Warning: This story contains slash (male/male pairings). If you are not comfortable with that, please go back or leave this site.
Disclaimer: I do not know Nsync in any way but I wish I did. Please don't ask for their contact information.
I cannot wait for him, I know that now but I didn't before and it all comes down to this one moment. I have to tell him the truth. I have to tell him that he either takes me now or he doesn't take me at all. And if he chooses the latter, I will not cry because it will confirm what I already feel I know in my heart, we are not meant to be. However, I didn't think it would come down to this, all the times we shared, all the fun we had together. He was always so close to me and always there for me. Whenever I was frightened he would hold my hand.
But then came the day that he started acting strange. Things were changing and he was constantly making excuses to not be around all the time. He claimed that he loved me and I believed him, until this day. Now I'm not so sure. The way things changed so rapidly between Dace and myself was something my friends thought would only happen in an evil plagued fairy tale. That was what our relationship was like, a fairy tale. I was the princess and he was my night in shinning armor.
Okay, so I may not be much of a princess, seeing as I myself am a guy but I can be looked at as a girly boy and I was like the girl in the relationship. I don't know if you can really count me out just yet but at least I have my morals. It was hard with him, very hard and I didn't understand while he had changed so abruptly. I was blind to reason at first. Then, Joey pointed out something very important to me. Dace had all the signs of a man who was cheating.
At first I wouldn't believe Joey's words. It was not possible, Dace loved me and he would never do that to me, would he? But then, he started sticking around less and less and he was always rushing off and making sudden phone calls and being all secretive about stuff. I started to have my doubts and thinking that maybe, just maybe, Joey was right. However, I didn't confirm my thoughts to become positive until the day Dace entered my home with two very dark purple marks on his neck.
"Where did you get those?" I asked, poking one of the dark spots with my index finger. He cringed and I had only one inkling of what the spots might be. I stared at him in horror. I knew he wouldn't admit it though. He would probably make up some lame excuse like they were bruises he got when he was playing ball with his friends or something. But I knew better, there was no possible way he could have gotten two equally dark purple spots on his neck from playing ball with his buddies, it just didn't cut it. I knew he would say something like that, and as it turned out, I was right, he did.
"It's nothing babe, I was just clubbed in the neck a couple of times with a baseball bat, that's all." I said nothing but merely nodded my head. I knew he was lying but I wasn't about to let him know that I knew. Not wanting to further the conversation with him and not really wanting to even look at him anymore, I grabbed my car keys off the table and headed out of the front door, not bothering to tell Dace where I was going.
As it turned out, I found myself parked outside the house of my friend and fellow bandmate, Justin Timberlake. Things were on a break for Nsync right now and so we had all retreated to our own homes to take some much needed to for our own lives and it was amazing how much we just couldn't stay away from each other anyway.
I did not get out of the car but sat there in front of Justin's house with the engine off and the key in the ignition. I was staring over the dashboard and out the window, staring, but not really seeing anything. I couldn't believe that Dace had done this to me. He had gone and cheated on me and I had never given him any reason to. What had I done wrong? I didn't know. I knew that Joey was probably the best person to go to for this kind of thing but Justin had always been my best friend in the group. He and I were closest in age, both being the two youngest members of Nsync.
Justin had been there for me through my breakup with Danielle and he had been by my side when I announced to the press that I was gay. He had even been there to comfort me when my first real boyfriend had broken my heart. The truth was, Justin had been there through so many of the more difficult times in my life and this was no different.
When I had met Dace, he had been like a rebound from my breakup with Anthony but not really. Dace didn't know Anthony but he knew of him. I had met him when Nsync and I were waiting a train station for a private train across the country. Don't ask why we were going to take a train when we had a tour bus and a private jet, I didn't know. It was just something the manager had set up.
Anyway, Anthony had been there seeing as he had been invited to come along with us because our manager was tired of his constant complaints that he didn't get to see me enough. We were arguing and Dace, well, he just came up and started in on Anthony, yelling at him about how he shouldn't be treating me like that. He said he could tell just by looking at me that I was a very sweet and sensitive guy and if Anthony was going to yell at me, then he really didn't deserve me. Well, that made Anthony pissed, he didn't like it when people told him how to treat his man. He turned the verbal row into a physical row and the two of them became engaged in a very heavy fist fight. Someone called the police and they had come and broken it up. Dace had got off without any trouble because many witnesses confirmed that he was only acting out of self defense and with that many people saying the same thing, the cops doubted that it was a lie so Dace was let go. Anthony was arrested and taken in for questioning. Later I would tell the cops to put him away, that I was through with him and Dace would become my new man.
But that was a long time ago, two years in fact and now here I sat in my car, out in front of Justin's house thinking that my whole relationship with Dace had been a lie. He had put on this whole hero demeanor until he had really reeled me in and then he had gone and started doing things behind my back. That fact made Dace no better than Anthony had been and I knew that Justin would be furious when he found out.
That's when I saw him. Justin had apparently seen my car sitting out front as he was now making his way hastily down the front walk to his house. He looked more beautiful than I had remembered as I had not seen him in quite some time, a few months now actually, I'm not sure how many. His hair was buzzed short yet again, as it had been when we had been in the midst of our PopOdyssey and Celebrity phase. He was wearing a very tight tank top, his arms tanned and well toned, showing of his muscles. He also wore a pair of very tight leather pants and cowboy boots. I was surprised to see him dressed this way, it was like looking into a window and seeing the past. Justin as a solo artist, which he was venturing out on now that Nsync was on their much needed break, had a completely different style than Justin of Nsync did and the outfit he was wearing currently was definitely something he would have worn in his Nsync days. Justin now, after the release of his second solo album, was a jacket and tie kind of guy. So you can imagine how I hadn't been expecting to see him as I remembered him in all his Nsync glory.
He came running over to the car and I opened the door. He didn't say anything, he didn't have to because I knew he knew why I was there. I got out of the car and threw my arms around his neck. Immediately, his arms wrapped around my back and he pulled me in for a closer embrace. He still did not say anything, he just stood there holding me and I could hold the tears back no more. They came freely, flowing down my face and making small stains where the dropped onto the back of Justin's shirt.
"Joey was right," I said quietly through my sobs and Justin hugged me tighter still. He brought up a hand and began to stroke the back of my head, doing all that he could to try and comfort me. I felt safe in his arms, like nothing could ever hurt me here, like Justin would protect for always, like he was my real knight in shining armor and he had finally come to my rescue.
I blinked and lifted my head slightly off of Justin's shoulder. The tears stopped flowing down my face but they still stained my eyes. I had just realized something, perhaps the very reason why I had never had a great relationship in my life. It was because the one I had really wanted was all the while right in front of me but I had never seen it and that was probably because I knew now that I thought the one I wanted did not swing that way. It was obvious to me now that the one person I wanted more than anyone else in the world, was standing right here, holding me, trying to comfort me and tell me that everything would be alright. The one my heart yearned for was the very man who had always been by my side through and through. The one I truly loved, was Justin.
Chapters
Chapter 1
Nsync Fan Fiction
Home
