Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:22:35 CST
From: Mystic Darkness <mysticdarkness13@hotmail.com>
Subject: Kissing Me Softly

Disclaimer: This is a fictional story and there is no way
that this story is true... I wish it was but it isn't.  This
story does not mean anything about The Backstreet Boys or
anyone else that will be mentioned in this story.


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Kissing Me Softly
by Rich


	WHAM!!! There I lay on the mat at my local Martial
Arts School looking up at my best friend Jenne.  We had been
practicing self defense techniques and I was getting a little
slow on all of the mind work I was supposed to be doing.
	"Rich, are you okay?" she asked with concern.
	I love how she always has that cute concerning
otherly type to her.
	"Yeah I'm fine Jen, just of in my own world," I
replied.
	"Oh okay," she replied.
	Just after that the instructor ended class and we did
all the final stuff to end the class correctly we exited out
of the class and I nearly ran into a chair in the main lobby.
	"Rich!" Jenne exclaimed to try to grab my attention
of what I was doing, as she ran to catch up with me.
	"Wha... oh thanks Jen"
	"What's up with you?  You've been acting strange for
the past week or so."
	"Don't worry about it Jen, I'm just in really deep
thoughts kind of."
	"Oh, deep thoughts about... him?" she said as she was
referencing to my last boyfriend, Mike, who I had broken up
with just about a week ago.
	"Yeah, partially, but that's behind us now.  I need
to get on with my life, he was a shit head anyways, how about
we do something tomorrow.  I mean its Saturday, and I really
need to lose all common sense and just act crazy and have
some fun"
	"Oh okay cool, how about we go catch a bite to eat at
that sushi you like so much, after we change and everything,
then we can just think about what we could do tomorrow."
	"Cool" I said as I headed off to the men's changing
room.

			***

	When I got out of the dressing room she was waiting
at the counter for me.  I walked up to her and she smiled at
me.  "Ready?" I asked.
	"Yeah I am, but are you, I mean did you find your
longer attention span in that locker room or am I going to
have to talk to an easily distracted face like I did in
class?"
	"Hey... wait... you talked to me in class?"
	She laughed lightly, "Well no shit, I was talking to
you though the whole class, my god you really do need a
break" she said as she messed up my nose length black hair.
	I just smiled and we walked out to my blazer.  We
jumped in it and I started up the car and we were off.  In a
few more minutes we had arrived in to the oriental restaurant
that I loved.  It was one of those ones where they cooked in
front of you, had a sushi bar, and a regular dining area.  We
were quickly seated and we got into the usual best friend
convo:  school (high school senior year! thank god!!!), what
stupid things we and friends did the past week, and then the
wonderful topic of guys that I really wasn't in the mood for.
I just had that glum face on my mind and she just realized
what I was thinking about.
	"Rich I'm sorry. I ..." she apologized.
	"No its okay, I keep saying I need to get over him,
and its not getting me anywhere if I never decide to talk
about other guys.  So where were we, you were talking about
that guy Chris in our Calc class? Well I'm sorry Jenne but
he's a hottie, so therefore you might just have a little
competition from yours truly" I said.
	She smiled, "Oh yeah well we'll see about that!"
	"Oh and what about YOUR Drew Lachey? What will he
ever do when he finds out that you don't care about him any
more" I teased.
	She glared at me "ooooohhh, you're gonna get it you
know.  And besides Its not my fault you don't totally go for
the whole pop scene."
	"Yeah Jenne, does it surprise you that you know a gay
male who doesn't go head over Nick Carter, or Justin
Timberlake?  Hello, just because I'm gay, doesn't mean I'm
gonna automatically love every boy group out there. I do have
to say that a few of them have kind of cute members but I
don't know!"  I stated
	"Hey what's wrong with Justin?" she defended another
one of her crushes.
	"Wha ya mean, my girl, Ya wan ta know wha id wrong
wid Justin?" I mocked in my best fake ghetto talk.
	"You're evil" she said.
	"Yeah I know" I replied.  Jenne laughed a bit
	By that time the food came and we began to eat.
	I guess its about the dreadful time I tell you about
myself.  I am 18, a little bit over 5' 10" tall, 175 pounds,
have black hair, and dark brown eyes.  I am in pretty good
shape because of martial arts.  I'm not the peppiest person
in the world.  I guess I kind of lean towards the skater side
of things, but I can clean up very well everyone says.  I am
more on the pessimistic side, but can be optimistic when I am
around friends.

	"So... what do you want to do tomorrow?" Jenne said
after a few minutes of silence that I could  tell she couldn't stand.
	"How about we call up Nicole, Laura, and Kathrine,
and go ummm?" I trailed off from the lack  of ideas.
	"Ummm I don't know either... could we call up someone
and see where they might want to go?" she asked.
	"Sure," I replied while grabbing my cell phone out of
my pocket (yeah I'm kinda on the wealthy side of things).
	I punched in Nicole's number to see if she was busy,
if she wanted to do anything, and if she had  any ideas.

	"Hello?" Nicole answered the phone.
	"Hey Blonde! What's up!"
	"Nothing much, what about you?"
	"Trying to gather up people for going out tomorrow
and trying to find some ideas.  What ya doing?  Got any
Ideas?"
	"I'm not doing anything.  Umm, how about the mall, or
we could always go to the hotel the BSB are hiding out at...
and I could finally meet them, and Jenne could just drop her
jaw and try to hit on every one of them!"
	"Heh heh, oh yeah that's right they're in town for
Sunday's show.  I should have remember with Jen's teeny
bopper rambling.  Maybe we should just go to the mall, and
the theaters?"
	"Oh okay cool, I'll call Joe up, and then well see
you when?"
	"I want to spend the whole day and night out, how
about we meet at my house at noon, eat lunch,  and then head
out whenever we choose?"
	"Kay," she said "c-ya then."
	"all right," I said "see ya tomorrow then, bye"
	"Bye"
	Click, "Alright Jen, I guess were just gonna have
lunch at my house, and then go from there"
	"Cool, so do you think we should be heading back to
your place now?"
	"Okay"
	We jumped into my black blazer again and headed off
back to my house.  On the Ride home  Jenne called up Laura
and Kathrine, and found both of them could go.  After she
finished calling everyone  we talked for the remaining 5
minutes about what movie we were going to see.  I said I
wanted to go see 'Sleepy Hallow', and we agreed on that.
	I pulled up in the driveway, and walked to my house.
I was lucky and unlucky when it came to the house I lived
in.  It was a big house, 8 bedrooms, 5 baths, nice big living
rooms, 2 dining rooms, a beautiful kitchen, a library, and a
computer room.  All of this and a 1 1/2 acre back yard, with
pool, gardens, and a b-ball hoop.  What's wrong with all of
this? The fact that Its mine, due to a will.  Yeah a will, my
mom passed away when she was trying to give birth to my
sister but she passed away, and my sister passed away at the
age of 3 weeks.  And my dad passed away last year because of
a drunkard and a car accident.
	Well anyways, I parked the car into the garage, and
me and Jenne walked up to the front door.  I unlocked and we
walked in, and Ona the maid (well actually more like a second
mother to me) greeted us and right behind her was Silver my
baby Eskimo puppy.  Ona raised me when ever since my mother
passed away.  She's kind of short, with gray hair and a sweet
personality.

	"Hello Richie," she said using my childhood name.
	"Hello Ona," I replied, "How have you been?"
	"Just good, and I finished cleaning the house"
	"ONA! how many times do I have to tell you! TAKE A
BREAK!"
	She just smiled in a response.
	"Well, were going to leave you alone now and go be
bored or something like that, maybe go check out some
internet sites or something"
	"Okay," Ona replied, and kissed leaned up to give me
kiss on the cheek.

	We walked up the stairs, and we decided to jump
on-line.  I decided to try my luck out with the  chats and
when nothing was happening I let Jenne get on.  Then her
fingers just decided to put the phrases 'boy groups', '98
degrees', 'Nsync', and 'Backstreet Boys'.  With that, I just
left and decided to take a quick shower and then just go to
sleep.
	Jen has lived with me ever since I was 18 (about 4
months), because her parents decided to move to Florida
because of her father's job offer.  So her parents just let
her live with me because they knew that she was going to go
off to college sometime soon.

		~*~The Next Morning~*~

	I woke up with that groggy dry mouth feeling.  It was
10:30 a.m. at the time, so I jumped into the shower and dried
off.  Grabbed a simple pair of baggy jeans and a black
tee-shirt, threw them on and went out to go see where Jen
might be.  I found her in the Kitchen with a cup of coffee in
her hands.  It was about 11:15 by then.
	"Hey, ready for today?" she asked with a yawn.
	"Yep!! woa, did that sound to peppy???"
	"Um kinda, but ya should be, were gonna go kick some
ass at the mall!"
	"Yeah I know" I said as I grabbed a mug and made some
herbal tea. "They should be getting here  sometime soon
anyways"
	"Uh huh, and you and your herbals its kinda funny how
often I see you with them."
	I just rolled my eyes and we went off to the living
room.  We talked a bit and watched some MTV, while she
drooled over some boy group members as usual.  I got up to
grab a muffin that I had bought the other day when the
doorbell rang.  I went to answer it and Laura had showed up
early.  Laura is one of my best friends.
	"Hey sexy, how have you been" she said as she gave me
a kiss on my cheek.
	"Fine thanks for asking.  Are you always early???"
	"Hey its a habit."
	With that we talked again until Nicole and Kathrine
came in.  Nicole is a beautiful blonde and very intelligent
person whom you could always have an in depth conversation
with. And Kat, she's also very beautiful with that exotic
since to her (I think it's the black hair she has) very
unique with her sense of style and has that abstract way of
thinking I love to hear about.  We started to talk about the
days plans.  We decided to go to the Galeria, and go to the 1
o'clock showing of 'Sleepy Hallow.'  We all decided to take
two cars because Nicole wanted to do some heavy shopping with
the money she got from her parents (she was still 17, and the
youngest).  We took two cars and were off to the mall.  We
found parking places easily and we were off.  we arrived at
about 12:30 p.m. and decided to go grab tickets for
the show and just check out the CD store right near the
theater.  I bought 311's new CD and Laura grabbed the new
Creed one.  We decided to go into the theaters then.
	The movie was good, but we did get hushed at because
we kept on talking, its more fun that way in our opinion.
	We walked out of the theater and decided to go
outside for some fresh air and get away from that closed in
musty feeling of the theaters.
	Laura bought a Coke from one of the near by vending
machines and we decided to just walk around a bit before
going back in.  The mall here is under some reconstruction,
so there is this one area where there is dirt and beams all
over the place.  Being the outcasts that we are we decided to
hang out there for a bit.
	Just then we heard some people yelling and some
defending going on.  We got up and walked to where we thought
the sounds were coming from.  The first thing I saw was 8
people, 5 dressed mainly in the same dark black clothing who
seemed to be confronting these three, who dressed khakis and
some nicer clothes they were preppy I guess, with hats and
two in sunglasses.  Just then I heard a guy from one of five
say something about the three 'getting what they deserve'
just as he pulled out a 7 inch knife.
	Oh shit, was the only thing I could think of.  I told
Kathrine and Nicole to go get some help.  I told Laura to
stay back just in case, and Jenne to just follow my lead.
She knew exactly what I was thinking.  Finally I would be
able to use some  of the things I have learned in the 7 years
of study at my martial arts school.
	With that Jenne and I quickly snuck up behind the guy
in the over coat with the knife who was moving from one guy
to the other, and to the other.  With that three of the five
others grabbed the three guys in the kinda preppy clothes.
The fifth guy, the smallest out of the five just stood by.
'Well its now or never' was the thing that popped into my
head, yeah its cliché but oh well.
	With that Jen and I got up and she went after the
extra guy standing by.  I kicked the knife out the one guys
hand and Jen moved in on the short guy who swung a punch at
her.  Her being the excellent ass kicker she is dodged the
punch and roundhouse kicked him in the stomach making him
bend over.   With that she rose her leg up and slammed it
down on the guys back making him fall flat on his face in
pain.  The guy who had the knife had thrown a few punches at
me and I just got away from.  He threw another and I blocked
and grabbed it and swung my leg up to his head hooking it
bringing it straight across his face and recoiling the kick
hitting him once again, and making him fall to the ground.
	The other 3 began to just take the matters into their
hands as best as they could starting to attack the preppy
three.  They must have been tired from a previously struggle
or something because they weren't doing that good of a job.
I couldn't stand that fact and did a really mean thing, low
blow to the one in the overcoat. That made  him bend over in
extreme pain.
	Jenne and I both got into the other three's way.  I
took on two and she took the third.  The three guys in preppy
clothes just dropped down in exhaustion.  Laura came to help
those three and got them out of the area of ass kicking.
	Jenne was easily taking on her guy using the many
self defense throws we learned the other night and follow up
kicks and punches.
	One of the other three grabbed me behind and I used
my flexibility and kicked him with my knee bring my leg
straight up and slam into the head of the ignorant attacker.
He instantly let go and I did a few more kicks to get him
down.  The final guy came after me and I did a simple rising
mule kick and slammed my heal into the guys chin knocking him
out.
	Over this time the guy in the overcoat had been able
to get up and then walk towards me.  The dagger raised high
and ready to  Strike.
	"RICH!!!" Laura screamed foreseeing the chances of me
getting stabbed.
	Just then Jen came through with a flying side kick
and knocked the guy out just before the leader  had the knife
slice up my back knocking him out cold.
	"Thanks," I gasped pretty breathless.
	"No prob," She gasped a bit and smiled.
	Finally the security had came with Kat and Nicole.
The three other girls talked with Jenne for a bit.  I was
told to stand and we moved over towards an unfinished
concrete wall.  I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned
around with a spinning backfist.  The problem was that it was
one of the three preppier ones.
	"OH SHIT!!!" I exclaimed, "I'm so sorry."
	"Its okay I shouldn't have confronted you so fast and
when you were uptight," he said as he had his hand over the
place where I had struck him.
	"Oh fuck, I'm sorry, here let me see."
	He put his hand down and let me look at where I had
hit him.  I couldn't get a full view of the area so I removed
his hat and sunglasses. I examined his wounded area.  I just
simply told him it may or may not turn into a bruise, I
didn't really connect that well for a positive side of the
thing.  I stepped back and I looked at the guy for once.  He
was taller than me, nice body pretty muscular, nice eyes, all
around hottie.  He looked very familiar to me.
	"Well, I just want to thank you for helping us," he
said, "you really did save us out there."
	"Yeah, you really kicked some ass out there," another
said this one about my height with more unique style to him,
"that was some funky shit."
	I blushed a bit, "Thanks.  My names Rich" I replied
placing out my hand.
	"Hi I'm Kevin" the tallest one said returning the
handshake.
	"Holy shit," I said not to gain any attention,
"you're Kevin from the Backstreet Boys aren't you???"
	It was his turn to blush "Yeah" was all he said.
	"Jenne and Laura love you pplz... all I hear out of
Laura's mouth is that Howie and AJ is so cute and he's so
nice which I'm guessing is you" I stated pointing to the
other two.  They just nodded in reply and took off their
hats, each exchanging a hand shake with me and, leaving AJ in
his sunglasses "...And Jenne never shuts up about you Kevin."
	"Thanks." they all said some way or another.
	"Oh but they aren't nothing compared to me, I want to
marry one of you and have your baby!!!" I said mocking some
teeny bopper.
	They all just laughed. "Hey can we meet the other
ones of your friends?" AJ asked.
	"No they're mine. I forbid you to walk over to the
group of girls and to stir up conversation" I said while
rolling my eyes and turning around towards the girls.
	They went over to the girls and Laura, Jen, and
Nicole went totally "OH MY GOD" psycho type on them while
Kathryn came over to me for she really didn't have much of a
thing for the Backstreet Boys.  After the meet and greet
thing we talked with the guys a bit.
	"Hey what are you 5 doing today?" Kevin asked.
	"We were going to spend time at the mall... but the
fact that I look like shit now I don't know. Why?" I replied.
	"Oh just the fact that I would like to repay you for
saving us from getting our butts kicked,"  Howie said
speaking up.
	"It was not much of anything" Jenne said nearly
melting into a puddle now
	"Oh come on, please let us show our thanks,"
continued Howie
	"My god you both are so stubborn," Kat cut in, "How
about you guys just come over to Rich's house and we can just
relax, and maybe go out for dinner"
	"Okay," we all said.
	With that we headed off to my blazer and Kat's car.
Kat gave Nicole the keys to drive.  Nicole unlocked the car
as did I with my blazer and Kev and Howie rode with Jenne and
me while AJ rode with Nicole, Kat, and Laura.  Just before I
got into the drivers seat.
	"So Rich, which one do ya like?" She snickered as she
just jumped into the car, avoiding me from shoving her.
	I grinned at her little perverted ways of getting into
my social life.  God what would I do without her?

To Be Continued....

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