"Damn, you sound like hell."

"I feel like hell."

"You look like hell."

Kristen opened her eyes to see her best friend changing shirts.

"Thanks bestie, I can always count on you to make me feel great about myself."

Brittney laughed as she pulled her hair back in a pony tail.  "Just doing the best friend part, not lying, and damn man you're voice is horse and scratchy."  Brittney turned around to look at her.  "And you have no color in your face....Never going to go play in the rain in cool weather again are you?"

"Shut up.." Kristen mumbled while sliding out of bed and walking towards the bathroom.  Brittney grabbed her arm and swung her around, placing her hand on her forehead.

"Yep.  You're warm.  Fever."

"Saweeeet." Kristen said, sarcastically shoving her hand off her forehead.  "My head is killing me, I'm taking out my contacts and putting on my glasses...can you find my sweatpants and a sweatshirt in my suitcase pleaaseee?"

Brittney nodded as she started digging through her suitcase as Kristen walked into the bathroom.  Brittney grabbed a pair of her black sweatpants and her favorite sweatshirt, her orange Chicago bears sweatshirt, and tossed them on the bed as Kristen walked out of the bathroom in her glasses, running her hands through her hair.

"I'm shock you don't have any of JC's sweatshirts."

Kristen nodded as she took off her shorts and pulled on the pair of sweatpants.  "I need to steal one."

"I'm going to call Chris and see if he is on the same boat as you."  Brittney reached for her cell and dialed Chris's cell.  Laughter escaped out from her lips when she heard his groggy hello.

"Sick also I'm guessing?"

"Eh, no.  I feel fine, just my throat hurts a bit.  Nothing some OJ, tea, water and cough drops will fix by the show tonight....wait, what you mean by ‘also?"

Brittney eyes traveled from her fingers to over where Kristen was, pulling her sweatshirt over her tank top than falling on top of the bed.

"Kristen's ill.  She looks like hell and sounds like hell."

"And I feel like death." Kristen sighed and rolled onto her stomach.

"Dammnn.  I heard her.  She dose sound like hell.  Man she is never going to play in the rain with me every again."

Brittney laughed as she sat down on the edge of her bed.  "Told you.  You should believe what I tell you sometimes."

"You do like to lie."

"Oh babe, that isn't lying, its teaseling and stretching the truth."

"Whaatteveerrrr....Ugh hold on..."  Brittney laughed and rolled her eyes as she heard Chris yell ‘shut the hell up I'm coming'.

"Tell the grizzly bear to not get his panties in a twist."  Brittney said, falling back on her bed.  Chris laughed and repeated to Joey what she told him.

"Joey I swear to god that is what Brittney said!  I didn't say it!...yeah yeah yeahhh....Britt Joey told me to tell you that he is going to woop ya ass and to get off the phone so we can get food."

"Yeah we'll be leaving soon.  I'm going to get Kristen some aspirin than we'll meet you all down for breakfast."

"Alright, see you down there.  Peace...GOD DAMNIT I'M COMING JOEY!"

Brittney burst out laughing while placing her cell next to her.  She got up and dug though her purse and pulled out her bottle of Advil.  She pulled out two and went to the bathroom to get a glass of water.  Brittney walked over to Kristen and held her hand out.  "Take these before you die."

Kristen rolled her eyes as she sat up, taking the pills and swallowing.  Brittney placed her hand back on her forehead than pulled away.

"I don't think I can eat anything."

Brittney rubbed her friend arms.  "Try some fruit, like cantaloupe.  It's cold and smooth and it will feel good on your throat, and have some orange juice.  We'll go to the store while the guys have their interview to get some meds."

Kristen rolled her neck to stretch out the kinks and stood up.  "We need to get Midol also."

"Ouuuuu....feeling sick and on your period?  Horrible mix."

Kristen ran her fingers through her hair than pulled her hood up over her head.  "Tell me about it.  I think every part of my body aches."

"Well at lest we know you're not pregnant."  Brittney smirked.  Kristen swatted her on the arm.  "Shut up bitch, and anyways I'm on the pill."

"99.9%" Brittney reminded her as she walked towards the door.

Kristen rolled her eyes as she slid her cell phone in her sweatshirt pocket and follows her best friend to the elevator down to the lobby.

"You better not give me any of your germs.  I swear if you get me sick I'll kick your fucking ass and Jace won't be able to stop me."

"Love you too best friend.  Love you too."  Kristen said as she pushed the door open and they both made their way to the table were the rest of the guys were sitting.  Kristen slid in the seat next to JC, as Brittney took the seat next to Kristen placing her hand on the Kristen's back.

"Maaannnnn you were right Britt, she dose sound and look like hell."

"You know I'm right here..." she mumbled as she rubbed her temples with her fingers as Brittney rubbed her back.  JC turned to look at her as he placed his hand on her thigh.  "Are you okay hunny?  You sound horrible."

Kristen sighed and Brittney spoke up.  "She's sick.  I'm guessing from playing in the rain with cool weather, and than having AC being blown on her while she was soaked did the job.

"Wait, you wear glasses?"  Justin asked.  Kristen nodded as she kept rubbing her temples.  "Have been since 4th grade, but I always wear my contacts, but my head feels like its going to explode so I took them out."

"Well even though you're sick, you do look adorable in your glasses." Joey said as she took a bite of his toast.  JC placed his hand under Kristen's chin and turned her head to look at him.  He placed his hand on her forehead, than to her cheeks than slightly frowned.  "You have a fever."  He looked over at Brittney as his protectiveness starting to come to come out.  "Did she take anything?"

Brittney nodded as she stole a slice of toast off of Lance's plate while winking at him.  "I gave her some Advil.  While you guys are doing your radio interview, we're going to the store to get some meds.  Which by the way Chris, do you want me to get you anything for your throat?"

"Can you get me some throat drops?"  Chris said, taking a sip of her orange juice.

"You got it."

JC slid his hands from Kristen's cheek and started to feel around on her throat.  "Eh, feels a little swollen.  I'm no doctor but I think you have a really bad cold."  JC leaned over and kissed her forehead, keeping his hands on her neck.  "You should see our tour doctor during our interview to make sure that is what it is."

Kristen nodded than covered her mouth with her sweatshirt covered hand as she coughed.

"OH mann that sounded grooossss....Bet you are never going to play in the rain again huh?"  Justin said while wiping his mouth with his napkin.

"I told her she needs to eat something, so her body has energy to fight off the bug.  I think some fruit, like watermelon and cantaloupe would be best.  Cool, soft and easy to swallow."  Brittney pointed over to Joey as he opened his mouth before she continued. "Don't take that dirty...anyways, that and to have some orange juice."  JC nodded as he brushed some of Kristen's hair off of her face to under her hood on her sweatshirt and gently pulled it forward.

"I'll get you some babe, just sit here and relax."  JC got up and looked at Brittney. 

"You want anything to eat while I'm up."

"Uhhh, just some toast and cereal.  Thanks Jace."

JC nodded and walked away from the table.  Kristen took off her glasses, placed them on the table next to her and folded her arms under her, placing her head on top of her arms and closed her eyes.  Brittney slowly ran her hand up and down Kristen's back while taking Lance's glass of orange juice and taking a sip.  Justin looked down at his cell when it started to go off.

"Ugh what is this fucker doing calling me at this time of the morning."  Justin mumbled while flipping open his cell phone. "What do you want fucker?"

Kristen laughed which was soon followed by coughs before speaking again, her voice more scratchy than before.  "Trace."

Justin sighed.  "Yes that was Kristen....No..she is sick....no ass, not sick of me, sick sick, as in ill....no you can't talk to her...no...No..why did you call me...No Trace you can not...No...Because I said so now what to do you want...If you want to talk to her than call her damn cell and not waste my minutes...No...For the last time....Ugh."  Justin handed Kristen his cell phone as she laughed and made whip noise.  Kristen took the phone and laid it against her ear under her hood and closed her eyes.

"What do you want......Yes Justin was right about me being sick, you sound so surprised that he was right....well yeah true, Justin is never right.." Everyone snickered around the table as Justin started protesting.  "Anyways what....Aww thanks Trace I know I sound horrible, you really know how to make a girl feel amazing....you should become a positive speaker.....no really keep your day job...yeah yeah yeahhh....No, I haven't killed any of the guys yet....Yes Brittney is still here holding the fort down...Us they still love each other..." Kristen laughed and covered her mouth as she was hit with attacks of coughs.  Kristen rolled her eyes and cleared her throat.  "I did no cough into the phone, I covered my mouth...Of course...Yeah Justin is giving me a dirty look, he is probably thinking I'm going to give him my germs....Yeah of course the popstar, we don't want anything to happen to him now would we?  Of course not, not the poor baby....Uh huh...No I'm not leaving Jace for you......Uh huh..sureee you are....Yessss I'll take meds and get better before you come to visit....Yes daddy....If I tell Jace what you just said, I'm positive he would kick your ass...Maybe I will tell him, I'd love to watch the show...Uh huh...well Jace my love is coming back to force me to eat something and......I can just see the smirk across your face right now take your mind out of the gutter...as I was saying..force me to eat some FRUIT and drink some orange juice before they leave for the radio interview...chaaa..yeah...Peace out dude.  Mad love.  Will do."  Kristen hanged up his cell and pushed it towards Justin.

"Trace said he'll call your white ass later and you better pick up."  Kristen sighed and buried her face into her arms, keeping her head down.  "He told me to tell the rest of you that he said "what's up fuckers see you soon."

Brittney ran her hand from Kristen's back up to her neck and gently rubbed her neck while JC sat down and handed her a bowl of cereal.

"Aww finally JC, I thought you would never come back with food."  Brittney moved her hand from Kristen's neck and took the bowl of cereal and toast and started eating as JC rolled his eyes and looked down at Kristen, placing his hand on her back.

"How you feeling?"

"Same..." she mumbled, keeping her face buried in her arms.

"Well I brought you some fruit and orange juice, come on sit up so you can eat something."

Kristen sighed and sat up rubbing her eyes and placed her glasses on.  JC slightly moved her hood off her cheek and kissed her cheek while sliding the bowl of fruit in front of her with a glass of orange juice. "Eat."

Joey and Chris snickered as they finished their food.  "JC won't let you leave his side all day.  Have fun."  Joey stood up and threw his trash away.  "I got a phone call to make, get me when we leave."  They nodded as Joey walked off pulling his cell out of his pocket.  Brittney slouched back in her seat and placed her feet on top of Lance's lap while she finisher her cereal and started to work on her toast.  Lance placed his hands on her ankles and rubbed his thumb around the inside of her foot, "So while we're out, you're going to the store?"

Brittney nodded as she took another bite of her toast; looking at Kristen out of the corner of her eye.  "Do you need anything from the store while I'm at it during the interview?"

Lance chewed on his bottom lip as he looked up thinking.  "Nope I think I'm good."

Brittney looked over at Justin.  "Do you need anything?"

"Toothpaste."  He replied finishing up his glass of milk, placing it on the table and sighed, leaning back in his chair rubbing his stomach.  Brittney rolled her eyes smiling and looked over at JC.

"Do you need anything Jace?"

JC shook his head as he kept his hand on the back of Kristen's neck, gently massaging it through her sweatshirt, his eyes never trailing away from Kristen.  Brittney looked up and Chris and covered her mouth as she yawned.  "Besides throat drops, anything else Chris?"

"Candy."

"Oh yeah since you sooooo need that."  Lance replied.

"Heyyyy!"  Chris pointed to Lance.  "I didn't see you complaining two nights ago when you had some of my lemon drops!"

"And if I remember correctly, "Brittney looked over at Lance seductively, "I didn't give you any complaints on that make out section we had after you ate them."  Lance winked while Justin and Chris groaned.  Brittney winked at him back before taking her focused over to her best friend, patting her thigh.

"How you feeling doll?"

Kristen finished chewing her piece of watermelon before answering with a sniff.  "Same..."

"Well after you're done eating, we'll run to the store and come back so you can go to bed."  Brittney looked up at JC.  "And before you ask JC, yes she than will go right back to bed after the store and taking some meds.  You can trust me."  JC nodded and threw back the napkin ball that Chris threw at him.  Brittney shook her head with a smile and looked over at Lance.

"When do you leave hun?"

Lance looked down at his watch than placed his hands back around her ankles, gently rubbing them with his thumbs.  "In an hour, this is the radio interview that JC and I come out about you two."

"Ooo..after today I'll be able to grope you in public."

Justin and Chris rolled their eyes and groaned.  Chris coughed into his hand a couple of times than took a glass of water.

"Man now I have a headache."  Chris whined.  Justin scooted his chair away from Chris.

"Not you too, keep your germs away from me.  I can't afford to get sick."

Chris narrowed his eyes at Justin as he coughed a couple of times. "And I can?"

Brittney reached into her purse and pulled out two Advil's and placed them in front of Chris.  "Take these for your head.  I'll get you some coughing medicine also along with the throat drops."

Chris took the pills and placed them in his mouth, swallowing with water.  "You're an angel."

"I know I know."  Brittney watched Kristen as she pushed the bowl of fruit away from her and leaned over onto JC's shoulder.  "Just doing my job."

"Shouldn't you two go get ready; since you are the only ones NOT out of your pjs?  We have to go soon."

Chris and Justin looked at each other than nodded their heads in agreement.  They both got up and pushed their chairs back in and started making their way out of the room.  Lance gently squeezed both of Brittney's feet and looked over at JC and Kristen.

"How you doing sweetie?"

Kristen closed her eyes and shrugged her shoulders as JC had his arm around her, rubbing both of her arms.  JC looked over at Brittney looking worried.

"Has she been this sick before?"

Brittney nodded.  "She rarely gets sick.  She'll catch a cold couple times a year, but they last like 2-3 days, and some days her allergies are getting the best of her, but to get really sick, rare.  It's like a once a year thing, or every couple of years.  Last time she was sick it was... a year a half ago I believe.  She had the flu."  Brittney sighed.  "Man I remember that as it if was yesterday.  She was soo ill she had to go to the hospital with a 104 degree fever.  Her skin was all clammy and cold, she was shivering non stop from being soo cold, yet she was sweating like crazy.  That flu really got a hold of her that year.  She suffered for a week."  Brittney poked the palm of Lance's hand with her toe.  "I'm the same.  I'll get sick once in a blue moon.  It's a good thing, even though once I get sick, o man it's like getting hit with a ton of bricks, but rather have that, than be sick all the time."

Brittney looked over and saw all the bodyguards starting to stand up.  "I'm guessing that its time for you all to start heading out."  Lance looked over than at his watch and nodded his head.  He tapped her feet and Brittney swung them off his lap, putting her flip flops back on and stood up.  JC stood up also and held his hands out, helping Kristen up.  Once she got up, he wrapped his arms around her, holding her body against his and started to sway back and forth slowly with his head resting on top of hers with his eyes closed.  Lance walked over to Brittney and slid his arms around her waist and kissed her.

"I'll see you after angel?"

Brittney wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled his head closer to hers and kissed him. "Mhm.  Be good now.  Say only good things about me."

"Hmmm.." Lance slowly pulled away keeping his eyes closed, resting his forehead against hers.  "I'll tell me all about how you are such a cover hog."

"God isn't it horrible?  It's like she owns all the covers on the bed or something.  You wake up cold, not knowing why, and there she is, all warmed, sleeping peacefully, wrapped in all the damn covers." Kristen mumbled against JC's chest.  Brittney smiled and Lance chuckled.

"Glad to know someone else has felt the pain I go threw."

Brittney gently nudged him in the neck.  "You love it.  AND anyways, I don't think your fans would really enjoy knowing you sleep with your girlfriend.  They think their little NSYNC boys are soo angels and innocent....if only they knew."

Lance kissed Brittney one more time before moving his head back while his hands rubbed her sides. "Yeah yeah, whatever.  I'll see you after.  I'll text you when we are on are way back.  Love you."

Brittney nodded and leaned in for one more kiss. "Love you too sugs.  Have fun."

JC gently pulled Kristen back and looked down at her.

"I want you to get a lot of rest while I'm gone.  Once you get back from the store, go to bed right away.  Try and take a nap okay hunny?  I'll call when we are on our way back.  I hope you feel better soon."  JC leaned forehead and placed his lips on her forehead than kissed her forehead again.  "Love you."

Kristen pulled him into a hug once more before letting go.  "Love you too."

Lance walked over and gave her a quick hug before planting a kiss on the top of her head.  "Feel better soon hun, we'll come visit you later."

Kristen nodded as Brittney linked arms with her.

"Alright sicky, lets go to the store and get you some medicine."

Brittney sat laid there on her bed while she read over an article in the new magazine she brought at the store.  She took a bite of her peanut butter cookie and closed her eyes while licking her lips, enjoying the sensation of the taste.  Licking her lips again, she opened her eyes to flip the page over in her magazine.  Her eyes shifted from the article on ‘fine your best hair style' to Kristen's cell phone sitting on the nightstand.  Quickly she got up and grabbed the cell praying to herself it didn't wake her up.  Seeing that her prayers been answered, she looked down and saw that it was JC calling.  She flipped open the phone and walked out of the bedroom.

"Hello?"

"Uhh..Britt?"

"Yep the one and only."

"Did I call your cell by mistake?  I thought I was calling Kristen's...."

"Nope you called Kristen's cell.  She's asleep so I grabbed it before it woke her up."

"Ooo, thanks.  Um so we are on are way back, how is she doing?"

Brittney sighed as she fell onto the couch, swinging her legs up on the arm rest and laid back.  "Same.  Once we got back I had her take some cold medicine and about 30 minutes later she was knocked out.  She's been asleep since."

"Has her fever gone down?"

Brittney rubbed her left eye as it started twitching.  "Well I can't really tell since I don't know what her temp. was this morning, but I did get a thermometer.  She dose have a fever, a light one though."

"What was it?"

"100.5.  Just breaking the 100 mark."

She heard her sigh and could picture him rubbing the back of his neck.

"Well, at lest it's not as bad as I thought."

"Yeah we can be thankful for that.  O and Jace, I packed all my stuff, so when you guys get back to the hotel, go get your suitcase and you can move into here and I'll move into Lance's room."

"Huh?  O yeah, right.  Thanks."

"No need to thank, I mean like I'm really going to complain going into a hotel room now being able to spend every night with my boyfriend."

JC laughed.  "True.  True.  Once I get back to the hotel, I'll go to my room and gather my stuff than meet you at the room."

"Sounds fine.  So how did the interview go?"

"It went well."  Brittney could just see the smile that was forming on his face right now on the other end of the line.  "Really well.  It felt good to just get it off my chest you know?  No more lies, no more having to sneak around; it feels like I'm getting a little freedom."

"That's good.  How was Lance?"

"Good, he did tell everyone about you hogging the covers."

Brittney rolled her eyes.  "Ass.  Wait till I get my hands on him.."
JC chuckled.  "I'll let him know.  Well we are about..Lance how far away are we....Shut up Chris I wasn't asking you...no really shut up...shut up I can't hear Lance...Ugh bite me Justin..JOEY GROSS knock it off."  Brittney covered her mouth as she laughed.

"Ugh..assholes..anyways Lance said we are about 15 minutes away, so I'll probably be in the room about 20-30 minutes."

"Alright that's fine.  Tell Chris to come to the room when you guys get here so I can give him his medicine."

JC nodded his head than remembered she couldn't see it.  "Will do. See you soon hun, bye."

"Bye."

Brittney flipped the phone closed and stretched her cramped legs before getting up and walking back to the room.  She looked over and smiled when she saw that Kristen was still asleep.  Worrying about waking her up, Brittney grabbed her plastic bag of stuff she got at the store and walked back out of the bedroom and fell back onto the couch and relaxed.  She closed her eyes and ran through everything she had to do in her mind.  Call Johnny; give Chris meds; make sure they get to sound check in time; check email; check on Kristen; call my parents; maybe call, or even text a couple of friends to catch up.  Brittney rolled her head back and forth to stretch her neck while she kept thinking.  She took another bite of a peanut butter cookie as she heard a soft knock on the door.  She got up and made her way to the door and opened it to see Chris standing there.

"How you feeling?"

"Eh, better.  I had some tea, but still a little scratchy.  After taking the meds I'm going to take a much needed nap before sound check."

Brittney nodded as she grabbed the bag for Chris and held it out to him.

"Your medicine is in there, it is cheery flavor also, and there is also cherry flavor throat drops, lemon drops, I got you some pixie sticks even though you really don't need them but I feel bad because you're not feeling good so I got them for you, gum, liquorish and some suckers."

Chris smiled big and pulled her into a big hug.  "I love you."

Brittney laughed and hugged him back.  "I love you too.  Now go take the meds and go get some rest."

"How's munchkin?"

"Same.  She's asleep now."

"Ahh that's good.  Well I'll be going now.  Lance is already in his room so when you come in, don't be loud.  I want sleep, and JC should be here soon."

Brittney patted his cheek.  "I promise Lance and I will be doing nothing but laying around until sound check."

"Good.  I'll see you later butterscotch."

"Butterscotch?"

Chris nodded with a huge smile on his face.  "Uh huh, I came up nicknames for you and Kris, that only I can call you."

Brittney rolled her eyes. "And Kristen's is?"

"Cupcake."

Brittney laughed and slightly shoved Chris's arm. "Go to sleep.  I'll see you later."

Chris laughed and started making his way down to his room. "Yes butterscotch."

Brittney smiled and closed the door and made her way back to the couch.  A moan escaped from her lips from the sound of a knock on the door. "Man I just sat down" she mumbled under her breath and opened the door.

"Was I interrupting something?"

Brittney rolled her eyes and opened the door for JC to walk in.  "No, I just sat down and than you came a knockin."

JC walked into the room and set his suitcase at his side.

"Chris came to bug you?"

"Yep."

"Finally he listens."

Brittney smirked and walked over to her stuff to pick it up.

"The medicine I have for her is on the table between the beds; I turned her cell onto silent so it wouldn't wake her and there is bottle of waters in the fridge."

JC nodded and held his hand out.  "Need any help with your stuff?"

Brittney shook her head as she gathered everything in her arms.  "Nah I'm good."

"Alright." JC answered.  "So I was thinking that you and Kris just come with us to sound check like always.  You guys can just be in the toy room and lay around and watching TV and what not and we'll all just stay there after sound check and chill.  The guys said they are fine with it.  I just want to keep an eye on Kristen and make sure she is okay."

"Oh you don't trust me?"

"Huh?  Oh no...its not that Brittney...I do trust you..."

Brittney laughed as she rubbed his arm.  "I'm joking.  I know you do and yeah that is totally fine.  I'll see you when we leave for sound check.  Later."

JC held the door opened for her.  "Alright, bye."

JC closed the door and dragged his suitcase to the bedroom and gently placed it on the floor.  Quietly he made his way over to the bed that Kristen was asleep in.  JC unbutton his jeans and let them drop to the floor having his shirt follow after.  He gently moved their piece of hair off of her face and tucked it behind her ear before he climbed in next to her and pulled her into his arms.  JC moved his head back and kissed her forehead before resting his head on top of hers.  He glanced over at the alarm clock; seeing he had about a good three hours till he had to go to sound check.  He slightly shifted on the bed to get comfortable and closed his eyes.  He had three hours to do whatever he wanted and taking a nap with his girlfriend was what he wanted to do; and taking a nap with the love of his life is what he did.

JC slowly opened his eyes from his slumber, being awoken up by a fit of coughs.  JC placed his hands on her shoulder and gently rubbed them to wake her up. 

"Kristen hunny wake up."

He kept gently rocking her from her shoulder until she rolled onto her back, covering her mouth with her sweatshirt covered hand, coughing.  JC quickly rubbed the sleep from his eyes and sat up reaching over for the nightstand grabbing two different medicines.  Reading the box's; finding the coughing medicine, he placed the other one on the night stand and pulled the medicine out of the box and started to read the directions on how much to pour into the little cup that came with it.  Slowly he poured the liquid into the cup, realizing he should of not done this in bed and maybe in the bathroom incase he spilled.  He placed the bottle on the nightstand and slowly turned to his girlfriend who was still lying on her back as the fit of coughs she was having were finally starting to side down.

"Sit up sweetie so you can take this medicine."

He placed one hand behind him to keep him sitting up as she sat up slowly and took the small cup out of his hand and put it to her lips, tilting her head back a bit to pour the liquid into her mouth.  Kristen scrunched up her face a bit by the taste of the medicine and handed him the small cup before laying back down, cuddling up into a ball.  JC placed the cup on top of the bottle and looked down at her, placing his hand on her cheek.

"How you feeling love?"

She slowly opened her eyes a little and looked up at him.  "Like the tour bus ran me over a couple of times."  She said barley in a whisper as she closed them again.

JC sighed and gently rubbed the side of her neck and stopped when he could feel the light damp of her sweat against his skin.  He quickly placed his hand on her forehead and sighed again.  He gently wiped the sweat off of her forehead and placed his hand on her arm.

"Are you hot?"

Kristen shook her head and she moved closer to him.  "Cold."

JC turned and looked on the nightstand for the thermometer, grabbing it he turned back around to her.

"Open your mouth."

"Uhh...what?" Was her response as she kept her eyes closed.

"Open your mouth; I'm going to put something in it."

"Umm...Jace hun...I'm sick and 100% I really don't want to..."

JC cut her off shaking his head, biting his lip to not laugh.  "Only you would joke while being sick.  No dear, we are not doing that, I'm going to take your temperature with a thermometer."

She slowly opened her eyes to look at him. "But Josh...."  JC gave her a stern look and she sighed, slightly opening her mouth.  JC slightly smiled as he placed the thermometer in her mouth.  "Good girl, now just relax."  He placed his hand on her cheek and gently rubbed it with his thumb while they wait for the beeps to tell them it was done.  His hand never left her cheek till the thrill sounds of beeping rang threw their ears.  JC pulled it out of her mouth and looked down at it.  A sigh escaped from his lips as he placed it on the nightstand.

"Take off your sweatshirt."

"Um. Uh. What.?" She stuttered.  JC rubbed his face with his hands and looked down at her.

"Baby your fever went up, it's now in the 101 range.  Being all wrapped up and covered is keeping the heat towards your body; you need to let your body release the heat so that your fever can go down."

"But...I'm cold Joshy..." She whined softly.

JC placed his hand on her arm; rubbing her arm.  "I know, but we have to make you better.  You don't want to stay in a sweaty sweatshirt do you?"

"I don't care.."

"I know...I know...When we leave for sound check you can wear one of my sweatshirts."

"We?"

"Yeah, I already told Brittney that I want you two to come with for sound check instead of saying here so I can keep an eye on your.  Yes I know Brittney can, and she will during it, but we are just staying there after sound check, and I'd feel so much better knowing you were there instead of being all worried and calling Brittney every five minutes to check up on you, this way you and Britt can lounge around in the wardrobe room on the couch so I can see you in-between changes and see how you are doing."

Kristen sighed, giving up, knowing she wasn't going to win the fight, and top of it, really wasn't in the mood to fight on.  JC helped her take off her sweatshirt and fixed her tank top she had on underneath.  JC got up and pulled the covers up to her waist and placed her sweatshirt on the other bed.  JC made his way to the bedroom and picked up one of the new rags and ran it under the cool water from the sink.  After ringing it out, he made his way back to the bedroom and slowly sat down next to Kristen on the bed.  He gently dabbed her skin around on her chest, neck, than face before placing it on her forehead.  His finger traced down her skin on her arms, feeling the goose bumps already formed on her skin.  Kristen closed her eyes and sniffed.

"How long have you been here?"

JC turned to look at the clock than back to her.  "A little over two hours."

Kristen slowly opened her eyes and looked at him.  "You've been lying with me for two hours while I was asleep?"

"I took a nap with you.  I guess I was more tired than I thought."  JC stretched before placing his hand on top of her stomach, tracing circles over her tank top with his fingers before he continued.  "I was knocked out for the two hours."

"Ohh.."

JC nodded and leaned over, planting a kiss on her cheek.

"How's Chris?"

JC faced her smiling.  "You're ill and all you can think about is how Chris is doing with his little cough?"  JC shook his head and laid down next to her, propping his head up his hand.  "Right now, you need to think about you, and getting yourself better....but Chris I think is doing fine.  He came by when we got back to get the medicine Brittney got him, and I believe he said he was going to go take a nap also before our sound check."

"How did the interview go?"

"Good.  It is all out there; Lance and JC have girlfriends and are in love.  A couple of fans called in and said how they were happy for us, so that's good that some are accepting or whatever....actually most of the interview was about you two.  They actually know you are sick, because Chris started having a coughing attack and the DJ asked if he was okay, and Chris explained that he is fine, just a tiny cough which he got from you two playing in the rain last night.  Which by the way, I'm suppose to send a message from the DJ saying he hopes you get well soon, but anyways, it was all good.  It went a lot better than we planed."  JC rested the back of his hand against her cheek to feel if the warmth of her skin has cooled down a bit.

"I'm going to go splash some water on my face and put on some clothes for sound check.  You stay here and relax.  I'll be in the bathroom if you need anything.  Kristen nodded and he leaned down to kiss her cheek before getting up and walking over to his suitcase.  He pulled out a sweatshirt for Kristen for later, a shirt and pair of jeans.  JC placed the sweatshirt on the edge of the bed and made his way into the bathroom and tossed his clothes.  Turning the water on, he cupped his hands under the water and leaned down to splash some cool water over his face.  He grabbed the towel on the sink and pat dried his face before looking at himself in the mirror.  He ran his hands threw his hair.  He was growing it out, and was fond of how it was looking.  He pulled the shirt over his head and stepped into his jeans, pulling them up to his hips, zipping and buttoning them up.  He rolled his head around in a circle to stretch the muscles in his neck and rubbed the back of his neck.  JC walked out of the bathroom stretching his arms over his head.  He reached over for one of her tote bags from Victoria Secret, which of course; being a guy; a smirked came over his face, walked over to the table stand and placed the medicine into the bag, the thermometer; just in case, and the bag of cough drops.

"You know...next time you go to Victoria Secret, let me know and I'll go with you."

JC chuckled when he heard her groan after his statement.  He placed the bag down at the end of the bed and picked up his sweatshirt and walked back over to her.

"Alright sweetheart, time to get ready."

JC took the rag off her forehead as she sat up.  He placed it on the table and helped pulling the sweatshirt over her and flipped the hood over the top of her head.  He helped her out of bed and slid over her flip flops for her to wear.  JC picked up the bag and placed her cell phone in his pocket.  Kristen took the rag off the table and walked to the bathroom, placed it in the sink, than walked back out and over to the couch and laid down.  JC slipped his shoes on as her heard a knock on the door.  JC hurried over to the door and swung it open, seeing Justin standing in the doorway.

"Hey J, can you carry this for me?"  He held the bag out to Justin.

"Umm..sure...I guess."  Justin took the bag, confused and looked around in it while JC walked over to the couch sliding one arm under her legs and the other arm under her back and picked up Kristen.

"I can walk.." she whispered.

"I want to." JC said as he placed a kiss on her forehead and walked to the door.  Justin held the door open for JC as he made his way into the hallway.

"Aww...how you feeling munchkin?" Justin asked as he rubbed her arm.

"Hell..." Kristen buried her face into JC's neck.  JC sighed when he felt the warmth of her fever against his neck.

"I'm sorry munchkin.  Love youuuuu."

"Love you too."

"So Justin, nice bag.  Very feminine, brings out the girl in you."  Joey said laughing while walking up to them.  Justin rolled his eyes.  "It's Kristen's stuff you ass."

"Ahh..." Joey looked over at JC and Kristen.  "How she doing?"

JC sighed as he slightly shifted her in his arms as they started making their way down the hallway to the elevator were the rest of the group was waiting.  "Her fever went up.  She isn't having problem breathing like before, but she still has that nasty cough.....Hey Chris how you feeling?"

"Better man...That medicine is amazing.  I feel good.  How's my mini me?"

They all stepped into the elevator and Joey pushed the button to go down.

"Fever gone up a bit, her nose isn't at stuffed as before, but she still has the nasty cough."

They all looked up when the elevator dinged and stepped off.  Mike and Lonnie walked over to them as JC set Kristen down on her feet.

Mike smirked.  "Cute bag Justin."

Justin sighed loudly while rolling his eyes.  "It's Kristen's, Jace asked me to hold it for him while he carried Kristen.  God."

"I can take it now Justin, thank you."

"Anytime."  Justin handed Kristen her bag.  Kristen pulled it up on her shoulder and reached for JC's hand.  She pulled the hood over her face a bit more with her other hand as they made their way to the door and walked out into the shouts of girls and flashes of cameras from the reporters going off as the made their way into the bus and got on their way to the stadium.  Once they got to the stadium, they made their way to the wardrobe room and placed their stuff inside.  Instantly, Kristen made her way over to the couch and laid down.  Brittney placed both of their bags by the edge of the couch as JC walked over and kneeled down in front of Kristen.

"I'll be back after sound check, try and get some more rest.  I love you."  JC kissed her forehead and stood up.

"I love you too...have a good sound check."

Lance slid his finger in the belt loop of the back of Brittney's jeans and pulled her towards him.  Brittney turned around after running into his chest. "Ahem?"  Lance smiled and kissed her.

"I'll see you after my dear. Love you."

"Love you too.  Hope it goes well."

Lance nodded and walked out the door and closed it gently behind her.  Brittney walked over to the couch and sat down.  She pulled out a magazine as Kristen went and laid her head on Brittney's lap.  Brittney looked down as she opened her magazine.

"Comfy?"

Kristen nodded and Brittney went back to reading the magazine she was reading before in the afternoon.  Every now and than Brittney would check on Kristen to make sure she was still asleep than go back to her magazine.  Brittney looked up at the clock and figured out they been having sound practice for an hour.  Brittney stretched her arms out in front of her before going back to her magazine.  Suddenly the door barged open, causing Brittney to jump from being startled.  She looked down as soon as she herd Kristen groan and saw her rubbing her eyes.  Brittney let out a frustrated sigh tossing her magazine on the ground and looking at the door.

"God damnit Joey!!"

All the guys froze at the door, wide eyed, looking at Brittney.

"Uhh...?" Joey said.

"Kristen was asleep and you woke her up!"

"Fuck..I'm sorry." Joey said under his breath.

"I told you not to be loud just in case!" JC said, smacking him in the back of the head and made his way over to the couch.  Kristen sat up rubbing her eyes.

"It's okay.  I should get up anyways, I don't want to like wake up at like 3 am or anything."

"Ohhh hush.  You're sick.  You sleep a lot when you are sick."  JC fell on the couch, laying one leg on the couch and putting his other leg on the floor; wrapped his arms around Kristen and pulled her between his legs and had her lean back against him as he placed his head on top of her head.  Lance sat down on the floor and leaned back against Brittney's legs.  Brittney spread her legs so he could scoot back and not have her knees into his back.  Lance moved back and leaned his head back smiling.

"Yes?"

"Can't a boyfriend look at his beautiful, amazing girlfriend whenever he wants?"

"What do you want?"  Brittney smirked.

"I looveeee youuuu."

"Spill."

"Can you massage my shoulders pplleeasseee.  You're soo good at it."  Lance said flashing a big smile.  Brittney rolled her eyes.

"I knew it.  There is only two reasons you're head is ever between my legs."

Everyone groaned and Justin threw his hands up in the air.  "Ohh come on!!  There are other people in here!"

Brittney and Lance laughed as she started to massage his shoulders.  Lanced closed his eyes, enjoying the sensation of his girlfriend working the kinks out of his shoulders and neck.

Soon hair dressers, make up artists and wardrobe people were coming in and out of the room getting the guys ready for their show that night.  Brittney laughed to herself at how JC was acting every time they would be running back for a custom change; checking up on Kristen to make sure she was still sleeping; while he was changing and getting touch ups before running back out onto the stage.  Soon the show was over and Mike offered to carry Kristen to the bus, since she was still asleep, so the guys could rush to the bus and get on before the fans got out.  Once everyone got on the bus and everything was safe and clear, they made their way to the hotel.  The guys were still running off their high from the show, but kept it down not to wake up Kristen.  When they finally pulled up to the hotel, JC scooped Kristen up into his arms and made his way off the bus and up to the rooms with the rest of the guys.  Once they got to the floor, JC said his goodbyes and made his way into his and Kristen's room and laid her down on the bed.  He pulled off her flip flops and placed them by her suitcase along with the bag.  JC grabbed a pair of boxers and walked into the bathroom to take a shower.  After a nice warm shower, JC pulled on his boxers and made his way over to the bed.  After setting the alarm on the clock, he climbed into the bed next to his girlfriend.  He brushed her hair out of her face and gave her a couple kisses on her forehead before wrapping his arms around her and snuggling close to her.  He closed his eyes and said a silent prayer that she would be better tomorrow.