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Growing Up by Nafio (Rish)
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: AJ McLean / Nick Carter
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nafs
Author Website: Idle Dreams
Why this must be read:
This story is a group of ficlets that follow AJ and Nick as their relationship shifts and changes as they grow up together in The Backstreet Boys. This Nick is sweet and earnest and knows what he wants, while AJ is smart and insightful, or at least when he takes the time to look around him and within himself to see what everyone else knows. I love Nick's mixture of youth and maturity and confidence. This is probably a more together Nick than the reality, but not a far stretch of who he could be. And when he comes into his own and takes AJ at his word at the end it is fantastic. AJ is just human and that is wonderful all on its own since he oftentimes tends to be larger than life (pun intended. ;). Add there is even some UST between Nick (and AJ) and Howie to make me happy.
When his cell phone rang ten minutes before the buses were due to pull out, A.J. knew it was Nick. In the whole history of having five buses, he'd spent maybe ten nights on his own. Kevin had been heard to wonder why they had a fifth bus at all. But Nick was the most social of them. Howie had been the first title-holder of "most likely to touch his fellow Backstreet Boys" but then Nick hit nineteen and decided Brian wasn't the only huggable guy in the group. A.J. thought it had something to do with surviving 1998 -- he wasn't sure.
"Hey Nick. There's room here if you want it. My mom wants to watch a movie."
"Uh... hi Aje." Hmm. Nick wasn't usually hesitant about inviting himself onto people's buses. "I was kinda wondering if... uh... you wanted to hang out on my bus."
A.J. blinked. Looked at the phone. Put the phone back to his ear again. "You sure you even remember what that looks like?"
"Of course!" Nick was indignant. "It's the one that doesn't belong to anyone else."
Growing Up by Nafio
Pairing: AJ McLean / Nick Carter
Author on LJ:
nafsAuthor Website: Idle Dreams
Why this must be read:
This story is a group of ficlets that follow AJ and Nick as their relationship shifts and changes as they grow up together in The Backstreet Boys. This Nick is sweet and earnest and knows what he wants, while AJ is smart and insightful, or at least when he takes the time to look around him and within himself to see what everyone else knows. I love Nick's mixture of youth and maturity and confidence. This is probably a more together Nick than the reality, but not a far stretch of who he could be. And when he comes into his own and takes AJ at his word at the end it is fantastic. AJ is just human and that is wonderful all on its own since he oftentimes tends to be larger than life (pun intended. ;). Add there is even some UST between Nick (and AJ) and Howie to make me happy.
When his cell phone rang ten minutes before the buses were due to pull out, A.J. knew it was Nick. In the whole history of having five buses, he'd spent maybe ten nights on his own. Kevin had been heard to wonder why they had a fifth bus at all. But Nick was the most social of them. Howie had been the first title-holder of "most likely to touch his fellow Backstreet Boys" but then Nick hit nineteen and decided Brian wasn't the only huggable guy in the group. A.J. thought it had something to do with surviving 1998 -- he wasn't sure.
"Hey Nick. There's room here if you want it. My mom wants to watch a movie."
"Uh... hi Aje." Hmm. Nick wasn't usually hesitant about inviting himself onto people's buses. "I was kinda wondering if... uh... you wanted to hang out on my bus."
A.J. blinked. Looked at the phone. Put the phone back to his ear again. "You sure you even remember what that looks like?"
"Of course!" Nick was indignant. "It's the one that doesn't belong to anyone else."
Growing Up by Nafio
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