Written By: ŠTiffany Leigh
Alexis wrapped her arms around her large white teddy
bear. She pressed her pink lips into the top of the
teddy bear's head. She let the tears fall down her
face as she watched the video tape of her and Justin
at her 13th birthday party. She didn't mind not being
with him, she did have JC. She hated the fact that he
and her could no longer get along. They were such
good friends for the longest time that it broke her
heart to see him deny her heart like that. Alexis was
interrupted by the phone.
"Hello?" She sniffled up her tears after speaking into
the phone.
"Alexis, can I come over, we need to talk." Justin
said.
"Yeah." She said softly. She was tempted to yell fuck
you into the phone and refuse to see him but she was
too upset to argue.
"See you in ten." Justin said.
Alexis hung up the phone without saying good bye. She
turned her eyes back to the TV screen to see herself
dancing on stage. She then watched as the camera left
the stage and showed Justin as he watched her dance.
His eyes were large a smile was planted on his face.
"J, you're woman is talented." The person behind the
camera said.
"Yeah, she's beautiful isn't she?" He replied without
tearing his eyes away from Alexis's dancing body.
***
Arianna glanced up at the groups of people that were
looking at her. She couldn't even stand up. Her
heart was racing and her stomach was doing flips. She
glanced around for help from anyone. Britney ran to
her side and helped her up.
"Are you alright?" Britney asked.
"No. I'm not." Arianna was light headed. She could
barely keep her feet on the ground.
"Do you need someone to take you to the hospital?"
Britney asked. She was concerned that her show wasn't
going to get choreographed but not as concerned as she
was for Arianna.
"Please." Arianna sighed.
Britney helped Arianna to the black car that was
waiting outside of the arena to take Arianna to the
nearest hospital. Britney help Arianna in the car,
"Do you want me to go with you?" Britney asked
sweetly.
"No, thank you, I'm so sorry Brit." Arianna
apologized.
"It's alright, get better. Come back and tell me if
you feel better." Britney requested.
"I will thank you for helping me." Arianna smiled
softly before Britney closed the door.
***
Justin opened the door without knocking to see Alexis
lying on the couch watching TV. Her misty gray eyes
glanced up at Justin who was standing in the door way
in a muscle shirt and basketball shorts. She didn't
smile or say hi she just looked back towards the TV.
Justin could tell she had been crying. It broke his
heart to see her unhappy.
"Hey." He said as he shut the door behind him.
"Hi." She sniffled.
"What are you watching?" Justin turned to see her on
the TV screen at one of her dance concerts. Justin
smiled. He loved watching her dance when they were
younger. He never wanted to do anything more.
"Nothing," Alexis sighed as she turned off the TV with
the remote and sat up, "What did you want to talk
about Justin?"
"Look," Justin sat down on Alexis's love seat, "I'm
sad that you and I can't even be friends. I love
Arianna, and you're supposed to love JC. We're
supposed to be adults and were supposed to move on.
Right?"
"Sure Justin, if that's what you want." Alexis said
without looking at him.
"Why do I think you're lying to me?" Justin asked.
"Because I am," she said as she jumped up off of the
couch, "Justin, I understand that you and I have moved
into different paths. That's fine. But Jesus Justin
you treat me like we've never even had a past
together. Even as friends. It shows a lot of you when
you'll pick some girl over your best friend."
"Alexis, I have another life outside of you. I know
that's hard for you to understand. You're the type of
girl that sticks with what makes her happy. That's why
3/4's of your life is dance. I'm not that kind of
person. I need to explore other options to make me
happy." Justin responded.
"When we were younger Justin, you were never like
that. Unless you were lying you told me that if you
and I could be together forever and it was just us in
our own little world then you would never be unhappy."
Alexis finally turned to look at him.
"Back then Alexis, that was true. I've explored other
things now. I have wonderful girlfriend who loves me
more than I love her. I have Caitlin who's been there
for me when others haven't. I have my brothers who
keep me a strong person." Justin said.
"Justin, I'm not looking to destroy anything you have
with AJ. Hell I'm not trying to break anything between
JC and I. I like my life right now. I'm satisfied for
the most part but the thing that irks me most is
you're too different now. You're not Justin Randall
anymore. You're Justin Timberlake, AJ Jensen's
boyfriend. I can't handle that." Alexis sighed.
"You need to," Justin said, "Alexandria, I don't want
us to be that bitter ex-boyfriend and ex-girlfriend
pair. I love you. I always will love you. But I'm in
love with AJ." He said now pulling himself off of the
love seat.
"Justin, you're in love with someone who left to New
York a week before her wedding without consulting you.
Now this is me speaking as a friend, are you going to
let her break your heart?" Alexis asked.
***
Arianna lied in the hospital bed uncomfortably. She
hated hospitals and worst of all she didn't have
Justin with her to hold her hand and tell her
everything was going to be alright. She looked
outside of the window to see the Empire State
Building. New York was an amazing city full of
amazing people, except one person. AJ reached over to
pick up the phone. She pressed her fingers on the
numbers weakly and waited for someone to answer.
"Hello? Hello? I can't hear you! Just kidding. Hey
it's Justin and AJ, we're currently away so leave us a
detailed message and we'll get back to you. PEACE!"
Arianna heard Justin's voice on the answering machine.
"Hey J it's AJ. Look, I'm sure you're pretty upset
with me right now but I'm in New York General Hospital
a little bit outside of Time Square and they're
running tests, and I don't feel too good," Arianna
tried to control her sobbing, "Please call me, I'm in
room B435, I love you."
Arianna slammed the phone down and cried into her
hands. She glanced up at the TV screen to see Britney
talking to a reporter about AJ and how things couldn't
work out but she hoped she was feeling better. AJ
wiped the tears from her cheeks with the bottom of her
hand. She picked the phone back up and dialed another
number.
"Hello?" She heard anger in the female's voice.
"Alexis, it's AJ." Arianna said softly.
"What?" Alexis wasn't going to hide the fact that she
was upset with Arianna.
"Look, I'm sorry about just leaving you at the studio
and stuff but..." Arianna tried to continue.
"You know what Arianna. For a long time I was jealous
of you. Not just because you were with the man that I
loved more than life itself but because you always
seemed like a stronger person than me. I was wrong
though. You're weak. You run away when your life
seems to get harder or when someone stronger comes
along. I don't know how long you'll be gone but when
you come back maybe you should consider another studio
because I don't know how The Beat is going to feel
about you breaking your contract with them." Alexis
practically exploded.
"Um," Arianna was fully bawling at this point and
couldn't stop. She didn't even have it in her to tell
Alexis was scum she was. She just sobbed, "I need
you're help Alexis."
"What?" Alexis was confused and still looking at a
very confused Justin.
"I'm sick. Really sick. I might die. I need you to
come to the hosptial. Or at least tell Justin. Or
something. I can't do this alone Alexis. I can't."
Alexis nearly dropped the phone when she heard AJ's
cry for help.
"Alright AJ, Justin and I will be on a flight
tonight." Alexis said softly.
"Have you talked to him?" She asked.
"Yeah he's standing right here." Alexis responded.
"He is?" AJ asked.
"Yeah."
Chapter 13
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