Chapter 12
The boys finally made it to the venue about 2 hours before the concert was
scheduled to begin and did a quick sound check to make sure that everything
would sound alright during the concert. Brian was pleasantly surprised when
the pain that brought him down to his knees, hadn’t come back. “Maybe
there was nothing wrong.” thought Brian happily as he changed into his outfit
for the opening song. He was suddenly brought out of his
thoughts as his cousin stood in front of him again resting his hand on Brian’s
forehead to feel for a fever. A look of concern again made its presence in
Kevin’s eyes as the warmth radiating off of Brian’s forehead greeted his
hand. “Brian, maybe you shouldn’t go on tonight, I’m sure the fans will
understand. I’m sure they would rather have you not perform and get well
again than go out on stage and get sicker.” Kevin told his cousin. “Brian
thought for a moment before replying “No, Kev I’m fine. Just don’t worry
about it, I promise if I start feeling sick again on stage I will come backstage
to rest. It is just a fever, no big deal. Now quit worrying about me man.”
And as if to set his cousin’s fear to rest, Brian wrapped his arms around his
older cousin and pulled him into a hug. “Ok, Brian just as long as you
promise to get offstage as soon as you feel sick, I guess it is ok. Just don’t
forget to keep that promise, I don’t know what I would do if anything
happened to you on stage.” said Kevin as Brian released him from the hug
and started walking towards the door. “Thanks man, and yes I promise.
Now quit worrying, old man. I’m going to go find Nick and see if we can
cause any trouble before we go on stage.” Brian said with a mischievious grin
lighting up his still pale face. As he watched Brian leave the room, Kevin couldn’t shake the feeling that something
bad was going to happen to his cousin. “No, it is just my imagination. He is
as mischievious as usual. Nothing can be wrong.” thought Kevin as he
walked out of the dressing room looking for his other bandmates. Later that
night, he would finally realize how much he wanted that thought to be true.