Justin & Jazzy in the photo ♥ His love for her is everything ♥
Justin's POV:
"Because my boyfriend passed away a few years ago too."
My heart drops to my stomach as my eyes widen. My heart starts to clench at the subject of Eleanor ever losing someone, or ever experiencing heart break. I wish she'd never had to suffer such a thing since I'd experienced it first hand.
"W-What?" I furrow my eyebrows.
Then it comes to me.
Flashback:
Anyway," Maliah rolls her eyes. "We're serious, Bieber. Fuck with her feelings and I won't hesitate to throw you off of your own building after I kick the fuck out of you. She's my best friend and I know her better then she knows herself. She deserves to be happy after what you put her through and her past. She hasn't had the best luck with men so don't fuck up."
"Last boyfriend she had really impacted on her." Logan frowns.
"What happened?" I ask as I suddenly want to hear what they want to say.
"He die-"
"Logan!" Blake hisses, pinching him and then earning a slap from Logan for Blake pinching him. "Ouch, you little fuck!"
"Don't touch me!"
I zoned them out as I stood there in shock. Amelia's death suddenly appeared in my head. Maliah turned away from the couple and stares at me sympathetically.
She walks up to me and pulls me into a hug. "You both have a lot of baggage from your past that you two need to discuss. Don't hide anything from her, be honest with her. Be honest with each other. Let her in, Justin."
"I think that's the first time you called me Justin." I smile a small toothless smile.
She chuckles softly and looks back up at me. "Go make my girls day better... she's a little stressed."
I frown at the thought of her being distressed and nod. I walk away from her friends and make my way to her office, ignoring the looks I'm copping from her thirsty co-workers.
Eleanor lost her boyfriend like I loss my fiancé? Would she tell me about it if I asked her?
Would you tell her about Amelia if she asked you?
No!
Exactly.
It's too soon for her to know of my beautiful Amelia. But I don't know how and when I'll tell her about Amelia, just not yet. I'm no ready to open up an old wound.
Present.
I didn't know if I had heard Logan right since Blake cut him off but now I know what I heard was right. She really did lose her boyfriend.
"I lost him a few years ago," her voice begins to quiver.
We stand up and I help her up by holding her hands for her to keep her balance.
"How?" I whisper, gulping down the lump in my throat.
Her eyes meet mine and I pay close attention to them. I see her glossy eyes slowly fill with water and then eventually the barrier of her eye wasn't strong enough to keep the water in the dam of her eye and eventually the water towered over the barrier holding her tears at bay.
"C-Cancer," she whispers, sounding like she was holding in a sob.
I go closer to her and cup her face. "You told me to let my guard down and now I think you should take your own advice."
"I'm not holding my guard up, I'm fine," she lies.
"You don't have to pretend with me," I repeat her words. "You can be yourself with me."
"Don't quote me," she sniffles, her nose red due to the cold of the Canadian air.
"Then don't put up a front with me."
I grimace. "I wanna be here for you. I wanna be the one you confine in, I wanna be the wanna you come to talk to when you need comfort and need someone to carry you when you feel like your legs aren't strong enough. I'm opening up to you, this is me trying for you. I wanna be here for you so... now it's your turn to let me in, baby."
"It's not about me today," she whispers.
"Lately, in my world, it's always about you." I smile adoringly at her. "Even when you don't want it to be, it will be for me. And I don't mind at all."
"I would kiss you but I find it disrespectful since we're still in front of her grave," she says softly.
I sigh and kiss her forehead, "I honestly don't get how you can be so perfect."
She smiles and looks at Amelia's grave. "Do you want me to leave so you can pay your respects alone?"
"If you don't mind." I smile a closed-mouth smile.
"Not at all." She smiles. "Give me your keys. Arthur drove me here."
I give her the keys to the Ferrari I rented for my stay here and with that she was off.
I bend down and fix the flowers on her grave.
"I know you've been watching over me and I'm positive that you know of all my thoughts, but here's a new one, my love," I sigh heavily and look over to where Eleanor had just exited the cemetery, "after a few years... I think I'm ready to finally move on and let someone fully into every aspect of my life. I think I've found that person. You just met her, Mel. I think I'm ready to let her in, to consider the possibility of giving her my all. I know that you approve of her... You heard all of the things she just said about you, right? She's perfect, Mel. She reminds me of you and I think that's what I love because it doesn't make me afraid that I'll forget you. I know being with her will make me keep you in my heart forever and think of you every now and again. But now I'm done mourning which I know has been hurting you to see... I'm ready to move forward, Amelia. To move forward with her."
By the time I was done with that confession, my heart felt a little less heavier and my shoulders felt like the weight that I'd been carrying for the past couple of years had been lifted.
"J-Justin?" I hear a voice stutter from behind me.
I turn around and my heart actually clenches at the sight of her standing there after so many years. I hadn't seen her since that day.
Last time we were together I was crying in her arms as I got the news. The news that ripped my heart from my chest and stomped on it till there was nothing left.
"K-Krystal?" I ask slowly as I stand to my full height and observe her.
"The one and only," she whispers. "You haven't changed a bit."
"I wish I could say the same about you." I look her up and down to see that she looks almost unrecognisable.
Her blonde hair was now brown with blonde at the bottom which you could tell was an ombré look. Her pale white skin is now a nice olive colour which is odd considering she lives in Toronto. The fairly fit body she used to have had changed and now she was chubbier in her stomach area. It's not like a fat chubby, her stomach is just very round now. Not that I was judging or anything.
