Chapter 25
Recap:
I opened the curtains and was surprised to see it was already dark out. How long had I been sleeping? I wiped the tears from my face and glared at the bottle of sleeping pills beside my bed. Weren't they supposed to give you a dreamless sleep?
That might have been a dream, but Justin was still going on that tv show if I didn't do something about it.
Should I stop him? Or should I forget about it? After all, who wants to date a guy who has to pretend to love another girl?...
**The next day**
I woke up and saw the sun shining through the curtains, and smiled to myself. Maybe today would actually be okay after the terrible wreck I was yesterday.
I jumped out of bed and put on a graphic tee and skinny jeans, then washed my face, not bothering with makeup or straightening my long brown hair. Then I went downstairs and had a yogurt for breakfast. Nice and healthy. Then I went down to the gym to do some yoga for an hour.
After I was done I checked my phone and there was one new message from Justin.
"Hey, why didn't you answer my Skype call last night? You fall asleep? Because I really wanted to talk about this. You didn't even give me time to explain."
I decided to be mature about this, so I texted him back.
"Okay, explain. And I didn't answer your Skype call because I was too busy crying."
Ten minutes later he replied
"Tina you didn't need to cry. It wasn't even my idea and I didn't say if I was going to do it or not yet! You didn't even give me a chance."
"Well by the sound of your voice I could tell you sounded guilty, so I assumed that you were going to go through with it. So are you trying to tell me that you aren't going to then?"
"Well... my publicist thinks it would be for the best and they are putting me on a lot of pressure..."
"Oh my god you are actually going to do it?"
"Well what choice do I have Tina? You have no idea what I'm going through right now, it's not like I WANT to hurt you."
"What YOU'RE going through right now? Do you have any idea how it feels to have your boyfriend tell you he loves you, then leave you for months doing god knows what with god knows who and then has to pretend to love another girl just for his own selfish reasons?"
"Selfish reasons? I'm not doing this for myself Tina, you know that."
"Who are you doing it for then?"
"The fans."
"How would the fans benefit from this?"
"Well Selena is the famous Disney star and... well I don't know Tina, I guess they just would want me to date Selena more!"
"Then why don't you just DATE her then? Break up with me and go have your little disney star fairy tale relationship with Selena since "that's what the FANS want." Who CARES about what your girlfriend wants right?"
"Tina why would you say that? I don't even like Selena in that way!"
"Justin why can't you just not go through with it? I might even tolerate it if you just pretended to break up with me, but why does Selena have to be involved?"
"Well I don't think you understand the pressure I'm under right now Tina. Everything I do is critisized!"
"Whatever Justin. So that's it then? You're going to go through with this? I hope you realize that I can't have a relationship with a guy who is pretending to be with another girl. You might think it's as easy as 'Oh, I'm dating Selena now', but I bet that next they will be asking you to be seen with her in public, kissing her, holding hands, and I'm not sure if I could deal with that."
