We dont need the world outside,
we've got all we need tonight
Love is Enough, oooh yeah yeah
Let 'em say what they wanna say, when you're holdin' me this way,
Love is Enough
Everybody searchin' for a piece of mind, all they gotta do is look at you
and I
(Chorus)
Baby, just wait and see you can always count
on me, When times getting tough
You're the reason that i'm livin' nothing
that i wouldn't give
Love is Enough
May never have a lot of money, but it dont
really matter honey
Love is Enough
Ain't it funny how 4 little letters, can
hold it all together
Love is Enough
Even when we're old and gray, i'll be here
and you can still hear me say
(chorus)
Long kisses and a tender touch, 2 hearts
make a leap,
What else do we need?
(chorus)
Meghan had a totally different perspective on their situation when she awoke
a few hours later. Justin was still sleeping, so Meghan carefully untangled
herself from her embrace and went downstairs.
After hearing that song on the radio,
Meghan was more than convinced that love was enough for her and Justin. She
could deal with the fact that they didn’t have a lot of time alone together.
She now knew that she could deal with anything that came in her way. As long
as she had Justin and his love, that was enough.
Meghan hadn’t been up for more than
five minutes when Justin came down the stairs, dressed with a big grin on
his face. Meghan was still in the kitchen having her coffee, so she had no
idea he was up.
Wanting to surprise her, Justin walked
into the kitchen on his tippie toes so she couldn’t hear him. Once he got
right behind her, he put his hands over her eyes and whispered in her ear,
“guess who?”
“Oh Chris,” Meghan said in a husky
voice. “I told you not to come around until after Justin’s gone.”
Though he knew she was just kidding,
he pretended to be hurt. “And I thought I was your one and only.” He pouted
after he took his hands away and sat in the chair next to her.
Meghan smiled. She moved her chair
right next to his so she could lean over and kiss him. He tasted like mint
toothpaste.
“You’re in a better mood this morning,”
he said. “I guess our night together proved to be a lot more soothing than
I planned.” He grinned. He knew whenever they made love, she always seemed
more comfortable the next morning. Like for a while everything would be okay.
“I’m in a much better mood.” She kissed
the tip of his nose, which she had never done before. “I heard this song
this morning that made me realize something about us.”
He nuzzled her neck. “Yeah?”
“Yeah,” she said. She groaned quietly
as his mouth made a journey along her neck. “It really made me realize that
what we have…our love…is enough. I don’t care if we have to pretend forever.
I just know I want to be with you forever.”
“I’m glad you feel that way, cause
we are going to be together forever,” Justin said, leaning up and capturing
her mouth in another kiss. “And I’m glad you feel better about this. I hate
this pretending thing, too. I just want to tell the world how much I love
you, baby.”
“Good.” She deepened the kiss and wrapped
her arms around his neck. Leaning her forehead against his, she sighed in
content. “I love you so much.”
Justin smiled. “I love you too.”
She noticed his left hand was in his
pants pocket. “What are you doing?” she asked.
“Nothing,” he said, casually.
“Yeah, right,” Meghan said, knowing
him all too well. She tried to get to the truth the best way she knew how…by
tickling him.
Laughing hard, Justin’s hand fell out
of his pocket. He pulled the silver box with him. He looked at the box, then
at her.
No, it couldn’t be, she thought. But
he had that ‘we need to have a serious talk’ look on his face.
Justin looked at the box again, then
put it up on the table. “Before you say anything…”
She was already wondering what he was
going to say.
“I don’t think I tell you often enough
how much you mean to me. And I probably don’t tell you how much I love you
as much as I should. And it’s not because I don’t want to…It’s just cause
our time is so limited together. And I just want to cherish it. I’m so tired
of this sneaking around, and I’ve decided that it’s time for us to stop.”
Justin slowly opened up the silver
box. Inside, was a small diamond ring. He looked up into her eyes, which
were already filled with tears. But this time, they were happy ones.
So he continued now that he really
had her attention. He caressed her cheek with his hand. “I love you more
than anything in this world. It just took me these months apart for me to
realize just how much I love you. If I lost you, I don’t know what I’d do.
I’d want to die probably,” he admitted, with a nervous laugh.
Meghan put her hand on top of his.
“I love you,” she said, softly.
“That’s good to hear because…” Justin
lifted the ring out of the box and carefully placed it on her left hand.
“Well, this past year has been the hardest, most amazing year of my life.
And I can’t imagine my life without you by my side as my partner, my soul
mate. Meghan, will you marry me?”
Meghan immediately went into his arms,
wrapping her arms protectively around his waist. “Yes.” She pressed her lips
to his and kissed him not once, but three times. When they pulled away, both
breathless, Meghan’s blue eyes were lit up.
“We finally got here,” he said softly.
“I knew if we believed in us enough, we would get through it. And we did.”
“Because our love is enough.” She hugged
him close. It wasn’t long before they were both back upstairs in their bed,
making love as if it was their first time.
****
3 hours later…
Meghan and Justin were snuggled up
on the couch watching some old movie. When Justin got up to get some more
popcorn, Meghan changed the channel to see if there was any news on a kidnapping
that had occurred a few nights ago to one of her neighbours.
But there on the news was Justin’s
face.
What’s this? she wondered, and turned
the volume up.
And then, a picture of Meghan and Justin
popped onto the screen. It was a close up picture of the two kissing at the
airport a few months ago, when she had seen him off to his flight to Europe.
Oh God, she thought.
A newsman in a dark black suit was
talking to Justin. This must have been taped a while ago, she thought. Little
did she know it happened last night.
“Me and Andrea Nembles were never an
item,” Justin admitted, on national television.
“And this woman in the picture?” the
reporter asked.
Justin glowed at the mention of Meghan.
“That’s my girlfriend, Meghan. She’s my best friend.”
The reporter whistled. “Isn’t this
the girl who you repeatedly denied rumors of dating?”
“We weren’t dating at the time those
rumors were going around,” Justin said. “But for the last year, we’ve been
together. And I just want to come out and tell the truth. Cause it’s not
fair to either Meghan or me to keep this hidden. We love each other. We don’t
care what anybody else thinks. It’s time the world knows and accepts us.
Cause nothing or nobody can tear us apart.”
“And that was Justin Timberlake, of
NSYNC, finally admitting to all those rumors of a romance with his best friend,
Meghan. We have gotten a few phone calls from JIVE executives, who are outraged
of the idea of the pair dating. We’ll be back in a minute with more news.”
Meghan switched the channel back to
the movie. She couldn’t believe Justin actually did that.
A few minutes later, Justin came back
into the living room with more popcorn.
“I can’t believe you did that,” Meghan
kissed him. “I’m proud of you.”
“You saw it, didn’t you?” He had been
angry when JIVE had called him earlier this morning to yell at him. But he
had taken control of the situation and told them to back off. He was in love
and there was nothing they could do about it. That had certainly kept them
quiet, he thought. They had even promised to try and accept it, and keep
their noses out of Justin’s personal life.
Justin wrapped his arms around her
waist, and Meghan laughed. “But couldn’t you have picked out a better picture
of me?”
After kissing her senseless, Justin
smiled at her. “It doesn’t matter. Love is enough. Finally, we’re where
we’re meant to be.”
“Together,” Meghan said.
She was laughing the entire time Justin
carried her back upstairs.
The End