Justin was confused.
What was his mom trying to tell him?
He had a sister.....?
What's more, she was his twin?
She had to be kidding him, right?
This was some cruel joke that she found amusing?
Not that he didn't want a sister. It's just that he was 18 years old, he had his friends, his fans, his singing...........and now he had a twin sister.
Justine was confused.
She knew that the people that she was living with weren't her parents, they never were. But now Paige was telling her who her parents were.
When she had been taken to her first foster home, she had kept her last name, the one that she had been born to, Timberlake.
When the music group, N SYNC had made it's debut, all of her friends had automatically noticed that she had the same last name as it's then 17 year old member, Justin. And now the person who had raised her for the past 2 years was telling her that she was not only related to the singing sensation, she was his twin sister?
When you thought about it, with her dirty blond hair, intense blue eyes, and remarkable height, physically, you could make a connection from her to the singer. But with her love of basketball, dancing, music, and her natural talent of singing, although she would never sing for anyone but Paige or Serina, she was a lot like Justin personality wise. When you really thought about it, it didn't seem so strange that they were twins.
Justin and Justine? Was that some cruel twist of fate, or what?
“What’s her name?”
“Well, when she went to the first foster home, they had the task of naming her, but since it was a just a temporary thing she kept the last name that she had born with, the same one that you have, Timberlake.”
“Mom?”
“Yeah?”
“What’s her name?”
“Sorry. Well, that first family named her Justine. Justine Renae, I think.”
“Whoa, is that weird or what?” Chris said. Up until that point, he and JC had been quiet.
Justin turned to his two friends. “I have a twin sister! My god!” He then turned back to his mom. “Where is she? How can I contact her?”
“Justin, sweetie, calm down! The agency just called the home that she is living in now. They will find out if she wants to meet up with us, with you.”
“And if she does, when do I get to see her?”
“Well, they will probably give me a phone number to call, so that you can talk to her, and then you can figure it out yourselves. I think that the two of you should do this, together.”
“Um..OK. When do you think you’ll hear from the agency?”
“As soon as the they here from her guardian. I told them, night or day, I don't care. They can call.”
“As soon as you hear something from them then tell me.”
“Ok I will.”
With that Justin got up and after excusing himself, went up into his room.
‘I have a twin sister. Well.....that would explain some of the weird feelings that I've had.’
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“They talked to your mother before calling here, and although she hasn't told Justin yet, she wants to know if you would like to meet with him. Since he is your twin brother and all.
Did she want to meet him? Of course she wanted to meet him! “Yeah! I’d love to meet him!”
"OK, well I’ll call the agency tomorrow and give them your number. She asked that we gave them a number to call. That way Justin could call you and the two of you could figure out when you wanted to meet. You know, the twin thing.”
“OK.” Paige smiled at her. “Paige, this is OK with you, right?”
“Of course it is! He’s your TWIN! I’m not going to get in the way of that! I might be struck down by lightning or something!”
Justine laughed, got up and gave Paige a hug. “I have to call Serina! She is going to flip out!” She started walking towards the stairs. Suddenly she stopped and turned around. “Oh, Paige, I told you that Rina and I are going to Orlando tomorrow, right?”
“Yeah you told me!”
“OK, just checking!”
Justine went up to her room.
With only two weeks left in her senior year, all that Justine had to do was wait the rest of the year out. Finals had been the week before and everyone had been really stressed out. It was two weeks exactly, to the day until she would be graduating, on Saturday, June 12. They were graduating a week before all the other kids in the school got out of school.
:::RING::: :::RING::::
The phone was ringing.
:::RING::: :::RING:::
Wasn’t someone going to get it?
:::RING :::: ::::RING :::
‘Guess not’ JC thought to himself. He looked at the clock on his bedside table. It read 5:30 in the morning. JC groaned and picked up the phone.
“Hello?”
“Hello, is this the Timberlake residence?”
“Yes it is.”
“Hi, I’m Lisa and I’m with the adoption agency. I just got a call from Justine's guardian and she said that Justine would love to meet you. Here is the number that you can call to reach her.” She rattled off the number before JC could find anything to write it on.
“Um. ... hold on a sec.” He found a pen in the pants that he had worn the day before and a slip of paper on the bedside table. “OK, could you say that numberr again?”
“Yeah sure.” She gave him the number again. “But she isn;t going to be home today, so I wouldn’t call her until at least 8: 00”
“OK thanks.” Then, after exchanging goodbyes, they hung up.
JC set the paper with the number on his bedside table and laid back down. ‘ “Justine would love to meet you.” ??? Oh, wait, she must have thought that I was Justin! That would explain it!’ JC thought to himself.
He tossed and turned but couldn’t seem to go back to sleep. “OK, if I’m going to be up at...” He looked at the clock. “....6:15 on a Saturday morning durring our vacation, because of Justin’s twin, then so is he.”
He got himself out of bed and walked out of his room. He was about to turn down the hall towards Justin's room when he saw a faint light coming from the Rec room, the opposite direction that he had intended to go. Curious, he walked towards the room and opened the door.
Once inside the room, he found Justin sitting on the couch, staring blankly at the muted TV screen as the characters from Dawson’s Creek jumped into a swimming pool with their clothes on.
“I missed the call.” This startled JC. He didn't know that Justin knew that he had entered the room.
“How do yo-“
“It’s a twin thing. Knew as soon as I heard the phone ring that it was agency calling to give me the number. And I missed it. I went downstairs and they didn't leave a message.”
“Well, Justin, that’s probably because I picked up the phone.”
Justin suddenly turned towards JC. “Please tell me that you got the number and wrote it down.”
JC laughed quietly and sat down next to his younger friend. “Justin, of course I got the number! And I did write it down. It’s on the table by my bed. But....”
“But what?”
“You can’t call her until 8:00 tonight.”
“What!? Why not?”
“Because she wont be there. She's not going to be home today. The lady....um...Lisa I think.....she thought that I was you and told me that Justine would love to meet you and not to call her until 8 tonight because she probably wouldn’t be home until then.”
“Oh.....OK.”
“So.....what are you going to do to kill time until you can call her?”
“I don’t know...but if I don’t do something I’m going to go insane!”
“I know that!” JC thought for a minute. “I say we get the other guys together and we all just go in to Orlando and cruise around. You know, enjoy good old O – Town!”
“Sounds like a plan! But we should probably wwait until a decent hour to call them and tell them the plan. Plus, we still have to tell them about Justine. I haven’t told them about that yet.”
“Just keep her away from Joe and I think everything will be just fine.”
“No kidding. If he tries anything.....”
“I know Curly, I know! Hey, who older, you or her?”
“Mom said that I was born first, so that would be me.”
“That explains the big brother thing.”
“Shut up!”
The two guys sat in the Rec room and waited until it was the time that a normal person would get up on a Saturday morning.
“RINA!!!!!” Justine called from her car. Her friend waas running out of her front door.
“TINY!” Serina McKay said in the same tone of voice as she climbed into the passangers seat of her best friend’s car.
“What’s up?” Justine asked as she pulled out of the driveway.
“What’s up?!? WHAT’S UP!?! Is that all you can say, what’s up?!?” Justine laughed at Serina. “I get a phone call from my best friend, she tells me that she is not only related to Mr. Justin Randall Timberlake, but she’s his twin sister, and all she has to say is ‘What’s up?’!! Whatt is this world coming too?!?!!”
“Rina! Chill! Breath girl, I really don’t feel like making a trip to the hospital, especially considering that Justin might call me tonight.”
“WHAT!?!?!?!”
“Justin wanted a phone number where he could call me and we could set up a time so that I could meet him. So Paige gave the agency my phone number, to give to Justin. So he might call tonight.”
“That’s cool!”
“Yeah no kidding.”
“So.....where are we gonna go?”
“Well I was thinking we could go to the Market, or just go hang out in one of the parks.”
“You know, I heard that Nick was back in town.....”
“Oh, yay.”
“You sound, oh so excited.” Serina said with a smile.
“Serina Jade McKay! Just because you like to play match maker does not mean that I am going to go out with Nick Carter!! He’s my friend, nothing less and definatly nothing more. Especially now that I know that I’m Justin’s twin! Do you know how bad that would be?”
“You do have a point. The Justin thing. That probably wouldn’t look too good, to Justin or Nick. OK bad idea. But he’s a really nice guy.”
“Yeah I know that! He’s my friend. As long as you give up on the us dating eachother thing, I think I’ll be fine! I could never date a guy in that kind of group, I’m not even sure I’m going to be able to handle being related to one.”
“You’re twins, you’ll deal with it.”
“Thank you Doctor McKay!” The two girls laughed and continued on like this for the remainder of their hour long drive to Orlando.