Recovery | Justin Bieber |

Chapter 16

| Savannah |
: Not as it seems

- 1 month , 3 weeks later -

I smiled down at my phone as I read the message from Justin. Everyday we spoke and every moment got cuter and cuter. He had sent me a photo of the sunset from a hill that he had hiked up with his friends. Under it, he messaged,

"I took this photo and it reminded me of you"   

When I asked why a picture of the sunset reminded him of me he responded, making my heart flutter like it did every single time he complimented me.

"Because anything beautiful reminds me of you"

Technically, Justin wasn't my boyfriend and technically, I wasn't Justin's girlfriend. However, after speaking to him for nearly two months, I felt everyday was only getting better and better as I felt myself falling more and more. Not in love, definitely not. I didn't even know what falling in love felt like. But, I knew there was something there and I knew that my feelings for him were real. Everyday, we spoke. Every night, he'd come home from working hard all day, and I'd be the first and only person he'd devote his time to over the phone. Sure, some nights we didn't talk and that was solely because I was either on plane going to another country / city, or, he was at some sort of event / party. It was mostly night clubs but that never really phased me as that was part of his career. I never did need to worry about what he was doing and who he was with as he always came back to me and reassured me that everything was okay.

However, we weren't on that kinda level where we had any right to intrude on each other's lives. Of course, I had my loyalties with him, so it would be completely wrong of me to be speaking to Justin, in a romantic sense, every single night, and then to be entertaining other guys without letting him know. Just because he wasn't my boyfriend didn't mean that I'd disrespect him like that, and he knew that. However, ever since he had stepped in to my life, I felt it only to be incumbent for me to give him all of my attention. That meant that I wasn't looking at other guys in the way I used to. Sure, there were a lot of attractive guys and I'd be lying if I said I didn't find anyone good looking, however, it was what I did to act on my attraction that tested my loyalties.

For someone who had never been in a relationship, I sure did know what it was like to be loyal to someone, it was common through all of my friendships. Trust and loyalty seemed to be key.

Moreover, Justin and I grew closer and closer every single day and nothing felt rushed. Of course, he would still comment on my photos on Instagram and  screenshot any selfies / photos I might have posted on my snapchat as well as sending them to him, but that was just standard procedure. I knew one thing for sure, and that was that Justin did a great job at being a gentlemen and making me feel like I was the only girl in the world. Fact.

Everyday, I'd wake up to a good morning text, or throughout the day if we hadn't had the time to speak to one another he'd send me random messages telling me that he thought I was beautiful or that he wanted to see me again. Which of course, made my heart melt. His mom sure did raise him right.

But other than that, we were still travelling. It was soon ending though, we were going to be back home in 3 to 4 weeks and everything was set to go back to normal. Apart from the fact that things between Justin and I would proceed to the levels he promised me all the time. He would tell me he wanted to take me on dates and do cute little things with just me, which only instigated my return to be a little quicker.

Adam and Sophia were growing close and I think Adam had realised now that Sophia was madly in love with him. Sophia spoke to Khalil here and there but it was nothing special as Khalil was busy with others girls back in LA and Sophia was busy with flirting with boys in every city / country we went to. The norm.

We were now in Morocco, Marrakesh. It was honestly beautiful. The culture and the people just added to the beauty and everyday we spent here made me fall more and more in love with it.

"Adam, take a photo of me and Sav please" Sophia spoke as she handed her phone to Adam. We sat on the bench, behind us was literally a breath taking view of the sunset and the city lights of Marrakesh.

After taking the photo, I let Sophia do her 20 hour analysing and see which photo she liked best as she had to get the perfect one. I took this as my opportunity to enjoy the view. As I looked out at the lights, I couldn't help but close my eyes and smile at how great my life was going. Touch wood. I was enjoying it to the absolute fullest as I had the best people around me. And of course, Justin.

"Hey er, Sav?" Sophia called me making me turn around to look at her. "Yeah?"

"Have you seen this?"

I walked over to where she was stood, she turned her phone around and showed me what was on her screen. It was a picture of Justin. He was sat with a keyboard in front of him and on the other side was what looked like his MacBook. However, the main part of the photo was the girl who was sat behind him with her arms around him, well actually, they were under his shirt to be precise.

After seeing the photo, I couldn't help but keep my eyes on it. Was this normal to feel... jealous and a little betrayed? I mean, it was just a photo and I had no idea what the context was behind it so it would be other worldly if I were to jump to conclusions and throw hands at whoever the girl was. However, I felt this strong sense disbelief, betrayal and sadness within and I didn't really know how to react.

"It's just a picture" I stated,

"It's not just a picture babe, he's sat with Yovanna, Yovanna Ventura? She's a model and best believe that ain't a way to sit with just a friend" I could tell she was angry at the photo too and just as shocked however, I chose other ways to act on it.

I chose to forget about it, she could just be a friend. Justin would of told me if he was speaking to or liking anyone else, he's not the type to lead girls on and I knew that from the way he spoke and treated me and so I pushed it to the back of my mind and didn't let it ruin our night, well, I just didn't want to put a downer on their moods as I could tell by Adam's face, he was angry too.

I just didn't want to believe what was right in front of me because if it was what we were all thinking, I don't know what I'd do.

I was just hoping it wasn't as it seemed.