Chapter 4
Brianna stumbled in shock backstage. Melinda laughed when he saw her leaning against a wall in the hallway.
“Don’t you look all hot and bothered.”
Brianna couldn’t help smiling. “That concert was so good… It was almost… it was almost… intoxicating…”
Melinda sighed and leaned against the wall beside her, almost the same dreamy face as Brianna. “Yeah… It is pretty amazing huh? And what that man can do with his hips… It makes me feel tingly all over… ALL over…”
“Oh… yeah…” After a few more minutes of silently relishing in their memories of the night, Melinda finally pushed off the wall to look over at Brianna. “Ready to go?”
“Uh huh. Where are the guys?”
“They’ve been gone for,” she checked her watch, “About twenty minutes. The van is waiting to take us back to the hotel.” The two walked out to the vans, still reeling from mind-blowing concert they had just experienced. They chatted as they went up to their rooms and Melinda led her to her room. She was surprised to see JC watching TV when she walked in.
“Hold on, I’m confused.” He sent a stern look to Melinda.
“You haven’t told her yet?”
She shrugged. “Slipped my mind.”
“What did?”
She looked at Brianna. “Me and JC don’t get much time to spend together so when we get the chance, we take it. So we got the hotel rooms so that Justin and JC were together and you and me were together in hopes that you would switch with me so we could be together. Justin doesn’t care, we do it to him all the time. So what do you think?”
“Is that ok? I mean, will we get in trouble for it?”
“Nah. What are they gonna do to us anyway?”
Brianna shrugged. “Ok. But…” She looked around the room. “Where are my bags?”
Melinda blushed. “In Justin’s room.”
“You were that sure I would say yes?”
“Yup.”
“Thanks for your consideration Mel.”
“Oh you know you love me. And JC loves you too. Right JC?”
“Mmhmm…” he mumbled, not taking his eyes off the TV screen.
Brianna turned to leave. “See you guys tomorrow. And great concert JC.”
“Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it.”
She was surprised to see the door to Justin’s room open.
“Uh… Justin?” The running shower told her where he was. Feeling a little uneasy about being in the room with him, she cautiously stepped in and looked around the hotel room. After finding her bags, she pulled on a pair of pajamas, took out her contacts, and started working on her laptop. She heard the shower turn off a few minutes later and Justin emerged a little after that. She looked over the top of her glasses at the utterly male figure bombarding her thoughts. He was wearing low riding pajama pants that hung loosely on his hips. She nearly fell off the bed when she saw his bare chest still glistening with moisture. He still hadn’t acknowledged her presence as he pulled on a wife beater. She was a little upset that she couldn’t see his nice stomach but she had to admit that he was still looking extremely fine. He looked up and shock ran across his face for a few seconds before he looked at his hands, blushing slightly.
“I forgot you were sleeping with me.”
“Excuse me?”
He smiled even wider. “Oh baby, oh baby… What a dirty mind you have.”
She giggled nervously and looked back to her lap top.
“I hope this isn’t too uncomfortable for you,” he said as he stretched out on the bed and propped his elbow up on the bed to look over at her.
“Oh no, not at all.” She looked back over at him and smiled to herself. “Great concert ya had tonight. Very… Freaky deaky.”
“That is defiantly not something I expected to hear out of you. Melinda, maybe but you…”
She shrugged, trying her best not to stare at him. “I dunno what has gotten into me. I mean I’ve heard Didgetal Getdown and knew it was… well, let’s just say, exciting but seeing in performed on stage… Just wow.”
He smiled. “JC wrote that you know.”
“Oh I know. And I have to wonder where he got that inspiration.”
Justin chuckled. “You are really kinky tonight aren’t you?”
She sighed and let her head fall back on her pillow. “You have NO idea.”
Justin couldn’t help laughing out loud. “Oh I like you…”
“I’m glad I have you’re approval.”
He wrinkled his nose at her and she melted when she saw his cute face.
“You’re fun. We should hang out.”
“Oh God yes,” she whispered under her breath.
Brianna groaned loudly when a loud beeping sound interrupted her peaceful dreams. Her eyes opened and she turned to see Justin slowly pulling out of his sleep. His hand slapped the small alarm clock and the noise stopped. She yawned loudly as she watched him try to wake up. She was surprised to see he was in different clothes but shook it out of her head and stood up to stretch. He followed her example and she knew he wasn’t wearing jeans to bed last night. He mumbled something about breakfast. She nodded and followed him out the door and into the hallway.
“Whoa!” Rob said as he held up his hands to them. “You two look like you were run over by a truck… numerous times.” Neither had enough strength to respond to his comment so they just sent him bored looks. “And did you guys just come out of the same room?” he asked playfully. Justin rolled his eyes and grabbed Brianna’s hand to pull her away from him. “Breakfast is downstairs in the private dining room!” he called after them. He laughed when they both held up the hand they weren’t holding to indicate they heard him and mumbled an incoherent response.
They sleepily staggered into the room and headed for the buffet table. Brianna took the biggest bowl she could find, two cartons of milk, and a few boxes of cereal back to the table with her. She sat down next to Justin and began to make her breakfast, not noticing the looks of shock from everyone else at the table.
“Good morning Justin. Good morning Brianna.” Justin grunted something back to Melinda and Brianna just gave her a tired look. She and Justin both lifted a spoonful of cereal to their mouths, swallowed it, and feel back in their chairs with a slight sigh. Melinda giggled when she saw that and JC had a strange smile on his face.
“Oh… My… God…” Chris mumbled, shaking his head. “That’s just… scary.”
Joey nodded. “It’s like there’s two of him.”
“Oh God, like we really need that…” Melinda moaned. She watched as they both took another bite and stared into their bowls with the same zoned out expressions on their faces. “Were you two separated at birth?”
They both gave her a confused look before they went back to eating.
“Ok, that is SO not right…”
Brianna ignored their comments much in the same way Justin was mostly because she was confused about what they were laughing at and she was way too tired to really care. After they finished and were a little more attentive to the group, they realized what was so funny and had to laugh with them about how uncanny it was that they had the same need for cereal in the morning.
“I thought he was the only one in the world with that… that… disability…” Chris said, his face twisted thoughtfully as he fought to think of a way to explain Justin’s morning habits. Justin just laughed and waited patiently by the door for Brianna to finish talking to Melinda about their plans for the day. She yawned as she got on the elevator but she felt much more awake than she did when she woke up. She looked over at him thoughtfully and examined his clothes, rugged face, and slouched posture. He noticed her staring at him all the way into their hotel room.
“Were you… were ya wearin’ that last night?” she finally asked. He laughed at her confused face and walked over to where she was standing by the now closed door. The nearness of him took her breath away but that was forgotten when he smiled that infamous smile and she was drawn to his smooth lips.
“What do you remember me wearing?” She couldn’t remember her own name right then, much less what he was wearing. She closed her eyes in what he thought was her trying to picture his clothes but she was really just trying to keep herself from staring at those lips.
“Uh… Pajama pants? Yeah, pajama pants and a white shirt.”
He leaned closer and tucked a piece of loose hair behind her ear. She opened one eye slightly to see his serious face as he twisted the strand of hair in his fingers. He finally let it go and looked back into her eyes. The seriousness disappeared from his eyes and was replaced with an evil gleam. “Are you sure?”
She swallowed hard and tried to stammer out an answer but failed. He chuckled softly and pulled away from her to walk over to his bag. She sighed with a mixture of frustration and relief when he started rummaging through his bag.
“I went out to a club last night with Chris, Joey, and Lance. I wasn’t planning on it because I was so tired but I was so riled up about the concert that I couldn’t sleep. I’m sorry I didn’t wake you but you looked just so… so…” He turned to look at her. “Beautiful sleeping there.” It unnerved her a little to know that he was watching her sleep but it also made her excited that he was interested in her enough to do that.
“It’s ok. I wouldn’t have gone anyway. I was beyond tired last night and I amazed myself by even stayin’ up late enough to shower.”
“Good because I really wouldn’t want you… mad at me…” he said slowly and purposely as he walked past her to the bathroom.
“I… I’m not mad at ya… not mad at all.” He smiled at her before he stepped into the bathroom and closed the door behind him. She fell backwards on the bed and sighed dreamily. This was going to be one hell of a trip…
Twenty minutes later they were all starting to get on the buses to go to Arkansas. Lance was a little upset that he didn’t get to spend any time with his family but they had been running late with rehearsals to get to Mississippi and they had a concert that night in Little Rock. The next concert they had was two days later and it was in Justin’s home town Memphis so they agreed that they would leave right after the concert that night and sleep on the bus to get there so he had a whole day to see his family.
She was surprised when he followed her onto her bus and even more surprised when he pulled her to the back with him to sit and wait for Melinda and JC to come. He looked a little nervous and although she was no Justin Timberlake expert, she could tell that the concentration on his face and the way his leg was bobbing rapidly next to her was defiantly not normal.
“Justin… Are you ok?”
He looked up at her as if he just realized she was in the same room with him. “Yeah… I mean no… I mean… I don’t know!” She was a little shocked to see him look so utterly confused and out of control.
“Is there somethin’ wrong?” He bit his lip and she didn’t miss the way his eyes averted to her own lips before he looked into her eyes.
“I… I just… GOD this is hard!” He fell back against the couch and put his hands over his face. If he was making her wonder about his sanity before, this was just putting her over the edge.
“Right… I think I’ll just go find Melinda before-“
“She’s on my bus,” he said, not removing his hands from over his mouth. The bus was put into motion and she suddenly had a very bad feeling about being alone with him.
“Um… Why not?”
“Because I asked her to she owes me a few favors.”
This did not sound good. “Why- why are we alone Justin?” He looked at her for a little while before he groaned loudly.
“Great, now you’re probably scared to death of me and freaked out beyond belief.”
His outburst made her smile and his vulnerability made the fear edge away.
“Well…” He almost smiled at the playfulness in her voice but then remembered the thoughts that have been plaguing him for the past two weeks. He sat up and took her hands in his.
“We’ve known each other for a little while right Brianna?”
She raised her eyebrows at him. “Yeah…”
“Um… Well, I’ve known girls for a lot less longer than I’ve known you and I’ve been able to put the moves on them in a lot less time that I’ve known you and...” He paused when he saw her shocked face. “Ok, so that didn’t come out right. Let me try this again.” He cleared his throat and stared at their hands entwined together while he spoke. “I think you’re really… well, hot. I know that sounds… dirty or whatever but I can’t hide what I think. I noticed you from the first time you messed with Chris’s head when we were on the stage. I don’t know why, but ever since then you’ve been on my mind. I know that sounds strange, but it’s true.”
He looked up at her face but he couldn’t read her reaction so he looked back down to his hands which were now caressing hers gently. “I don’t want to send you mix signals or anything because God knows I’ve been there and it’s just not fun. But I also don’t want to scare you away. I have feelings for you that I can’t explain and it scares the hell out of me that I feel this way even in the short time I’ve known you. It’s no where near love, I can tell you that, but it feels more like the love you have in first grade when the girl you’ve been crushing on gives you a handmade valentine. I just don’t want to scare you away or freak you out since we do have to live with each other for the next… I don’t even know how many months. But basically…” He took a deep breath and looked at her lips then deep into her eyes before he continued. “I don’t know what is going on inside of my head right now but all I know is that I want to kiss you but I’m afraid you are going to break my heart or pull away.” He laughed nervously and looked away. “I feel like I’m about 8 years old.”
“Justin, well… I… I have no idea how to say this…”
“Oh my God, you have a boyfriend!”
“No! No, I don’t I just… You shocked me is all. I think you’re cool and all but-“
“But you don’t like me the way I do.”
“But I do! Well, I think it’s just you-“
“Freaked the hell out of you?”
“No! Let me finish my sentence for God’s sake!” She took a deep breath and looked him over. “I don’t want to rush into anything before I get to know ya’.”
“So that means I have no chance?”
“Oh hell yes you do!” He looked a little shocked so she rushed to explain herself. “Believe me Justin, you have a HUGE chance here. I just don’t want to rush into something that we’ll regret.”
“Trust me, I won’t regret this.”
“I doubt I would either but I want to get to know you.”
“You already know me!”
“No, I want to get to know you. Justin. Not Justin Timberlake of Nsync.”
“But after we get to know each other…”
“Then we can have some REAL fun.” He smiled at her playfulness and cautiously tucked a piece of stray hair behind her ear.
“What kinda fun would that be Miss ‘I have a job to do here so stay the hell out of my way’?”
She held her hand to her chest in mock shock. “Excuse me Mr. “I have an ego the size of Texas and you all know I can get all of ya’ll fired with one word’.”
They both laughed when they couldn’t hold their smiles back anymore. He looked at her perfect white smile and soft, full lips and wanted more than anything to test out their texture but he understood her need for them to be friends first. He knew he was going to have a hell of a time with his patience to allow them to be friends but he would stay away from the intimate side as much as possible… for now.
Brianna sat down next to Melinda in the private VIP room as they waited for the concert to start. They both had gotten swamped with work all day but they couldn’t miss the concert and their room was extremely close to the stage this time. Justin had defiantly shocked her that afternoon and she still hadn’t been able to get him off her mind. Sighing slightly, she noticed that Melinda was staring at her.
“So…?” she asked.
“So what?”
“So what did Justin say?”
“How’d you know Justin was gonna talk to me?”
“Oh come on! Justin begged me to go on his bus today so he could be with you… alone.”
She blushed. “And…?”
“What happened?”
“Nothing.”
Melinda rolled her eyes. “Don’t give me that.”
“Seriously, we just talked.”
“About what?”
“Just some stuff.”
“Don’t leave me hanging like that! What’d he say? Did you kiss?”
“No we didn’t kiss.”
“Why not?”
“I’ve only known him for two weeks!”
She stared at the young girl blankly. “So?”
“So, well… You know… I don’t want to rush into anything.”
She continued to stare at her like she was absolutely nuts. “If I were you, I’d of jumped that boy’s bones days ago.”
Brianna smiled meekly. “I just want to get to know him better.”
Melinda’s eyebrows rose up and down. “Oh I know PLENTY of ways to get to know him better.”
“I have a job to do Mel and unfortunately, that comes before my love life.”
She shook her head and turned to look at the stage when the music started. “All I’m saying is you better not let him get away. You grab him and you hold on tight.”
The first few notes of the song was played and Brianna was sitting on the edge of her seat waiting for them to start. The lights turned on and she heard his beautiful voice flood the arena. She could see he was watching her from where she was sitting and tried hard not to laugh when the girls around her screamed happily when he smiled in their direction. She noticed JC tried his best not to focus on them but his eyes did wander from time to time and would settle on Melinda.
It was finally time for their favorite part of the concert and both girls were jumping up and down with excitement. Didgetal Getdown started and the two girls couldn’t be any happier than at that moment. When it was time for them to ‘get it on with the floor’, they were shocked beyond words when all five guys looked in their direction. She couldn’t help her laughter when Justin winked and continued on with the show, both him and JC planning that out no doubt.
By the time the concert was over, Brianna and Melinda were exhausted from dancing and their throats were on fire from screaming the lyrics with the guys.
They stumbled sleepily onto the bus and fell lifeless on the couch in the back.
“My God it was even better the second time…”
Melinda nodded in agreement. “Oh yeah… And that JC… Whew!”
Brianna smiled happily to herself. “My eyes were on Justin. Mmm… Did ya see the way his hips were thrustin’?”
“See the way who’s hips were thrusting?”
She almost died of embarrassment when she heard Justin’s amused voice.
“Um… The guy next to us. He was totally hot.”
He smiled evilly and sat next to her. “Oh really?”
“Uh huh.”
“Hotter than me?”
She looked him over carefully. “Definitely.”
“He moved closer to her and put his hand over hers. “He was huh?”
She swallowed hard. “Yup.”
“Well if that isn’t a shot at ‘Mr. My ego is bigger than Texas and I can fire all of ya’ll with just one word’.”
She blushed at his words and was relieved when JC leaned against the doorway and broke their conversation. “Was he hotter than me?” he asked.
Melinda looked at Brianna before she answered. “I dunno JC… He was awfully cute…” He moved until he was standing in front of her. He spread his legs out so he could lower to be closer to her eye level. “Can I meet this man that stole my girlfriend’s heart away?”
“Sure. I have him my number and everything so he-“ She stopped when his lips collided against hers. “Oh my…”
He laughed. “So what’s this guy’s name?”
She stared up at him dreamily. “What guy?”
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