That night the bar was packed, Eva sang to a full crowd. She was wearing tight black lace up suede pants that hung low on her hips and a halter-top that was the color of fire, a meshing of reds, yellows and oranges. The bottom of the shirt was torn at an angle to show her tattoo. She looked great and she knew it. The girls had been working behind the bar when the crowd started chanting,
“LADY! LADY! LADY! LADY!” The song ‘Lady Marmalade' came on and the four girls hopped onto the bar and sang to it. Kerrie took Mya’s part, Anna took Pink’s, Roxy took Lil’ Kim’s and Eva took Christina’s. The girls were so into the song that they didn’t notice that JC and the boys had walked in. JC spotted Eva right away on the bar. Chris, Joey, Justin, and Lance’s eyes popped out of their heads when they saw Eva.
“That’s sweet little Eva?” Chris said and JC nodded,
“Except she’s not so little now.”
“When did Eva learn to do that?” Lance said mesmerized by her.
“If I wasn’t taken.” Joey said unable to peel his eyes away.
“I hear ya man.” Justin agreed.
The girls were just as good as the actual singers if not better. When the song ended the crowd was deafening and the girls dropped down to tend bar once again. JC walked right up to the bar; Eva caught sight of him and turned her back on him taking orders from the opposite side of the bar.
JC caught Anna’s eye,
“Hey Anna.” She didn’t saw a word and just raised an eyebrow at him, “Do you think I could talk to Eva?” Anna just started laughing and walked away. JC saw Eva at the other side of the bar and moved over there to talk to her.
Tim saw JC trying to get near Eva,
“That son of a bitch,” he growled. Garrett was right by him,
“What?” Then he saw what Tim was looking at, “Mother Fucker.”
“My sentiments exactly.” Tim began walking towards JC at the bar with Garrett following him. Tim reached JC and turned him around roughly.
“I told you fuck face to stay away from Eva, you have a lot of nerve showing your face. But that doesn’t matter, cuz in a few minutes no one will be able to recognize your face.”
“Tim, don’t,” Eva said from behind the bar, “he isn’t worth your effort.” She finished shortly. Tim just stared at Eva,
“Eva,”
“Tim, just drop it, I don’t want you to get in trouble over him.” Tim glared at JC and poked him hard in the shoulder,
“If you know what’s good for yourself, you’ll leave.” He turned and left with Garrett in tow. JC didn’t know what to do.
Eva turned to Roxy,
“I need a quick break.” She said and Roxy nodded sympathetically. Eva quickly went into the back room. JC saw her go into the back room and ducked in there without anyone seeing him. He shut the door immediately when he got in there and locked it. Eva was sitting in a chair with her head in her hands, softly crying. She sat up straight when she heard the door shut.
“What the hell! Get out of here!” She yelled at JC, but he didn’t budge.
“No, I’m not leaving until you hear me out!”
“What are you here to yell and scream at me some more?! You’ve already made me miserable why do you want to add to it! Why can’t you leave me alone!” Tears streamed down her face.
“Because I’m sorry. I’m sorry! I’m so sorry.” He said sinking to his knees and putting his head in his hands. “I’m such an idiot for doing what I did to you yesterday. I realized that I was wrong, but only after it was too late! I’m so sorry that I didn’t trust you. I guess I was so crazy for you that when I thought that you were with Tim, I went crazy. I love you so much, it hurts and it’s been killing me not to be near you. I know you feel the same way, because you wouldn’t be this upset at me. Please don’t let my mistake keep us apart. My mistake isn’t worth throwing all we have together away. Please, I’m begging you, give me a second chance. I’ll do anything to make things right between us and I promise that I will spend every moment making it up to you.” He finished sadly and looked at Eva. She saw the pain and sincerity in his eyes and her heart ached, but could she take that chance again? She looked away from him unsure of what to do.
“Eva?”
“I don’t know, Josh, I just need some time to think.”
“How much time?” He asked and Eva shrugged her shoulders.
“I don’t know, I just don’t know.” She sighed and he smiled,
“Okay, I’ll let you be.” He said quietly and left the room. Eva sat there not knowing what to do. Tim walked into the room,
“Hey, you okay?” He said gently, kneeling down in front of her. She looked up,
“I guess.”
“What did that ass do now?” He growled,
“He apologized.” She half laughed, “God Tim, I love him so much!”
“I know you do.” He said quietly.
“What should I do?”
“I can’t decide that for you.”
“Why not?” She said sarcastically.
“Because I don’t want to date him.” He joked.
“You two would make a cute couple.” She joked back and smiled.
“There’s what I was looking for, why don’t you come out and hang with us for a while.”
“I should, I have been on break for a while.”
“What are they gonna do, fire you?”
“Yeah, your right.” She laughed and got up from her seat. “Thanks Tim.”
“No problem, Eva.” They walked out of the room and the bar was awfully quiet.
“Hello, everyone are you enjoying your night?” Roxy suddenly shouted from her position on the bar and the crowd roared. “Fabulous! Well you’re in for a real treat tonight, because every one of you are getting a personal concert by the one, the only, Nsync!!” Eva looked at Tim who shrugged his shoulders,
“I have no clue.” He said and Eva went up and sat on the bar, she was in plain view of the guys. Roxy gave the mike to Justin,
“Hey everyone, how we doing tonight? You ready to rock the house?!” The crowd cheered they’re answer. “Alright! We’re here to get this party started!!! But you know what? I’m sick an tired of hearing all these people talk about, what’s the deal with this pop life and what’s it all about?” The music began and they sang ‘Pop’. The next song they did was ‘It’s gonna be me’, and JC’s eyes never left Eva. She was enjoying the performance so far.
In the next song they performed, ‘Drive myself crazy,’ when each of the boys sang their parts they came up to Eva and held her hand and then kissed it when they were done. Eva was basically blown away, she had really missed these guys. They went on to sing some oldies like, ‘Tearing up my heart’, ‘I want you back’, ‘This I promise you’, ‘Bye Bye Bye’, 'Giddy Up', 'Digital get down', and ‘God must have spent a little more time on you’. Then JC sang, ‘For the girl who has everything’ and Eva had a hard time holding back the tears.
They then sang more songs from their new album, ‘Girlfriend’, ‘The game is over’, and ‘Gone’ as well as ‘Tell me, Tell me...Baby’, ‘Up against the wall’, and 'The two of us'. The boys took another break as JC pulled out a stool to the center of the clearing, he sat down and spoke,
“This next song was written for a very special woman, a woman I hold very close to my heart and who I hurt deeply. I messed up big time and I hope and pray that she can find it in her heart to forgive me and give me a second chance.” A piano intro started and JC sang,
“I just don't understand,
Why you're running from a good man baby.
Why you wanna turn your back on love?
Why you've already given up?
See I know you've been hurt before,
But I swear I'll give you so much more.
I swear I'll never let you down
'Cause I swear it's you that I adore.And I can't help myself, baby
'Cause I think about you constantly
And my heart gets no rest over you.You can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
You can call me hopeless, baby
'Cause I'm hopelessly in love
You can call me un-perfect
But who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do?
To prove that I'm the only one for you
What's wrong with being selfish?I'll be taking up your time
Till the day I'll make you realize
That for you there can be no one else
I just gotta have you for myself
Baby I will take good care of you
No matter what it is you're going through
I'll be there for you when you're in need
Baby believe in me'Cause if love is a crime
Then punish me I would die for you
'Cause I don't want to live without you
What can I do?You can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
You can call me hopeless, baby
'Cause I'm hopelessy in love
You can call me un-perfect
But who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do?
To prove that I'm the only one for youWhy do you keep us apart?
Why want you give up your heart?
You know that we're meant to be together
And why do you push me away?
All that I want is to give you love
Forever and ever and everYou can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
You can call me hopeless, hopeless!
'Cause I'm hopelessly in love
You can call me un-perfect
But who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do?
To prove that I'm the only one for youSelfishly I'm in love with you
'Cause I've searched my soul
And I know that it's you.
I'll prove that I'm the only for you.”
So what's wrong with being selfish, selfish, selfish.
So what's wrong with being selfish, yeah.
Eva couldn’t hold back the tears this time. The scene of the first time he sang her that song flashed through her mind. JC had tears slowly falling down his cheeks too and at the end of the song Eva rushed into his arms,
“I love you, Josh. I want you in my life. I want you back.” JC held her tight,
“I love you so much Angel, but we’re not done with the performance yet.” She pulled back a little,
“I don’t care about the performance, I care about you.” JC pulled her arms off of himself but held her hands,
“How could we do a personal concert for you and not sing your all-time favorite Nsync song?” He said and the intro to, ‘Just got paid’ began to play, a huge smile spread across Eva’s face. JC led her into the middle of the group of the boys. Justin advanced upon her and sang and danced with her. It was the best present she could have ever received.
After the song Eva gave each of the guys a huge hug to thank them. She saved JC for last and jumped into his arms, wrapped her legs around him and kissed him. The crowd around them cheered for them. JC smiled at Eva,
“Thank you for giving me a second chance, Angel.”
“Thanks for loving me.”
“Always and forever Angel.”