𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 ─ new kids on the block

𝒙𝒙𝒊.

JUNE 22, 1990
→ T I N N I E

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"HEY, DON'T STOP there—and?" I turned my head in confusion to see who had overheard us.

It was Jordan. "Hello? What happened next?" he kept asking me.

Jordan had apparently taken a shower in his and Emily's bathroom, which she completely forgot to check by the way, and therefore overheard everything we had been talking about for the past five minutes.

"I'm not telling you!" I said.

I mean, I didn't mind him knowing, but just the idea of me telling Jordan about my little 'encounter' with Joey seemed really weird. If he wanted to know so bad, he should've asked Joey. But I was definitely not going to be the one to enlighten him.

"And why not? I heard like half the story already, anyways," he said, tightening the towel around his waist to make sure it didn't fall off. If he wouldn't have done that—oh my...

I rolled my eyes, not because I was pissed at Jordan, but just because I didn't bother to keep telling the story with him in the room. I dragged Emily out of the room, and told her I'd continue the story some other time.

"No, no, no, you can't leave me hanging like that! I need to know what happened!" she said, practically getting on her knees and begging me to continue.

"Alright, tell you what—I'll tell you the whole story tonight when you come over. Deal?" I asked as she nodded in response, "good. Now let's go eat, I'm starving!"

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After all of us had finished eating breakfast, it was time to start packing up and getting ready to leave. I couldn't believe how fast these three days at the cabin had flown by. It was just crazy to think that tomorrow at this time, we'd be on the tour bus with the New Kids, on our way to Lake Placid for their first show of the Magic Summer Tour.

"Hey Tinnie, could you come help me carry my stuff to the car?" I heard Joey shout for me from our room. I walked to our room, looking rather confused.

"What stuff? You had no stuff," I told him as I walked into our room. Right then, he shut the door behind us and pressed me up against it, kissing me.

"We don't have time for this, Joe! We have to go now, or the cab will leave without us!"

"Just five more seconds..." he said, smiling at me as he kissed me again.

"No, babe! Come on, we have the whole summer ahead of us. Let's move it," I said, giving him a kiss on the cheek before pushing him away and messing up his curls.

He laughed softly and grabbed his suitcase from the bed, putting his arms around me and hugging me from behind, just like he had done last night on the bridge. I had to walk out of our room with Joey glued to my back. We passed Donnie and Jon on our way to the car. They just rolled their eyes at us. Probably because they were completely over us being all lovey-dovey all the time.

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I spent the entire carride sleeping on Joey's shoulder because I was really exhausted from last night. When I woke up, we were already back in the city. The cab dropped me and Emily off at my house.