Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:41:42 +0000
From: N D <pytn18@hotmail.com>
Subject: nick and ashley- chapter 29

DISCLAIMER: I don't know O-town or the Backstreet Boys or N'Sync and am not
implying anything. This is just fantasy and if homosexual content offends
you or is illegal for you to read, please leave. I am not affiliated with
them, J records, Jive records, MTV, ABC or anything.

The only thing I have remotely in common with these boys is that Ashley
Parker Angel and I were born on the exact same day-August 1, 1981.

FIRST THINGS FIRST: Happy Birthday to Nick Carter who turns 22 on January
27th. I can guarantee he's not reading this but it's worth a shot
anyway. Also, I don't think I'm going to get a chapter out before this next
event either so Happy Birthday to Jay Vascardi who turns 21 on January
28th.

Thanks to Alex and Kristin especially for keeping the faith in me and being
truly diehard fans.

I'd also like to give a shoutout to Tim, who asked me to work on his new
story with him, which is an excellent honor.

I'd also like to tell everyone to go check out two stories by two great
authors. One is called "You'll never guess who ran into me today" by
Thrawn5678 and the other is "Encountering Nick" by Kdawg...two great
authors and two great stories...go check them out.

http://jcv.5u.com/all/worldofslash/ --Jayson Vascardi's website that
features my story and many other slash fiction stories. Go check it out.

Pytn18@hotmail.com for suggestions and comments.

Nick and Ashley- Chapter Twenty-Nine

"There's something we need to tell you guys." Ashley addressed the whole
group of people that included all members of O-town and Backstreet Boys,
Devon Sawa and Lance Bass and Justin Timberlake of N'Sync and Britney
Spears and Mandy Moore. Nick and Ashley decided to have dinner ordered into
the O-town house tonight so that they could tell them of the big news.

"You guys are our closest friends so we feel that you need to know this."
Nick said.

"Ashley's pregnant!" Trevor joked.

Everyone had a good laugh, which was appreciated by the couple that
everyone was paying attention to since the mood had become a little more
serious then needed.

"I still got two months" Ashley joked back and everyone continued to laugh.

"Nah really what's up though." Erik said trying to get back to the reason
they were being called to attention.

Nick took a deep breath. "Here goes...Me and Ash are engaged...the wedding
is gonna be in September sometime." Nick said then looked around for a
response.

The room fell completely silent. Howie immediately threw his plate down and
left the room and out the front door.

"I'll go talk to him, you guys got my blessing." AJ said as he got out of
Jacob's arms and headed for the door to talk to Howie.

"Thanks Bone." Nick said and looked at the rest of his friends. "Someone
please say something, the silence is killing me."

"It's a big step guys, are you sure you're ready for it?" Jacob asked.

Nick and Ashley looked at each other for the support they knew they would
need in this tough conversation and found that when they looked in each
other's eyes they found the comfort. A smiling face from each other was all
they needed to know that this was the right decision.

"Positive." Ashley said with a grin.

"I don't like it one bit. You guys are the two youngest members of both
groups." Kevin started. "And what if it gets out to the public, then what
happens? It's been hard enough hiding the fact that you two are together
let alone now you're gonna get married." Kevin said.

"Kev, I supported you fully when you married Kristin. I was even an usher
at your wedding. I ask for that same support in my life. I'm not gonna wait
until my days as a pop star are over to get married. I love Ashley and he
loves me. We're gonna get married, whether you like it or not but I would
like your support at least. I don't wanna do this without you guys." Nick
said with tears in his eyes.

Kevin didn't know what to do. He wanted to believe it was right and he had
a good feeling that it was but he knew he's be taking the brunt of this
from management.

"I just, but I, I..." Kevin tried to get the words out but couldn't. He
felt a hand on his shoulder. It was from his cousin, Brian.

"We found love and Nick was there for us. It's our turn." Brian said
reassuringly.

Kevin took a sigh and walked over to Ashley. He pulled him into a hug.
"Welcome to the family, brother." Kevin said as everyone started clapping
and ran over and pulled everyone into a big hug.


Inside was a beautiful site for everyone but outside wasn't exactly the
same.

"D, hold up what the hell is the matter man?" AJ said stopping him before
he opened his car door.

"Let it go Bone, I just can't deal with all this shit right now." Howie
responded.

"What shit? They're in love man, let them be happy. You give them more shit
then Kevin does." AJ said.

"It's not that man, those two can go and live happily ever after for all I
care." Howie said real nastily.

"There's something else to this." AJ said.

"Just drop it Bone, let me go home." Howie said.

"You're upset that you don't have anyone. You're the only one out of us
that's not with someone and it's eating you alive. That's it isn't it?" AJ
asked

"When we started this 8 years ago you could always see right through me. I
see you haven't lost that quality." Howie said looking down.

"A lot of things have changed since then." AJ said.

"Yeah but we first met Nicky when he was 13. I thought that by the time he
was 22, I'd be married and not him." Howie said.

"You just gotta wait it out D, it'll come." AJ said

"There's more to it than that." Howie said

"What's the matter man?" AJ said as he put his hand on Howie's shoulder.

Howie hesitated for a second then leaned in and kissed AJ. AJ was taken
back by this but seemed to be so surprised that he was stuck in the
kiss. At that exact moment Jacob came running out to see how things were
going.

"Hey guys, you're missing..." Jacob started but stopped dead in his tracks
when he saw the lips of his boyfriend on another man.

AJ quickly pulled out of the kiss and looked at his now distraught/angry
boyfriend.

"Jacob, I swear it's now what it looks like." AJ started.

"It looks like you're kissing him. What the fuck is going on here?" Jacob
said angrily and started to run back inside.

"Jake, wait!" AJ said

"Not for you." Jacob said as he slammed the door and run upstairs flying by
everyone who gave him a strange look.

"If you ruined this for me I swear to God..." AJ said to Howie as he gave
him a dirty look and ran back inside after his boyfriend.

Howie looked at the situation that he just caused. He never wanted this to
turn out this way. He didn't even know if he liked AJ but he knew he's had
confusing feelings for a very long time and it's been killing him
inside. He started crying uncontrollably at the pain he had caused so many
people and got in his car and sped away.


"Jake let me in!" AJ said from the other side of the locked door.

"Get the fuck out of here." Jacob screamed back.

AJ ran back into the living room seeing as this was getting nowhere. He
quickly found a piece of paper and pen and sat down and started to scribble
something down. Everyone was still there watching this escapade and decided
that staying out of it might be the best idea.

AJ finished writing and quickly ran back to the poolroom that Jacob called
his bedroom. He slipped the paper underneath the door. Jacob saw the paper
fly from underneath the crack and rest in the middle of the floor.

Jacob quickly ran over to it and was about to rip it up when curiosity got
the better of him. He opened it up and saw AJ's distinct handwriting. It
read:

AJ loves JU

Please let me explain.

Jacob thought about it for a second then reluctantly opened the door to see
his boyfriend sitting down against the wall with his head in his hands.
Jacob left the door open and walked back inside. AJ followed in tow and
closed the door behind him and began to explain everything.

Everyone watched on from the living room and all gave each other a shrug.

"You're never gonna do that to me right?" Nick asked to Ashley as he put
his arm around his shoulder.

"Not me, I'm gonna be Ashley Carter in 4 months." Ashley said as he
snuggled up to his fiancée.

"I like the sound of that." Nick said.


A few hours had gone by and no one had emerged from the room yet. All the
friends were enjoying the good times talking to each other and just
laughing about the past, present and future. All of the sudden there was a
knock from the door.

"I got it." Trevor said as he ran over to answer it.

He opened it and saw Howie on the other side. He looked worn down, with
tear streaks on his eyes. Trevor could smell Jack Daniels on him and had a
feeling this couldn't be good.

"Get the fuck out of my way." Howie said as he pushed Trevor causing him to
trip over a table and take a header. He got up and was about to go after
Howie when Lance ran over and held him back telling him that he was drunk
and a one on one fight wouldn't be a good idea.

Howie stumbled around the room obviously looking for AJ or Jacob. He
noticed the closed door and figured out where they were. He started to head
over to the door when all of the sudden a figure appeared in front of it.

"I can't let you go in there." Nick said separating himself between Howie
and the pool, which led to Jacob's room.

"Get out of the way Nick." Howie said.

"You wanna fight me again D? Remember what happened last time." Nick said
bringing up bad memories.

Howie rubbed the side of his head where he remembers that Nick punched him
the last time Howie had gotten pissed at him for something and started a
fight. That was just boys being boys but Howie had really pushed Nick to
the edge and Nick unloaded a good swing that landed and showed Howie that
there was a fighter hidden in there somewhere.

"This isn't your fight Nick." Howie said.

"No but you're drunk." Nick said.

"Fine asshole, I'll fight you again." Howie said as he put his fists up in
the air.

Nick responded by also raising his. Ashley looked on intently wondering how
much of a fighter his future husband is. The fact that Nick was raising his
fists was scary though. 'Would he ever raise those fists to me?' Ashley
thought and then scolded himself for thinking that Nick would ever do that.

At the same time Kevin was about to get up and break up this fight since he
was present for the last one and didn't want another hospital visit. Brian
put his arm on his shoulder again as if he knew what was about to happen.

Howie took a step forward and took a haymaker swing that only a drunk would
take in a fight. Nick took one step to his left moving out of the way and
watching as Howie's fist hit nothing but air. Howie spun around and noticed
that there was no more footing for him and fell face first into the pool.
Ashley and Kevin both stopped being so tense as they saw what Nick had
planned all along. Brian simply sat there with a smile on his face,
remembering that Nick had pulled that trick on him many times at hotel
pools.

Nick noticed after a while though that he wasn't coming up from underneath
the water. 'Fuck, he's so drunk.' Nick thought to himself. He quickly took
off his shirt and dove in after him, got underneath him and pulled him out
and laid him on the ground. He put his head next to his mouth and heard
breathing.

"Is he ok?" Kevin asked as he came running over.

"He's fine, he's just wasted." Nick said as he began to take off his khakis
that were soaking wet now. Howie began to stir from the other side of the
pool. Kevin and Brian lifted him off of the ground and carried him out to
the car, deciding that it was time for him to go.

"We'll see y'all later. You guys can tell us about the details of the
wedding another time. Congrats guys." Brian said as they carried the drunk
Howie out the door. Everyone else just went about their own business about
the house.

"That's an interesting look you got there." Ashley said to his boyfriend
who was standing there in wet boxers that hid nothing very well.

"Yeah well, of course I would be the one to wear white boxers." Nick said

The door flew open to the room as Jacob's head peered through from the
other side.

"What the hell just happened out here?" Jacob asked

Both men just started laughing. "We'll explain tomorrow." Ashley said.
"Everything ok in there?" Ashley asked him.

Jacob gave the thumbs up sign as he headed back into the room. "Nice
package by the way Nick." Jacob said as he closed the door.

Nick began 2 shades redder in his face and looked down and saw that these
white boxers really were pretty revealing as he could make out almost his
entire cock and pubic hair.

Ashley simply laughed at the whole situation. "C'mon wet boy, let's get you
upstairs and changed into some dry clothes then we can talk about those
details that Brian mentioned for the wedding." Ashley said as he pulled his
now shivering boyfriend by the hand into his room.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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