I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Brittney's Point of View-
I slept well into the next day when the brightness of the sun shining into the room waking me up and I slowly sat up wiping at my eyes looking down seeing the belt laying next to my body smiling as I looked up seeing that the door was open like I had left it the night before seeing the shadow of someone in the kitchen knowing that it must be Justin. I looked at the clock that had hung on the wall that he had put in there when he decorated it seeing that it was 11 AM, I got up grabbing my phone from the spot I had put it last night to charge reading the texts I had received heading out to the living room as I read them.
"Morning." Justin said as he noticed me leaning against the counter.
"Morning, you were out last night." I said smirking and couldn't help a chuckle that escaped my lips remembering the way he had fallen asleep on the couch the night before.
"Yeah, thanks for waking me up so I could move back to my room." He said sarcastically.
"You looked too comfortable laying there to disturb your peaceful state of sleep."
"No problem…I just got a crank in my neck that should get out with a little rotation." Justin said rubbing at the back of his neck.
"Oh, sorry…" I said.
"No worries…you want some coffee? I just put a new pot on and got some toaster strudels." Justin said as the toaster popped up.
"I'll have some coffee but got to head to the FCW arena, got to take promo photos with the belt today apparently from what I've been told." I said looking back to my phone, I hated the dang photo shoots because I felt so uncomfortable and awkward about the whole thing, made me so not confident in myself due to my awkwardness.
"I'll tag along…gets me out to do something…is Wade going?" Justin asked as he pulled down two travelling coffee mugs pouring coffee into them as I pulled his strudels out of the toaster onto the small plate he had already set out for them.
"I don't know, I should text him considering we are kind of partners but with you guys in NXT I don't know if they would want him in these shots…" I said honestly as I dusted the crumbs off my hands onto my pajama bottoms picking up my cell phone off the counter sending a text to Wade asking if he had gotten the same text that I had gotten from Dusty about the shoot waiting for a response.
"Do you need to go grab your attire from upstairs?" Justin asked as he handed me the one coffee mug after he had poured some creamer in it, is it sad that he knows how I like my coffee?
"Probably should bring it in case, I don't know what they want." I said shrugging as I took a sip of it slightly as Justin was fighting with the frosting packets opening each one individually being gracious as he squirted the frosting onto the strudels before he tossed them out and started smearing it with his fingers, much like how I would do it making me giggle as he sucked off the frosting from his fingers before he picked the plate up going into the living room. "Maybe bring a CD or two that I have from audio to listen to…there are some CDs that are blatantly not for me." I said as I sat on the opposing end of the couch staring at the man in front of me eating at his strudels happily.
"Like who?" Justin asked.
"Like the Offspring…I'm not coming out to 'Pretty Fly for a White Guy.'"
"Come on now, it'll be great…I think you can rock that." Justin said.
"Oh yeah, I can totally rock that song too…" I said smiling and laughing at it.
"I think everyone will get a kick out of it…" Justin said.
"I would too, I don't think I could even take it serious…I just don't get why there isn't many girly options." I said shrugging.
"Like what? JC Chasez? I can see you coming out to his 'All Day Long I Dream About Sex' song." Justin said.
"I'm not that big of a pervert…" I said.
"Oh, unless if Wade's name was involved." Justin joked.
"Shut up." I said smacking him on the arm with one of the throw pillows he had on his couch.
"Like that isn't true." Justin said shrugging.
"But still, I won't use that song…if I were to use any of his songs it would be either 'Some Girls Dance With Woman' or 'Blowing Me Up (With Her Love)'" I said correcting him.
"Well pardon me." Justin said.
"Yeah, pardon you…I'm going to go get ready…may I use your shower?" I asked.
"You don't have to ask, you live here for the time being…plus, you know where it's at." Justin said getting me to smile.
"I still like to ask, it's not my apartment yet." I said.
"Yet being the key term." Justin said as I got up scooting past him to go into the room I slept in the night before, "Do you need anything for the shower?" Justin yelled throughout the apartment for me to hear him.
"Nah, I got the stuff…" I said.
"The right stuff?" Justin asked jokingly knowing that I was a fan of New Kids on the Block.
"Justin, I just can't with you." I said covering part of my face letting out laughs not believing he just did that.
"What?" Justin asked as he finally popped into the door frame leaning against it as he went to take a bite of his strudel.
"I can't believe you just quoted New Kids on the Block." I said pulling out things from my bag.
"But yet you are laughing about it…told you that you will be sleeping with that dang belt." Justin said glancing over seeing my belt still laying on the bed untouched since I had gotten up.
"I forgot my bear?" I said trying to say it convincingly but knew he knew that I was lying.
"Bull shit." Justin said.
"Fine, I slept with the belt last night…had to make sure you didn't steal it." I joked.
"Oh yes, I love the Diva's belt and boy would it make me look masculine." Justin said.
"It will probably do great with your girlish figure." I said jokingly.
"My figure is not girly, since when does a girl have these type of guns?" Justin asked as he flexed his muscles. "See, I got your tickets to the gun show…" Justin said as he kissed his muscles, "Aw, I got crumbs on my shirt…how does this even happen?" Justin asked dusting at his shoulder trying to get the crumbs off.
"That's your own fault for eating the strudels." I said when my stomach grumbled since I hadn't ate but I usually just ate a Special K bar.
"You want a strudel? Your stomach is certainly playing a tune itself there…" Justin said as he begun trying to mock the grumble my stomach just made.
"I'm fine, when I go upstairs to grab my attire I was going to grab a Special K bar." I said.
"That's all you eat for breakfast?"
"Yeah…just something to get my metabolism going and it isn't too big." I said shrugging, "May I borrow a towel?" I asked as I finally turned around holding out the clothes I were to wear that day close to my chest so he won't see my undergarments, that was the one thing I would be most embarrassed about around him.
"Yeah, there are some in there for you to use, just don't mind some of my things that I have in there…" Justin stated.
"Like I haven't seen some of those things…" I said as I grabbed the travel sized bottles I had brought with me following Justin out of the room and went into the only bathroom his apartment had, I don't mind sharing a bathroom with him because there was enough sink space for both of our things and like he has stated he is only home a small amount of days throughout the week so it's not like these things will be here all the time. I shut the door hoping he won't have to use the bathroom so I knew I had to make it a quick shower. I turned the shower on, I felt a little awkward considering I had never took a shower at Justin's place and it felt weird not using the shower in my room considering I don't live here yet but Justin always stated that I should look to this place as home and Lord knows he has considered my apartment as home. I took my shower thinking about how I felt staying here, and it was kind of nice waking up and seeing him, spending all day and night with your best friend can be a big plus and it will definitely save minutes and texts on my phone and it'll save money in the long run because it'll be half the bills on both of us. I got out of the shower wrapping my hair up into the towel as I pulled the door open walking out confidently, somehow I forgot that I was in Justin's apartment when I heard Justin burst into laughter.
"Nice doo-rag." Justin said between his laughter.
"Thanks…" I said smiling as I sheepishly went into the connecting room putting the dirty clothes into my bag before I pulled out my brush and pulled the towel off brushing my hair out trying to get all the tangles out but that is nearly impossible when my hair is wet. I started putting on my deodorant and the perfume before I grabbed the phone I had left on its charger next to the night stand picking it up reading the text from Wade that he hasn't gotten word from anyone to be there today and I had another one from Dusty that I had to be there in a half hour so I knew I had to hurry up. I walked out holding onto the damp towel seeing Justin sitting on the couch flipping through the channels on his television. "Where do you want me to put my towel?" I asked curiously.
"You can hang it back up in the bathroom for later use, I'm very limited on towels." Justin said.
"Okay…I have to be there in a half hour." I said loudly as I went into the bathroom hanging the towel on the empty towel rack perfectly before I walked back out.
"Has Wade wrote back?" Justin asked.
"Wade said they haven't contacted him so I think it's just solo pictures today." I said shrugging as I went back into my room grasping my belt not wanting to bother with my hair or make-up knowing that there will be people there to do that or try to change the way I did it, I buttoned the belt sliding it onto my shoulder realizing just how heavy it was, it was definitely that 12 pounds that I was told. I walked out to the living room to see Justin sliding his shoes back on getting ready to go since I knew we had to leave sooner to get there in about 20 minutes plus I knew I had to change and get pampered to an extent.
"Weird, but I'll be there to entertain you." Justin said as he stood up adjusting his shirt and stretched a little before he went to his little decorative bowl that held his wallet and keys, never understood why he had it like that but that is where he kept all the important things which is smart. He slid his wallet into his butt pocket and pulled his car keys out along with the key to his apartment putting it into his pocket and he made sure he had his phone that is probably close to being dead unless if he had charged it this morning.
"That is going to go well…when you're involved, trouble is bound to happen." I said.
"I only get in trouble when your there."
"Now you're blaming me?"
"You cause all of it yourself." Justin said smirking as we headed out of his apartment making a quick trip upstairs to my apartment grabbing my ring attire that I had wore the night before. "Do you need anything else?" Justin asked as he picked up some magazine I had set onto the counter that I had received in the mail.
"Nah, I don't think so….I'm not bringing any of the CD's with me because I don't want to bother with those." I said honestly as I walked back out of my room carrying the attire in my hands, and my belt rested on my shoulders as it should.
"Probably a smart idea since we won't be able to listen to that many of them, it's like a 20 minute drive so that isn't even a whole CD." Justin said.
"It's one-fourth of a CD." I said as I went into the kitchen grabbing a Special K bar from the place I keep them heading out behind him eating the bar in the car on the way down to the facility in which they had the studio in one of the empty rooms. I wish that I didn't have to rely on the CDs that I had borrowed from the audio department for my music but it will be better on them instead of worrying about another CD to add to their collection of having to deal with and playing for me. After I finished the Special K bar, I squashed the wrapper into my hand holding it there to throw away when we got there instead of trashing his car trying to think of a new character to portray. "How's the neck?" I asked breaking the quiet that had filled the car, besides the song that was being played on the radio, as we sat at the red light that we had hit.
"It's fine…it'll be fine…how you feeling today? Last night you were kind of…" Justin said as I interrupted.
"Emotional? I'm fine now…I can't help but to smile now when I look at this belt." I said.
"As you should…." Justin said.
"I just fear that Wade and Heath won't treat me like one of the guys which I have been trying so hard to get." I said as I put my hand up onto the window sill on the door to block some of the sun that was going into my eyes.
"They won't think any less of you for crying…that is a reason to cry…"
"That and having to see Heath's ugly mug…" I joked letting out a chuckle.
"He's not here to hear that one, dang…" Justin said as I jokingly snapped my fingers.
"But what I mean is as a girl in this company, we want to be treated like one of the guys and we work so hard to be treated like one of the guys, but yet we have more sensitive emotions than you guys, no offense Justin…"
"None taken…I understand that, and you never have to think you have to be one of the guys around me because honestly I don't want to think like that…I would want you to be you and not something you're not, that is why you're my best friend is because you are you and you don't let others tell you otherwise." Justin said.
"Well, I have already lost my man card in front of you so many times so you know that I suck at trying to be a man."
"True…plus I don't think you can quite be a guy, it's impossible." Justin said.
"I can dream though." I said smiling.
"Aim high." Justin said as he pulled into the destination that we will be here for however long for them to get however many shots they needed of me with the belt.
"I'm not lying when I say that I want you to snap a picture of me with the belt with my phone so I can print out." I said.
"For that scrapbook you have been keeping and making?" Justin asked forgetting that he knew about it.
"Yeah, sort of…" I said shrugging.