Chapter 54: Chapter 54

: Gullible

Lucy paused as she stared at her mother and grandmother.

"Baby, please just let us talk to you," her mother begged.

Lucy shook her head slowly as she backed away and ran after Justin.

"Justin wait- I can explain!" She shouted out as she rushed after him down the empty hallway, Justin paused and turned around to face her.

"You can explain? We, you know what?  I really want to hear this," he said folding his arms.

Lucy panted a little out if breath, "I'm sorry okay? I just couldn't tell you  that my mother was in jail for-"

"Oh cut the crap!  You lied to make me stay!" Justin fired first.

"What?"

He laughed a little, mainly at his own stupidity though he was not in the least but amused, "I see it all now, Chris was right all the time. You only manipulated me so I would stay with you!"

"No it's not like that, "

"I'm so tired of people screwing me over! What is wrong with you people?! You don't want good people in your life, you just..manipulate them!"

"Justin I.."

"No, enough! I am so glad I dumped your ass before this got out because I swear I would have beaten the hell out of you! " He hissed, causing her to step back.

"Please Justin , I swear that I love you with all my heart, I didn't want to lose you, " Lucy tried to explain.

"Lose me!?" Justin was raging like a beast, angry and disappointed, his mood totally switched from the glory it had been that morning.

"You lost me months ago, the only reason I stayed with you was out of pity!" He raged, " This relationship of ours has been a living a This, " he gritted out, annunciating every word carefully, " and I am so happy, so glad, literally rejoicing that I am not a part of this thing you called love!" He said a he walked way.

Lucy was desperate, "you have to stay with me!" She shouted out after him, "you don't have choice, I will not let you go!"

Justin paused and turned around sharply, "What did you say? Are you commanding me?" He asked, he laughed a little, then he shook his head, "I'm never going to stay with you, NEVER," he repeated.

Lucy looked at the ground for a moment as her eyes shifted, "you will if you don't want your secret to be out," she said slowly and hesitantly.

Justin looked up at her, "what secret?" He asked curiously.

"I saw you two yesterday, I was at your house after you broke up with me! I saw everything. You're here talking talking about truth and virtue! I bet you, you were sleeping with your own mother even when were together! So don't look at me like that, I'm not the not one who messed up! In fact you, you would make any other girl sick, but I'm still here even after learning the truth, I won't judge you, just stay with me, " she pleaded trying to touch him.

Justin backed away as his breathing rate increased and his heart raced.

Above all people to find out, her? He asked himself, "you don't even know what's going on," he said shaking his head as from no where he begun to have a headache.

" I don't care, I just want you with me," she said as she moved closer to him touching his arm.

Justin pulled away from her, feeling sicker than before, "so your blackmailing me? If I don't stay with you, you're going to tell everyone? Is this how it's going to work?" He asked still breathing heavily.

"Don't think of it like that baby, I'm just desperate for you, and I just really want this to work, " Lucy begged.

It was then he saw how arranged she was. She was sick in the head. She was obsessed with him.

"Stop beating around the bush! You want to force me to stay with you!" He said he shook his head, feeling a bit of nausea, "I don't know why I didn't see this comming. I mean I did, but I always it's thought you were insecure. If there was any good I thought you had left in you, it's definitely not there anymore," he said quietly as he backed away into the elevator.

Lucy watched as the elevator door closed her heart beating loudly.

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Meanwhile

Mckayla and Britney had arrived at the photo studio.

"Hey baby," Chris said as he kissed Britney, "Hey mckayla, "

"What's up?" Mckayla replied smiling as he eyes rested on Beats who was still shirtless after the stripping down for the photo shoot, "damn you work out!" Mckayla said eyeing him.

Beats laughed, "It attracts all the pretty ladies, like it's got you hooked,"

"Smooth, " Mckayla replied, with a smirk.

"Oh, Mckayla that's Beats, Beats that's Mckayla, Britney's cousin, " Chris introduced.

"She doesn't look talkative, just fine, fine,  fine," Beats replied,  kissing the top of her hand.

Mckayla smiled and turned to Chris as they sat down, "do you always tell people I talk too much?" She asked.

"Mmmm, let me think about that," Chris gulped before turning back to Britney.

"He always says that but leaves the part that your beautiful out," Beats replied.

Mckayla chuckled at this before shooting Chris a deadly look, "You owe me a car ride on your Lamborghini  for the destruction of image."

"Is that a thing?" Chris asked.

"Yes it is, and you better do what I say or I will sure  you'll be  up more than just a car ride," Mckayla threatened.

"Deal," Chris quickly responded as Britney chuckled, "I don't know if you two will ever get along, "

"Oh we do," Mckayla replied

"Just have a funny way of showing it," Chris muttered underneath his breath.

"You know what you can ride my Lamborghini any time," beats replied moving his body like a caterpillar.

"I doing know what he took  for breakfast but I like him," Mckayla replied, moving with the motion.

George sat by them, "Where's Justin?" He asked.

"I'm not sure, he went to get something and he hasn't come back since, " Chris replied.

"That's strange, " George replied.

"Yeah, you know what, let me give him a call," Chris replied taking out his phone.

It rang but no one answered it.

Chris shrugged, "he isn't picking up, maybe his phone is on silent as usual."

And he wonders why no one calls him.

"I don't feel comfortable, maybe we should go and look for him," George suggested.

"You know what I'll go, would you like to come with me princess?" Beats asked Mckayla.

Mckayla laughed. "Alright, " she said as he helped her up.

Beats and Mckayla walked out stirring up a conversation till they reached the lobby.

"Let us ask the secretary,  she probably saw justin, She sees everything " Bree suggested.

Mckayla followed as he went to the secretary

"Hey, have you seen Justin?"

"Yes sir, he went up stairs with ma'am Lucy's mother and grandmother," she replied.

"Lucy's mother and grandmother?" Beats repeated.

"Yes sir, "

" Lucy?" Mckayla asked, "is that the girlfriend?"

"Definitely is," Beats replied.

"Come on, let's tell the others," he said as they headed back into the elevator. Just as they entered, Justin came down and passed by the lobby.

"Sir, sir!" The secretary called out.

But Justin did not want to be provoked, he just walked away to another bar, to drink his worries away.

Beats and Mckayla walked into the photo studio and sat with the others.

"So, where is he?" Chris asked sitting up, looking away from Britney as his eyes settled on them.

"Well, the secretary said he was in the recording studio with Lucy's mother and grandmother, " Beats informed.

"Lucy's mother and grandmother?" Chris echoed.

"Yes, funny that's what I said," Beats replied, with a chuckled.

"What's wrong, is there a catch?" George asked as he scanned Chris's face which had froze.

"Baby?" Britney asked, tugging his hand softly.

Chris blinked, "sorry, it's just strange," he said.

"What's strange?" Beats asked.

"Well, there was a time when Justin wanted to break up with Lucy but before he could, she told him how she didn't have anybody left since her parents were dead and grandmother was sick with Alzheimer's, "

"Woo," Beats whistled, with a chuckle"so he got played?" Beats asked.

"I don't know," Chris replied, " I always thought it was fishy," he replied.

Britney and Mckayla exchanged glances.

"So this Lucy character just played him like that, used him? That's the cheapest card in the book, how could he fall for that? He should have researched it, he would have found the truth," Mckayla blurted out, both sorry for the guy but utterly amazed at his gullibility.

"Mckayla!" Britney hissed.

"What? " Mckayla replied, "it was okay for her to lie to us but when she lied to her boyfriend to make him stay that was clearly a move of desperation," Mckayla replied, before clamping her mouth shut.

"Wait, what are you talking about ?" Chris asked

Mckayla looked at Britney, with a sorrowful expression.

"You already started, just tell him," Britney sighed as Chris looked at her.

"Okay, " Mckayla began, "so Lucy came over out our house for a little girl time with Britney, or so she claimed."

"Yeah, I remember that," Chris replied.

"Yeah well, at the spa she said something about her mother and her father  having had died from a fatal shooting in a bank in Chicago, but I didn't believe a word she said or her crocodile tears. I don't know, but when I first saw her, I just knew she wasn't trust worthy, " Mckayla replied

"I wish Justin had eyes like you," Chris muttered.

She sent him a sly smile, " well after doing research, "

"Research?" George asked, "what are you paparazzi?" He joked.

Mckayla and Britney exchanged glances,

"No, of course not, it's just that when I

see a person, I'm compelled to know how there like, how they function and like I said I didn't trust Lucy, that's just how I am, "

"Really? How about me?"George asked, "can read me like a book?"

"Yes, uh him okay. You like fashion, clothes, really cute boys, you hate  being near people who eat a lot and you aren't the running time of guy, gossip is your life, you look more of the behind the scenes type of guy, yet when your around people you're the life of the party. You can live with a sloppy person, as compared to an order freak and you usually take the first step when it comes to flirting or hooking up, over all your a good guy, your only weakness is you love shopping like crazy, "

"Get out my life!" George said, gasping.

"She read you like a book," Beats hummed, "can you do me now?"

"Guys, there will be plenty of time for that, let her finish first," Chris interrupted.

"Yeah, where was I? Yes so I did some  researchd I found out that her parent didn't die but were actually the robbers in the heist. They were sentenced to prison for a long time, I guess maybe her mother was acquitted  or something," Mckayla explained.

"Dang it  Justin," Chris muttered under his breath.

"Sir," one of the guys doing make up said, holding up a phone.

"Yes?" Chris answered.

"That was the secretary in the lobby, she said your brother just left, and he was a little angry," he reported.

"Oh..okay..thanks," he said as the man left.

"I need to talk to him," Chris said standing up.

"You're not going anywhere," Mckayla replied, shaking her head.

"What?" Chris asked.

"You're brother just went through a major milestone and the last thing he needs right now is his brother telling him I told you so, "

"Mckayla is right Chris," let him breathe it all out, lord knows he needs some tranquility," George replied, thinking back to his attitude these last few weeks.

"Look, you'll talk to him later when the airs calmer he's a bit more relaxed, right now he is probably very angry, so just let him be," Mckayla suggested.

Chris thought for a moment and sat down. "Your right," he said nodding.

"He will be okay," Britney eased.

"I hope so," Chris replied.

"Girl, you do run that mouth a lot, but strangely it makes you more attractive," Beats said looking at Mckayla, causing all of them to laugh.

"Strange, I was about to say the same thing about your muscles, "

"Oh!" George, Chris and Britney shouted out as they continued to have fun.

Later on, Chris gave them a full tour of CR.