"I'll miss you," Dee said to Brian.  Everyone was standing outside the tourbus at the "TransCon" lot, crying. (Yes, even the guys!) 
    "I know, baby, but I'll come and see you asap and you guys can come to all our nearby shows."
    "I know, but it'll have to be on a Fri. or Sat. because we've got school, at least for the next couple weeks.  It's still gonna be really hard, Bri," she said as Brian nodded.  Both were teary-eyed.
    "Let's go," the busdriver said.  All the guys hugged and kissed their girls, as much as they didn't want the kiss to end or to leave, they knew they had to, so, they each hugged the rest of the girls and all the girls hugged Kev.  With one final kiss, the boys loaded the bus and drove out of site.  The girls stood in the empty parking lot, watching the bus leave till they could see it no more.  They were all crying.  This was gonna be extremely hard.
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      ------A couple weeks later--------
    "Man, good thing we only have a couple more finals left, then we're out of school for the rest of our lives!" Vanessa exclaimed as they pulled Kris' silver mustang into their apartment parking lot.  They all piled out and headed up stair to their apartment.  When they got to their doorstep, there were four boxes marked to each of the girls.  There was no return address.
    "Um, what if it's a bomb.  What if some fans found out about us dating 'their BSB' and they want us dead?" Kris said.
    "Kris, we haven't even told our parents we're dating them.  The only one's who knw are us and the video crew, and they were sworn to secrecy," Dee said.  Each girl pick up her box and immediately opened it.  In side each was a box with a cell phone.  Each phone was the guys favorite color and had notes attached to them.  Basically, each note said, "Here's a phone for you to call me anytime and me to call you anytime.  Here's my cell phone #.  Love ya,  (the girl's boy) P.S.-call me as soon as you get this."  They immediately went inside and diled the #'s in their own rooms.  The conversations basically went- "I love the phone!  That's so sweet! Thankz, you didn't have to,"-girls.  "Your welcome, and I did have to, now we can talk whenever we want, wherever we want!"-boys.  "So, when am I gonna see ya?" girls (even though they had a tour poster with FL dates highlited).  "Well, we've got Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas, and a couple other shows next week, then we've got a Tampa show after that, then a few days off, then a Tallahassee show."-boys.  (Note-I don't know the reall show schedule, all I know is Houston-Oklahama City)  "Great!  So I'll see you!  I can't wait!"-girls.  "Yeah, I can't wait either.  Well, I've gotta go do sound check now.  I'll call ya later!  Love ya so much!  Bye, babe!"-boys.  "K-love you 2, bye"-girls.  as soon as the girls hung up, there was a knock on their door.  Dee answered it.
    "Omigosh, Dawn!  What are you doing here?  I thought you were still in OK?" she exclaimed to her friend she hadn't seen since High School.
    "Well, I just graduated and some extra $, so I decided to come see you guys," Dawn explained as she hugged Dee.
    "Great!  Come in.  How long are you here 4?"
    "About 2 weeks if it's okay with you," Dawn said.
    "Of course, we can pull out the extra bed from underneath mine and you can bunk with Kris and me."
    "Oh, that's okay, I was gonna stay in a hotel."
    "Dawn Bethany Mitchell, you will not stay in a hotel!"
    "Okay, geez!" she teased Dee, "Hey, nice poster," she exclaimed of the tour poster on their livingroom wall.  By this time Vanessa, Kris, and Shelly entered the room.
    "Dawn!" they all screamed as they attacked her with a group hug.
    "Are you staying here?" Vanessa asked.
    "Yeah, Dee practically forced me to stay here!  You're stuck with me for the next two weeks!"  She yelled as she followed Dee to her room to drop off her bags.  She returned to the livingroom and joined Vanessa on the couch.  "So, who are you current object of affection and do they know about that FINE poster on your wall?"  The girls all looked at each other wondering if they should tell her the truth.  I mean, she was their friend, but still.....  As if on cue, one of the cell phones rang.  All the girls shouted, "It's mine!" and pulled out their phones.
    "It's mine, ha ha," Dee said as she stuck her tongue out at the others who did the same to her.  "Hey, Bri-Bear, what's up?"  she asked ignoring the snickering from the other girls at her pet name for Brian.
    "Nothin', I just wanted to see what you were doing," he said chalantly, loving the sound of her voice.
    "Bri, you just called like 10 min. ago."
    "I know, but I miss you already and had to hear your voice."
    "Awww, your so sweet!  I miss you too!!  You remember me telling you about our friend from high school, Dawn?"
    "Yeah,"
    "Well, she's here and she's gonna stay with us for about 2 weeks."
    "Cool,"
    "Hey, Bri, don't you have sound check?" Dee asked as Dawn looked at her quizzically.
    "Yeah, but they've got a few things to work out and Howie and Nick are working on the rap."
    "Oh," Dee said as she casually walked into the kitchen to talk to Bri alone.
    "Bri-bear?"
    "Yeah, Deedle" he loved her pet name for him and his pet name for her-she loved also!
    "Um, you know Dawn, is it okay if we tell her that we're dating BSB?  She already asked who we were dating and we weren't sure what to say."
    "Yeah, um, we were discussing that anyways.  We figure the fans are gonna find out eventually, no matter how secret we try to keep it.  So, we were gonna ask if it was okay for us to tell them today at our press conference before our show tonight?"
   "It's fine with me, let me ask the others.  She went back into the livingroom and said, "Guys, is it okay for them to tell the fans about us?" getting another quizzical look from Dawn.  The girls replied with a "Yeah." and she told Bri.
    "Yeah, sure, Bri.  I'm sure we can handle however the fans react, cause we know it'll be harsh.  Probably esp. for Kris, dating Nick and all."
    "Baby, I'm determined to make this work, even if the fans don't agree.  They don't run my life."
    "I'm determined to, but they do sorta run your life, they made you who you are.  It's because of them you wrote "Larger Than Life".
    "I know, and I'll still give 200% to them, but I'll still have you by my side also.  K, we're about to do sound check again.  Hey, stay on the line, K?"
    "K," she said.  The others phones rang and they answered to hear the same thing Dee heard.  The boys singing "Just To Be Close To You" acapella.
    "Aww, that was sweet.  It sounded awesome!" the girls all said.
    "Thankz, oh, sorry, we gotta go.  I love you," the boys said.
    "Love you 2," the girls said and they hung up to find Dawn with a weird look on her face.
    "What's going on?" she asked.  The others looked at each other, preparing to tell her, hoping she wouldn't freak out!
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    "Um, Dawn, you might wanna brace yourself," Dee said.
    "Okay," Dawn said apprehensively.
    "You probably already know what we're gonna say," Vanessa said.
    "Yeah," Kris echoed.
    "Does it have anything to do with your conversation and sound check?" Dawn asked.
    "Well, yeah," Shelly said.
    "Omigosh, ya'll are gonna be famous and that was who you're opening for?" she asked excitedly.
    "Um, no, kinda close," Kris said.
    "Well, then, you're dating up and coming stars," she guessed.
    "Closer," Shelly said.
    "They're not rising stars?"
    "Nope, they're already stars," Vanessa said.
    "Omigosh, are you serious!!!" she said almost freaking out.
    "Dawn, please don't freak out.  They're normal people like us," Kris reasoned.
    "Okay, sorry," Dawn said, trying to calm down.  "Who are they?"  (Ch. 7 continued-go to Table of Content-Please!)