The phone rang. Justine bolted upright. She was confused for a second until she remembered that they had come up to her room after the party.
She looked down next to her. Nick was lying there, fast asleep. On her other side was Justin. The phone continued to ring. She reached over Nick and grabbed the phone.
“Hello?!”
“Hi, may I please speak to Justin?” It was a woman. And a voice that almost sounded familiar.
“Yeah sure. Hold on a second.”
“OK” Justine put the phone on hold and turned towards her brother. “J, wake up. You have a phone call.” She got nothing. “Justy, come on. Wake up. The phone is for you.” Again nothing. “Justin Randall Timberlake wake up you have a woman on the phone for you.” She said in a harsh whisper, trying not to wake all the other people that were in her room.
“Huh?” He said sleepily.
“Phone!” She said, putting the hand set right in his face. “It’s on hold, female.”
“OK...” Justine watched as her brother took the phone off hold and put it up to his face.
“Hello?....... Oh hey!..... Yeah that was her..... “ He grinned at Justine. “Well, this is her phone number, who did you expect to pick it up.”
Who was Justin talking to? His girlfriend? No he was chasing Mallory the night before...
“Well, I’ll have to see, but I can ask. But not right now cause I’m tired and I need to go back to sleep... OK, talk to you later...Bye.” He hung up the phone. “I’m going back to sleep.”
“Yeah no kidding!” Justine hung up the phone and looked at the clock 10:30. She decided that she would ask Justin about the phone call later, when her brain was functioning.
Without giving it much more thought she cuddled up to Nick, seeing as the others had taken all the blankets off her bed, and fell asleep.
Justine and Nick walked into the kitchen together. “They are alive!” Paige said, smiling.
"You two are almost as bad as JC is!”
“Hey I resent that!” JC protested.
“Yeah yeah.... J who was on the phone this morning?” Justine asked, sitting on one of the stools that were at the counter.
“Umm.... Teeny.... That was Mom....”
“Mom? As in my mother? As in the person that gave birth to me?” Justine starred at her brother. He nodded slowly; knowing that everyone was watching them. “Holy.....”
“Teeny, she wants to meet you....see you.”
“When?”
“Next weekend.....”
Justine looked over her shoulder at Nick. “I’m going to the beach with Nick next weekend....”
“No... go and meet your mother...”
“Will you come with me?”
Nick looked at Justin, who seemed to agree with Justine. “Yeah I’ll come.’
“OK.” Justine looked at Paige. “This is OK with you, isn’t it?”
“Of course....”
“I’m just going to meet her... that doesn’t mean that I’m going to go and live with her or anything. This is my home.”
“I know... I know....” Paige smiled at her. “So what are you all up to today?”
“Well, I think that we are going to go home and get cleaned up.” Justin said, finishing off the last of the orange juice he had been drinking.
“OK... Well, you all know that the door is always open to you, don’t you?” Paige said to all ten of the guys. They all nod. “OK, well, I guess I’m gonna go upstairs and take a shower. So in case I don’t see you before you leave, bye! And thanks for your help last night! I hope you had fun.”
She went around and said good bye to all of the guys and then disappeared up the stairs.
“Well, I guess we better get going.” JC said, looking at Justin and Chris.
“Yeah we probably should...” Justin said.
“Well, thanks for coming. It was a blast!” Justine said, hugging each of the guys from N SYNC. Lance and Joey decided that they should go too. When she got to Justin she smiled and gave him a big hug. “Love you, Justy!”
“Love you too, Teeny”
Justine turned around just in time to see Lance kiss Serina lightly on the lips.
When they had left, Justine turned to the remaining six people in the kitchen.
“We should probably get going to. Congrats on graduation Teeny.” Kevin said, giving her a hug.
“Thanks for coming! I had fun!”
She gave all the guys a hug and Nick kissed her on the cheek.
“Bye guys!” Serina called after them.
After showing them out and watching until the car was out of sight, Justine walked back inside and into the kitchen.
“What was that all about?” Serina asked.
“What are you talking about?”
“You know what I’m talking about! Going to the beach with Nick?”
“I could ask you the same thing about Lance, so if I were you I would keep my mouth shut!”
Serina just shook her head and laughed.
