Into You • Jariana Story

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Ariana's POV

"Fuck." I mumbled, looking down at my piece of paper.

"Are you okay?" Justin mumbles, looking over my shoulder.

"Ugh, no! I need to write a song for the talent show next week!" I said, throwing myself on the bed.

"We have another week, chill Ari." He laughs.

"Wait, you're doing it too?!!" I sat up quickly.

"Yeah... I told you five minutes ago." He chuckled.

"Wait, can you perform with me?" I asked.

"Are you that nervous?" He asked.

"Yeah." I bit my lip.

He looked down at my lips real quick. "I'll perform with you.."

"Okay." I smiled. "We should write a song toget-

My eyes locked with his. We couldn't stop looking at each other's lips.

"Um, so.." I say awkwardly, standing up and walking over to the chair.

"Oh, right." He says. "Let's start."

A week later...

I stood next to Justin backstage, watching this kid breakdance. He had another minute before we had to go on. I was honestly nervous.

All we did last week, was honestly a good week. But Justin and I wouldn't stop looking at each other at random times.

"Alright, that was Max Breakdancing! Next on is Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber performing their song, 'What do you mean' enjoy!"

We let out a breath, hearing everyone clapping. We walked out and I looked at the crowd. There were all my friends, bur Alexa was leaving. My heart dropped when I saw Sean in the front row.

We were waiting for the instrumental that we made to turn on. I walked over to Justin and tugged at his sleeve.

"Sean... he's-

"I know. Just relax, okay? Remember we put a restraining order on him." He whispers.

I nodded. The instrumental started playing. Time to sing. Ariana, you got this.

(Ariana has more parts in the song)

"What do you mean, oh, oh, when you nod your head yes, but you wanna say no." Justin sang, walking across the stage.

"What do you mean?" I sang, looking at the crowd.

"Hey yeah, when you don't want me to move, but you tell me to go, what do you mean?" Justin sang, walking over to me.

We continued singing and singing, Justin got a little touchy at times.

"I wanna know-ooooh." We sang together, I wrapped my arm around his shoulder and he smiles at the crowd, then checks me out.

We finished the song and we ran out of the stage. I panted, giving Justin a high five.

"That wasn't as bad as I thought." I breathed out.

"I know." He says, stepping closer to me.

I hugged him and he hugs me back. We pull away and we stared into each other's eyes. My stomach got butterflies and Justin steps closer, wrapping his arms around me. Justin unwrapped one of his arms and his thumb glided at the bottom of my lip.

We were tempted to kiss, but we know we couldn't. We knew it was good for us to not be in a relationship or kiss right now.

We heard someone clear their voice.

"You should go back to sit down now." The backstage dude said.

"Oh, right." We said.

We went through he backstage floor and left. We walked around until we got to the auditorium door and we opened it, walking in. We sat down next to our friends.

"Good job, guys." Ryan smiles.

"Yes slay me guys!" The others say in unison, making us burst out laughing.

"You planned that, didn't you?" I smirked.

"Yep." Selena says.

"Guys, I recorded the whole performance. You guys looked like you were fucking in love." Kylie smirked, watching as the next performer comes up.

We decided to stay silent. It was awkward now. Thanks, Kylie.

After the talent show, I walked to my locker. I open my locker to gather up my stuff to leave for school. This week was full of talent shows, so that means there were talent shows this whole week. Next week, there's going to be a bunch of exams.

I felt arms wrap around me. I look the the arms and realized it was Justin. My cheeks went hot and I felt his chin rested on my shoulder.

I giggled.

"Why are you hugging me?" I blushed.

"Wanna hang out this weekend?" I felt him kiss my shoulder.

Did he just...?

I bite my lip, "Sure."