I slowly started to awake. I rolled over looking at the clock. 8:00! "Shit! I am supposed to be at the studio right now!" I yelled with disbelief. "Shelly must have turned the alarm off because I would have heard it!" I said angrily as I threw on my gym shorts and sports bra. I grabbed my bag and ran out the door. Still running threw the lobby I saw that both the dancer bus and NSYNC's bus was already gone. 'This is just great, the dancers probably think that I'm on the nsync bus with Justin and Justin probably thinks I'm on the dancer bus.' I thought to myself. ' Now what am I supposed to do!! ' I thought looking at my watch.
"Hey, aren't you the girl from last night? I couldn't help but notice you look a little stressed out." Nick Carter said walking over to me looking concerned.
"Do you have a car?" I blurted out. "I missed both my rides and I'm already 10 minutes late for my dance rehearsal." I said pleadingly.
"Oh, sure, come on." He said as he started jogging toward his mustang.
"This is really nice of you, I'm so sorry for asking you to do this." I told him feeling guilty.
"Oh its no problem, anyway it's the least I could do for almost breaking your toe." He said making us both laugh. "Well here we are."
"Thanks again, I owe you!" I yelled off in a hurry running up the steps as fast as possible.
"Where the hell is that girl!" Terrell demanded. "Look, I already called the hotel 3 times!" Justin yelled back.
"Hi everybody, I am so so sorry for being late, it seems as though my alarm didn't go off." I said giving Shelly a mean stare and repeatedly giving my apologies to Terrell.
"How did you get here?" Justin asked. "You don't have a car, and.." He started saying before I cut him off.
"I took a cab." I lied.
"Ok people, let's just get this show on the road." Terrell announced obviously very annoyed.
~* 3 hours later after dance rehearsal *~
"Jennifer, can I talk to you before you go." Terrell said to me gesturing for me to come over to him.
"Umm, yeah sure. What's up?" I asked a little nervously.
"When you show up 20 minutes late, it's not only an insult to me but to your fellow peers." He said sternly.
"It won't happen again, I promise." I assured him.
"You're right, it won't." He told me walking off.
~* On Nsync's bus *~
" Jen, I wouldn't let him get to you." Justin said motioning for me to come sit on his lap. I did so giving him a weak smile.
"I know, but I swear it wasn't my fault!" I started saying as Justin cut me off kissing me.
"Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt, I just couldn't help myself." He said bringing his lips closer to mine. Jus then JC walked by clearing his throat.
"Would you two mind getting a room?" JC chuckled thinking he was pretty funny.
"Get a life man!" Justin yelled at JC. "Now where were we?" He said leaning in again.
"Were back!" The bus driver yelled.
"We'll just have to continue this later." I said biting my lip seductively. As we all walked up to our rooms I asked them what we were gonna do today. They just told me we were gonna hang around here and maybe take a walk up the sidewalks and look at all the little shops and such. As soon as I walked into my room Shelly walked right up into my face.
"Why do you think you can just walk into this place and automatically your little miss popular? I know that you are just putting on a show for them! Acting like your some kind of angel!" Shelly yelled at me.
"What are you trying to say!" I demanded "Don't get mad at me just cause I can make friends with everyone! Justin is a big boy and if he wants to go out with me it's cause he likes me!" I yelled angrily.
"You and I both know that's not true, he only likes you because he thinks that you'll be easy because your young!" she said with a wicked smile spreading across her face.
"That's a lie!" I screamed choking back tears. I threw on my flip-flops and ran out the door.
"Whoa, what's wrong with her?" JC asked Lance after Jennifer walked down the hall past them with tears running down her face.
"I dunno, but maybe we should go after her." Lance suggested.
"Umm, I'll go." JC said worried.
~ Sitting on the Beach ~
"Hey Jen, what's wrong?" JC asked taking a seat in front of me lifting my chin so I was directly staring into his eyes.
"Nothing, Nothing, I just.nothing, everything's fine." I said casting a downward glance.
"It doesn't look like nothing, come on you can tell me anything." He said taking my hand in his.
"No really, everything is fine." I said giving him a weak smile. I stood up and started to leave before he stopped me.
"You don't always have to act so tough ya know." He told me.
"Who said anything about being tough? I just don't want to bother anyone with my problems because I know everyone has their own too. Plus, why do you care, I'm just one of your dancers anyway." I said not looking him in the eye.
"We do things differently around here. We care about you guys. We want to treat you no differently than we treat each other." He said walking over to me. "Friends?" He asked sticking his pinky finger out.
"Friends." I said back locking my pinky finger in his.
I gave him a hug and whispered thanks in his ear before walking back up to my room. I walked upstairs to see my room door was open and looked inside to see Shelly moving all her stuff out.
" What's goin on?" I asked curiously.
"I am so moving out of this room because I'm sick of living with a loser like you!" She answered grabbing a handful of clothes.
"That's too bad." I said smiling.
