(A/N: The picture is a selfie that Ariana took with her mom Joan, and she posted on Instagram when she came home from the interview.) 💜
Chapter 12 - That strange, empty feeling
Ariana's POV:
"Does the spaghetti taste bad?" I heard my Mom ask me.
I realised that I was just playing with the food with my fork while staring at my phone which was laying next to my plate.
"Hmm?" I wondered, I glanced at Mom.
"Look, Ariana, staring at your phone wont make Justin reply faster." she told me.
I wasn't much hungry. Nor thirsty. I just didn't want to do anything until Justin send me a text. I know it sounds crazy, but I don't want to go through what I have been through five years ago.
"Ariana..."
I snapped out of it. "Yes? I'm sorry."
I sat up a little bit straighter and continued eating my spaghetti.
"You gotta understand that he is on an airplane right now, Ari. He probably isn't allowed to text while the plane is flying, but he will when he arrives at the hotel." Mom said.
"You're right." I replied. She is. But I know for sure that I wont sleep tonight before he texts me.
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Justin's POV:
"WE SAW THAT, WE DID, WE SAW YOU TWO KISSING, HOLY MEATBALLS."
That was Alfredo freaking out right after Ariana and I said goodbye.
I laughed. I'm not pretty sure of how I am going to explain this. I mean, all of my fans think that Ariana is just my best friend, nothing less nor nothing more.
As I met Scooter, Mom, Ry, Kenny, Dan, Allison, Alfredo and some more people from the crew at the gate where we have to check in to get on my private jet, they were all smirking. For real.
I just walked alone to the plane to avoid the most of the questions, but once I reached the plane and got inside, they were all too damn curious about what happened there.
"Sooo, Ariana's your girlfriend?" Ry smirked as he sat down on the chair next to mine. I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and switched it on airplane mode.
"Hey, don't ignore me Biebs." He asked again.
I putted my phone away and sighed. "No were not a couple, and yes we kissed. Look, it was nothing - it was just a kiss."
And with that, everyone else heard what I said too.
"It took longer than 5 seconds, that's not just a 'it didn't mean anything' kiss, dumbass." Alfredo told me.
I shrugged. "I don't care what you guys think. Ariana and I both know that it meant nothing."
"You two would be cute though." Allison winked at me. I rolled my eyes.
"Okay you guys, I'm kind of tired and I want to sleep. Goodnight."
As they all sat down on their chairs, I heard them laugh.
I got up and looked at everyone. "I am going to sleep so leave me alone."
I was pretty pissed.
"So goodnight." I told everyone. They just ignored me and made theirselves comfortable.
"Dude," Alfredo chuckled "it's 8pm."
"I SAID GOODNIGHT." I yelled. Everyone laughed.
I opened my bag and took my Beats headphones out. I plugged them into my phone and putted the headphones on my head. I rested my head against the window, tapped 'shuffle' in my music library and closed my eyes.
But there was one thing on my mind. Ariana. And how I am supposed to lie to my friends and family for the next months because the kiss did mean a lot to me. It just sucks that Ariana is cool with us being separated for a few months because we would fall in love, because I'm not. But if that's her choice, I respect that.
And I fell asleep.
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Ariana's POV:
I checked my phone again.
01:34am
And still no text.
I sighed and placed my phone on my nightstand. I went to the bathroom and switched the lights on. I took all my clothes off and threw them on the ground because they were dirty anyways. I took my pajama's off the little hanger where they were hanging on. I putted them off and also washed the make - up off my face.
And while I was drying my face with my towel, I heard the 'beep beep' sound of my phone. I dropped the towel on the floor and almost jumped on my bed.
I grabbed my phone and unlocked it. Sadly, it wasn't Justin who texted me but Zendaya, a good friend of mine. She added me to this new group chat on iMessage called 'Tuesday Date'.
• Zendayaaa:
Yooo babes,
Because we finished high school n stuff, and because it's summer, we haven't done anything with the squad for a while. So I was thinkin maybe we could go out to drink a milkshake and hang out together??? I missed y'all like hell and pls tell me if you're available or nah. Luv, Zendaya 💜
I thought about it for a while, and decided that I should go because I had misses my besties too, but also because otherwise I'll be doing nothing tomorrow and just spend my time missing Justin.
• Ari:
I'm in :)
I placed my phone back on my nightstand and switched the bathroomlights off. I also turned the main light off in my room but left the little Christmaslights that I have in my room off so it would be a little bit more cosy.
I felt kind of tired, though. I'm normally the kind of person who stays up all night watching TV shows and movies, but I really didn't feel like doing that. I just waited all night.
I layed down on my bed and covered myself in my cosy blanket. I thought about what I was going to wear tomorrow as I felt my eyelids getting heavier and heavier...
"OOOOH WOOOH
OOOOOOOH WOOOOH IT'S JB
MY FRIENDS SAY I'M A FOOL TO THINK THA-"
I almost jumped out of bed and grabbed my phone from my nightstand. I was receiving a Facetime call from Justin and the empty feeling was gone immediatly.
I quickly tapped 'accept' and fixed my hair a little bit. I waited until it connected and smiled when I saw Justin's cute face on my screen.
"Hey there" he smiled.
"Hi." I smiled back. I saw Justin sitting down on a chair somewhere outside because I could see a small piece of his hotelroom behind him through a glass door.
"Why are you outside?" I asked him.
"I'm sitting on the balcony of my hotelroom, it's pretty hot out here. It's almost 11pm."
"Ooh, it's almost 2am in here. And I'm just in my bedroom."
"What were you doing?"
"Oh," I thought "just chilling."
I'm not going to tell Justin that I have been nervous and waiting for his text or phonecall all night.
"Oh, cool. Wanna see my room?" he asked me. I nodded.
I saw him getting up and opening the glass door. The room was huge. There was a small lounge and also a huge bathroom and walk-in closet. Justin's keyboard was there too, and his guitar also.
"Where is the rest of the crew?" I asked him.
"They are in their rooms too, they first invited me to Scooter's hotelroom so we could all eat roomservice together and watch a movie but I'm mad at them so I'm here all alone, talking to you." he explained.
"Why are you mad at them?"
"They were being annoying and making a fuss out of our kiss." he said.
"Oh right, that. But look, if you want to go to them I could just say goodnight and -"
"No. There's nothing else that I'd like to do more right now than talk to you." he smiled. I internally 'awed'.
"So what'cha doing tomorrow?" I asked him.
"Heading to the studio with Dan, Scooter and Ryan to record Take You and Boyfriend. There's still some editing to do too but it'll be great. I'm probably staying in the studio all night tomorrownight so I probably wont be able to call you. But you can text me."
"Yeah, that's cool."
"I'll try to do my best and reply as fast as I can." he winked. I chuckled.
"So what are you doing tomorrow?" he asked me.
"I'm going to hang out with some friends of mine. Were going to have a milkshake and just have some fun."
"Sounds fun."
We just kept on talking until we both felt pretty tired. During our conversation, Justin had already moved to his bed and took his shirt off, which I didn't mind though.
"You're falling asleep." Justin noticed. I opened my eyes again and chuckled.
"Yeah, I'm sorry."
"No no, it's okay. I'm tired too. I'm going to sleep." he smiled adorably. I sat up straight and saw Justin yawning.
"Me too, I'll text you when I woke up. Just text me a lot and call me whenever you can, okay?"
"I'll do my very best. Bye Ari." he said, waving at me.
"Bye Justin." I giggled.
"Love you." he said quickly.
"L-Love you too." I smiled.
I tapped 'stop' and noticed that it was already 4am. We Facetimed for about two hours, holy shit.
I went to the 'clock-app' and set my alarm at 10am because otherwise I'd sleep till noon.
I saw that I had a lots of unread messages in our 'Tuesday Date'. Most of the messages said 'I'm in too' and the last one was from Zendaya.
•Zendaya:
Ooh amazing. Let's meet up at Mark's Milkshakes (where they have da best milkshakes ever btw) around 2 o'clock? I'll see y'all there 💜 Zendaya
•Ari
See ya there 💜
Half-sleeping, I placed my phone on my nightstand and switched my lights off. I felt happy. And Justin's last words kept repeating themselves in my head.
"Love you."
Well, I really love him too.
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