Trading Places (JB X AG)

Chapter 32

Jessica's POV

Some time has passed, I did a whole ton of shows on tour & it is now December 1st which is the first Jingle Ball show! I'm so excited to perform songs from my Christmas EP "Christmas Kisses". I have a couple shows of tour left that are in between Jingle Ball shows.

I love performing almost every night but I'm honestly so excited to be done. Just a couple more weeks. My last show will be on the 22nd right before Christmas, then I'll be performing on New Year's Eve!!

I'm currently backstage getting ready to perform. I'm actually wearing my hair fully down today, it's quite shocking haha.

One of the producers of the show came into my room and dropped off a red & white rose bouquet. I took out the little card and read it.

"Happy first Jingle Ball show! xo, Justin"

Why? Why did he send me flowers? Again!?

I say again because he sent me flowers almost every day on tour. My tour bus is filled with flowers from him. This is his way of "getting me back", but it's not working.

I toss the little card to the side & get up from my seat to go on stage.

"Good luck out there! You're an amazing performer!" Niall Horan says to me as we pass each other in the hallway.

"Thank you!" I say in shock. Holy shit, Niall from One Direction talked to me?! He knows who I am?! Oh my god. I can't believe that happened.

By the end of the night, I have met all the performers. I have never been so starstruck in my life. Liam, Taylor, Demi, Ed...ugh tonight was amazing, except for one thing.

Justin showed up. He was at the show. He got Ed to let him be on his "crew" so he had a backstage pass.

Obviously he wouldn't leave me alone. Our conversation went something like this..

"What are you doing here, Justin?" I ask in a sassy tone.

"I came to see the show." He says.

"Mm okay."

"What? I did."

"No, you just came to see me. I know you. How'd you get back here anyways?"

"Ed invited me."

"Or you begged him for a pass."

"Nooo..."

"Mhm."

"You were great tonight."

"Thank you."

"I really do miss you..."

"And I don't miss you, Justin. I'm over it. I've moved on. I'm not with anyone new, but it is in the past now."

"Are you seriously putting this whole thing behind you and like forgetting about it?"

"Yes. I am done with you, Justin. I honestly don't need you in my life anymore. Of course we'll see each other for work things, but that's it."

"Jess..."

"No, Justin."

And with that, I walked off and went to hang out with Demi. I feel like he's so obsessive with me. I know he wants me back but, Jesus. Calm the fuck down boy.

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A few days have passed and I'm back doing a tour show. I did a few Jingle Ball shows, thankfully Justin only showed up to one more of them.

He hasn't texted or called me either which is nice. I think he finally got the message.

I've been starting to write my lead single, which is about Justin. It's called "One Less Problem" but honestly I'll probably end up shortening it to "Problem".

It's basically about realizing that i've got one less problem without him. I know that's shady as fuck, but that's how I feel about him now.

I reached out to Iggy Azalea to rap on it, and she's down for it.

It's now time for tonight's show.

"So um...I'm super excited to tell y'all...I've been writing my next single. It's super fun, I think y'all are gonna love it. Unfortunately, I can't play any of it tonight, but just know it's comin out early next year along with my next album." I tell the fans, they scream immediately. "So Los Angeles?! How many of y'all were at Jingle Ball!?" many more screams.

"Wow so many of you came, thank you. Well this song I did at Jingle Ball. I added it to my set since it's Christmas time. It's off my new EP, this is "Last Christmas"."

I continued on with my show.

"I wanna bring someone out onto the stage for this next song.." I say to the crowd.

"Is it Justin?!?!?!" Someone yells.

"Give it up for Big Sean, y'all!"

The music for Right There plays as we do our thing.

I don't know why, but I'm now realizing, Sean is cute as fuck. Probably didn't notice before because of Justin, but damn.

I finish the show. When I get backstage, Sean greeted me with a hug. Yep, this crush is definitely forming.

"You were so good tonight, girl." He says.

"Thank you. So um, I was thinking about having you apart of my new song."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah! So it's called "Problem", and the chorus goes "I got one less problem without ya" & I was thinking you could like whisper that in the background and on every 3rd time I go "I got one less, one less problem"."

"I like that. After the holidays, let's get together and record that shit."

"Okay! Sounds great."

I am actually dying inside. I get to spend time with him.

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I go back to my apartment and call Layla.

"Layla!! Oh my god. I'm crushing on Sean so hard." I tell her.

"Oh my god, are you serious?"

"Yes!"

"This is so good!! You're definitely over Justin."

"I really think I am. I'm so glad that I am."

"How's the song writing?"

"So good. Oh! Sean is gonna collab with me & Iggy!"

"Yaaaasss! This song is gonna be a bop, I'm just saying."

"I know. But like I can already see the headlines "Is Jessica's new song throwing shade at Justin!?" and I'll be like, yes bitch it is."

"Ugh yes, fuck Justin. Still can't believe he did that."

"I know...ugh but there's a part of me that's like don't totally forget about him because he saved your life."

"That is true. I guess that part will just never go away."

"It won't. Like, he risked his own life for me..."

"I know what you're thinking, stop."

"Thinking what?"

"You're getting into your feels. You don't want those."

"You're right. I gotta stop talking about him before I get emotional. I need to sleep anyways."

"Alright, babe. Goodnight. Love you, chicka."

"Love you too."

I seriously don't want to ever think about how Justin risked his life for me because it does get me all in the feels, but sometimes I can't help it. It's just to big of a thing that happened.