Chapter 14
"I don't think so Justin...," I said awkwardly, pulling away from
him.
"Don't worry about it. Come on, we've got plenty of time, and
no one would suspect a thing." He said, a little more then suggestively.
"I said I didn't want to." I said more firmly.
He pulled away looking hurt. "What's wrong Fiachra?"
"I'm only seventeen Justin." I said, not wanting to give him the
other reason. Nick hadn't said whom I could and couldn't tell, so I
wanted to keep it to myself for now.
"Don't you think I know that?" He said.
"Listen, I'm not going to. Can't you just leave it at that?" I
pleaded, not wanting to make a scene.
"But you've been leading me on all day." I said, looking
confused.
"No I haven't."
"Yes you have. What about when you came out to me wearing
a towel?"
"I needed to borrow some clothes! That's all!"
"Oh." He said in a small voice.
"It's not you Justin, and I can't explain why yet, but there is a
very good reason and I hope that you'll still be talking to me when I try
to explain it to you when I can. Will you be?" I asked. I seemed to be
losing so many new friends this way... "Come on, let's go back to the
studios will we?"
"Sure..."
And so we walked back towards Time Square and the MTV
studio, where I was to meet the limo that was going to bring me back to
JFK airport. Most of the time we spend in silence, each lost deep in our
own thoughts. I was groaning to myself about the way that I was leaving
the states about 7 at night, then it was a five hour flight, add on the time
difference of five hours... I was going to get home at five in the morning,
three hours before I had to go to school. My only chance was to get
some sleep on the trip over the Atlantic.
"Now I know how Britney felt." Said Justin miserably.
"Rejection isn't very nice."
I felt incredibly guilty. "Listen Justin, I'm not rejecting you..."
He cut me off. "Then what would you call it?"
"I've... I'm... I'm involved with someone else. That's why."
"You're what?" He said. "Why didn't you say that at the start?"
"Because... it's really private. I don't know if the other person
would want me to tell you so that's why I didn't, and don't ask me who
he is, because I'm not going to tell you." I said hesitantly, trying not to
say anything that would give away that I was involved with Nick.
"Well that's different then." Said Justin, a lot more cheerful
then he'd been only a couple of moments ago.
"Please don't tell anyone Justin." I asked.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to say anything. But you've got to
promise to tell me, when you can, who you're going out with."
"Deal." I said, laughing. But at least Justin was back to his
good old self.
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