Chapter Twenty-Two
After the show, JC stomped down to Krista’s room and
pounded on her door.
“What
the hell is-” She yelled and stopped when she saw JC. He grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the room,
“We’re
going on a walk and we’re going to talk.”
He said forcefully. Krista was
too shocked to do anything but try to keep up with his long strides. JC dragged her through the hotel and down to
the garden in the back of the hotel. He
finally let her go when they were in the deep hedges that surrounded a small
bench. “Sit.” He said pointing to the bench and began to pace in front of
it. Krista did as she was told and
waited silently for JC to start. She
was too scared to say anything.
Finally, he let into her, “How could you do this to me?” He went on before she could answer, “I mean
I said that I loved you! Didn’t that
mean anything to you? I thought that
you loved me too, but now I don’t know!
I just don’t know what to think!
I mean we have, no! We made
love, mind-blowing love! Then you walk
out of my life for a week while I’m going crazy over you then you come back
like you don’t even know me! What the
hell is going on?” Krista was curled up
on the bench, hugging her knees and slowly rocking back and forth. Tears slipped down her face,
“It
was a mistake Josh.” She said quietly
staring at her knees, unable to look at him.
“No!” He bellowed at her, “You don’t mean it!”
Krista
found her voice but still couldn’t make herself look at him, “Yes I do!”
JC
sighed in defeat, her tears had washed away his anger, “How can love be a
mistake? I know you love me because you
can’t even look me in the eye when you say that.”
Krista
shook her head as she stared at her knees, “Don’t you get it? JC and Krista don’t work together. They never will.”
JC
dropped to his knees in front of her, he had to get her to look at him, “I’m
not JC! I’m Josh! You’re not Krista, you’re Krissie!”
Krista
put her feet down on the ground and leaned forward, placing her elbows on her
knees, “Don’t you understand that I am Krista?
She’s a part of me that will always be there, just like JC will always
be a part of you. JC and Krista are
both too loyal to their groups to work.
Maybe if we were just Josh and Krissie, it’d work, but we’re not.”
JC
sat back on his heels, “So you’re not even gonna give us a shot?”
Krista
leaned back on the bench and looked to the side, “Why when we’d only end up in
heart break?”
“You
don’t know that!” He exclaimed, the
pleading in his voice was almost too much to bear and caused more of her tears
to fall.
Krista
dropped her head back and stared at the sky, anything to keep from looking JC
in the eye, “Yes, I do. After this
we’re going to be on different coasts all the time. We’ll never have time together.
I’m going out on tour again.”
“I’ll
go with you.” He stated, he needed her
to see that they could make it work, they only had to try.
Krista
shook her head, “Not if you’re on tour.
You have work to do.” She
explained and his face soften,
“I’m
not going away, Krissie. I’m gonna be
in your face till you realize that you love me and want to be with me.” The tone in his voice was so serious she
couldn’t doubt him, he meant what he said.
She
lifted her head, “Oh Josh, I do love you-” She stopped and put a hand to her mouth.
JC’s
smile grew wide, he felt as if he had broken down the Berlin wall. “I knew you
loved me.” He said and new tears sprang
from Krista’s eyes. JC wrapped his arms
around her, “What’s baby?”
“No!
No! No! No! Why’d I say it?” She cried
into her hands,
“Huh?”
JC was so confused, why was she freaking out over telling him that she loved
him?
“I
was doing so well!” She cried and JC
was completely confused now.
Krista
sobbed into his shoulder, “Now when you leave it’s gonna hurt so much!”
“I’m
not leaving you, Krissie.” He whispered
softly and nuzzled her temple.
“But
you’ll have to leave Krista!” She cried
and he pulled back to look her in the eye,
“No
I don’t. We’re gonna be together, JC,
Krista, Josh and Krissie, one big happy multipersonal bunch. JC and Krista are just going to have to deal
that Josh and Krissie love each other and want to be together.” He soothed running a hand down her face and
her crying died some,
“Why
do you have to be so wonderfully stubborn?”
She asked and he pulled her close again, rubbing her back,
“Because
I love you so much, that’s why.” He
pulled her to the ground with him and held her tightly in his arms. Krista simply gave in, knowing that this was
what she really wanted.
“I
love you JC and Josh.” She whispered to
her and he tilted her face to look at her,
“I
love you too, Krista and Krissie.” JC
leaned down and kissed Krista gently.
The kiss made her melt; if he had done that first they could have
avoided this whole fight. She would
have been his. He pulled away and she
pulled him back,
“Please
don’t ever stop kissing me.” She
pleaded and he smiled,
“Trust
me I have no intentions to.” He said
and kissed her again.
THE END