[Dani/Closed] Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[Justin Percy Stewart]

Justin watched as Joel made his way into his own hotel room and gave a deep sigh. He dug into his back pocket making his way to his own room as he pulled his phone out. Logan Renner. How many times a day did he call this guy? He was all about being goofy and wacky and crazy, all for Joel’s amusement. Kid needed it, he had a lot riding on his shoulders, put a lot of pressure on himself. He was going to put himself into a nervous break down. Enter Justin Stewart courtesy of Logan Renner. “ Hey man,” he said tiredly, pinching the bridge of his nose as he made his way out onto the balcony. “ Yeah sound check went really well.. look I was going to talk to you about last night,” he said, leaning against the railing. Part of watching over Joel had meant that he didn’t let Joel know that he knew about his past. Joel was pretty open about it – with very few people. Logan Renner, Ryan O’Neil, Felicia O’Neil, Dani Cooper, Jake Russo, Lance Renner, Shane Madden.. that was sort of it. And if he knew the real reason that Justin had been planted in his life, he’d probably flip the shit out on Logan and everyone else at the label. “ He got really depressed about.. something. I don’t even know. He wouldn’t take about it. Per usual. But it wasn’t about the girl, I know it wasn’t.. it was different. There’s something distracting him,” he said, looking over his shoulder as he looked out at the layout of the city.

Justin turned, placing his hands on the railing as he looked over the city. “ I am, I’m keeping my eye on him, doing everything you want me to,” he said in response to Logan before he bit the edge of his lip and chewed on it a bit. Joel was a great kid, one of the nicest kids he had met actually. He sort of felt bad lying to him..sort of.. Logan seemed to think it was in his best interest and he knew him better than most, right? Besides, it had sort of come down to Ryan’s opinion on the matter. He literally knew Joel better than anyone. Justin reached up, using the bill of his baseball hat to scratch his head before he sighed and settled it back on. “ Alright well if we can’t get to the bottom of what’s going on then I’ll just distract him until his show with Ryan. He can talk to him about it, I’ll just.. amuse him for the time being,” he said, turning quickly as he heard someone on the deck of their patio. “ You…” she said. He scrunched his nose, looking over at Dani as she pointed at him. “ You stay right there,” she said before she darted back into her own room, presumably to make her way to his. “ … Gotta go. Spanish inquisition,” Justin said to Logan on the other end of the phone before he hung up and turned to face the inside of his hotel room just in time to hear the banging coming from the tiny fists on the other side.

Outfit

[Dani Marie Cooper]

Dani had a headache, already. It was 7:30 in the morning in California and Justin and Joel had already managed to give her a migraine. Sound checks at the crack ass of dawn. Justin had tried giving her a maid uniform and yelled things like “ hola muchacho. Clean-o .. vaminos..” at the amusement of Joel who cracked up laughing when Dani started punching Justin in the chest for picking on her for her ‘Something I Don’t Know’ video from when she was still on the Disney channel. “ Asshole,” she had muttered to herself before she retreated to calling Jake. It was almost ten a.m. in New York, so he was probably awake, about to get ready to head to the gym with Lance or something. She was really looking forward to tonight, mainly because she knew something Justin didn’t. Joel had arranged for Faith to fly out to California where a limo was waiting to take her shopping on Rodeo drive before she surprised Justin. When Joel said he thought every girl should be treated like a princess, he really meant it. Even if she wasn’t his own princess. So that just made her more frustrated. Justin was being a pain in her ass and he still got to see his fairy-tale princess. Jake was working out in New York and Dani didn’t even get to enjoy it. So messed up. Though seeing Faith would be a nice surprise for both Justin and herself. Once she hung up the phone from talking to Jake she slid the door open on her balcony but stopped suddenly hearing that Justin was on the phone.

Dani narrowed her eyebrows as she listened to him speak. What in the hell.. who was he even talking to? It sounded more like he was spying on Joel than he was being a friend to him. Dani stepped out further onto the balcony before she turned to look at Justin. It took a few minutes but finally he turned and faced her before she warned him to stay there while pointing at him. Just seconds later and she was running through her hotel room and making her way to Justin’s where she pound her hands furiously against the wooden door. “ You open this door right now Justin Stewart,” she said, giving it a kick at the base of the door. Joel may be a pain in the ass. But he was her pain in the ass. If anyone was going to be shady around him she was going to figure out why. She was just about to pound her fist against the door again when the door open and her fist collided suddenly with Justin’s face. ‘ JESUS CHRIST’ he yelled out before he leaned forward, holding onto his nose. Dani stood awkwardly for a moment before she moved past him, moving inside without an apology. If she needed to apologize there was time for that, right now she just wanted answers. “ What in the hell was that phone call?” she asked, moving far enough into his hotel room to reach his bed before she turned around to face him.

Outfit

[Justin Percy Stewart]

Justin held onto his nose , cringing at the pain that was searing through his whole face. Thanks Dani. “ Aw C’mon” he cried out, slamming his hand onto the side of the door frame in frustration before he shut it and turned to look at Dani making herself all comfy in his hotel room. “ What?” he yelled at her furiously as he pinched his nose. ‘ What was that conversation!?” she yelled back at him, having to repeat herself. “ What conversation?” Justin said, lowering his hand from his nose before he went to look in the mirror and grabbed a handful of kleenex, plugging it against his nose to wipe away the blood and try to stop it at the same time. ‘ Look at me, stretch. I’m not dumb I know what I heard. Start talking’. Justin came out of the bathroom, nose plugged with Kleenex before he tossed his arms out to the side. “ What do you want, huh? I was talking to a friend.” he offered before he moved to his luggage. Well he was gonna need a new shirt. Thanks again Dani. “ You’re spying on Joel. For who?” she questioned, getting back in his face with that little finger she liked to point. “ Easy senorita,” he said, placing his hands on her shoulders before he moved her to the side and bent back down to go through is luggage. “ You’re not denying it!” she screamed out angrily before she gasped and started to make her way out of the hotel room.
“ Hey!” Justin yelled out, realizing she was running out of his hotel room. Justin jumped up instantly, running until he collided his body with her and pinned her against the ground. “ What in the hell are you doing?” he struggled out as he tried to hold her hands against the floor. He flinched instantly has he felt a heel dig deep into the inside of his thigh. Why in the hell did girls get to get away with wearing weapons and get to call them ‘shoes’. ‘ I’m telling Joel!” Dani screamed out, though it didn’t get very loud since Justin was already trying to cover her mouth. All of this.. looked horrible. He was not this bad guy that he was making himself look like right now. “ Dani, stop. Listen. Stop.” he said finally getting her to look him in the eyes. “ You can’t tell Joel, you don’t understand,” he said earnestly, trying to get her to listen to him.

[Dani Marie Cooper]

Dani bit down as roughly as she could against Justin’s hand. Who in the hell covered peoples mouths? She pressed harder on her heel, hoping the spike of it would hurt his leg as she tried to push away from him. “ I don’t understand,” she scoffed, staying still just for a moment. Apparently it was a moment long enough for Justin to trust her because he put his hands up and to the side. ‘ See. Friends here. Just listen’ he said, backing away from her. Dani narrowed her eyes as she watched him, placing her hands on the ground before she pushed herself up off of the floor. She looked at him and then the hotel room door , debating her options. But Justin acted before she could, he was already darting for the door to lock it and bolt it shut. Obviously she could unlock it from this end, but it would at least take some time on her part and he was just trying to gain himself any time he could. “ No!” Dani said, jumping up on his back as she tried to stop him. ‘ What the hell is this spider monkey bullshit?!’ Justin yelled at her, trying to turn around as fast as he could to fling her off and onto the bed, but Dani just dug her grip into him tighter. “ Alright, ENOUGH” Justin yelled out, clearly having enough.

“ Stop it. Get down. You’re not saying anything to Joel.. because if you do.. I am calling every media source that will listen to me and telling them that your sex tape with Jake Russo is real and out there,” he said before Dani loosened her grip and dropped down. “ How in the hell do you know that?” she asked angrily. That had been a result of her father putting cameras in her house and hadn’t been something that she had revealed to too many people. Less than a handful. Justin ripped his shirt off, looking down at the blood from the punch, the holes from the stupid spikes on her heels. ‘ I JUST got this shirt’ he said out of annoyance before he looked back at Dani in the eye. ‘ Joel told me’ he offered before he looked down and shook his head to the side slightly, ‘ Don’t be mad at him, he didn’t mean to. After it came out he was looking for advice on how to maybe help you and Jake out with it if it ever came to light,” he said as he grabbed another shirt out of his luggage and looked up at Dani.

[Justin Percy Stewart]

Justin ran his hand over the newly placed shirt and shook his head as he watched Dani. “ Jake’s got his hands full with you, I’ll tell you that much” he said out of annoyance before he sat down in the chair that was by the balcony and looked over at her. “ Joel was going to cover up my sex tape?” she asked, making a disbelieving look at Justin. He rolled his eyes, putting one hand up. “ We’re talking about the same Joel Foster, right? Of course. He would do anything for his friends,” he said , pulling some of the Kleenex out of his nose. Nope, still bleeding. He grabbed a few dry ones, reshoving them up his nose. Probably looking like a retarded seal or something. ‘ That’s what I don’t get. Joel is a great guy. Why are you spying on him?” Dani said. Seemingly she was staying in place because she thought that he was going to blab about her sex tape. That was something that Justin would never do, she didn’t need to know that. Not right now anyways, he needed her to be on the same page as him. “ It’s complicated,” he said, looking up at her and shaking his head slightly. “ Does Logan know?” Dani asked, and this time Justin was the one that was confused.

“ Your main concern is whether or not Logan knows?” he asked , looking at Dani with complete and utter confusion. ‘ You know what is your deal with Renner, lately? I’ve seen you. Meetings in his office. Coming out a little teary eyed. Something’s going on. You aren’t talking about that, either” he said, watching her intently. “ …. It’s complicated” she countered back to him, using the same tone he had with her earlier. “ Yes. Logan knows about it. Make you feel better?” he asked and was slightly shocked by her response. ‘Yes,’ she said before moving away from him. “ Hey wait you aren’t going to say anything to him are you?” he asked, standing up as she made her way to his door. “ Tell Renner to make sure you keep your shit on lock. If you’re spying on him and Renner knows about it than there’s a reason why.. I get it.. Everyone has shit that they don’t talk about” Dani said , checking a scratch out that she had gotten on her arm as she made her way to the door. “ I’m not… spyi-.. alright,” he offered, figuring it was better to not drag the fight out. Spying, not spying. Whatever you wanted to call it. “ Well played by the way, Stewart” she said, pointing at her eyes and then back at him. “ Only way I know how, Cooper,” he countered back. He watched the door shut before he shook his head in annoyance. “ Aye carumba,” he said, making his way towards the bathroom to take a shower even though he found himself a clean shirt. He had just turned the water on when he heard a knock at the door. Really, Cooper? Justin went over the door and opened it, surprised to see Joel standing there. “ Bro.. did I hear a woman screaming in here?” Joel asked, standing on his toes to look past Justin’s shoulder. “ Oh..” he said before he tilted his head towards the shower. “ Yeah she’s uh… showering off. You know how it is, man” he said, smacking Joel on the shoulder. “ Your nose is bleeding..” Joel said, pulling one of the Kleenex out of justins nose. “ Things got bumpy..” he said, still trying to push Joel out of his hotel room. “ Hey hey .. I know I’m miniature compared to some of you guys but.. if you fuck with Faith’s heart, or any girl for that matter,… Bro I’m gonna have to kick your ass” he said, pointing towards the shower. “Knock it off. Stay faithful. I ain’t tellin’ you again bro” he said before giving him a look of warning as he backed away from the door. Justin shut the door quickly, sighing as he leaned forward and smacked his forehead against the door.