Nick was hanging out
backstage at the venue in Paris, France. He and his best friends were on tour.
Brian, Howie, and AJ came in and saw him.
“You okay, Kaos?”
AJ asked sitting down.
“I’m fine,
just thinking,” Nick said.
“About what, Frack?”
Brian asked.
“Just life,”
Nick said.
“Are you doing okay
since the breakup?” Howie asked.
“Yeah, I’m
okay,” Nick said. Nick and his girlfriend, Lauren,
broke up before he left for tour three months earlier.
“Guys!” Billy,
Nick’s bodyguard, said coming in pulling a
girl by the arm.
“Billy,” Nick
said.
“I found her out
by the buses, she was trying to board one,”
Billy said.
“Let her go, Billy,
we’ll take it from here,” Brian said.
Billy let her go and she stood there.
“I’m sorry,
I just wanted to hide and get out of France as
quick as possible and I thought you guys were my best chance,” she said.
“What’s your
name?” Nick asked.
“Hayley,”
Hayley said.
“I’m Nick,
this is Brian, Howie, and AJ, we are the
Backstreet Boys,” Nick said.
“I know, you guys
need to help me,” Hayley said.
“Are you in danger?”
Brian asked.
“My father sent
men to bring me back home and I can’t go back
there, it felt like prison, I could not do anything, I couldn’t go exploring
the country, I couldn’t do anything, it felt like the windows and doors were
bars keeping me inside,” Hayley said.
“Hayley, there is
something you are not telling us, please,
if we are to help you, tell us the truth,” Brian said. Hayley sat down and
looked at them.
“I’m the Princess
of France, my dad is the king, he wants me
to marry the prince of Spain, this man is like thirty years older than me, I
can’t do it, I want to get out of France, I don’t want to marry some guy who is
old enough to be my father, I can’t go back, my father will not listen to anything
I say, I have to get out of this country,” Hayley said.