My ride from being a teenager to being a full-on backstreet boys fan started exactly at february 13th 1996. That was the first time i ever layed eyes on them. It was the very day my first boyband take that split up. I was thirteen and really heartbroken. That day I saw the backstreet boys for the first time because Mtv Europe had made a whole day of sadness over the breakup of take that and i was watching all day. The backstreet boys where there to pay their respects so to speak and probably also because they knew it would be a great place to be seen being there was probably a couple hundred thousand girls watching on this particular day.
So there they were and through my tears i saw my little sweetheart nick, only being 16 at the time. I remember my first laugh of that terrible day was when the hostiss Davina said to nick that he was so young he was wakening maternal feelings in her. i smiled.

My mom knew that because I was a child of devorce I had leaned on take that for a sense of male attention in a weird way. She knew that it was important to me so a couple of days after february 13th she bought me the backstreet boys debutalbum. i loved it. I remember my best friend felt like i was betraying take that by loving backstreet boys so fast after the whole breakup deal. but i felt like well a teenager where sometimes you can have a crush on two guys at the same time and not knowing who you like best, and therefor I had two bands I loved.

Know I am almost 12 years older than I was the first time I saw them and take that has reunited after being apart for over 10 years which i find delightful because I still love both bands, of course not as intensely as when I was a teenager, I mean I do have life besides the boys, well sort of.