The last tour had
been gruelling, 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.
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 and always
was a disaster. Meg had shown up in the room 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 Before 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 was getting out of her car.
Wearing her white satin dress that
she had bought for the occasion 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, which only got Meg more determined
and she latched her mouth onto his. J
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 that look into a smile with not much effort. 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 every
time 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 despicable. 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!” Frustrated 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,” he said before he slammed the
door behind him after he exited the room.
“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, the other two following
behind him.
“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?” Justin
just stared at her with a cold look in his eyes, and Meg 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 explode.
“Well excuse me for wanting to wait!”
he yelled, not caring that people were watching. He just hoped Elizabeth
wasn't hearing this.
“You obviously 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.”
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.