A Heart too Young to Stop Love Chapter 1
The Man in the Picture
� Daddy, who�s this?� The little girl asked picking up the picture frame with a picture of a blondish/brownish hair, blue eye�s, tall, muscular, slim man.
The little girl�s dad walked in and looked at the picture that she was holding. After looking at the picture for a little while the tall, slim, blonde haired, green-eyed father took his four-year-old daughter in his hand�s and sat down on the couch. Placing her on his lap he looked at the picture again and then back at his daughter.
His daughter reminded him of the guy in the picture. She had his original black hair but a dab of brown from her mother. She also had his wife�s and the man�s blue/green eye�s. Her hair was straight like the man�s. His daughter did have a resemblance between his wife and the man in the picture but then again his daughter wasn�t really his daughter.
�Lance, honey. Where are you?� A lady called from the top of the stairs from their big house.
�Down here, Jo,� he called back to her. She walked down the long staircase with her long brown hair up in a funky bun and her blue/green eye�s peering at them.
�What are you doing?� She asked. Trying to see the picture in her husband�s hand. She looked tired and beat. She worked as hard as Lance did. She had a good reason for it too.
�Princess, go to your play room. Your mom and I have to talk, ok?� Lance told the young girl.
She stood up on her young legs and looked at her parent�s. �Did I do something-wrong daddy?�
�No, princesses just go up to your playroom. Don�t forget it has to be clean for when Uncle Joey, Uncle Chris, and Uncle Justin come,� he told her.
�Is Uncle Joey bringing Brianna and Uncle Justin bringing Julia?�
�Yes they are Justine. Now get to your room so mommy and I can talk.�
�Ok,� Justine said. She ran back to her dad and kissed him. As she walked passed her mom she kissed her on her cheek.
When Justine had left Lance walked to Jo.
�What�s wrong?� Jo questioned looking at Lance.
�Nothing�s wrong. She just found this,� Lance told her pulling out the picture frame and it�s picture.
Jo looked at it. It was a picture of her late-husband. Tear�s started to well up in her eyes and memories started to come back. Lance wrapped his arms around her like he had once done when Johanna had heard that her husband that had been his best friend was dead. As he saw the tear�s fall from her face and felt her body shack he remembered the worst day of both their lives, the day that J.C. Chasez had died.
A month after J.C. had died Johanna had learned that she was pregnant. J.C. and Johanna had only been married for less then a month but Justine had been conceived on their wedding night. Johanna had been in shock from the time of JC�s death to the end of her pregnancy even a little after. Lance, Justin, Joey, and Chris knew that she wouldn�t be able to get threw the pregnancy without help and Lance was the one that had her move in with him and stay with him every time of the day. If she wasn�t with him she was with one of the other guy�s. Johanna still loved J.C. and Lance knew that, everyone who knew them knew that, but Johanna after a year had fallen in a different kind of love with Lance and visa versa. When Justine was 2 1/2 Lance and Johanna got married at a church next to the same town J.C. and Johanna got married in. Now Lance and Johanna had been married for 2 year�s.
Lance was still working on his project, Free Lance Entertainment Company and doing movies when the offers came. *N Sync was still going on, but with J.C. dead it wasn�t going as strong as before. They felt like *N Sync now. Rumor�s would always be flying that the guy�s where broken up or they where planning on it. If they did the world wouldn�t blame them. J.C. was one of their own and now he was gone, even though the guy�s had been strong for Johanna everyone around the world could see that they where struggling with his death too. �Who wouldn�t?� they would say.
Even after 20minutes Johanna was still crying and the doorbell rung she quickly dried her tears and Lance looked at her making sure it was ok to open the door. The same four guy�s he saw every morning where now standing in front of him as he opened the door. Chris and Justin�s wives were with them along with Justin�s little girl. Joey and Kelly stood with Brianna at their side.
�Hey man. What�s up?� Justin asked as he walked inside holding Julia.
�There here, their here,� Justine said running down the stair�s excitingly. She stopped in front of them. �Hi Uncle Justin, Aunt Britney. Hi Uncle Joey and Aunt Kelly. Hello Uncle Chris and Aunt Lil...� she took a breath. �Can I play with Julia and Brianna?�
Everyone laughed. �Yes you can,� Kelly said. �I�ll come with you.� She took Julia from Justin and Brianna�s hand as they walked up the steps to Justine�s playroom.
Justin, Britney, Joey, Chris, and Lil (Lilth) walked into the living room.
�Hi, Jo,� Britney said. She walked up to her and gave her a quick hug.
�Hi Brit. Hello Lil,� Johanna spoke. She quickly gave Britney a hug back and gave Lilth one.
After their quick hug�s both Brit and Lilth asked, �What�s wrong, girl? You look like you�ve been crying.�
Everyone went quiet as they sat down on the couches in the room. Lance sat next Johanna with his arm around her. He had laid the picture next to him on the couch. �This is what�s up,� he told them holding up the picture. Everyone went deathly quiet now. �Justine found it in one of the cabinet�s.�
�I still can�t believe he died,� Britney told them. She was sitting in between Justin and Kelly.
�I know. Jace was one of the greatest guys I knew,� Justin followed up.
�He was the greatest guy everyone knew,� Lance said.
�Did anyone know that they are going to play his songs, non-stop soon,� Kelly spoke up.
�Who?� Everyone asked.
�Ummm... VH1 I believe and MTV. They�re doing a dedication special for him, sense...� Kelly started to say.
Joey finished her sentence; �Sense tomorrow is his death.�
�Yea,� she said.
�Man, I can�t believe he�s been gone for 4 year�s now,� Chris told them. He couldn�t help but adjust in his seat on the third couch right across from Justin.
�Do you want us to keep talking about him, Jo?� Britney questioned. Everyone looked at Johanna.
�No it�s all right. I can talk about him now,� Johanna answered.
�Are you ever going to tell, Justine?� Justin asked.
�We will when she gets older,� Lance answered. �Right now she�s to young.�
�I wonder if they might do a special on J.C.,� Kelly questioned in her mind.
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