The Bus (next day)-4:00pm

"Why couldn't we take a plane," Elizabeth sighed from her seat.

"Cause we have the bus, moron," Isaac stared directly at her.

"Who asked you Isaac?" Elizabeth kicked his leg hard from under the table. That shut him up, at least for now.

"When's the next stop, Mrs. Hanson?" Angie asked sweetly.

"Um, well, we're going to be stopping soon," Diana stared down at her map, "We're doing a show outside of London and then heading right to Chicago."

"Another band is joining up with the tour there," Chris said looking up from his cell-phone.

"Who?" Audrey questioned.

"Five."

"Oh."

Outside London-5:00pm

Audrey was the first one to jump off the bus, searching across the tons of buses for a bathroom.

Finally she spotted one at the truck stop across the street from where they were parked. She quickly ran in, and then back out as she headed back across to the bus.

A hand coming down on her shoulder stopped her though, and she spun around quickly.

"Hi, I'm Danny," a boy smiled. "I'm from No Authority, if you didn't know. You're one of those girls from 'N Trance, right?"

"Uh, I'm Audrey, yeah, that's me."

"Ah, kewl. I like your band."

"Same here. Well, I mean I like your band."

"Cool, so where's the other two?"

"Well Angie's probably with Zac-"

"Zac Hanson?"

"Yeah, why?"

"No reason. Keep going."

"Well, I was saying... Angie's probably with Zac and Elizabeth is probably with Lance...Lance Bass."

"Oh, that's that guy from 'N Sync, right?"

"Yeah..."

"You wanna meet the rest of my band?"

"Sure."

In a friendly gesture, Danny took Audrey's hand and walked her back over to the truck stop. Sitting on the sidewalk's edge were three other guys, two of them looking tired and one looking hyper as hell.

"This is Audrey, guys. A chick-"

Audrey gave him a look.

"A girl from 'N Trance."

"Hi," a blonde-headed boy stood up, "I'm Eric."

"I'm Ric," a brunette boy stood up.

"And I'm Josh," the tallest one said as he shook Audrey's hand.

Audrey didn't want to say anything, but she already knew all their names.

"So, do you wanna hang for a bit?" Danny asked, remembering he was still holding Audrey's hand. She didn't let go yet, and Danny took that as a good sign. He remembered how he thought the tour was going to be completely boring. Now, he had a different look on things.

Outside The Hanson/'N Trance bus- 5:50pm

Elizabeth leaned into the side of the bus, she was completely bored out of her mind. She couldn't hang out with 'N Sync, because they were too busy having pictures taken inside of this building they were parked outside: The Orphiean. She went to reach for her package of smokes, but realized she had thrown them out before the tour started. Singing and smoking just didn't go together.

"Hey," Elizabeth stared up at Taylor. "What's up?"

"Oh, hey Tay," Elizabeth sighed as he sat beside her. "Not much."

"Liz, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"Do you like Isaac?"

"We went through this before," Elizabeth could feel her blood boil as he spoke his name.

"So, you don't."

"No."

"Do you like me?"

"Yes, of course I like you Taylor-"

Elizabeth wanted to say more, but Taylor's hand wrapped itself around Elizabeth's neck and pulled her close. Touching her lips with his, he slid his tongue into Elizabeth's mouth.

On the sidewalk-5:53pm

Audrey had to admit, she was having a ton of fun with the No Authority guys. Things couldn't have been better, and things couldn't be worse. For every minute she spent with those for guys, she was forgetting Taylor more and more. Until she scanned her eyes onto the Hanson bus. There was Elizabeth and Taylor… liplocked.

Immediately she felt tears sting her eyes.

"Guys, I...I..." Audrey let the hot tears stream down her face as she ran towards the bathroom again.

Inside the Truck stop-5:50pm

Isaac stood there, deciding whether to buy a Dr. Pepper or a Mountain Dew, when THEY came in.

Isaac stared hard with anger in his eyes mainly on Lance, when 'N Sync came into the store.

"Hey Isaac," Justin smiled. "What's up?"

"Nothing," he replied coldly.

"How's the girls treating you?" Joey laughed.

"Fine."

"Is Elizabeth around?" Lance asked.

"Why do you think I'd know?" Isaac said handing over the money for the Mountain Dew.

"Well, you share the same bus."

"So?"

"Well..."

"Why don't you go look for her."

"What's your problem?"

"You."

"Why?"

"Fuck you."And with that, Isaac stormed out of the store.

Immediately as soon as he stepped out, he felt anger surge through his body. Directly in front of him there was Elizabeth and Taylor liplocked.

"He's going to get it," Isaac almost screamed through his thoughts. "He is dead!"

Outside the Hanson/'N Trance Bus- 5:56pm

"Tay...Tay...TAYLOR!" Elizabeth yelled as she pulled away from Taylor's wet lips.

"What?" "I don't like you that way! You never even let me finish my sentence. I like you as a friend. That's it."

"You liked it," He smiled coyly.

"Taylor, I have a boyfriend."

"You don't have to tell him."

"Taylor! I can't believe you said that!"

"Why can't we do this?"

"Audrey."

"What about her?"

"Taylor, you are best friends with Isaac right? Like you get along with him more than Zac."

"Yeah."

"Well Audrey is my best friend of the group. She belongs with you. I don't. And quite frankly Taylor, I don't want to."

"Oh..."

"Just give Audrey time, she's still mad about you trying to fuck her so soon."

"She told you?!"

"Taylor, I'm her best friend."

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