***
“Lexie, wake up!” Tiffany smacked Lexie’s thigh.
“Huh? What?” Lexie said pulling her body up slowly to
catch view of her bestfriend.
“Come on your plane is leaving in three hours
get you to the airport as soon as possible.” Tiffany
said brushing her hair back into a pony tail.
“Oh, okay.” Lexie said getting out of bed.
Lexie pulled things from out of her bag and walked
into the the bathroom. Tiffany cleaned up the hotel
room when she heard a knock on the door.
“Who is it?” Tiffany said.
“Justin,” the voice behind the door said.
“Oh, hey, come in, it’s open.” Tiffany said.
“What are you doing?” Justin asked placing himself on
the large bed.
“Cleaning.” Tiffany said a little sarcastically.
“Sorry, it’s a little obvious what you are doing huh?”
Justin laughed a little, “Look I need to talk to you,
about something personal, do you want to talk now? or
when Lexie leaves?”
“Um, when Lexie leaves, when she gets out we’re
going.” Tiffany said watching the white door that led
to the bathroom fly open, steam and a half naked Lexie
entered the hotel room.
“SHIT!” Lexie said covering her chest at sight of
Justin.
“Oh...sorry...damn.” Justin said turning his head and
covering his eyes.
Tiffany laughed at the two embarrassed adults, “Lexie
hurry and get dressed.”
***
“JC, I need to go home for a little bit.” Ally said
looking at her twiddling fingers.
“Okay, do you need me to buy you a plane ticket?” JC
said searching through some stuff.
“Is that okay?” She said now looking at her occupied
boyfriend.
“Yeah hunny, whatever you want to do to be
comfortable, I want to help you and make you feel
comfortable.” JC said tearing his blue eyes away from
the drawer he was searching through.
“Okay, I’m sorry, I just miss home so much.” Ally said
now watching JC move closer to her.
“I do too, but you can go home, so go, I completely
understand...” JC said taking hold of her hands.
“Thank you JC.” Ally said looking up at him.
“Of course baby.” JC said moving into Ally’s face
pressing his lips against hers.
***
“What did you want to talk about Ju?” Tiffany said
running her long nails against her itchy skin.
“Look, we’re going to be in Chicago tomorrow.” Justin
said sitting next to Tiffany.
Tiffany’s hands began to shake uncontrollably. Her
now teary eyes took hold of Justin’s caring blue eyes,
“I know.”
“Do you want me to get one of the replacements for
that night?” Justin asked grabbing Tiffany’s trembling
hands.
Tiffany fell silent still not answering Justin,
flashback of her terrible relationship with Arian flew
through her head, finally after a couple of tear shed
down her face she looked up at Justin, “No...I need to
face my fears....I...guess.”
“Tiff....are you sure?” Justin said placing his arms
around Tiffany.
“Yeah, but Justin, don’t tell anyone, you are the only
person other than Angela that knows about the whole
Arian thing.” Tiffany pleaded.
“I won’t.” Justin promised.
“Especially Lance.” Tiffany now pulled her face to
line with Justin’s.
“I won’t Tiffany, I promise.” He said as she laid her
head on his chest.
“Thank you.” She said quietly.
“You’re welcome,” Justin said kissing her forehead
lightly.
***
Lance signed the papers that were shoved into his face
by the excited girls standing before him with a smile
and handed the signatured papers back to the girls.
“Well what do we do now?” Lance asked Lauren.
“I don’t know, let’s go surprise some young girls
again, that was fun.” Lauren laughed.
“Yeah, that’s always fun..” Lance rolled his eyes.
“I am so bored and we have two hours before your
soundcheck party.” Lauren said.
“I know, I’m going to buy something.” Lance said
eyeing the jewelry.
“For Tiffany?” Lauren rolled her eyes. She didn’t
really like Tiffany, Tiffany was playing with Justin
and Lance’s emotions to Laura. She didn’t like anyone
toying with Justin’s heart.
“Yeah.” Lance smiled at the vision of Tiffany that
formed in his head, “But not jewelry, that’s too
cliché’.” Lance walked by the sparkling diamonds.
“What then? Lauren asked.
“A diary.” Lance said picking up the white booklet of
papers.
***
Justin closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. He
finally opened them to catch a glimpse of Tiffany with
one hand on her hip and the other one on her thigh.
“Anytime soon Justin!” Tiffany said breaking Justin’s
otherwise serene moment.
“Shhh! I can’t shoot with all this commotion Tiff,
God.” Justin laughed.
“Oh, whatever, just shoot!” Tiffany demanded.
Justin smiled and looked up at the motionless
basketball hoop. He settled the ball in the right
position then released. The ball flew through the air
landing into Tiffany’s block.
“No!” Justin yelled as tiffany ran the ball to the
otherside of the court. Tiffany ran as fast as she
could laughing uncontrollably. Without further
thought she shoved the ball into the air with a
perfect landing into the basketball hoop.
“I WON!!!” She shouted thrusting her arms into the
air.
“NO!” Justin yelled running towards the ecstatic young
girl and tackled her to the floor.
“Don’t get mad because I beat you.” Tiffany laughed as
Justin wrestled her.
“No.” Justin continued now tickling her sides.
“Justin!!! STOP!!!” Tiffany pleaded but continued to
laugh.
Justin finally stopped but didn’t get off instead he
moved his face closer to hers. He pulled away a little
but then pressed his lips into hers. His hands
explored the sides of her body and her hands moved up
and down slowly on his neck and lower head.
***
