One Less Lonely Girl

No Love, No Mercy

"You're so talented." "You think so?" "I know so. The way you put you life into words like that." She looked up at me with soft eyes.

"How-how did you know that was about me?" "I do the same thing, Natalie. It's completely normal." She looked back down at her lap.

"I understand your hurt. Please know I'm here for you. I want you to open up to me." A tear ran down the side of her face.

"Do you honestly want to know?" I nodded my head. "Well... My mom and dad passed in a car accident. That was many, many years ago. Me and my brother went to live at my aunts.

I hated her. She hated me. I finally was able to move into my friends. I got a boyfriend by the time I was twelve. I was with him till last year. He uhm, he hit me." Her tears ran like a river.

I placed a hand on her back. "I hide from life, Aubrey. I'm so scared to let people in. I haven't seen my brother in years. I doubt he even knows about me." She hid her face in her palms.

I was stunned. It's seriously like this girl had my same history. Just a different story. "It's going to get better..." "How do you know that?" "Cause..."

That's when I opened up. She trusted me. I had to trust her. The funny thing about it is, is I was okay with it. I wasn't sketchy at all about it.

After my story, Natalie's eyes were opened wide. "So Justin really is my lifesaver. I was just as lost as you are. Whether it's sometime soon or not, your's is soon to come. You will see your brother again.

Don't be scared to face this world because of what that asshole did to you. Don't fear him. He's weaker than you are." The very emotional girl wrapped her arms around my neck. I returned the gesture.

"It's going to be okay, I promise." Natalie pulled away and wiped away her tears. "Let's go get some breakfast." I patted her knee.

We decided on a pancake house. My treat. Right after we placed out order, I received a text. Justin: "Have a great day beautiful. Tonight's for you." I must've been smiling because Natalie asked me if it was him.

"Y'all are doing good I assume?" I ignored her question as I texted him back. "We're oh-okay. I'm just ready for him to be back." "Is it cool dating Justin Bieber?"

"Well, it's bittersweet. I don't get a lot of time with him. There's a lot of fake friends. So much hate, it's unbearable. But it's okay. I want to be with Justin." "It's gotta be hard, huh?" "Well, it sure as hell ain't easy."

I exhaled deeply and sunk into the seat. "Enough of the sad talk! I wanna talk to you about something." I folded my hands on top of the table. "Yeah?" She looked eager.

"I would love to do a song with you. Both of us sit down and write it together. Maybe even ing it together." Joy filled the girl's face. She was glowing and grinning ear to ear. "I would LOVE that!"

"Great. I was just really thinking. We could make our stories match." "When do we start?" "As soon as possible. When Justin gets back, I'm gonna want to spend a lot of time with him. There's only five days.

Yes I know we wont be finished, but we'll have to starting point." Natalie smiled as the plates of food was put down in front of us.

Later that night, Natalie and I sat up in my hotel coming up with ideas. She is really easy to talk to. She understood where I came from. Not once did she judge me.

"So we want it fast beat right?" "Yeah, yeah!" "I was thinking like for the beginning, just piano. Us harmonizing together." I suggested. "I like that."

"Maybe we can do something about finding that person. Finding you a Justin." Natalie smiled with the side of her mouth. "Cool. I say we get down the chorus tonight, so we can work on other parts."

We sat in silence. I could tell she had thoughts, she was just nervous to share them. "Spit it out!" Natalie sighed and sat up straight, "okay so you know how Justin pulled you on stage that night?" I nodded.

"We could write about that. You know like 'I need to find myself'. Blah. Kind of include how you tried to walk out." A lightbulb went off and Natalie started tapping her pencil. I hummed to the rhythm.

"At the rock show." I mumbled. "Everyone waiting for you to stand again." She added. "And the beat goes on and on." After that, we were stumped.

"Uhm, okay. What were you feeling?" "No love and no mercy." I giggled. I thought back to standing on the stage. The booing, the blank faces, and my boyfriend not letting me run off. "Okay. There you go, 'No love is felt, no mercy is shown.'"

"You're really good!" I complimented. "Thank you! Is that all you want?" I read back over our notes.

"At the rock show.

Everyone waiting for you to stand again.

And the beat goes on and on.

No love is felt.

No mercy is shown."

"No... Something's missing." "Yeah I feel you." More silence over came us. My phone interrupted.

"Hey baby!" "Hey. What's up?." "Hanging out with a friend." "Oh that's good! Sorry to disturb you guys, I just need to ask you something."

"Yeah?" "I was talking to Scooter. We were wondering if you were wanting to do an album." "Oh... Wow. That makes me nervous...." "Why? You're perfect!" "I haven't al-"

"Baby, I gotta go. That's the countdown! Think about it." "Okay! Good luck!" "Thank you!" The call ended.

I smiled as I put down my phone.

"What was that about?" "They want me to do an album.." "That's awesome! Why are you scared?" I rubbed my legs.

"I wasn't always. I just- WAIT! That's it!" I slammed my hands on the ground. Natalie jumped.

"What?!" She held her hands over her racing heart. "The song!" I grabbed my pencil, "I just need to find what I once knew!"

"I love it." "Great. That's it then." We both stood up and walked to the door.

"Make sure to work on it when you get the chance. I'll get with you in the next few days." She nodded her head and walked out into the dark parking lot.

Before I closed my eyes, I went on twitter like I do every night. Justin hasn't been on, but my TL was going insane.

"What's going on?" "Are you okay?" "Did you and Justin break up?" I tried calling Justin but there was no answer. I decided to rely on twitter.

"Okay, what's going on? I'm okay?" It wasn't long before everyone attacked my mentions. People tweeted me the link to another twitter account.

"Great to spend time with you, @justinbieber let's do it again soon." -@selenagomez