Stay Or Sing

Chapter 21 - Reunited At Last

Rissa Pov

"Guys?" I hear Justin calling out from the living room, causing us to pull apart. "Coming," I yell back before turning back to Jase and pecking him on the lips once again. "I love you," he whispers as he pulls away. I smile happily and say those 3 special words back to him as I grab his hand walking out of our room.

When we finally enter the living room, we see Justin standing by the door waiting for us. "Hey guys, I'm just going to pick up Lexi. I'll be back in a few minutes," he says. "Cool, we'll see you'll in a few then," Jase says in reply. I open my mouth to say bye to Justin but before I can speak I'm pulled into a hug by him. "I'll be right back. Don't dissappear on me again, Rissy," he says with a laugh.

I force out a laugh, "Go get my best friend Justin!"

He leaves and it's back to just Jason and I. I sigh as I feel the guilt start to build up again. I know Justin didn't mean the words when he joked about me dissappearing but I'm still reminded of the fact that I had Justin and Lexi worrying and stressing about me for the past 6 days.

I feel two arms wrap around my waist from behind me and smile slightly looking to my side seeing Jason's chin resting on my shoulder as he gazes at me with a smile gracing his face.

"Hey, what's wrong?" he asks, his smile turning into a look of worry. "Nothing," I say, he has enough in his plate right now I don't want to add to it. He doesn't need to bear my guilt as well.

He spins me around gently in his arms. "Rissa, after all these years do you really think I'm not going to know when you're lying to me? I know something's up, so I'll ask again, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing Jase. Just my mind and thoughts getting to me again. Justin and Lex are going to get here any minute. We'll talk about this later okay? Not now. I'm fine," I say, trying to convince him.

He leans down kissing my forehead. "Okay, princess just don't let it get to you too much."

"I won't," I reply, but it's not that easy, I think to myself. A few minutes later we hear a car outside and the door swings open.

Lexi steps in and as soon as we see each other she's running towards me and we're hugging. I have to admit, I missed my crazy best friend.

The next few hours are filled with laughter and joy as we catch up and I fill them in on where I'd been the past few days. Now, Justin and Jason are having a conversation in the living room while Lex and I are in my room chatting.

"So Lexi, what's being going on with you?" I ask trying to change the topic from my dissappearing act. "Nothing really, you know how your cousin gets when it comes to you, we didn't really do that much,"she says trailing off once she sees the look on my face. I feel so guilty for stressing them out these past few days.

"Lex, I'm so sorry that I stressed you both out much. Here you'll are trying to enjoy our last bit of break and you'll had to deal with me being a drama queen."

She rolls her eyes and pulls me into a hug. "Come here you idiot, I'm almost offended that you'd even think about apologizing for this. I'm your best friend Ris, and Justin is your cousin, we would do anything for you. I don't care if it's at 1 in the morning or the day of my freaking wedding, if you need us we're their for you, girl! We love you! I mean if Justin punching his best friend isn't proof of that, then I don't know what is," she says firmly, with a laugh at the end.

Wait Justin punching his best friend?

"Aww Lexi! I love you guys too, but still I'm so so sorry for putting you through that! Uh, just one thing though," I say." Yeah?" she says waiting for me to continue. "What the hell do you mean by Justin punching his best friend?!"

Her eyes go wide and she let's out an awkward laugh, "Oh, I thought you, uh, knew already. You see when you went missing, we were all sort of worried about you and then Jason came over and told us what happened and uh," she trails off again. "And what? Justin hit Jase? Where? On his arm? Chest? " I say shocked. "uh, his face. Rissa it was just once, he was okay." she says in attempt to calm me down. Yes, I was mad and hurt by Jase at the time, but I didn't want him to be punched in the face. I don't care if he was okay afterwards, that shit hurts and I don't even want to think of him being in physical pain when he was already going through all his inner turmoil!

"Why would he do that? That's he's best friend?" I ask, still in shock. "He did it for you Ris, he couldn't stand the thought of you hurting because of Jase. Did you really not expect him to stand up for you like that?"

"No, well I knew he'd be mad but I didn't think he'd punch him. I mean he was already going through so much internal, emotional pain, why did he have to go through even more for me. And why didn't Jase tell me about any of this?" I say getting a bit choked up.

"I didn't tell you because I know that you would feel bad. Please don't blame yourself or Justin for this. I deserved it, I know I did. I messed up and hurt you. I would take a 100 more of these punches if it meant that you wouldn't have gone through the pain I caused you, " Jase says walking into the room, looking straight into my eyes.

"But-" I say standing up, only to be cut off once again by Jase,  "No buts, I'm okay. See," he says placing my hands on either side of his face.  "I'm all good. He went easy on me. And please don't blame Justin, he was only looking out for his little cousin."

"I love you so much," I say leaning up to give Jase a kiss. Looking over his shoulder I see Justin standing it the background looking at Lexi, before his gaze turns back to me.

I walk over to him and give him a hug as well, "I love you too bro, thanks for always having my back."

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