"Hey Chris, you did great!" JC said giving her a hug.
Christina smiled. "Thanks." She said hugging him back.
It was a few weeks later and Christina had just finished singing a solo for that days music number.
"Ok guys! Great show! We'll see ya Monday." The stage director said.
The end of the week had finally come.
Christina grabbed her duffle and walked toward the boys' dressing room. On the way she caught up with Britney.
"Hey Christina, you did great today!" Britney said,linking her arm through Christina's.
"You too,Brit. Are you excited?"
"Of course." They came to the dressing room.
"Are you boys decent?" Christina knocked.
Britney grabbed her arm. "I sure hope they aren't!" With that she pushed open the door and pulled Christina in with her
To Britney's disappontment they were all fully clothed.
"Hey ya'll!" Justin said looking up from his book.
"Are we ready?" Christina asked.
"Almost. Ryan lost his shoe." He rolled his eyes.
"Again?" Christina wrinkled her nose.
Ryan's voice could be heard from the back of the closet.
"Wait! I found it! It was-oh gross! This is NOT my shoe!"
Ten Minutes later they were walking through the field by Justin and Christina's houses.
"Okay guys. It's time to clean out the shed. First we...." Christina Kept on talking, explaining what they were going to do.
About an hour later the whole shed had been cleared out swept out, and scrubbed from top to bottom.
"It looks so-" Ryan started.
"Nice."Christina finished.
"I wouldn't go as far to say that!" Ryan laughed as Christina smacked him on the arm,laughing along with him.
"Now on to painting." Justin said, holding up some buckets of paint.
"Cool! Where did you get those?" Britney asked.
"They were in my basement." Justin replied. "I'm not sure what colors they are though."
With alot of pulling they popped the tops off the cans and discovered red,dark blue,and white."
"Well the red is nice." Christina said trying not to hurt Justin's feelings.
"But the blue is kinda ugly and whites not exciting." Britney said bluntly, chewing on her thumb nail.
"No problem." Justin said. He took the mixing tray and poured the blue and the white together, then he mixed it all up.
"Baby blue." He did the same with the red and white.
"And pink." He said,acting like a genius.
"Oh Justin. I love it! Why didn't I think of that?" Christina threw her arms around him. She didn't notice his face turn red.
"Wait. I thought of another one." he said quickly so noone would see his scarlet face. Using a third tray he made purple.
As the others marveled at the great colors. Justin stood back from them.
Why did I feel so weird when Christina hugged me? he thought. We've hugged each other plenty of times. His skin still tingled from her touch.
"Justin, what are you doing?" Christina looked up realizing Justin wan't in with the paint planning. She looked at him questionly.
His face turned red again.
Oh lord. She must think I'm a total freak.Snap out of it Justin. He thought this is Christina, your best friend.
"Just my friend." He said quietly joining the others again.
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About a half hour after they had started painting, everyone besides Christina was getting restless and bored.
Ryan stuck his paint brush back in the tray and seemed to be studying his wall.
Christina looked up. "Um...Ryan?"
"My walls bigger than everyone else's." He announced finally.
"Ryan, it's a square room." Christina said.
"I know, but they made mine bigger." He said, determined.
Christina rolled her eyes and went back to work.
A full minute passed before Britney plopped her paint roller back in the tray and stood up.
Christina glanced up.
" Yeah...uh...look Chris. As much fun as this is. I am getting seriously bored." She said. "Is it ok if I go home now?"
Christina sighed."Okay. Brit, call me later,k?"
"Ok. Bye." Britney said, giving her a hug.
"Yeah...um..." Ryan started.
" You can leave too, Ryan." Christina sighed again.
"Okay...see ya later." He said, running out the door.
Christina went back to her painting before saying. " I should have known we'd end up finishing the work."
Justin looked up from his wall. "Well they don't exactly have long attention spans." He said with a laugh.
Christina laughed,then realized Justin was stareing at her.
"What?" She asked.
Justin shook himself. " You..uh got some paint on your face." He said, rubbing her nose.
"Hey!" She said, realizing he put paint on her not wiped it off for her.
Justin grinned but before he could stop her she smudged some on his cheek. So he flung some on her cheek.
"You are *so* dead!" Christina said and they began flinging paint at one another.
"Oh my gosh! Look at the floor!" Christina said, with a giggle. They laughed at the multi colored streaks on the floor.
"How about we go get a pizza or something." Justin suggested.
"Looking like this?" Christina exclaimed.
"You look great." Justin said,tucking a strand of hair behind Christina's ear. Christina blushed. And Justin said quickly.
"I mean you look great for someone with paint all over them."
Christina wrinkled her nose and stood up. "You've been acting really strange today boy,how about we order in?"
Justin stood up and laughed and they headed back to Justin's house.
"Maybe you need to lie down." Christina laughed.
"Maybe I do." Justin replied.
He was really going to have to stop acting so stupid.
Or she might catch on. he thought.