"Uh huh, uh huh, yeah, no problem, okay, 9:00, alright. Thank you soooooo much! Yeah, bye!" she said and hung up.

Dinah stared at the wall in shock and amazement, she'd entered that contest MONTHS ago! She was going to go on tour with the Backstreet Boys for the whole summer. A dream come true...in many ways.

*~ The guys' tour bus...a week later *~

"Okay that's cool." Howie said, after Denise had given them the details of the contest and what exactly was going on.

"Wow. This is our chance to get into a fan's mind.", something AJ had been wanting to do for a while was just have an in-depth conversation with a fan about being a fan.

"I wonder if she's hot." Brian and Nick said at the same time.

Kevin, Howie and AJ rolled their eyes at Brian and Nick's horniness (AN: that a word? don't think so..oh well.)

"When is she coming, again?" Kevin asked.

"Tomorrow at 9:00 a.m."

*~ The next day at 9:00 a.m. ~*

Dinah wrung her hands nervously, took a few deep breaths and talked to herself before she got off the plane, "it's just the guys...the guys...you can do this...you'll hate yourself if you don't. Let's go." she grabbed her carry-on and walked off the plane.

Dinah walked down the long corridor, a million and one thoughts running through her mind, the last one being, right before she saw them, "Oh God, they're gonna hate me!".

"Are you Dinah?" Denise said, coming up to her.

"Uhh.yeeah..that's..me."

"Okay, hun, come this way. I'm AJ's mom, Denise."

"Yeah...I know..nice to meet you!"

"Well thanks! You too!"

They stopped by the luggage carousell (sp?) and grabbed Dinah's luggage and went outside.

Parked there was a limo...with 5 shapes inside.

Dinah gasped, "That's not them, is it?" she said.

Denise laughed, "yeah..those are the crazies."

"Oh no...I can't do this..no..oh my gosh.." Dinah said, getting really nervous.

Denise opend the limo door and gently pushed Dinah in, "but I can't...too ner..vous.." she stopped babbling after she found out she was inside the limo.

The guys smiled at her, "There's no reason to be nervous!" Kevin said.

Dinah closed her eyes, wishing that it would all just go away. Her stomach was in knots and she knew she was going to throw up. She opened them slowly and looked around. The guys were looking at her, puzzled.

"Sorry..I just..really...embarrassed myself there." Dinah said, smiling sheepishly.

"Don't worry about it! You'll get over it." AJ said.

Nothing much was said after that until they got to the tour bus. Everyone loaded on and the guys and Dinah went to the back of the bus to talk.

"I just wanna tell you guys right now that I'm shy around people for a day or two and then I'll open up. I guess I should also tell you..although I'm embarrassed about it..I have a sick, perverted sense of humor and can turn almost anything you say into something to do with sex." She knew that when she told guys that, they were skeptical but when she actually made a sick joke, they open up RIGHT away..and she wanted to know the "real" Backstreet Boys.

"You'll fit right in with Brian and Nick." Kevin said, rolling his eyes with Howie and AJ.

"What's that supposed to mean? Well, I figured Nick was horny...he's 19. And Brian possibly too..but what about AJ? 'Horny' is written across his> forehead." Dinah asked, not beliving she was talking this much and this openly.

"Well, Kevin and Howie are old..kindof a 'been there, done that' thing. I'm 19...like you said. Brian's...Brian. AJ...he's horny but not perverted."

"Ah..I see.." Dinah nodded.

They all went on talking about various things.

"And I was sick and it was just really hard." Kevin said, talking about the worst concert they've ever had.

Dinah snickered.
Nick smirked.
Brian covered his mouth.

"What?" Kevin said.

"IT was HARD? We didn't need to know, Kev!" Nick said.

Dinah and Brian started busting up.

"Oh Lord, help me!" Kevin said, rolling his eyes and left the "room" that was the back of the bus. Howie and AJ soon followed.

"It's nice to know a girl can have a sense of humor like ours. We were kinda scared we'd have to actually keep our comments to ourselves!" Brian said.

"Yeah well..." Dinah said, blushing as Nick and Brian each slung an arm over her shoulders.

"I think we're all gonna get along wonderfully." Nick said. Brian nodded in agreement.

by Mystery Lady and Mystery Frack, 1999