Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:04:01 EST
From: u6i9@hotmail.com
Subject: Fear of the written word / boy-bands

Legal stuff, you know the deal. If you're under 18 don't read even though I
haven't added any sex into this. But it does deal with homosexual
relationships. I'm also not saying the Kevin Richardson is homosexual
granted myself and a lot of other guys wouldn't mind if he is. He isn't so
him loss you know.

First off, I have to say sorry for my god awful spelling and grammar of
late. I don't know what to say but sorry. Anyway who cares right, its only
words on a computer screen. It's not like its going to be around for all
time in reprint and what not. Second, thanks for the emails everyone, I
have had fun reading them, if I haven't gotten back to you, I will soon. I
hope, after I get a real nights sleep. Okay well on with why you all are
here. The Story, so enjoy.

Fear of the written word
Chapter three

By the time we get to my house it was about 3 in the morning. It took us
about an hour to get to my place. Which was crazy, normally that walk takes
like 15 minutes. But being that it was Friday night at 2 in the morning
when we walked through there, we got hit with all the collage students, bar
hoppers, club runners, and weekend party goers from Virginia. It was a mad
house to say the least. I didn't remember seeing all the bars there last
week. But then again I have been living in a self-pity party for a few
months now. Well getting back on track we made it to my house and Michelle
was showing AJ where he could sleep. While I got right on the phone with my
insurance company. I told them that I would meet a rep at my car tomorrow
around 9 in the morning. They knew Georgetown like I did; you try not to
travel in or around this city by car this late at night. Finishing up the
call I turn to the kitchen to get something to drink. About 3 feet from the
door I hear Michelle and AJ talking.

"Do you think they will hook up." Asked the one voice, it sounded like
Michelle's.

"It would be nice, Kevin has been on your asses for weeks now. His
boyfriend broke up with him about 6 months ago, so as you can guess he's
still moody about it."

"How long where they together. If you don't mind my asking." There was
silence before AJ started talking again.

"Nah I don't mind, but you can't tell anyone what we talk about
tonight. Okay."

"Yeah sure AJ.... Dave might be a lot of things but he is no snoop. As long
as I have known him, he has been a very sweet guy. A little weird but
really sweet, he can't hurt a fly with out feeling sorry for the bug. At
times it can be a real pain. But yet it shows that he cares you know. David
and myself or trust worthy, he won't tell what he found out tonight and
know that I won't either." I couldn't hear or see anything but in that
silence I knew volumes where spoken in body language. I start walking back
into the room.

"Hey guys, what you talking about?" I say walking over to the fridge for
something to drink.

"Oh nothing really." Replies Michelle.

"You don't have to hide what you're thinking from me. I can handle it, I
know your talking about Kevin and myself." I say looking back and forth
between the two of them. Stopping on AJ, I stare into his eyes and shake my
head. "AJ... I can say this; with out a shadow of fear or self-doubt, I
like Kevin. I like him a lot. I can dream... no I can envision him doing
things to my body that only 4 other men have done to me. Sexually, god he
is one, but I don't know him emotionally. You know, I don't know what makes
him tick and even though I would like to be one to learn this, all three of
us know that this wont happen. I won't write a article about what I know,
you can trust me on that." I turn and face Michelle now and finish my
speech. "I might be a reporter, but I'm a human being first. Now if I found
out that one of you guys slept with a 12 year old oh lord child I would all
over that story like white on rice. But you guys haven't.......  have you?"
he shakes his head no. "I though as much, anyway what Kevin choose to do
with his life is his business, sexually and non-sexually. And at that I'm
going to shut up cause I'm finally getting a headache." I say closing my
eyes and pinching the bridge of my nose.

"Dai... I have to say thank you for tonight. You know you didn't have to do
that. I could have taken the blame." Says AJ reaching over and taking one
of my hands. I start to laugh.

"Oh AJ yes I did. We both know, that if you got arrested you would be in so
much trouble. Besides now I can say you owe me and tell me how many people
do you know can say that a Backstreet Boy owes them." I say leaning back in
my chair and laughing.

"Anyway," he replies laughing, "But Dai really man thanks. As for me owing
you, lets just say that I owe you my lif..."

"Oh hold up you don't owe me anything, I was playing man. If you want to
owe me something, ill take just your friendship. That's all I ask, people
can never do with out to many friends, ya know." I say standing up out of
my chair. "Well kiddies, I'm off to bed I have to be up early to meet the
insurance rep down at my car. So after I leave you can figure out how to
get me and Kevin together and work out our little problem, okay." I say
smiling at them, then I walk out of the room.

"Do you think he heard us?" asks AJ.

"Oh he heard us. He heard everything that we talked about. That was his way
of telling us to get the two of them together in every sense of the word."
She says turning to AJ and smiling.

"Then lets do this, they both deserves some happiness in their lives." He
replies. They start to lie out a plan to get Kevin and myself together. As
I get to my room I just stand in my doorway and stare out at my room. If
this place could talk sometimes, I walk into my room and remove my
shirt. Now like I said before I'm no god but I'm also not that bad looking,
I can turn heads when I want to. Well I walk over to my bed and shed my
shoes, socks, and finally my pants. Falling back on my bed I look up at the
ceiling. Tracing the lines of the crown molding with my eyes. Soon I'm
asleep and dreaming.

The next morning, I'm awoken by this god awful beeping *BEEP, BEEP, BEEP,
BEEP* "Go away." I say pushing my alarm clock off the bedside
table. *SMASH* "Okay, okay I'm up." I say to myself sitting up in my bed
and looking around my room. "What time is it?" I yawn, scratching my chest
I look down at the clock on the floor. "Oh fuck I'm going to be late."
jumping off my bed and running towards my closet. "No time for a shower
right now D, you have to go." I say pulling on some sweats and a
sweatshirt, I grab a pair of socks and I'm out of my room and down the
stairs 2 or 3 steps at a time. Running to the front door, I hear someone
calling after me.

"Dai, where you off to?" I turn around and see AJ stare back at me; it
takes a second for me to register that there was a strange man standing in
my living room. Let alone a stranger in his boxers.

"Um, who are you?" I say looking at him.

"You're telling me that you already forgot about me... AJ?" the name
strikes something in my but I cant place it. "How about Kevin?" That name
visually shocked me. "I'm sorry David, I didn't mean to say his name I
ju..."

"Don't worry about it AJ, you didn't register in my head. I knew you; I
just couldn't place you. Now look I have to run down to my car so the
insurance rep can look at it. If Michelle wakes up before I get back, tell
her I'm out taking care of the car. If you guys want to go out to eat for
breakfast cell me okay. I have my cell phone, here's my number." I say
scratching it down on a piece of paper on the table next to the front door.

"Okay man, travel safely." He says smiling at me.

"Thanks see you later, peace." I say bolting out the door and jogging down
to my car. It was cold that morning so I was glad I decided on the
sweats. I wasn't much into sports at school, but don't get me wrong, I
liked some sports, like soccer, I love soccer. I have year round tickets to
DC United. All other sports are second to soccer. I can spend all day down
on the ?????????? playing in a pick-up game of soccer. I've even met some
of the guys from DC United playing there. Anyway as I get to my car I
noticed that I was early, so it's not all that bad.

I walk into the building that owned the parking lot that my car was being
held in. I start looking for the owner. "Can I talk to the owner please?" I
say to this Britney Spears look alike only this girl was nicer looking. She
goes off and gets the owner. Coming back a few minutes later with the owner
in tow. I tell the own what happened and why my car was in his lot. I told
him that most likely it will be there till Monday, cause my repair shop is
closed on the weekends so they can get caught up on work. He said it was
okay but the car has to be out of there no later then Tuesday. After I got
that handled I grabbed a drink out of their cooler and went to wait for the
insurance rep.

The woman from insurance company was right there at 9 like they said she
was going to be. "Hi, my name is Jeri. I'll be the representative handling
your case. Now I have a few questions for you. If you would follow me to my
office." With that we walk over to her jeep. Which was set up like an
office, the back had a computer in it with boxes of papers and a
printer. She got in the drivers' seat and hit something. Her chair spun
around and she was able to work on the computer back there. I'm thinking I
want this car. Well she takes my statement; I give her all the information
that the cop gave me, minus the detail about him trying to pick me
up. "Well that's it, you can stay here while I take some pictures of the
damage to the car for our records. I'll be right back." With that she ran
the report, grabbed a digital camera and was out of the car in a
flash. She's not gone 2 seconds and my cell starts to ring. I never look to
see who is calling me. I just answer; it has lead to some mighty
embarrassing phone calls.

"Captain Dave's seafood, you stake it we bake it. How may I direct your
call?" I say into the food. I hear nothing on the other end. "Um hello, who
are you looking for?"

"Um... you num nuts." Said AJ on the other end.

"Oh hey J, what you need man. Michelle tweaking your balls again." Again
silence, this boy has to get out more. "I'm playing AJ, breath man."

"I know your playing, I'm just not used to people talking to me like
that. Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah sure, always."

"How did you know she was tweaking my balls." It was my turn to be
silent. "Got you."

"Bitch." I say laughing. "Anyway what you want man?"

"Well Michelle is in the shower right now. I need one also, but"

"You don't have any thing to wear. Go look in my closet, we look to be
about the same size. If you need boxers, use the ones you have on. I don't
let strange men in my boxers."

"That's not what Michelle says."

"Oh fuck you. Go get something to wear after your shower, are we going out
to eat this morning?"

"Sure let's go my treat even."

"Cool if your paying I am there, with a bib on even." We laugh at that.

"Okay man I'm off to the shower, see you when you get back k."

"So'k, see you in a few man." We hang up. A few minutes later Jeri comes
back. "Welcome back."

"Thanks. Okay the damage doesn't look that bad. I looked inside the engine,
nothing in there looks broken or damaged. Mostly it all looks like body
work. So what I'm going to do is, call the body shop that, fixed your front
window, if that's okay with you," I shake my head yes. "They will also look
to see if there is any internal damage to the car, so now we have all the
bases covered. Now the fun part the signing of the paper work."

20 minutes later I was out of her car with my copies of the paper work and
heading home for a shower. It was 11 when I got back to my place. Miss
Winters what sitting out on her front steps again. "Hey baby, where's your
car?" She screams across the street to me. I start walking across the
street to talk to her. Reaching her front steps I sit down.

"I was in a accident last night on the way back from a car."

"Oh sugar are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm good.... I met someone last night."

"Really, where is he. Is he going to come over to lunch or dinner tonight?"
she says firing off 20 questions.

"He doesn't like me, cause of my job." Look down at my hands.

"Well then he isn't worth your time or troubles. No person should be judged
on what they do for a living." I snap my head up to look at her, not
hearing anything else I start to form a plan to talk to Kevin.

"Miss Winters, you are the best, better then all the rest. I have to run I
need to go have a talk with someone. I'll see you later." I say standing up
and running across the street to my place. Bolting threw the door I start
up the stairs not even saying hey to AJ or Michelle. Running back down the
stairs, I say hi to them and start talking a mile a minute. "Okay you 2, I
know you are planning of trying to get me and Kevin together. But I have
one thing to say, and AJ I want to try this out on you first. Is that
okay?" I say looking at him.

"Sure I guess, your not going to kiss me are you?" I laugh at him while he
smiles at me.

"Not unless you want me to."

"Nah that's okay?"

"Okay, cool then." I say walking around the room for a few minutes. "Okay
I'm going to be a real asshole for a few minutes, don't take all that I say
personally. Okay, I also know when I lay this on Kevin he is most likely
going to hate me more then, then he hates me now."

"Well start and we'll see if we can help." He replies sliding to the edge
of the couch.

"Okay this is what I'm thinking of doing." I lay down the basics of the
plan for them, "then when we meet again. I want this to be somewhere we can
yell at one another and not be bothered by anyone."

"Then why not at the hotel. You can use my room back at the hotel. We got
the whole floor to ourselves till the guys get here."

"Great, oh I have a question that's been on my mind all day today. But lets
handle that later okay." He shakes his head yes, "Now, you need to go and
take care of your end of things AJ."

"K, where's the phone?" he asked as I pointed to it sitting next to
him. "Cool." He screams as he jumps up and then sits down on the floor next
to the phone.

"Hey press the voice button after you pick up the phone." I ask him.

"Um okay," he says as he starts to dial a number, then he presses the
button "Hey Kevin" AJ said into the phone.

"AJ where the fuck are you?" Kevin's voice can be heard over the intercom.

"Woo, woo there man, I'm over David's house. Trying to do some ground
control, over here."

"So he is going to write a story about me."

"Is that a question or a statement? Cause if it's a statement, Kevin get
over yourself. If it's a question, the answer is no. He never was going to
write a story about you. You know Kevin sometimes; you are so freaking
conceited its not even funny. Here was a guy that really liked you. And I
don't mean liked the Backstreet Kevin. He saw you in line and was attracted
to you. Before he even knew about you man and I know I've been talking to
him for the last 12 hours. I've been trying to find some way to get the two
of you together, so you would see that this guy is great. Hell if I liked
men I would take him in instead of letting you have him. But I so like his
friend more." He says into the phone while smiling and staring at Michelle,
who mind you was blushing a lovely shade of scarlet.

"Is he in the room with you now?"

"No he isn't, he had to go handle the car crash that I got us in to last
night."

"Car crash are you okay? What happened?"

"I was driving, I was drunk. I was driving drunk in David's car. We crossed
an intersection, another drunk driver plowed into us. I don't know what
happened to that other driver. David shoved me into the back seat and took
any blame for the accident. The officer that took his report was flirting
up a storm with him. It was really bad man, but if it wasn't for that my
name might have been put in some paper. David was a really nice guy to me
last night. Even after one of my best friends was a complete asshole to
him."

"God.... I don't know what to say."

"Oh my god Kevin Richardson is speechless and no one is around to see
this. Damn it and me with out my tape recorder too." Replied AJ laughing
into the phone.

"Fuck you AJ."

"No that's the problem you're not getting fucked, so you're up all our
asses all the time. Kevin....... all the guys and I want is for you is to
be happy, you where happy with Rob. But he wasn't happy with you, David
here is a really nice guy, the least you can do is come out to dinner with
us tonight and see what happens okay."

"I'll think about it, okay."

"Good, that's all I for you to do is think about it. Now when he comes
back, I'm going to set up the dinner date minus the fact that you're going
to be there. Then I'm heading back to the hotel so we can hang out for the
day and I can tell you about him over lunch."

"Okay see you when you get back."

"K, talk to you later man. Peace." he replies hanging up and turns off the
speaker before Kevin can even say good bye. Turning around to face us he
has this big cheesy ass smile plastered on his face. "Man that went GREAT."
He screams jumping up and down.

"AJ chill, where are you planing on going to lunch?" asks Michelle.

To be continued.