It's near the end of July it's hot as hell and I'm starting to feel a little sick. There is nothing like getting sick in the summer. It's a bitch. Elisha has been watching out for me and Trace has been doing pretty good taking on everything for me. We are on our way to Memphis, which is where Justin has been dying to get to. He really misses his family. He keeps telling me he can't wait for me to meet his family, but I can wait.

I've already been told that we (And by we I mean he and I) are going to be staying at his home there. Actually it's more like a family home. He did tell me that he told his mother we are kind of dating, which is true, but what is she going to think of me kind of dating her son. I'm still feeling a little crappy when we pull into the driveway.

"You're not going to get sick on me are you?" Justin asks as we sit in the car.

"I hope not but I make no promises. I've been feeling a lot better but you know." I say

"Is there anything I can do at all?" He asks

I think for a second. "Do you have a humidifier?" I ask

"Yea why?"

"Well could you get me some Vick's and I could sit in a room for a while with it after I take a hot shower." I reply

"Girl are you crazy? It's hot as hell and you wanna take a hot shower!" He laughs

"Yea I do I have an allergy cold and if I do this I maybe some better use tonight at the venue and further more I wouldn't be feeling like shit the whole time I'm around your family." I say feeling myself getting cranky.

"OK Tink I'm sorry you've been taking care of yourself for a long time now. I'll go get your stuff let me just get you settled in first."

Justin gets out the car and makes his way around to my side to help me out. He is such a sweetie sometimes. As we make our way into the house I hear dogs yapping happily and feet shuffling toward the door. As soon as the woman makes her appearance in the front foyer I know exactly who she is.

"Hey baby I thought I heard you pull up out side." The woman says as she engulfs Justin in a hug.

"Hey mama. How are you?" He asked pulling away to look at her.

"I'm good." She answers then looks over at me and smiles. "You must be Angelina." She says extending her hand.

I smile and take her hand. "Yes I am. It's nice to meet you Mrs. Harless."

"Oh call me Lynn. I've heard so much about you." Suddenly her smile falters some and she takes a closer look at me. "Honey you don't look so good. Is everything ok?" She asks full of motherly concern.

Before I have the chance to answer Justin is explaining for me. "She has an allergy cold. She's been sneezing and making all these weird noises with her throat all week."

I slap him on his arm and glare at him. "You make it sound worse than it is!" I say.

His mothers smile reappears. "Oh I'm sorry to hear that dear. Justin why don't you take her upstairs to rest!"

"I was going to." He says guiding me over to the stairs.

Once we're upstairs Justin gets me settled in one of the rooms. I feel so drained that I'm sure as soon as my head hits the pillow I'll be out. I remember Justin saying something before walking out the door. After that the only thing I saw was my eyelids.

Justin made his way back downstairs and into the kitchen. He grabs a bottle of water out the fridge and sits down across from his mother. They both smile at each other before his mother starts talking.

"She's pretty." Lynn smiles

Justin smiles even wider. "Yea. I'm sorry you're meeting her when she's sick. She's just so vibrant and fun and sweet. Mama I love being with her."

Lynn just sits and watches Justin talk about Angelina. "Justin do you know what you're doing?" She asks seriously

Justin frowns for a moment. "What do you mean?"

"Well it hasn't been that long since you and Cameron broke up. I don't want you just jumping into a relationship with some other girl that you really haven't known that long."

Justin laughs "I'm not jumping into a relationship with her mama. I will admit I was trying to rush things with her at 1st but she's not one to rush things. Besides she has some things she needs to figure out before we take a step like that. Like I said before we're kinda of dating."

"Is that your way of saying you all have sex when you do go out?" Lynn smirks

"Mama! I haven't done anything like that with Tink!"

Lynn just smiles at him. "Ok baby I believe you. I can tell you really like her. She makes you happy."

"Yea she does. It's just something about her. She makes me feel calm and I just can't explain it." Justin says looking off into the distance.

After a moment he snaps out of his daze and stands to leave. "I told Tink I would go get her some stuff from the drug store. So I'll be back in a few."

I don't know how long I've been asleep but I know that Justin has just sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Hey how you feeling?" He asks

"A little better. I forgot how easy it is for allergy pills to knock me out." I laugh.

Justin hands me a bag. "Well I got the stuff you wanted. I'll give you some time." He stands up and walks to the door before he turns back around to look at me. "My mom said she would stay with you if you're not feeling any better later."

I smile, thank Justin for my stuff and get up to head to the bathroom.

A few hours later

It's been about 4 hours since Justin left my room. I look at my watch and realize that he had to be at the arena early. Seeing as I am feeling better I make my way downstairs to see if there is anyway I can get to the arena to. As I'm walking I hear voices from the kitchen so that's where I head.

"Well look who's up!" Lynn says as I walk into the room

I smile at her. "So you feeling better honey?" She asks in that sweet motherly tone.

"Yes I am thank you." I say taking a seat.

"Well that's good. Justin had to leave for the arena. He said he would call as soon as he could to check on you." Lynn smiles at me. "You hungry?" She asks

Now that I think about it I haven't eaten all day. "Yes I am." I say "Um Mrs.." I begin but Lynn gives me this look. "I mean Lynn are you going to the show tonight?"

Before she could give me an answer a man walks in through the back door carrying groceries. "Lynn hun they didn't have any of those biscuits you wanted." The man says as he notices me sitting at the table.

Lynn turns to introduce us. "Paul this is Angelina. Angelina this is my husband Paul." We both shake hands and do the nice to meet you thing before Lynn answers my question. "I told Justin if you were feeling better we would come to the show, but if not I would stay here with you while Paul went." She smiles

"Oh ok. Well I do feel better and I don't want you to miss Justin's show. I know he's been dying to get here."

Lynn laughs. "I've seen that boy in concert so many times and I'm sure that by the end of this tour I will have my own tape of it. I don't want you going there and you aren't up to pare."

I laugh. "No really I do feel better and further more Trace wouldn't let me work even if I came in there with a doctors statement saying I'm fine. He wants to be able to see it in my face as he told me."

Lynn looks at me again and decides that it's ok. "Alright then why don't you eat something and then we can head over to the arena. I'm sure Justin would be glad to see you."

I'm not sure if it was Justin's plan to leave me alone with his mother or what but we had a really great time together. We talked about Justin about what I do. We talked about my family his family and just anything. I think Paul got bored with us after a while. Once we were at the arena we made our way to Justin's dressing room. I knocked on the door once and immediately heard Justin saying come in.

"Wow you look a lot better." Justin says embracing me in a hug.

"I feel better thank you."

"Hey ma dad. Thanks for making sure she was ok ma."

"Oh it was my pleasure. She slept most of the time anyway." She smiles at me.

"Listen I'm going to go find. Elisha. Give you and your parents some time to your selves. I'll see you all later." I say as I head toward the door.

It's so peaceful and quiet here I may not ever want to leave. I guess when you live in the hustle and bussle of a city you forget just how nice it is to enjoy the quiet. I think Justin's whole family was at that show. Well at least everybody who lives here in Memphis. It was so nice to see him interact with his brothers and I could tell they really missed him. I decided to come back to Lynn and Paul's house to wait for Justin while he went to spend at least a little time with his brothers. (Most likely to put them to bed.) It's after one in the morning when he pulls up in the driveway. I'm sitting on the swing outside just daydreaming.

"Kinda late for you to be sitting out here all alone, don't you think?" Justin asks as he walks up the steps. "Or were you waiting on me to get back because you can't sleep without me?"

I laugh at his huge ego once again. "No it's not to late to be out here. It's a nice summer night and second if you forgot I've been sleep most of the day. Ain't nobody waiting for yo punk ass."

Justin looked at me and for a second feigned hurt. "You didn't even miss me?"

I just roll my eyes. "Come sit down and stop getting all mellow dramatic on me, like you're a drama king. It's so unbecoming of you."

Justin just smiles and sits down next to me. "You still feeling all right?"

"Yea I'm good. Did you have a good time with your brothers? I know they must have been ecstatic to see you."

Justin chuckles. "Yea they were. Steven said that you let him sit on your lap so he could see some of the show and that you danced with him and Jonathan at the show."

I laugh a little. "I did. They are so cute. Well let me change that they are handsome. Steven told me that boys are not supposed to be cute."

"We're not cute! Cute is for girls!" Justin exclaims playful and I just laugh.

"My family really likes you." Justin suddenly says.

"Do they?" I ask

"Yea. I know my mom is very fond of you and my grandmother thinks you're a "sweetie pie". Everybody said something nice about you. Steven asked were you my girlfriend." Justin laughed.

"And what did you tell him?"

"I told him I'm working on it." He smiled.