(chapter 17) A TALK WITH JUSTIN!!

"JB!" I heard a response. "Wait a minute. Rocky?"
"Yeah...daaah!"
"How are you sweetie?"
"I can´t believe I had your number all along. Well...... am okey I guess."
"I thought about giving you a call but I thought you might be busy catching up in school. So how´s life been treating you these couple of days?"

I was breathing heavily trying not to burst into tears.
"Star?! Are you still there? Are you okey?"
"Yeah, am.....fi....."
"What´s wrong?"
I couldn´t hold my tears anymore.
"I don´t want to go back to that school. It was horrible the last time I was there."
"Hey, don´t cry beautiful. Tell me what happened."
"I really don´t want to bother you with my problems. You might be busy."
"Busy? No way. I´m on vacation right now with my family, just hanging out with Jazzy and Jaxon on the boat but I´ll be home in a couple of weeks so spill it all out."
I took a long breathe and wiped the tears from my eyes. I told him everthing that happened, from when I got to school and what Chris and Dina did to me getting home and finding his card in my pocket.

"I can´t believe it. Am so sorry sweetie. But you gotta keep focused on your studies and try to forget what happened. It won´t do you any good remembering or even bothering yourself with such people. Your bestfriend Crystal sounds like a very good friend, she sound really cool and I´ll like to meet her someday."
"She is a huge Belieber just like me you know. She would love to meet you too."
"I guess I´ll arrange for that." He said jokingly.
"Please do." I said.
"Keep your head up high my princess and u´ll go far. It´s you who decides to let them get under your skin or not so just ignore them. Remember, it´s you who decides to make or destroy your day. Just call me whenever you need to talk or whenever you feel like it. Okey."

I heard someone call me from outside my door.
"Rockline? Rockline?"
"I´m in my room."

"Sorry for that Justin. That was very good advice and I´ll try to stay strong. Thank you for everything but I gotta go now. Somebody´s calling. TTY! Love you."
"Love you too. Bye."
"Bye."

"Mom? Was that you?"
There was no response......
"Is anyone in here?"
I heard something move but that was it........I turned back thinking it was a false alarm but I was wrong.......

(chapter 16) HOME ALONE!!

”Where are you going?”

”Home. Am not feeling well.”

That was actually the worst day of my life. I had never been bullied before and I knew that that was just the beginning. It was a rather quiet journey back home, I mean, everybody else was in school except me. I kept thinking of all the comebacks I would have used at Dina. Aaaaaagh! I disliked her so much. She had ruined my Friday.

Thank God there was no one home when I got there. I just wanted to be alone at that moment. I went straight to my room and lay on my bed. Thinking about it then, I remember that was the same position I was in, planning for my escape. The only thing I needed to do was reach for my earphones and phone and play some Justin Bieber music to calm down.

It was about five in the evening when Crystal showed up.

“Are you feeling better now?”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“What they did wasn´t cool. I got your back nomatter what.”

“Thank you.”

“So are you still thinking about staying home for a while?”

“That is the best thing to do.”

“Yeah. I think so too.”

So, we talked as usual about everything for hours until she had to go back home. I was so nervous to talk to my parents about my decision to stay home but I knew I couldn´t avoid the subject, mmhh……unless I pretended I was going to school everyday like usual but then come back home when they are gone. Wow! Not bad thinking.

Saturday was a pretty calm day, I just cleaned up my room, did my laundy, just the normal stuff I used to do. So my family as usual was sitting at the dinner table.

"Your Principal called and told us what happened in school yesterday." My dad spoke.

I looked up from my plate to meet their gazes, I guess they were looking for some reactioon and when I didn´t give them any, mom continued.

"We have discussed and we feel like it´s better if you stay home next week, then you can go the week after that."

Yes! I didn´t have to lie to them, it was like they read my thoughts. I tried no to show that I was excited to stay home so I finished my dinner real quick and ran up the stairs to my room. Oh yeah! I was going to be pretty much all alone at home for about one week, I could sleep however much I wanted and nobody would bother me. Life is perfect, I thought to myself.

But it actually wasn´t. It was so damn boring spending everyday doing the same thing. I was tired of watching TV, listening to music, walking outside, baking, cooking, reading. I was removing my phone from my pocket to call a restaurant to order a pizza and as I removed my phone, I felt something like a paper, it fell on the ground when I tried to take it out. I picked it up and looked at it for a while,
“That is deffinetly weird. Whose number is this and how did it get to my pocket? Agh! Maybe Sly borrowed my trousers when I was gone. I am going to prank call the number."

Ring Ring Ring, Ring Ring……

There was no repsonse so I tried calling again but it was the same thing. I was so bored I tried the third time and just when I was about to give up, there was a response.

”Yo......! ”
I immediately recognised the voice.
"You´ve gotta be kidding me!"
"Excuse me?"

(chapter 15) WORST DAY EVER!!

As Long As You Love Me........I could hear Justin singing.
"Justin can you keep it down and stop singing in my ear. I´m trying to get some sleep."
Nothing happened. I got up.
"Seriously!"
I got up just to realise it was my phone alarm ringing. Damn! how embarassing, thank God nobody heard. I looked at the time. It was already six in the morning? I was so tired, but it was Friday! My favourite day of the week. I was excited about what Crystal had for me. I couldn´t wait to see what her surprise was.

I was always the first one to wake up and leave so I peeped into my parents and sister´s room and told them good-bye before I left.
"You ready to go to school?"
"I think so, am nervous but I hope I made it through today."
"Good! I´m loving the positive energy. Shall we?"
"We shall."
So Crystal and I walked all the way to school. I had forgotten how much fun it was talking about whatever came to my mind, anything! She was like my twin, like seriously,it was just that we were born from different mothers.

My heart was racing so fast as we neared the school entrance. I could imagine all the humiliation and laughter from other people. Honestly speaking, if people in my place decided to be mean, they did it like professionals with PHDs or something, and that is what I dreaded.
Well in the beggining, everyone was as I expected, rather mean, speaking behind my back as I walked past to my classroom. Thank God Crystal was by my side, I don´t know what I would have done without her.

I saw some people crowded at the hanging out area near my classroom so I went over to see what was going on. Everyone turned as I approached and they were weirdly looking at me.
"Look what the cat dragged in today!
They all started laughing,
"So you decided to show up or were you forced to come back? What were you thinking anyway?" I was both humiliated and not in the mood, but they wouldn´t leave me alone so I headed into the classroom without saying a word.

The English teacher had left the class in the middle of the lesson because the principle had called her. Then Chris, Dina´s boyfriend and the boy in the class who I had a crush on came to my desk, "So tell us about your adventure. how was it in L.A? Did you get to see your gay dreamy boyfriend ,the one and only Justin Bieber!" he said sacarstically and people in the class bursted out laughing.

Dina, the "group leader" had an arrogant look on her face as she looked at me, I was sitting next to her.
"You! Meet Justin Bieber! please! I am a bigger belieber than you are and ofcourse more richer." she pushed her hair back as she waited for the whole class to give a reaction, she was a drama queen in short words.
"It would take you years before you ever met him except in your dreams." she laughed and the others in the class did too.
My life was over. School was one of the places I loved but I guess my nightmare had just started.

"Leave me alone!"
"Sure." She pushed my books to the floor.
"I don´t want trouble Dina. Just let me be."
"Oh. I want to start trouble."

Crystal, came to my defence, "You heard the girl. Just leave her alone! What do you want from her anyway!"
"Hey, was anyone talking to you?!" Chris just shouted at Crystal, pissed off, the whole class was silent, she didn´t say anything. "then shut the hell up!"
She got up, "or what are you going to do?! huh!" she came at him.
he pushed her aside towards some empty desks that were at the back of the class and he came towards me and grabbed my chair. "You want to know what am going to do huh!"

I had no idea what he was going to do so I just prayed silently for him to disappear.
"I´m going to do this!", I closed my eyes as he pushed my chair behind leaving me flying to the floor, I felt a rush of pain from my back, it hurt so bad and I didn´t even have the strength to pull myself up and no sound could come out of my mouth even when I tried to speak.

"What was that for?" I whisphered almost in tears, I don´t even know why I liked him anyway.
"That´s where you belong. On the floor and stay there or run away like you did before!" Dina hissed from her seat.

At that moment, I thought about doing it, but instantly remembered what happened the last time. I was never going to do that to my family ever again. Crystal was the only one who bothered to help me up and I was sitting next to her with my head on the desk, trying to push the tears from my eyes. I should have neve come back to this school. I´m going to stay home. I would rather be home-schooled if this is what is going to happen everyday.

I stood up just stormed out of the class and headed for home.
"Hey, hold up......"

(chapter 14) BACK HOME!!

I held the paddent by the window and looked at it for some time. It was Justin´s personal favourite  chain, the one that he had taken so pics with. I couldn´t feel more honoured. Those couple of days have been a thrill, I thought to myself, you never get such chances in life, they are those called "one in a million". 

I don´t remember how long I had slept but what woke me up was my dad´s voice saying:
"We are home people."
I strained to open my eyes, that was a good five hours sleep.
With my eyes wide awake, I stepped out of the car, and a bunch of reporters rushed to where I was. I couldn´t even move. The place was so loud I couldn´t hear what they were saying, I felt like my head was going to explode.
That God my dad came to my rescue,
"We would just love some personal family time please. We are just happy she is back home safe and sound. So if you please excuse us."
We walked past the cameras really fast, some of the town people, some who I recognised, some not so well were at my house. News does spread fast in small communities. Come on, I had made national headlines.

I got in the house and headed straight to my room. It was that sign of relief and happiness at the same time. I was back in my zone, the one place I felt safe to be myself.
I was admiring my room like I had been away for five years when I heard someone call out my name and then tap me on my shoulder so I turned back.
"I heard you just got home, can´t believe you are back, I missed you so much, I thought you left me and never coming back."

Tears clouded up my eyes,I reached out and grabbed Crystal, my one and only best friend.
"I would never leave you. I missed you more than you could imagine. It was rather lonely without you and your craziness."
"Why didn´t you tell me anything?"
"I knew you would get upset and what I did was a one minute decision. It was really late and I couldn´t come by your house at that time of night."
"I was mad at the beggining, like why would you run away and leave me all alone."
"Am sorry, that isn´t going to happen again."

We gave each other another long hug.
"It was one week but I missed you even more with the thought of you running away."
I looked at her as she wiped the tears from her face.
"I look retarded huh!" She asked jokingly.
"Not at all, maybe like a drama queen."
We kinda smiled at that. She continued,
"Anyway, where were you at? Were you sleeping on the streets or something? What really happened."
"If I tell you the truth, I bet you wouldn´t believe me."
"Try me."
I looked scornefully at her and then I laid on my bed.

"If I tell you I met the one and only Justin Drew Bieber and I spent the whole week with him, would you believe me?"
"Would I believe you? Mmh.....let´s see......of course not. Like seriously, you are going crazy, just because you were in L.A. you think I´ll believe that? Come on, the truth."
"Am telling you the truth, but it doesn´t help to argue, all I know is that I met Justin."
"Okey, let´s say I believe you, then could you give me proof, show me pics of you and him. I mean, you have been "hanging" out together for a week or something, you should have taken pics or maybe a video or something."

"I don´t have any pics or video. My phone...."
"I thought so too."
"You can ask Sly if you want, she was there!"
"No thanks. Maybe another time, she is too in
"Let´s stop talking about this because you won´t believe the story I will tell you anyway."
"Please do, tell me. I promise I´ll listen."
"Okey."
So I told her everything that happened, from when I got into the bus to when I arrived in L.A, and the walk which led to me meeting Justin, then got lost and dropped my phone to being in the Beauty and A Beat music video and all that until when my parents came to pick me up.
She kept laughing through out the story but I continued anyway.

"I knew you would never believe me but it doesn´t matter."
"Am sorry but that just sounds like a story you made up, and it´s pretty convincing. You are good."
"Whatever, let´s change the subject."
"What do you wanna talk about?"
"I donno, how have you been? School and stuff, what did I miss?"
"Well, nothing much, just some lame stuff but you were like the topic of the week. So when are you planning to back to school?"

"I don´t know, I odn´t think I even want to. Am so scared of going back. I don´t think I can face those people."
She held my hand then turned to look at me.
"I´m here for you nomatter what. I got your back there with you, we can walk together to school everyday if you want and come back. I´ll stick to you like glue until you feel okey again."
"Thank you. You are the best in the world. I love you."
I moved close to her and layed on her shoulder. She rested her head on mine.
"I love you too."


"By the way, how do you know I was in L.A?"
"Aaaah...it was the breaking news around nine in the morning. Daaaaaah........I saw you. My dad was watching TV when you came on"
"Well that was fast. I get the chance to be on TV and it´s because I ran away!"
"Don´t beat yourself about it, you came back safe, that´s what matters."


"What is the time anyway?"
"About six."
"Damn, I have to go before my mom bursts off my phone with calls. You know I´m just a phone call away right!"
"Yeah I know."
"If you are coming to school tomorrow, then I got something special for you."

"Something special for me?"
"Don´t give me that look, am not going to tell you what it is until you are in school."
"Come on, pretty please."
"Nope, nope, no. But you are going to love it. I had it made just for you."

And with that, she was gone. I lay on my bed thinking, what would did she have planned to give me tomorrow? Tommorrow isn´t a special day. Mmh...I could expect anything from Crystal, she is one of those random people.