Chapter 8

8

Dress Up

Liam and Justin woke up to someone knocking on the door, loudly. Liam sighs, sitting up. Justin looked around, before looking at the door.

Liam got out of bed, opening a drawer. He grabbed something out of it, before walking out of the room.

Confused, Justin slowly followed him, watching as Liam went up to the door. He swiftly opened the door, pointing a gun at Eric's head.

"Liam stop!" Justin yells, and Liam slowly lowers the gun. "Well, there's a first time for everything." Eric chuckled awkwardly.

Justin walked up to the two, Liam holding the pistol at the ground. "I am so sorry, Eric. He's just a little trigger happy sometimes." Justin says, leading him to the couch.

Eric waves him off, laughing. "No, it's fine." He says, sitting down. "Though, question. Did you two both just wake up, and why are you," He says pointing to Justin.

"Not at your house." Justin sighs, sitting on the couch next to him. "Didn't want to go back." Justin shrugged.

"We stayed up all night," Liam says, placing the deadly weapon on the table casually.

"Ok, well are you two dating. Because if you are, then now, you would have a reason for killing Eugene. Plus they could have evidence like you sleeping with him-"

"Excuse me! We aren't dating. And we just slept all night." Justin says, explaining what happened.

Eric nods, understanding. "I know that, but the other lawyers won't," Eric says, shrugging.

"Well, they wouldn't have any evidence right, cause we didn't do anything," Liam says, sitting on the table.

Eric shrugs, not knowing what to say. "Well, they don't even know that you slept over," Eric says, looking up at Liam.

"Ok, well is that all you had to tell us?" Justin asks, politely, though he just wanted this to be over.

"No, well I tried calling for you two. Then I went to Justin's house and no one answered." Eric sighs.

Justin looks at Liam before Eric. "Wait, Eugene's not there?" Justin asks and Eric shake's his head.

Justin quickly walks out of the room, heading back to the bedroom. Liam following after him.

"Where's your phone?" Justin asks, turning to look at Liam. He points to one of the drawers, and Justin quickly goes through it, finding the device.

He turns it on, going to dial Eugene's number. As the phone rings, Liam looks at Justin before understanding what was happening.

Liam walks out of the room, and into the hallway that leads to the living room to give Justin some privacy.

When the phone finally answers, there are multiple people in the background, though he can hear once clearly, Eugene.

"Hello?" Eugene says from the other side of the phone call. "Where hell are you?" Justin asks and Eugene sighs.

"With some friends, why? You wanna come over and we ca-" He starts, but Justin cuts him off. "Shut the fuck up, will you." Justin sighs.

"Whose phone are you using?" Eugene asks as Justin paces around the room. "And you weren't home last night, Jamey wanted to see you," Eugene says disappointed.

"Why does where I am involved you?" Justin questions harshly. Eugene sighs, on the other end, talking to someone before going back to Justin.

"If you don't tell me where I won't tell you where Jamey is." Eugene bargains. Justin grumbles something, before standing up.

He starts to make the bed as he decides his next move.

"Ok, fine. I'm at Liam's right now with Eric." Justin says, placing the pillows on the headboard. "I'm using Liam's phone right now."

"Uh, you still talking to that man. You know I'm a better husband, right? I'm smarter, richer, prettier, more fun-"

"You know the fact that you using the word more fun shows you aren't that smart," Justin says, grabbing the comforter to fold it.

"Whatever, you know what I mean. I don't know why you cheated on me, Justin. It hurt." Eugene says, sounding like he was crying, even though he was putting on an act.

"You of all people should know I never cheated on you. I and Liam are just friends, and you need to get that through your thick skull." Justin says, groaning.

"Now, tell me where Jamey is," Justin says harshly. His attention changes as somebody knocks on the bedroom door, before walking in.

"Hey, we have to talk to the lawyers today, with everyone. It's at 3 so we should get ready soon." Liam says quietly.

 Justin nods, smiling at him. "Thank you." Justin says nicely."Who was that?" Eugene asks, straining his ears to try and hear what Justin was saying.

"I'll tell you if you tell me where Jamey is," Justin says, using Eugene's tricks against him. Eugene sighs, rolling his eyes.

"He's at Betty's. He wanted to have a sleepover with her kid." Eugene says, taking another chug of the beer.

Justin knew he was getting drunk, and smiled at that. "Ok, well just letting you know, you should probably look somewhat presentable."

"What? Why?" Eugene asks, grabbing another beer with his friends.

"Because we're talking to the lawyers. And I don't think they would want an alcoholic as their client, especially a drunk one." Justin says, before hanging up the phone.

Justin laughs to himself placing Liam's phone on the bed. He walked out of the bedroom smiling, walking into the open space.

"Your evil.' Liam says chuckling. Justin shrugs, taking the banana from Liam's hand, taking a bite.

"What happened?" Eric asks, looking at Justin. He wallowed the banana piece, smiling at Eric.

"I have a feeling he's going to be drunk when we have the meeting." Justin shrugs, as Liam steals the banana back, glaring.

Where's Jamey?" Liam asks, confused. "He's at Betty's. We should be fine." Justin smiles. "Though, I do need clothes," Justin says, gesturing at his PJs.

Later That Day

"So, what are we supposed to do, in this meeting?" Justin asks, giving Jamey his shoes. Liam leaned on the wall, arms crossed.

"I don't know. Just tell our stories, give them details. Quote from Eric, So all lawyers don't have an advantage without telling them our strategies."

"Papa, I don't wanna go," Jamey says and Justin sighs, crouching to Jamey's level. "Baby you have to go, ok. Just tell me what you saw and  Angelica will bring you home, ok?" Justin says looking at the young boy.

He hesitantly nods, and Justin sighs, looking up at Liam. Who nods at Justin. "Ok let's go," Justin says smiling.

The three then walked out of the house, and into Justin's Tesla. As Liam gets into the smart car, he looks at the tablet display.

"Wait so you can watch Netflix?" Liam asks confused, "Isn't that like illegal?" Justin sighs, laughing at Liam's expression.

"No, the car only lets you play Netflix if it's stationary and charging. Usually, I let Jamey watch it." Justin explains. Jamey buckles himself in the backseat.

"Papa, can you show Liam how to do the self-drive thing." Jamey requests excitedly. Liam gasps looking at Justin.

"THIS THING CAN SELF DRIVE!!!!!" Justin laughs at Liam's face, his mouth in an o shape.

Justin nods, backing out of the driveway. "Yeah, but only on main roads, I'll show you later," Justin says, driving out of the neighborhood.

He gets on the highway and presses the lever twice, a ding sound coming out of the car.

Liam looks at Justin confused, not understanding where the ding sound came from.

Justin then takes his hands off the steering wheel, and Liam's eyes go wide. "OMG, you are now my favorite friend," Liam says as the car turns into a different lane.

"I thought I was your only friend?" Justin asks, leaning his head on his hand. Liam rolled his eyes, as a ding sound came out of the car again.

Justin places his hands on the steering wheel, shifting it slightly. "It does that to make sure that I don't go to sleep or anything," Justin explains.

Liam nods, playing that ABC's song in the car. Justin looks at Liam confused. "Why did you do that?" Justin asks as Liam starts dancing in his seat.

"This is my jam!" Liam says, dancing to the preschool song. Justin just facepalms.

He grabs the steering wheel, putting the car in cruise. "You are so weird," Justin says, turning off the song.

Justin focuses on the road, as Liam gives Jamey his phone, for him to play Angry Birds.

"So who's supposed to be coming to the meeting?" Justin asks, going into an Exit.

"Um, Eric says, Eugene, his lawyers, your sister, us, Eric, and that's it," Liam says, listing off the people.

"I get  Angelica's coming for Jamey, but she's giving a statement?" Justin asks, confused. Liam nods, playing some soothing tunes.

"Yeah, she wanted to herself. Asked Eric, to, probably to raise the chance." Liam says tapping his foot to the beat of the music.

"Well, she must have found out because if I don't answer my phone, they are usually called  Angelica," Justin says, going into the city of Manhattan.

Justin glances behind the seat, looking at Jamey before sighing. "Jamey fell asleep," Justin says smiling. Liam looks behind himself to look at Jamey.

"He's a sweet kid, J. A nice one too. I don't usually like kids, but he's nice. It's crazy that he came from you and Eugene." Liam says looking back.

Justin shrugs, understanding where Liam's coming from. He turns into this building. A nice one with the sign, Nelson and Elchizer

"I'll wake up little junior behind me," Liam says as Justin stops the car. Justin nods, letting Liam get out of the car.

Justin unbuckles his seat belt, taking a moment to breathe before stepping out of the car.

"Hey, the kid we're here," Liam says, getting Jamey out of his seat. Jamey slowly stirred, looking around before at Liam.

"Dad?" He asks as Liam's eyes go wide, just like Justin's. "W-what? Uh, no. It's just Liam. It's time to get out." Liam says letting Jamey get out of the car.

"Jamey walks next to Liam, Liam next to Justin, as they open the door. "Someone has been promoted from Liam to Dad." Justin joked.

Liam rolled his eyes, laughing. "Yeah, right. I guess he likes me." Liam says joking.

Eric, looks at the door, seeing Justin, Liam, and Jamey, smiling. He whispers to a blond girl he's talking to, before walking over to the three.

"Hey, the rest of the people are already upstairs, so let's get started."