CHAPTER NINE

~ TATTOO ~

"Drop me off here, please." I told the bus driver, two weeks later. Everything had been back to normal, or as much as it could. AJ had luckily stayed away.

"Who lives here?" asked Howie, as I paced excitedly in front of the door. We were finally in Philly, and I was going to visit Kylie. She had no idea I was coming. She thought I was coming in 2 weeks.

"Kylie." I told him as we approached the front gate of Kylie's gigantic mansion. "Do you wanna come with me?"

"I'll come." Mandy replied.

"I'm supposed to go with the guys to rehearsal," Leighanne answered.

"Rehearsal" responded Nick.

"So when do the rest of us get to meet the famous Kylie?" teased Brian.
"Tonight at the show." I told him, as we stopped.

"Your coming?" Kevin questioned stunned. I had never been to a concert the whole time I had been with them.

"She loves y'all. What can I do?" I replied, opening the bus door, and pulling Mandy out of it the bus. "Bye!" I walked up to the gate, Mandy behind me, we slipped in between the gate, and ran up to the house. We walked to the ladder, that was under Mandy's window. I scaled it, and Mandy was right under me. I had always used it as my entrance, since I was little. I had needed it because I had always gotten lost in the maze of hallways, and rooms, trying to find to find Kylie's room.<BR>

I quickly scaled the ladder, and pulled open the window. A girl with bright purple hair was sitting on Kylie's bed. "Ky?" I asked in disbelief.

"MAGS!!" she screamed, running to the window to hug me, but nearly pushed me off the window.

"AAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!" I screamed, grabbing the window sill, as Mandy grabbed my ankles to keep us from falling. We stood frozen for a moment, before Mandy and I hopped in the window.

"Your not supposed to be here." she announced dumbly as she hugged me.

"I lied. I wanted to surprise you." I replied. She stuck her tongue out at me. A silver stud glittered in the sunlight. "You got your tongue pierced!!" I cried.

In response, she turned around and lifted the back of her shirt slightly, revealing a tattoo. It was an angel. "Like?" she asked.

"Like? More like lolve. I want one." I exclaimed, "Let's do it today!"

"You sure?" questioned Kylie, "Can you handle the pain?"

'Ha!' I thought. 'You wouldn't know pain if it bit you on the ass.'  I immediately felt guilty. She was just kidding.

"I hope so." I answered, as we left the room, "Oh yea... this is Mandy. She's Nick girlfriend."

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An hour later, I laid on my stomach gritting my teeth. I was getting the last of the 2 tattoos I was getting. The one, Clark, the tattoo artist was working on at the moment was a devil that matched Kylie's angel. The previous one was a pair of feet, with wings, on my left ankle. Above it was Brad's initials in Chinese. Under it was my initials in Chinese. About 45 minutes earlier I had gotten my belly button pierced.

<I>'Brad would definitely not like this.' I thought.

"Alright, missy, your done." Clark told me.

As I turned over, I gasped. My back had hit the cold seat a tad to hard. "Damn, Mags. Your doin' way better than me." commented Kylie. "I was hysterical"

"Yea." I replied, through clenched teeth. I stood up, and pulled out my credit card. Clark stopped me, "Your friends paid." he informed me.<

"You guys! It was $300!" I gasped.

"A birthday present." Mandy replied.

"Yea, remember your birthday is in three days. July 4th." Kylie said.

"Still...." I began.

"Forget it." Kylie and Mandy told me in unsion.

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Three hours later, we walked into the Spectrum. We had spent the last three hours shopping, helping Kylie to get ready to meet the Backsteet Boys, and dying my hair to it's natural shade : blonde.
"Where are they?" asked Kylie, looking around.

"Make-up, hair, or wardrobe." Mandy answered.<BR>

Suddenly, Kylie, pinched me. "OW!! What is your problem?" I cried, rubbing my arm.

"I wanted to make sure I wasn't dreaming." Kylie explained.

"Aren't you supposed to pinch yourself?" came Howie's voice from behind us.

"OMYGOD! HI!" Kylie squealed, as everyone else walked out behind him. She pinched me again.

"STOP IT!" I yelled pushing her away from me.

"Your, Kylie, right?" asked Nick.

"Uh....uh.....uh-huh." Kylie nodded awestruck.

"Your hair!" called Brian and Kevin. Kevin continued "It looks great."

"Thank you. I got a tattoo, and my belly buttton done, too." I replied, shopwing them my tattoosm and piercing.

"Cool." interjected AJ from behind the guys. It was almost like he was hiding.

"Thanks." I responded curtly.

"Let's go, guys." called a PA jogging by.

The guys said their good-byes, and rushed toward the stage entrance. We hurried to our seats, in the front row, and met Leighanne.

The concert began, I sat though the perfromance, yawning. Suddenly, about half way through, Kevin and AJ looked at each other, and jumped off the stage. Before I knew it, I was onstage.  I danced with them for about 5 minutes, before I was led off the stage by a security guard.

"Thank you." I told him, shaking his hand.
"What?" he asked stunned.

"Let's just day, I did not come willingly, nor did I willingly get on stage." I informed him.

"Your not a fan?" he asked stunned, mouth hanging.

"Hell, no!" I laughed, walking toward the room marked reheresal, pulling a CD out of my jean shorts,

I entered the room, put my CD in the CD player, trying to remember the dance moves, I had once had down cold. Now, I could barley remember them.

I pushed play, and put it on repeat. Hearing the famliar strains of music, the steps slowly came back to me.