Crash ~Justin Bieber~

Chapter 73 ~ Cages

They always amaze me; the birds that don't need to be kept.

They always make me wonder why.

Their wings are not clipped and their cage doors remain open, yet they stand on their perches and they ignore the skies of blue.

They are happy.

They are content.

They have no desire to fly away.

The open doors mean nothing to them. They are offered freedom, but they refuse it.

They know what's out there, but they want to stay.

Nothing can tempt them away.

Caged birds are so much different.

Caged birds fight and they shriek. They rattle the cages that have forever been locked around them. They cry out for the freedom that they have never known. They miss the sky. They miss flying on open unclipped wings.

Caged birds crave escape. Caged birds will fight relentlessly until they are free.

It never used to make sense.

But now I understand.

Freedom is only alluring to the captured.

~*~

(Rachel's POV)

"Justin you should go on this show!"

"No, I'd kill someone"

"It would be so funny!"

We were watching the show H8R with Ben and Samantha. It was a new show where celebrities had to confront their biggest haters and try to change their strongly formed opinions about them. Justin had plenty of haters and he also had plenty of attitude. He was the perfect candidate.

"Do you know what I would do?" Justin asked Ben, "Do you know how I would change their mind?"

"How?"

"I would buy their house, their car, their jobs, and anything else that mattered to them, and before I threw it all away, I'd ask them one more time if they hated me"

"That's hilarious" Ben laughed.

"No" I said, "That's blackmail!"

"And blackmail works"

"Only for you Justin"

Not everyone had the means or power to blackmail someone to the level that Justin did.

"What about you Rache?" Samantha asked, "What would you do? You have haters now too"

"No I don't"

"Justin's fans hate you"

"Oh - well technically that makes them his haters"

"No," Justin corrected me, "That makes them our haters"

"I guess. But I still wouldn't be mean to them"

"What would you do then?"

"I don't know - talk to them. Win them over with my charm"

Ben looked at Justin, "She hasn't met many of your fans, has she?"

"Nope" he answered.

Justin tried to keep me shielded from his world of fans. He said that his fans put added pressure on his relationship with Selena, and that he didn't want that to happen with us.

"Justin, have you met Blake?"

"Who?"

"Blake" Samantha repeated herself, "She's one of the pageant girls. She really hates you"