by Mandy Bee
“And how did you react to that?”
“Not very well, I’m sorry to say. I told him no, then left the bus.” This is putting it nicely.
“Were you surprised when you found out the Justin fired his brother over you?” I heard Justin and Chris almost growl, oh this isn’t going to be good.
I could feel the anger rolling off Justin but he kept his voice calm when he spoke. “I did not fire him over her. That was the last straw, he was pulling stunts like that for months. I had enough of it. The thought of asking John to leave the band was in my mind before they even started touring with us.”
“Flower, why did you chose to stay on tour? Wouldn’t it be easier for you to stay with friends, then to be dragged all over the world with a rock band?” Please stop asking me questions.
“I’m used to this life, I have been touring with Chris for ten years now. I go where he goes, end of story.”
“That must be hard on you, Chris. To have to take care of your little sister while touring.”
“Nope, she is my life. I clearly state to anyone I work with that my sister goes with me or I don’t go. Freak Street didn’t have a problem with this, even let her redo a bunk in all purple.” He laughs “Then let her take over the back meeting room as a craft room.” This got everyone laughing.
“Yup, that was Flower’s room!” Dave says.
“Well, looks like you’re just one of the guys.” Matt says to me.
“The best looking one.” Justin says. All I can do is blush and smile. This interview went from good to bad then back to good again.
When everything is said and done we all start to breathe easier. Chris, Dave and Scot are going to go shopping for some video games. So now Justin and I are going shopping too, but for what I don’t know yet.
“Are you okay?” I ask him once we are in that back of his car. His driver has the back window up so I know he can’t hear us.
“I’m fine, why?” He smiles at me, but I can see he is hiding something.
“I know you got upset during the interview. Why did you tell them that about John? You didn’t have to do that.” I intertwine our fingers.
“I know, but when he asked what the last straw was I just told him the truth. I’m sorry if I said too much about you and Chris, I hope you’re not mad at me.”
“No, I’m not mad. I mean I was a little at first but it’s okay. We don’t hide our life, we just never have had a reason to share it.” I look down at our hands “Did you mean what you said? About how I’m the most amazing girl you ever met?”
“Yes, I did mean it. Flower you will never understand how wonderful you are. When I look at you I don’t just see a beautiful girl. I see a girl with fire in her eyes, someone who has no problem telling you she is mad, and someone who has no problem telling you she is scared. You should know by now how much I love to spend time with you, hell I haven’t played a video game with the guys in three months!” He starts laughing. “I would rather be watching TV with you.” I’m holding back tears.
“You really think I’m beautiful?” I look up at him while one tear rolls down my face. He wipes it away with his thumb.
“I think you are gorgeous.” He whispers. Then it happens, he leans down and kisses me! Not on the cheek, not on the forehead but on the lips!! I melt and after a few seconds I start kissing him back. We both jump when the door to the car opens. “Guess we’re here.” He chuckles, then runs his thumb over my bottom lip.
“Where are we?” I ask as he helps me out of the car.
“Neiman Marcus, you need a formal dress for tonight.” He says calmly.
“Why do I need a formal dress?”
“I am taking you to see The Phantom of the Opera, and we have box seats.” The opera? I remember hearing him say that he was taking me to the opera when he didn’t hang up his phone and I heard him talking to his mom. But when he didn’t bring it up, I thought maybe he changed his mind, guess not.
“Oh my God!” I start jumping up and down, he is just laughing at me but I don’t care, I’m going to the opera with Justin!
“So, my mom said to take you to see her personal shopper at Neiman Marcus. But you have to promise me not to look at any price tags, or I may throw you over my knee and spank your butt right there in the store.” All I can do is stare at him, what did he just say? “Come on, lets go find you a dress.” He pulls on my hand.
I feel like a princess! I’m in my room and I have just finished getting ready for tonight. Chris took the news very well, too well if you ask me. It was like he already knew about it but wouldn’t say. I’m standing in front of my full length mirror, I look so different. We found a beautiful dress, and I don’t even what to think about how much it cost! Kelly, the personal shopper made sure that I never saw a price tag.
The dress is white down the front and back but black on the sides. It is cut low in the front, but not slut type low. When I spin around in it the bottom part flows out and moves with me. I have killer high heels on, black and white also. When Kelly showed me some jewelry that would go with the outfit, I tried to pass on it but Justin whispered in my ear that he would spank me if I didn’t listen to her. I was almost tempted to see if he was just playing around, but then she showed me an amazing white gold necklace with black crystals! The necklace matched the bracelet she showed me next. But it was the earrings that took my breathe away. Black diamond stud earrings, one carat each! I didn’t fight him whatsoever on the earrings!
I did one last turn around in front of the mirror, then grabbed my bag. Yes a new white clutch bag, I was spoiled today and loved it. As I am walking down the stairs I see Dave in the hallway, he stops dead in his tracks. The look on his face tells me he approves of what he sees.
“Wow!” He says staring at me. “Guys you gotta come see Flower!” He yells.
“Sis! You look amazing!” Chris says coming over to hug me.
“Thanks.” Okay too much attention.
“Flower, you look wonderful!” Justin says beaming with pride. He looks great too. He is in a white tux with a black bow tie, his hair is still messy but I like it that way. “Ready?” He asks. I shake my head and kiss Chris goodbye.
I should have known he would rent a limo, I laughed when I saw it sitting in the drive way. As we pull up to the opera house my nerves are kicking in. My stomach is in knots and my palms are sweaty. I take a few deep breathes to calm myself down but when I see all the press there I start to shake.
“It’s okay, just breathe. We have to stop and take a few pictures but it won’t be as bad as you think. Come on let’s go.” The driver opens his door and Justin helps me out of the limo. The press is screaming his name so that he will turn and they can snap a picture. I have a smile glued on my face, but I’m so scared its not funny.
Once inside and I can breathe again, he walks us to our box seats, I again feel like a princess. There are four seats but no one is here but us. I asked him if he knew who the other seats were for and he said he didn’t know if they were coming. I took this to mean he didn’t know who they were, I was wrong.
“Hey Justin you made it.” I turn to see Tyler Hubbard from Florida Georgia Line. Okay, shoot me now!
“Hey Tyler, good to see you again. Is this your sister?” Justin is talking to him like he knows him, how could that be?
“Yeah, this is Millie. Millie this Justin Crow.” The little girl blushes, she looks to be at most thirteen years old, I can see she is a Freak Street fan, or maybe just a Justin Crow fan.
“Nice to meet you.” Justin shakes her hand. “Tyler this is Flower, my date for the evening.” Hearing him say date should not have made me blush the way it did but wow!
“It’s nice to meet you Flower, I love that name.” Tyler says and shakes my hand.
“It’s nice to meet you both, I’m a big fan of yours.” I regret saying that as soon as it left my mouth.
“Really? I figured since you were touring with Justin that there would be no time to listen to other peoples m
usic.” Him knowing that I was touring with Justin shouldn’t have come as a shock. With all the interviews we have done I guess everyone in the world knows by now.
“I listen to country music more then anything else.” I giggle.
“Well, ain’t that something. Maybe you’re on the wrong tour, maybe you should head out with BK and me.” He teases.
“Don’t tempt me!” I laugh.
“Sorry, but she will not be leaving our tour. I don’t think it would be the same with out her.” Justin says as he puts his arm around my waist and moves us back to our seats. Tyler and Millie follow and we all get ready for the show.
I don’t think I will look at the world of opera the same way ever again. It was magical, the music, the story line. By the end of the night I was cuddled up next to Justin with my head on his shoulder, he was holding me close. When the play ended I was the first one of us to jump up and start clapping. Tyler and Millie invited us to go with them to grab a bite to eat but Justin said we already had plans, yeah plans I knew nothing about.
It was almost 11pm when we got back into the limo. I’m on such a high that I know sleep will not come easy tonight, but who cares. He informs me that we are going to pick up some Chinese take out, then go back to the condo and watch our favorite show. That sounds like a good plan to me, and as amazing as these heels may look, they’re killing me!
Once we have changed into our night clothes and have laid out all the food on my bed, we settle in to watch TV. Yup, we are in my bed once again, but we locked the door this time. Tonight is about me and Justin, I don’t care what anyone thinks, even Chris.
“So did you have fun?” He asks me while eating an egg roll.
“That is like asking if the Pope wears a hat! Yes I had fun! And I got to meet Tyler Hubbard! How do you know him anyways?”
“I co-wrote two songs with them.”
“What? Which ones?” I know all their songs by heart, and Justin helped write two of them?
“Nothing that has come out yet.” He acts like this is no big deal, well to him maybe not but to me it is.
“I can’t believe it, I didn’t know you wrote for anyone but Freak Street. I didn’t think you even liked country music.”
“I love all music, and most artists write for all genres of music. You’d be surprised by who all I have worked with.” He laughs then turns the TV up. I guess he doesn’t want to go into this right now, but at some point I want to know who he has worked with. Tonight I think I found another side of him, and I like it.
After cleaning up the food I start to get into bed, I thought he was going to do the same but he headed for the door.
“Wait, you’re not staying?” I asked kind of sad like.
“What about Chris?” He turns to stare at me.
“The door is locked, and tonight I don’t care about Chris. Please stay.” I prop my pillow up and slid under the covers. He walks over with a big smile on his face and does the same thing.
“Goodnight” He whispers in my ear.
“Goodnight Justin, and thank you for everything” I drift off to sleep while he is holding me in his arms. What a day, we had our first kiss, we went to the opera, I met Tyler, and now we are sleeping in the same bed. My life is crazy but right now I’m the happiest girl alive.
I JUST GOT OFF a fourteen hour flight from New York to Madrid, and I feel like crap. I only slept about five hours and the rest of the time I tried to read or listen to music. But all I could really do was think about Justin. Waking up to him again was so wonderful, but knowing it won’t happen again for a long time, if ever, just hurts. I mean it really hurts, I feel a hardened pain in my chest when I think about it. But all I want right now is to get on the new bus and resume our way of life. All I care about is going to the shows, and hanging out with Justin. I don’t care what city we are in, never have never will.
“Wake up sis. Time to check out the new bus.” Chris shakes me. I guess I fell asleep on the ride here. I start to stretch and feel every bone in my back pop, oh that felt so good.
I’m the last one on the bus, I follow behind Justin. I hear the guys saying things like ’wow look at this’ and ’no way this is so cool’ all I can do is roll my eyes and smile.
This bus is a lot nicer then our old one. The TV is much bigger, and there is almost every gaming device known to man on here. The couches on here are done in an off white, the booth too. The layout is the same but it is like it has all be upgraded. I head for my bunk and start to unpack. It is done in all purple again. It only takes me an hour and a half to completely unpack, well not completely. We were told to try and keep most of our things in our suit cases. We have to fly to four cities but will be back on the bus after flying back. We each can leave one suit case and they will be stored in the under part of the bus.
Once I’m done I go to check out the back room. I open the door and I gasp! This is nothing like the one on the other bus. There is an L shaped couch along the left side of the room but there is a bed on the other side! It is all done it purple too! There is also a huge TV on the wall, with a DVD player and an iPod dock. I’m in shock.
“So what do you think?” Justin asked while coming to sit down beside me on the couch. I don’t know how long I have been in here, but I sat down to try and process this and I still haven’t done it yet.
“Did you do this?” I have a feeling he did.
“Yeah, I thought if you had to spend three more months on a tour bus we should truly make the back room your room. Don’t you like it?” He sounds hurt.
“I love it, but I have a bunk already. I just unpacked everything up there. How do I have a bunk and this?” I don’t understand.
“The bunk was in case you didn’t like this, it will still be your bunk but now you can use it as storage.”
“I can’t believe you did this for me!” I hug him, then jump up and yell for Chris. When he runs back here he is just as shocked as I was. “Look what Justin did for me! The backroom is truly mine now! I get my own bed!” I’m jumping up and down. Justin is beaming and Chris is laughing at me.
“I’m happy for you.” Chris hugs me. “This was very cool, thanks for making her smile like that.” Chris says to Justin.
“Now get out, we have some TV to watch.” I push Chris out of the room and shut the door. Then I see that there is a lock on the door, good to know.
“So we are going to watch TV, are we?” He comes up behind me and wraps his arms around me.
“Yup, you don’t have to leave for sound check for three more hours. And I need to break in a new bed with the man who gave it too me.” I giggle and hop on the bed. I slid over close to the window so he has room to lay down with me.
“What if I don’t want to watch TV?” He asks laying down and pulling me close to him.
“We could talk, or listen to music, or read if you want too.”
“How about we do this.” He says as he brings his lips down to meet mine. I melt into him. A make out session, I can do that!
For the next hour we kiss, we moan, we even do a little bit of feeling each other up. But nothing more then that. After that we laid there in each others arms talking about all types of things. He wants to take me on a tour of London in a few weeks. We will be there for three days, with one day off in the middle. Then we are planning to go to dinner somewhere in Paris. Then came a knock on the door. I pull him back down when he tries to get up and yell for whoever it is to come in, I’m not going to hide whatever we are anymore, even from Chris.
“We are going to get some food, want me to bring you back something?” Chris asks as he walks in. Then he sees me laying there with Justin, his arm around me and mine around him.
“Sure, bring me back whatever.” I smile up at him, I dare him to say something bad about this.
“So you guys are finally hooking up? Sorry but it is about damn time.” He laughs. Okay I didn’t think he would say that.
“We haven’t talked about any of that. Right now we just like hangin
g out with each other. And we like laying in bed talking, watching TV, and even falling asleep together. But no sex, I promise you that.” I’m bold and fearless right now, this is not me but at the same time it is me.
“Flower we talked about that, if you two decide to do that then I can’t say anything. But you better be careful, use protection but above all make sure you are both ready when it happens. And Justin if you ever hurt her, I don’t care if you’re my boss or not, I’ll beat the shit out of you, okay?” Chris laughs.
“Fine by me, I never plan on hurting her. She is too wonderful and precious to ever hurt. I’m glad you are taking this so well, to be honest I was worried how you would feel about us.” Justin pulls me closer to him, I just smile.
“It has never been a secret that you two like each other, hell we had a bet going there for a while about when y’all would get together. But I’m glad she is happy, you deserve it sis. You both have my blessing, but if you do start having sex, please don’t let me have to hear it!” He says making a yuck face.
“Oh God Chris gross! Get out! Go get us some food!” I yell at him as he walks out laughing.
“Well we have his blessing, I guess we need to talk about what we are going to do now.” Justin says and pulls us into a sitting position.
“I guess so, what do you want to do? I mean if we do start dating then the press is going to go nuts about it. But just staying friends will be hard, and you know it.”
“I don’t care about the press, all I want to know is if you want to be my girlfriend.” His eyes are sparkling and I melt.
“Yes, I want to be your girlfriend!” I pull him close and give him a kiss on the cheek! “Does this mean you’ll sleep back here with me sometimes?” I giggle.
“I’ll sleep back here anytime you want me too.” He growls and starts kissing my neck.
“Wait,” I push him off “I’m not ready for sex yet, but I would like to wake up in your arms more often.” I look down at the blanket, I hope he understands.