The next morning

Everyone rushed around their house's trying to get everything done before they were expected at Justin's. JC was the only one so far running on time and things didn't look good for Chris. When he arrived at his house, he was sitting in his pajamas sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons. That was at 12. At Lances house Kristin was running late and decided that she was going to just going to dress herself. Joey over slept but managed to get done as fast as possible.

Justine and Ty arrived early at Justin's so that they would have plenty of time to get ready. As they walked up to the door Justine walked right in and turned to the stairs slowly both of them walking right up to Brittany's room. She already was talking to the other people in the room. Ty and Justine walked in finding Justin asleep on the chair in her room and Brittany talking over the different outfits that everyone was going to be wearing.

"Hey Justine!" Brittany ran over to her friend hugging her.

"Hey Britt. Sorry we're early but JC called us and told us that everyone was running late and it would be best to come over now." Brittany nodded and moved over to hug Tyler.

"Hey Ty. It's been a while."

"Yeah I know. I haven't seen you since Christmas." He moved over to Justin to wake him up.

"Yeah I know they are all running late. And Mr. Timberlake over there he isn't being much of an energetic person either." Brittany walked away stressed over to the other people that she was talking to.

"Justine this is Jennifer. She will be doing your make up and Sandy," Brittany pointed to the other lady standing next to Jennifer. "She will be doing your hair. If you want you can head over and start getting ready because I have already shown both of them your outfit so they know exactly what they are going to be doing with that wonderful head of yours." Justine whipped her hands over her head covering her frizzy curly hair that was sticking up inall directions.

"Sandy thought that she got out easy when Justin shaved his hand." Jennifer laughed.

"Yeah and then I found out his wonderful friend had to go and perm her hair." Sandy took Justine's hand and led her out of the room to Justin's room.

"Justin aren't we a lively person?" Brittany turned around to see Tyler hitting Justin on the head.

"What? Britt, what are you doing to me? I don't want to get up yet." His eyes opened to see Tyler standing in front of him.

"Tyler what are you doing waking me up! I thought that you weren't coming till later?" He stood up stretching his arms high above his head.

"Ty are you ready to get dressed? Because we only have and hour and a half till we have to leave and everyone has to get done in that time." Brittany handed him a light bluesuit to match Justine's skirt.

"Thanks." He smiled and walked into her bathroom to go and try on the suit. While Tyler was in the bathroom Justin went down and found all the guys pulling their cars into the driveway.

Justin watched from the doorway as all his friends made a scene for the neighbors. Chris was running around on his hands and knees barking like a dog. Justin didn't even want to know why he was doing it. Joey was talking to a girl that was walking by in her exercise clothes. Lance and JC were arguing about something and stood in the drive way with their feet planted there.

They all made no attempt to come inside and start to get ready for the party. If Brittany knew she would be flipping out or ripping her hair out. Justin decided that he would save her hair and ran outside picking up Chris and yelling at the rest of the guys.

Once they were inside they were quickly rushed up to Brittany's room. Seeing that they had arrived Brittany grabbed all of their suits and threw them at them.

"You guys better hurry your pretty asses up because we leave in an hour." The guys watched Brittany run around like a chicken with no head.

"Brittany calm down." JC grabbed her hand pulling her back close to him.

"Everything will be fine. We have done this a thousand times before and you know it." He gave her a reassuring smile as the rest of the guys went to change. "Now why don't you go get all prettied up yourself." Brittany looked up at him.

"Go on! Justine is probably getting lonely in Justin's room." He nudged her pointing her in the direction of the doorway.

"Ok Thanks JC." Brittany looked up at him staring for a second before she realized it and blushed. JC just gave her a wide smile as he turned and paced to the bed picking up his suit and walking away.

Brittany quickly ran over to the other room finding Justine getting her make up finished.

"Hey Brittany they guys must have finally got here." She said trying not to move to much as Jennifer put on her make up.

"Yeah how could you not hear them." Brittany was pushed by Sandy to sit in the hair chair.

"Justine you look so pretty."

"Thanks Britt."

"I bet Ty won't know what to do with you."

"Shut up Brittany you are making me blush!" Brittany laughed at her friend as the two continued to get ready.

About a half-hour later there was pounding on the door.

"What the hell do you want!?" Justine rushed over to the door trying to hurry in her spike heels. Pulling the door open just enough to see whom it was, she came face to face with Justin.

"Sorry to bug you but the guys want to know if you girls are almost done, and I was wondering if you would let me come in and get my cologne I forgot to get it." He looked down nervously shifting from foot to foot.Justine noticed right away that Justin was nervous around her something that he had never been before.

"Um...Uh...No you can't come in but I can get it for you because we don't want you guys to see us before we come down and we will be done in like 2 minutes." Justin just shook his head.

"Woods?"

"Huh?" Justin looked up at her staring into her eyes.

"Do you want Abercrombie Woods? You know the cologne you wanted."

"Yes please." The door was closed as Justine ran past Brittany who was putting on her shoes.

"Justine slow down or you are going to..." Brittany watched as Justine took a dive for the floor. "Fall." Before Brittany could get up Justin was already rushing into the room to aid his friend, well ex-friend.

"Oh my god! Justine are you ok? This is all my fault."

"Justin, Chill I'm fine really." Justine started to giggle at the incidence.

"I can't believe you fell J." Brittany laughed along with her friend as she stood up.

"Justin are you ready?" she watched Justin help up Justine.

"Sure am." He left Justine's side and walked up to Brittany holding out his arm for her to take as he escorted her downstairs.

"Justine do you want to walk with us too?" Justin held out his other arm for her.

"No I'm fine Justin!" She said rudely walking wobbly to the door by herself. "Believe it or not I don't need you to get along."

After everyone had finished getting ready Kristin had arrived and they headed out to the limos. There were two limos so it took the group a while to decide who was going to ride with who.

"Why don't Ty, Justine, Kristin, and Lance go in the first limo and Justin, Brittany, Chris, Joey, and I will go into the second one." JC tried to sort out the people.

"But I wanted to ride with Justine." Brittany whined. "I'm the only girl!" Justin covered her mouth.

"When has that been a problem for you? That's fine Jace." Justin removed his hand from Brittany's mouth. "Right Brittany?" Her head slowly nodded.

"Wait a minute if she is going to agree then I am going to protest this arrangement." Justine walked over to JC and looked at Brittany.

"No you aren't." Kristin ran over quickly to Justine and grabbed her left arm pulling her toward the limo.

"We will see you guys there." Lance waved at the rest of them.

--Inside the first limo--

"So did you hear about the new oil mining that they want to do in Alaska." Kristin started up another one of her boring conversations in turn causing Justine to yawn. Ty looked over at Justine as he was probably thinking the same thing as her. Who the hell cares? Well for one thing Lance seemed to.

"Yes isn't that a tragic thing?" He shook his head in shame.

"Are we almost there yet?" Ty whispered into Justine's ear.

"I was just going to ask you that." She shrugged her shoulders looking clueless.

"Why did your brother have to stick us in here. I think he has it out for us." Ty started cracking up loudly causing Kristin and Lance to stop talking and started to stare at them until they stopped. TY quickly stopped noticing the stares from them. The two quickly went back to talking about their boring topics and both Ty and Justine were glad that they were left out of it.

"So when do you think that Brittany and JC are going to hook up again?"

"Who knows with them." Justine giggled softly. "You know they both want each other. Yesterday I went in his room, and I took Britt's bed the night before so I found her in there and guess what shorts he had on." Ty smiled right away knowing the answer.

"The burgundy ones."

"Yep." Ty laughed again. "JC would not shut up about it the one day. I went over to his house and he was signing autographs at his kitchen table. I was like what the hell are you doing? I then found out that he came home because Brittany wasn't paying attention to him." Justine almost wanted to die of laughter.

"So that's the reason why he left." Both continued to laugh and talk the rest of the way.

--Inside limo two--

"You look really pretty tonight Brittany." Justin looked her over again.

"So I make a damn good replacement Britney then?" She smiled and fixed his coat jacket.

"I still can't believe that I am wearing something this expensive." Brittany looked down at her outfit.

"Well you look beautiful in it. That's all that matters." JC smiled warmly at her. Brittany sat in the middle of Justin and JC in the backcouch and Joey and Chris sat on the other couch along the window watching a movie on the TV on the other side opposite them.

"Thanks JC." Brittany could feel her face turning warm.

"I wonder how the others are in the other limo." Chris jumped off the couch hitting his head on the top of the limo. "Ouch!" He yelped in pain.

"Serves you right!” Joey pushed him sending him sailing in the other three's direction.

"Holy shit duck!" Justin and JC both leaned over Brittany as Chris toppled onto them.

"OUCH!" Brittany screamed. "You guys I can't breathe and you're.." She tried pushing Chris off of them. "hurting me and wrinkling my clothes." Brittany started to get upset as all 4 of the guys looked at her.

"Brittany you look fine. Really." Justin hugged her.

"You look so good that I wish you were my date." Joey smiled slyly.

"Joey you wish any one of the female race would be your date." Chris crawled on the floor in an army crawl toward him.

"Hey shut up! I do not!" He defended himself noticing even JC was nodding his head.

"JC you shouldn't talk I bet you wish you had Brittany for a date too. Because you don't have anyone." Joey noticed JC's smile drop as he turned grumpily toward the window.

"JC sorry man I was just joking around with you." Joey leaned his head toward the side of the car so he could see his face. Before anything else was said the car came to a halt. Brittany eagerly perked up and laid over JC's lap to look out his window seeing Justine, Ty, Kristin, and Lance already on the red carpet. JC turned surprised as he inhaled some of her perfume, savoring the scent. But just as fast as she was on his lap she was off. The door shot opened and the crowded roared at the sight of the guys.

"I'm so excited!" came a high pitched squeal from Brittany.All the guys smiled at her. It wasn’t like this was something new for her. She had been to a million and one Jive parties, along with TV shows, award shows,but some how she still managed to get excited like it was her first.

"Are we ready?" JC placed one foot on the ground squinting a little when the light hit his eyes. All the guys followed the same suit as him,slowly making their way through the crowd of hyper fans waiting to talk to them and get their autographs. The group was hurried along as much as possible. If they had stayed for every fan they would have been late for the party, like three days late.

"Well how did it go?" Lance asked the group with his hand firmly planted into Kristin's palm. A chorus of fines came from all the guys.

"Well.." Brittany flipped her hair with her hand. "If you must know, I am now considered the new Mrs. Timberlake. But the thing is the fans are taking a liking to the replacement Brittany better. What a damn shame." Justin rolled his eyes hearing how much better she was then Britney for the fifth time since they walked inside.

"Well it isn't something to be that proud of Britt." Justine laughed walking up behind her causing Brittany to jump. "Look at who they are comparing you to." She laughed at her friend's pale face. Realizing what she had said Brittany frowned.

"Hey you totally just ruined my happy moment. Oh well!" Brittany's smile was back on her face to match Justine's.

"Come on Brittany lets go find us some hotties to dance with!" Justine dragged Brittany along,even though Brittany was more than happy to oblige.

"Justin is looking mighty fine tonight isn't he?" Justine looked at her friend who was grinding with some young Jive employee.

"Yeah so when doesn't he? That's no big change." Justine smiled at the guys that walked up to her and started to dance with her.

"Don't look now but twiddle Dee and twiddle dum are watching us like hawks over there." Brittany leaned over to her friend who quickly looked in the direction Brittany's head was looking in. Justine smiled noticing JC and Justin standing shoulder and shoulder peering in their direction.

"They better not come over here. Well Justin better not." Brittany's eyes got wide.

"Then you probably don't want to look over there again because here comes Justin." Brittany pushed her eyes closed tightly waiting for Justine to freak. But all that was heard was a sharp in take of breath.

"It doesn't matter both of them are coming to ask you to dance." Justine made her way away from Brittany.

"Damn her!" Justine was quickly out of sight. Brittany soon heard the familiar sounds of up against the wall come on. Justin and JC were soon up close to her grinding on her with her in the middle.

"The girl was fine and she knew she had game." JC sang along with his part.

"She took my hand and never said a word at all we started grinding shortly had me up against the wall." Justin smiled as they continued to grind on her.

"You guys." Brittany's laugh caused people to turn especially the fans.

"Everyone right now is thinking that I'm the tour hootchie." Brittany screamed over the music with the guys still being hardly able to hear her.

"Damn you aren't?" Justin kept dancing.

"Well Joey told us differently.” JC shrugged off another girl as she tried to start dancing with him.

"Well me and Mr. Fatone will have to have a talk. Because if I am the hootchie, I should be getting paid better."

"Yeah I know I'm a workout in bed." Justin smiled letting a laugh break through.

"Well I can't comment on that one I am only the replacement remember I wasn't there!" She hit his head as he tried to dodge her hand.

"But I know that JC sure is a work out." JC burst out laughing at Brittany's serious expression, which caused Justin's smile to drop.

"Wow J you just got burned." JC patted his shoulder.

"Yeah I'll get you later for that B, but did you see where Justine went?" He let his head move around in search other her but all he saw were a couple of screaming fans, Jive executives and employees, and friends and family among other stars. Finding her sitting on a chair alone at a table right next to the dance floor he smiled knowing he was going to corner her into a dance.

"Ok found her!" Justin said to the two.

"Oh yeah and Brittany stop telling people that you are replacement Brittany when they ask you why you are here with me. It makes me sound easy." He started to walk away.

"Can a guy sound easy? Can a guy be easy?" Brittany looked questionably toward JC, who shook his head.

"I'll tell you when you are older."

"Hey I'm not that much younger than you. I was old enough to be your girl friend." she noticed him pulling her closer when the song switched to a slow song she remembered well from all those days at the studio with the guys.

Justin slowly made his way over to Justine pulling her up quickly to the dance floor before she had time to reject him. Before Justine even knew what was going on she was on the dance floor with Justin. A slow song came on from their new CD. The DJ proudly read that it was written by Justin and wade, and tonight the song was dedicated to Her. Justine tightened up. Her? Why her? She relaxed a little bit when Justin brought her close to his body. She was finally in the arms that she was so familiar with . Only it didn't feel the same as it did when they were friends.

Justine and Justin slowly swayed back and forth to the song. Justine had tears dripping down her face and the song ended. "Justin I hate you!" Justine whispered not looking up. Justin's heart dropped at her words. "You made me cry." She looked up at him with a smile on her face rapidly whipping the tears away so no one would see them.

"Justine does this mean that you forgive me?"

"No, not completely...but I don't hate your entire being anymore." She laughed light heartily.

"Well hey I'll take it. It's a start." Justin smiled and brought his friend close to him in a tight hug. Kristin and Lance couldn't help but look at the two.

"Well it looks like things are a little better." Lance pulled Kristin up.

"Yeah thank god!"

"Brittany?" JC watched her as she picked up her head up off of his shoulder.

"Yeah?"

"Do you ever think about us?" He looked her straight in her eyes.

"Huh? What do you mean us?"

"I mean like us..you know what we used to have." He smiled sheepishly.

"Uh...um...well...um...yeah JC I do." Brittany brought her head low now not being able to look in straight in the eyes.

"I think about how I miss it. I know it's stupid, because after everything I did, with not wanting a relationship it would be stupid to think you would want to get back together." Brittany laughed a nervous laugh and started to back away from him trying to end the conversation. JC grabbed her arms firmly making sure in the process not to hurt her. Quickly before he lost the guts to do it he firmly planted his lips on Brittany's shocking her at first.

"Wow." Brittany muttered under her breath as the two broke the kiss.

"I think about the relationship too Britt. I miss it." He smiled telling Brittany everything that needed to be said. Soon the two were in yet another kiss this one a little more passionate than the last one.

"Yo buddy!" The pair heard as they broke apart yet again.

"What Lance?" JC asked angrily, mad at his friend for breaking up their moment.

"You guys are causing one hell of a scene." He laughed.

"But other than that, the press wants all of us over there.Everyone except you is already over there. Then we have the pictures and everything.” Lance kept rattling off more things that the group needed to do.

"Alright Lance I get it!" JC turned to Brittany who was smiling at the two.

"What?"

"You know I did one hell of a job picking out your clothes tonight." Brittany ran her eyes over both guys.

"Brittany!" Lance shielded his body with his arms. "You are undressing me!" He blushed.

"Lance!" Brittany's expression was unforgettable. "Why would I need to do that. I see you change all the time. I don't need to imagine with you guys I have pretty much seen the works. Some more than others, right JC?"

"Damn straight." They both noticed Lance's discomfort and notice how the plan had succeeded. After Lance and JC had retreated from Brittany she quickly found Justine and Kristin in a booth in the back of the party room, both laughing. Sighing Brittany quickly walked back to join them.

"Oh my god Justine!" Kristin banged her head against the table in defeat. "Rivers flow into bigger bodies of water..you know like the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico."

"You are serious?" Justine laughed and took another sip of her drink.

"Justine you seriously never learned this in school. What do they teach you in Tennessee?"

"Lots of stuff like how to milk cows...you know stuff you really need in life." Justine shrugged trying to hold back her laughter but lost it as Brittany walked up and collasped onto the seat next to her.

"Justine are you trying to make Kristin talk about rivers?" Brittany looked over at Kristin and her look of pure terror.

"Yeah!" Justine burst into giggles. "I can't believe I got you so sit here and talk about rivers flowing into bigger bodies of water for fifteen minutes." Justine pounded the table with her fist with tears rolling down her eyes.

"Kristin put the dagger eyes away Hun." Brittany noticed Kristin's expression and by the looks of it Kristin would be jumping over the table in no time flat.

"What do you mean! She totally just made a complete idiot out of me in front of all these people." Kristin panicked looking around to see if anyone could have possibly heard their conversation.

"Kristin! Chill!" Brittany looked at Justine.

"I think I am going to pee in my pants. Oops! I mean skirt." Justine continued laughing making matters worse.

"Kristin if it makes you feel better she only did it to you because this morning I got her to talk about them too. Only she was going on about them for about an hour." Kristin burst out laughing as Justine stopped abruptly.

"Hey you aren't suppose to tell her that!" Justine whined. The rest of the night was pretty much a blur for everyone. There were so many things going on that the guys didn't have much time to see the girls, but when they did they ended up dancing and goofing around. Before anyone knew it everyone was getting ready to leave.

"Are you guys ready?" Chris who was still jumping around asked for the millionth time.

"Who the hell gave him sugar?" Kristin barked groggily.

"Shh Kris, it's fine just ignore him." Lances rubbed his hand over her hair.

"Brittany are you ready to walk out with me?” Justin helped her collect her belongings.

"Yeah almost...ok ready." Brittany smiled looking over at the rest of the group.

"We are taking the limo back with Ty, JC, and Justine. So we will see you guys at my house. Everyone is still staying over right?" Justine grabbed Brittany's hand.

"Yeah." Joey waved good bye to a blonde slipping her number into his coat pocket. Brittany just laughed along with Justin as they walkedout to the waiting limo. After about 10 different tv stations came to ask him questions. Most of the reporters asked about the new album, but the nosey few asked who Brittany was and if she and him were a item now, all while Brittany had to stay there not talking.

"Wow that must have been hard for you back there Brittany." Ty laughed knowing how Brittany wanted to set those tv reporters straight.

"Yeah I know. I think that is the nicest I have ever seen you Britt." Justine and Ty sat next to each other playing video games on theTV. Brittany snuggled up to JC laying her feet across Justin's legs.

"I don't feel good you guys I think I had to much to drink." Brittany squeezed her eyes tight as her head was pounding.

"Ha ha!" Justine screamed. "That's what you get for drinking." She made matters worse.

"Justine don't yell!" JC whispered

"You have no idea how bad that hurts when you have a bad headache." Brittany said with her eyes still closed.

"Don't worry sweetie we will be home in 5 minutes and then we will get you in bed." JC leaned down and kissed her cheek. Justin sat and watched the two wishing he had a sweet relationship. Britney and his relationship used to be like that. Now he wasn't sure what it was. The rest of the way Justin looked out the window thinking about things.

+ Chapter Seventeen +

+ Chapter Directory +

Send Brittany some feedback!!