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TWO WEEKS LATER

It’s been two weeks since the whole closet incident thing and Justin and Carmen both hate each other with passion. They were all sitting JC’s and Joey’s hotel room talking. They had started the tour a couple of days ago and they were in France right now. The only person that wasn’t there was Justin, he was sleeping in his and Carmen’s room. Yes they were sharing a room because Johnny wanted so badly for them to get along and he thought that if they shared a room they’d at least get some sense into their heads and at least get along so they didn’t bite their heads off. “AHHHHHHHHH” a screaming Justin came into the room holding his tooth brush. Everyone looked at him confused.

“What is it Justin?” Tracy asked him from where she was sitting next to Lance holding his hand. They had been dating for a year now, they started going out last year when they met.

“There’s ants on my tooth brush and I didn’t see them ‘till I put tooth paste on the brush and started brushing my teeth and then I felt something move in between my teeth, gross, where Carmen, where’s Carmen?!” He asked demandingly.

“I’m Carmen” She said from the couch where she has been sitting for the last hour or so. He glared at her.

“I can’t believe you would go that far to put ants in my tooth brush” He said still glaring at her and putting his hands up in the air. Then out of no where his towel fell and everything was revealed considering he had just gotten out of the shower. He looked at everyone frightened and grabbed his towel from the floor and ran out of the room half naked. Everyone in there stood shocked except for Kal and carm who were laughing their butts off.

“Damn that boy yells a lot” Kal said calming down.

“yeah I wonder if he’s yeller” Carmen said out of no where.

“CARMEN!!!” Everyone yelled at her. She looked at them innocently.

“What, jeez can’t a girl wonder some things after she’s seen her male roomate completely NAKED” She asked innocently. They looked at her shocked. “I better go talk to him” She said and everyone nodded. She walked over to her room and walked in to see Justin getting dressed, but this time he had boxers on. ‘Damn’ Carmen thought, as much as she hated Justin she always thought he was the hottest thing that ever stepped foot on this planet. He looked at her and glared. She smiled at him. ‘nice body’ She thought, Carmen was always the one looking at other guys and I mean constantly. Her and Kal most of the time. Even though she hated Justin she couldn’t help but think that way about him. “What do you want?” He asked coldly. ‘I want you babe’ she thought, “Haven’t you done enough damage already?” He asked her. She shook her head. Carmen started walking towards him slowly, she didn’t know why and she didn’t know what she was going to do when she got to him but she just felt this force practically pushing towards him, it was like a magnet. “ Well I think you have, I mean first you insult me and my voice, then you put ants on my tooth brush, oh and lets not forget when you almost killed me with that spider “He said as she got closer to him. “ and not only that but....” He wasn’t able to finish ‘cuz of the force that was applied on his lips. carmen had brought her soft lips to his and he didn’t pull away for some unknown reason. He like Carmen didn’t know why they were doing this but it felt right and damn was that kiss one sweet kiss. They pulled apart and smiled at each other.

“Umm....you were saying?” carmen asked him while licking her lips, which made Justin want more of her. He snaked his arm around her thin waist and brought his face down to hers once more. They kissed once more and then Carmen went back to JC’s room and left Justin to get dressed, both smiling to themselves, and yet very confused, well one of them at least.

Carmen walked in the room and looked at everyone, they all stopped what they were doing and Kal looked at her with her hands on her hips. “You kissed him didn’t you?” She asked out of nowhere. Carmen looked at her shocked, how did she know.

“How did you...” She was cut off by Kal.

“oh com’on Carm, I’ve known you since I got out of my mother’s womb, don’t give me this shit” Kal said while trying not to smile. Carmen smiled.

“Yeah I kissed him, and all I gotta say is DAMN!!!” She said smiling even wider. Kal and everyone else smiled while there was somewhat of confusion in the back of their minds. They talked and then went to get ready to go out since they had the night off. They were going to a club.

@ the club.

Lance and Tracy and JC and Ash and Chris and Michelle were all sitting at the table they had gotten when they first came in. They were all making small talk while Justin, Carmen, Kalie, and Joey were on the dance floor getting it on. Justin and Carmen were dacing so close that if you tried to fir a piece of paper between them you won’t be able to. They hadn’t said anything about the kiss, they tried to ignore it, and now they were on good terms, finally.

Carmen looked at the guy she was dancing with. Just yesterday she hated his friggin’ guts and now they were dancing tofether, weird but the feeling was definatelly positive. They enjoyed each other’s company alot, or so it seemed. Carmen looked him in the eyes and he kept dancing not seeing her looking at him. She grabbed him by the shirt and stopped him from dancing. He looked at her a little shocked but then relaxed a bit. Carmen didn’t waste anytime and brought his beautiful face to hers and kissed again. She didn’t know what possessed her to do that but she just felt like it was right. She had to feel his lips again or she was going to go nuts.

The kiss lasting only a couple of seconds was very disaapointing on Carmen’s behalf. Justin had all of the udden pulled away and looked at her. “What’s wrong?” she asked him.

“W..we can’t do this” He told her and started to walk away. She looked a little shock, ‘I thought he felt the same way’, she thought. She ran after him and outside.

“Why, what’s the matter?” She asked him catching up with him. He stopped to look at her.

“You wanna know what’s wrong?!...not even twenty four hours ago we totally hated each other, and then you kissed me and I have to admit that was one hell of a kiss but you just left me standing there after that confused, I don’t want to be confused, now I like you, when we kissed I felt this strong feeling in my gut, it was telling me that this was so right and perfect but my mind was telling me get out of it, she might leave you all confused again.” He told her looking her dead in the eye. She looked at him.

“Look when we kissed I felt the passion between us too, ok I felt it all, I felt my knees weaken and I just felt like I was in heaven, I’ve never felt like that before, never, and I know you’ve heard about me playing some guys I’ve been with but that doesn’t mean I’d do the same thing to you too” She told him. He looked at her.

“And how do I know that?” He asked her. She sighed.

“I told you, I’ve never felt about a guy this way before, you...I hated you before but that doesn’t mean I thougth of you as some scrub in a boyband, I always thought you were special in a way” She told him. He smiled. Just looking into her eyes he could tell she was telling the truth. She smiled too. “Now which are you gonna choose, your gut feeling or what your mind was telling you in that club?” She asked pointing back to the club.

“I don’t know” He told her and walked away.

A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER

Everyone was sitting in Carmen’s and Kalie’s hotel suite. They were all having a little party, just talking, drinking and watching movies. There was a new girl on the tour now, she was about Carmen’s age, which was nineteen, she wasn’t an artist she was the girl’s new make - up artist. Her name was Cheryl. “Oh I got it, perfect place to go on a date?” Kalie asked.

“The club and then back to his place gettin’ busy” Carmen answered, they all laughed.

“I’d have to say a dinner at a nice restaurant and the beach” Lance said. Kalie nodded her head.

“yeah Lance” She said.

“i dunno about you guys but just a dinner and movie is a perfect date for me” JC said. They looked at him.

“yeah but com’on everyone always does the traditional dinner and a movie and it just gets old after a while don’t ya think?” They all agreed with her.

“I dunno I kind of agree with JC, I mean just casual is good and then go to some romatic place and we can discuss books and movies and music...” Cheryl said dreamy.

“Yeah no wonder you’re still a virgin Cher” Carmen said taking a sip of her beer. Kalie laughed so hard. They all looked at Cher’s face and started laughing.

“Now THAT was classic” She gave her a high five. They all laughed again, even Cheryl.

“Hey I have high morals here” She tried to defend her self.

“Yeah me too, take me for example I’ve never had sexual intercourse” Justin said from the couch. It all got quiet and all the girls looked at him shocked. “I think people should wait ‘till marriage” He told them.

“Yeah, I mean why would you give your flower to someone you don’t even know is Mr. Right” Cheryl said. All the girls looked at her like she was THE biggest idiot there and so did the guys except for Justin.

“Ok Cheryl, if you keep calling it ‘flower’ and making it sound like a chick flick no one will take IT” Carmen said trying not to laugh. Her and Kalie have been giving them all a hard time just for the hell of it. They all laughed.

“Yeah and Justin, sexual intercourse?!... you might as well commit pre - marital suicide right now.” Kalie said as Carmen started to laugh hard at her remark. “Besides sex makes you stronger, and it’s great” she said as most of them laughed and agreed at the same time.

“So what about you two, have you guys ever had ‘sexual intercourse’?” Joey imitated Justin, which made everyone laugh. Both Carmen and Kalie looked at him as if he was crazy.”Ok...I got it” He said and smiled.

“Yo Cheryl girl, you and Justin would be perfect for each other, I mean you’re both virgins and so innocent!!!....awww....brings tears to my eyes...NOT!!!” Kalie said laughing obviously wasted. carmen looked at her not laughing and so did Justin. Then they both looked at each other and locked eyes. They haven’t discussed that night at the club, they talked they just didn’t know what to do, well Carmen did, she wanted to be with him but Justin was still very much confused and Carmen didn’t want to pressure him. But in those past couple of weeks they’ve shared some ‘moments’ together like they would go out and would come so close to kissing but they don’t, and Justin had made it so obvious that he liked carmen, even the other guys started to notice it and he still hasn’t said anything about it. Carmen suddenly glared at him. She couldn’t wait anymore she wanted to be with him if he didn’t make his choice real soon she’s giving up on him. She laughed at Kalie remark after.

“Yeah they totally seem like they have alot in common.” Carmen said laughing half heartedly. “ok...ok I got it, what was your guy’s most embarrasing moment on stage?” She asked everyone.

“Oh men, my fly was undone once on stage and the fans could see my superman underwear” Joey said as they all laughed.

“Mine would be when my skirt just flew up while jumping up and down and people saw my panties” Michelle said and they laughed.

“oh eyah I remember that, remember Carm, we teased her about that after” They all laughed incuding Chelly, short for Michelle.

“Mine would be when these four airheads painted ‘bum’ on my the back of my pants and when I turned around during the ‘ I want you back’ song they all started laughing, the fans and the guys and the band, it was horrible” JC said.

“Mine would be when my halter top came off and I wasn’t wearing anything underneath” Carmen said blushing. All the girls started laughing.

“Ahha....I remember that, haha....Carm was trying to keep it up through the song so hard and that happened at the very beginning of the song too” Tracy said laughing hard. Soon the guys joined in. And they kept telling each other their embarrasing moments. “All right I got it...where did you lose IT?” Tracy asked. They all looked at her.

“the beach” Ash shouted from across the room.

“same” Lance said and kissed her cheek.

“Me too” Tracy agreed.

“oh well we all know who they both lost it to” Kal said as they laughed. “I lost it in a hotel room” Kalie admitted.

“the movie theatre for me” Joey said proudly. Everyone looked at him in pure shock.

”Joe that’s sick man” Carmen said.

“what about you Carm?” He asked her smiling. That caught Justin’s attention.

“It was the beach in the Bahamas for me” She told them. Justin was a little shocked, he thought it’d be some place like the backseat of a car.

“Cool” Joey said. They all talked for a little while longer and then decided to go to bed.