Katie had decided to move into Ali's home with her because they spent most of their time there anyway. The girls kept themselves busy with work. Ali decided to go to work at a law firm as an intern. She didn't want to head to college just yet. Taking this job will not only give her experience, but she'll be more flexible for the guys. Luckily her name hadn't gotten into the press yet. That made sense to Ali considering that she wasn't involved with Justin during their tour before. Now she was. Being put all over MTV and magazines scared her. Katie had had her picture in a few tabloids, but nothing serious. They even called her Lance's sister. Katie was more pleased then insulted.
Katie's offers for jobs were growing everyday. And what luck to find out that she got an offer to be the chief editor of BB and BOP. These magazines specialized in teen idols. Lots of celebrities. Katie was extremely excited.
"Katie, get your ass moving. If you don't leave now you're going to miss your interview with Freddie Prinze Jr.! It's already 2:30!!!" Ali screamed up the stairs.
As soon as Katie reached Ali she inhaled deeply and walked out the door without a word. Then she came back in laughing. "Sorry, trying to leave without you begging to come."
"I don't want to go. I have Justin Timberlake!" Ali hopped onto the couch and grabbed the remote. "Besides, he's not that hot." Ali lied.
"Oh sure." Katie paused as her cell phone rang. "Hello? Hi Marge, ok that's fine. I can do it next weekend. Just call me to let me know when to meet him. Thanks babe. Bye," Katie put her phone away and sat next to Ali.
"So you're not going out?" Ali snickered.
"No, I'm not." Katie grabbed a magazine and read while Ali flipped channels.
"I'm going to go upstairs and hang out in my room. Holler if you need me." Ali sighed.
"You ok sweetie?" Katie asked with concern in her voice.
"I just miss Justin so much. When he's not close by it seems as though some of my life is missing. 3 more weeks till their home." Ali swallowed back tears and plastered on a smile to reassure Katie. "Like I said, holler if you need me."
Katie watched with more concern as her friend slowly made it up the stairs. Katie had to use all her energy to keep herself from spilling the fact that the boys were coming home for Halloween. Katie didn't know when or how, but she knew she'd be with her man soon. Katie smiled to herself. Now it was her turn to sigh.
Where is he? Ali sat in her favorite wicker chair. It sat right by the window so she could get just the right amount of sunlight when she sat there. I remember when Mom and Dad gave this to me on my 13th birthday. Fresh tears sprang into her eyes.
I need him. I want him. More thoughts of Justin and his body and lips danced through her mind. I think I'll take a shower. Maybe his beautiful eyes will get out of my mind then.
She walked through the bathroom door and turned on the hot water to let it run. The room steamed up and she stepped in. After about 20 minutes she came out and put on her terry cloth bathrobe with stars and moons on it. The mirror was steamed over and she drew: Justin + Ali 4ever with a big heart around it. The idea of being with Justin made her heart skip a beat. She picked up her comb and laundry and went back into her room.
As she finished buttoning her top the phone rang. "Hello?"
"Ali?" A mumbled voice said on the other end.
"Yes, who is this?"
"You can't tell the voice of the most important man, other then Justin, in your life?" Tears sprang into her eyes.
"JC! Oh, I've missed you all so much. Where have you been? When are you coming home? Is Justin there? Are you all ok?" Ali would have gone on, but Jc yelling at her made her stop her questions.
"Chill girl, I can't answer all of those. Tour is over in a few days and then just interviews and photo shoots." Jc lied.
"Oh, so a month like you thought?" Ali said with disappointment in her voice.
"Yes sweetie. Sorry. Justin says he loves you, but we gotta go. Bye!" Jc hung up before Ali could respond.
"Damn you Jc!" Ali shouted. By the time she was dressed and ready for the afternoon it was 3:30 and clouds filled the already darkened sky. "October's no fun." Ali said out loud to herself.
"Oh yes it is." Katie said from the door way. She was holding two big boxes.
"How?" Ali asked her with smartness in her voice.
"Don't get pissed. Get glam rocked up!" Katie threw a box at Ali. She opened unsurely and saw dozens of outfits to choose from.
"I love my job." Katie said laughing at Ali's expression.
"What are these for?" Ali asked stupidly.
"Halloween is tomorrow and we're going to look amazing. You may take a little work, but anything is possible!" Katie dodged the empty box Ali tossed in her direction.
"Oh, thanks pal. Come on. I wanna know what I'm going to wear."
The two girls spent the next four hours trying on outfits and mixing and matching. Katie settled on a butterfly top as well only the material was see through and glittery. The wings of the butterfly covered her chest. The butterfly was black, so her red leather pants look amazing. She had seen something similar on Sarah Michelle Gellar and was dying to try it out.
Ali had picked out a sequin halter top, but the top had a oval shaped hole missing so you could see a lot of cleavage. The top seemed to be made for her. She wore a tight leather mini skirt and tall black zipper up boots. She looked great. both outfits seemed to be very revealing though. The girls doubted the guys would mind that.
They had only gone through the outfits box and hadn't even looked through the accessories and make up and decided to do that tomorrow. Katie and Ali cleaned up the room, unchanged, and went downstairs to make dinner.
"Katie, I got a question for you." Ali said sitting down to leftover Chinese food with her best friend.
"Ok? Should I be worried?" Katie said joking.
"No I was just wondering, who was your first?" Ali said as Katie almost choked on her noodles.
"Well, what makes you think I have?" Katie replied with a question.
"Oh, come on. You're twenty-one, beautiful, and just tell me!" Ali replied stretching.
"I've only attempted to do it once." Katie said softly.
"Really?" Ali was intrigued.
"Yes, with Adam. It wasn't meant to be so I never went through with it."
"Well, I've never done it either. Mike doesn't count that was just---horrible." Ali turned away.
"Yes, so what brought this subject on?"
"I was just wondering. I've never really thought about it."
"Bull. You know you have." Katie yelled.
"Chill, I know I have I just meant with Justin for real. Not in dreams or fantasies I mean for real. And I just have lately. Maybe it's just cause I miss him so much." Ali thought.
"Lance and I almost did. In the elevator in the hospital. But it wasn't the place or time."
"KATIE!" Ali was shocked.
"Hey, I get to before you do. We're older. I've gone longer." Katie said giggling.
"New topic. It's like 8 o'clock. Let's see what's on tv." Ali grabbed the dishes and put them in the sink.
Charmed was on so they decided to watch it. Only Katie was on AOL IMING all her friends, so once again Ali felt all alone. It was just after the 11 o'clock episode of Friends when Ali turned off the tv and fell asleep on the couch. Katie was a few feet away on the love seat.
The night came and went. Soon it was getting dangerously near noon. The girls still had to set up for their little own Halloween party, get dressed, shop for candy, and cook. Katie woke up suddenly from a bad dream. Some fan found out that the guys were coming to the house and hundreds of girls came in screaming. The worst part being they separated Lance and Katie forever. She could never get past the crowds to her love.
"Ahhhhh," Katie was out of breath and her scream woke up Ali from an equally horrible dream.
"What is it?" Ali said with concern.
"Nothing, sorry. Just a bad dream," Katie noticed the sweat covering Ali's face. "You too?" Ali nodded in response. "Let's go into the kitchen and get some cereal and then get ready. We've got a lot to do." Ali got up and followed Katie.
After breakfast and two hot showers the girls headed out the door to get the needed items. They returned in the next hour and prepared the food and decorations. The house looked great.
We've done one hell of a job. I wish the guys were here to be with us. It's almost 3 o'clock and I think I'm going to get together the rest of my costume. Ali thought to herself as she made plans. Katie saw Ali go up the stairs and followed.
"I'll do your make-up without any comments and you can do the same for me." Katie suggested.
"Ok, but same goes for hair?" Ali asked.
"Yup, sit down." Katie patted the stool she brought up from the kitchen and started to rummage through the make-up. Picking up silver-blue eye shadow, shimmery pink lipstick, and a jar of glitter she got ready. Realizing she was missing eye liner she had to search for it for five minutes. After applying to her eyes and then giving her a fake beauty mark above her lip she was done. Ali was glittery and seductive.
Katie sat in the same position. Ali held onto the glitter and eyeliner, but choose shocking red lipstick and a brown eye shadow. After she put glitter on the eyelids she applied the eye shadow that way it would be glittery and stay longer. She used her finger to lighten it by her eyebrows and then started the lipstick. Katie didn't know about red, but didn't say a word. After she put the first coat on Ali grabbed a brown. She put that on and then red again. It was a very unique color. A dark red but with brown. The color diffenetly fit the rest of the tone colors. Finally, adding glitter to the cheekbones she was done.
"We look amazing!" Ali squealed.
"Oh, yes we do girl!" They high fived and then Ali sat down for hair. " Now, please be gentle."
"Sure, now relax. Oh, lemme get the water bottle spray." Katie left the room for a few minutes. She came back with an armful of spray bottles.
"Don't you dare think you're going to spray my hair with all that stuff." Ali protested.
"Hey! No talking. Now shut up and let me do this." Katie demanded and Ali shut her mouth.
Katie brushed out her hair and then blow dried it so it was puffy. Then she curled it in big balloon curls. After they were dry she brushed them out and stuck it all in one big pony tail on the top of her head. "Oh my god, ok your turn."
Ali didn't waste any time. She immediately took out Katie's bun and watered down her hair. Ali took the curling iron and flipped out Katie's hair so it flipped out to her shoulders. Ali looked though the pile and found temporary hair coloring and used the red one. Ali stroked the coloring over the ends of the hair and did it uneven to create a more natural look. Katie loved it.
"This looks great. Thanks." Katie grabbed her hand and pulled her to the full length mirror against the closet door and was it total shock. They both looked so good and so much like glam rock stars. Ali thought she reminded herself of Val in Josie and the Pussycats and Katie looked like Josie.
"Geez, it's almost 5:30. We still have some more work to do." The girls went their own ways to finish everything that had to be done. By 7 o'clock everything was done and a bowl of candy was ready to give to the first trick-or-treaters.
The doorbell rang exactly at 7:25 just as planned. Katie set the final part of the plan in motion by asking Ali, "could you get the door I'm stuck in the kitchen!"
"Sure, here I come." Ali checked herself out, grabbed the bowl, and open the door. "Happy Halloween," Ali stared at five guys dressed as the Backstreet Boys only badly and Ali dropped the candy.
Ali's scream was so loud the oncoming trick-or-treaters skipped her house. "What are you doing here?" Ali was shocked and crying and screaming all at once.
"Calm down," Lance said walking past to get to Katie. The other guys were staring at Ali's outfit and her exposed belly, chest, and legs. Katie had Lance spellbound as well.
"What are you doing here? You're not coming for another three weeks." Ali had stopped screaming and was in Justin's loving arms once again.
"We're here now baby," Justin whispered into her ear.
"I missed you so much," Ali's voice caught in her throat as her lips met his after such a long time. Ali stopped the kiss fast so it didn't get out of hand. She knew if she started she wouldn't stop. The feeling was mutual.
"So we don't get anything?" Joey asked impatiently.
"I'm sorry," Ali rushed over gave him a peck on the lips and a big hug. She went over to Chris and did the same thing. Jc was different. She kissed him like a million times on the face and hugged him for so long.
"Hey, who's the boyfriend here?" Justin cried out.
"Looks like I am buddy," Jc said as he shifted his body to put Ali between him and Justin. As Justin moved forward Jc backed away and let Ali go. "Just kidding. Take it easy."
Ali moved back over to Justin and laced her fingers with his. All she could do was look at him. "I love you," she whispered.
"Ditto," Justin smiled his award winning smile and kissed her nose making her blush. "Let's go into our rooms boys and change into our regular clothes. Ali, you stay just the way you are." Justin looked her up and down once again and left to his room. The others followed.
Ali ran over to Katie, who's eyes were cloudy with tears, and embraced her friend in a warm loving hug. "I can't believe you, but I love you." Ali was sobbing now and shaking.
"It's ok, calm down. He's here. They're all here. They're staying here for a while with the exception for tv appearances, photo shoots, and other things like that, but I've been talking to Johnny and he has no problem with the guys staying here and working and not in the usual area." Katie let go of Ali and brushed away her tears and mascara.
"I'm ok. Let's go and sneak into their room." An evil grin spread over Ali's face. The same grin on Katie's and the girls quietly made their way to the room the boys were in. They heard laughing form inside. As the girls peered in the slightly opened door they saw five guys huddled around something on the bed. Jc, Chris, and Joey were fully clothed, only Joey didn't have on a shirt and Lance and Justin were in boxers and tee-shirts. Lance had turned around to grab his pants when he saw Katie's head and fell over backwards.
"What the hell?" Chris cried out as Lance hit him going down.
"What are you two doing?" Lance shouted from the ground.
Justin and the others turned around to see Ali and Katie laughing. "Nothing," Katie said through her laughs.
"Right, absolutely nothing. Justin, sweetheart, your tighty whiteys are showing. You too Lance!" Ali screamed as they both ran away from the door. They could hear Lance yell to them, "they're boxer briefs not tighty whitey's. You better run!" The girl ran outside to the back yard just as the guys got downstairs.
"Where'd they go?" Chris yelled.
"Out there, the door's open." Jc noticed and headed to the deck.
Too bad Ali and Katie aren't very quiet because as soon as they took sight of Justin and Lance and their disheveled attire they burst out laughing once again. "Shit," Katie cursed.
The guys found them and looked at them with annoyed faces. "What were you doing?" Lance asked.
"Ok, we haven't seen you guys in how long and two of you are our boyfriends...do you know how horny we've been?" Katie explained.
"Well, in that case." Lance picked Katie up and put her over his shoulder. "Just kidding." Lance put her back down.
"It's 8 o'clock on Halloween. Let's have some fun!" Joey screamed.
The group headed back into the house. The guy finished with their costumes and shocked Ali and Katie. They were dressed as noble men. Just like Jack from Titanic, that kind of look. Speaking of Jack, Justin looked just like Leonardo. Joey had a top hat and Chris had a cane. Jc looked extremely well dressed. Then there was Lance. He was just as perfect as the rest of them. The girls couldn't take it.
"Where did you get those costumes?" Katie asked.
"They were just lying around for a photo shoot, so we decided to borrow them." Lance answered.
"But, I think Joey got the message wrong. He said you'd be using glamourous costumes. We thought we'd fit perfectly, but he was on his cell so he didn't hear the rock star part I guess." Chris said chuckling.
"That's ok, we look better this way." Ali countered.
"So when are people getting here?" Justin asked.
"In about half an hour. I don't even remember how many people are coming." Katie said to him looking to Ali to see if she remembered.
"I don't know either."
"We invited some people too, hope you don't mind." Jc said.
"Who, who?" Ali said anxiously.
"Just Britney and Christina. We couldn't find anyone not busy besides them. Sorry." Chris said.
"That's fine," Ali said in an icy tone.
"What?" Justin asked her.
"Well, with all the gossip I hear, people say you and Britney had a thing. I just, well, I'm a little jealous and worried. It may be kind of awkward for her, so why don't you go and dis-invite her." Ali tried.
"First of all, I love you with all my heart so you don't have to worry and I think it's so cute for you to be jealous." Justin said kissing her nose.
"Ok, well I was expecting a few more people, but I guess I didn't think about tours and the business. Katie, I'll go make more calls and invite a few more people. Oh my god, I just remembered who we forgot to invite!" Ali ran into the kitchen to get the portable phone. As she walked back into living room her voice was light and flirty. The person on the phone was diffenetly a guy. "So you're coming over? When? Right now? Great! See you in five minutes." Ali hung up and dropped to the couch.
"You didn't?" Katie said as she starred at Ali with disbelief.
"I did. And he's coming! God, how long has it been?" Ali was still wound out from the phone call and her hair was becoming disheveled. Katie went over to her and fixed it for her. "Thanks, let's set out the food and get ready for our guests."
After about ten minutes the doorbell rang and Ali and Katie both rushed to the door. As Katie's eye fell to the boys standing in front of her and Ali her knees went weak, so she looked over to Ali who might as well have been drooling. Katie moved aside to let them in, but Ali didn't move.
"It's you! It's really you!" Ali jumped into the arms of her friend and camped there for the next few minutes.
Justin felt uneasy and everyone sensed it. Just as Ali and Justin were reunited after separation could this new friend cause trouble for the two lovers?