She had no nerves this morning as she let Justin into her apartment. She had spent most of the morning telling herself that everything would be okay that she didn't feel anything for anyone except for Justin.

        “Hey, sorry I’m late.” He joined her inside and leaned up against the wall, facing her.

        “Oh that's okay.” Elizabeth hadn't even noticed. He always made up for being late, which she loved, but today she just hadn't noticed. She looked at her watch and noticed it was five after ten. “You're only five minutes late.”

        “I know, but still I'm late.” Justin gave her a soft kiss.

        Apology accepted obviously, she kissed him back.

        “Now I would like to know what this is all about.” She tried to keep a straight face but ended up grinning at him.

        “You’ll see.” He grinned and walked back to the front door. “We better get going.”

        “Wait I need to get something out of the bedroom,” she said, trying to get out of his embrace.

        He had his arms wrapped around her waist, but not too tightly. He let her go then she went to her room and returned a couple of seconds later putting on her sweater.

        “Just in case it gets cold,” she told him.

        He took her hand in his then led her out to his car which was waiting in the parking lot. He helped her into her side then got in his own and drove out of the parking lot and out to the city.

        Elizabeth looked out at the view. She had never seen such a beautiful sight. But the most special thing was that he wanted to make up for that time when he missed their date. It was months ago when Justin was with Meg. They were going to go sailing, but he forgot because of Meg.

        She made herself stop thinking about her. Meg was in his past, she was his future.

        She thought back to Thomas. What if he tried to do what Meg tried to do? She wasn't able to give it another thought cause Justin dragged her over to the boat before kissing her.

        “Come on, let's go in.”

        He led her down into the inside of the boat. It was gorgeous. It was almost the size of a bedroom. He went over and grabbed two glasses that contained some cola in and handed her one.

        “You remembered,” she said, touched.

        “Of course I did.” He kissed her. “I wanted to make this up to you.”

        “I don't know what to say besides thank you.”

        "Aw don't cry honey,” he said wiping the tears from her eyes that had formed. He knew they were happy ones, but they were tears just the same. He took her hand then led her up to the deck of the boat.

        She looked around and noticed now that they were moving. She looked around and saw a man she didn't know, steering the boat. “You paid someone to drive the boat for us? What if he kills us?”

        He laughed. “He's a friend of mine, trust me he won't kill us. Come on.”

        He took her hand again and led her up the ladder. From there they could see the deep water. She was glad she brought her sweater, it was getting chilly out. She reached down to the ground and grabbed the sweater off her bag and slipped it around her shoulders. She caught Justin looking at her lovingly. She smiled and placed a soft kiss on his cheek.

        “I love you,” she whispered.

        “I love you too.”

        She had a wonderful day with Justin, and she hadn't thought about Thomas, but that all changed when she got home. Justin had walked her up to her door and was about to kiss her when Thomas walked out from around the corner.

        “Hey…oh sorry.” Thomas noticed Justin.

        “Who are you?” Justin asked him.

        “I'm…” Thomas was cut off by Elizabeth.

        “He's my friend from back home. Justin this is George.”

        Justin shook hands with “George.” “Nice to meet you,” he said.

        “Yeah um nice to meet you too,” Thomas said.

        He gave Elizabeth a “Why'd you have to go and do that?” look.

        “Well I'll see you in the morning baby, It's getting really late.” Justin kissed her one last time then left.

        After he was gone, Thomas turned to Elizabeth. “What on earth was that?! Too afraid to tell him the truth that you still love me?”

        She glanced coldly at him then slapped him on the face, but not too hard. “Shut up. I'm not going to tell him just yet that my ex boyfriend is back, you got that? And if you tell him, I'll kill you.”

        “Fin.…”

        Before he could finish, Elizabeth had gone inside her apartment and slammed the door in his face. She was a tough cookie but he loved her and was determined to get her back.

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        It was Justin's last day home before he and the guys left for Europe and he had the whole day planned for him and Elizabeth. He arrived at her doorstep with roses in hand, just before eight in the morning.

        She hadn't been up long, but was up when he rang her doorbell. She took the roses that he handed her then gave him a short hug and invited him in.

        “We can't stay long, I've got plans for us,” he said, watching her place the roses in a vase.

        “What plans?” She turned to look up at him. “You never said anything to me about it.”

        “I know. It’s a surprise.”

        “More surprises? You don't stop, do you?” she said smiling at him. When he shook his head, she laughed. “Okay, then let's get going.”

        “I was hoping you'd say that.” He extended his hand to her. She didn't take it, she ran off to her bedroom leaving Justin confused. She came back a few minutes later and opened the door. “Where'd you disappear to?” he asked.

        She locked the door then stuffed her keys in her jacket pocket. “That's for only me to know.”

        “And me to find out?”

        “Um maybe,” she said with a grin.

        Justin followed close behind her as she got to the elevator.

        She was so confused. A mall? Oh God, she thought. He didn't need more clothes did he?

        “What are we doing here?” she asked.

        “Just follow me.” He took her hand and led her to a part of the mall. The next thing she knew, they were in a clothes store, but it wasn't a men's store, it was a women's store.

        She looked over at him as soon as he dragged her into the store. “What are we doing in here?”

        “You need a new dress,” he informed her.

        “What? I do not need....…”

        “Please just pick out a dress?” He gave her the puppy dog face that she always gave into. “Please?”

        “What do I need a dress for?” she asked, glancing around at all the different clothes.

        “The second part of my surprise,” he said, leading her over to the dresses. “Now I'm going to go and look around the mall for what I need.” He took out a credit card and handed it to her. “I'll be back in an hour.”

        “But I don't take an hour to pick out a dress,” she said.

        “Then just look around the mall. I've got a few things to do.” He kissed her then fled out the door of the store.

        Elizabeth turned to look through a rack when a woman came up to her.

        “Do you need help? Is there something particular your looking for?”

        Elizabeth turned around. When she realized who it was, she hugged the woman. “I can’t believe it’s you!”

        “I saw you and Justin walking into the mall. Me and JC are kinda taking a break so I have a lot of free time,” Anna said.

        “You guys aren't breaking up, are you?”

        “I hope not.” Anna sighed. “What are you doing in here anyways? And where did that man go? He left you again. You really need to keep him on a leash.”

        “He says it's some big surprise. I'm supposed to get a dress.” She showed Anna his credit card. “He's around the mall somewhere doing some things.”

        “I bet he's had this planned for a while. He's really going to miss you when he’s gone.”

        “What makes you so sure?” Elizabeth said.

        “He talks about you all the time. JC said whenever it's just the two of them, you're all he can talk and think about,” Anna said with a smile.

        “How about you and JC? Why are you guys taking a break?”

        “Just till the end of the tour. We do that just before he leaves. It only makes our love for each other stronger.”

        “That must be so hard on you though.”

        Elizabeth started looking at some dresses, Anna following her. She picked up a blue one then put it back.

        “You sure you don't want that one? He loves the color blue,” Anna said.

        “I want to please myself, not him. I hate the way blue looks on me. Remember that school dance is fifth grade? It looked absolutely horrible on me!”

        Anna laughed just remembering it. “Yeah well. How bout this one?” She picked up a light pink colored one. Elizabeth looked at it and smiled.

        “That's the one!” they both said at the same time. They both started laughing when people around the store started staring at them.

        Elizabeth took the hanger from Anna and headed to the counter. She already knew her size so she didn't need to try it on.

        “And it's cheap too,” Anna said looking at the price tag. “Man, that guy is cheap.”

        When they walked out of the store, Elizabeth glanced at her watch. “I still have forty-five minutes before he comes back, you wanna go walk around the mall?”

        “Sure.” Anna picked up her bags from the ground after she put her hair up. “Where do you want to go?”

        They both started to look around at the stores, then they saw it. Their favourite store as kids, the book store.

        “Where is she?”

        Justin looked in the clothing store that he had left Elizabeth in just over an hour ago. He had just heard from the saleslady that Elizabeth had left a while ago with another woman.

        He walked into the bookstore when he had tried all of the other stores.

        As he was walking in one of the aisles, he accidentally bumped into some girl.

        Justin groaned when he realized who he had just run into. “Damn,” he muttered. The girl looked him over and grinned at him. He just rolled his eyes. “Following me?”

        “No,” Meg said, still grinning. “But I could.”

        “Move out of my way.” Justin was getting irritated, he did not need any interruptions from her, especially for what he had planned for him and Elizabeth.

        For the last few weeks, Meg had been following constantly, never leaving him alone. Thankfully, Elizabeth was never around when Meg decided to follow him everywhere.

        They both turned their heads when they heard voices screaming his name from behind them.

        This is so not what he needed, fans following him around. He had this whole day figured out, now it looked hopeless.

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