"Hayleigh?" Justin half asked, half screamed as he went running through the house, trying to follow her scream.
"Justin?!? I'm back here, help me, please!"
Justin ran through the living room and into a bedroom. He saw Leigh tied up on the bed, her hands and ankles tied. There was a deep cut on the left side of her forehead, blood was dripping down the side of her face. She had a black eye and her arms were cut up and bruised. Justin paused in the door for a second before sprinting over to the bed and picking her up, not bothering to untie her. "Hurry Justin, he'll be back any second," Leigh said, coming out of her panicked state.
"Yeah, I'd like to see him," Justin said as he ran out the door. And into Chris.
"Man, what the hell... Hayleigh, what happened?" Chris was totally confused, seeing Leigh tied up and in Justin's arms.
"Chris, get outta my way NOW," Justin said, pushing past Chris and running to his car.
"Look, I don't know what happened, but I'm going with you wherever it is you're going," Chris said, getting into his car and following Justin.
Leigh was crying hysterically on the way to Chris'. Justin tried everything he could to calm her down, to no avail. Everything he said to her was met with sobs. She couldn't speak, she was hysterical. But Justin couldn't hold her because he wanted to get her as far away from JC as possible. As soon as he pulled into Chris' driveway, he wrapped his arms around her and didn't let go. Not until she started to calm down a little bit. Chris' house was forty five minutes away from Leigh and Justin's, and Justin figured JC would check at their house first, then Chris'. They had lost Chris on the highway twenty minutes prior, and had to wait for him to get home to unlock the door.
~*~*~
"And that's what happened," Leigh said, ending her explanation of what JC had done to her. Lance and Joey had come over after Leigh had asked Justin to call.
Justin wanted to kill. But he refrained from his homicidal thoughts and thought rationally. He had to get Leigh away from Orlando as soon as possible. And then it hit him. Leigh had wanted to go on vacation since she moved to Orlando. Why not now? And why not in her favorite vacation spot, where JC would never even think of looking, Justin doubted JC even knew it existed.
Justin got up from his spot on the couch next to Leigh and ran to the phone. He dialed a few numbers and waited a few seconds.
"Justin, what are you doing? Who are you calling?" Leigh asked, panicked yet again.
She got up and walked over to Justin and he pulled her close to him as he said into the phone, "Hi, this is Justin Timberlake from 'N Sync. When is your next flight to Ocean City, Maryland?"
Leigh looked up at him in confusion. He mouthed the word "Vacation" to Leigh before continuing, which got a smile from her. "Tomorrow morning? Great, can I have two first class tickets? Thank you, just charge them to my account. Thank you, bye."
"Ocean City? Justy, how did you know I love it there?" Leigh said, trying to contain her excitement.
"I saw those pictures of you and you sister there," Justin said, hugging Leigh, "and I knew you loved it there. And you need a vacation, you've been working way too hard," he said, refering to her habits of working out at and teaching dance lessons at the local YMCA.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Leigh said. "I haven't been to Ocean City in so long. And I know exactly where we should stay, too."
"Great. This is gonna be good for you, trust me."
"You're doing this to get me away from JC, right?"
"You know me too well. I'm not letting him near you ever again, I swear."
"Neither are we, Hays," Lance said, throwing in his nickname for her."
"Thanks Lansten. I love you guys," Leigh said, walking over to where Lance, Chris and Joey stood and giving them all a big group hug.
"Hey, what about me?" Justin said, feeling left out.
"Aww, Justy, come here," Leigh said, removing her arm from Joey's neck and extending it to Justin.
Justin smiled and walked over to the guys and Leigh and got in on the group hug before whispering into Chris' ear, "Man, I love her. I know I love her. And no one is going to keep me away from her now."
"Take care of her J, just take care of my little sister," Chris whispered back. The two looked at each other and back at Leigh, who was being picked up and swung around by Joey at the time, then back at each other. In an unsaid agreement, they knew what they had to do, and that was get JC out of her life for good.
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