Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:43:46 EST
From: Papito6187@aol.com
Subject: Rob & Lance 37_1/2

Yeah, I know.... twice in one week. Well, I just did some kick ass writing
in my book, so I thought I'd just post this little itty bitty chapter just
to hold you over to the next one. I'm not even gonna make it a whole one,
make this be 37 1/2. It's only like what.... four pages I think. So, just
cause I thought that this was good, I'm postin it. So, on with the
show..... well, commercial if you will.

"OW! You DO know that I'm still attached to that thing, right?!" I said
rubbing my arm.

"Shut up, I didn't pull you that hard!" JC said laughing.

"Anyways, let's just get to Lance!"

We entered Lance's room and saw him lying on his bed with his eyes
closed. As we entered further into the otherwise empty room, he opened his
eyes and turned his head towards the door. A huge smile grew on all of our
faces and I ran over to the bed and knelt beside him.

"Hi." He said as I took his hand and kissed it.

"Hi? Is that all you can say?" I said in mock hurt, "Just kidding! How are
you feeling?"

"Um... my stomach feels like it's bein crumbled like a piece of paper, my
head is pounding, and I'm a little dizzy, but other than that, I'm just
fine!"

"Sorry."

"Don't worry about it."

"I'm gonna go tell the others you're ok!" JC said about to exit the room.

"Oh, Josh! I didn't even see you standing there. Wait, before you go out
there, come here." JC made his way over to the bed. "How did the show go?"

"Lance, let's not even talk about that."

"What happened?"

"Lance.."

"Josh, tell me."

"Well. we sucked, the fans were disappointed and worried, management was
having a fit, and we were an emotional wreck!"

"All in all, a good show huh?" Lance said attempting to laugh, but causing
some pain.

"Yeah.."

"Try not to move babe." I said.

"I'm gonna go update everybody. I'll be back."

"Josh..." Lance said.

"Yeah?"

"Thank you!" He said grabbing his hand and kissing it.

JC's eyes got a little watery, he bent over, hugged Lance and said,

"Don't you EVER scare us like that again!"

"Yes sir!" Lance replied patting JC on the back.

As JC exited the room, tears were now streaming down his cheeks. I watched
as he turned the corner and went back to the waiting room. When I brought
my attention back to Lance, he had tears flowing down his face too.

"I swear, I was scared that I wasn't going to make it!"

"What are you talking about?" I said.

"I dunno, I was just so scared!"

"Baby, listen to me. Even if you are sick and in the hospital, you aren't
going to die!"

"I know. It's just that.... the last time I was in a hospital was..."

"Was when?"

"Lance! Thank god!" Justin said storming into the room.

"H..hey Just!" Lance said wiping his eyes, trying to hide all trace of his
tears.

"Oh my god, we were so worried about you! I almost lost it on stage!"
Justin said hugging Lance.

"It's ok Curly, I'm still here!"

"Don't ever scare me like that again!"

"I won't.. Um... Justin?"

"Yeah?"

"You're kinda hurting me!"

"OH... oh my god! I'm. I'm so sorry!" Justin said letting go of Lance.

"It's ok.." Lance groaned as I sat there laughing.

"I'm just... I'm.. sorry.."

"It's ok Just."

"How are you feeling?"

"Like shit!"

"Smells like it too!" Chris said entering the room.

"No, I believe that stench is coming from you!" Joey said behind him.

"Hey guys!" Lance said as they entered.

"Hey yourself! How you hanging in there?" Chris asked.

"Eh... I'll live."

"You had us worried for a minute!" Joey said.

"Yeah, we need our albino!" Chris said causing Lance to chuckle.

"Ow!" Lance said grabbing his stomach.

"You ok?" We all asked.

"Yeah, just a little pain."

"My parents are on the way, and so is Lynn and Paul." Joey said.

"So are yours." I said.

"Whose?" Lance asked.

"Your parents are flying down."

"What? Why? Who told them?"

"I did."

"Why are they coming down?"

"Because you're in the hospital?!" Justin said.

"But they don't need to fly all the way down here!"

"Just calm down and accept it! They're on their way. There's nothing you
can do now.  And besides, you don't want to see them?" I said.

"No, it's not that."

"Then?"

"I... I just... I wanted them to meet you under better circumstances! After
what happened with my mom, I wanted you meeting my dad and Stacy to be
special!"

"I think this is our cue to leave these two alone." Joey said.

"Yup, I think Joey's right." Chris agreed, "Come on Justin, we'll come back
in a little while."

"Yeah, I'll be right there." Justin said.

"Guys, don't go." Lance said.

"We gotta let you two discuss this, we'd just get in the way."

"It's ok, really." I said.

"No, we'll be back. I'll see you in a little while."

"Ok, well, just tell the others to come in when they're ready." Lance said.

As they left, Lance said,

"It worked, they're gone!"

"Huh?" I asked confusedly.

"Come here and kiss me!"

"Not until you tell me about the last time you were in the hospital."

"Not the last time I was in the hospital, the last time I was in a hospital
period."

"Was when?"

"Well, we were doing this charity event thing in Europe where we visited
kids that had Cancer, or AIDS, and stuff like that."

"Yeah."

"And there was this one girl who I was visiting in her room, she
specifically asked for me.  So, I went in there and she was so happy to see
me. While I was visiting with her, she started to get a coughing attack, I
called a nurse in and she said that she'd be ok, and that it was nothing to
worry about. When she left, Karen, that was the girl's name, just got
worse. She started to grab her chest and was heaving in and out. I panicked
and called the nurse again, and right before the nurse came in, Karen's
heart monitor flat lined. They got me out of there, but I watched through
the window in the door. They tried to resuscitate her, but they
couldn't. She died right there."

"Oh my god." I said with my hand up against my chest.

"I was just thinking about that, and what if it happened to me." He said
the tears returning to his eyes.

"Lance, baby... it's ok. It wasn't your fault, and it's not going to happen
to you!" I said standing up to hug him.

I gave him a small kiss and it calmed him down. He wrapped his arms around
me and said,

"I'm so sorry I scared you like that!"

"Shhh... it's ok, it's not your fault."

"No, you were right, I should've seen another doctor! None of this would've
happened if I hadn't been so stubborn and just listened to you!"

"Don't worry about it sweetie, what's done is done. I'm just glad that
you're ok."

"I love you!"

"I love you too! Now try and get some rest babe. I'm gonna go and find out
if you're going to be able to go home tonight."

"Ok."

"Try and get some sleep."

"Ok."

I started for the door and felt some tears well up in my eyes. Once outside
of the room, I closed the door, leaned up against the wall and started to
cry. I put my hands up over my eyes and slid down the wall and was now
sitting on the floor. I must have been there for five minutes when I heard
someone say,

"Rob? What's wrong?"

I looked up and through my watery eyes, I saw Josh standing there with a
concerned look on his face. He placed his hands on my arms and helped me
stand up.

"What's wrong? Did anything happen to Lance?"

"N.. No.. H.. He's fine." I said.

"Then what's wrong?"

"I.. I was just SO scared that I was going to lose him!"

Josh was speechless, he didn't know what to do, so he did the first thing
that came to mine. He grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled me into a
hug. I cried on his shoulder and he just stood there trying to console me.

"Shhh... it's ok... He's fine now. That's all that matters!" He said
rubbing and patting my back.

"Yeah... you're right." I said standing up now, releasing from the
embrace. "I need to relax and just try and think about something else."

"Yeah, just try and calm down. Everything's going to be ok!"

"They're keeping him overnight right?"

"Yeah. They wanna see how he reacts to the new medication."

"Ok, then, I better get a comfy spot in his room and in the waiting room."

"Not now... right now, you need to get your mind off of things. Come on,
let's go to the cafeteria and get some coffee or something."

"K, let's just tell the others that we're goin, just in case they need us."

"Good idea."

After telling everybody that we were going to the cafeteria, we went
upstairs. Once we got a couple of cups of coffee and a few donuts, we got a
table and sat down.

"Oh, I've been working on a track for that break up song we wrote." I said
taking a sip of my coffee.

"Word? When did you have time to do that?"

"Well, while you guys are still on stage, I have my laptop hooked up to one
of the keyboards that I asked to bring along with me. When I waited for you
guys back stage, I worked on it. Well, between that and chillen with my
dancers and singers."

"You gotta play it for me."

"I will. Once all this blows over."

"Have you come up with the hook yet?"

"Yeah. It sounded a little corny at first, but I put some words that I
wrote after my whole ordeal with Ex-Bitch. Stuff that I wish I'd said or
done. I came up with a title for it too."

"What is it?"

"Well, at first I was thinking, `Ain't no lie', but then I was like,
Nah. So, after a couple of hours, I came up with the new name."

"Which is."

"Bye, bye, bye."

"Ok.."

"Trust me, it goes good with it. Once you see the words I've added."

"What are they?"

"Well, you know how we were stuck on what to do after the point two?"

[NOTE: The point two of a song is what comes between the verse and the
hook, for example, in... Tearin up my heart, the point two is "Let it go,
if you want me girl let me know, I am down, on my knees, I can't take it
anymore", it's the repeating line that connects the verse to the hook. Now
that you've learned somethin, on with your regularly scheduled reading.}

"Yeah, we needed to come up with the hook."

"Yeah, so I was thinking, what is the song about? It's about saying goodbye
to your current girlfriend and basically sayin, `Bitch, get the fuck out of
my life and don't you ever come back!' So, I came up with the hook."

"Ok! Can you just sing it, so I know how it goes?!" Josh said laughing.

"Ok, ok, ok.. Calm down man! It goes like this, well, I'm gonna start from
the point two.  So here it goes:

I know that I can't take no more, it ain't no lie. I wanna see you out that
door, baby bye
					bye bye.  Don't wanna be a fool for
you, just another player in your game for two. You may hate me but it ain't
no lie, baby bye bye bye. Don't really wanna make it tough. I just wanna
tell you that I've had enough. Might sound crazy, but it ain't no lie, baby
bye bye bye.  So, whatta yah think?"

"That is hot! You know you gotta produce it now, when we go and record it,
right?"

"Oh, of course! You just clear it wit your boys, and I'll clear it wit
mine!"

"I'll have my people call your people!"

We both started to laugh, when Justin came in and interrupted us.

"Hey Curly, what's up?" JC asked.

"Jim, Diane and Stacy are here." Justin said.

"When'd they get here?"

"Just like two seconds ago. I came to get you, cause. well.. you know.."

"Yeah, thanks. We'll be right down, let me just finish my coffee." I said.

"Ok, I'll tell them you're on your way."

"Thanks Jus!"

"No prob Rob!"

"Dumb ass!"

"So, you ready to meet them?" JC asked once Justin was out of sight.

"As ready as I'll ever be."

"Well, at least you've already met Diane."

"Yeah, but it's Jim that I'm worried about. Stacy I know she'll like me,
Lance told me already that she really wants to meet me."

"What about Jim?"

"Well, he wants to meet me too, but considering I'm his son's FIRST
boyfriend, and Lance IS his only son.."

"Yeah... I see where you're coming from."

"So, I'm a little nervous, but.. I gotta go and do it."

"Don't worry, I'll be safely 10 feet behind you."

"Oh, gee thanks!"

"You know I'm jus fuckin wit yah! Of course I'll be there.. I'll just make
sure I move before I get caught in the crossfire!"

"Oh, that's it! I'm SO gonna kick your ass now!"

JC got up from the table and ran for the elevator. I chased him and when I
got to the doors, I punched him a few times in his arm. We were laughing
the whole way down to Lance's room. Once we were outside, I calmed myself
down and said,

"Ok, before we go in there, I just wanna say this."

"What?"

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"For helping me deal. I'd probably be crying a river somewhere drowning in
my fear and sorrows if it hadn't been for you."

"Hey, that would make a good line in a song!"

"You can have it."

"Thanks!" He said pulling out a tape recorder he had in his pocket and
saying the line into it.

"Ok, that was... weird."

"Ask me to explain later. You've got a family to meet!"


TBC...

Ok, so I stand corrected, it's 8 pages.. no wait.. 9.. Anyways, so, the
cliff hangers return!! BWOOO WOOO WAAA AAHHH HAAA HAA HAAA!!!! So, next up,
the big meeting. Will Jim kill Rob? Will Lance die? Will Justin ever come
out to his dad? Will Joey ever put out that eternal flame on his head? Will
Chris.. will Chris... will Chris do something? Will JC stay in Rob's
corner? All these answers and more on the next issue of Rob and Lance! Same
R&L web page, same R&L archive! Oh, by the way, feel free to email my crazy
ass at Papito6187@aol.com I love getting fan mail! BYE BYE BYE!! He he
he... sorry, I'm a little hyper.