Talking bout nothing at all
It doesn't matter what the conversation
Just as long as he calls
**Two days later**
"Are you sure this looks okay Lance?" Brenna asked for the millionth time as she modeled the dress for Mark's graduation in front of the mirror. "Yes babydoll, you look stunning." He rolled over on her bed and picked up her psychedelic colored phone. "Where'd you pick this up at? The Salvation Army?" He chuckled.
Brenna turned around from the mirror to see what he was talking about and she laughed. "One of my friends gave it to me for my housewarming party, I couldn't be mean and throw it away." She said turning around and studying her outfit in the mirror. "I don't know if I like this, it makes me look fat." She whined. "Would you like some cheese with that whine?" He joked. "Seriously Bre, it looks great on you, the dark green brings out your skin color." 'That wonderful skin that only JC can touch' He angrily tossed the phone in his hands back and forth. Suddenly the phone rang, which caused Lance to jump ten feet and tumble onto the floor with a thump, amazingly, the phone was still in his hands, so he got up and sat back on the bed and answered the phone with a pain-filled. "Hello?"
"Oh, hey JC! It's so sweet of you to call to talk to me."
"Is Brenna here? I don't know, let me check OF COURSE SHE'S HERE YOU IDIOT!!! SHE ONLY LIVES HERE!!" Lance said sarcastically.
"Oh, so now you want to talk to her, you want the world don't you JC?"
Brenna laughed and walked up to Lance and smacked him upside the head and yanked the phone from his hand which caused him to fall backwards off the bed again with a thump... only this time his head hit the metal frame of the bed. "Ouch!! That hurt! Hey Babydoll, I'm seeing four of you, is that normal?" He said holding his head.
Brenna just chuckled and turned her attention to the person on the other line.
"Oh, I missed you too Jace."
"I know, six hours is WAY too long."
"Uh-huh..."
"What am I doing right now? Nothing except beating up on this whiney baby that claims to be my best friend." She joked and Lance gave her a dirty look.
"Go where? The Riviera? That would be nice, but that place is SO expensive Jace."
"Hmm?"
"Okay." She giggled.
"Thirty minutes? Yeah, I'll be ready."
"Love you too."
"No, I love you more."
"No, you"
"No really, you"
"No you hang up first."
"Uh-uh you!"
Lance rolled his eyes and yanked the phone out from her hand. "Here's the solution!" He said goodbye to JC and hung the phone up. Brenna gave him a dirty look but it soon turned to one of panic. "Oh my god! What am I going to wear?" She jumped off her bed and walked to her closet and started throwing every outfit she owned all over the place. "What to wear? What am I going to wear?"
Lance got up and calmly walked over to the closet. From what he had heard of the conversation, they were going to the Riviera; it was policy there that you dress fancy, so he understood why she was freaking out. He saw the perfect outfit though, so he walked over to the closet and pulled it out before she could add it to the collection of clothes that could now be called the floor. "Here this is perfect for your date." He handed it to her and her face lit up. "Thanks Jamie, you're a lifesaver." She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek and blushed when she realized she had called him Jamie again, it's not something she did often. She had gotten used to calling him Lance since JC and the rest of the guys did. "Your really wonderful Lance." She said covering her slip up.
'Obviously not wonderful enough to be with you' he thought. "Hey, it's no problem. I...I hope you have a great time on your date." 'No I don't.' She smiled at him then a look of realization hit her face. "Oh, speaking of dates." She grinned. 'Oh god" he groaned. "I talked to Gretchen last night and she's excited about meeting you. She said she's a fan of yours."
Lance cringed when he heard the nauseating name. "I know what you're thinking, Gretchen? What a nauseating name." She turned to look at him and she grinned when she saw she had hit the nail right on the head. "Just trust me on this one Lance, she's really sweet and she's GORGEOUS!" Brenna promised. 'I don't care! I don't want her! I want you!' he sighed. "Whatever you say Babydoll."
"You'll like her Lance, I know you will."
'No I won't, I'd only like her if she was you.' "I hope you're right" He said. She giggled and looked at him. "Of course I am silly, I'm always right." She joked "Anyways, I gotta get ready, SHOO!" She said pushing him out of her bedroom.
Lost in a love so real
And so sincere
And you'll wipe away each other's tears
Your face lights up
Whenever he appears
Brenna walked out of her bedroom and Lance's breath got caught in his throat. She looked absolutely wonderful. "Wow..." was all he could get out. Brenna smiled "Do I look alright? This is the best I could do with only a half hour's notice." She asked.
Lance could only nod and continue staring. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" She teased. Just then the doorbell rang and Brenna opened it to see a freshly showered JC in a gorgeous ARMANI suit. "You look stunning princess."
Brenna blushed. "You don't look too bad yourself." She complimented. "Are you ready to go?" He asked and handed her a dozen white roses. "Oh my goodness Jace! How did you get these? It's the middle of fall! Nobody has fresh roses anymore, let alone sells them!"
"I've got my ways..." He grinned then kissed her lightly on the lips. Then he looked at Lance. "Could you put those in water for her? Bre, we better get going the reservations are for six o'clock." Lance walked over and took the roses. "Thanks Lance." They both simply stated, before they entwined fingers and left her apartment.
I wish you'd look at me that way
Your beautiful eyes looking deep into mine
Telling me more than any words could say
But you don't even know I'm alive
Baby to you
All I am
Is the Invisible man
Lance walked to the kitchen and fumbled around through all the cabinets looking for a vase. Then he remembered seeing one in the den so he went and got it. He filled it with water and put the roses in it. He walked back to the den and before he sat it down he opened up the card and read what it said:
Dear princess,
Here's to a lifetime of happy memories with many more to come. I love you so much and the little princess jr. growing inside of you no less. We're going to make wonderful parents, you and me.
We have our whole lives together.
Love always,
Joshua Scott Chasez
Lance's heart stopped 'How could she keep something like this from me?' The conversation from years ago echoed in his mind "Best friends stick together, Best friends stick together, Best friends stick together" He leaned over to put the roses down and he noticed something else that hurt him even more than the card. On top of the wastebasket lay the locket he had given Brenna 'It must've been a mistake, she couldn't have possible MEANT to throw it away.' He reasoned with himself. The phone rang and he tried to make some sort of attempt to answer it but his feet wouldn't budge. He just kept staring at the locket that was lying in the wastebasket. The answering machine clicked on and an excited Brenna filled the room.
"Oh my god! Lance? Are you there? I told JC I needed to go to the bathroom but I don't." Laughter was heard in the background. "I just needed to talk to my best friend. Can you believe it? Jace proposed to me! We're going to be married! I love him so much I have been waiting for this day for SO long and it finally came!" She squealed "Well, I guess you went home. I'll talk to you later I guess bye."
The answering machine clicked and shut off. And so had Lance's heart. Anything that had been left of it was gone now. It was shattered into infinite pieces. He left those pieces on the floor as he grabbed his coat and drove home to the warm, loving, comfort of his mother's arms.
You don't see me
I see you all the time baby
Haha
The way you look at him
I wish it was me sweetheart
Boy I wish it was me
But guess it'll never be me
Lance drove home, the tears blurring his vision. He knew that if he drove any longer the tears would've blinded him and he would've ended up in an accident, so he took a shortcut to his sister's house. She was the only one that knew about his feelings for Brenna. He parked his car and walked in without knocking.
Stacey looked up and the minute she saw his tear stained face she knew something was wrong and she was going to fix it the best way she could. She walked up to Lance and held him in her arms. "What's the matter with my baby brother?" She joked but when she realized how seriously hurt he was, she got concerned. "James what's wrong?"
"I've lost her Stace..." He sobbed even harder "I've lost her!" He cried uncontrollably on his sister's shoulder and let out all the pain that he had bottled up since the day JC and Brenna met.
****Flashback****
"Jamie! You're back!" Brenna exclaimed and ran into Lance's arms, hugging him desperately. Lance just laughed and picked her up and spun her around just like old times. "I'm so glad you're back, finally we can spend some quality best friend time together!" She said. "You bet we will. But guess what? I brought some of my friends with me this time!" He said with a cautious smile, not knowing whether or not she'd be too thrilled. "Who?" She asked curiously. "The rest of the Nstinker's?" She joked.
Lance just chuckled "Yup, and they wanna meet you!" He said taking her by her arm and leading her to her front lawn where the rest of the guys waited anxiously. "Bre, these are the guys that I'm in NSYNC with..." He said. Then he introduced them individually. "This is Justin." Bre waved to him shyly and Justin flashed her one of his charming smiles. "And this is Joey."
Bre shyly said "hi" and waved and Joey being his flirty self, walked up to her and kissed her hand and winked. "Hey there cutie." He said. "Hey that's my best friend that you're hitting on!" Lance joked. "Oh, and this is Chris, the one with the pineapple head."
"Hey leave my hair alone!" Chris defended himself; he leaned forward and shook Brenna's hand. "And last but not least." Lance said turning to JC who had his back to them. "That antisocial one over there is JC." He laughed.
JC turned around when he heard someone say his name and anyone would have had to be blind not to see the immediate attraction between JC and Brenna. JC smiled at her and gave her a friendly hug, which in Lance's opinion was a little too tight. Lance wouldn't let anything happen between them, so when they pulled apart, Lance immediately put his arm around Brenna, which caused her to give him a strange look. "Guys, this is Brenna. She's my best friend if you didn't already figure that out."
His feeble attempt didn't work, JC immediately took Bre by the hand and walked away with her laughing...they didn't return for four hours.
**** END FLASHBACK ****
"He took her Stace! He took her away from me!" Lance continued to sob, remembering that day.
"James, what are you talking about?"
"JC...he...he...he proposed to her Stace! They're going to get married." He said sighing like he was dying, mentally and emotionally he was. He cried out in both desperation and heartache and dug his head into his sister's shoulder. "Oh James!" Stacey said surprised. "I'm so sorry, I know how much you cared for her." She said. Lance looked up and gave her a pitiful look. "Cared for her? I love her Stace! I can't live without her! She means EVERYTHING to me." He said dramatically. "And that's not even the worst part!" He sobbed. "What? What could be worse than that? Is she dying or something?" Stacy asked. Lance looked up suddenly. "That's not even funny. Stacey...she's...she's pregnant."
Stacy nearly choked on the juice she had been drinking. "Excuse me? Pregnant? That can't be too good for JC's career."
"I don't even care about that!" He yelled angrily. "Now there's going to be proof that she'll never be mine! I'm going to have to grin when the baby's born, hear Bre talk about how beautiful she or he is, when all the while, I'll be dead inside." He sobbed even harder than before. "Oh." Was all Stacy could say. "Well," Lance sighed. "There's only one thing I can do."
"What's that?"
"This" Lance said and got up and unclasped the locket from around his neck. He took the picture out and looked at it one last time before he ripped it into tiny pieces and threw it in the fireplace. He closed his eyes and grasped the locket tightly to his heart before he let go of it and let it be engulfed by the flames. Lance couldn't take anymore, he fell down on the floor and sobbed uncontrollably, as he watched all his dreams burn before his eyes.
I wish you'd look at me that way
Those beautiful eyes looking deep into mine,
Telling me more than any words could say
But you don't even know I'm alive
Baby to you
All I am
Is the Invisible man
Lance drove home that morning and immediately fell asleep on the sofa in the living room.
**3 hours later**
A knock sounded on the door and Lance looked up. "Who...who is it?"
"Lance silly it's me... Brenna."
Lance groaned and got up to answer the door, he didn't know how much more his heart could take. Brenna gasped when she saw the tearstains that were still evident on his face. "Jamie what's wrong?" she knew she had called him Jamie again, but she didn't really care anymore. "Nothing." Lance lied. "I'm fine, never been better in my life." He tried to hide any pain that was in his voice. "Jamie, we're best friends. Best friends stick together remember?" She said, remembering a conversation oh so long ago. Lance turned around and gave her a disgusted look. "You wouldn't know the meaning of those words."
Brenna heard the anger in his voice and saw the disgust in his face and she was afraid. "Wh... what are you talking about?"
"Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?" He screamed out. She was confused as ever now. "How...how did you know?" He turned around and laughed an evil laugh. "Do the words 'roses' ring a bell?"
"Oh." was all she could say.
"Jamie it's not what you think."
This time Lance sneered. "What? Don't try and tell me that you're not pregnant with JC's baby."
"Jamie, the baby...it's not JC's."
"Oh!" He was furious now. "So that makes it all the more better? Now you cheated on JC! Is there anything else that you haven't told me yet?"
"Jamie!" She cried out desperately.
"NoI don't wanna talk to you! Just get out of here."
"JAMIE!!" She cried.
"NO! Just get out of here and on second thought. Get out of my life too!" He screamed.
"JAMES LANCE BASS!!! WOULD YOU SHUT YOUR BIG MOUTH FOR A MINUTE AND LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY?" She screamed.
Lance turned around, surprised that she was still there. "What could you possibly say to make this better?"
"Jamie the baby isn't JC's...it's yours."
You don't see me girl,
But I love you
Yes I love you
The Invisible Man
Lance stopped pacing the room and he turned and looked at her. "That's funny." He said evilly. "I don't remember us ever HAVING SEX for you to be pregnant with my baby. I thought you knew this Brenna but sex is when.." He started. "LANCE listen to me!" She interrupted. "Do you remember that night two weeks ago when we went clubbing and you were upset over something, so we both decided to get trashed?"
"Oh god.." Lance said sitting down.
"Yeah...exactly."
"Wait but I don't understand if we were both drunk, then why do you remember this and I don't?"
"I woke up in the morning and was in your bed." She laughed. "I realized what had happened and I left before you could wake up and figure out what happened. I didn't want you to know."
"Oh my god." He said. "Does...does JC know about this?"
"No." She giggled. "He thinks that I conceived the night he came three days ago." Suddenly she looked up at Lance. "Jamie, you can't tell him either, he can't know!" She panicked.
"What?" Lance asked angrily. "You're going to hide this from him? He has to know!"
"I...I can't tell him." She said breaking down and sobbing.
"Bre, we can work this out, we can do this together. I love you." He regretted saying the words the minute they left his mouth.
Brenna looked up at him. "What did you say?'
'Well it's now or never he thought.' "Brenna, I love youI always have." He said and looked down at his hands. 'I can't believe I told her that, she's going to marry JC and they're going to raise MY baby together.'
Brenna put her fingers under his chin and brought his chin up so that his green eyes locked with hers. "Jamie?" He was locked in her gaze and couldn't get out. "Hmm?" Was all he could say.
"I love you too." Lance snapped out of her gaze. "W...what was that?" Brenna giggled. "I saidI love you too." Lance was completely baffled. "But...but you love JC."
"I wanted to love JC...I really did." She explained. "I actually convinced myself into believing that I did." She laughed but then she looked up to face Lance. "But all along I was fooling myself because the only person I ever loved was you."
"Brenna, you have to talk to JC."
"I know..." She said, suddenly fascinated with her silver nail polish, but then she looked up and Lance saw fear in her eyes. "I'm...I'm scared Jamie." Tears were in her eyes. "Don't be..I'll go with you." He said with the first true smile that he'd had in ages on his face. "We'll do this together. Remember? Best friends stick together."
"I know ,I know." She laughed but then got serious. "But we're more than just friends now Jamie."
"Uh-huh." He smiled. "And that makes our bond all the more stronger. I'll always be here for you." He promised.
"Really?"
"Uh-huh, I promise"
Thank you."
"Your welcome, I love you Brenna."
"I love you too Jamie."
"Brenna?"
"Hmm?"
"Hold on a second." He smiled and ran to his bedroom and got something that he had been anxious to use ever since he had enough money to buy it. He ran back into the living room and looked Brenna in the eye and got down on one knee and Brenna gasped. "Brenna? I've never really been sure of anything in my life, except for one thing, and that is that I love you more than I could ever even love myself. We spent our whole lives together as best friends and all the while I wanted something more. Ever since I was five years old I was intrigued with you Bre, I even got made fun of by my friends because at that age girls are supposed to have cooties." They both laughed but then Lance got serious again. "I stood by you through all your boyfriends that hurt you and wished I could kill them and take your pain away. But then JC came along and took my babydoll away from me and made her fall in love with him and I was crushed. Never in a million years did I think you'd ever feel the same way about me." He laughed then. "But look where we are now? I've never been more certain of anything in my entire life except for this one thing, and that's that I'd love nothing more if you would give me the honor of being your husband." He took a deep breath and said. "Brenna, babydoll... Will you marry me?"
The End!
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