Hold on tight, babe," Lance sighed and tightened his grip on my hand. "Justin! I love you!" "Ocean, you are soo lucky!" "Chris can I have your autograph?" "Joey, will you father my child?" "Lance, I love you!" "Rainbow, you are soo lucky!" "I love you JC!" "Aaaahhh! Oh my God! Aaah! Oh my God! Aaah!" A stewardess quickly ushered us into the boarding hallway and shut the door behind us. "Whoa, talk about wake-up call," I said. "Talk about it-blinding flashes, ridiculous questions and deafening teenybopper screams-" Rainbow added. "Joey will you father my child?" Justin asked in a high pitched voice. "Lance, did you hit Ocean?" Chris asked with a laugh. "Where'd they get *that* one?" "Who knows." Lance laughed. "Get used to it, Rain and Osh...it's gonna be happening all weekend and now that you two are on Mad...it's gonna be like, double." "Yeah, pretty soon you'll be more famous than us," Chris said. "Haha, yeah right," Rain replied as we sat in our seats. "No, seriously. Instead of masses of screaming girls, you'll have loud catcalling guys shouting your names asking if you wanna hook up," JC said. "And you'll have a few screaming girls thrown in there too." "Riighht," I replied, buckling my seat belt. "YEah, and you'll be up on guys' walls and there'll be websites dedicated to you," Justin said. "It's pretty crazy." I woke up with a start. "Good morning," Lance said cheerily, noticing the startled look on my face. "It's just turbulence, Osh. It's okay." I nodded. "Um, excuse me-can I get some orange juice please?" The stewardess nodded. "Of course. I'll be back in a minute." "Orange juice-my thing. I gotta have it or my day hasn't started," I said with a sleepy smile. "I understand. Guess whose birthday is coming up?" Lance asked with a teasing grin. I pretended to think. "Hmm...could it be Justin's? No...Rain's? Nope...could it be *mine*?" Lance laughed. "Ding ding ding! What do you want?" "I don't know...just get me something," I replied. "Like what?" "Geez Lance! I don't know..." "Here's your orange juice...um, excuse me, but aren't you Lance from 'N Sync?" the stewardess asked. Lance glanced at me and smiled at the lady. "That would be me." "Oh my gosh! I love you guys!" the woman exclaimed. "You guys have the sweetest voices and your lyrics are beautiful..." "Thank you very much," Lance said. "JC, Justin, Chris and Joey are on the plane too if you want to meet them..." "Oh gosh, thank you so much!" "Nice meeting you," Lance said witha little laugh. "So anyway...are you off for Spring Break?" I nodded. "Yuppers. Why?" "Hmm...wanna come home and meet my family?" Lance asked. "Sure...I'd have to see what's up with Mad, but I'd love to," I said. "Great, my family would love to have you," Lance replied. "Gosh, how do you guys handle all those cameras and reporters?" Rainbow asked in the limo on our way to the Rosie O'Donnell Show. "To tell you the truth, we just ignore them...we're used to it by now," Joey said with a shrug. "Rosie is gonna love you two,"JC said grinning, as we pulled upto the studio. While the guys were having their make up done, Rainbow and I sat in a room with lots of food and ate. We wer watching then practice "Bye Bye Bye" when Rosie approached us. "Hi there, girls. Are you JC's and Lance's girlfriends?" "Yes, I'm Ocean," I said, shaking Rosie's hand. "I'm Rainbow." "Cute names...you guys are so...normal looking!" Rosie exclaimed. "Is that good or bad?" I asked with a laugh. "That's great! I'm so glad those cuties haven't chosen to date supermodel types. I'm so proud of them. So are you two in college?" Rainbow nodded. "Yeah, we're in our sophomore year at Berkley." "What's your major? Do you know yet?" "Um pediatrics I think," Rainbow replied. "What about you Ocean?" "Um, I'm majoring in medicene," I said, but Rainbow cut in. "Personally, I think she should changer her major to English cuz she writes *so* well-" "But Ocean isn't guaranteed a job in that field," I said. "So that's why she's not majoring in that." "Osh, people would love your writing." "Rain, you love my writing. Who knows what people would think. "*Any*way, sorry Rosie. We fight like sisters-" "It's okay, you two are cute." Lance jogged up with JC and kissed me lightly. "Hey Ro. I see you've already met Ocean and Rainbow..." "Yes I have and I must say I am *very* proud of you two!" JC laughed. "Yeah...there's no one like them." "And you all look so cute together!" Rosie exclaimed. "Would you two make a guest appearance today?" "Umm..." I said. "Sure!" Rainbow exclaimed and Lance looked at me hopefully. I shrugged. "Why not?"'"H"H "Great! Just go backstage and they'll get you fixed up...it shouldn't take too long since you two are beautiful anyway," Rosie said. Twenty minutes later, Rain and I joined up with the guys in the food room, wearing entirely different outfits. Rain was wearing a white long sleeve thermal under a black t-shirt and jeans while I wore a dark blue tank top and a dark red ankle length skirt with a blue dragon on it. "You guys look great," Chris said. "Have some Cheetos." I grabbed a handful. "Thanks." Rosie joined us. "Okay, Lance, Ocean-will you clear that whole affair thing up on the air?" "Oh sure." We rehearsed the whole thing-the interview, how we would come out-everything. Finally the show started. "John, do you know who we have here today?" "I don't know Rosie." "'N Sync! And do you know who else we have here?" "Who?" "JC's and Lance's girlfriends, Rainbow and Ocean!" "How cool. i've never met them before." "I met them before the show...they're very sweet, very cute...I don't know if you all uh, saw Jay Leno last night-" "I did, Rosie, I did and I saw Lance apologizing to Ocean..." "Yeah, a very sweet thing he did, but no one really knows what happened and there have been some rumors flying around about that and they're gonna clear that up for us today." "Great!" "So Justin-I know everyone's dying to know-do you have a girlfriend?" Rosie asked. All the girls in the audience began screaming. Justin shook his head. "No, I don't. You should ask Lance and JC about that though..." "That's right, you two have girlfriends don't you? Can I say something? I am *very* proud of you...they are so normal! Not supermodel stick thin gorgeous tall people...well, they're gorgeous, but..." "Oh yeah...that's exactly why we love them so much," JC said. "We're all really good friends and they're so much fun to be with...they help us forget about being busy and stressed out..." Joey said. "That's always good...now Lance, you guys were on Jay Leno last night..." Lance laughed. "Yeah." "And you made a public apology to your girlfriend." Lance nodded. "Yeah, and let me say something...the media blew it *way* out of proportion..." "Okay, what really happened?" "Uh, maybe Ocean should explain it..." "That is a great idea Lance. Is everyone ready to meet Ocean and Rainbow?" Rain and I looked at each other excitedly as the audience cheered. "Here we go." "Here they are, Ocean and Rainbow!" Rosie exclaimed. Rainbow walked out before me and we hugged Rosie and all the guys. JC gave Rain a little kiss as they sat down and the applause grew. Lance kissed me lightly then we sat down as well. "Aren't they cute?" Rosie said when the cheering died down and some guys in the back hooted. We all just laughed. "Okay, so Ocean, you're gonna explain this thing to us, right?" Rosie asked. I nodded. "Yeah." "Okay, but first we have a clip of the show for those who didn't see it last night," Rosie said. The scene from Jay Leno came on, starting from me descending from the audience. "Oh geez, Lance, I looked like crap," I muttered. "You looked wonderful," Lance whispered. "Don't lie to me." "Okay, okay okay...you look absolutely amazing," Lance grinned. "Shut up." "It's true!" "Whatever babe." The clip ended with Lance and me in midkiss as the audience cheered. "Okay, so Ocean, what happened exactly to make cutie patootie Lance apologize in public?",???"?"??" I smiled. "Okay, well, this is kinda confusing, but here goes. I was in this play-Romeo and Juliet-you've all heard of it, I'm sure. I played Juliet and this other guy-we'll call him Fred-was playing Romeo. Seeing how he and I wer making out night after night for a week *for* *the* *play*, Fred got this weird idea that I was his girlfriend. I tried telling him nicely, 'No way-I've got a boyfriend already' but he thought that boyfriend was him. I explained politely that my boyfriend was Lance Bass and Fred laughed and said, 'In your dreams, hon.'" "Wow," Rosie commented. "Yeah, so when Rainbow and I went to audition for a show, Fred showed up too. He ws like, 'I'm here to support my girlfriend Ocean' and he gave me this huge kiss." "Oh geez." "I was like, 'Whoa, wait a second there bud...I'm *not* your girlfriend' but Lance saw the kiss and he thought I was cheating on him. He found me after auditions and let's just say that encounter did not end pleasantly-" "Oh no." "I went out to my car crying. I tried to explain to Lance what happened but he wouldn't listen to me..." "Lance!" Rosie exclaimed. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Lance said. JC cut in. "Lance finally came to his senses when he heard Osh yelling at Fred, telling him to buzz off-" "She was hysterical...she was crying and screaming-" Rainbow said. "Falling on the floor..." "Then I decided to apologize on Jay Leno," Lance concluded. "And there you have it-" Chris said. "By the way, I did NOT hit Ocean," Lance said. "There is no way in this world I would hit someone I care about unless someone hurt someone I cared about." The crowd "awwed" that. "We don't even know how that one got started," Justin said. "So really, I should be hittingmyself right now..." "*haha* That's right Lance. Let's see ya deck yourself now," Chris said and the audience laughed. "That's really great, you guys. Look at them!" Rosie exclaimed. "Aren't they cute together? Stand up, JC and Rainbow, and Lance and Ocean, you too." We obediently stood up, wondering what she was getting at. "Okay, now JC put your arm around Rainbow, Lance arm around Ocean...look at that! How cute is that?" The audience voiced its approval as Lance and JC blushed. A few guys began hooting and catcalling, then Rain and I began blushing profusely. "Okay, I think we've embarrassed you four enough..." |
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