"Don't Want to Lose You Now"
by: Roxo and Morat Lipstick

"Finally, some room to stretch" said one of the girls as she popped out of their hiding place and started to wander around the strange house.

"I can't believe Nick is sleeping right there! Right in front of us!" the other girl screamed in a whisper as she followed her partner.

"Shhh! You'll wake him up and our plan will be ruined!"

"Our plan? I thought we were just gonna stalk Nick until we found out where he lived? And now we're in his house, isn't that enough? Why can't we wake him up? How are we gonna have fun with him if he's asleep?!"

"Must I explain everything? Sometimes I wonder if you and Nick share the same brain… Nick will be scared and kick us out if he wakes up and find us here. We need to find something that will make him want us to stay… Come up with a plan before he sees us."

"Oh. I get iiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" her scream blended in with the thud of her body meeting the floor. She found herself lying facedown within an inch to Nick's fuzzy baby blue carpet.

"What the…?! Nikki are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm okay. I tripped on a piece of Nick's pizza. See I told you our baby isn't a pig that'll eat three whole pizzas by himself."

"Fine you win. He only ate two and 11/12th pizzas."

"Wow hey I found a piece of Nick's hair on his carpet! Can we say 'eBay'? Ka-ching!"

"E-bay? Heck no. Gimme that. We're framing it and hanging it up somewhere!

Still clenching the piece of pizza she had fell on, Nikki yelled franticly for Nicki's attention. "Look he bit a piece off right here, if I place my lips exactly over it it'll be like I'm kissing him!!!!" Wanting to get Nick's cooties, Nikki proceeded to do so. "Aahhh!" a shrill high-pitched sound escaped from her lips. She couldn't help the orgasmic scream that seized her as her lips indirectly touched Nick's on the half eaten piece of pizza

"Would you shut up? You are gonna wake him up!"- both girls looked at Nick still lost somewhere in dreamland- "Plus I am trying to think of a plan..."

Nicki and Nikki scrunched their faces thinking real hard until a light bulb turned on in Nicki's head

"I GOT IT!" Nicki excitedly whispered her devious plan to Nikki, shaking and giggling out of control they made their way to Nick.

"You wake him up"

"No, you do it"

"NO! You!"

"You!!!"

"Okay I'll do it"- said Nicki trying to trick Nikki

"NO I WILL DO IT!" It worked like a charm every time...

After 10 minutes of shaking the boy and not getting any positive the results the girl went over to the kitchen to find a bucket of water.

Seconds later screams of "I'm drowning ...I'm drowning!" were heard in the living room. The girls looked at him in awe. There he was, the man of their dreams kicking and slapping around with the bucket of ice water dripping down his face.

"Gosh he's gorgeous!"

"Gosh he is stupid!!

Nick eyes fluttered open. "Where...where am I...who...you... Oh my God… I'm in heaven aren't I?"

The girls looked at each other flabbergasted until Nikki finally got over her shock and reacted. "Yes Nick you're in heaven and we are angels"

"Angels… hey why are there pugs in heaven? Shouldn't they be in doggy heaven?" Nick asked seating up and pointing to the two over weight dogs munching on pizza crumb.

"Well you know, you got lost on the way up to heaven Nick…" Nicki said to play along with Nikki. "You ended up in doggy heaven."

"We're the angels that saved you from going into N'sync Fanven."

"Awwww thank you"- he said lifting both girls up from the floor in a warm hug.

A full three minutes later, the girls finally couldn't take it anymore. "Nick..." they managed to let out between their frantic attempts at taking in oxygen. "Nick...that, that's enough. WE CAN'T BREATHE!"

"Ooh I'm so sorry. I don't know how to thank you," Nick looked around. "Want a piece of pizza?" he asked as he grabbed one from the floor. "I think I can get used to doggy heaven if they always serve pizza this good."

It was the Hawaiian kind, Nikki's very favorite type of pizza. She was about to jump up to get the piece, after all it wasn't just any regular piece of pizza, NicKolas Gene Carter himself had touched it, when Nicki held her back.

"Remember our plan," she whispered then added speaking to Nick- "You MUST stop eating pizza"

Nick seemed confused, well more confused than he usually is.

"But why...why?!" He whined in his usual way.

"Pizza will make you impotent"- Nicki tried to explain to the thick sculled Nick.

"Pope? No I am not the Pope. Howie thinks I am sometimes though and tries to cuddle with me when he's asleep"

"No, Nick. We mean you won't be able to have an erection"

"Election? Yes I voted in the last election did you?"

"Wow… now I understand why the votes in Florida were messed up…" muttered Nicki.

"Noooo! Nick!" Niiki, who was getting frustrated by his mentally challenged replies by now, screamed at the man. "Not election! ERECTION!!!"

"Errr...Erect...What?!"

"Nick if you keep eating pizza your wee wee won't get happy anymore"- she tried to word it as simply as possible. Nick continued to look confused until a look of pure horror and angst spread through his face as he finally realized what they meant.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" His pitiful scream filled the house, the neighborhood and spread through out the city.

"That can't be true...how could it...you are lying!"

"NicKolas Gene Carter, how dare you call US, doggie heaven angels, liars? We would never ever lie! You must not love your pugs very much, do you want them to burn in hell with Lassie forever?"

"Noooo... With Lassie?" He added surprised

"Yes, Lassie. We didn't like him. But anyway that is not the reason why we are here. We came to stop you from eating pizza"

"Do I REALLY have to?"- Nick asked in a pitiful tone that 'almost' broke the girl's hearts.

"Yes you MUST, unless you don't want to have sex anymore"

Nick finally understood the consequences that eating pizza would bring

"Give me a minute to explain this to Big Nicky"

Both girls wondered silently who this "Big Nicky" was.

Nick turned around and looked at the girls. "I need some privacy here," he said as he gave them the get-out-of-here head nod.

The girls left the room but left a little crack of the door open to see who exactly this Big Nicky person was, to their surprise Nick looked inside his boxer shorts and started talking to his penis.

"Big Nicky, we must stop eating pizza...well because if we don't you won't get an erec...erec...I mean you won't get up anymore... these two nice girls told me...they are doggie heaven angels...no come to think of it they don't have wings...they are probably hiding them...yes we must stop eating pizza... I know, I know, it WILL be very hard." (no pun intended).

The ringing of the telephone interrupted Nick's little pet talk to Big Nicky. The two girls were elastic to hear Nick using the speakerphone.

"Hey man"

"OMG! Brian?!"

"Yeah. Why are you so surprised to hear from me?"

"Because! OMG did you drown and lose your way too?!"

The girls knew they were screwed. How would they get out of this one? But they had to giggle at the thought of Brian Littrell in doggie heaven.

"Did you just wake up? Stop talking nonsense Nick. This isn't doggie heaven. There's no such thing as a doggie heaven! Haven't you ever read the bible?!"

"But Brian these two beautiful girls were here and they told me that they were angels from doggie heaven!"

"You were probably dreaming. Look I just called to warn you that AJ'll be there soon and he's very pissed. Something about a tattoo you let him get when he was drunk? Anyway I'll be out but catch me on my cell if you need me. Later."

"Bye Brian." Nick lowered himself onto his couch and starred into blank open space as he tried to think of whether to run or face AJ. But before he could think too long Nicki and Nikki came back with what would have been their dinner- a freshly cut stab of delicious broccoli.

"Ahhh!!!!" screamed Nick once again almost as loud as the pervious time. "Who are you?! What is THAT?!"

"We told you already! We're doggie heaven angels! And this," they said as they held up the broccoli to Nick's face, "is a veggie!"

Nick quivered and recoiled in fear. "You… You're not angels! Brian said there's no such thing as doggie heaven. And there wouldn't be broccoli in heaven!"

Looking at Nick's pitiful face, Nicki had to restrain herself from jumping on Nick and humping his leg right there. "Control yourself for the good of the plan." Nikki whispered in her ear as if she knew what Nicki had been thinking of doing.

"We are angels! Brian just wants you to think that there's no doggie heaven so that his dogs can have all the room there. But you're right there is no broccoli in heaven Nick. See you're not in doggie heaven anymore. The Big Doggie Giant Head said that you couldn't be there because you were a man. You would have been sent to N'Sync Fanven but we loved you so much so we brought you back down here. Now you must be here to protect you 24/7 from the Big Doggie Giant Head in case he finds out you were given a second chance."

"Thank you! Thank you! I love you gir- I mean angels! Hey since I'm not in heaven anymore, does that mean I can eat pizza again?!"

"No! You must NEVER eat pizza again. Remember what we told you last time."

Hurt whimpering sounds could be heard from Nick as he tried to deal with this reality. "Can I have a minute with Big Nicky again?"

"Nick there's nothing you can't do in front of us. We watch you- I mean your pugs all the time in doggie heaven. So just talk to Big Nicky. Pretend we're not there."

The girls couldn't believe that Nick actually bought that but there he was pulling his boxers forward so he could make eye contact with Big Nicky as he talked soothingly to it. Nicki and Nikki just starred and drooled. They had heard he was hung like a horse but damn that thing certainly lived up to its name.

"Hey there big buddy. Did you hear what they said? They said we can't have any more pizza buddy. Aww don't cry… I'll make it up to you big guy. We'll do our other favorite thing a lot to compensate for eating okay?"

"Yes!" the girls shouted in unison and jumped up to high five each other. Calming down just in time to look sober for Nick. Their plan was finally working.

"Nick… We don't want Big Nicky to feel bad…" Nicki said in her sluttest fan voice. "What she's trying to say is that, we'll help you compensate for not being able to eat pizza…" Nikki added in an even sluttier voice if that was possible.

And so Nick began compensating but we're sure you do not want to hear the details of that. But before Big Nicky could come out and play, the girls had fainted from hyperventilation.

"Oh great…." Said an exasperated Nick. He eyed the two unconscious angels from doggie heaven. One was wearing a shirt with a shark design while the other had shirt with a naked blond boy. I wonder what that's supposed to mean he thought. His mind quickly left the subject of T-shirts however when he saw the last piece of pizza out of the corner of his eye.

"It's just one piece…." He said to himself while making involuntary slurping sounds. "One piece of pizza can't hurt you right Big Nicky?" Unable to control himself, he reached out for the two-day-old pizza.

"NICK!"

"AH! I didn't do it! It wasn't me I swear!" Nick broke down and sobbed. "A giant rat came and ate it! Please don't' kill my wee wee! I'll be a good boy. I promise!"

"What the hell are you talking about you little fart?"

"Huh… hey you're not the doggie heaven angels… Crap, you're AJ…" Nick said remembering what Brian told him.

"No duh. Carter, I'm gonna kick your ass. How in the world could you have let them tattoo "Poopey" on my arm?!"

"Poopey? I did not! I told them to tattoo "P-o-o-p-e-y", Poopy. You're the one that told me to take you to the tattoo pallor the next time you got too drunk to know anything, so I did."

"Oh my God! You stupid ass! It's spelled "P-o-o-p-y!"! "P-o-o-p-e-y" is Poopey! And I told you that before Amanda and I broke up! How the hell am I supposed to explain this to Sarah?"

"It's not my fault you can't spell" muttered Nick under his breath.

"What's that Carter?" AJ screamed. "I'm gonna get you back for this. Don't be surprised if you find "c-r-a-p-p-e-y" spelled out on your forehead the next time you wake up."

"C…r…" But before Nick could finish figuring out what kind of insult AJ just threw at him, Nicki and Nikki woke up and began sniffing the air.

"OMG! There's another Backstreet Boy here!" Nikki shouted to Nicki.

"Yes there is!" They followed their nose until both of them bumped into the chest of the sex scented AJ McLean.

"Hey sexy ladies. Nick didn't tell me he had company." AJ said as he forgot all about Nick and turned on his charm. The girls looked at AJ in the way that Nick looked at a 12-inch cheese pizza.

"Nick? Nick who?" All that existed in their world was the sexy little grin that AJ was giving them.

"Hey! I'm the one that feels bad!" Nick screamed at the girls as he waved his flappy arms around to get their attention. "Big Nicky still needs compensating!"

"Big Nicky ain't nothing compared to AJiggity," AJ said with a smirk.

"Boys! Boys! There are enough of us for both of you."

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Ding Dong. Ding! Ding! Ding!!!!

Nick body dived onto the bed to get to the phone. "Hello?" he looked perplexed as he heard a dial tone instead of a voice on the other end.

"Oh God… you dumbass… it's the door bell not the phone," AJ told him.

A faint "Hey Nick?! Are you in there?" Could be heard from the door.

"Oh it's your babysitter Brian. I'll go get it," AJ said as he opened the door.

"AJ! Where's Nick? What have you done to him? Where's his body?!"

"Calm down Bri. I didn't do anything to him. He's in the other room trying to answer the phone…"

"Whew. I thought you've buried his remains by now."

"Nah. These "ladies" are here and they saved his ass. We were just gonna "get to know each other" a bit more if ya know what I mean."

By then Nick had figured out that the phone wasn't going to talk to him any time soon and so he stumbled back into the living room. "I hate it when that happens" muttered Nick, but was obviously happy to find Brian there. "Hey bro, didn't hear you come in. Didja meet my doggie heaven angels yet?"

"Doggie heaven? Nick, what are you on?" then turning to AJ, Brian asked sharply, "what did you give him?"

Ignoring Brian's accusation, AJ echoed his question, "Doggie heaven?"

"Yea! These girls, they're doggie heaven angels," Nick answered as he pointed at Nicki and Nikki.

"Uh oh…" the girls whispered, they didn't plan on having to convince AJ and Brian that they were angels from doggie heaven. "Yeah… Hmm… What Nick said. We're here to protect him from the Giant Doggie Heaven Head." They were in too deep to chance their story now.

"You're kidding right? Nick, where'd you get these freaks?"

"Well the last thing I remembered, I was sleeping on my couch then somehow I was drowning in a pool of water. The next thing I knew, I was on my couch again with these girls. They told me what happened Bri, I drowned and got lost on the way up to heaven so I ended up in doggie heaven but they saved me."

"You're not really going to believe them are you?"

"Yanno Brian, we're still here. Stop talking like we can't here you."

AJ was getting impatient with the conversation by now. "I'm going home. You guys can solve this amongst yourselves, I didn't come here to talk." The girls blew kisses at him as he walked out and giggled loudly to each other.

Brian was not about give up. "I'll prove that there's no doggie heaven! Let me borrow your Bible Nick."

Fifteen minutes later, Brian had gone through all of Nick's super condensed version of the Bible. "Ah ha! Just as I thought! It says NOTHING about doggie heaven. Therefore it does not exist."

"Well… this doggie heaven is a new thing. A new division of heaven. Nick's Bible is too old to have it on record," said Nicki.

An anguished cry could be heard from Nick as he pulled at his hair while contemplating if Brian is really right.

"Nick, hun, stop thinking so much, you're hurting your head. Just believe us."

"Oh stop with the BS," Brian said to the girls. "If you're really angels, then perform a miracle."

"Yeah!" Nick cried out. "Make Brian tall!"

The girls looked at each other and find to send messages of doom silently before they realized that they weren't really telepathic. Realizations always come at the worst times.

"Can't do it, can't you? I told you they aren't really angels," Brian said to Nick with a smirk.

"Yes we can!" said Nikki. Nickil looked at her incredulously as if she had gone out of her mind. "Yeah. We just did… We made Brian tall."

"It's a miracle! It's a miracle! Brian's tall!" Nick yelled at he jumped up and down in joy.

"Nick?"

"Yea Bri?"

"Shut up. I'm still the same height. Look how much taller you are than me."

"Oh… Hey you guys aren't really angels!"

Nicki tried to mouth the words "Are you outta your mind?" but Nikki ignored her frantic display of desperation and went on with what she was saying, "Nick, we already told you! We ARE angels. We did make Brian tall. We just made everything else taller also."

"They are angels! They really are angels Brian!"- said Nick happily

"No they are not!"- Brian was becoming increasingly angry- "Why would you make everything taller also?"

Nick looked at the girls with his big blue eyes and they knew they had to make him believe them or forever loose his trust

"Listen Nicky, we had to make everything taller also so the world wouldn't be off balance, if we made Brian taller and kept everything the same size it would have been like turning the rainbow upside down...Brian is just NOT meant to be tall!"- Nicki explained

"Nick we would never ever lie to you"- Nikki added looking deeply into Nick's eyes

The sun bleached light curly locks on Brian's hair twitched in frustration as his nostrils flared out to let out steam.

The girls whimpered in fear at this new side of Brian. "We must check what the book says to do in a situation like this" whispered Nicki to Nikki. They inched toward their backpack for the book while Nick went through his stages of despair and confusion.

"What are you guys doing?" Brian sensed that they were doing something sneaky.

"Nothing!" Nikki was so startled by Brian that she dropped the book she held midair.

"What's that?" Brian ran over and picked it up before the girls could stop him. "The Dummies Guide to Stalking Young Blond Celebrities Named Nick, " he read off the cover of the greasy worn book. "Do you need anymore proof Nick? They're here to stalk you! They're no angels."

"What do I do?!" asked Nick to no one in particular. "I want to believe both of them. The girls… they're so nice, saved me from doggie heaven, and made Brian tall, but they did tell me I can't eat pizza… And there's Brian. He's my best friend. I've known him almost as long as Kevin has, though his not my cousin. He never lied to me before so why would he now? Well no I take that back, he did lie about the birds and the bees to me… He said he didn't know anything about it when I asked. Seventeen and didn't know about that? Yeah right."

"Nick… You know you're talking out loud right?" asked Nicki.

"Oh crap." Apparently not.

Brian knew that getting Nick to see the truth was a lost cause. He was getting tired of his and wondered if LeighAnne had noticed he was messing yet. "I got to get out of her. I was only supposed to pick the children up from the groomers and I don't want LeighAnne to worry," he said hurriedly.

"Man you're whipped."

Ignoring Nick's comment, he turned to the girls as he was leaving and said, "don't take too much advantage of him."

The girls were happy. With Brian gone, no one would be here to ruin their plan. They had been so close to success before, and now they were going to get something something from Nick.

"Hey girls?"

"Yes Nick?" they said in their best-attempted sexy voice which actually came out like they had a week's full of mucus stuck down their throat but Nick didn't seem to mind. And it could have just been Nicki's imagination, but it seemed to her that Nikki actually wrinkled her noise and winked at Nick.

Just as Nick was about to answer with one of the lines he learned in Picking Up Young Fans 101, he remembered that he had to do something. "I gotta go to restroom. You guys wait for me here." He hurried to the restroom, stood in front of his costume made full-length mirrors, dropped his pants and began talking to Big Nicky. "Hey big guy. You still work right?! I mean c'mon I only had ONE little piece of pizza. I know I should have controlled myself… but it's so hard. Please work! Listen to me, you WILL work!" With that, Nick zipped up his pants and came out of the bathroom.

The girls who were of course listening to the whole one sided conversation on the other side of the restroom door ran back to pretend they were sitting in the living room and stop their snickering in time.

"Lets get back to what we were gonna do…" Nick suggested as he squeezed his eyes shut and hoped that Big Nicky would come through for him.

"Yes lets." Then to each other they whispered, " I can't believe we made him believe! Ah this is so great. He bought the whole Doggie Heaven story HaHa-" the girls were cut off by a lightening flash and a loud bark.

The girls and Nick looked around confused. What they saw frightened and amazed them. Brian stood before them, surrounded by white light and ten Chihuahuas, wearing a T-shirt that said "Doggie Heaven Big Head".

"Oh My G-" those were the last two and 1/3 words the girls ever uttered as humans for Brian waved a giant bone at them and they were transformed into a Yorkie terrier and a Westie terrier.

"Barf! Barf!" they screamed as they saw their furry arms and legs.

"Brian?!" Nick asked. "What?! YOU'RE Doggie Heaven God?!"

Brian sighed knowing this may be hard for Nick to understand and began his explanation. "I tried to hide this from you guys Nick but then these two girls, I don't know how they knew but they were getting too close to my secrets. I couldn't let them stay here forever. And, yes I'm what they call the Doggie Heaven Big Head. Why else do you think I had to leave so many times? Do you really think Leighanne needs me that much? No, I was always away taking care of Doggie Heaven business. And the only reason I said that there was no Doggie Heaven was to try to make you guys believe. But it didn't work for the girls so I had to turn them into dogs… You can understand that right Nick?"

"Does anyone else know who you really are?"

"No. You're the only person that knows Nick. You have to keep this a secret. But if I see that you can't I might have to take drastic measures."

"You mean you're gonna turn me into a dog too?"

"No! I'll just wave my magic bone and make you forget."

"BARF! BARF!" Nick put his big comforting hands the girls backs then scratched them behind their ears to get them to quite down. With Nick's hand on them, Nicki and Nikki forgot all about what they wanted before and turned around on Nick's soft fuzzy carpet to be scratched on their bellies.

"Aw. I think they like me," said Nick as he got a lick on each check from the newly turned dogs.

"Yeah they do. They must be put here with you Nick. Keep watch over them. "I'm sorry that I had to condemn them to a life of licking your stinky feet, but I had to do it. But hey we don't mind thought the girls, having Nick pet us and getting to lick him everyday ain't have bad.

"Anyway. Nick take care of them. I really should go. I hope the boxers and pugs aren't battling it out yet up there."

"Hey… before you go… I got one more question." Nick looked embarrassed to have to say it.

"Sure. What is it? Don't be afraid you can ask me anything."

"Do you think my wee wee can still get up?"

"WHAT?!" Brian asked as his face reddened up. He was not expecting that.

"Well you know what I mean! These girls said I couldn't eat pizza, if I did it wouldn't work anymore. But I couldn't stop myself and ate a piece…"

"It's okay Nick! It's okay really. You can eat as much pizza as you want. They were lying to you about that. Probably thought you'd want have sex if you couldn't spend all your time eating pizza. But yes, eat whatever you want. As much as you want. And don't forget to feed Nicki and Nikki." With that Brian waved his bone at Nick and disappeared in a flash of light and another ear deafening bark.

"Woah! Hey I got two new dogs! I wonder how I got them… " Pointing to the Yorkie, Nick said, " I think I'll name this one Nikki and this white one I'll name Nicki. Nikki and Nicki, yes my faithful dogs forever."

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"Never thought that I would lose my mind/ that I can control this…" Nick sang to the cheese pizza as he happily munched on it. "And I, I would bring down the moon and the sun to show how much I care/ don't wanna lose you now/ no no or ever again"

Nicki and Nikki laid by his feet lazily picking up the pizza that fell to the ground. "Barf! Barf!" they said to each other, which translated to "ah this is the good life" in human language. They jumped on the sofa at the same time and licked Nick's face with their big red cheese pizza flavored tongues to show how much they cared for him.

Nick laughed as the assault tickled his face. He finished the rest of his song to the pizza in front of him as he scratched Nicki and Nikki below their chins to get them back, "…and I/ I wish that I didn't need you so bad/ oooh/ Don't want to lose loneliness/ Don't want to lose to emptiness/ oh no/ Never again/ Don't wanna lose you now"

©: Roxo and Morat Lipstick, 2001