Amber's View

"Hey babe," AJ kissed me as he walked through the door after going with Nick to drop Missy of at the airport. "I picked up your mail for you on my way up – this one looks kind of interesting," he said handing me a letter with a big pair of handcuffs on the front.
"Hmmm looks like something you'd send me," I said jokingly.
"What'd he send you?" Nick asked walking through the still open door.
"Are you sending you her x-rated letters again AJ?" Rhonda said following him in, holding Howie's hand.
"No, I only send her video's."
"Really?!" Nick said looking around obviously hoping to see one playing.
"It's from Maria, the woman who manages my gallery," I said as I looked at the return address on the envelope. "You'd love her Rhon – she reminds me a lot of you. Come to think of it that's probably why I hired her."
"Well open it already!" AJ said grabbing the letter from me and tearing it open.
"Hey that's a federal offense you know," I said grabbing the letter back. I took the letter out started to read it. I couldn't get through it all without laughing my ass off.
"Hey Rhon what are you doing Saturday night?"
"Nothing why?" I handed her the letter and watched her burst out laughing. "Oh I am so there. Do you remember the last one we went to in New York?"
AJ grabbed the letter out of her hand and him and Howie stood there reading it – AJ getting an excited look on his face – Howie blushing. "Don't know what to do with those extra batteries…come to a sex toy party and find out. I'm going, how about you Howie?" AJ said grabbing me and pulling me over towards him. Howie just stood there and blushed.

"Who said you were invited?" I asked.
"Oh you'll let me come," he said with a glimmer in his eyes.
"Yeah, and why is that?" AJ leaned down and began to whisper things in my ear that caused even me to blush, and then finished it off with a deep kiss.
"O.K.," I said when we finally came up for air, "AJ's going!"
"I don't even want to know what he said to you," Howie said laughing.
"I do," said Rhonda, "If it made Amber blush that hard, it has to be good!"
"I want to go too," Nick said checking out the invitation.
"You got anyone in mind that you're buying for?" Rhonda teased him knowing he had been asking about Missy an awful lot after the birthday party.
"No – I just want to go is all," Nick said turning his head away quickly.
"Well that's everyone except Howie. Come on D you gotta go!" AJ said.
"Yeah man – you gotta go if I'm going." I had to laugh – the more Nick and AJ tried to convince Howie to go – the more Howie seemed to find my paintings on the wall fascinating.
AJ got a very mischievous look on his face as he tried one more time to convince Howie to come with us to the party. "You have to go D," he said as he walked over and put an arm around Howie's shoulder "You've got to find out what keeps your woman screaming your name even when your not in bed with her." Howie's whole face turned bright red as he shot a quick surprised look at Rhonda. Rhonda just glanced the other way and started laughing. "Beside you don't want her to come home with any surprises, do you?" Howie shook his head no and shot Rhonda a now kind of curious glance. "Then it's settled – you're coming with us."

"I hate to interrupt this touching moment here," I said figuring that I'd help Howie out a little and change the subject. "But if we don't leave this very instant we're gonna be late for the movie. I'll drive!"
"You?" Nick said, "You drive worse than AJ!" AJ smacked him upside the head for that comment.
"Yeah, but I'll get us there in time. Come on!" with that I grabbed the keys and headed out the door not glancing back to see if anyone was following me.

Rhonda's View

"Nick is here," we heard Howie's mom yell.
"Send him up!" Howie yelled back as he searched his closet for something to wear. "What exactly do you wear to a sex toy party?" he mumbled. I couldn't help but laugh at him. Why was he making such a big deal out of this?
I went into his closet and pulled out a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. "Here – just wear this." Howie hesitated but then took the clothes to iron. "Hey guys!" Nick said as he entered Howie's room. "Are you guys excited about tonight?" Howie just looked at Nick and went back to ironing his jeans. "What exactly happens at these parties? Do they have demonstrations?"

I started to laugh again. "Well, if you meet the right girl there you might get a demonstration." At that comment, Howie decided to go look for a pair of shoes in his closet.
"I already met the right girl – she's just taken," Nick said with the sound of depression in his voice as he fell back onto Howie's bed.
I felt bad for Nick. He really had feelings for Missy but she was engaged to JC. Howie and I tried to introduce Nick to some friends from the club but he always ended up talking about Missy, which isn't a good way to attract women.

"Amber and AJ are here!" we heard Howie's mom yell. Howie was finishing putting on his belt as we went downstairs.
"Well now," AJ said with a twinkle in his eyes, "what were the three of you doing upstairs??"
"Dude – my mom's in the other room!" Howie said trying his hardest to be mad at AJ.
Amber elbowed him in the stomach. "Don't even start tonight – I'm warning you now!"
"I'm kidding! Besides, Rhonda wouldn't chose Nick over me," AJ said as he winked at me. Howie shot AJ a look and AJ knew to knock it off.
"Come on, we don't want to be late! I want a front row seat."
"Have fun at the club!" Howie's mom yelled from the kitchen. Everyone looked at Howie knowing that he would never tell his mom where we were really going.
"We will!" everyone shouted back as we headed out the door.

I whispered to Howie as we walked to the car, "You don't have to go if you don't want to." Howie looked up and I thought for sure that he was going turn around and head back to the house. "No, I'll go."

Amber's View

"You never really answered my question - do they have demonstrations at these things?" Nick asked from the backseat.
"I hope so," AJ answered back "Do they take credit cards – because I brought two along just in case." I threw Rhonda a look in the back where she was squeezed in-between Nick and Howie – who was just starring out the window. She threw me one back. This I could tell was going to be a long night.

"It's that one over there," I said pointing to the house where Maria lived. We pulled in to the driveway and everybody climbed out of the truck.
"I can't believe I'm here," I heard Howie mumble under his breath as we walked up to the door and rang the doorbell. It wasn't very long before Maria answered the door.
"Amber hi! Come on in." She gave me a look as AJ and the other Boys passed by – I was going to have to do some explaining at work on Monday. I never told any of my employees that I was dating a Backstreet Boy. "Everybody's in the living room to your right. We're gonna start in just a couple of minutes.

We walked into the living room and I said hi to the people I recognized. Howie and Nick quickly found places on an empty couch and tried to not look too hard or too long at anything or anyone, while AJ walked up to the table displaying the toys and looked around. Rhonda and I just looked at each other again and shook our heads. Maybe this had been a bad idea to bring the guys with us.

"Hey honey, look at this one – it looks like the one you have!" AJ said holding up a small blue vibrator.
"Now I know this was a bad idea," I thought as I turned bright red in embarrassment.
The hostess walked into the room to start the party and AJ went to sit in a chair next to the couch Howie, Nick and now Rhonda were occupying. I walked over and took a seat on the arm of AJ's chair close to Rhonda. "I might need her to get me through tonight," I thought as our hostess started her show.

"First let me introduce myself to you, my name is Bev Gilbert and I own Fantasies Unlimited. Tonight I'd like to show you some of our line of products. I'm passing out an order form to you right now, so if you see anything along the way that you want, just check it off. I'll be taking orders privately upstairs when I'm done. Now let's get started." I looked over in time to catch AJ already checking something off his order form. I leaned over to see what it was, but he covered the paper so I couldn't see.

"Uh uh- it's a surprise," Was all he said. I didn't know whether to be excited or nervous about that.
Bev started off the party by passing along a dildo. Nick took it from the person next to him and looked at it like he didn't quite know what to do with it. "Come on pass it around," AJ said impatiently. Nick tried to hand it to Howie but he wouldn't take it – Howie looked completely mortified at this point but Rhonda was quick enough to realize what was going on and took it from Nick.

Rhonda whispered something in Howie's ear as she passed it along to me and he smiled the first smile I had seen him smile since we left. I checked out the dildo and then handed it to AJ.
"Does this come in any other sizes?" came out of his mouth before I could stop him.
"Why yes it does," said Bev smiling at him. AJ just smiled back and winked at me.

AJ continued to embarrass me the rest of the night. "Hey, honey is this a good size for you? … What do you think of this outfit? (a black leather and lace thong teddy) … We need to have that! (referring to a huge leopard print vibrator)". I have never been so embarrassed in my life! I tried to get up and leave a few times, but AJ had his arm around me and every time I tried he would hold me down and give me one of those damn winks. I was beginning to think he was turning into Howie with those. He was enjoying this – he knew exactly what he was doing.

Howie on the other hand was able to get up and leave – the lucky s.o.b. I guess he just couldn't take it any more, AJ or the party. Rhonda quickly got up to follow him out.

Rhonda's View

I followed Howie through the kitchen and outside onto the deck. He sat down on a lounge chair. I felt kinda bad for him – he had the look of a child stuck in church. It was the "not-wanting-to-be-here-but-I-have-to-be" look.
"Honey – you do know that we don't have to buy anything, right?" I asked.
Howie took a deep breath. I couldn't tell if it was a sigh of relief or him just taking in the warm summer air. "I just couldn't take AJ anymore".
"Come on – you don't really think that they are into all of that stuff do you? AJ's not that kinky."
Howie looked at me with concern, "And how would you know?"
"Girls talk."
"Girls talk about that kind of stuff?!?"
"I...oh my god I can't believe that I said that...okay, I'll tell you but you have to you have to promise not to tell anyone else. Promise me!"
"Okay, I promise."
"You know when girls go to the bathroom in groups…well that's what we talk about."
Howie had to laugh at that one, "Ah the truth can be told!!"
"Seriously though – we don't have to buy anything here, or we could get a few of the massage oils or flavored lotions...you know, just start with some small stuff. Don't worry, it will take a few parties for us to end up like AJ and Amber."
"Oh god can you imagine what they're ordering?!" Howie laughed.
"Come on. Let's go back inside and see."

We headed back inside the house and noticed a line leading into the dining room. Howie went into the living room and picked up a catalog, browsing through it and flipping past some of the more risqué toys. I noticed Nick in line doing his best not to be noticed. I snuck up on him and tried to peek at his order sheet.

"So did you meet someone to use those toys on?" I asked scaring the shit out of him.
"Hey now! You can give someone a heart attack by doing that!"
"So Nick, what are you ordering?"
"I'll show you what I'm ordering if you show me what you're ordering," he responded.
"Sorry, but I'm letting Howie pick the stuff. You know, beginners need to put their toes in the water and splash around a bit. I don't want to push the poor guy into the deep end of the swimming pool."
Nick suddenly got a curious smile across his face but decided not to ask me any more questions. "What is taking so long?" he asked as he peered at the closed door of the den where the orders were being taken.
The girl in front of Nick answered, "the guy with the leopard print hat is in there." Nick and I decided to go sit down by Howie. We figured we would be waiting for awhile.