Chapter 3

“Where is Gina? Tell me again why we came here?” Jana asked as she and Michelle made their way through the crowded room of Vertigo.

“I thought you guys weren’t going to show up!” Gina said as she spotted her two friends coming from the entrance of the club. “Here, I already got us a table.” she walked with them to a private table in a corner.

“There are soo many people here. We definitely will meet some guys tonight!” Michelle said as they sat down. The three friends were so engrossed in their conversation that they didn’t notice the five men come in the door.

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“You guys we have only been here a week and I already like it!” exclaimed Chris as he and his friends found a table and sat down.

“This looks like a great party.....maybe.......”Lance started but stopped adruptly when he saw Michelle laughing across the room. When he saw her laughing he just had to smile to himself, how he missed that laugh. “She looks soo beautiful” he thought.

“Lance what are you gawking out?” Justin’s voice caused Lance to leave his dream world and face reality. He had had all he ever wished for but he blew it all away.

Flashback-- Summer of Freshmen year of college--

Knock! Knock!

“Coming..” Lance Bass said only half awake, still hungover from the night before. He opened the door to see his girlfriend of three years standing in front of him.“SUPRISE! Finals ended early so I decided I would come up a day later” Michelle smiled at him, how she missed him. The last time she had seen him was Christmas. After graduating high school, they went to different colleges. Lance to Stanford in California,and Michelle to Harvard in Boston. Although they were thousands of miles apart they had decided not to end their relationship.

“Shelle, what are you doing here?” Lance called her by his nickname for her. He should be happy seeing her but he was more alarmed then pleased. ‘Something is wrong with this situation’ he kept thinking. ‘OH NO!’ he remembered! She can’t come in here.“Hey why don’t you wait out here and I’ll get dressed. Give me five minutes.” he quickly said hoping and praying that she would agree with that.

“Why can’t I come in?” Michelle, wondering what was wrong with Lance.

“Lance, are you coming back to bed?” A women’s voice from behind him asked.Michelle looked behind Lance and saw a drunk blonde in a blanket coming from his room.

“How could you?” she said softly at first tears coming to her eyes. “HOW COULDYOU?” she repeated this time more forcefully. “I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!”she screamed and then ran off.

That was the last time either had seen each other before Monday morning when they found out they were going to work together.

END OF FLASHBACK---

“Justin, I am not looking at anyone.”Lance answered his friend trying to sound convincing.

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“Jana! Hey, would you like to dance?” Joey asked after he had spotted his old friend now neighbor.

“Hi Joey, I would love to.” The two danced to a slow song. Both unaware of a pair of jealous eyes watching them. ‘Well I guess their is no chance with her’ JC thought as he saw his ex girlfriend and one of his best friends dancing closely on the dance floor. ‘Even though we aren’t dating, he knows that I still love her.’ watching the two danced made JC remember his and Jana’s nasty breakup.

---FLASHBACK--Freshmen year of college---

After graduation, JC, Joey and Jana all went off to Yale University. Jana and JC had been dating for two years now. But JC is starting to think that Jana is cheating on him with Joey. They had seemed a lot closer lately. Maybe it was just him being paranoid, but the way Joey looked at her wasn’t looks of just friendship. One night JC decided to go talk to Joey about his little notion. But when he walked into his friend’s dorm room, he found what he had always suspected. Jana and Joey kissing.

“Sorry if I am interrupting” JC sarcastically said to the kissing pair. He didn’t know if he should be angry or hurt.

“Oh my god JC! This is not what it looks like.” Jana had started to explain.

“NO!! It is exactly what it looks like.”JC responded. The hurt and anger in his eyes scared Jana.

“JC, man, look, I kissed her, but she didn’t kiss back, It was a one-sided thing.”Joey said trying to help the situation.

But JC would not listen.“Jana we are threw!” and with that JC left and he never saw Jana again.

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‘Well I still love her even if our breakup was a misunderstanding’ he thought. And he knew exactly what he was going to do. He was going to ask her to dance. That is if he got up the nerve.

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