Digital Strings Attached

Chapter 14

Georgia was introduced to Johnny, the band's manager, a minute after they walked inside the event, followed by Trace, Justin's best friend. She was introduced to other people too, big people in the industry that Justin is in.

"Are you keeping track?" Justin jested with a grin, holding her hand as he led her back to their table. 

"Honestly? No. I doubt if I can remember them all." she replied. All of their friends were drinking and dancing as they made their way back to them. Some celebrities, like Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Timbaland even joined them. 

She noticed how close Justin and Britney were, it was as if there was something special too, in the way she looked at him. "One of the things you'd have to learn to deal with. He's kind of a girl-magnet."  She turned to see Trace easing his way towards her in a pool of people dancing, with a reassuring smile plastered on his face. 

"Hi, Trace! yeah, I sure have a lot of rivals." She joked. "That diva right there appears to be a tight competition." she gestured at Britney who was still talking to the group.

"Well, Britney's kinda nice. You don't have to worry about her, I guess? Actually, no woman can quite compete with you tonight. You see? Justin is busy making rounds, that's for business purposes but, he got his eyes on you." he pointed at Justin who was smiling at them, looking as if he would want to blow up the conversation he was having any time. "He introduced you to a lot of people here as his girlfriend, and that is such big of a deal." 

"Thanks for the pep talk." she laughed and glanced at Justin who gave her a wink in an instant. 

"Well, I am not the best friend for nothing." He winked and upped his glass of whisky for a toast,  and so did Georgia with her Margarita. Trace went off and mingled with Wade and the other guys.

Trying hard not to be jealous, she tried to join them and befriended Britney which, the latter openly gave to her. Britney was so nice to all three of them, that it made her feel guilty for even being jealous of her. 

The DJ spoke amidst the blaring of loud music from humongous speakers surrounding the place, "Everyone, give it up for Johnny!"  as their manager Johnny, walked up the stage. 

He waved his hand and vowed to the crowd, "Thank you, friends from the industries for coming as we celebrate the success of my boys, NSYNC's NSA TOUR NEW YORK LEG. Our boys are grateful to be out partying after years of pure hard work. Let's give it up for NSYNC!" he shouted and gestured for the boys to come up the stage with him.

The boys did a funny dance while walking up the stage and vowed. "Thank you, my hometown, New York!" shouted Joey through the crowd, followed by the other boys expressing their gratitude to their friends in the industry for celebrating with them. 

"Let's party 'till we drop!" Justin yelled as they made their exit from the stage. 

Justin immediately went to her side and kissed her on her cheeks. "I wanna leave and just stay at the hotel with you." he whispered in her ear and then stared at her with his sapphire blue eyes, "Do you still want to stay?" he asked. 

Wrapping his arms around his neck, Georgia said, "I'd love to have you for myself, too." kissing him on his chin, she added, "But this is your party. I don't think it'll look good to leave this early?" 

Justin shrugged. "Right, but we'll still leave early, just not this early," he uttered while looking at his TAG Heuer wristwatch that says 2355H.

Georgia nodded. "Let's go find our friends."  tagging Justin along with her as they made their way through the crowd. 

To her astonishment, Justin pulled her back to his arms and whispered, "What have you done to me? You make me do things I don't do before." his eyes searched and eventually met Georgia's, in a spur of the moment, their lips met, too. At midnight.