chapter three

Isabel picked up the phone just as the fifth ring rang through the empty house. "Hello!" She quickly removed her jacket and threw it on her bed.

"Where the hell have you been! I've been calling for three freaking hours!"

"Oh calm your horses down, I was at the doctors office and then mom took me out to lunch and then we went shopping for your information." Isabel sat on her bed, taking a long away deep breath.

"Well the next time you decide to do that to me make sure you leave on your answering machine... I'm not in right now but I will be in three hours so if this is Jesse, dont call until I call you! Geez I was freaking out when you didn't call me! What did the doctor say?"

A loud sigh escaped her lips as she laid back on her bed. "Nothing much. He just said that everything was going to be okay. I start chemo on Monday, cant wait for that!" Her tone was sarcastic at the thought.

A chuckle escaped his lips on the other end of the line. "Oh come on, as long as it will help you, you should be grateful for it.

"I know, I just can't stand the thought of losing my hair!" She ran her fingers through her long chocolate locks. 

"You're not going to lose you hair, the day all the hair falls out of your head will be the day I go out with a chick."

Isabel laughed. "Hey, you went out with me freshman year."

"And look where it left me!"

"Don't make me go over there and beat your ass down Boy!" She warned playfully. Suddenly Justin's face popped into her mind unexpectedly. She remembered JC and how Jesse loved him."Oh my God guess who I met!!"

"Who?"

She sighed and rolled her eyes. "That defeats the purpose of the game don't you think? Now guess!" She cried excitedly into the phone.

A loud sigh came from him. "Umm let me think some, *Nsync?"

Her mouth dropped open in shock. "You have got to be kidding me! How did you know!"

He laughed. "I didn't, I guessed. So did you meet *Nsync?"

She pouted. "Well you took all the fun out of it, now I'm not gonna tell you who I actually shook hands with and talked to."

"As long as it wasn't JC then I'm cool with it."

An evil smile crossed her face. "Well hate to break it to you baby, but you're right on the money. I must say that he does look even more fine out side of his pictures! Those eyes oh my God and that body... whew I thought I was gonna have to be carried out in a stretcher from heat exhaust. The man is a FINE piece of work." Isabel knew he was going to kill her once he got a hold of her.

"You better be joking Isabel!"

She smiled. "Nope."

"He really was that good looking?"

"Yep."

"Did you get his number?"

"Now why would I do a stupid thing like that?" She propped herself on her elbows grabbing a fashion magazine from her night stand.

"Are you crazy! You have the once in a life time chance of meeting JC Chasez from *Nsync and you didn't even have enough brains to get his number or at the least give him yours? Jesus what is wrong with you?" He cried frustrated into the phone. "You could have at least given him my number."

Isabel laughed at the imbecility of the thought. "Oh yeah that would have been something, 'oh by the way here is my gay friends phone number, he absolutely loves you!'" She rolled her eyes. "If telling him you were gay didn't scare him enough knowing that you love him would kill the guy."

"Well you wouldn't have to say it like that, geez Isabel! You really know how to make a guy feel bad."

"I'm sorry Jesse, why don't you come over and we can do something later, I just want to live life to the fullest right now!" She smiled hearing her other line beeping. "Hold on Jesse someone's on the other line."

"Kay."

She clicked to the other line quickly annoyed that someone would break her away from her best friend. "Hello?"

"Hi is Isabel Davis there by chance?" The voice in the other end was soft and familiar yet she couldn't match a name with the voice.

"This is she, who is this?"

A low cough came from the other end of the line. "This is umm... Justin."

"Justin who?" She still couldn't figure out who it was.

"Um, you know Justin Timberlake... I met you at my dad's office this morning"

A smile broke through her face. "Oh Speechless! Hey what's up?" She thought a second, how did he get her number, she didn't give it to anyone. "Hey wait a second, how did you get my number? Are you stalking me?" She joked playfully.

He was silent for a second. "Hello? You still there?" She hoped the stalking thing didn't strike him. "I was joking about the stalking thing."

"Um, I'm still here."

"Good, then you can tell me how you got my number. I'll even give you a little time to see what kind of story you make up before you confess you asked your dad for it. I'll be right back". She smiled and clicked back to Jesse. "Hey guess who just called me?"

"Well the last time we played this game it was Nsync, so maybe this time its the gorgeous Ricky Martin?" He snickered into the phone.

"HA! Very funny, but really guess!"

"Okay I'm going to go a long here, might it just be JC who somehow got your number and is going to fall helplessly in love you!" He cracked.

She laughed. "You do belong on the stage you dramatic fool! You are very close actually but not exact, it is a member of the group though. Try your luck again."

"It couldn't be that annoying little curly haird one could it?"

Isabel almost fell to the floor laughing when she heard the bitterness in his voice. "Ding ding ding! We have a winner!" She laughed.

A loud huff came from her friend. "That kid is so annoying, he takes all the good parts away from JC and he also hogs up the air time they get. How can all those little prepubescent girls like that scrawny excuse for a man."

This was the first time she had ever heard Jesse talk like that. "Jesse! Oh my goodness can you sound more bitter! Geez he's just a kid".

"Yeah who probably thinks that you're a goddess and are going to fall for his innocent charm. Damn the kid hasn't even grown facial hair, how the hell can anyone find that attractive."

"Okay clam down and count to ten. Geez Jess, I'm going to hang up now so you can come over."

"Okay, then I'll see you in a few."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye."

"Oh yeah and one more thing, if you think you're coming to my house with that attitude don't waste your time cause I don't have the strength to put up with you okay!"

"Ok, sorry about that." He apologized. "Okay bye."

"Bye." Isabel quickly clicked back to the other line in hopes that Justin was still there. "Justin are you still there?"

"Yeah."

She smiled and rested her head on a pillow. "Okay so did you come up with a good excuse as to how you got my number."

He chuckled. "To tell you the truth I had one of the guys ask my dad for it."

She smiled hearing the embarrassment in his voice. "Good job, never would have thought that. So is there a reason for this call or did you just want to see if the number was really mine?" She asked curiously.

"Well I just wanted to talk some. I'm takin care of my little bro and I was thinking about you so I had a burst of confidence and I called you."

"Well that's good to know." She sighed and heard the doorbell ring downstairs. "Well Justin, I gotta go, I have a friend over and it would be rude to talk to you and leave him in the dust, so bye."

"Wait!!"

Isabel jumped off her bed and walked downstairs to get the door. "What?"

"Can I see you again?"

The thought wasn't appalling, she wouldn't mind seeing him again.

"Why?" Her hand reached out for the doorknob and opened it to reveal Jesse smiling in the door way. She waved him in and walked to the couch bringing her legs up.

"Well, I just wanted to get together and maybe get to know each other some." His voice was quizzical, not sure if what he was saying made any sense.

Jesse pointed to the phone mouthing 'Who are you talking too?' She smiled and said Justin, then turned back to her conversation. "Umm, we'll have to discuss that later, I really have to go bye." Before he could reiterate she turned off the phone and looked at Jesse a smile tipping her lips. 

Jesse looked at her curiously. "So what was all that about?"

A fine eye brow arched as she looked at her curious friend. "Justin just told me that he wanted to see me again." Isabel smiled seeing the roll of his eyes at the mention of the young man. "Really, you are acting the right bold age of five, instead of twenty as you should be."

Jesse smirked. "Please for my sake, tell me that you are not going to go out with that kid! He's a kid Isabel, you're going to be turning twenty on Christmas, two months from today! You can't be going out with eighteen year olds!"

Isabel laughed and grabbed a pillow resting her head on it. "I didn't say I was interested did I? I just think that he would be interesting to get to know, and hey think about this. If I get to know Justin a little better, hopefully I'll get to know the other guys better and one day I can invite JC over and you can just by coincidence drop by." A smile covered her full lips.

Jesse shook his head unbelievingly. "You Isabel Davis are a coy one. I'm proud to call you my best friend." He walked over to where she was sitting and wrapped his arm around her a big smile on his handsome face. 

She sighed happily. "I know, and you wouldn't have me any other way."

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