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    "That would explain the poster and highlighted date, I should have put it together!  Who all knows?"  Dawn asked.
    "Well, you and the people on our video set," Vanessa exclaimed.
    "You did a video with them!"
    "Yeah, that's were we met them.  Our parents don't even know yet," Shelly said.
    "Omigosh, guys, since the fans are gonna find out, we should call our parents," Dee said.  Each rushed to call their parents.  Of course, their parents were happy that the girls were happy, no matter who it was. They were eager to meet the boys.
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    "Do you have girlfriends?" a fan asked the age-old question at the press conference held 3 hours before the show that night.
    "Well, I guess I'll start and we'll go down the line spilling the beans," Brian started as he made that little farting/spilling the beans noise! "So.......yes, I do have a girlfriend.  There was a series of 'no's and 'aw's from the crowd, even some 'cool's.
    "Yes," AJ said to the same response.
    "Yes," Howie said, "Well, Nicky, it's you turn."  Nick, knowing he was the favorite, was a little apprehensive.  The fan's all screamed "No" and "He's mine" and "Me".  Nick looked at the others and they knew he was apprehensive.  Being the most popular could have serious repricusions for whoever he was dating, and he knew this, so did the others, but the girls promised they could handle it and all were determined to make these relationships work.  Nick decided to belly-up and dish the news.  He looked out into the sea of fans who were hoping the answer was "no", but knew deep inside it was "yes".  I mean, come on, this was Nick Carter, the most popular BSB, he had to have a girlfriend.
    "Yes I do," Nick answered in a sing-songy voice, trying to lighten things up.  The response he recieved was worse than the other guys.  Some fans were actually bawling.  He still never understood why people felt the need to cry, I mean, they were normal, every day people, doing what they loved and they needed normal lives (well, as normal as they could get), which included having girlfriends.
  Kevin saw the look on Nick's face, which was a mixture of confusion and hurt.  He was mostly hurt that his fans were not happy and did not want him happy.  Who cares if Nick Carter was happy, as long as the fans were happy. (Note- I know this is harsh, but some fans, are like this.  As long as the boys have girlfriends, the fans are unhappy, as long as the boys are single, the fans are happy.  If the boys are single, don't you think they may be unhappy?  If one of the boys is unhappy, I'm unhappy!  As long as they're happy, I'm happy.  I really don't agree with Nick getting back with Mandy after she was abusive, but hey, maybe she's changed, and I wish them all the luck and happiness for the future.  As long as they're happy, I'm happy!  I'm glad Nick's happy and I'm glad the other boys are too.  When Nick was heartbroken, I was so sad!!  He's one of the BSB, my fave group, it made me sad!! Enough of this, back to the story, sorry!)  Kevin tried to take the attention away from Nick, not to hurt Nick, but to relieve him for a while.
    "Hey, guys, um, I don't have a girlfriend, I'm still single"  he said as the crowd cheered.  Even though Kev wasn't happy being single, he knew he'd find the right one some day, and, hopefully, the fans would be happy for him.  As the crowd was still cheering, the boys all looked at each other.  Their fans could be so confusing sometimes!