Chapter 10
March 15th, 1999
"Wweeeeeeeeeee...."
Lance looked over at Joey. "Is it just me or has he really gone insane."
"Oh, he has always been insane." Joey mumbled, swinging lightly in the harness, but still with his feet firmly on the ground.
"You will NEVER get me in that. Nope, nuh uh." Chris stood on the edge to the stage pointing to the one empty harness like it was poison.
"COME ON CHRIS THESE ARE FUN!!" Justin shouted, soaring through the air like a bird.
"I believe I can fly! Come on everyone, join with me and Justin..." JC smiled over at Justin and they both laughed and start flapping their wing. "I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky..."
Lance muttered under his breath. "Great, now we have two looney tunes to work with."
"All right, boys get down. We gotta discuss something's." Justin and JC immediately stopped their goofing around and slowly descended to the floor beside Lance and Joey. Chris was still standing a distance away.
"Chris, come over here." Johnny waved him over with his hand and he shuffled towards the group.
"You don't need me on Sailing. I'll just watch from backstage." He grumbled.
Justin sighed. "Chris that song is all harmony without you it would be...ugh. Come on buddy. These things are fun."
"Oh yeah, they are a blast until you fall down into a pit of raging teenies."
"Ok, ok. We will discuss the Sailing thing later on. Right now, I'm going to go over the run down schedule that will start on the 2nd. Ok. Our first show is here in Orlando. We will basically be going up the East Coast to New York and then whirl it around to Cleveland and Chicago and go out west."
"Hey, are we stopping in Maryland?"
Justin's head shot up from his tennis shoes and he looked at JC and then at Johnny. Then he realized JC was just asking for family sakes. "Yeah, we have a show in Baltimore on the 16th of April."
"Ok. Just checking."
The rest of the conversation faded out. He knew that it was stupid for him to be thinking about Elizabeth, but she was from Maryland and he couldn't help but wonder just what if she came to the show. She had said that her niece was a big fan. Now wasn't the time to be thinking about his little internet friend. Granted they had talked about everything under the sun and they had cheered each other up when one of them was down. And their friendship had lasted at least 3 months. But he shouldn't have been thinking about...
"Justin."
"HEY WHAT? Huh?" He snapped up at looked at the group staring at him.
Joey's eyes widened as he talked. "We were asking if you wanted to go grab lunch."
"Oh, yeah sure."
"All right, when you boys get back we can go over the whole Sailing dilemma again." Johnny smiled at the 5 young men.
"I am still NOT going up in that ...thing." Chris said in disgust.
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late late that night
CurlyJay23: What are you doing up?
DMBluvr81: What are you doing up?
CurlyJay23: I just got in from doing some things with my friends. Isn't it a school night?
DMBluvr81: Yeah. So?
CurlyJay23: It's like 1:30 you need to be in bed.
DMBluvr81: Well so do you!
CurlyJay23: No I don't go to school.
DMBluvr81: Flunked out?"
CurlyJay23: No, I get tutored.
DMBluvr81: What?
CurlyJay23: I guess you could say I'm home schooled.
DMBluvr81: Hmmm..ok?
CurlyJay23: Yeah, I'm a weirdo remember?
DMBluvr81: You are no more a weirdo than I am Justin.
CurlyJay23: Wait...
DMBluvr81: waiting
CurlyJay23: You weren't mean just now. You stook up for me...noo, ok who are you what did you do with my mean, sarcastic Lizzie?
DMBluvr81: I just figure I face the facts. I'm sarcastic but I'm not always that way, ya know? I can be nice. I am nice. I just like giving you a hard time because you take it so well and you let me dish it out to you.
CurlyJAy23: Well that's good to know. I knew there a sweet little girl behind the facade of DMBluvr81
DMBluvr81: gotta question..whats the 23 in your screen name for? Mines obviously the year I was born...but what's yours? If you don't mind me asking...
CurlyJay23: Michael Jordan's number...duh
DMBluvr81: ohhh...who cares.
CurlyJay23: Come on you play basketball you know he is like a god.
DMBluvr81: Whatever, I'm not into professional b-ball. I'm like college.
CurlyJay23: Ohhh, who's your fav. team?
DMBluvr81: MARYLAND BABY! I love watching the ACC.
CurlyJay23: God, for some reason I just love tarheels.
DMBluvr81: Bang...I just shot you. Why on earth would you like them?
CurlyJay23: Cause my boys got skills!!
DMBluvr81: whatever...
CurlyJay23: Guess what?
DMBluvr81: oh god, what?
CurlyJay23: I'm going to be in Baltimore in a month.
DMBluvr81: why
CurlyJay23: Because me and some of my friends are going up there.
DMBluvr81: why
CurlyJay23: Because...why are you asking why?
DMBluvr81: why are you asking me why I'm asking why
CurlyJay23: huh
DMBlvur81: and once again, we prove who would win at Jeopardy.
CurlyJay23: yeah, you would
DMBluvr81: nah, what would happen would be I would kick your tail in the regular and double rounds and then when it got to final jep. I would totally blow it. It would be a category like "R & B" music..and you would wager like a billion dollar and win.
CurlyJay23: Nope, you would win jeopardy. Now Wheel of Fortune..thats all me baby.
DMBluvr81: Ooo, we could do like the double teams. Like husband/wife brother/sister. I like when they pair them up with celebrities. That's so cool.
CurlyJay23: yeah
DMBluvr81: so you are coming to ol Baltimore right?
CurlyJay23: yup
DMBluvr81: that's weird.
CurlyJay23: What do you mean.
DMBluvr81: Just I don't know we will be in the same city. Freaky. Anyway, I better go, it is late. And I do have school tomorrow.
CurlyJay23: Yeah, I don't see how you can be up this late.
DMBluvr81: Well today was like "parent/teacher conferences" or whatever crap and I slept in till like 2
CurlyJay23: Ahh, how did conferences go...
DMBluvr81: Fine besides my C in Chemistry...whatever..mom and pops will get over it.
CurlyJay23: Ok. Night babe. Sleep tight.
DMBluvr81: Night, Justin.
DMBluvr81: And don't think I'm letting you get away with the "babe" comment so easily. You'll pay...one day...
Liz signed off before he could respond, giggling to herself. She hated to admit it, but she just adored talking to Justin. There was something about him that she found funny, and sweet and kinda strange at the same time.
She shut down her computer and hopped into bed. She was already in her pjs and all she had to do was flick off her light, and close her eyes and she would be fast asleep.
But she couldn't sleep. CurlyJay was coming to her city. It was so random. And she didn't know if she could bare the fact that in a month, he would be within 30 miles of her. Truth was, she kinda wanted to meet this guy. She had no idea what he looked like, and she knew he could be lying.
But for the moment she let her inner feminine traits take over. The personality of Justin; the characteristics of this funny, smart and kind guy had blossomed into this idea of possibly being the perfect man. She couldn't help it. He seemed almost too good to be true in her mind. He had never asked more of her than the pure act of simple conversation. So many guys she knew always had hidden agendas.
Maybe CurlyJay had a hidden agenda with her to. But right now, she didn't want to think about that.
She wanted to remain in her dreamworld of Justin, CurlyJay, CurlyGAY being this perfect guy.
Somehow, that thought made her feel special.