Part 14

By Pat

Finally the plane landed, all of them (except Kevin) jumping and smiling like their fans do at their concerts.

With all the commotion they did not notice the gunman had regained consciences and was in back of Howie with his gun pointing at his head.

“I wouldn’t be so happy you idiots!!!” the gunman said.

Everyone stopped the celebration and now had a look of fear in their faces…

“Now you will pay for burning my face you dumb a**” And he put the gun on Howie’s temple and pulled the trigger…

AJ had closed his eyes; he didn’t want to see his best friend die. All he heard was a loud thump! But wait… he did not hear the gun shot, just a little click… He opened his eyes, and god behold, he had ran out of bullets, and Howie had fainted from the scare only.

“That’s it, you, you’re the dumb a**” said Nick as he and Brian kicked the gunman, making him drop to the floor. Nick and Brian were kicking the crap out him…

At that moment, AJ was able to get himself to move and went to Howie’s side. He slapped Howie in the face a couple of times and screamed his name. “HOWIE, wake up, you’re alive!”

Howie started to open his eyes and noticed AJ was in his face, looking very worried. “I’m awake! What happened?? I thought I was dead – he shot me in the face!!!”

“It had no bullets,” said Kevin very bluntly from the seat he was in, his pants all drenched in blood.

“There, that ought to teach you not to mess with Backstreet, you bastard!” said Nick as he and Brian stood up and left there a very beat-up gunman that had lost consciousness…

BAM!! The airplane door opened, and in came a S.W.A.T. team. Well, it looked like that anyway… But they abruptly came to a stop as they saw the gunman on the floor…

In a matter of seconds, the gunman was taken away and Kevin was taken to the hospital…

“He’s going to be fine, Mr. Littrell,” said the paramedics as they put Kevin into the ambulance. “A couple of stitches will do.”

“Hi, I’m officer Curtis Hunnighan, and I was wondering if you could answer some questions for me.”

“Sure,” said AJ, “but first, where in god’s name are we?”

“I know this isn’t a good time to say this due to the circumstance, sir, but welcome to Australia!”

“Oh, great,” said Nick sarcastically, “I always wanted to come to Australia for vacation, not on tour!!!” And with that they followed the officer to answer his questions.

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