Chapter 1

Aj sat back in the chair running his hand down his face looking into the mirror across from him. A slender girl
in baggy pants and a tank top stomach shirt walked twards him. He sat forward in the chair shuffling through his papers and scrambling for a name as the girl walks towards him with a slight gimp in her walk.

"Um.... uh...." he says flipping through the papers. "You're... uh...."

"Lynn" she says cooly trying not to act uptight around AJ, the hottest Backstreet Boy.

"Well, Lynn, you're not on the list, babe" Aj said looking at the bottom of the page. "Oh, wait here you are, my bad. We'll get started in just a sec when Fatima and Howie get back in here, ok?" Aj asked brushing off the fact he didn't know her name.

"alright" she said walking off to join the other dancers againts the mirror.

Howie walked in while Fatima followed right on his heals almost falling
over him and they laughed all the way to the table and fell into their chairs.

Fatima whiped the tears from her eyes and cleared her throat, "I still can't
believe you said that," she leant forward to see Howie he shrugged and laughs himself.

Aj eyeballed Howie, "what'd you say?" he asked
looking back at Lynn and straightening up. Howie and Fatima looked at Lynn
and then at each other making smiles. Lynn walked to the CD player against
the wall and began to dance her heart out. Aj sat there thrilled with her
unbelievable moves and let his mouth hang open in awe. Fatima scratched at a note pad she
had on the table while Howie giggle to himself.

When the music stopped Lynn was on the ground for her final move. Howie
stood up and clapped while walking towards her, "Welcome to the Backstreet Dance
Team," he said taking her hand and helping her off the floor.

"Whoa, it was that easy?" she said surprised at the amount of time used in making a
decision.

"Yeah girl," Aj said standing, "you can dance like hell!" he said
watching Fatima stand from the table and walk out of the door to call the
next girl in. Aj looked back at Lynn shaking her hand, "Congratulations, if
you walk out this door and turn to the right and walk all the way to the
stairs, go up a flight and turn to your left. Walk all the way down the
hall and you'll find other dancers who've been accepted. I hope you got all
that," he said laughing at his confusing instructions.

Lynn smiled and stood back listening to him carefully and studied his face while she's at
it, "Yeah I think I got it" she says. "Thanks you so much, I don't know
what to say," she said smiling and leaping into his arms. "Whoa sorry," she
says letting go and walking embarrassed to the CD player and then to her
bag.

"It's coo," Aj said a bit pleased with himself. "Check ya later babe,"
he said watching her walk out of the studio turning to see Howie's
displeased face. He shrugged, "what?!" he says walking to the table and
sitting down waiting for Fatima to return.

Lynn walked down the hall full of dancers bending over and stretching and
some working on their moves, while the others sat around in circles
chatting, giggling, and munching on little snacks. She came to the stairs
and looked up them and then back down the hall full of hopeful faces. She
sighed and walked up the stairs and down the hall slowly. She pushed open the
door and it flung back at her.

Kevin stepped out of the way holding the door open, "Whoa sorry,"

he says smiling at her."Hey I'm Kevin" he mumbled under his breath putting his hand out.

"Hey Kevin, I'm Lynn" she said smiling at the sight of the gorgeous room and the
decorated table full of food. She looked around at all the people as Kevin
turned away to continue talking with others. She walked through the enormous
crowd trying not to hit people with her large bag. She burrowed her way over
to a corner and set her bag down and brushed her hair out of her eyes.
She straighten out her shirt and examined the crowd spotting Brian and Nick
standing side by side talking to the new comming dancers. She smiled and
walked over towards them but a loud screetch interupts her. She plugs her
ears and cringes in pain looked up towards the stage where Aj made a
specticle of himself.

"Um.. whoa sorry... is this thing on?" he asked talking into the micraphone which echoed. "Huh, I guess so. Anywayz, as you all know, I'm Aj
McLean and this is Howie Dorough," he said raising his hand in Howie's
direction. "Kevin's over by the door and Nick and Brian are mingling over
there. But anyways, what I really came up here to do was to congradulate
you all on making the new Backstreet Dance Team. We'd all like to welcome
you aboard and if the new dancers could direct their attention over to the table which I'll be at in a couple seconds we have our tour dates and our
dance practices which none of you will have a problem with since you'll all
be in one of our buses," he said smiling. "So, you don't have to come now, so take your time, thanks, and welcome all of you," and he started to applaud when the rest of the crowd joined in with hoots and hollars popping every once in a while.

The dancers flowed towards the table and Aj handed papers to people along with Howie and Fatima. Lynn made her way over to the table and stopped at Aj.

"Hey sugar, what's kickin'?" he asked with a grin and a click of the
tongue.

"Oh nothing really I'm just really excited!" she said back at him
as people poured in around her trying to get schedules.

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Aj hollared making a hole to see Lynn once more. "Here you go little lady," he said winking at her as he handed her the schedule.

She smiled and bit her lower lip, "Thanks". She made her way back towards her back sticking it in her side pocket and reaching for her cell phone dialing quickly on it. "HEY
MOM!" she screamed pluging one ear, "I MADE IT! I REALLY MADE IT!"

"I'm so happy for you dear," her mom replied, "but I'm really going to miss you when you're on tour."

"MOM DON'T WORRY I'LL WRITE AND CALL EVERY WEEK! I
PROMISE!" she still yelled over the excited crowd. "BUT I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU, I'LL SEE YOU WHEN I GET HOME!" and she clicked off her phone turning to run into Aj.

"Hey, I noticed you on the phone, who ya talkin' to?" he
asked. Lynn opened her mouth to say something when Nick pounced on Aj and grabbed him from behind,

"Come meet this hot chick!" he said smiling as Aj
tried to wriggle from his grasp and held up a finger to Lynn indicating
"one sec!".

Aj wriggled out of Nick's arms, "Goddamnit, Nick. Why the hell did you do that?" Aj asked as he watched Lynn pick up her bag and walk slowly out of the room.

Nick turned to him grabbing him by the arm, "cause I wanted you to meet this chick! C'mon Aj I know you'll like her!"

AJ glared at Nick, "you know... I WAS in the middle of talking to someone," he crossed his arms as Nick rolled his eyes.

"So? It's just one of the dancers! You can do
that shit later. This girl might leave if you don't hurry your punk ass
up!"

Aj sighed loudly, "fine if it'll make you shut the hell up, I'll meet
'er."

Nick smiled, "GREAT!" he said dragging Aj over towards a girl in a
white tank top and baggy orange pants. "Hey Sally, this is Aj, Aj this is Sally, one of our new dancers." Nick said looking at Aj and licking his
lips smiling at her.

Aj reached his hand out, "Hi" he spole softly.

Sally took him by the hand, "Hey nice to meet you," she said smiling at him.

Nick elbowed Aj raising his eyesbrows, "eh? Told you you'd like er!" he said.

Aj fakishly smiled and agreed, "yeah."

Lynn lowered her eyes and picked up her bag making a trail through the dense crowd. She walked down the hall slowly and down the stairs and out the door. She looked at the dancers that still waited in the hall way. They
were all gathered around Fatima and some were crying and others were
hugging. She looked at the disappointed people and walked out to her car.
She arrived home quickly and opened the door to see her parents and little
brother standing in the hallway smiling at her.

"CONGRATULATIONS BABE!" her father said holding his arms open.

Lynn hugged her father halfheartedly, "Yeah... I guess."

Her father looked at her and lifted her chin to look at him, "Hunny isn't this your dream? What you've always wanted to do?" he asked confused.

She nodded, "but it's kinda hard leaving your family for like a year," she sighed.

He nodded, "Oh is that it? But hun think about the experiences you'll get and all the places your travel and the people you're with! It's going to be a blast, and we'll keep in touch!" he said smiling at her.

"Yeah, you're right. It should be fun," she said smiling at him.

"There's my girl," he said returning the smile. "You should go get packed and get a good nights sleep. Don't you have to get up early tomorrow?" he looked at her.

She nodded and headed up the stairs plopping down on her bed and looking up at the ceiling. She rolled over and looked in the body mirror on
her wall at herself and pictures AJ standing behind her. She smiled to
herself and hopped up and began packing all of her clothes into a large
suitcase.