Too Dumb to Figure Out I'm a Girl, Huh, JB? (Original Version)

Too Dumb to Figure Out I'm a Girl, Huh, JB? Ellen

Justin's POV

I was on Ellen, doing an interview about my album, You Are My All. In case you couldn't tell, it's all songs about AJ.

Ellen also asked about my "break-up" with Selena. We had finally convinced her manager and her agent that this was just hurting the both of us. Besides, Selena and Nick Jonas were a thing again.

"So, Justin, are you and Selena still close friends?" Ellen asked. I smiled.

"Oh, yeah, we're still close. It was a mutual thing, we just... both moved on," I informed her. She smiled back at me.

"Do you approve of her dating Nick Jonas?" Ellen asked another question. This was way too easy.

"Yeah, Nick's a great guy, and he's good to her, which is all a friend can ask for," I replied as the screen showed pictures of me with the two of them at some movie premiere.

"Speaking of approving, what do you, as AJ's best friend, say about her engagement to Taylor Lautner?" NOW she asks the hard question? I heard the almost inconceivable sounds of a stage being set behind me. I thought about it, then decided to tell the truth.

"Honestly, Ellen? I love AJ with all of my heart, and I wish I was in Taylor's place..." I was cut off by the sound of a dropping microphone. I turned to see what was going on, and who I saw made my eyes bug out. "AJ?"

AJ's POV

I ran.

I couldn't stay there and listen to this.

He loves me? After all this time, he loves me? I couldn't control the giddiness that came with that statement. Then the guilt came crashing down.

What about Taylor? My mind was asking. My heart was in too much bliss to even care. I stopped running when I reached a paparazzi-clear sidewalk in what looked like a small suburban town. I sat down on the curb and looked at myself in a puddle left from the previous night's rain. Suddenly, I felt him behind me.

"How long?" I asked, playing aimlessly with my hands. He shrugged.

"Since the beginning really, it just took me time to realize," he murmured. He sat down next to me, not touching me, just there. "Everytime I see you, it's like the sky has lit up with fireworks; and I'm holdin' myself together, prayin' the fall won't hurt." He quoted one of his new songs, "Fireworks". "You know, I wrote that entire album based on my feelings for you," He said honestly. I mock glared at him, considering one of his songs was called "Momma's Boy". He held his hands up in surrender, a grin on his face. "Okay, okay... Almost all." I giggled at him.

He really had that effect on me. I loved him. But didn't I love Taylor? I mean, who did I love more? Did I love one more than the other?

"I won't make you choose, AJ," he told me, snapping me back to the present. I raised an eyebrow. "If you don't want me, I'll pretend this never happened and we can just be really good friends." I thought about it. And I THOUGHT about it.

"I'm going to sleep on it," I said, hugging him. He drove me home, and we walked inside, hand in hand, close as we had ever been.

Taylor opened the front door before George even heard us coming.

"AJ, what are you doing with him?" he asked with a straight face. I could see the jealousy in his eyes. I gave him a questioning look. Justin met his eyes and headed for the stairs, saying a quiet goodbye.

"I was with my best friend, what's wrong with that?" I asked him. His face started to relax even more.

"I'm just, really jealous, okay? I've never really had to share someone I love with someone else, it's always been just me..." he said, looking at me pleadingly. I could tell he was telling the truth. He was like the opposite of Lexxi. He always needed to protect someone, she always needed to be protected...