Never Too Much - Chapter 1
DISCLAIMER: I don't know any of the members of NSYNC or the BSB. I don't know anything about their sexual orientation or the orientation of any other celebrities in this story (even though I wish some of them were gay). This story is fiction and you shouldn't take it for anything else but that. This is only for entertainment value only folks. Hope you enjoy the show oh I mean reading.
"Even if you give me all your love, even if you give me all your kisses, it will be never..." Keyshia Cole
Never Too Much Chapter 1 by JT Poole
// Fernandina Beach, FL //
"How do you feel baby?" Justin asked, as he and Nick walked down the beach.
"I feel somewhat content right now that you are in my life." Nick stated, turning and kissing Justin on the cheek. "I have enjoyed the last couple of days with you Justin."
"I have enjoyed them too." Justin stated, pulling Nick close and hugging him. "I hope our time together never ends."
"It won't Justin, it won't." Nick stated as the two of them kept walking.
"I am just happy that the guys got us together." Justin stated. "I was starting to feel that love and relationships didn't exist."
"I am happy too. I know they should feel much better now that I am somewhat back to normal." Nick stated, with a grin on his face.
"The guys probably feel the same way about me right now too." Justin stated, laughing. "I thought Josh would come home and strangle me one day because I was in the dumps, but so far he hasn't."
"I know the feeling. I have hurt all the guys' feelings. I know they only tried to help me, I just always snapped at them." Nick stated.
"I had my snappy moods too, I am just glad Josh didn't listen to me when I told him I didn't want to be set up on a date." Justin stated.
"I am glad they all set us up." Nick stated as the two of them reached a small beach house.
// Outside the Small Beach House //
--- JT's POV ---
A couple of days ago, I had received a call from my best friend, Lance Bass, but I call him Jamie. He told me that he and the other guys needed a place to get away to for a while, so I suggested that he and the guys come here to my beach house for a few days and just get away from it all. I met Jamie and the guys of N Sync back when they first got together under Lou Pearlman. We met when they went into the studio to start laying down tracks for the first album. At the time, I worked for Zomba Recording Corporation, before Jive came in and started buying up stock in the place. I was one of the recording/sound engineers there then and to put it lightly, Lou worked those guys like dogs. After one of their sessions one day, I was leaving to go home when I overheard a bad argument between the guys and Lou. Against my better judgment, I step in (along with security) and got the guys out of there and took them some place to cool off for a bit. That started our friendship. Okay enough about the past.
It's been a while since I have been to this place since I live in Orlando also. I only came here to this house when I needed to get away from the world and stress. Since Jamie had a key to the place, I told him to go ahead and I would meet them all there and we could all catch up on old times. I arrived just in time to see Nick Carter and Justin walk in the side patio doors. I was shocked when I saw the two of them together.
I had always suspected Nick of being gay, but Justin, come on, not Justin. I would have never have guessed that he was gay in a hundred years. Regardless of the fact that we are all friends, Jamie being my closest of them all, he didn't tell me about Justin being gay. I would just have to beat him up for not telling me later on.
I am walking into the kitchen now, to see Ashley Angel, the cute hottie from O-Town and one of my other friends, Chris Kirkpatrick. Chris and Ashley have been dating now for about six months since Jamie and Jacob Underwood, also from O-Town got together. I must say that when those four got together all hell broke loose. I must say, things were a little bit shaky, but we all survived it. Now as for me, I just don't know what I can do to get that handsome hunk Dan to be mine. Yeah so I am gay too, I think that's what makes my friendship with Jamie and Chris so strong because we have that extra thing that connects us.
"Yo, JT what's going on man, where's my stuff?" I heard Jamie say, walking into the kitchen.
"What do you mean where's your stuff?" I asked, looking at him strangely.
"I went up to my room and none of my stuff is in there." He told me, walking over to me and hugging me.
"Well it's good to see you too. You could have at least given me time to get in here and put all this stuff down first." I tell him, kissing him on the cheek.
"Oh sorry, do you need any help? Is there more out in the jeep?" He asked me.
"Yes there's tons more, so get out there and get that stuff in here before it starts thawing out." I tell him as he ran through the kitchen and yelled for someone, I assumed was Jacob, since he didn't refer to him by his name.
"JT my man, good to see you again." Justin stated, walking over and hugging me. "JT I would like you to meet Nick, he's my someone special."
"Oh yeah, nice to meet you Nick." I say extending my hand to him.
"Nice to meet you too JT." Nick stated, as I walked over to the refrigerator and loading the things out of the bags into it.
"Do you need help?" Justin asked me.
"Yeah, you know where stuff goes, get to work." I tell him as he grabbed the other bag and started placing things on shelves and in the cabinets.
"So are you on vacation with us or what?" Justin asked me.
"Well I did take some time off and I am using my vacation time too." I tell him. "Right now Jive's studio schedule isn't so packed since Johnny and Serena are going through a dry spell it seems."
"Who's Serena?" Justin asked me.
"Serena Kyle, she's the new CEO of New Artist Recruitment. She was hired a few months back." I tell him.
"Why didn't you take that position?" Justin asked me.
"I don't want it, I am happy being a sound engineer." I tell him, walking over to where Jamie and Jacob were standing with bags in their hands.
"That would have been a good job for you to do since you can do it already. What about the money JT?" Justin asked.
"I don't need that money and you know it." I tell him, walking back over to the refrigerator, placing more items into it. "I enjoy my job the way it is."
"Leave him alone Justin, I am still trying to get him to go work at for Freelance." Jamie stated.
"Yeah I know, but working for your friends can lead to trouble sometimes." I say, walking back over to him. "You know how I feel about those kinds of things."
"Yeah I know, but still I feel you are not using all of your talents." Jamie spoke to me, placing some chicken in the freezer.
"Well I utilize what I need to get the job done." I tell him.
"So are you ever going to go back to singing?" Jamie asked me.
"Right now I don't know. I got a bad deal from some of Lou's friends, that just didn't go over well with me." I tell him.
"Well if you sign with me, I can promise you that things would be totally different than him." Jamie spoke as Dan, Ashley and Chris walked into the kitchen.
"Yo, JT man, I thought I heard your voice in here." Chris stated, walking over to me and hugging and kissing me on the cheek.
"Yes I am here." I stated just as Dan walked over to me.
"Hi there, Is there something I can do to help out?" Dan asked as I starred at him, forgetting where I was, getting lost in his beautiful eyes.
"JT, JT are you okay man?" Chris asked, shaking me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm okay, my mind was just on other things." I said.
"Yeah I know." Chris stated, smirking at me.
"Get your mind out of the gutter elf." I said, moving past Dan. "Are there any more bags in the jeep Jamie?"
"No, we got them all." Jamie spoke as he sat down at the table next to Justin and Nick.
"Well Dan, the only other thing that needs to be done is for someone to prepare lunch." I tell him.
"Cool, I can help with that." Dan spoke. "If you don't..."
"No, no you can help." I tell him as Jamie and Chris look back and forth at each other.
"Come on guys, why don't we leave these two in here while they cook." Chris stated, grabbing Ashley by the hand as he, Ashley, Lance and Jacob walked out of the room.
"Come on Nick, why don't we go find something to get into." Justin stated, helping Nick up, and kissing him on the cheek.
"Why does it feel like this was just a big set up?" I said walking over to the stove.
"Maybe it was a setup." Dan stated, walking around the island. "What should I do to get things started? I mean for lunch?"
"How about looking in the cupboard over there and pulling out some chips." I said, pointing in the direction of the cupboard where the potato chips were located.
"So Lance tells me that you are a singer on the side." Dan stated, trying to make conversation.
"Yeah I used to sing, I don't do it much anymore." I said, walking back over to the refrigerator pulling out some luncheon meat and salad.
"Why not, I bet you have a beautiful voice." Dan stated. "Can I hear you sing something?"
"Not right now, maybe later." I tell him, walking over to the table, putting things down.
"Oh come on, it's just the two of us in here, sing a few notes of any song." Dan stated.
"Okay fine." I tell him as I thought for a few minutes and started humming.
"What are you humming?" He asked me.
"Just something from my past." I tell him.
"Let me hear some words, that sounds nice." He says, getting closer to me.
"It didn't have to end like this, we could have found another way somehow. If only you have come to me, but I'm afraid it's too late now, it's too late now. You're running..." I sang as the memories of the song came back to me and tears slowly fell from my eyes.
"JT are you okay?" Dan asked me as I dropped the bowl of salad I had and took off running from the room, passing Jamie and Chris as I went.
--- Lance's POV ---
"What just happened in here?" Lance asked walking into the kitchen.
"I don't know. I asked him to sing something for me and he started humming a song, I asked him to put the words to it and he sang the song to me and then he started crying and ran away." Dan spoke, looking in the direction of the door. "I was trying to hurt his feelings. What did I do?"
"What was he singing?" Chris asked, walking into the room.
"He didn't tell me the name of the song, he just sang it." Dan said, getting scared now.
"What were the words?" I asked him staring at him intently.
"Something about running, it's too late now and ..." Dan stated. "I don't know how the song goes."
"Was it like this?" Chris stated, singing the same song JT had sang earlier.
"Yeah that's the song. What's it called and why is he so upset?" Dan asked.
"It's called `Runnin'. He wrote that song for his sister. She died a few years back." I tell him.
"Oh God." Dan says, walking towards the door.
"Where are you going?" I ask him.
"To find him and apologize." He spoke.
"Why? Did you ask him to sing that song?" I ask him.
"No, but I want to make sure that he's okay." He said walking out of the room.
"This is going to be a long weekend Scoop." Chris tells me.
"You telling me. We just got here and someone is already crying." I tell him, bending down to clean up the salad that's in the middle of the floor.
// Outside on the Beach //
"Hi there. Are you okay?" Dan asked, sitting down in the sand next to JT.
"Hi. I'm okay." JT spoke, throwing a rock into the ocean.
"Are you sure? You took off like your shorts were on fire or something." Dan spoke.
"Yeah I am okay. Just some things from my past that came back to haunt me." JT spoke.
"Why did you sing that song?" Dan asked.
"I guess because I needed to hear it." JT spoke, turning to look at Dan.
"You needed to sing it?" Dan asked.
"Yeah, I guess you can say I have been running from some things in my life and I need to stop running and let things happen." JT spoke.
"Oh, okay. What have you been running from?" Dan asked.
"My sister has been dead now for five years and I have yet to come to terms with the reason why she died." JT spoke. "I am a gay man and I am not living my life to the fullest. It's about time that I made some changes in my life."
"What kind of changes?" Dan asked.
"Some bold changes." JT spoke, leaning in and kissing Dan on the lips.
"Wow." Dan spoke. "I have been waiting the last couple of months for you to do that."
"You have?" JT asked.
"Yeah I have. When I heard you were single and gay, I wanted so much to get with you, but I was too afraid that you would turn me down. Chris and Lance told me to talk to you, but I let my nerves get the better of me." Dan stated.
"Remind me to get both of my friends when we get back into the house." JT spoke, as he and Dan shared another kiss.
// On the Balcony //
"Oh look, isn't that JT and Dan?" Nick asked.
"Yeah, looks like they are lip locking something wicked." Justin spoke.
"Oh really, why are we looking at their action when we could be creating our own?" Nick asked, rubbing Justin's hand.
"Why aren't we?" Justin asked, leaning over as he and Nick started kissing.
"I don't think I will ever get enough of kissing you like this." Nick stated, lying in Justin's arms.
"Kissing you is never too much, it's not enough. There isn't an hour in the day that I don't want to kiss you." Justin stated. "I love you Nick Carter."
"I love you Justin Timberlake." Nick stated as they say JT and Dan get up and walk back towards the house.
"I guess we better get ready for lunch." Justin stated.
"No, someone will come get us when it's time. I want to cherish every bit of alone time I get with you." Nick stated.
"This is why we are here. We are here for a few weeks to get away from it all." Justin stated. "We have nothing but alone time."
"Cool, I like this, but..." Nick spoke as Justin grabbed his bottom lip and kissed him passionately, leaving both of them breathless.
// In the Kitchen //
"Oh look, they are walking back to the house holding hands." Chris stated as Ashley joined him and Lance in the kitchen.
"It's about time. Now I won't have to hear Dan go on and on about JT." Ashley stated.
"What do you mean?" Chris asked.
"Dan has had the hots for JT since he met him a few months ago at that barbecue at Joey's house." Ashley stated.
"Oh really, JT has had the hots for Dan since meeting him in the studio." Lance stated, laughing.
"Well they are together, hopefully this will work out for him, unlike his lost boyfriend." Chris spoke, just as Dan and JT walked into the kitchen.
"Hi you two. Are you guys ready to eat?" Lance asked.
"Sure am, I am starving." JT spoke. "Thanks for cleaning up guys. I am so sorry."
"It's okay. Are you feeling better now?" Lance asked.
"Oh you know I am." JT stated, holding up his hand with Dan's fingers entwined together. "I think I am better than okay right now."
"Cool let's eat." Lance stated, directing everyone into the dining room.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: `Runnin' written by JT Poole
TO BE CONTINUED...
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