Life Goes On- Chapters 6-10

CHAPTER6

After we ate some soup and got a drink of soda Justin said “I’ll be right back. I ‘m gonna run to the store. You stay here and explore.”

“What do you need?”

“It is a surpise.” He smiled and kissed me passionatly and grabbed his keys. When he left I didn’t know what to do. So I first when to check on Tucker in the back yard. For the first time I noticed how HUGE the yard was. It had a full length basketball court, a gazebo with a jaccuzie in it, a lake, and the pool. And there was still tons of grass. ‘Wow. Tucker is gonna love this!’ I spotted him sleeping in the shade tired from chasing birds all afternoon. I decided to leave him alone and go unpack. I was almost done when I heard Justin yell. “Ashleigh? Where are you?”

“I am unpacking in the room.” I yelled back.

“Come down here.”

“Coming.” I stood up and hopped down the steps two at a time.

“Now go sit on the couch.” He had bags behind his back.

“Why?”

“Please? I need to go up stairs and do something so can you please just go in the living room?” He asked.

“Sure babe.” I turned and walked into the living room. And sat down. I could hear him fumble around in the bags and just smiled to myself. ‘I really have a special guy’ I thought to myself. I sat and waited for about 10 minutes when he popped his head around the corner and kissed my cheek. I didn’t jump or get scared cause I heard him coming.

“Come on sexy.” He took my hand and stood me up. I put my arms on his shoulders and he put his on my hips. He pulled me close and kissed me on my lips. He turned me around and pushed me softly towards the stairs. “Go upstairs” he whispered in my ear as he kissed my neck. He had his hands on my hips and my hands were on his hands as I walked towards the stairs. As I approached them I noticed there where red rose petals on the staircase. I just and started to say something but he just put one finger up to my lips. “Shhh. Keep going up to the room.” I did as he said. When I opened the door, the were white and red rose petals on the bed, soft music was playing on the radio, the room was lit by only 6 candles, there was sparkling cider since we don’t drink, chocolate syrup, and a box of mini resees peanut butter cups. I turned around and pulled him in to a hug.

“Oh my gosh Justin! This is so sweet! Thank you so much!” He just smiled.

“I did it cause I lo..you are so special.”

“What did you say?”

“You’re special?” he asked nervously.

“No what were you gonna say before that?”

“Oh..umm nothing.”

“Justin…you were gonn..”

“Alright! Yes! I love you! Is that so bad?”

“No baby” I hugged him. “It’s not. I love you too.” He led me to the bed and we started a heavy make out session. He reached behind my back to untie my bathing suite but he stopped.

“You don’t have to do this Ashleigh.” He said noticing I was a little nervous.

“I want to Justin.” I pulled him down for a quick kiss. “I just don’t want you to think I am a slut or anything.”

“Oh Ashleigh! I would never think that of you!”

“Good” He reached behind my back and took off my top as I reached down and took off his swimming trunks. I giggled.

“Whats so funny?” he asked with a smile.

“You wear boxer under you trunks?”

“Yeah so?”

“Nothing. Come here you sexy thang you” Justin took off my bikini bottoms.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” he asked

“100% possitive babe”

“If you want to stop just tell me ok?” I nodded my head in agreement.

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3 hours later we were still making love. Justin stopped and just dropped on to me breathing heavy. We both were and we both were sweaty too. I just rubbed his hair which was drenched in sweat.

“Wow.” Is all he said

“Uh-huh” was all I could reply. We got under the covers and he just held me. He reach onto the night stand and picked up the box of resees.

“Would you care for one?” he said holding one unwrapped out to me.

“Sure” When I reached for it he popped it in his mouth. “Hey!”

“You gotta get” he said.

“Oh is that so?” he nodded his head. “Ok then.” I pulled him close to kiss him. He quickly took it out of his mouth and held it while we kissed. After I pulled away he put it in his mouth and held it between his teeth. I took it from him with my teeth.

“Umm. Good. But you taste better.” I kissed him again.

“I am gonna take a bath” he said getting up. “Care to join me?”

“Of course baby.” I got up and followed him. I grabbed the cider on the way. He ran warm water and filled it with bubbles.

“Its ready sugar.” He said climbing in. Their was only two candles lit in the bathroom as I got in. Justin rolled on top of me and looked in to my eyes.

“Ashleigh you know what?” he asked while moving my hair off my neck.

“What?” He kissed my neck a few time then looked at her in her eyes.

“I love you.” Tears welt up in my eyes and I pulled him in for a hug. “Aw baby. Don’t cry. I didn’t mean to make you cry.”

“I love you too.” I whispered. He squeesed me a little tighter. We finished with our bath around 10 pm and decided to go to bed. We snuggled in next to each other.

“Ashleigh, this has been the bast day of my life.”

“Mine too Justin.” He dozed off and so did I.

CHAPTER7

I woke up the next morning and Justin was still holding me so close to him. I smiled and tried to climb out of bed without waking him. As I stood up her grabbed my arm and pulled me back down. “You not getting away that easily.” He said.

“I wasn’t trying to get away I was trying not to wake you up”

“Well I am awake. So what are you gonna do now? Huh?”

“Well what do you want me to do?” I asked as I climbed back under the covers.

“Humm. I want you to kiss me.” He pulled my face up to his, look in my eyes the closed his and kissed me.

“OK. Now what do want me to do?” I asked after he finished kissing me.

“I want you to lay here with me for 5 minutes while I wake up.” So I snuggled back down in his chest. “What time is it?”

“Uh, 6:00”

“OK. Good. We have time to get ready.”

“Oh yeah we are going to Disney World huh? Yippy! I’ve never been!”

“Yeah. Chris, Joey, Lance and Johnathan are meeting us there.”

“OK. Cool.” About 10 minutes later someone knocked at their door. “Come in” Kaylena and JC poked their heads around the door, I guess to make sure we were dressed though I didn’t know why. They didn’t know what happened last night yet. They walked in carrying 2 trays of breakfast each and sat on the end of the bed. Justin and I both sat up. “Oh my gosh Kay! Josh, you guys didn’t have to do this for us!”

“We were hungry so we made breakfast for all of us. So Ash, how was your night?” Kaylena asked as she winked at me.

“What do you mean.” I looked at Justin with a worried glance. He gave me the same look.

“Oh come on you guys! The rose petals on the stairs, the ones on your floor, the candles,the bathing suite’s on the floor in here…the used condoms in the trash…” Justin smacked his forhead and I just sank in to his chest. JC and Kaylena started busting out laughing. “So you did have a good night huh Ash!?!!”

“Oh my gosh” I mumbled.

“OK lovebirds. Get up! We gotta go in 2 hours. Eat, get ready, and lets go.”

“JC, you’re not mad?” Justin asked surpised.

“Just don’t hurt her and it is obvious she wasn’t forced. So its cool.”

“Thanks JC” I said. He winked and left us alone to eat.

“Oh my lordie” Justin said.

“I know.” All the other guys will hear about this today and they wont leave us alone about it. Great. Here we go!” Justin said sarcastically.

“Oh” I said as I climbed out of bed.

“What do you mean ‘oh’?”

“Nothing Justin. Forget it.” I walked over to the closet and picked out an outfit.

“No way. I’m not gonna forget it.” He said climbing out of bed and walking over to me. “What did you mean?”

“Nothing ok Justin. No big deal.”

“It obviously is to you. Please tell me.” I looked at him and he looked like he was about to bust out in tears.

“Well, its just to me, when you said that, it seemed like you would take it back if you had the chance, just so the guys wouldn’t pick on you.”

“What??? Come here and sit with me.” He led me over to the bed and sat down next to me. I looked down and he took my hand. “Ashleigh look at me.”

“No”

“Please?” I was on the verge of tears and I knew if I looked at him I would cry. But I looked at him anyway and the tears came rolling down silently. “Ashleigh, I would never EVER take back last night. Not for anything in this world! Baby, listen to me,” he reached up a whiped the tears off my face and kissed me softly once on my lips. I looked down again. “Last night was so special to me. Ashleigh, last night was…it was my first time and it was so special.” I looked at him again.

“Mine too.”I whisperd

“What baby? I couldn’t hear you.”

“I said it was mine too.” He smiled as I fell in to his arms crying.

“Aw don’t cry Ashleigh. It’s ok.”

“No its not. I shouldn’t have said that. I shouldn’t have even though you would do that. I’m sorry Justin. I love you.”

“Ashleigh, look at me…” he pulled me away and lowered his head so we were eye to eye. “…I love you more than anything in this world.” He pulled me into his chest and he bagan to cry too. “Come on babe. We need to get ready.”

“Okay.” We stood up. I walked in to the bathroom where I had set my clothes and he fished around in his drawer for clothes. About ten minutes later he knocked on the bathroom door.

“Can I come in?”

“Yeah, its open” He walked in. “Wow Justin. You look…excellent” I said looking him up and down. He was wearing Kahki cargo pants, a white muscle shirt, white Adidias, a white buttom up shirt, and blue tinted glasses.

“Thanks sweetie. My, you are lookin pretty sexy too.” I was wearing tight flare jeans that had a flame on the back pockets, a tight pale yellow tank top, white Cab4 Vans, my hair was in a messy bun with a metal head band hold back my bangs, and yellow tinted glasses.

“Aw shucks.” I wrapped Justin in a hug and kissed his lips. “I still need to do my makeup.” I turned and started rumaging though my makeup bag for what I needed. Justin went to the medicine cabnet and got out his Tommy Hilfiger cologne. I sprayed my self with Candies for Women. In 15 mins we were done in the bathroom. Justin picked me up and sat me on the counter and I wrapped my arms around his neck as I wheeled him in for a kiss. We kissed for 10 minutes straight then decided we should go see what Kaylena and JC were up to. We quietly walked down the stairs to JC and Kaylenas room. The door was slightly open and we could hear something in there. I peaked in the door and immediately turned around, grabbed Justins hand and took off for the kitchen.

“What were they doing?” He askes curious as to why I hurried off.

“Kaylena was uh…well…”

“Spit it out honey”

“She was stratling him. His hands were on her hips and uh…”

“Oh lord! Don’t tell me anymore! Please! That is my best friend in there!”

“Uh!! You! That is my best bud and my BROTHER!!”

“Oh. You have a point. Sorry babe.” He started cracking up. I did too. After 5 solid minutes of laughing we she up cause now JC was screaming Kaylenas name! And off Justin and I went in to another laughter fit. “Hey JC, Kaylena…they guys are here! They are coming to your room!” Justin yelled.

“OH SHIT! Kaylena! Hurry get dressed!” Two seconds later they came running out in to the kitchen with their clothes on crooked. Oh man, I just about died laughing when JC and Kay found out Justin was joking.

“And you said WE were bad!! PUH! Oh Kaylena!!” I mocked.

“Shut up Ashleigh!” Kaylena snapped but she couldn’t help but smile. Soon we all were laughing. Kay and JC went and finished getting ready. By 9:15 they were ready and they left for the park together.

CHAPTER8

We all walked out the door and headed for Justins car. Kaylena and I say in back, Justin drove, ans JC was up front with him. I asked JC to turn on the radio to a country station so he reached over and changed the station for me. Soon, the Dixie Chicks’ “Ready to run” came on. Kaylena and I exchanged glances and we started joking around and singing it. ‘When the dream, rolls by, I’m gonna be ready this time. When my mom says you look good in white, I’m gonna be redy this time.’ Justin and JC were laughing their asses off in the front while me and Kay just continued to sing and try to dance in the back seat. When it was over, JC and Justin were red in the face and Kaylena and I started laughing too. About 15 minutes later we pulled up to the park and Justin parked. We spotted Joey, Chris, Lance and Johnathan by the entrance.

“Thanks for taking him last night guys.” Justin said.

“No problem J.”

“AshWEE!!” I smiled as Johnathan ran and jumped in to my arms.

“Hey there big boy!!”

“Oh so HE is a big boy, and I am a little boy?!?”Justin joked.

“Well now you are a big boy…remember…” I said smiling. He smiled and Kaylena, JC and I all started laughing at eachother.

“What so funny?” Joey asked confused.

“Joey, man, you just had to be there!” JC managed to get out. They laughed a little more and then went in to the park.

“Justin, I am gonna take John around? Is that cool?”

“Yeah Lance. Just make sure we all meet here for lunch at 1:00 ok?”

“Yeah. Later guys.” Lance took Johnathan by the hand and they walked off. Justin just started to giggle a little bit.

“What so funny? Why are you laughing?”

“Lance only takes John to pick up chicks.”

“Oh! Figures!”

“Oh well.” Justin put his arms around my neck and hugged me. “Where do we go first? Oh that’s right you havent been here before. Well, lets start with something slow and easy then we will graduate to faster stuff ok?”

“Sounds cool.” I gave him a quick kiss and we all split up by twos to explore this whole big place. After about an hour we ran in to JC and Kaylena. “Hey y’all!! Whats up?”

“Nada. Hey we are gonna take pics in the booth. Do you guys want to too?”

“Yeah! Me and Kay in one, then you and Kay, then you and Justin, then Justin and you, then me and you, then Justin and Kay and then one with all of us crammed in there! That will be so cool!”

“Whoa Ashleigh!” Justin joked. “Now breathe!” So we got all of the pictures done finally. All four of us decided to sick together until we met everyone else for lunch. We all started to walk to the Café at about 12:30 so we were on time. Everyone finished around 2:00 and then we split up again. We were going to leave the park at 9:00 so we could have Johnathan home by ten. Justin and I sat down on a bench to rest for a mintue. I layed my head in his lap and we were there for about 20 minutes. “You know Ashleigh, I am having so much fun today with you.”

“It is probably just the park.” I said jokingly as I sat up.

“Naw. Couldn’t be.” He said as he grabbed me up in a hug. Just then s group of girl came walking up to us.

“OH MY GOD!! YOU ARE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE!! AHHHH!!” The girls began screaming and jumping up and down. “Can we have you autograph?? Please?!?”

“Of course” he replied with a smile.

“Here” I said. “Why don’t all of you get together with Justin and I will take a picture with you camera.” I offerd.

“REALLY?!? OMG! YEAH! Thank you soooooo much!!” After I took the picture and Justin finished signing their stuff, the girl pranced off happily.

“You just made the whole day” Justin said.

“Me?!? They wanted you not me.” I said as I slipped my arms around his waist.

“Yeah but I never would have thought to take a picture.”

“Ok. Whatever you say babe.” We walked off together hand in hand. Just then we ran into Joey and Chris.

“Man! This group of girls just like attacked us!” Joey exclaimed.

“I know! Dude they like swamped us!” Chris agreed.

“I think we met the same ones. They didn’t kill us though.” Justin replied.

“Yeah. The were pretty sweet.” I said.

“Humph! For y’all mabye but I think the one broke my hand when I shook her hand!” Joey said joking. “Hey Justin, what time is it?”

“Umm…” Justin said looking at his watched. “Its half past 5.”

“Cool then.” Chris said. “Joey, now its chick time!”

“Chick time?” I asked confused.

“Yup! The rest of the day we are gonna go pick up chicks.” I stared laughing when Joey and Chris puffed out their chests and walked away very ‘manly’.

“Those guys crack me up.” Justin said smiling. Right then I turned my head and look straight ahead. I saw someone very familiar. It was a girl that I hated back from San Diego. I took Justins hand and I hurried off in another direction pretending I didn’t see her and her boyfriend who was my ex. “What was up with that?” Justin asked confused as to why we rushed in to line for the LoveBoat ride.

“That girl and that guy walking past behind us are from San Diego. I really hate them both and if we run into eachother we will start fighting and I don’t want you to get involved.” I said look straight ahead in the line.

“OK baby. Whatever is good for you.” He turned me around and picked me up. I wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. We started kissing when we were inturrupted by a little boy screaming at Justin.

“Justin! No!!! You are gonna kill AshWEE!! Let her breathe!!!” We knew it was Jonathan and we started laughing. He didn’t understand. I looked behind me and I saw Lance and Jonathan in line for some food next to the line we were in. Lance was with a girl I recognized but I couldn’t place a name to her face. She was laughing too.

“So Justin, who is your girlfriend?” She asked with a smile.

“Oh Ashleigh, this is Danielle. Danielle, this is my lovely girl, Ashleigh.” We shook hand and said our ‘nice to meet you’s’. “Lance and Danielle are together.” Justin explained.”

“Oh! I knew I recognized you. From ‘Boy meets world’ right?”

“Yeah.” She laughed.

“Did you guys just run in to eachother or did you plan to meet here?” I asked.

“Lance called me last night and told me to meet him here.”

“Oh…cool! Well it was very nice meeting you. Mabye we could get together for a girls night sometime.”

“Sure! That sounds great. Nice too meet you too. Bye guys” And with that Lance, Danielle and Jonathan walked off as Justin and I got on the ride. We had to get on a little boat that sailied down an indoor river or stream like thing. I was just me and Justin in the boat. I snuggled into his arms and we started a heavy make out session. When he took my shirt off, he accedntly tossed it in the water.

“Oh my gosh! Ashleigh I’m so sorry!” He laughed. I just laughed at him.

“It’s ok. I have my bathing suite top on. Its cool.”

“Ok baby. Now gimme a kiss.” He grabbed my head and roughly kissed me. He flipped me over on to my back and crawled on top of me. Soon we saw light from the end of the tunnel and we sat up to get off the ride. When we got off, the next boat behind us that was unloading a couple was Kaylena and JC.

“Did ya loose something Ash?” Kaylena asked holding up my wet shirt. All of us just about died laughing.

“Thanks Kay. That is my favirote shirt!” I was still laughing.

“No prob” she smiled. Soon it was time to go so we all loaded up and drove to Justins moms house to drop Jonathan off. He was in my lap sleeping when we arrived 15 minutes later. Justin picked him up and carried him in while we waited in the car. 2 minutes later he came out and we went home. As we arrived at the house I was sleeping and so was Kay so the guys picked us up and carried us to our rooms. I woke up when Justin was half way up the stairs. He kissed my forhead. “Did you have fun today?”

”Course” I said yawning. He set me down on the bed and went in to the bathroom to change. I took off my shoes and stood on the bed to stretch when he came out. He walked up to the bed while I was standing and swipped my feet out from under me so I fell on my back onto the bed. We were both being serious. He was only in his boxers and I was in my bathing suite top and my white silk undies. He began kissing my neck softly at first but then he got rough. He pause to reach up and turn off the light. Then he stripped off his boxers and my clothes too. He climbed on top of me and whispered in my ear.

“I love you.” Then, before I knew it, he was inside of me.

“I love you too” I whispered back.

CHAPTER9

***ONE MONTH LATER***

It was a sunny July morning when I woke up and the sun was shinning in the window just right. Justin was laying on his stomach with his face turned towards me and the warm sun was shinning on his back. I leaned over and kiss his cheek. “Justin, sweetie. Time to get up. We are walking down to the beach today. Wake up baby.” Justin slowly opened his eyes and gave me a small smile. He rolled over on to his back and pulled me on top of him.

“What time is it?” He asked.

“Uh…7:30”

“When are we leaving?”

“10:00”

“Good then.” He smiled. “We have time”

“Time for what?” I asked confused

“For this.” He rolled over still holding on to me and began passionatly kissing me. “So, do we have time?” he asked smiling.

“I don’t know.” I said. “But I will make time.” We began a makeout session that resulted in us making love again like the night AND the morning before. We did it at least twice a day. No kidding either.

“Knock Knock!” JC called from the door. Justin didn’t move from on top of me as JC opened the door as came in. “Come on guys!” he said joking. “Even rabbits evenually take a break from sex!!” He was laughing and we just layed there smiling. Justin was still on, and little did JC know, in me. “We are leaving at 10 and it is 8:30 now. Y’all need to get up and help us get ready.”

“Alright” I said. “We’ll be down in…15 minutes” I looked at Justin and he nodded. With that JC shut the door. We continued for 5 more minutes then decided we should get up and get dressed. When we were ready with all of our stuff we went to help Kaylena and JC get the stuff together so we could walk down to the beach. We left the house around 9:45.

Kaylena and I layed out while JC and Justin went boogie boarding. After a while Kay and I went in the water with the guys. Soon it was 4:00 and we decided to walk home. As we approched the corner of Chase and Emerald we had to wait to cross at the light. My shoe was untied when it changed so I hurried to tie while eveyone else walked across the street. As I stepped off the curb I noticed a car was going extreamly fast and headed for Justin, JC, and Kaylena.

“LOOK OUT!!” I screamed as I ran towards them. Justin turned around and I barreled into him and knocked over. He hit JC who fell on to Kaylena. Needless to say, they were on the side walk and I was still in the road. The car crashed into me and it flipped me into the air. I rolled over the top of the car and landed on a truck windsheild.

“ASHLEIGH!! NO!!” was the last thing I heard be for I passed out from the pain. When I woke up, I saw a nurse in the room I was in attending to some bandages on my legs.

“Oh! Finally!” she yelped. “Doctor! Doctor!” she scooted off to the hall. Soon, a tall dark man entered the room.

“Well Ashleigh! Thank goodness you are awake! You were out for 3 days so far.” I tried to sit up but I couldn’t for my body from my waist down was numb.

“Where is everyone? Are they ok?” I asked in a hurry.

“Yes they are fine thanks to you. They are in the waiting room. The one curly haired boy has been here the whole time.”

“What happened?”

“Well, you were hit by a car. Someone called 911 and an ambulance brought you here. We have good and bad news.” He continued seriously. “There has been damage to your spinal cord which has effected your legs. Right now you are paralized from the waist down.”

“What do you meant ‘right now’?”

“Well, the good news it, with a lot of hard work and detication, you can walk again. But therepy needs to start A.S.A.P. and you have to work hard. You may be able to walk in as little as two monthes.”

“Thank you Dr. Can I see the others?”

“Sure. Darcie, put her in the wheelchair and take her into the waiting room.”

“Yes Dr. Green.” With that, the doctor patted my hand and left the room. The nurse helped me in to my clothes and in to the wheel chair. She wheeled my out in to the waiting room. I saw Justin standing with his back turned. Kaylena was hugging JC and I could see her face. When she saw me she gasped and just pointed. Justin turned around to see the nurse wheeling me out.

“Ashleigh!” He cried running over to me. He had bags under his eyes and he started crying. “Oh my gosh! Thank you God! Thank you!” He bent down hugging me and crying in to my shoulder. “Why did you push me out of the way?”

“Because I love you Justin and I didn’t want you to get hurt.”

“I love you too baby! I love you too!” He pulled away from me and nelt down next to me. “So whats going on now?” He asked the nurse. “Can she come home?”

“Yes. She can go now. But she needs to be back here in 2 days to start theripy.”

“Theripy? For what?” he asked concerned.

“I will tell you in the car. I just wanna go home.”

“Alright baby, lets go. Thank you nurse.” With that Justin began to push me in the chair. “Now what is the theripy for?”

“They didn’t tell you?”

“No. They didn’t tell us anything.”

“Well…” I started. “As of right now I am paralized from the waist down and I can’t even walk. Something triggered in my spinal cord. If I want to ever walk again, I need to do physical theripy.”

“Oh my God! Ashleigh! Why?!? Why did you have to push me?”

“Because Justin!” I began to raise my voice. “I would rather it be me than you! You have to go back on tour in 2 and a half monthes anyway!” We were at the car. Justin picked my up and sat me in the front seat. After he put the wheel chair in the back he climbed up front. I just sat their silent the whole way home looking out the window. When we got home Justin told JC to carry my wheel chair in while he carried me.

“Are you hungry?”

“No thanks”

“Well where do you want me to put you?”

“Just take me upstairs ok.” I said with more than a little irritation in my voice.

“Fine.” He took me up to our room and sat me on the bed then just left.

“KAYLENA!! I NEED HELP!” I yelled. Justin came running in the door and I was still sitting right where he left me. “You’re not Kaylena.” I snapped. Kay came pushing her way by Justin and he turned and left the room slamming the door behind him. Kaylena can over to me and gave me a hug and began to cry. “Why does he resent the fact that I helped him?? He is mad at me because I stopped harm from comming to him! What is he mad Kay?”

“Ashleigh,” she said still hugging me. “He probably not mad. He is just shocked and confused that’s all.”

“Then why did he just set me on the bed and leave knowing it is gonna be hard for me to get under the covers and change my clothes? I really need his love and support right now and he is nothing but pissed at me! I just don’t understand it!” Just then Justin walked in the door.

“Kaylena, can I talk to her alone please.” He said in a low voice.

“Yeah. Look Ash,” she said pulling away from me. “If you need anything just holler and I will be right here ok?”

“Ok.” Kaylena got up, whispered something into Justins ear, patted him on the back, and then she left to go find JC. I turned away from Justin and tried my hardest to climb under the covers. Justin walked over to help me. “No Justin. You didn’t want to help me before so why is now different?” I snapped.

“Because I wasn’t thinking earlier. I’m sorry.”

“Sorry doesn’t fix things.” I said after I was under the covers.

“I know.” He sat on the side of the bed just rubbing my head.

“Look Justin…” I started. “I know things are going to be difficult for a while. But will you please…Justin I am begging you…please just bear with me and help me out a little bit. All I need is for you to just be here for me.” I began to cry a little.

“Ashleigh, look at me. I want you to know that I will always be here for you! I will never leave you or intintionally hurt you. Ashleigh, I love you.”

“I love you too.” Justin layed on top of me and hugged me.After a while he asked me if I wanted to change clothes or anything. “Yeah but I cant do it by myself. Will you help me?”

“Of course” he smiled. “What do you want to wear?”

“Umm. I don’t know. Just a t-shirt and shorts I guess.”

“Alright” He kissed my for head and got up. He went over to his dresser.

“Justin, my stuff is in my closet.”

“I know.” He pulled out his favirote pair of babyblue silk boxers and an Abercrombie t-shirt. Then he went over to my stuff and got my white, silk undies and a sports bra. He sat down ans I told him I could do the shirt and stuff I just need help with the undies and shorts. He pulled the covers back and took off what I had.

“Hum.” He said with a smile. “This is very tempting. But I wont.” He put my undies and his boxers on me. When he went to change, I changed my bra and his shirt. When he came back he sat on the edge of the bed.

“Hey Ash. Do you wanna go eat and watch a video with the others?”

“Sure Justy. You gonna carry me?”

“Of course baby. I am gonna carry you forever. Here.” He took my hand and patted his chest with my hand. I started to cry a little. He leaned down and gathered my up in a hug. Then he picked me up and carried me down stairs and to the couch. I fell asleep in his lap.

CHAPTER10

Within the next 3 weeks, I went to theripy everyday. Justin went with me so when we were at home, he could help me. Durring the fourth week I asked him if I could go alone from now on.

“Baby, whatever you want is ok with me.” He kissed my lips softly. I was acually very proud of him. Durring the 3 weeks, he never even asked me or hinted that he wanted to have sex. He knew I wasn’t ready yet to do that again.

“Thank you. Chris and Joey are gonna take me. Kaylena is going to stay with me. I’m sorry. I just want to try to finish on my own.”

“I understand.” He said smiling. By this time was on crutches and putting a little weight on my legs. Everyone but Justin knew that I could walk without the crutches. I wanted to surprise him…

ABOUT 4 WEEKS LATER

“Hey Justin! I have a great idea!!” I said.

“What?”

“Lets go to a kareoke bar! Me, you, JC an Kay! Us

four! Oh come on! It will be fun!! Please?!?”

“You don’t have to beg! Of course. Lets get ready and go.” Everyone went to their rooms and got ready. I had Justin help me just so he didn’t suspect anything. When we arrived, I let Justin carry me and had Kaylena hold my crutches. Kaylena and I, once inside the bar, told them we were gonna do and NSYNC song. Justin and JC laughed as we walked away. I got up there first in the middle, still on my crutches, and Kaylena came out next. She had to set up what we were gonna do. Then, we had Chris, Lance and Joey come running out with microphones. I could hear Justin laughing. I was the only one who had stand for my mic since I was on the crutches. The music for ‘I Want You Back’ started. I sang Justins part and Kay had JC’s. ‘You all I ever wanted. You all I ever needed. So tell me what to do now cause …ah-ah-ah-ah-ah I want you back.’ I reached up, grabbed the mic, dropped my crutches, kicked them away, saw Justins mouth hit the floor and tossed the stand to the side. We all started to dance to it. The exact moves. When the song was over I jogged back to to Justin, his mouth still open.

“You…you…” We all laughed. I leaned over and hugged him. I kissed him on the cheek. “You were DANCING?!?!!!”

“I know!”

“But how?”

“Well, when I asked you to let me go alone, it only took one more week till I could walk fully on my own. After that, I went to Joeys place with Kaylena and we learned all the moves to make sure we had them right.” I smiled.

“So you all knew?”

“Yup” they all anwered in unison. He pulled me up in a hug and he cried.

“I love you Ashleigh! I am so proud of you!”

“I love you too and thank you.” Then ‘How Do I’ can on and Justin asked me to dance with him. JC asked Kaylena too. I danced with Justin for the rest of the night. “Thank you Justin” I said as we entered our bedroom back at home.

“For what?”

“Well 1) for loving me 2) for sticking with me even though I’ve been a pain in the ass and 3) because you didn’t show that you were upset.”

“Upset over what.” He was changing in to PJ’s and I say on the bed.

“Over not being able to…you know…”

“Oh!” He smiled. “I knew it was for the best…well best for you anyway!” He laughed as he crawled on top of me.

“Justin you are hopeless!” I cried laughing.

“What do you mean?”

“You put on pajamas.”

“So”

“Well now you just have to take them off again!!” He smiled as I stratled him and took of his clothes. The he flipped me over and took off mine. We got under the covers and started making love for the first time in 2 monthes. Just then Kaylena walked in.

“OOPS!” She shut the door and just yelled to JC

“They’re baaaack!”