CHAPTER 13 (Audience Of One)
"Do you think he's ok?" Deb asked her fiance.
"Yes honey. He's been back for a couple weeks now, he'll probubly show up at the diner any day now." The police man assured her, setting his menu down.
"But what if he goes back ot Allentown?"
"Then you know exactly where he'll be staying. You've been worrying about him every day since he got back."
"Because what if something really bad happens while I'm at work? What if Micheal comes over to the house and Justi nanswers it? Then he'll be forced to face everyone."
"I'm sure he'll be fine if that happens. And everyone would be really nice if they did find him."
"Well, I don't know."
"I do, I've been around these people enough to that each and ebvery one of them would be nice to Justin no matter what he did. They all love him to much, just like you do."
"It's just that awhile ago I bumped into his back, and he was acting like it didn't hurt, when it was obvious it did. He said it was nothing, but I know someone else did it."
"No one we know would have done anythign to hurt him."
"But what if they did? A few people have been acting weird lately."
"It'll all be fine, I promise."
"Thanks. You're like my little audience of one." She smiled.
The two hugged, then Deb remembered who had been acting the weirdest of everyone.
"Ya know, Lyndsay has been acting really weird." She said.
"It'll all be fine." Her love assured her.
"I hope so. She better have not done anythig to him. I couldn't believe that if she had though."
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"Can you believe that?" Lyndsay asked her wife furiously, shoving the groceries that had just picked up into the awaiting fridge.
"No, you're telling me that Justin's back?" Mel asked back with a smile.
"Yeah. after two months of us going out of our minds worrying about him. And he doesn't even have the decency to tell us!"
"He's probubly just scared Lynds."
"That's no excuse. I've been scared plenty of times, but I still let people know where I was and what was going on."
"But he's still a kid."
"And I'm the old hag."
"No...what's gotten into you?"
"Nothing. I'm just on edge about J.R.." The blonde sighed, turniong to look at her worried partner. "What if she gets Gus sick? We can't deal with two sick children at once."
"Together we can, together we can do anything." The brunette lawyer smiled, wrapping her arms around her love.
The blonde sighed, as she put her arms around her partner.
"He just better not go see Brian, he's broken his heart enough for a lifetime." She told her.
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Justin opened the door to Brian's loft. He stepped inside boldly, not believing he had been so close to the stud for half a month and had resisted running into his arms every time Deb left for work. He smiled at his self control only momentarily, the five Brian's appeared and gave the once again blonde smiles of encouragement to tell him to take more steps into the huge loft that would surely hold the advertiser which the young male seeked. Brian was woken up by the five Justin's whining at him that he had guests. He groaned but got up, pulling on the garments the figments told him to. When he was all the way awake he began walking to his kitchen. He stopped dead at the bottom of the two stairs that led down from his bedroom, the Justin's stopping around him. The real of the multiples caught eyes. Fifth Justin and Brian caught sight of each other and smiled. The two walked towards each other and grabbed hands. They disappeared the second their hands connected. The Fourths looked at the spot that the two had disappeared, then their gazes were drawn to each other. They too smiled and walked towards each other, also disappearing as their hands touched. The exact thing happened with the Third and Second of the males. Then First Justin and First Brian looked at each other. First Justin was smiling, First Brian was looking apathetic. The young blonde held out his hand, invitingly. The baby in a studs body shrugged with a smile. The youngest two sprinted towards each other and disappeared as they wrapped each other in a hug.
"I'm sorry." Justin said finally, not making a move to close the distance between him and the man he loved.
"I know. I am too." Brian didn't try to close the distance either.
"I was in Allentown."
"I know."
"It sucked being away from you."
"I know."
"I should go back to college."
"I know."
"I'll try to help pay."
"I know."
"I want to move back in."
"I know."
The blonde couldn't stop himself, he sprinted toward the man of his dreams and clung to his neck. Tears started pouring down his pale face and the onyx haired man wrapped his arms around the thin waist of the man he loved.
"There is no Joshua Mora...It was me."
"I know."
"Why didn't you stop me?"
"Because I knew you would come back when you were ready. I know you don't know until it's too late that you don't always know what's best. And when you do figure it out...you're scared to admit it, so scared that you don't admit it until it hurts to not."
Justin pulled back and stared into the strong mans kind eyes with curious ones.
"I love you." The advertiser told the shorter male.
"I know." The college student smiled.
They pulled each other in for a kiss that meshed their smiles together.
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The title is about everyone and their little "audience of one". Deb and Horvath, Lynds with Mel, Justin and Brian with Brian and Justin of course.