November 30 1995 Orlando, Florida
NICKs POV
Me, the boys and Sage were all, once again. in the living room doing nothing, it was Sage's birthday recently and we went for have lunch out, all of us together: Me, Brian, Howie, AJ, Kevin and sage herself, we kept the people limited to us since Sage didn't want anything extravagant.
Me and sage were just talking when we heard the doorbell ring "NOT ME" we all yell, Kevin just sighs and rolls his eyes as he goes to get it, Kevin then comes back with the guy. Oh it was Lou, great more work!
"Ok so the management was planning that because your single did well in Europe, hitting top 5 in the Eurocharts, we were thinking to do a Europe tour, planned date will be on December 23. As for you, sage, you will also be touring. The tour won't be continuous but there will be breaks in between if we want to achieve this though, we will need to rehearse more." Lou announces.
"im sorry what" My eyes widen "We've got the date all set and all you guys need to do is sign here that you will be able to do it" Lou hand us a paper.
"wait what about sage? Are we touring together or.." I trail off "we can't tour together it will be too much chaos so you guys will be having different venues" Lou replies.
"What! No! What the fuck do you mean chaos, we'll be alright we're handling well right now!" I fight back "Nick you guys can meet when we have breaks, our breaks will be a month long break in between, and you guys can still call!" Lou states firmly
"but thats way too long I don't understand why we can't just tour together!" I raise my voice "Nick, it will be too much effort. Look at it this way, concerts are usually at night when everyone is finished with work and school, if you and sage are in the same venue then how will you both be able to perform? Your concert will most likely end at 11, how will that work for sage huh?" Lou retorts.
"C'mon Nick he's right. Look sage can visit and we can visit her on break alright?" Kevin spoke up "Whatever" I roll my eyes. We all sign and I can tell sage seems upset about the situation too, nevertheless she goes to sign her paper and after we're all signed for our concerts.
"we will start practice today, I'll have someone pick you up at.." Lou pauses to check his watch "2:30, get ready and put on proper clothes, Sage put some makeup on and also please help the boys with their makeup we will be having practice at the warehouse" Lou continues "I'll meet you there" Then he just leaves.
"oh my god I hate the warehouse" I complained as I threw my head back "don't we all" Sage sighs as she gets up and stretches "come on we need to get ready, hurry up" Howie claps his hand twice to get everyones attention.
The warehouse was fucking hell. We would perform in the non air conditioned place for 2-3 hours straight, dancing and singing with not much breaks. The most we had was about six 5 minute breaks.
We would be all stinky and sweaty after, thankfully though there was a bathroom there so we could shower right after.
Sage goes to put some makeup on me after I get dressed and goes to put on everyone else before herself. I liked that about sage she always puts other people before herself although sometimes it could get too much and she'd forget about herself.
"Guys hurry up! Stephen is here!" Kevin shouts from he staircase, Stephen was our driver he'd drive us to the places we needed to be.
In the past 3 months nothing much has happened. Sage did have another pregnancy shock, but it was false again, thank god. We had recorded a few more songs and so did Sage, we were preparing for an album release next year May.
Sage had also been recording a lot, she's been writing and strumming on her guitar day and night it was starting to stress me out how she'd barely get any sleep now. Her bags were starting to show under her eyes but she always replies with it'll all be for a good cause.
Sage was almost finished recording her album she was about halfway, and would be scheduled to release her album on March.
"Come on" Sage nudged me since I spaced out "ughh I'm too lazy to be doing this" I dragged myself off the bed "come on nick, it'll all be worth it at the end" Sage dragged me.
Finally we arrived at the warehouse, it was extremely hot already and I just got in "Oh my god I am sweating and its so hot" AJ goes to fan himself with his hands "we know" Brian responds.
First was us to practice then it would be sage, it was kinda not fair on sage's side since she'd already be sweating by the time she started but she said she didn't really mind.
November 30 1995 Orlando, Florida
SAGEs POV
The boys were now on their 5th song and almost finished, they had to perform all 12 songs and then it'd be my turn "hey sage could you go get some McDonalds for after" Lou requests "Oh yea sure ok" Lou hands me the money and I make my way to McDonalds.
I go and order and wait on the side for my order to be ready, I got take out so once I'm called I just need to get the bag and go back to the warehouse. As I was waiting I felt someone tap my shoulder.
"Sage?" I turn around and I see KJ "KJ? Oh my god I haven't seen you in so long!" I go to hug him.
KJ or Keaton Jackson was a childhood friend of mine, he was 2 years older than me and was my brothers friend he'd come over my house a lot to hang with my brother.
"Whats up, I haven't been able to talk to you for quite a while Lil' D" KJ laughs. Lil D was something he liked to call me, my brothers name was Dean and KJ said I reminded him a lot of my brother hence the name Lil D.
"I don't know been recording and shit quite tiring honestly" I shrug "Oh she curses, your brother will not like that" He jokes "simple, don't tell him" I laugh.
"Sage!" I hear someone call out "oh my foods there, call me! Lets hang our soon, I'll tell you when I can hang out with you, kinda busy so we'll need to plan in advance" I tell him "'aight, see you around lil d" He nudges me as he leaves.
I go to get my food and go back to the warehouse, I put the food on the table and see the boys were on break "what took you so long" Nick asks as he snakes an arm around my waist while drinking his water.
"Nick! You're sweaty! Get off me" I giggle "sorry" He smiles cheekily "I saw my brothers friend, I hadn't seen him in quite a while so" I shrug "Oh.. whats his name?"
"KJ, keaton Jackson" I reply "what a lam and stupid name" Nick remarks "Nick! he's just a friend alright? We should hang out together, it'll be fun I'm sure you guys would get along well" I suggest "sure" Nick mindlessly shrugs.
"Alright boys! Back to your places 5 minutes is up" Chris, the guy helping with practice reminds "Later" Nick goes to peck my cheek.
After the boys, Lou calls for me and I go to perform. With my background of 8 years of ballet, gymnastics and hip hop my choreography was a bit more complicated since I could handle more and my stamina was already naturally a little higher.
I got tired of course but a little less then the boys since there were some performances where I was sitting and strumming on my guitar. I have to give it to the boys they were really good at dancing.
"you dancing turned me the fuck on" Nick whispered in my ear in a deep voice when I had break making my whole face turn into a tomato and choke on my water making nick just chuckle.
"Nick come on quit whispering dirty things to sage, look at her she's about to die" Howie jokes I just roll my eyes and flip him of "sage" Lou warns sternly "sorry sir" I salute "s'alright"
After practice we go to get dinner together, all of us eating like hungry lions especially after our practice. Knowing we'd be doing this way more in the next month made me throw my head back.
"whats up" Nick asks seeing me look a little stressed out "nothing just the though of us doing this for the next month and more stuff" I shrug "its fine we can do it" Nick encourages as he pecks my cheek.
"stop with the PDA, please" Kevin shudders in 'disgust' "shut up mr. divorce cowboy" Nick jokes. The guys and I keep joking Kevin about being divorced since he was the eldest and didn't have a girlfriend.
"ha ha very funny" Kevin rolls his eyes "gotta admit it is funny" AJ joins in "mhm definitely " Kevin replies with no emotion as he continues to eat.
"Hey ke-" I go to ask Kevin something to start a random conversation when my phone starts ringing "holdup" I take my phone and go to answer the call "hey this is sage, how can I help?" I answer.
"who the fuck answers their phone like that" Brian blurts out making me shove my index finger on his mouth to shut him up, Brian doesn't say anything and instead just slaps my hand away.
"exactly" the voice on the phone responds referring to what Brian said as they laugh "KJ! wassup" I exclaim
"KJ?" AJ raises a brow I just ignore him and excuse myself from the table to avoid disrupting the guys conversations.
"Sorry wait.." I pause and go out the restaurant since it was quite loud inside "alright hey again, oh actually why are you in Florida?" I question. Again, we lived in the same state which was in New York, which is why I was surprised he was here, he was 17 so supposedly he still had school.
"Oh I dropped out of school and moved here" He replies nonchalantly "im- what?! And my brother didn't tell me" I gawked as my mouth opened in surprise.
"yea I was invited for an acting career whatever here so you know" KJ responds, I can hear the smile in his voice "WHAT THE FUCK OH MY GOD THATS AMAZING!" I exclaim proud of him, KJ was like a brother to me it was amazing he got to start acting, he was incredibly good at it too.
"Yea, its a series called Gilmore girls" KJ says "Holy shit thats amazing.. I'm so happy for you!" I congratulated "thanks sage, means a lot. What about you how's pop star life treating ya' huh?" He asks.
"its great I mean I'm releasing an album soon, on march possibly and uh I'm living with the Backstreet Boys kinda huge in Europe" I grinned "I hear you grinning, whats up with these backstreet guys? I've heard of em in the radio, the nick guy that everyone loves, what you pulled him or something?" KJ jokes.
I stay quiet "no way..." He whisper yells "yea were together, my brother didn't tell you?" I laughed "no, why am I always left out in the family" KJ whines. We were all close he was a brother to me honestly his family and ours were extremely close and when they heard about my singing career they threw this huge party thing it was so funny.
"I don't know KJ maybe because you tell everything and anything to everyone and anyone" I shrug "ok I was drunk!" KJ defends "right.. you were drunk at 15 quite irresponsible, no?" I giggle "yea well its not my fault, your brother said it was water" KJ argued.
"Yea, it was incredibly funny you lost your pants and you started singing on the tables" I laughed at the memory "yea yea whatever" KJ responds.
November 30 1995 Orlando, Florida
NICKs POV
"Who is KJ?" AJ asks "her friend, childhood friend was it I don't know" I shrug as I watch sage outside the restaurant laughing, I wouldn't admit it out loud but I was jealous.
Although even if I didn't admit it out loud the guys probably figured out already "someones jealous" Brian raises his eyebrows up and down making the guys laugh and me just cross my arms "whatever" I mutter.
"look if she says they're childhood friends, they are childhood friends there's no reason to be jealous or not trust her" Kevin reassures "yea but she looks like she's having more fun with him than she is with me" I exclaim "I mean look at her" I point at her laughing outside.
The boys all turnt heir heads to where I pointed making me giggle a little "Nick, may I remind you, that you are with her 24/7 and you are always clinging onto her" Howie reminds.
"so?" I frown "so, there's a reason she's with you and not ... mr Krabby jones" Howie shrugs "krabby jones? what the fuck is a crabby jones" I mumble "you either take it or leave it" Howie says "fine whatever" I sigh.
"look man its sage she's not gonna do anything" Brian nudges "I guess so.." I trail off "hello again!" Sage greets "hey" We all respond.
"sooo I asked Lou and stuff if we could have December 4 as a free day he said sure since he's got a meeting on that day anyways, so if you guys want we could go hangout with KJ I think you guys would get along well" Sage suggests.
"sure" they all respond, I just stay quiet, now everyone was looking at me waiting for an answer "fine"
"YAY!" Sage jumps up and down in her seat, she was adorable how could I say no.
After dinner we go home and rest knowing the next month would be busy as fuck.
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a/n: opinions on KJ?