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I had kept track of Double Strife over the years and watched as Justin transforazine or on TV, he had a different girl tucked under one tattooed aruitar in the other Women had always swooned over Justin and Kyle, but in the last few years Justin had erew to iconic levels I was sure it was because of his devastatingly handsome looks coupled with his cocky smile, ice blue eyes, and body covered in artistic ink His look screamed bad boy and it seeot ready for Sienna and I to meet the band for the first tiuilt because I hadn’t o, and excite Jack would only upset him, and I really didn’t want to worry him when I was thousands of miles away, so I had decided not to o and Justin and I had bothup with our usual tequila shot, when I felt a strong arm wrap around my waist fro my body around ready to assault the offender, only to find Justin s tequila I see"

"Justin! You scared the shit out of ot yourself smacked across the face"

"Still feisty huh, blondie" Justin arched an eyebrow, gracing me with the smile that made his fans drop their panties

I smiled and shookthat he was still holding ainst his body And it didn’t look like he planned to let rip anytiled ive hireet Justin

"Kyle, it’s great to see you," I said with sincerity

"You too, Syd We are stoked that the four of us are back together It’s going to be like old ti Well, that’s if this asole behaves" Kyle hts Justin used to get into at the fleabag bars we played at years ago

We all laughed and did a celebratory tequila shot together Oddly, even though it had been years since we’d all seen each other, there was a warht where we left off

It didn’t take long before word otten out that Double Strife was at the bar, because the bar that had been al woerly salivating in Justin and Kyle’s direction, looking like wolves about to pounce on their prey

Sienna looked around and sahat I saw "I see you boys don’t have to work too hard for it anymore, do you?" She smiled as she hed "I never thought I’d say this, but that shit gets old The other night Justin had a woman rip open her shirt and display a full-face picture of him tattooed on her stomach A few years back I wouldn’t have noticed the tat, since the woman had no bra on and a set of double-d’s, but instead of checking her out I found et the artist’s nu of his beer

Sienna turned to Justin, intrigued "What did you say to the woman with your face on her chest?"

Justin went to speak, but Kyle beat hi while she laid on the bed so he could look at hiave it to her"

Sienna and I cracked up at Kyle’s response I had forgotten how much the two brothers constantly busted on each other It was one of the things thatOne was always trying to embarrass the other or put the other down But it was usually all in good fun

I looked over at Justin and he was glaring at Kyle, obviously pissed at his brother for the story Itor if Justin really had slept with her

After a ed his beer and slao play a song so you shut the hell up" Justin looked to me and Sienna, "You ladies remember the words to Gone?"

Sienna juerness and playfulness see Justin out of his mood

The hotel bar was s for the crowd Although we hadn’t played anything together in years, even I had to adether Justin and Kyle were ht with Sienna and I, although I was pretty sure thehad no idea ere even in the roo out of control Swooning woet closer to Justin and Kyle The bar h to see the panic in h the kitchen that led us to an empty stairwell

We found our way downstairs and the four of us slipped outside and spent another hour lounging on chairs around the closed pool, talking about the tour Even though we had only played two songs, ere all on a post-show high Kyle told us about their hed I’d always thought it eet that Mrs Sest supporter of her boys before they ever found success When ere back in Boston, theirtheir show She didn’t coer after the show, but she was always there to support her boys

Eventually the conversation found its way to me and I took a few playful jabs abouttheir turn poking fun at my temporary insanity, and then the topic of Michael made its way to the forefront

"I have to say, Syd, I was a bit surprised that you agreed to join the tour I would have bet that Michael would have convinced you to stay back in Boston" Kyle spokefroed to swipe from the bar before our exit

Sienna responded quickly "Dude, they broke up a few o You don’t have to be so polite now You can tell her what an asole that man was" She reached for the bottle as Kyle passed the tequila to her

Kyle laughed "No shit Good for you That guy really was an uptight dick Right, Justin, you were never a big fan?" Kyle nodded toward his brother

I looked to Justin for his response and found hi at me, a cocky smile on his face Justin arched his eyebrows in

"Yep, never liked that asshole Always thought he didn’t deserve Syd" Justin responded to his brother, but never looked away from me when he spoke, his famous sexy dimpled smile never faltered

For so to extract myself from the conversation and the sudden intenseness of Justin’s stare "If you are all done talking abouthere, I think it’s tiet some beauty sleep"

Luckily, we slipped back into the hotel without getting noticed But I saw there were at least two dozen wo kept outside of the h the side door

The night before ere to check out of the hotel and start our life on tour with Double Strife, we had planned to sit down and spend a few hours going through the tour schedule and our playlists Sienna suggested that the guys come to our room so that we could have privacy I was a little unco Justin in our roootten out that Double Strife was staying at the Chancery, the hotel was a et the attention of Justin, so it only ether and were obviously confused when they walked in to our suite "Holy shit, what did you ladies do to get a suite like this? I’ve been sharing a suite as big as your living roohed as he spoke

I was a little embarrassed and not sure how to respond But of course I didn’t have to think about it long because Sienna, as always, was ready with a response "Didn’t we azillionaire and owns this hotel chain?"