Justin's P.O.V.
"Hey, Biebs," I felt someone shaking me awake so I just rolled over pushing them away. "Dude, come on. Get outta bed. It's our first full day in Brazil. Time to go check out the beach."
"And the ladieess!" I heard a second person next to my bed but I still hadn't opened my eyes yet. It's not every day I get to sleep in a bed that isn't moving.
I heard a door open in the distance then shut quickly; I just buried my face deeper into the fluffy pillows surrounding me.
"Hey Pattie," the first voice spoke, "Justin won't get up. We've been trying for the past 10 minutes. I think he's dead." I grunted a little then just snuggled even further into the blankets.
"Come on Justin," I felt my mom smack my leg. "Get up. We're all going out to lunch. It's already 11:30, you've slept long enough. It's not my fault you guys stay up until 3am playing that darn Xbox. Let's go!" With her final word she pulled warm down comforter off of my bed revealing my shirtless, shivering body.
"Not cool mom." I grabbed my t-shirt off the floor and found my way to the huge bathroom.
"Justin, when you three are finished getting ready meet us down in the lobby. We're leaving by 12. Don't make me send Kenny up here to get you boys." She laughed a little bit and continued to leave our suite.
We had arrived at the hotel late last night, the Copa-something. Copacabra? No, that doesn't sound right… Chupacabra.. Copa-…hmm. I had to admit, it was one of the nicest hotels we've stayed in. Chaz, Ryan and I were in the Penthouse Suite. Very top floor of the building. You could see literally everything from our balcony. We had vaulted ceilings, ridiculous furniture, rooftop patio; it's pretty much heaven on a beach.
Copacabana Palace! That's it.. Why was that so difficult?
I stepped out of the white and grey marble shower and wrapped one of their fluffy, white towels around my waist. Dang, even the towels feel like clouds. Never. Going. Home. I wiped away the steam on the mirror so I could see myself. Man, I was lookin' rough. The bags under my eyes had considerably worsened, my cheeks look sunken in, and I was seriously as pale as the towel. Ugh, not okay. Thank God we were all getting a vacation here for a few days after tomorrow. Granted, the 'vacation' will only be about 3 days but still, at least I'll be able to get my tan back.
I walked out of the bathroom and grabbed my board shorts and a t-shirt then finished getting ready in the bathroom.
"Hey, Chaz, Ryan, you guys ready?" I glanced at my watch and noticed it was 5 til 12. Perfect timing.
"Yeah dude," Ryan said while standing up from the fancy couch in the living room. "We've been waiting for you. Let's go,-"
"I'm hungry!" Chaz finished for Ryan and sprinted to the door nearly knocking into it while we just laughed at him and headed to the door as well. Truth be told, I hadn't had a seriously good meal in a few weeks.
Laney's P.O.V.
"That spa is absolutely amazing. I can't believe we can go as much as we want while we're here!" Kayla continued to gush about our morning of treatments as we got ready for the beach. The spa really was something of a dream: candles everywhere, soft music, soothing oils; I couldn't believe just how lucky we actually were to receive those passes.
"Kay, I'm going to bring some cold water bottles down with us and I'm going to bring some fresh fruit for me, do you want anything?" I threw some bottles and containers into my cooler bag and she finished tying up her top.
"Hmm, fruit does sound really good. Maybe just some fruit for me as well? Thanks." We finished packing our goodies, grabbed our towels and headed down to the main lobby to figure out how to get to the beach.
We finally made it down to the beach; we found a door in the back of the lobby that led straight to a boardwalk to the beach. "Oh wow, it's so hot out here. Good thing we brought the water. It can't be less than 95." By the time we made it to the spot of our choosing, a little ways down from our hotel, Kayla and I had already worked up a bit of a sweat. Yes, it's that hot. "Here, Kayla, you should take some video of the beach. It's so gorgeous." We had finished laying out our towels and oiling up so we decided to make a video for YouTube land.
"Okay, it's on. It's hard to see the screen with the sun this bright. Oh well. Hopefully I'll get the majority of your face in it!" Kayla started giggling and attempted to adjust the zoom.
"Hey guys, I know I didn't post a video like I was supposed to yesterday but the reason I didn't is because I'm in Brazil! Rio de Janeiro to be exact." I threw my arms up and Kayla zoomed back to view the whole beach. There were tons of people out here. I started speaking again and Kayla focused back on my face. "It's about… what, 2 in the afternoon here?" I clicked my phone and checked the time. "Yup, 2:03 pm here. I have no idea what time that makes it back at home." We both chuckled a little bit and continued to film and chat. We managed to video tape some dolphins, a few crabs, the birds, and some pretty odd people walking by.
"Ohmigosh, Laney, check that guy out." She panned the camera over to the guy she was looking at and we both burst into laughter. I don't know which made me laugh more, his way-too-tiny speedo, or the fact that it looked like he had a sock on his head. "What the heck is the sock thing for?" Kayla managed to get out in between breaths.
"Haha, I dunno, crochet hat?" We finished laughing over him and I turned back to look at Kayla. She pointed the camera back at me and we talked about what we were going to do for the rest of the day. "I don't know about you but I'm starv-" Kayla interrupted me by pointing over my shoulder. She zoomed the camera past me a little bit to focus on a crowd of people gathering about 20 feet away from us.
"What do you think all those people are gathering around?" I didn't answer. We watched the group scream and holler for a few minutes.
"Maybe it's a celebrity or something? Hell, maybe it's a cart with frozen lemonade. It's so damn hot out here I'd scream over a frozen lemonade at this point too." I turned back around to Kayla and she was still videotaping the group.
Kayla quietly mumbled to herself, "It looks like someone's in the middle of it.."
I stood up and brushed some sand off of my legs. "Come on Kayla, let's go get some room service or something and put this video together. I want to try to upload it today." Kayla nodded and set the camera down. We got our stuff together and started to walk away.
"Oops, looks like I forgot to turn the camera off." Kayla hit the power button and we both noticed the huge group of people was gone.
Justin's P.O.V.
"Ah, I'm so tired and hungry. I can't wait to get back to the room to play Xbox." Chaz slumped his shoulders and dragged on as we walked back to our hotel from the beach.
"I don't think you could be any lazier if you tried; we were only at the beach for 2 hours. I kinda want to go to the pool. I heard there's one on the roof or something." Ryan clapped Chaz on the back and looked over towards me. "Do you wanna check out the pool with me while this lazy ass goes inside?" I looked up from my phone and mumbled 'sure'. I was in the middle of a texting conversation with Selena.
From: Selly
Y do u have 2 take ur vaca in Brazil? Y cant u come 2 cali 2 spend time with me? :(
I groaned inwardly as I received her next text. Is it that bad that I don't want to get on another plane and lose a day of rest?
To: Selly
All the plans are already made. Plus, my concerts after the vaca are here in South America. It would be a little counterproductive to go to the US then back here after 1 day.
I hit the send button and clicked my phone off. When I think about the stress in my life it's sad to say it all stems from her.
I bumped into Ryan's back not noticing he had stopped walking. "My bad. Here's the key to get in." I handed him one of our room keys and we walked through the gates to the sparkling pool. There was only one other couple here; and older couple. Not likely to pose a threat. Sweet.
I checked my phone one last time before I set it down.
From: Selly
But, Jussy, I miss u baby :( Dont u love me?
I laughed a little bit as I clicked off my phone without sending a reply and threw it on top of my towel on a nearby chair.
Not really, Selena, not at all.
I collapsed on the couch in the living room area. To my right Chaz and Ryan were playing COD: Black Ops on the Xbox. It was about 7pm now and the three of us were starting to get hungry. I threw my arm over my face and leaned back into the couch. "Who's up for some room service? I'm beat." Chaz threw his arm up in the air and Ryan agreed vocally.
We decided on what we wanted to eat and I called it in.
"Yeah, room service? This is the Penthouse Suite. Could I get one bacon cheese burger with fries, one grilled cheese with fries," I threw a look over to Chaz and laughed at his little kid-ness. "and the BLT with chips. 45 minutes? Aight, thanks."
Chaz groaned loudly and over dramatically. "45 minutes? That's forrreeevvverrrr. Can't they speed it up or something? You are Justin Bieber. And we're hungry!"
Ryan and I laughed as he continued to complain.
"Dude, chill." I stood up and stretched. "Do you want your grilled cheese to be grilled? Or just a cold cheese sandwich?" The look of depression on his face was priceless but it did get him to shut up. "I'm going to go rest for a little bit until the food gets here." I walked into my room of the suite and I heard the guys start up another player vs. player match on Call of Duty.
Grabbing my computer I unplugged the power cord and laid down on my queen sized bed. Quickly I checked Facebook replying to a few messages then I moved to Twitter retweeting some of my fans and '' replying a few friends. Lastly I landed on the Youtube home page. I clicked the log in button and glanced at my newest subscribed uploads. One in particular caught my eye.
I promised myself I wouldn't watch her videos again until she uploaded a new one… Well… There it is.
Reading the name of the video I clicked the link and it took me to her page. As the video loaded I glanced at the stats.
'Vacation Time'? Hmm, I wonder where she went.
Finally, the video was loaded so I hit the play button.
"Hey you guys! It's our first day of vacation at the beach and we've already seen so many crazy things. Here, check some of these out. The video turned to a fat, old guy in a speedo with some weird thing on his head. I listened to the girls giggle and chat about him. Next, they showed a girl drop her fries in the sand then proceed to pick them up and eat them. Nasty. There were a few seagulls and dolphins, then they showed a huge mob. I couldn't tell what was going on but there were a million people in the screen and they were all screaming. You could see Laney in the picture a little bit watching the mob and laughing.
"What's going on over there?" Laney's friend, Kayla, asked as they continued to tape the mob. The next thing I knew I was watching myself fall out of the mob of people and run towards the ocean. I nearly choked on the air I was breathing. Coughing like crazy I sat up and paused the video where you could see Laney facing away from the ocean and me running towards it.
Oh…my…God… There's no way… She's in Brazil! Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! How the… But… I just… Ohmygod.
Ryan knocked on my bedroom door and it scared me so much I fell off of the little bit of bed I was still sitting on.
"Hey Jus- what are you doing on the floor?" I just looked at him, eyes wide like a deer in head lights. "Dude… Are you okay? You didn't watch one of those Youtube videos where the scary picture jumps out at you, did you! You know those things scare you to death." I just continued to stare at him, my mouth slowly opening, then closing. I blinked and looked away from him back towards the computer. He caught my gaze and grabbed my laptop to see what the big deal was. Ryan didn't say a word; he just looked at me, stood up and walked to the door. "The food is here when you're composed and ready to talk."
I'm pretty sure I sat on the floor for a good 10 minutes thinking about how all of this was possible.
Jeeze, I'm like a starstruck little girl. Come on, pull yourself together, Bieber. She's just some girl.
I pulled myself together as much as I could, shut my laptop, and walked out into the living room. The guys just stared at me as I moved to the table.
"What?" I looked at them both as they slowly started to eat again. Ryan was the first to answer.
"You okay, bro? You look shaken up." Ryan threw me a sort of sympathetic look and continued to eat his sandwich. I stared at my burger and lightly picked at it for what seemed like ages. We were all silent, then I spoke.
"I just don't get it. How is it that I was lucky enough to be on the same exact beach with her today, but not see her? How does something like that happen? And to be videotaped by her too? It's like fate is screwing with me now." I threw down the fry I was about to eat and quickly stood up. "I gotta go for a walk to think this through. It's like, I'm pissed but excited at the same time. I don't fuckin' know anymore."
Grabbing my hoodie and slipping my black Supras on I threw the hood over my head and left the room. The guys did nothing but watch me go. They knew me better than anyone and they knew I needed to be alone.
For about an hour I walked through the hotel and out onto the boardwalk behind. It was slowly getting darker and I stood there watching the sun set on the horizon. I heard a faint, silky laugh coming from behind me. My heart skipped a beat. Is it...? My head spun around so fast I'm surprised I didn't sprain my neck. Frantically I searched for her face but it was just another girl, holding hands with the guy she was with and looking so happy. My small smile faded and I shoved my hands into my hoodie pockets. You're such an idiot, Bieber. Why the hell would she be at the same hotel you are? So you happened to be on the same beach as her today. She's probably staying somewhere farther inland. Ugh, I'm like some lovesick puppy and I've never even met the girl. All I knew was that this was going to be one long vacation now knowing I could possibly see her at any moment. Was it likely to happen? Not at all. Was I hoping it would? With every fiber of my being.