Black screen. MTV's diary logo.
Fade to Justin Timberlake's smiling face.
Justin: "You've seen us sing, you've seen us dance, you've seen
us eat. But you've never seen us as up close and personal as you're about
to see us right now. This is *N Sync's 2002 MTV's
tour diary."
Fade to white. Fade to a panoramic view of the compound. The camera follows a path towards the door and up to the living room where Justin is sitting, like a host of a cheap talk show.
Justin: "So, it's been a year since we did one of this, and a lot of things have happened since then. We're getting ready to start our new Tour, Living Dangerously, and everything's ready."
J.C. (From somewhere upstairs, off camera): "Except for your bag, curly!"
Justin, laughing, getting up from the coach. He shrugs.: "The curls have been gone for a year, and he still calls me curly."
The camera follows him towards the upper floor, where we see Lance coming out of his room, carrying two bags.
Justin: "Lance just lost a bet with JC. He has to carry his bags for the whole first leg of the tour. He's going to get really strong."
Lance: "Shut up, Curly."
J.C. follows the direction Lance went.: "Now hurry or we will leave you behind."
Justin, explaining at the camera, smiling widely.: "They wouldn't."
Joey comes from behind, runs a hand through the buzz cut of the former blonde. "We would. We have a new golden voice now, remember?"
Justin grins, punches Joey in the shoulder. "Chris likes me. He'll never let you guys abandon me."
Chris (From the first floor, off camera): "I would if I knew I could do it without my sister getting mad at me!"
Joey: "You heard the man, now go pack, and don't loose your time chatting with your online friends. We're late."
Justin glares at Joey and goes into his room. He closes the door before the camera can get in.
Fade to J.C., who looks lost in thoughts for a second.
JC: "Justin is always logging on the net lately. We blame Nick Carter. Ever since the hatchet was buried, those two became good friends and Nick got Justin hooked on the net… Then they meet this girl who is a big fan of BSB and *N Sync and never bought into the 'we hate each other' routine and… well, Justin seems to love email and chatting. He's still very active, though. When we can get him away from the laptop, he's almost as active as Chris."
Fade to the *N Sync bus. The place is a mess. There are clothes thrown everywhere. Justin is quietly typing on the computer, giggling softly. Lance sits right across him, his eyes glued to his own laptop. JC plays some random notes on his keyboard. Joey and Chris wrestle, playfully. In a second, Chris has Joey straddled, back against the floor. He leans almost as if to touch Joey's lips with his own.
Chris: "C'mon! I have to be Brianna's godfather! I introduced you to Bobbie!!"
JC looks into the camera, over Joey's screams : "This happens every day. Briana still hasn't born and she has 4 possible godfathers."
Lance, not looking up: "But we know who they're going to pick."
Joey: "I'm not picking you, Chris. And neither is Bobbie!"
Chris: "I would be a really cool godfather, Joey!"
Joey: "NO!"
Chris tickles Joey, who struggles and laughs hopelessly on the floor.
Fade to black, Justin leaning back on a leather chair.
Justin: "Having Chris back was just what we needed. He has enough energy to make for all of us, and back up dancers. Sometimes, it seems that he could do the whole stage without help. But we have to cut down his sugar income. I don't think his boyfriend has the energy to deal with a sugar hyped Chris 24/7 when we're not on tour."
Justin ducks a flying pillow.
Fade to a mall, where Justin, Lance, Joey, JC and Chris sign autographs. They're surrounded by security, who don't let the fans get too close unless it is for an autograph.
Justin (Voice over): We rarely go to malls anymore, unless it is for meet and greets. We love to do those, and we still love our fans, but we simply cannot just go and buy stuff anymore.
Lance (Voice over): It sounds bad, and we know it. But a lot of things have happened to make management take that decision. We cannot go alone to anyplace were we can be recognized, because even when our fans are really cool, there are some sour apples in the barrel.
Justin (Voice over): Like Daniel.
Lance (Voice over): It's not our place to discuss about Daniel. But most of the new security measures are because of him.
Cut to news footage, Daniel Windsor is carried away by *N Sync security, yelling threats to a very shocked Chris Kirkpatrick, who is being hugged by his younger sister Emily and a very angry Joey Fatone. He is yelling that Chris will always be his 'little elf', no matter what and that he will kill anyone who opposed to that.
MTV Narrator: Daniel Windsor is the star of the latest legal mess that involves *N Sync. He sued the group when Christopher Kirkpatrick, *N Sync newest member, mentioned him as his last boyfriend in an interview, alleging that said action had made Mr. Wilson's fiancée, Roberta Loughride from Loughride Inc., cancel their upcoming wedding. However, any chance he might have had of winning the lawsuit was severely diminished when he attacked Chris Kirkpatrick this morning during a meet and greet in Albany, when the former high school teacher was meeting some of his old students…
Fade to a very sour Chris, dressed completely in black.
Chris: I really had hoped Danny would let it rest. When I said he had been my boyfriend, it was because I thought he was out. I would never out someone who doesn't want to, or can't afford to. And when he did that… I was deeply hurt. I expected him to try and do something against me, because that was one of the reasons why we broke up, but I never thought he would try and threaten the girls. I… I hope that when he is released, he works out those problems…
Fade to the quiet room. Justin is still typing on the laptop, dressed in the first costume for the concert. JC and Lance are not in the room. Joey plays gameboy, just keeping it out of reach of the bouncing red ball that Chris is constantly throwing to make a small dog go and run after it. Chris is not having any success there.
Justin: "Busta is never going to learn a trick, Chris."
Chris: "He will. He's smart!"
Joey: "Unlike the owner or the jerk who gave it to you…"
Justin (Voice Over): "Busta is Chris' 6 month anniversary. His boyfriend gave it to him to celebrate Chris' six months back in the group AND their 8 months together. Usually, Busta stays with Bobbie, but for tours, Chris insists on bringing the pug with him. I think it's because he can have someone his own mental age to play with."
THUD
Justin (Voice Over) : "What?"
Johnny Wright, *N Sync manager, comes in, followed by Lance and JC who are already dressed.
Johnny: "O.K. Everyone. It's time for the show. Joey, why you aren't dressed yet? Chris, stop playing with the dog… JUSTIN! Didn't I told you to log off an hour ago?"
Justin: "ChaosT was telling me about…"
Johnny: "I don't care what your girlfriend has to say unless she can explain to me why Joey is not ready. C'mon. It's just fifteen minutes before we start!"
Joey throws the gameboy to Lance, who swiftly catches it and runs out of the room. Everyone laughs, except for Justin, who types something in the laptop before closing it.
Fade to Lance's laughing face.
Lance: "Chaos and Justin aren't dating. At least, not yet. They meet on a chatroom months ago, back when Justin went around advertising he was Justin Timberlake from *N Sync, and she was ecstatic to know that there was no bad feelings between us and her OTHER favorite band, the BSB. Justin knows her real name, and we know they have gone to a couple of movies together when his schedule allows it, but he hasn't even tell us. That's why we call her Chaos T., short for her nickname, Chaos Timberlake. The way things are going, soon it isn't going to be a nickname."
Lance catchs a flying pillow and send it back to the direction it was sent from.
Justin (Off camera): "Ouch!"
Fade to different takes of the concert. It is a big tour, even bigger than Celebrity. At the end of the five minute collage, the guys come out from the stage and into backstage. Security is congratulating them. Justin and JC look tired, Lance and Joey are moving slowly. For some weird reason, Chris is jumping two steps at a time, grinning widely.
Chris (Voice Over): "I love performing. I never get tired of it. When I had to leave Orlando, leave JC to fulfill our dream, that was what I missed the most. So I was always helping the choir back at Emerson High, or at L.A… I even sang in a little coffee shop back in Albany. Being back with the guys is the second best thing that has ever happened to me."
Justin (Voice Over): "See why we don't want to give him more sugar?"
Thud.
Justin (Voice Over): "Stop throwing pillows at me!"
Fade to the drive of the Fatone house in Orlando. Bobbie is there, noticeable pregnant. She waves to the boys who all run and hug her. They all look a little different than when the diary began. She looks at the camera, waves, hands some papers to Joey, kisses his cheek, kisses Chris cheek and is gone.
Joey: "And that's one of the few advantages of not being married."
Lance, hitting Joey's arm: "Jerk."
Joey, at the camera, motioning it to follow him: "Don't listen to him. Now, come on and get a free tour around the Fatone house."
Justin (Voice over): "We always end up in Joey's house after a tour. It's a great place to hang."
The camera follows Joey as he points at the different places in the house.
Joey: "That's the kitchen, that has only been used to make sandwiches and warm pizza, since neither Chris nor I are good cooks. And that's the pool, where we usually do laps and stuff. It's a great exercise and I need it to be able to take Wade's choreographies. Upstairs is my room, and the room that Chris and his boyfriend share, when his boyfriend's on town. We have tried to convince Chris to get a house here but…"
Chris (Shouting, off camera): "But then you would be deprived of my company."
* * *
"O.k. We've seen enough." Justin said, as he turned off the VCR. "I think it went fine, all things considered…"
"What? You don't want to see when Lance and JC drenched you in the pool?" Chris asked, from his very comfortable place in Joey's arms.
"Or when Joey threw a pillow to you when you were explaining why our fans were cool?" Lance added, smirking.
"Or when…" JC started.
"O.k.! O.k.! I get it! It was the 'pick on Justin's' video!" The younger man pouted, and set the VCR to rewind.
"Still… there were a couple of close calls…" Lance finally mused, when the video finished rewinding. "I thought Chris and Joey were going to kiss when they were wrestling."
"Me too." JC agreed, while Justin nodded. "What were you to arguing about, really?"
"Brianna's godfather." Chris and Joey said at the same time, looked at each other, and kissed softly.
"So, like you still haven't decided on who is going to have the
honor?" Lance asked, curious. He and JC hadn't asked for it because
they both were going to be busy being Howie and Kevin's best men at their
wedding in Toronto. Chris couldn't be because, after all, he was going
to be one of the parents, and AJ was out of the question because he was
too busy since Kristen was due in a couple of weeks –and yes, the
teenybloopers had recovered from the shock of Kevin's divorce, and from
knowing that he was divorcing Kristen because Kristen loved AJ. They
didn't know about Kevin and Howie's relationship, but that was just fine
for everyone involved.
"Well, we thought a lot about it." Joey said, as he stroke Chris' spiky hair. "We figured… there's this one person who is responsible for us being back together, and for me meeting Bobbie… And for Bobbie's parents accepting that she's going to be a single mother."
"So we asked Nick to be Brianna's godfather." Chris finished, smiling.
"Because my boyfriend is so cool." Justin smiled, full of pride. After a long talk with Chris and Joey, six months ago, he had finally admitted to himself that the reason he liked to hang around Nick so much was because he loved the other man. And he had been pleasantly surprised when Nick admitted he loved him too. The fact that in the net Nick posed as a 18 year old girl named Chaos Timberlake only helped things run smoothly.
He wasn't
even surprised when four pillows hit him at the same time.
