"Megan, is something bothering you?" Bobbee asked noticing the distant look in her eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I was just thinking about something."
"About Justin?!" Kelly asked hopefully.
"Yeah, how did you know?” Megan asked.
"Hun, Joey is your best friend. You know he can't keep secrets." Kelly laughed.
"Remind me to kill him later." Megan said only half joking.
"What's bothering you Meg?" Bobbee asked.
"Well, he said that he wanted to talk about Britney and I really don't want to talk about her."
"Oh, I see.” Kelly said. "You think that he's gonna make her look all high and mighty and you don't want to hear the good things about her."
"I guess...” Megan said.
"Well trust me, there wasn't much good about her.” Bobbee said. "Don't get me wrong, she was a nice girl and everything, but she sucked at relationships and she broke Justin's heart."
"What happened with them anyways?"
"No one really knows except him and her.” Bobbee said. "Even when he flew all the way from California to Florida to me and JC's house, all he said was that they had gotten in a fight and broken up and he needed a place to crash for a while."
"I guess he trusts you enough to tell you.” Kelly said. "You should feel special."
"Well, we used to talk all the time...before he left to Europe. We lost touch after that." Megan said sadly.
"Well, maybe he wants to get back what you had before.” Kelly suggested. "Don't you want that?"
"Of course." Megan said. "I miss him."
"You look tired.” Bobbee said. "Why don't you go take a nap. The concert will be over in about an hour."
"That's a good idea." Megan said standing up. She could still hear Kelly and Bobbee whispering when she finally fell asleep on the couch in the back lounge.
Justin was the last one to enter the bus that night. Johnny was hounding him about being late on stage again. But he couldn't help it if he was a little... distracted. He was worried about talking to Megan. He wondered if she would feel sorry for him, or help him fix his problem.
The last thing he wanted was for her to feel sorry for him. Everyone else did. His already wounded pride couldn't take another pity hug. When Joey told him that she was coming on the tour, he cracked a smile for the first time in weeks. He had missed her for the longest time. When he got to Europe, they lost touch, but he still thought about her a lot. He admitted that it was mostly his fault that they lost touch. He had broken his promise to call every day, or at least every week. He ended up calling, maybe, three times in the past six years. He felt horrible about it.
"Where's Megan?" He asked as soon as he got on the bus.
"In the back." Bobbee pointed. Justin walked in the back lounge and quietly closed the door. As soon as it was closed, the other six crowded around it trying to hear.
~~~**~~~
"What are they saying?! What's going on?!"
"Well Chris, if you'd shut-up, I could hear."
"Someone is stepping on my hand!"
"Sorry..."
"If you guys don't be quite, we're gonna get caught!"
"Shhh! I can hear them!"
~~~**~~~
"Megan..." Justin tried to wake her. But she was a heavy sleeper and it was going to take more that just calling her name to wake her up.
"Meg?" He asked shaking her a little.
"Hmm?" She asked sleepily.
"Wake up."
"Just five more minutes." She pleaded sleepily.
"Meg, you said you'd talk to me." He whined.
“Alright…” She sighed and sat up rubbing the sleep from her eyes. “What do you want to talk about?”
“Have you ever loved someone but you knew they didn't love you back?” You have no idea… she thought.
“Yes.” She sighed. “You loved Britney a lot, didn't you?”
“I thought I did. But then I realized that she didn't love me and I gave up.”
“What happened to you?” Megan asked. “You've never given up, never.”
“When I lost her…I didn't think that there was any reason not to give up.”
“You may have loved her a lot Justin, but she is just a girl.” Megan pointed out. “And there will be lots of girls after her-”
“Maybe I don't want any other girls!” Justin yelled. “Maybe all the other girls are just the same as her! Maybe they'll all leave me for some… actor!”
“Actor?” Megan asked, confused. “What act-”
“Ben Affleck!”
~~~**~~~
“Who?”
“I didn't hear! What did he say?”
“Ben Affleck, now Shut-Up!”
~~~**~~~
“The night we broke up, she came home screaming about how some tabloid reporter had followed her to a club.” He explained. “I didn't understand why she was making such a big deal out of it. That's the life we live. But then she told me that she had also been followed out of the club…with Ben.”
“So how come it wasn't all over the news and tabloids that she had cheated on you?”
“Ben paid the guy to keep it a secret. He wont have to work for at least the next year.” He explained. “They bribed him.”
“I'm so sorry Justin.” Megan said. “Not all girls are like that though.”
“Well, all the girls I've gone out with have been."
"Maybe you just haven't found the right girl."
"I should be like Lance and only date my friends." That made Megan think about what she had told him earlier that night.
"Justin, what did you think when I told you that I liked you?" She asked. Justin smiled at her.
"I thought it was cool." He said. "I've always known that you liked me."
"You did not!" She exclaimed.
"Yes I did. You always flirted with me, it was so obvious."
"No it wasn't." She defended. "It's not like you didn't flirt back."
"Yeah but my flirting was subtle."
"Whatever, all that tickling and stuff that you did? I knew you either liked the attention, or you were flirting back."
"You mean like this?" He started tickling her and she laughed so hard she was crying.
"Justin please stop!" She begged. "Please?"
"Nope. Not until you admit im right." He said tickling her in all the spots he knew of.
"Alright! You're right! Just stop please?!" She gasped between laughs.
"Justin is the greatest man in the world." He said. "Say it!"
"I'm NOT saying that." She said.
"Very well..." He tickled her behind the knees which he knew was her most sensitive spot. She laughed harder than he thought possible. "Say it!"
"Fine!" She exclaimed. "Justin is the greatest man in the world."
"Good girl." He stopped tickling her and she caught her breath. She settled next to him and finally started breathing correctly. They were sitting extremely close and didn't notice this until they looked at each other.
Megan gasped, noticing that his face was VERY close to hers. She took a deep breath as Justin moved even closer to her and moved in. Right before his lips touched hers, she stopped him.
~~~**~~~
"What happened? Why aren't they talking?"
"Maybe they're making out."
"Shut-up Chris! You're so immature!"
"Wait! She's talking!"
~~~**~~~
"Justin, no." She pushed him away slightly.
"Why not Meg?" He asked. "We admitted that we both like each other. Why can't we admit that we want to kiss each other?"
"I admit that I do want to kiss you but--"
"No problem then." He interrupted her. He placed his lips on hers and gave her a breathtaking kiss. "Right?"
"I guess not." She pulled him back to her and they kissed again.
~~~**~~~
"Omigod! It worked!"
"Joey! Shut-up!"
~~~**~~~
Megan and Justin pulled apart. "Did you hear that?" He asked.
"Yeah, it sounded like-" Justin got up and opened the door. The six on the other side tumbled in. "Joey!" They both exclaimed.
"I told you we were gonna get caught." Kelly said.
"Well, if Joey hadn't of screamed like that-"
"Hey, don't blame it on me-" Kelly elbowed him in the stomach.
"Were sorry for eavesdropping on you, we were just curious." She said.
"I feel like a child."
"So what did happen?"
"Chris!" The others said.
"Hey! I'm just asking what everyone else is thinking!" He said.
"Well, we would tell you," Justin said wrapping an arm around Megan's waist. "But then we'd have to kill you." Megan laughed as he grabbed her hand and drug her from the room and to the bunks.
