“JUSTIN!! CHRIS!!” Katlyn yelled out the door for the fifth time.
“Where the hell are they, we have a concert?!” JC yelled.
“Why are you asking ME?!” Katlyn yelled back.
“One is YOUR boyfriend!” JC spat back.
“Yeah, but they are BOTH your band mates!”
“Guys, they’ll be here, calm down.” Jackie tried to quiet them both.
“The concert starts in fifteen minutes!!” Katlyn and JC both yelled.
“Why don’t I go look for them.” Jackie said wanting to get our of there as fast as she could.
“I swear, if they’re late for this concert…” JC said pacing.
“I get a piece of them too, since I’M gonna be the one to get in trouble.”
“That was close!” Chris laughed walking in the room.
“Did you see that girl?” Justin said, cracking up.
“Yeah! She didn’t know whether to take a picture of us, ask for an autograph, scream, or run and grab us.” Chris was laughing on Justin’s shoulder.
“And then she-“
“Justin Randall Timberlake and Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick, where the HELL have you been?!?” Katlyn screamed.
Justin stopped laughing and looked up at her. “Well, we were walking and a group of girls-“
Katlyn held up her hand to silence him. “No time for stories…get dressed.”
“But we just got back.” Chris pouted.
“And the concert starts in ten minutes!” Katlyn grabbed Justin’s arm and walked out of the room with him. She quickly dragged him into his dressing room. She tugged on his shirt to pull it off and then pulled off his undershirt.
“Kate, not right now, we have a concert to get ready for and JC is standing at the door.” Justin joked.
“Funny, Justin, funny.” Katlyn threw the new undershirt at him. “Now hurry up, I’m gonna go check on Chris.”
“Jackie is already helping him.” JC said.
“Well then…” Katlyn walked back over to Justin.
“JC, is there a reason you’re standing there?” Justin asked putting on his new shirt.
“I’m deciding whether to yell at you or not.”
“Save it…we lost track of time.”
Katlyn buttoned up the jeans Justin had just put on while Justin put on the vest over his shirt. JC grabbed the mic headpiece and handed it to Katlyn. Katlyn strung the chords down Justin’s shirt and attached it to the piece around his waist.
“Ok, what time is it?” Katlyn asked.
“Eight fifty-eight.” JC answered.
“Great. You two over to the stage, I’m gonna go gather up the others.”
“No ‘good luck’ or kiss or anything?” Justin pouted.
“You…stage…now.” Katlyn said walking out of the dressing room.
The show ended up starting a few minutes after nine, but it went great.
Katlyn collapsed on the couch in the bus as soon as she was on it. The tour had only been going on for a few days and she was already exhausted.
Justin pushed her legs off and sat down. She then kicked them back up on top of him.
“You look a little stressed.” Justin commented.
“And you’re not helping at all with un-stressing me.”
“What do you want me to do?” Justin said with a laugh.
“Don’t show up fifteen minutes before the show starts. It’s usually hectic enough with an hour, but fifteen minutes?!”
“Sorry about that. We really lost track of time.”
“Next time, make sure one of you has a watch.”
“Gotcha.” Justin patted her leg.
“No, I think him and Chris should not be allowed to walk around with out either one of us more responsible people or a bodyguard who can keep track of time for them.” JC added into the conversation as he climbed on the bus.
“A babysitter? No, I think we’ll be fine with just a watch.”
“Not a babysitter, a time keeper.”
“I’m twenty-one, I think I’ll be fine with a watch.”
“That would be great except for when you forget to LOOK at the watch.”
“JC, what is your problem? We were a few minutes late!”
“A few? Forty-five minutes is NOT a few!”
Justin sat up more. “The show went fine, didn’t it?! We made a mistake, we said sorry.”
“You can’t make mistakes in this business.”
“I’ve been in this business for a LONG time, so back off!”
“Justin, we can’t afford to make mistakes.”
“I can’t believe you’re getting THIS upset over Chris and I being late ONE time!!” Justin yelled.
Katlyn opened her eyes and looked between the two.
“And that was one too many times.”
“JC, we said we were sorry! We made a mistake…we made it on time though!”
“Thank GOD for that!”
“What is-“
“SHUT UP! I’m tired and this bickering is not helping!” Katlyn yelled.
Both Justin and JC looked at her and were quiet for a few seconds, but they soon started back up again. Katlyn huffed and stood up, walking into the backside of the bus. “Try to keep it down and don’t kill each other.” Katlyn said as she left.
“Has anyone seen Justin?” Katlyn asked into the toy room.
“Not for a few hours.” Joey answered.
“Where is he?” Katlyn said aloud. “Anyway, Johnny wants you guys to get ready for sound check.”
Katlyn walked around looking in different rooms and asking people, but she still couldn’t find him.
She finally spotted him talking with a few people. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. “Hey, where have you been?”
Justin turned slightly. “I had to go do something.”
Katlyn eyed him carefully. “Yeah, ok.”
He finished talking to the few people and walked away with Katlyn.
“You have to go to sound check.” Katlyn said leaning her head on his shoulder.
“Great.” He kissed the top of her head.
“So, what’s with the baseball cap?” Katlyn asked as they approached the stage.
“Nothing, just felt like wearing it.”
“Well, I’m in charge of what you look like, so take that ugly thing off.”
Justin took the cap off.
Katlyn was about to speak but just as she looked up, she saw what he had been hiding. “Please tell me you did NOT do that again?!”
Everyone turned to see what the commotion was about.
Justin ran a hand over his newly shaven head. “You don’t like it?”
“I didn’t like it the first time and I sure and hell don’t like it now.”
Justin pouted. “But I hate my curls.”
“Well some people like them.”
“You are very hard to please, Kate.”
“Get on stage. You better use that voice of yours to make me forget.”
Justin laughed and hopped on stage while Katlyn sat in the third row.
