Bieber Struck

Jackie Chapter 23

I have no idea what to do. I feel miserable and probably look even worse. I haven't left my room since Justin had paid me a visit and now it's almost the end of the next day. I don't understand why I feel this way. I mean, it wasn't like we had been going out for months and he had just cheated on me. Plus, I'd already known that he had had a girl friend. I mean how would Selena feel if Justin just left her? Jessie comes by my room for the third time today.

"Jackie! Get off your butt! You've been sitting here for the entire day!" She says coming over to me.

"Ughhh..." I groan rolling over.

"Jackie, get over yourself! I mean I'm really sorry for what happened with you, but honestly, he is an international pop star. I mean, you couldn't just expect him to fall in love with you and forget about the world." She says. I don't respond.

"Get up! And stop moping. Don't you have any friends?" She asks rolling her eyes.

"Nope. None." I say rolling up in my sheets like a burrito. Then I feel Jessie push me and I land with a loud thump.

"Ow!?" I say getting up and rubbing my arms.

"Get up and take a shower and then eat some dinner!" She says folding her arms and watching me.

"Geez, fine MOM." I say exasperatedly. Why was Jessie so much more mature than me? I found some clean clothes and headed in for a shower. By the time I get out, dinner was already over and there are some leftovers on a plate left for me. As I ate, I looked through my Instagram feed and saw a picture of Justin and Selena. I turned off my phone and almost threw it across the room. I felt like barfing. I still couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that Justin has seemed like such a nice person when he wasn't surrounded by people. I thought about what Jessie had told me. Would they really make him lie for some reason? Then my phone went off. It was a text form Adam. It said that he had booked us a gig for tomorrow and it was pretty big deal because it was a really big arena. It was only one routine in between two artists, but it it was still something. I asked him for the details and decided to go practice. It was like eight o'clock and it wasn't like I had anything better to do. All of my homework was done and I was trying to get my mind of things. I asked my mom if I could go and she said I had to be back by ten.

"Jackie, are you okay?" She asked stopping me before I left

"Umm ya, I'm fine." I said avoiding her.

"I can tell when you're lying honey. Just tell me when you're up to it." She said smiling. I loved my mom. She always knew what to say and what I was feeling. I hugged her and grabbed my phone and car keys. I quickly text Adam before I drive off.

"Gonna practice 1 last time, wanna come?" I asked. He responded a few seconds later.

"Sure c u there" he said. At least something could seem to be normal. I got to the studio in ten minutes and set up. Then I started practicing and working on some new stuff. Whenever I got nervous, I just worked through dance moves over and over until it was like a second nature to me. After a while, Andrew showed up and we practiced for tomorrow. It was okay for us to do shows and find out about them a day before. We were always ready and never had anywhere to perform. Practically everyone was perfect with their parts of the routine. We practiced for about another hour until it was nine. Then we took a little break and I got some water.

"So Jackie, I saw you on the news yesterday." Adam said.

"Nope, that was Selena Gomez!" I said sarcastically. Adam already knew about everything because he was the one and only person I'd told.

"Hey, I'm sure he had a reason for doing what he did. I thought he was on okay kid." Was Adam seriously defending him?

"Stop defending him! Can we just not talk about this and practice some more, I got to go soon." I said getting up and storming off angrily.

"Okay okay geez calm down!" He said running up behind me and twirling me around. We both fell over and started laughing. He was pretty much my older brother.

"Everything's gonna be alright." He said smiling. For some reason I felt like he makes t something else though. Hopefully the performance will go really well tomorrow and out studio can actually get some decent exposure.