Chapter 11
"COCKADOODLEDOOOOOOOOOOOO
GOOD MORNING
GOOD MORNING
GOOR MORNINGAAA"
“HUH what, wha.." Meredith
shot up straight in her bed. She had
woken to the blaring sounds of the Beatles song "Good Morning."
"Morning,
sunshine." Someone turned off the stereo finally.
She rubbed her eyes and finally
saw the impostor. "TIMBERFAKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
"Do I have to have a reason
to visit my best friend?"
She looked at her clock, "At
"You're cute..." Her
walked towards her and touched the tip of her nose with his finger. She glared
at him.
"I made you
breakfast." He said sweetly
"Oh, how
nice." She said sarcastically and sat up in
bed. He brought a tray over to the bed
and sat it over her lap. She raised an eyebrow at what was on the tray.
"OK, OK! So Kellogg's made the
breakfast, but I put it on the nice tray and poured the Orange Juice."
"And I'm so proud of
you." Meredith pinched his cheeks.
She scooted over and patted the space beside her. He sat down and brought his legs up on the
bed and leaned back against the headboard.
"So, Justin, really, what
brings you to my humble abode? And HOW
did you get in?"
"Well, I umm, was outside
your door feeling like an idiot because I didn't want to wake
you and Ms. Grenard stepped out of her apartment and
said you and her have each others keys for emergencies. So bada bing,
bada boom..."
Meredith took a big bite out of
her cereal and spoke with a mouthful.
"That still doesn't answer the other question..."
"I wanted to spend some time
with you." Meredith about spit out her cereal at this
comment.
She swallowed the cereal and gave
him a weird look, "Justin, you spend like every other day with me."
"No, *Nsync
spends every other day with you. Justin
never gets any alone time..." He started to pout.
"OHHH me. You whine like a baby." She sighed and looked at him. "So, what
did you have in mind?"
"Well, I thought I'd take you
to meet my mom and brothers, and then go back to my house and chill since you
were so impressed with it last weekend..."
"Oh my gosh,
your house is sooo awesome. I know I'm not supposed to make your ego
grow. My job is to deteriorate it down
to normal size but, that house is BUTTER!"
"I know, I know. I'm a
god" She slapped him hard on his chest and he grumbled in pain.
"You might have a cool house,
but you are still ugly."
"I'm not even going to
respond to that one." He rolled his
eyes at her. "Anyways, Jon will
probably want to come back with us to my house, so, I hope you don't
mind."
"No not at all, in fact I
would love to spend the day with your mini-me."
"Good, now get
ready!" He jumped up.
"Justin its
Justin relaxed back down beside
her. "I guess not."
He sighed, "I see you finally
got everything moved in."
"Yup..."
He thought for a moment and looked
at her. "You don't have classes
today, do you?"
"Nope..."
Justin nodded and looked around
her room. "Are you going to that barbecue Johnny's having next weekend?"
"Yup..."
Justin whipped his head back
around to her and narrowed his eyes. "Are you going to stop giving me one
word answers?"
"Nope..."
He laughed. "Fell straight
for that one didn't I?"
"Yup..."
"OK, that's it...." Justin began tickling her and she almost
spilled her breakfast on her bed, but she managed to save it in time.
"Stop it Justin!"
"YES! I knew I could get you
to say more than one word."
"HMPH!" Meredith took the
tray off of her and set it on her nightstand.
When she lay back down on the bed,
Justin immediately wrapped his arms around her and sighed.
Meredith yawned. "Umm,
Justin..."
"Yeah?"
"What are you doin?" She
giggled.
"Cuddelin' with a cutie. What about
you?" Justin asked hoping for a
similar response. But when she didn't
answer and he looked down at her in his arms.
She was breathing deeply and had her eyes close.
"Sweet dreams,
angel." He kissed her head and held
her tighter, the only thing separating them from full body contact was the
sheet to her bed.
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Meredith squinted
her eyes and yawned. She tried to
stretch but something was holding her.
She opened her eyes further, looked at what was in front of her, and
only saw a dark-green cloth-like something.
It was moving up and down slowly.
She pulled away and noticed it was a person. Her eyes moved up the green clothing and saw
a faded yellow lettering that spelled 'Abercrombie and Fitch'. She continued to
the neckline, her eyes finally wandering to the face. The beautiful face. The face she had grown to love in so many
ways.
She sat up in her bed and looked
down at the figure, admiring him. His
curls were not gelled but somehow managed to be tamed. His normal deep blue eyes were shut off from
the real world. His perfect lips were
parted and were taking in deep breaths of air.
Her eyes moved down. His defined
chest could be seen through the shirt moving up and down, up and down. One
well-shaped hand rested right below his chest, while
the other was somewhere out of view. His green shirt was slightly raised and
Meredith could see about one inch of his nicely defined and tanned
stomach. The elastic of his boxers were
shown right above the waist of his blue jeans.
She smiled when she saw they were the pair she MADE him buy a week ago,
when they all went shopping. They were
bright yellow and had a print on them that made them look like crime-scene tape
with the words "No crossing beyond this point" on them.
"Meredith Willis, I am
ashamed!" Meredith turned towards
him and looked as if she had gotten caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"I cannot believe you are
staring at, well, that area when you think I'm not looking. I thought you were a good little
girl." Justin exclaimed.
"Umm, NO! Actually I was just looking at your boxers. They are kinda hard
to miss with all that "WARNING" stuff written on it." She giggled
"I wore them just for
you. I was expecting you to see them
later on tonight..." Justin wiggled his eyebrows and smiled a sexy
smile. She groaned when he did this and lay
back on the bed looking anywhere but in his direction.
"You sleep well?" She
asked after a few moments.
"Actually,
yeah. I didn't think I was tired, but I
guess I was wrong."
Meredith looked at her clock.
"Well, since its
"Sure thang
sweet cheeks."
"K,
let me get dressed." She pulled
back her covers and grabbed some clothes and walked into her bathroom.
"Hey, Justin..." She
called from the bathroom.
"Yeah
babes?" He yawned.
"Make yourself at home, but
don't go snooping around like I know you will." She turned on the shower and got ready for
the day.
Justin smiled at the comment, got
off the bed, and walked around her room.
She had done a really good job decorating her new home, he thought. It was hers and only hers. Her personality shone through with every
picture and every lamp. It was just
perfect for her.
He scanned the pictures and
paintings on her wall. He looked at one
wall and saw a small corkboard. He had
seen it before but never had the chance to really look at it. He studied it. It had all types of pieces of paper and
pictures from when they were on tour stuck to it. He smiled when he was flooded with all the
memories of the past summer. It HAD been
their best tour ever.
He made his way back to her bed
and was about to lie down, but he noticed a picture frame on her
nightstand. He picked it up and studied
the frame. It was clear and had flower petals
pressed in between the glass outlining the picture. The picture was one he had never seen
before. The picture was from the night
he took Meredith on the "Date."
He had his hands on her hips and she had her arms locked around his
neck. They were gazing into each other's
eyes and both had on bright smiles. It
was taken while they were dancing that night. It was an amazing picture. It was just purely amazing. It captured everything that the two felt for
each other. It was perfect.
"I thought Lonnie did a great
job..." Meredith appeared beside him showered and dressed.
Justin looked at her.
"Huh?"
"With the picture, he took
it. I didn't even know he owned a camera
but he gave this picture to me before I left.
I was stunned. It's an awesome
photo."
"Sure is." He said dreamily
She pointed to the frame.
"Notice the frame? Those are some
of the petals from the roses you gave me that night."
-OH my gosh,
don't say that! He might think the wrong
idea. Man he is hot. SHUT UP. -
-ALRIGHT! So this DOES mean something to her. Sigh… God, I want her. -
"I didn't give you any
roses." Justin smirked trying to ask serious.
"Oh, OK. Then I guess you weren't the incredible,
sweet, caring, wonderful person that sent me a HUGE bouquet of pink, red, and
white roses. OH WELL!" she sighed
and he put his arm around her.
"Well maybe I WAS the person
to send you the roses then." She
hit his shoulder playfully.
"I like this picture."
"Me
too." She said in a little kid's voice.
"Ready to
go?"
"Yuppers. LET'S
GO!"
"You want me to drive?"
Justin asked
"Did you bring the
Beemer?"
"Yeah."
"Umm, OK, so, YEAH you are
driving." She said like he should
have known that already.
He laughed "Come on G, let's
go meet my family." With that they
left the apartment and headed to the Harless
residence.
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"Umm, I think I change my
mind. Maybe we can meet them another
time."
"Come on Mere! You were fine until we got here. DO NOT be nervous."
"What if they don't like
me?" She asked in a scared voice.
"Name me one person that
doesn't like you."
"Well practically my whole
home town, but I don't want to get into that.
Umm, there is that man down at the gas station at
"OK OK! Listen..."
Justin grabbed her shoulders and lowered his head so that they were eye level.
"My mom has been dying to
meet you. You're my best friend and my
mom hasn't met you, yet. She is GOING to
be nice to you, and I KNOW she will love you just as much as I do. And Jon,
well, if you tell him you are a friend of mine he will automatically want to
hang around you. Don't worry girl, just
be yourself, act like you always do, and they will like you just fine."
"WHOA, Deja vu!"
"Huh?"
"JC told me that exact thing
before I went to eat lunch with you guys at Joe's for the first time. And you still hated me, even more so than
before." She looked at the pavement
below them.
"Meredith...Look...at...me!" Justin forced her
to stare into his eyes. "I will say
this till the day I die: I was a fool to treat you the way I did.
OK?" When she didn't respond he got
annoyed.
"OK?" He said louder.
"OK." She whispered.
Justin sighed and wrapped his arms
around her. "Meredith, I love you so much, but you HAVE to stop being
insecure. Just do this for me."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry, angel. Just..." He paused
thinking of what to say. "Just be yourself."
She nodded and he took her hand
and laced his fingers with hers. He
stepped onto the brick pathway of a huge brick house and walked up to the
porch. Justin placed a key in the lock
and opened the door. Before he stepped
in the house he turned and looked at the wide-eyed girl behind him.
"You'll be fine." He
turned to step in the house and hollered, "MOM!! JON!! I brought
company."
Meredith stepped into the
house. It was a lot different from
Justin's. Justin's house was elegant, glamorous, a rock stars home. This house was just as big, but had a much
more earthy and homey feel. She liked
it. It was a regular, well besides being
huge, southern home.
Soon the pitter-patter of feet were heard coming from the direction of the steps. Meredith looked towards them and saw a
younger version of the man beside her racing down the
steps.
"JUSTIN!!!",
the little boy yelled as he was swooped up into Justin's arms
"Hey bro, whatsup?"
Justin swung his brother around and finally planted him firmly back on the
ground. "Jon, this is Meredith. Be
nice to her because she is a really good friend of mine."
"Hi." Jon said shyly, coming up to her. She squatted down to be eye-level with him
and looked at the younger kid. She
smiled because he simply was Justin's mini-me.
"Hey Jon,
its great to finally meet you. Your brother talks about you
non-stop." Jon studied Meredith's
face and turned and looked up at his big brother.
"Justin, is this the girl you
said was more beautiful than an angel?"
Justin's eyes immediately widened then shut in embarrassment and his
face started turning a deep shade of red.
Meredith looked up at the tall man standing in front of her from her
position close to the floor and just stared at him with a curious and radiant
smile.
Justin opened his eyes and looked
straight down into Meredith's, ignoring Jon's impatient look.
"Yes Jon, this is the
girl." He said quietly, finally
smiling.
"Oh, I thought so. Well, did you come over to play because its Saturday and I don't have school. I want to spend the day with you Justin, pullleasseeee."
Justin was still staring at Meredith who was now looking at Jon
adoringly and giggling.
"Justin, JUSTIN!!" Jon
yelled and pulled on his brother's jeans to get his attention.
"What Jon?" He asked slightly annoyed finally looking at
his brother.
"Did you come to play?"
"Ohh
yeah, right. Umm, you want to spend the
day with Meredith and me? We are going
back to my house!"
"YES!!" Jon jumped up
and down excitedly.
"OK, go get your bag and
remember to pack your swim trunks."
Justin told his brother who immediately ran off and up the stairs.
"Hey Jon, where's mom?"
Justin called after him.
Jon yelled from somewhere in the
house. "Outside!"
Justin looked back at Meredith who
was now standing up looking around the room.
He brought her into a hug and kissed her forehead gently. Meredith pulled back and looked up at him
questionably.
"I told you he would like
you." Justin smirked then winked at
her. She rolled her eyes and he led her
through the living room to the back porch.
He slid the sliding door open and stepped out, with Meredith in toe.
"Hey, Mom?" Justin asked
looking around. A sweet voice with a
heavy southern accent was heard coming from a few feet away.
"Hey honey, what brings you
here?" A very pretty and petite
lady stood up from a garden. She had on working gloves and her reddish-blonde
curly hair was pulled up into a sloppy bun.
"Mom, this is Meredith."
"OH my goodness. Come here dear. I've heard so much about you!" Justin's mother said pulling off her dirty
work gloves and wrapping her in a hug.
Meredith was surprised at first but soon returned the hug.
"It's a pleasure to finally
meet you Mrs. Harless."
"Call me
"Mom, please do not embarrass
me." Justin mumbled.
"Oh come on, you know I love
you." Justin said annoyingly.
"YOU BETTER!"
"This is a great day. My two favorite women finally meet each
other. " Justin sighed and
"Come, let's go
inside." The three walked back into
the house.
"Do yall
want anything to drink?"
"I'm fine thank
you." Meredith responded
sweetly. Before Justin had a chance to
answer Jon came in.
"Justin, I need your
help." Jon put his hands on his hips.
"With what
little J?"
"Just come with
me." He said a little annoyed.
"Excuse me, I'll be right
back." Justin said smugly and then followed Jon out of the room.
"I really like your house
"He really likes you. No, he loves you. And I'm not really sure how deep his feelings
go, but I don't want to see him hurt again.
His heart has been broken too many times. He is still VERY young and he has been
through more heartache than I think I've been through, and I've been married
twice."
"I know you are a great
girl. Justin wouldn't talk about you the
way he does if you weren't. I just hope
you realize the boy's heart IS fragile.
Meredith, you should hear the WAY he talks about you. When he found out you were going to be the
boys full time assistant, well, he called me that night. He was giddy. The boy is NEVER giddy." Meredith and Lynn laughed at that comment.
And Meredith finally spoke up.
"Lynn, your son has done more
for me than anyone else I've ever known has done for me. He gave me a friend when I needed it
most. He is my BEST friend and that's
not a very easy position to be in. But I
love him more than life itself and I would kill myself before I would even
think about breaking his heart. I know
how fragile it is, because mine is just as fragile."
"I like you Meredith, I
really do. And I'm really glad Justin
has you in his life. He has a sparkle
back in his eyes that has been missing for a while now and its good to have
that back."
"All right, you ready to go,
g?" Justin said.
"Oh, we are taking Jon back
to my house, I thought I told you."
She nodded her head. "No, but
that's fine. Just have him back by
"K,
mom." Justin walked towards his
mother.
"Have fun today, and it was
really great to meet you Meredith."
"You too
Justin kissed his mom on the
cheek. "Bye Mom, love you."
"Love you too." Justin,
with Jon on his back and Meredith by his side turned to leave but his mother's
voice stopped him.
"Jon? You forgetting
something?"
Jonathan sighed and jumped off
Justin's back and ran to give his mom a hug. " I
love you mom."
"Back at ya!"
"Bye MOM!" Justin said as he closed the door behind him.
"Justin?" Meredith asked
as they walked to his car.
"Yeah?"
"There aren't enough seats
for all of us." Meredith said pointing to his small convertible.
"You mind letting Jon sit in
your lap? It's not that far of a drive
from here and he knows to behave when he is in my car. Right bro?"
"Right!" Jon said proudly.
"OK, whatever." Meredith
got in the car and Jon plopped down in her lap.
Justin strapped the seatbelt over both of them so they were squished
together. The two laughed.
"Justin, I could have done
that." Meredith giggled.
"I know,
I just wanted to be helpful." He
gave her a sexy smiled and closed the door.
Justin got into his side of the car and turned on the engine. As Justin was pulling out of the driveway,
Jon snuggled up in Meredith's lap and whispered to her.
"I like you Mere"
"I like you too, little
J." Meredith touched the tip of his nose and turned to smile at
Justin. He was staring at the two,
grinning.
"What?" Meredith asked.
Justin shook his head and finished
backing out of the driveway. "Nothing, nothing at all."
After a few quiet moments Meredith
spoke, looking at the passing scenery. "I really like your mom,
Justin."
Justin smiled. "I told you,
you would."
"I can tell she really,
REALLY loves you."
Justin groaned. "Oh
no. What did she say to you?"
She chuckled and mocked him,
"Nothing, nothing at all."
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"Well they said if its not
here in 30 minutes its free!"
Justin exclaimed stepping out of the pool and grabbing a towel.
"Justin, did you open the
security gates?" Meredith asked looking up from her magazine over the rim
of her sunglasses.
"Oh, crap! Watch Jon for me." Justin wrapped the towel around him and ran
in the house. He grabbed his wallet from
the kitchen table and ran to the front door.
He opened and squinted to see a pizza truck parked at the gate. Justin
looked beside the door at a panel and pressed a button and held it down while
he spoke.
"Sorry, I was outside and
didn't even think about the gate. I'm
going to open it now." Justin
pressed another button and saw the gates at the end of the long driveway
open. He sighed and shook his head in
embarrassment as the pizza guy drove up and got out of the car.
"I'm soo
Sorry!" Justin said as the guy approached.
"It's OK. Hey, aren't you that guy from that boy
band?"
"Yeah, that's me!" Justin sighed while opening his wallet to
find some money. "How much was
it?"
"$12.80." Justin exchanged a
20 for the pizza.
"Keep the change."
"Hey thanks man! Oh, would
you mind signing something for my sister? She absolutely loves this kind of
stuff."
"Umm sure..."
"Hey, is it here?" Meredith asked from the large white living
room.
"PIZZA!!" Jon yelled.
"Yeah, its
here." Meredith walked up to Justin and smiled at
the pizza guy.
"You will have to forgive
him. All the hair products have gone to
his brain and he forgets things like security gates." The pizza guy laughed as Meredith ruffled
Justin's damp hair and he just glared at her.
"Will you take this into the
kitchen and hush up." Justin pushed
the pizza box into Meredith's exposed stomach and she grumbled something as her
and Jon went into the cozy kitchen.
Justin finished signing something on a piece of paper and handed it back
to the guy.
"Thanks man. I really appreciate this."
"It's the least I could do
for making you wait."
"Hey, I know its none of my business but is that your girlfriend?"
"No, she is just my best
friend." Justin responded kinda disappointed.
"Well, it's not my place to
say, but if I were you, I'd go for it.
You see that bikini she has on? WHEW, She's
HOT, dude!"
"I'll keep that in mind. Bye."
Justin laughed and watched the pizza guy get in his truck and drive off.
-I'll keep that in mind. -
"JUSTIN, come on!!! We are going to eat it all!!" Jon yelled from the kitchen.
"I'm coming, I'm
coming." Justin walked into the
kitchen to find Meredith and Jon, in their bathing suits, feeding each other
pizza.
"Jon, you aren't trying to
make the moves on my woman, are you?"
Justin placed his hands on his hips.
"I'm not your
woman!" Meredith said as she took a
bite into the slice Jon was holding up to her face.
"That's what you
think." Justin mumbled.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" She
said with an attitude. She watched
Justin grab a Pepsi from the fridge and sit down on the barstool beside of
her.
"You heard what I
said." He grinned slyly and picked
up a piece of pizza. He opened his mouth
but noticed Meredith still staring at him.
He turned his eyes to her and raised his eyebrows with his mouth still
open.
"You annoy me." She said
narrowing her eyes. He clamped his mouth
down on the slice and hungrily bit into the pizza, practically ripping off a
huge chuck of it like a tiger. Half of
it hung out of his mouth and the other half was in his hand as he chewed.
"Hungry are we?" She
said questionably. He just took a gulp of his Pepsi, waited a few moments and
burped, extremely loud. Jon giggled and
Meredith acted, as he was the most disgusting person on earth.
"Gosh you are SO
attractive." Meredith said very sarcastically. After Justin finished his HUGE bite, he wiped
his mouth and leaned towards Meredith.
He gently brushed the hair from her shoulder and began kissing it,
softly.
She looked down at him like he was
crazy and he just kept moving his warm lips across her shoulder and up her neck
to her ear, placing light kisses on her skin along the way. He then whispered, "I'm only hungry for
you." Meredith's eyes grew wide and
he kissed her loudly on her cheek.
"MUAH!" He exclaimed as he kissed her.
"EWWWW." Jon scrunched up
his nose at Justin.
"I bet you are just
jealous." Justin said snobbishly to
his brother.
"Jellyous of what?" Jon said stumbling
over the words.
"I got to kiss Meredith and
you didn't. HA!" Justin plopped
another slice of pizza on his paper plate.
"I could kiss her if I wanted
to." Jon said quietly. Meredith just sat back and looked back and
forth between the brothers.
"YEAH RIGHT!" Justin said rolling
his eyes. Jon bowed his head in defeat
and Meredith felt bad for the younger brother.
She turned and looked at Justin
proudly eating his pizza. She then
looked at Jon with his head bowed sadly.
She nudged him and he looked up at her.
She leaned closer to the younger version of Justin and winked at
him. Justin noticed Meredith and Jon
getting closer and eyed the two. Finally
Meredith placed a soft peck on Jon's puckered up lips and pulled away giggling.
"Oh my gosh.
I just got kissed by a girl." Jon
said amazed. Meredith laughed and looked
at Justin who sat there in shock.
"
"Action? Like boom? Car crash?" He said trying to understand. Meredith looked at Jon.
"Jon, will you be my
boyfriend?"
"Sure, why not." The little boy shrugged.
"OH NO!! You do NOT do this to me! You kissed him AND
asked him to be your boyfriend?" Justin said actually angry.
"Justin,
who's the jealous one now, huh?"
Meredith asked smiling a forced smile. "Come on Jon, let's go back
outside."
"OK, girlfriend." Jon picked up Meredith's hand. They threw their trash in the trashcan and
walked outside hand in hand. At the door
Meredith turned around and winked at a still shocked Justin. He shook his head
and she then blew him a kiss. He caught
it and touched his bare chest. She then turned back around and headed towards
the pool with Jon.
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Justin watched as Jon ran out of
the pool and picked up the cordless phone. He turned back to Meredith. "I
can't believe you kissed my brother."
"You might want to ask him
for a few pointers. He is a lot better
at it than you." Meredith said
flirty.
"You confuse me girl..."
Justin mumbled.
"NOOO MOMMY!...I
wanna stay with Justin and Mere..." Jon whined
into the phone. "...OK....GUESS WHAT?....Meredith
asked me to be her girlfriend." He
said triumphantly and stuck his tongue out at Justin who just rolled his eyes.
"Justin Timberlake."
Meredith said firmly
"What?"
"Do not tell me that you are
ACTUALLY jealous of your brother."
Justin looked away and swam to the
other side of the pool away from her. "I'm not."
"Then stop acting like a
jerk!" She said annoyed and swam
towards the steps of the pool to get out.
"Wait."
When she didn't respond, Justin swam
up to her and pulled on her foot. His
touch scared her and she pulled away fiercely.
She looked down at the water that Justin was still submerged and tried
to pull him up. When he shook his head
under the water she squatted down so she was totally covered by the water,
also. He was floating, holding his
breath. Meredith looked at him like he
was insane and he just shook his head.
He then puckered up his lips and made hand motions that said something
like "no kiss, no coming up."
She shrugged and popped back out of the water to breathe hoping he
wouldn't be so stubborn about this.
Jon was now off the phone and
sitting on the edge of the pool pouting, and touching the water with the
bottoms of his feet.
"What's wrong,
Jon?" She approached him.
He quietly stated, "I have to
go now."
"I'm sorry,
we will be able to do this again sometime." Meredith reassured him.
"Probably
not.
Justin leaves in a few weeks for the tour." He sighed a precious
sigh that only a kid his age could pull off.
"Jon, why don't you go inside
and get all your stuff together, I'll get your brother out of the pool."
Jon ran back inside and Meredith
turned to Justin. He was still under the
water and it was starting to scare her.
She waded over to him and tried to pull him up. But he wouldn't move. She started yelling at him even though she
knew he would only be able to hear a muffled voice.
She knew Jon would be ready soon
and Justin being as stubborn as he was, would not take a breath until he got
what he wanted.
She submerged herself and saw his
face. He was dying there,
literally. She mouthed "We have to
take Jon home." But Justin shook
his head and smiled. Meredith giggled
because all his curls were unraveling and floating all around his head. She just looked at him and finally gave
in. She mouthed "OK" and he
looking at her curiously. She screamed
in the water "OK I WILL KISS YOU."
He couldn't make out all of it
underwater, but he understood enough. He
had her RIGHT where he wanted.
He smiled and finally stood up out
of the water and took a much-needed breath.
Meredith slowly came out of the water with her eyes shut and back turned
to Justin, wondering what she got herself into.
But when she opened her eyes and turned around, he wasn't there. Meredith looked around and finally saw him
outside of the pool, drying himself off with a towel. She looked at him
confused.
"But, what, what
about..." She stuttered, and he turned his attention to her, while drying
off his body. "...What about the kiss."
"Who said anything about a
kiss?" He said trying not to die
laughing at her shocked face. "I'm
really glad I had to take all those breathing lessons when this whole music
thing started. That was a pretty long
time to be waiting without a breath. I
knew I could do it."
She opened her mouth to say a
smart comment but just then Jon appeared ready to go.
"I'm ready." He said
reluctantly.
"Meredith, get out of the
pool. Jon is ready." Justin said fatherly but with a hidden
laughter. Meredith glared at Justin as she came out of the pool and grabbed a
towel.
Her eyes narrowed even more as she
entered the house. "Timberfake, YOU are on my
bad list."
"OHH NOOO!" Justin dramatically stated.
"I'm serious, Justin. That was NOT funny."
Justin breathed, "Now you
know how I feel."
"What's that supposed to
mean?" She stopped walking and stared at him.
-It's supposed to mean that I'm
tired of you leading me on. -
"Jon, you ready? Meredith you
might want to put something over your bathing suit. Riding in a convertible
with just a bikini and a towel might make you a little, what do they call
it? Umm, Nipply?"
Justin remarked smugly.
"I cannot believe you just
said that." Meredith said extremely
quiet. She was very mad and a little
embarrassed.
She looked at Jon and remembered
how uncomfortable the ride to Justin's house was in the 2-seater. "Why
don't we just take the Mercedes, that way we all can have a seat and more
space."
"YEAH!!" Jon yelled.
"I thought you liked the
Beemer?" Justin looked at his brother.
"I do. But I like the Mer..Mer...How do you say it?" Jon tried to say
it
"Mercedes." Justin giggled at his younger self.
Jon looked triumphantly.
"Yeah, that. I like that too."
"OK, the Mercedes it
is." Justin pushed Jon out of the doorway into the garage and turned to a
now clothed Meredith. "I think you
were right about wanting a little more space.
The Roadster's not the best type of car to, well, you know, if things
were to get a little hot, we will have more space to maneuver." Justin
winked at her. She was getting very
annoyed at all the little sexual and flirty remarks he kept giving her
throughout the day. But she just shook
her head and brushed past Justin and climbed into Mercedes.
-Yup, that boy hasn't gotten any
action in a LONG time. -
-Hehe,
I'm wearin' her down, bit by bit. - Justin smiled
smugly and jumped into the car.