[Justin/Faith] Beauty And A Beat

[Joel Carter Foster]

Joel stretched his arms up over his head and tilted his back out as he dangled the cigarette between his lips. The water park was shut down for the video over the next few days, and the only problem? It was a little chilly. So he had been awake since about three that morning overseeing heaters being put in – everywhere. He managed to heat the water up and was letting it sit so that it would still be warm when they were filming. Not to mention he had gone to every Target, WalMart and K-Mart this town had to offer until he bought out every single robe and blanket so that the dancers and extras could cuddle up if they got chilly. Ordinarily Collin would take care of this – but Joel had persisted to direct this video so he was trying to take control of everything. Which also included ordering in what had to be a never ending flow of coffee, hot chocolate, cider, all sitting around the tables and edges. Plus the food. He wanted them to all eat pretty well – and he was making sure it was all stuff that sounded good on a colder day. Joel cleared his throat, bringing his finger up to his lips where he took the cigarette away and looked down at the screen in front of him. “ Let’s angle this a bit more,” he said, pointing up to the camera drop and tilted the camera against folly that it was attached to. He looked over his shoulder in time to see Justin. “ Hey man did you get something to eat?” he asked, flicking his thumb against the edge of his cigarette as he turned to the side. “ I’m too nervous. Faith should be here any second. Speaking of, you better be careful. She sees you smoking, she might hit you,” Justin said with a slight smirk. Joel made a slight face and shook his head lazily. “ People don’t hit me,” he said before bringing it back to his lips and taking a drag as he looked back down at the mock ups of the video.

The plane to get Faith had arrived last night and about an hour later Justin had told Joel that he wanted to propose. The problem with Justin was that he had the mind of a three year old. He had an idea, he just didn’t know how to execute it. So Joel had called down to the hotel so that this morning Faith would be delivered a nice breakfast with roses and a spa day. She had wanted to come down to the set, and at least this way she would be able to get a massage and relaxing day. Then he had set up an appointment for her to go to a hair stylist to get whatever makeover she wanted which would be followed up by a quick little shopping spree. Joel knew Justin would want today to be perfect. He was just a dog chasing a car who wouldn’t know what to do with it once he got it. Thankfully, Joel always had the mindset that every girl deserved to be treated like a princess. He’d said it from day one. Except for the girls that thought their shit didn’t stink – which came with an annoying realization as one of the crew members came up to him. “ Nicki says if she doesn’t shoot her part soon she’s leaving,”. Joel lowered the cigarette from his lips, not taking his eyes away from the different scenarios he had drawn up. “ So let her,” he said plainly, unimpressed without any emotion in his tone. “ Just let her leave?” he asked and Joel coughed before looking up finally, “ Yeah if she doesn’t want to be here.. let her go. I sure as hell don’t need her,” he said. “ She’s talented..” the person said nervously, watching Joel. “ She’s replaceable,” Joel said with a yawn as he stubbed out his cigarette before he looked at the guy. “ How long did it take for me to sell out Madison Square Garden?” he asked. The crew member looked from Joel to Justin, before bringing his eyes back to Joel. “…Twelve seconds, Mr.Foster,”. Joel scrunched up his eyebrows, “ Call me Joel – and yeah. Twelve seconds. How long did it take Nicki Minaj to sell out Madison Square Garden? She’s a fad,” he said with a shrug of his shoulder. “ Lady Gaga…Nicki Minaj.. Putting theatrics into a performance when you have the talent, is a crowd pleaser for your fans. Bringing that theatrical bullshit to your life is because you’re a talentless piece of shit who is banking on the shock factor to bring in your fans. The talent isn’t there, but you’re a new shiny toy. And you’re so wrapped up in the fame that you let yourself become this puppet who doesn’t even realize that their hanging by a thread. Meat dresses.. Neon colored hair with multiple personality disorder. Get real.. She doesn’t have talent. And I don’t need her. I don’t gain anything from her being here. So if she is going to be a diva, she can do it somewhere else. Because the people that I’m going to accommodate are the dancers that are freezing their asses off just to be a part of something they find exciting. I won’t however accommodate to some bubblegum- expiration date on her ass- wig wearing- talentless – overrated – soon to be washed up- mindless drone that is trying to tell me how to run my video shoot when she can’t rub two brain cells together to get out of her heated trailer to come show some support for the people who are supporting us here today,” he said before looking at the crew member. “ Do you want me to write that down, or are you good?” he asked, reaching back to take another cigarette out of the pack in his back pocket. “ … I’ll go talk to her, Joel,”. Joel held the cigarette between his lips as he lit it, muttering to himself. “ Have fun losing brain cells,” he said before he blew the smoke into the cold.

Justin snickered and shook his head, “ Ah, Joel. You hang around Renner too much,” he said before Joel smirked and sat back down to finish looking at the reels he needed to start up. “ Justin why don’t you go start getting everyone in their marks for rehearsal. We’re going to do a couple run throughs.. I mean as many as they can take before we just need to film it.,” he said, looking down at his phone to look at the time, “ Faith is going to be here soon and I told the driver to bring her up to this point, so I’ll keep an eye on her until you get back,” he said before thanking him, giving him a quick fist bump. Joel looked down at his phone to see a text from Libby, but instead of reading it right now, he locked his phone and slid it in his back pocket, pinching the bridge of his nose as he sighed and then ran his hand over his face. Things were supposed to work with Tori. Things were supposed to work with the girl that, inadvertently, was the cause of his coma. That wasn’t for nothing. They were supposed to be together. That thought process had made sense at a time. If he kept repeating it to himself, maybe it would make sense again. Joel rolled his neck from side to side, letting it pop at all ends before he sat back in his seat. He could have set everybody up himself, but he wanted Justin away when Faith got here. He was already a nervous mess, knocking shit over every time he turned around. She would know something was up for sure if she got there at Justin looked like he was about to pee his pants. Joel reached his hand up, scratching the edge of his shoulder before he sat up in the chair slightly and took his wallet out of his back pocket. “ Hey,” he said over to his personal assistant. “ I’m gonna send you out… Go to like.. every restaurant in town and buy enough gift cards for everyone so there’s a good mixture. Make it like.. twenty-five bucks each. Then head to the movie theater and get them some vouchers to see a movie or something, two each. And um…” he said before puffing out his cheeks and looking her over, “ Why don’t you.. have that stuff be delivered so I can hand it out when it’s ready, and then just.. go get a massage or something. Buy yourself a necklace.. I don’t really care.. just don’t tell me what you spend,” he said, relinquishing his credit card over to her before he looked up through the people surrounding them to look for one of his best friends soon to be fiancé.

[Faith Olivia Drake]

It was so nice to be woken up by room service with a nice hot breakfast and flowers. She didn't have suite mates yelling in the hallway or banging on her door. It was a little weird not seeing Shayla in the room with her, but it was also nice. Her phone had died last night after she texted Joel and Justin to let her know that she landed safely and she didn't charge it through the night, God only knows what messages she would have when she was able to finally turn it on. As Faith ate her breakfast she read through texts and listened to voicemails. She found out her plans for the day. Spa. Hair and make-up. Shopping spree. Then finally the video set. Sounded like a great day to her. She was going to be pampered, what girl didn't love that?

The hours at the spa seemed to go by so quickly. It was so relaxing. This was exactly what she needed. Time to relax and just clear her head. The makeover was quick and before she knew it, she was out and about on her own little shopping spree. It seemed like every time she went out to visit Justin, Joel always set her up to do something. If she had down time of doing nothing, it was little to none. Joel always made sure she was taken care of. It didn't matter if she told him no, he was doing it for her anyway. It was nice to have a friend like that. Joel was a sweet guy, even if he acted differently sometimes. Faith had gotten to know a different side of him, a side that a lot of people didn't know. It meant a lot to her that Joel would do all of this for her, her and Justin. Justin made Faith the happiest girl in the world and the fact that Joel would let her come out to see him whenever she could and that he would do all this for her showed just what kind of person Joel was. It meant so much to her. When the limo finally pulled up to the place where Faith assumed the video would be filmed she smiled. "So where am I going?" she asked the driver as he opened the door for her. "Through this gate here, sharp left and then straight all the way. You'll see Joel. I'm sure there won't be any problems, but if there is, just tell them who you are." "Thank you." Faith said with a smile. She headed towards the gate and then stopped and turned, "You going to be okay carrying all those bags up to the room?" With a laugh the driver nodded, "I've carried more." Faith smiled once more, waved to him and then headed in.

"No, I don't want a damn robe for the eleventh time. Geeze. I just want to find my boyfriend or Joel. Now if you'll excuse me.." Faith said as she walked past a group of crew. "Ugh, do I look like I need a robe?" she mumbled to herself. Spotting Joel she quickly walked over and put her arms around him from the back and rested her head on his shoulder, "Finally found you." she said as she stood up straight and walked to the front of him. "I was a little nervous when I was told to bring clothes with me that I wouldn't mind getting wet." she said with a small laugh. Faith looked around, "This is amazing. " she had never been on a video set before. There was just so much going on. She looked back to Joel, "So where is my lovely boyfriend?" she definitely wanted to see him.

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[Joel Carter Foster]

Joel looked up in time to see Faith heading over, thankful that he had put out his cigarette. “ Hey gorgeous,” he said lazily, sitting up to go over and wrap his arms around her in a hug. “ How was your morning?” he asked, lifting his eyebrows up in questioning before he brought his knuckle up to scratch the edge of his jaw. He smirked as she asked where her boyfriend was and gave a small nod. “ I get it. You don’t want people seeing us together and starting to think that something is going on between us. Smart,” he said sarcastically before he took off the headset he’d been using to talk to different crew members and threw it down beside the sample footage he was getting to figure out angles. “ Follow me,” he said, placing his hand on her lower back momentarily before he led her away from the small area that they were in. “ Thanks, I appreciate that.. I’m a little nervous,” he admitted, gesturing to all of it. He hadn’t been one to direct his own video before, and honestly Logan seemed more okay with the idea than Collin did. But after a few meetings with Collin he had relaxed, wishing him luck and telling him to give him a call if he had any questions. Honestly, he didn’t even know why he wanted to direct this one more than the others, it just had a fun beat to it. He pulled his pants up over his hips so that they didn’t fall down any lower before he made his way to the elevator of where they were headed. “ Are you going to participate in some of the water fun? I had it heated,” he said as he looked over at her. Joel yawned, waiting for the elevator to stop before the doors finally opened. Joel looked out the doors, seeing a slew of people on the roof. He’d had some of her friends flown out, the ones he knew of anyways. Her sisters were there, followed by Kristen and Hanna, and the other girl whose name he honestly couldn’t remember now. He wanted to go out of his way to help Faith- that didn’t mean having to become best friends with everyone. But he had decided to fly them all out after she left and made them swear to keep their whereabouts hidden up until now.. obviously. “ Well this is weird..” Joel said with mock surprise before he looked over at Faith and offered her a wink.



“ Your girl is here,” he said, giving a small head nod over to Justin as they walked up to each other and gave each other a quick hug. He was nervous. Joel could tell in the way his hands felt sweaty and shaky during the fist bump and slight man hug. Joel smirked before stepping off to the side. Relax he thought to himself, shaking his head at Justin. There wasn’t anything nerve wracking about proposing, you only did it if you were confident the girl was going to say yes. The problem was it might be the wrong girl saying yes. Thankfully for Justin’s sake, Joel was confident Faith was the right girl for him. Anybody could see it, you’d be a fool to think otherwise. The happiness between the two of them was slightly infectious. Joel licked his lips, looking over at Justin who was finally making his way over to Faith. She was young, he was older. Surely she knew that his priorities would be a little different at the start of their relationship, he was at a different place in his life and he had expressed multiple times to Joel that he hoped she would be willing to join him on the things he wanted. Joel picked up a glass of champagne walking over beside Kristen before giving her a slight head nod as he leaned against the wall behind them. Kristen was a pretty girl. If he wasn’t so into the idea of Kristen and Lance being together, he would almost think she would be a good girl for Lance. Other than that he hadn’t ever really spent a lot of time talking to her. Which was strange. Joel was an outgoing person, he’d party with anyone. But his close relationships were ones he liked to keep to himself. He could be the life of a party, and only a handful of people knew his secrets. Natalia, Faith, Braison, Ethan, Justin.. some people he considered pretty good friends, and they had no idea the demons he dealt with involving his brother and his own issues with alcohol as a result. The only person he felt understood the depth of that landpit was Ryan. After finishing the glass of champagne he set it down, sitting away from the wall as he focused his attention back on Justin.

[Justin Percy Stewart]

Justin was turning his neck side to side, bouncing in place anxiously as he looked around at everyone. By this point everyone on the roof was aware what was going on. It was one thing to play a sort of prank of Faith but it was another to get the whole crowd freaked out. Yes, he was flying over the top of the roof, no he was not going to die. “ You okay?” someone asked him and he nodded enthusiastically, bouncing on his heels still. “ Totally fine. Fine. Just sort of anxious. Nervous. Excited. Nauseous?” he said with a slightly quizzative nod before he licked his lips and looked straight ahead. He was older, this wasn’t his first serious relationship. And Faith had shared something with him she hadn’t shared with anyone else – he took that seriously and wouldn’t have allowed her to do that if he didn’t see himself in this exact moment someday, asking her to share her life with him. Suddenly the elevator doors opened and he stopped, standing perfectly motionless as Joel and Faith came out of the elevator. Was she even aware of how beautiful she was? He flickered a small smile, watching her as she seemed to take in everyone that was in attendance. Ordinarily he would run over to her and wrap his arms around her. But for the moment he was just enjoying watching her, seeing her smile and notice everyone else around her. He was sure there was confusion. But finally she made her way over to him and he smiled again, looking down at her as he brought his hand to hers. “ Hey,” he said softly, reaching down to tuck some of her hair behind her ear. “ You’re probably a little confused right now,” he said before offering a small nod. He would be too if he had walked in on this scenario. “ Faith you came into my life when I least expected it,” he started off, holding his hand securely around hers as he looked down into her eyes. “ There isn’t a thing about you that I don’t love,” he said before the nerves started to settle back up on him. “ Loving me can’t be easy. You’ve gotta be a woman with patience,.. trust me I know,” he said with a slight smirk. “ Not only that but you’re compassionate and caring. You’re beautiful enough to make any runway model envious of you. The only thing wrong with you is you must be blind to have fallen for some goofy looking kid like me,” he said, narrowing his eyes at her with a slight smile. “ I don’t deserve you, but I will spend the rest of my life trying,” he said, tracing his thumb over the back of her hand before he took a slight step back.



“ Joel you got that box for me?” he asked, nodding his head slightly. Justin took a step back from Faith as Joel stood up straight and reached into his pocket, taking out a ring box before hurling it in Justin’s direction. Justin narrowed his eyebrows, backing up and reaching his arms up in the air to try and catch it before he tripped backwards and fell off the side of the building. He braced himself, cause he wasn’t sure exactly how many times you were supposed to practice this – but he only had once. If there was a scream, or many of them as the others played along if they did, he didn’t hear it. All he could hear was the whirling of the wind in his ears before he hit the giant safety mat that was basically a larger than necessary blow up mattress. There were cards out on the ground, surrounding it, writing out ‘Will You marry ‘ before he reached over and flipped over the last one saying ‘me’ before she could get over to the edge of the building. Justin sat up on the mattress, holding it the best he could as he tried to gather his surroundings. That girl better say yes, after the hard work he had put into this. Well, that Joel had put into this. He had just never been more sure of anything in his life. She was young, but getting married didn’t mean they were going to start going to bed at 8 pm and checking out their AARP options. They could be kids and be married, plenty of other people in their business did it. But he was also willing to take as long as she needed to plan it all out. Don’t want a wedding for five years? That’s fine, at least she knew he was invested in this, till death do they part. Justin held a free hand up over his eyes as he tried to spot her on the roof before screaming out his lungs, “ This is Justin down here by the way!” he said before waving his hand up to the roof.

[Faith Olivia Drake]

Faith looked over to Joel, “Of course I am. Got my bathing suit in my bag, all ready to go, well after I change of course.” She said with a small laugh. Every time she came out to visit Justin, she always got that nervous feeling before seeing him. It wasn’t like a bad feeling, just your typical young love butterfly feeling. “You know,” she said as she put an arm around Joel and rested her head on him, “This means so much to me. I know I say it all the time and you say you don’t mind doing it, but sometimes I feel like I’m intruding on your’s and Justin’s time”. Faith shrugged and then gave him a kiss on the cheek as she felt the elevator stop. “I guess what I’m trying to say is thank you. It means more to me then you’ll ever know. You’re a sweetheart and you care about people. That’s what I love most about you.” She gave him a quick smile before she stepped off the elevator, stopping as soon as she got off. There was Kristen, Hanna, Shayla, Hope and Destiny. Faith’s mouth dropped as she looked over at Joel. She smiled as he winked and hugged him one more time and then headed over to the group. “Oh my God guys!” she said as she wrapped her arms around as many as them as she could, “You’re here!” “Yeah, here we are. Don’t kill us before we get to have some fun.” Shayla said and Faith let them go, “Sorry.” She said with a small smile. Faith stood there laughing with the girls for a few minutes but then looked around, spotting Justin and she smiled. “Gotta go.” She said as she headed over to him.

“Hey.” She said with another smile looking up at him. Faith nodded in agreement when he said she might be a little confused, “Yeah, a little.” She was here for a video for Joel in the water park downstairs. Why were they on the roof and why were her best friends and sisters here? Some things were not adding up. As Justin began to speak, Faith felt her breathing get slower and the butterflies were fluttering around like crazy now. She smiled at him as best she could while reminding herself to breathe. As he took a step back, Faith took a deep breath, trying to regulate her breathing again. She was trying to keep herself composed. When Justin asked Joel for a box, she stopped breathing. Was this what she thought it was? Was he proposing? It all made sense now, why else would her best friends and sisters be here? Just then Justin went over the edge. “OH MY GOD!” she yelled out. Her hands covered her mouth and she stood there in shock, once again, not breathing. Did that really just happen? Kristen and Shayla were right by her side. She felt her eyes starting to water and she took a few steps towards the edge. Did she really want to look? Faith took one more step and braced herself for what she was going to see.

Faith finally began breathing again as she saw him alive and well down there, yelling up to them. Faith started crying and held onto Kristen and Shayla. “You’re an asshole!” she yelled down to him, crying and laughing at the same time. Faith turned around and ran to the elevator as fast as she could, quickly pushing the bottom floor. When the elevator doors opened, Faith ran outside to where the mattress was. She kissed Justin, “Of course I will marry you.” She kissed him again shaking, “You’re still an asshole though. Really had me going..” she kissed him one more time and then let him slide the ring onto her finger. Faith brought her right hand to her mouth as she stared down at the ring and she felt herself begin to cry again. This was perfect. Justin was the only guy she could think of spending the rest of her life together and it was going to happen. Faith kissed him again for a few moments, smiling against his lips. “You’re not goofy looking, you’re sexy.” She said as she hugged him tightly, “and perfect.” Faith smiled up at him and then looked up to the roof, holding her left hand up, trying to show off the ring. They started cheering and Faith laughed. She was engaged.

[Justin Percy Stewart]

Justin cringed as her started to roll off the inflatable platform, stretching back out as he tried to absorb the fall he had just taken. “ Jesus fucking christ,” he said under his breath. After squirming for a while he finally made his way off of the platform and steadied himself onto the concrete. Thankfully the box that Joel had thrown at him had been empty. Like he was going to risk throwing the real ring off the side of the building. Justin scrunched his nose, limping for a few steps before he shook his foot out and started walking towards the entrance to the building. He caught Faith as she came out of the door and wrapped his arms around her. He smiled into the kiss, feeling a relief that she had said yes. “ Seriously?” he said before laughing again, bringing his hand to the side of her neck as he leaned down to kiss her. He broke the kiss, leaning away to take the actual ring box out of his pocket before opening it and taking it out. His hands were shaking slightly, probably from all of the adrenaline of the moment. Sliding the ring on her finger just sealed the deal. Fiance. Justin wrapped his arms around the top of her shoulders and held her close to his body. He was older, at a different place in his life. And thank God Faith seemed to be willing to come aboard.


Justin left his arm wrapped around her waist as she showed her ring off to the people upstairs. ‘ Go ahead,’ he said, tilting his head back up to the roof. He got to keep her for the rest of his life. She could celebrate with friends tonight. He lowered his hand, taking her right one in his own so she could have her left hand to herself to show off as she liked. As he walked over to the elevator he brought her right hand up to his lips and kissed it briefly before going into the elevator. “ You can’t imagine how happy you’ve made me,” he said before smiling slowly and leaning down to place another kiss against her lips. Guys like him didn’t get girls like Faith often. Or ever. Once the elevator doors opened he broke the kiss, placing a hand on her lower back gently as he escorted her back towards her friends and family.