Chapter 9
Kelly opened her eyes and immediately felt pain all over her body.
"What happened?" She thought.
Kelly's mother, Danielle felt Kelly move and quickly assisted her daughter, smothering her hair.
"Hi, how are you feeling?"
"Was I run over by a freaking train?" Kelly tried to ask, but the pain was doing its best to stop her.
Danielle sat down next to her and continued smothering her hair.
"We were so worried about you, Kelly" Danielle said "I'm gonna have a big conversation with Mr. Vince McMahon"
Kelly laughed and suddenly remembered somebody.
"Where's Shawn?"
"He's outside. He's embarrassed he wasn't able to protect you" Danielle said.
Kelly frowned "None of this was his fault, Mom"
"I know. Don't worry about it now" Danielle said as Kelly's father walked into the room.
"Look who's awake" James, her father, said, holding a big teddy bear under his arm.
He looked towards the door and sighed "It's alright, Shawn, you can come in"
"Shawn?" Kelly called him the second she saw him walking into the room.
"Hey, princess. How are you feeling?" Shawn asked.
"Ok, I guess" She smiled.
"I'm sorry" Shawn started apologizing.
"Don't apologize. It's not your fault. I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to be a wrestler" Kelly reasoned him.
"The doctor said you need to get some rest" James said.
"When can I get back into the ring?" Kelly asked.
The three adults looked at each other and swallowed hard at the question.
Meanwhile, in New York…
Nick was walking back and forth.
"Frack, stop it, you're gonna make a hole on the floor" A.J. tried to ease his bandmate.
"The situation is serious, man. She was put through a table!" Nick barked at the older boy.
"Jesus, man, calm your ass down" A.J. said "You know you have to do the show. Lou won't let you go to Boston because of her" He said referring to their manager.
"He doesn't know how much she means to me" Nick said "I wanna be with her"
Nick suddenly stopped dead on his tracks as he saw Donna Wright walk into the room.
"Donna, please, I need to talk to you. It's very important" Nick said, walking towards her.
"Kevin told me what happened" Donna interrupted "Nick, you can't leave without doing the show"
"I don't care about the show. I wanna be with Kelly!" Nick exclaimed.
"Look, let's do it this way, you guys will perform one song only. Then, I'll get you a plane ticket" Donna said.
"If that's the best you can do… How long with I take to be with her?" Nick asked.
"You'll be with her tomorrow morning" She said.
"What?? I can't wait that long" Nick whined "Donna, she was put through a table"
"I know. Calm down. You guys are on in 10 minutes" She said before turning around and leaving the room.
Thirty minutes later, the boys were already done with the show.
"Donna, did you get my plane ticket?" Nick asked.
"Yeah" She handed a plane ticket to him.
"Wait a minute, she's in Boston, not in Arizona" Nick said.
"Nick, we have to be in Arizona tomorrow morning, there's no time for you to go to Boston" Donna said.
Nick looked shocked at her and felt tears burning in his eyes.
"C'mon, guys, let's go to the airport" Johnny Wright said.
Nick looked at them, with a pissed look on his face.
They got to the airport and Nick slowly split from the rest of the guys and walked towards the reception.
"Excuse, Miss, could you……" He asked.
"Where the hell is Nick?" Lou Pearlman asked.
"He was right here" Johnny said "Where the hell did that kid go? I told you he was trouble"
Kevin and Brian looked around, trying to find their bandmate.
Brian's eyes widened as he saw Nick walking into the gate that lead to the plane to Boston.
"Brian!" He heard Kevin call "Have you seen him?"
Brian thought for a brief moment "No"
"We can't wait for him, we gotta go. Our flight is about to take off" Lou snapped "The hell with him" he said and started walking towards their gate.
The four remaining Backstreet Boys looked at each other shocked and tried to hide the evident shock.
Slowly they followed their managers towards the plane and Brian looked behind to make sure Nick was nowhere to be found.
"I just hope he finds her. He doesn't know where she's staying" He thought to himself.