Liz clutched Trevor's warm hand a little tighter as they strolled out of Emeril's restaurant. A smile was permanently marked on her face.
"I can't believe I met Emeril."
"Yeah, he is a cool guy." Trevor nodded. "I can't believe you KNOW him."
He chuckled at her amazed voice. "Well we don't shoot pool on the weekends but I've met him before."
"You are way too good to me Trev. I don't really see how I snagged you."
He stopped in the middle of the walkway and kept her hand in his, his other hand touching her face lightly. His dark brown eyes bore into hers with a smile. "It's simple really. You make me be late for class one day and I get rather pissed off at you because you seem not to have a clue as what you are doing and where you are going and I sulk through all of anatomy lecture thinking of how stupid you are and how you smile nervously when we busting up in there late and how your hair swung over your shoulder when you bent down to help pick up my papers. And I remember going to bed that night and now being able to sleep because all I can do is think, why the hell didn't I get her name. It didn't hit me until the next day after only getting 2 hours of sleep that we had class together and I would see you again. And when I did see you again..."
She interrupted him and smiled. "...you plopped right down next to me and called me a klutz. And I called you a putz."
"And so you entered my life."
"And then you forced me to love you."
HE shrugged it off like it was nothing. "I couldn't help it. It's destiny."
"We are so cheesy." She chuckled.
"Don't you love it?"
She leaned in and touched her lips barely with his, whispering, "I love YOU."
"Spend your birthday with me."
She sighed and pushed her weight back off her tiptoes and on all of her foot. "Trevor-"
His eyes widened and he begged her. "Please. PLEASE. I want to be the first person to take you to Disney World. Come on. Just for a week. We are outta school for Spring Break. We can go scuba diving and go out on my dad's yatch. Please, Lizzie. Please let me do this for you."
"But it's the same weekend as the Meyer family reunion." Liz was obviously not enthused.
"Cant you..nevermind. It's family. You need to go spend time with them anyway." He frowned and picked up her hand to begin walking with her.
"But I don't want to. I want to be with you Trevor." She didn't moved with him when he began to walk. They had been going over this a lot recently. She wanted to be with him, but her family wanted to spend her birthday with her. She rarely got to see her family. But she really didn't like being with them. She still had issues with her family. All because of her father.
"I just. I don't know. I really want to be the first one to show you Disney and take you scuba diving."
She bit her lip and nudged him. "You like being all my first don't you?"
"Your first rock climber partner."
Her head tilted back with laughter. "Oh god. My first CUTE lab partner."
"Your first steady boyfriend, right?" He asked, making sure.
"Yeah. My first love."
He pulled on her hand and tucked her closer to his chest. "Your first Valentine."
"My first...FIRST."
His eyebrows furrowed then raised. "Huh? Ohhh...yeeeaaahhh."
She leaned in, smiling and met his lips in a tender kiss that lasted a minute or two. Finally she pulled away with him still trying to kiss her. She whispered. "I'll go."
"Go where?"
"I'll go with you on my birthday."
"Really?" He asked eagerly.
"Yeah, really."
He sighed and brought their joined hands to his lips, kissing her knuckles. "I promise you won't regret it, Lizzie."
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(March 1st, 2002)
"In a month?"
Johnny nodded at JC. "Exactly. April Fools weekend."
Justin's head shot up at the mention of April Fools. "When is it?"
"March 30th and 31st and maybe April 1st. Not sure yet." His manager leaned back in his chair, flipping through some papers.
"Oh...ok."
Chris looked over at Joey. "This is going to be quite fun, I think."
"Yeah, and just so you know, Britney is signed up for it." JOhnny's eyes raised and he smirked at Justin.
"Uhh ohhh, the little engaged couple gets to go around Disney together..." Lance chuckled.
JC sighed dramtically. "It's where they first met."
"Shut up." Justin mummbled, but he had a smile on his face at all the memories.
"Ok ok, there will be a lot of other celebrities down there and owners of companies and just people like that. A big mix." Johnny's hands flowed with his words.
"Will there be free time to do whatever, or is it a not-stop thing?" Joey asked.
"There will be a little of time just to roam around, but you will be doing appearances and interviews and press conferences about the children's fund charity."
"This is going to be fun." Chris looked at Justin and smiled.
He nodded. "A blast."
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"But mom." Liz sighed into the phone.
"I do NOT want to hear another excuse."
Her voice raised automatically. "NO, I WILL DO what EVER the hell I want to. I'm almost 21 years old. I have my own life. I can do what I want. You don't own me anymore."
"I think your father-"
As soon as the f word left her mother's mouth, she was right on it. "DONT YOU EVEN bring him into this mom."
"He misses you Lizzie."
"Whatever." She rolled her brown eyes.
"Listen young lady, you WILL be at that reunion or we will stop paying for your college?
"What the hell? Mom, pulease. I have my OWN job. And I have Trevor. I don't NEED your money anymore. I'm fine on my own."
"ELIZABETH! DO you realize I gave birth to you?"
"Yes, do you realize I don't give a damn? I have a huge test tomorrow so I'm out...LATER." Liz slammed the phone back on the cradle and sighed.
Two bare arms wrapped around her slim waist and a groggy voice asked, "No luck?"
"No, I'm still going with you." She turned in his arms and let her nails gently run over the skin of his shoulder.
Trevor smiled secretively and whispered. "You just lied to your parents, Lizzie."
"So...believe me if I told my mom I was in bed with my boyfriend she would have come down here and mauled you."
He just smiled at her. She bit her lips and scooted closer, placing random kisses along his neck and letting her fingertips run over his chest and down to his stomach.
"Liz..." Trevor sighed.
She mumbled, kissing his chin. "Yes..."
"I wuv u." He imitated the baby voice she had grown so fond of.
She whispered on his lips. "Prove it."
He pulled the white sheets over their head, chuckling. "Certainly."
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Justin rubbed his forehead and looked at the blond in front of him. He sighed extra loud and his shoulders slumped. "Britney we really need to talk about this."
"..yeah, so I told Claire that there was just NO WAY I could do all that...oh yeah, in about a month. I cant wait...oh yeah, he is somewhere around here...well I will be sure to tell him you said hi....oh yeah...gurl, we have GOT to get to together...I know...right?...oh yeah...uh huh..."
Justin ran a hand over his head and glided over to where she was perched on his couch, staring out the window. She was turned so her arm was resting against the back of the couch and her legs were tangled under her. He plopped down right beside her and pried her cell phone from her fingers.
"JUSTIN! Oh my gawd!" She stared at him in shock.
Justin spoke in the phone. "Hey, Teresa? Yeah, this is J. I gotta talk to Brit for a minute. She'll call you back."
When he shut the phone down and set it on the couch beside him she glared. She reached for the phone. "What the fu-"
His lips captured hers when she leaned over him and he pulled away slowly, whispering, "Shhh."
She pouted and leaned back away from him. "Don't expect to do that everytime you piss me off, buster.'
HE chuckled. "It's worked for 3 years now."
"So..."
"Anyway, you can call her back. We really need to set a date, B."
She shrugged and looked down at her manicured feet and picked at her toenails. "Why do that now? We've got all the time in the world."
"But I want you to be Mrs. Timberlake...now." He leaned over her and began tickling, and kissing any piece of skin he could find.
She laughed and pushed his shoulders, trying to get him off her. "Get away..Justin...no...Justin..."
"Whut?" HE smiled boyishly, his blue eyes lighting up and twinkling at her.
"Stop trying to seduce me."
He said arrogantly, "I've already done that thank you."
"Whatever you goob." She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her stomach.
"June?" HE asked.
"June? What about June?" She asked as if she had no clue as to what he was talking about. HE sighed when he realized she DID have no clue what he was talking about.
"How bout we get married in June? It is the wedding month."
Her mouth dropped. "JUNE? As in 3 months from now?"
"Yeah..." He cringed.
"HOW do you expect me to pull that off? 3 months?" Her eyes widened and she shouted at him.
His voice coaxed her, pleading with her to comply. "Come on. We can get someone to plan it all for us. Please Britney. I wanna get married soon. I want to have a family with you. Please."
He noted how her face fell and almost turned white at the mention of a family. Lucky for her, her cell phone rang and she grabbed it. "Whatever Justin. June's fine."
She flipped open the small device and stood up off the couch walking away from him.
"But..are you sure...June...is...ok...with..." He trailed off seeing that she was now in the kitchen, talking wildly and not even caring about this. He sighed and looked out the huge glass windows of his living room. He shook his head and mumbled. "Are you sure you want to marry me at all?"
With that he stood up and walked out of the living room, hearing her loud, joyous laughter echo through his house.