Title: Never Letting Go

Jess-

Don't you just love waking up on a Saturday morning in the hot Atlanta sun by your 13 year old sister yelling at you because you apparently stole her favorite shirt? Well this is how I woke up. It's the day before I go on tour with my best friend for 16 years. I can already tell today will be stressful since I have to pack a month's worth of clothes. Packing is never really my thing; I over pack way too much. Even when I stay one night at a friend's house it looks like I packed for a week. So how in the world am I going to pack clothes for a month?

When my sister, Bailey, finally stopped yelling at me for "stealing" her shirt, I started to fall asleep again, until my iPhone started buzzing. I looked at my phone and it was my mom calling.

"Hello?" I said. You could tell by my voice that I had just woken up.

"Hey sweetie, are you up yet? It's almost noon and you haven't started packing. Your flight leaves tomorrow morning so you need to be packed and ready by tonight."

I sighed and cleared my throat. "I'm up now and yes I know. Hopefully Bailey and Morgan will help me pack. Where are you?"

"At Mrs. Sandi's house helping her and Caitlin with something. I'll be home in an hour or so. Get up and start packing. Oh, and don't forget to check and see when cheer camp starts."

"Alright, I will. And okay, I think it starts in the middle of August though. Well love you, bye." I hung up before she could reply.

I got out of bed and stood there in front of my window. I could barely walk because of how dizzy I was. When I wasn't dizzy anymore I walked over to my bathroom, brushed my teeth, and got in the shower.

When I got out of the shower, I put my jean shorts on and a white spaghetti strapped tank on and then brushed my hair out and blow dried it. My dark brown hair was very long and it went down to my ribs so it usually takes me 15 minutes to blow dry it. Mostly everyone says I have what people call "true beauty" so I don't usually wear makeup, but I went ahead and put a little blush on and some light pink lip gloss. When I was done I went down the hall and into the living room. I didn't feel like eating or packing so I just laid there with my little sister Bailey and little brother Zach watching a movie.

It was pretty silent until my phone broke the silence. I checked to see who was calling and it was Justin.

"Hello?" I started twirling my hair. I don't know why but every time I talk to Justin I always twirl it.

"Hey Jess. When is your flight supposed to land here in L.A?" Justin said excitingly. He seemed pretty excited that my little brother and I were joining him on his tour. He wanted Bailey to come, too but she gets car sick way too easily.

"Umm I think like at 8 or 9 in the morning. Why?"

"Just wondering. My mom wanted to know so we could know what time to be there when you guys land. Can't wait to see you Jess! I'll let you go so you can start packing."

"Can't wait either!" I laughed. "Talk to you later." Then I hung up.

I don't know how I'll cope being in the same bus with Justin. Yeah, he's my best friend and we do everything together and he treats me like his little sister, but it'll still feel weird. We dated once and it lasted for 4 years, but we broke up when he started getting "big" in the fame. I don't think I'm over him. I mean, he was my first love and we broke up a year ago, but I still don't think I'm over him. I need to get over him though because he's completely over me and only sees me as his friend.

I broke from my trance about Justin and got up from the couch. When I walked away I turned around and told Bailey and Zach, "I'm gonna start packing." They both nodded and continued watching the movie. I can't pack by myself so I invited my best friend Morgan over to help me. I've always been so jealous of her. She's so skinny and has beautiful brown hair. She's very popular at school and I'm just her best friend. I'm not considered "popular" at my school I guess, but I don't really care.

I packed about one week's worth of clothes by the time Morgan got here. She, Bailey, and I were all packing my clothes and we got side tracked here and there gossiping about girls from school or just going on and on about how hot Taylor Lautner is. By the time we were finished we were starving. I hadn't eaten all day and it was already dinner time.

"Guys let's take a break. I'm starving, what about ya'll?" I said while getting up and heading for the door. My room was a mess with clothes to pack everywhere in sight.

"Yes! I could really eat a Big Mac. Can we go to McDonalds?" Bailey said in a begging way.

"Yeah, I wouldn't mind eating that either, what about you Jess?" Morgan never ate fast food, but this time she did so that showed me that she was starving just as much as I was.

"Okay let's go." We left my room and I put on my flip flops that were by the door and got into Morgan's Mercedes and left for McDonalds. I'm still 15 and won't turn 16 till September 4th and I can't wait. No more depending on my parents to take me places!

We got to McDonalds, ordered our food, and then left. I was so thirsty I drank all of my iced tea before we even got to the house.

We sat at the table for about an hour just chatting about random things and eating. Morgan brought up a few times about what all I'm going to do while I'm on tour with Justin. I don't really know what I'll do. What all is there to do?

"Wait, isn't your brother going with you on tour with him? Didn't he have to pack?" Morgan said pointing towards his room.

Crap. I totally forgot about him. I hope he didn't have any trouble packing and didn't need my help.

"Hopefully he doesn't need my help. He's just a boy he shouldn't have trouble packing." I ate the last piece of my chicken nuggets and threw away my bag. After Bailey and Morgan were done eating we went upstairs into the lounge area and we all got onto our Twitter accounts.

Morgan had a Twitter, but she kept it private. She saw how people get when I and Caitlin made one and everyone went crazy because they heard we were close friends to Justin. Bailey has one, too but it's not as big as mine. I got on mine for about three minutes and tweeted a few fans. After that I went and looked at Justin's page. He tweeted something about how he was excited me and my brother were joining him on tour. It never really bothered me when he'd tweet me like how it would if he tweeted a fan. They flip out about that kind of stuff. Once we were done checking our Twitters we got off and just laid down and watched our favorite movie, Mean Girls.

After the movie Morgan left, my mom came home from the Beadles' house where she was at for the longest time, I packed little things and then the family and I just laid down in the living room relaxing.

"So are you two finished packing?" my mom looked at me and Zach.

"Yes." We both said in unison.

"Well you two better head to bed. Ya'll have to wake up early tomorrow. Say your goodbyes to the dogs, Bailey, and Dad then go to bed."

Both Zach and I said our goodbyes to the dogs, Bailey, and Dad who was sound asleep on the couch and wouldn't remember us saying goodbye, and then went to bed.

When I got to my room I got on my laptop and checked my FaceBook. I had a few friend requests from crazy Justin Bieber fans that figured out my FaceBook, a few notifications, and a new message. I checked everything and then logged off. I changed into my striped black and white pajama pants and into a neon blue church t-shirt and headed to bed. Boy was tomorrow going to be a long day.