Chapter
10
After 15 minutes of waiting for Brian and Kevin to come down, Mike
slammed his fist down forcefully on the small table in the seating area of the
lobby and caused Howie and AJ to jump in their seats. They looked over at Mike
to see him turning red in the face from his anger and they rolled their eyes as
Mike got up and stormed off towards the elevator. They shook their heads as
they watched Mike storm into the elevator and punch the door and laughed when
he hurt his hand by punching it. Both were thinking the same thing, "What
an idiot!" and returned to their own thoughts as the doors to the elevator
closed.
Mike tapped his foot on the floor of the elevator impatiently as he
rubbed his sore hand waiting as the took its time getting to the floor he
needed to be on. He let out a frustrated sigh as he looked at his watch as it
ticked the seconds away until their interview was set to begin. It was now
10:48 and they was running late he realized with an angry sigh.
He sprinted to the suite where he hoped Brian and Kevin would be and
threw back the door that was partially open. He then stopped momentarily to
look around and swiftly walked in the direction of Kevin's room. As he
approached the room he heard soft sobbing and whispering coming from the room
and he stepped in the room to see Brian sitting on the bed with Kevin sitting
beside of him and his head buried in Brian's chest. Mike cleared his throat and
said, "What is going on here gentlemen? Have we suddenly forgotten how to
tell time?" Both Brian and Kevin jumped in surprise at the new angry voice
that filled the room. Mike turned around and made his way out the door as he
said over his shoulder, "Hope you two are happy. We are running extremely
late now. Get your asses down in the lobby in no more than 2 minutes or your in
big trouble, got it?" Mike didn't wait for a response and slammed the door
forcefully as he exited. Kevin rolled off of the bed as he rubbed his eyes and
mumbled, "Jerk" and ran to the bathroom to quickly wash his face.
Brian also rolled off of the bed but sat on the floor as he waited for Kevin to
come out of the bathroom. Seconds later Kevin ran out of the bathroom and stopped
in front of the bed to offer Brian his hand to help him up. Brian graciously
accepted Kevin's hand and pulled himself up. "Did you take your heart
meds, Bri?" asked Kevin as he grabbed his key off of the dresser and
walked out the door with Brian right behind him. "Yup sure did Kev. Don't
have to take them again until 10:30 tonight" said Brian as the entered the
elevator. Kevin reached his hand over and playfully messed up Brian's hair and
chuckled softly at Brian's surprised facial expression. Brian was about to hit
Kevin in return, but Kevin was saved when the elevator stopped at the lobby and
both young men exited. They quickly walked over to where AJ and Howie sat with
Mike and waited patiently for the 3 men to get up and exit the hotel. They then
entered a black van that waited outside to transport them to the radio station
where the interview would be taking place at.
Mike turned around in his seat at the front of the van to face the four
Backstreet Boys behind him. He cleared his throat as he looked through some
papers and after a few moments looked at the boys. "Ok boys here is the
schedule for today. I called the radio station and they are allowing us to have
the interview at 11:15 instead of 11:00. The interview will last until about 12
or 12:30 if that, then TEEN magazine called and they want an interview with you
boys so I set up an interview for the time slot of 1:00 to 2:15 and then you
had a photo shoot scheduled but I have been called to an important meeting at a
record company about two hours away. So after three today, I will be gone until
late tomorrow afternoon. During the time I am gone, you have time off so don't
cause any trouble. I will not bail your asses out of jail if you get thrown in
there. Any questions?" Kevin coughed and raised his hand slowly
acknowledging that he wanted to speak. Mike looked over at him and said,
"Yes Kevin?" Kevin looked Mike straight in the eye and said,
"What do we do about Nick, Mike? He is still missing! Why can't we just
cancel the interviews? This isn't right!" Mike glared at Kevin for a few
moments with frustration apparant in his eyes and took a deep breath to calm
his nerves. "Well Kevin, to answer your question, we do nothing about
Nick. We just go on and continue our day like nothing happened. I'm not allowing
some stupid joke that Nick comes up with cost us precious time that we don't
have much of. Like I said before we will continue our day like nothing happened
and we will just tell the interviewers that Nick isn't feeling well and we
didn't feel it would aid in his recovery if he came to the interviews,
ok?" stated Mike as he waited patiently for the boys to answer him.
Slowly, one by one the boys all nodded their heads in agreement. Mike opened
his mouth to say something else but was interupted by Sean, the van driver
announcing their arrival at the radio station. Mike gave the boys one last
looks as he told them to act normal and walked towards the radio station as the
boys followed closely behind him. All four of them hoped they would be able to
concentrated on the interview or they knew there would be hell to pay with
Mike. All four plastered grins on their faces and sat down to start the
interview as they all hoped they would be able to make it through the day.
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