Next stop was Europe. A sold out show at the 02 Arena London for five days. Really impressive performances and crowd. Julie had gone back on her promise to herself. She and justin had slept together on the final day of the London tour. They had both snuck out while the others  were having dinner.
This became a regular routine for them. Same thing had happened after their last shows in Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester. They just got it over with and he left without a word. They both understood, they both knew what was stake, and perhaps thought it better to not talk about it.
They had made a stop at Milan for three days. Their last stop for Europe was the beautiful city of Paris.
On the day they arrived, every one had been exhausted because touring was really exhausting as much as it was fun. They had that day to rest before rehearsals the next day. Julie spent the rest of the evening facetiming her family after which she took a walk with Mendy. Paris was indeed a beautiful city, screaming love and relaxation.
 
 After rehearsals at the venue, they had gone back to their hotel rooms. She received a text from justin asking if she was awake. She had just come out from the shower. She replied that she was awake. He asked for her room number, and she had sent it to him. He was knocking on her door after thirty minutes. She let him in. They were not to know that his manager had followed him when he left his room. The manager had  been suspicious for a while. Starting from the two of them leaving at almost the same time during crew dinners, to the side eyes and glances. They were actually doing a good job of hiding it that he almost doubted himself. His room was across justin’s and he had kept watch the previous night hoping to catch him sneak out. Unfortunately everybody had been exhausted that night and nobody left their room. This night he had been keeping watch again, checking the peephole every now and then. He had wanted to wait until the mini get together they had after every show, but he had decided to not take any chances.
He came out to the corridor after justin had got in the elevator. He waited, and got in pressing the buttons to the same floor. He got off on the floor he was sure justin had got off on. He hid in a corner and waited, keepinh his eyes open in case of any movements. He waited for almost an hour before he heard a door open and justin walked out of a room. The manager stood up immediately and marched out of his hiding place. Justin was startled and froze mid way as he came eye to eye with him.
They both looked at each other, justin confused and shocked, the manager reaffirming his fears. He walked past justin to the door he had just come out from. He knocked on it.
Justin went to him asking what he was doing.
‘can we just talk about this please?’ he was begging in korea.
The manager ignored him.
Julie heard the knock and wondered if it was mendy, because there was absolutely no one else that knew her room number or that she was that close to in the tour crew. And justin had just left, there was no way he had come back.
She put on a robe and went to open the door.
She was beyond surprised to see justin and his manager standing outside her door. Oh boy! This was not good at all.
‘hi, come on in’
They both followed her inside, justin rolled his eyes.
‘ please sit, do you want something, is there anything I can help you with?’
The manager was not really fluent in English so he had a hard time spelling it out.
‘ two of you sleeping together?’ the manager asked.
That hit julie hard. She stared at him, her face a mixing shock of emotions. She wanted to deny it so bad, but she was sure that her face had given out the answer already. Justin intervened. He asked the manager to stop asking her questions. Julie looked from justin to the manager.
‘ if yes, you will need sign NDA’ the manger added.
She watched as justin and his manager were talking seriously but quietly in Korean.
‘ there is nothing going on between us. We are not sleeping together’ she gestured with her hands.
‘ please tell him I said nothing is going on and I need to rest’ she said to justin.
Justin translated what she had said.
The manager looked at the both of them like two teenagers caught in the act. Julie looked dead serious even though she was screaming inside.
‘ let’s talk tomorrow’ the manager said. He stood up and bowed and left the room. She buried her face in her hands. What was going to happen now she wondered.
‘ I’m sorry about that’ justin said
‘ you don’t need to be. We really should end this now. There is nothing going on between us and we will not see each other again. I let this go too far, but now it needs to stop’
‘what do you mean by there is nothing going on between us?’ he asked her.
‘ exactly what it means. Just sneaking around and sleeping together. There really is nothing there. We both made a mistake and now we should stop before the whole world finds out’
‘ is that what this was to you ?’ he asked squinting his eyes in disbelief.
Julie knew this was going to come eventually, she just did not know when. They might as well just get everything off their chest and end this charade.
‘ what did you expect it to be for me?’ she asked.
‘ I thought we were… I dunno reconnecting’
She scoffed…’ reconnecting? Without saying any words to each other. We just meet and sleep together and pretend like it never happened. That is not how reconnecting works’
‘ did you have something to say to me? Why didn’t you say it?’ he asked.
‘ so you don’t have anything to say to me’ she clapped back
They looked at each other. This was like their first big fight, they could not believe they were fighting even though they were both crazy about each other.
‘ what? Did you expect me to ask why you suddenly cut me off without a word or explanation’
‘ I don’t know. Maybe, shouldn’t you be curious’
‘ I had always given you time to tell me things when you were ready. I know you or at least I used to. I was waiting for you to come clean with me’
‘ well you did not act like it’
‘ maybe because I was and I am still mad at you’
She could see the hurt slowly creep in to his eyes, and in that moment she wanted nothing more than to just hold him, but she held herself back. They needed to sort things out once and for all.
‘ whatever I did and whatever that I will still do, I did it for you, for your own good.’
He scoffed  ‘ maybe you should actually start listening to me, and try communicating with me instead of assuming things that have not helped me at all’
She wanted so badly to tell him about the pregnancy, perhaps then he would understand. She weighed it over in her mind and decided against it. Perhaps they should go their separate ways after all.
‘ we should just end it here. If it means signing the NDA, I will sign it, but this is over. We have had our fun, but life is more complicated than this. We won’t have to see each other again after this tour ends or we might if your agency ever needs our services. But from now on our business and interaction should be kept professional’
‘ are you trying to be mean?’
‘ I am not’
‘ you are unbelievable’
‘ as so are you. That guy telling you he was my boyfriend a while back did not even deter you’
‘ did you ask me if I had a girlfriend ?’ he retorted.
‘ you made the first move’
He laughed  …’ I did? And did you say no, or push me away’
She said nothing.
‘ I have a big show and crowd who love me to impress tomorrow….. he paused as though he was contemplating saying what he had in mind.
‘ I think we’re done here, for real this time. Let us avoid each other from now on’. she could see that he meant it.
He left her room without another word.
 
She checked the time it was past 1am. She could not sleep for atleast the next five hours. When she finally surrendered to sleep, she had a really strange dream, in her dream, she saw justin holding jennie and they looked like a very happy family.