Till You Let Go
Epilogue
The last tour had been grueling, but all the guys were glad to be back
home. JC and Justin especially. JC and Anna had a baby girl just five months
ago, and they named her Ashley Elizabeth Chasez. The baby room had been
improved by a much determined JC, to make sure his baby had the best looking
baby room in the whole world. JC had spent his days off in the room fixing
it up, before he and Anna were both blessed by Ashley's arrival two weeks
early.
Justin and Elizabeth had gotten married just three weeks before the birth
of Ashley. They themselves just got the surprise of their lives when they
got back from their honeymoon in Hawaii. Elizabeth was pregnant.
They didn't tell anyone right away however. JC and Anna were having so
much showing off their little bundle of joy. Elizabeth and Justin were
content enough knowing that their unconditional love had produced a bundle
of joy for themselves.
The wedding, however, could have been a disaster. Meg had shown up in the
groom where all the men were preparing for the wedding. She had barged
in and declared her everlasting love to Justin. He had ignored her and
told her to get the hell out or he'd call security. He didn't remember
the memory fondly.
*Flashback - 2 hours to the wedding*
"Justin!" Meg opened the door with some trouble. Somebody had tried to
lock her out. Chris, fortunately, had seen her through the window, as she
got out of her car. Wearing her white satin dress that she had bought for
the occassion to try and convince Justin to come back to her, Meg ran inside
and walked right up to Justin, who was fixing his tie.
When he saw her, he flipped out. He started cursing at her, biting her
head off entirely, causing Meg to latch her mouth onto his. Justin pulled
back quickly and wiped his mouth. "Gross! Why the hell did you do that
for?" Justin yelled.
She knew he was angry, but she was positive she could turn his frown upside
down. Besides, she could always do it when they had been together. "Justin,
I miss you. I love you---"
Laughter filled the room. The four other guys, who were all part of the
ceremony, had heard it all before everytime Meg tried to convince Justin
that she loved him. And only him. What a joke that always was.
Justin snorted. "Funny. I used to love you, but you know it's hard to love
someone that betrays you all the time," he spat furiously
Meg tried again, and reached for his hand, but he just stepped back. "You
can't marry her. She's not good enough for you! No one can love you like
I can!"
Justin laughed. "Ain't that the truth."
Chris rolled his eyes. He hated the way Meg looked at Justin like at any
minute she would devour him. "Step away," Chris growled when Meg tried
to advance on Justin.
"I have better things to do than listen to your stupid antics," Justin
growled. "Your excuses are growing old, Meg. Just leave the same way you
came in. I'm getting married in two hours, and there's nothing you can
do about it."
Meg knew he was slowly slipping away from her forever. She only had one
chance. "Please!" she begged, pulling on his arm, almost ripping the fabric
on his suit. "You have to listen to me! I'm a changed woman. I promise
I won't ever hurt you again. Please, give me another chance!"
"When hell freezes over," Justin said, and turned the other way.
"What's going on in h---" Anna stopped abruptly in the doorway when she
saw Meg latched onto Justin's leg. "This is dispicable. Didn't I tell you
to stay away from here? You're not going to ruin their wedding day."
While Anna was glaring at Meg, Meg was glaring right back at her. "I don't
do what you tell me to do! If I want to see Justin, I can."
"Let go of me!" Frusturated and angry, Justin pushed Meg away. "Damn it,
can't you control yourself for one minute? Now, stay the hell away from
me!" He walked across to the other side of the room to where Anna was standing.
"I don't care what you do, get her the hell out of here! I don't want to
see her face." Then Justin slammed the door and he was gone.
"Justin!" Meg cried, running after him out the door.
Anna, still pregnant and unable to walk too far, looked helplessly at the
four guys in front of her. "Somebody should go after him. He might punch
a wall or something."
"I'll stay here with Anna, you guys go find him," JC said, wrapping his
arms around her waist. He knew she must be exhausted. Their baby was due
in just five weeks.
"Okay," Joey said, and they left to go find Justin and Meg.
"Stay the hell away from me!" Justin just couldn't seem to get rid of her.
She kept following him like she was a puppy dog. "What is your problem?
Did you not hear me?!"
"You're lying to yourself if you think you'll ever forget me," Meg said.
"You still miss me, admit it."
Justin snorted. "I don't think so. Two years ago, maybe. But not now. Not
ever again."
"Does she really do it for you?" When Justin just stared coldly at her,
she laughed. "You're fooling yourself if you believe you can be happy with
her. I'm the only one that really loved you."
"You know that's funny," he scowled. "Cause as I recall, you're the one
that screwed around on me. It was you that made me doubt Elizabeth's love.
I was stupid for ever thinking that she could hurt me. I'm ashamed to say
that I ever dated you!"
"You're the one who said you wanted to wait to have sex!" Meg exploded.
They were now causing a scene. All the guests were gathered around the
two, Justin now glaring coldly with a mean look on his face. He looked
like he was ready to pound on her.
"Well excuse me for wanting to wait!" he yelled, not caring that people
were watching. He just hoped Elizabeth wasn't hearing this.
"You obviousley didn't have to wait too long," Meg said. "Is that how you
got her to marry you, huh? You took her to bed, then she agreed to marry
you?" She laughed bitterly. "You're gonna regret the day you let me slip
through your fingers."
"That's the other way around, dear."
Meg suddenly realized that a crowd was gathered around them, and had heard
every word they'd said. Tears filled her eyes as she realized that it was
over. Elizabeth had won. She had lost. She had been defeated, and there
was no way to get back what she'd lost. She knew she'd been a fool to run
around on Justin.
"You're right, Justin," she said, softly.
"Huh?"
"You're right," Meg repeated. "I was so stupid. I wanted to love you so
bad. I wanted you to love me so badly that I made up this vision that you
would always be mine. I shouldn't have cheated on you. All I wanted was
for you to be there for me. But you were always gone. What was I going
to do? I couldn't wait for you. Now I wish I had."
"I'm sorry," Justin said. "We never would have worked out. We never would
have made it. You have to know that."
Meg nodded slowly. "I know. You better go. Justin, I want you to know that
I wish you the best."
"Thanks," he said. "I know one day you'll find somebody that loves you
as much as I love Elizabeth." And with that, he turned and walked back
to the dressing room, his four groomsmen following behind him. They had
to admit, Meg did a good thing by admitting defeat. Now the wedding could
go on without a hitch.
Elizabeth sighed. She was in her white wedding dress, with Anna by her
side, and she had seen the whole thing. Meg had come back and was going
to try and take Justin away from her. Two years ago, Justin would have
taken Meg back by a snap of her fingers. But then, Justin hadn't loved
Elizabeth. Then, they had just come to get to know each other. She remembered
when they started dating, Justin had gone back to Meg. He hadn't been able
to admit to himself at the time that Meg was unfaithful. But times had
changed, and so had people. Justin was a totally different person now,
and so was Elizabeth. And so was Meg. For the first time since she'd met
Meg, Elizabeth could really see a change in the way she acted.
Everyone had gone back into the church, waiting for the wedding to begin.
"Come on," Anna urged, leading Elizabeth back into the bride's room. "You
have to finish getting ready. You don't want to look a mess when Justin
sees you walk down the aisle, do you?"
*End of Flashback*
After that, things had gone smoothly. The wedding had gone perfectly. When
Justin saw Elizabeth walking down the aisle by herself, he was mesmerized
by her beauty. Her heart had been caught in her throat when she saw Justin
standing there, waiting for her to join him. The reception had also gone
without a hitch, which relieved Elizabeth. She had been worried that maybe
Meg would try to crash it. Meg had really given up, and left them alone.
It was like they had gotten to the finish line of a long race.
As their first dance together as man and wife, Justin and Elizabeth had
slow danced to a song that Justin had written for her, especially for their
wedding day.
After the wedding, they had left for a week honeymoon in honeymoon, where
they conceived their first child.
Nearly
nine months after their wedding, Elizabeth gave birth to a son, they named
Marc after Elizabeth's cousin, who had helped get them back together.
JC
and Anna went on to have three more children, one boy and two more girls.
Elizabeth and Justin only had one more child, a girl, who them named Jewel.
JC and Anna named their son Christian, and their twin girls Amanda and
Sarah.
As
the years flew by, Elizabeth and Justin only grew closer together. They
stayed married until the very end. So did Anna and JC. Even when all their
children had grown up and moved away, the four stayed close, living only
three houses from each other.
Elizabeth
continued her career as a nurse, and saved many lives. She and Justin opened
up a cancer clinic near their house, that was owned and operated by Elizabeth
and Anna. JC and Justin continued in the music business, and became two
of the most known songwriters in the world.
Meg
never resurfaced. She had found a man that she fell in love with and eventually
married. All in all, in the end everything worked out.
All
that mattered was that love won in the end. As it always does.
THE END