J.C. stared at Brooke as she walked out with Johnny. The look on her face when Johnny explained the reason she was here was clearly shocking. Her eyes narrowed in wonderment at him. Somebody wasn’t telling him anything. She knew something he didn’t, he just didn’t know what yet. He knew he would find out in good time. So it didn’t really bother him. J.C. also knew he didn’t need an extra bodyguard especially a young woman. Who ever heard of a woman bodyguard anyway? Johnny explained earlier he was getting an extra bodyguard. What he didn’t say that he was actually a she. Johnny said HE was the best in the business. How can a young woman ever protect a man like himself? It was crazy and absurd. He had to admit it was very different. What would the fans think when they saw a young woman follow him everywhere he went? Rumors were sure to fly. J.C. didn’t want to end up like a ‘Justin/Brittany we’re just friends’ excuse. Nobody would believe him. They didn’t believe Justin or Brittany and they all know where that ended up.
Brooke was intimidating and such a surprise. How could Johnny not tell him? Although, J.C. had to admit there was something different and shocking about her. Like he had seen her somewhere or someplace. Somewhere where she wasn’t at but he was. A place, which was foggy and mysterious. Where had he seen her? He couldn’t remember.
Brooke felt eyes on her, as she was lead out of the room. She looked behind her shoulder and caught J.C. staring at her. Brooke narrowed her eyes to him. She never liked rock stars, which she called them. They always seemed nosey and snotty to her. Every one of them expected her to worship the ground she walked on. It was always ‘you do what I say or leave’. She always left; she refused to work with people like that. It made her sick just thinking about it. J.C. seemed no different from the rest of them. Why she took the job was beyond her. There was just something different, unusual about him that separated him from the rest of the rock stars.
She walked beside Johnny. He was giving her a tour of the place. Her eyes roamed to every corner to every shadow. She was used to places like these. Housed this big, some bigger. What she wasn’t used to was how open the house was. That concerned her.
They were now outside in the front yard when J.C. came out of the house with the others.
“I can’t protect him like this. It is too open. It needs changed. I’m sorry to say this but the security sucked. There are no hidden cameras or guard dogs. How am I supposed to protect him like this? It needs changed, ASAP.”
Johnny nodded. J.C. came to stand beside the man as I continued. “We need to get this done.”
Johnny nodded once again. J.C. didn’t look very happy. He didn’t like the way she was now running the show. In his front yard even. He wasn’t going to put up with that.
“Look, I think he understands that it needs to get done.” J.C. told me his voice strong and hard.
“It will get done, quickly and quietly.” I told him.
“We understand…” J.C. started even more persistent.
“No, apparently you don’t,” I narrowed my eyes at him. “When I say ASAP it means as soon as possible. That means now. Back off and let me do my job.”
J.C. looked at me angrily. “It will…get done,” he said through gritted teeth.
“Damn right it will,” I looked in his eyes and moved a step toward him. “There are 3 things I hate: One, people who think I should bow down to them. Two, people who mock me. Three, people who don’t know the meaning of back off and let me do my job. You have all three. I don’t have patience with people like that. You… are skating on thin ice, buddy. My patience is running slim on you. Just remember one thing: I’ll be the one that will be protecting you. Don’t do anything stupid or I will let you get grabbed, or scratched, or whatever the teenyboppers do to you guys.”
“Is that a threat?” J.C. asked.
I only came up to his shoulders but that didn’t stop me of getting right up in his face. “That my dear…was a warning.”
“Is that supposed to scare me?”
I tilted my head to look at him. “Did it?”
“Not at all.”
“What will scare you is when a group of teenyboppers come chasing after you and I stand there as you try to get away. That would scare you wouldn’t it, J.C.?”I asked him. He didn’t say anything but I knew I was right. He knew I was right. “That’s what I thought.”
I pointed to the over grown trees and bushes. My eyes bored into his angry ones. “Those bushes WILL get cut. They WILL be removed. They will be cut NOW. YOU will have to deal with it. You will understand later when somebody tries to break into the house. Now, order the trees cut and bushes removed. Now, J.C.”
I walked past him up the stone stairs. At the corner of my eye I saw the rest of the groups faces in awe. I was too angry to care.
After hearing the door to the house close behind her J.C. started to pace. His teeth were still gritting with anger.
“Feisty little bitch isn’t she?” Justin asked. Everybody laughed, except Johnny and J.C.
“Somebody get a piece of rope to move the thing,” Johnny instructed.
“The bushes or the girl?” Joey asked him. Everybody covered their smile with a hand but not even their hand prevented them not to laugh once again.
J.C. gave them a look of warning and after a moment they stood silently, their mouths closed.
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