“Hey guys, you should come and listen to this” Kim said interrupting their card game. The girls ran over to where the hand radio was. They could hear the guys arguing down stairs. They questioned as to if one of them should go down there and help sort things out, or if it was best to just leave the guys to work it out on their own.
“You have an ego the size of a freight train.” Joey snapped.
“I do not, I am just saying that JC and I are the better song writers.” Justin explained.
“That doesn’t mean that the rest of use can’t have some input as well. I thought we are supposed to be working on this together.” Joey replied.
“Hey I can write songs too. I helped write ‘Falling’ and most of the song for my new band.” Chris chimed in.
“I know that you can write, Chris, and you do some pretty good stuff, but I am just not sure it’s up to the music master’s high standards.” Joey explained. By now Joey was standing and Justin rose up to meet him in the middle.
“Hey, I like Chris’ new stuff, I just forgot to mention him. I am not perfect you know.” Justin answer, poking Joey in the chest with his finger.
“You could have fooled us.” JC said under his breath. The room erupted into a massive verbal argument, with everyone involved. With all the commotion going on it was hard to make out who was saying what to whom. Justin finally had enough, he didn’t have to take this, not here and not from his former band mates. So he hauled off and punched Joey as hard as he could, sending Joey flying into the end table, which cracked under his weight. Joey sprung back into his feet and launched himself at Justin.
They both feel to the floor taking Lance with them in the process and sending Chris running to avoid being drug into the middle of it as well. Lance was helplessly pinned between Justin and the floor. He begged for them to stop as the wrestled watch other, throwing punches left and right.
“I am going to kick your ass, Timberlake.” Joey yelled.
“Dude, get off me you have freaking lost it.” Justin whined. They both froze when they heard Katy scream at the top of her lungs, not really sure what she has said, or if it had even been a word at all. She went over to what was left of the end table, she eye burning into them.
“You fucking broke my end table; do you have any idea how long I spent putting the damn thing back together?” She yelled. She picked up one of the bigger pieces and moved closer to the guys, but Brandi and Kim latched on to her before she could exact her revenge on both of them. They held her arms and she screamed obscenities at the guys.
Justin stared at her in awe, while he still had a hold of Joey’s t-shirt. She really looked like she intended to beat him with that thing. Her eyes were glazed over and her breathing was labored.
“I am innocent, I swear.” Lance pleaded, though he had managed to get out from under Justin, his chain was still stuck so he couldn’t get far. Joey and Justin quickly started to blame the other for the whole thing and before anyone knew it their fight resumed, both throwing punches. One of them finally hit Lance knocking him back out of the way.
Brandi just looked at Kim, the both sighed and then they released Katy. Brandi took the piece or broken furniture from her and handed her one of the stun batons. Katy smiled and turned it on. Joey didn’t even see if coming when Katy smacked him on the ass with the baton as hard as she could, almost breaking it in the process. Joey almost instantly fell onto Justin in pain. Justin confused by what was going on now just raised his hands as a sign of surrendering. But Katy was merciless by now; even her crush on him could save him now. She rolled Joey off of him and smacked in the side just as hard as she had hit Joey, this time the baton broke and she tossed it aside. Katy went over to Lance and began to tend to him, lovingly like nothing had even happened.
“You know Katy, I think you are just supposed to poke them with it, not beat them with it.” Mandy said picking up what was left of the weapon, she looked it over carefully but there was no saving it, it had been completely destroyed. She watched as both Joey and Justin rolled on the floor in pain. Katy calmly undid the chain that connected Lance to the floor and helped him up.
“What are you doing?” Brandi questioned nervously.
“We have to untangle them, and right now I trust Lance more than I do those two.” Katy explained, she took Lance over to Mandy and Kim, and then Brandi and she proceeded to sort out the rest. Katy lifted Justin as best as she could and pushed in back into his chair.
“He started it.” Justin snapped, pointing at Joey. Joey was in too much pain to respond to him. Brandi helped him back up onto the sofa, though he butt was kind of sore he didn’t fight her.
“I don’t care who started it, you’re going to end it. Show me what a real man looks like, Timberlake.” Katy explained her face still very close to his. She smelled like cookies.
“I knew it, you are fucking insane.” Chris said. “One minute you are beating the shit out of him the next you are hitting on him again.” Katy just smiled.
“That is the beauty of a Katy rampage, it’s fast… it’s furious… and then it’s completely forgotten.” Brandi explained.
“I can’t help it. I don’t believe in dwelling on stuff.” Katy reasoned. She was the type to get it all out of her system at once and then to be done with it.
“So in addition to feeding and taking care of them, now was have to provide them with group therapy?” Kim asked.
“Well when you have known each other for as long as we have, you can start to get on each other’s nerves and yeah some people’s egos can get in the way of real progress.” JC explained. He looked at Justin as he spoke; Justin just glared back at him.
“Yeah, well check your ego at the door buddy. Everyone is equal here.” Kim stated.
“We want input from everyone on this, or no one goes home.” Mandy added.
“Whatever happened to, beating will continue until moral improves?” Katy asked, but no one answered her. Mandy just shook her head no. “Well you guys are just no fun then.” Mandy helped Lance back to his seat and reattached his chain.
“But to be on the safe side Katy is going to stay down here and baby sit you guys for awhile. God knows that we need a break from her.” Brandi said with a smile. She didn’t really need a break from Katy but the guys seemed to be afraid of her so she tough she would play along. Katy smiled and hopped on Justin lap, much to his surprise.
“I am on top of it, literally.” Katy beamed; the other just rolled their eyes and headed away.
“Wait you can leave her down here with us, by herself.” Chris whined but the others just laughed and continued up the steps. Justin studied the women now in his arms whether he liked it or not, she was kind of cute.
“You know I can’t write with you on my lap.” Justin said, letting his face move dangerously close to his. His lips defiantly in her line of sight, but the girl seemed un phased.
“Oh, I know that silly.” She said, she picked Justin note pad off of the floor and chucked it at Joey. “Joey is going to write for you.” She said, Joey just shot her an angry look but he finally picked it up and opened it, kind of curious himself as to what Justin had already written.
“What exactly are we supposed to be writing a song about?” Justin asked. He played with a strand of her hair; after all he figured if she was going to sit on him he might as well fuck with her. Katy thought for a minute.
“Write about me!” She answered excitedly.
“Yeah, great idea and we can call it, Crazy Bitch.” Chris chimed in.
“You know what I really don’t like you. Isn’t there already a song out there with that name?” She questioned to herself more than anything. The guys got back to work on the song; Katy loved listening to their ideas, and tried her hardest not to chime in. After all it had to be an ‘N Sync song, with little outside input.
JC couldn’t help but notice that Justin was not being his usual self any more; he had little to say about the song, his fascination in the girl on his lap was so apparent. He played with her and tried to use all his smooth moves on her, and JC had to laugh because Katy wasn’t having any of it. The more she shrugged him off the harder Justin tried, to the point where he was wonder why she was even sitting on his lap.
