Same Mistakes

Chapter Twenty One [EDITED]

I sat silently in a small office waiting for Justin to arrive with Scooter. Somehow I got roped into meeting with Scooter as soon as possible to 'get it out of the way and start damage control'. According to Justin those were Scooter's words and not his, which I'm sure was true to a degree.

The office building the meeting was in was huge and in the middle of downtown New York. Go figure. Looking at the clock in the corner, I impatiently tapped my foot. I had to work in an hour and a half and they were already late. On the other side of the door, I heard Justin speaking.

"Yeah, but you gotta hurry up. You know I gotta go to the premiere tonight. Aight, Bye." The door behind me slowly opened to reveal Justin, but no Scooter, "Hey."

"Where's Scooter?" He sat next to me, slouching in the chair.

"He's here somewhere. He was waiting for me to get here." As if on cue Scooter entered the room with another older looking man. Scooter had barely changed since I had last seen him, still small and hardly intimidating. But the man with him was everything he wasn't, including intimidating and I immediately assumed he was Scooter's boss by the way Scooter stood behind him as he sat at the desk in front of us.

The older man nodded towards Justin, "Justin."

Justin returned the nod and the man directed his attention to me, "You must be Nadia, I'm Craig. I'm just here to have you sign a couple of papers. Where's your lawyer?"

I looked from Craig to Justin, confused. As far as I knew I was just here to talk to Scooter, but now I apparently need to sign papers in front of a lawyer, "Lawyer?"

Justin leaned forward, "That's my fault, I didn't mention anything to her about her lawyer needing to be here." The look on Justin's face told me to go along with it so I did.

Craig nodded, "Okay, then I will email them to Justin and he can have Scooter forward them to your lawyer. I will just go over the highlights then?"

I agreed and reached from my copy of the contract. The highlights were ridiculous.

The child in question will be subject to a DNA test and only when it comes back positive will Justin be subject to give any child support.

If child support is required, it will be monitored by Justin's legal team to insure that it is being used on the child in question's needs.

When the child is of age it will not attend public school and will be home schooled at a location agreed upon by the legal teams of both Justin and the mother.

No pictures will be posted of the child unless approved by Justin's management.

The mother is not to make any public appearance without notifying management first.

The list continued down the page, but instead of continuing I shook my head and looked up at Scooter, "These are just the highlights?"

Scooter opened his mouth to answer, but before he could Craig did, "This a serious situation and will be handled as such. We have to go over all of those points and so much more which is why you need to have your lawyer here."

I rolled my eyes and looked from Craig back to Scooter, "He's my son and has been for the past year and a half. I could very well go on with my life and give Justin or any of you no say at all and mine and my son's life would be perfectly fine. This is about Justin having a relationship with his child and if it's going to be this hard for that to happen than you can forget it."

Next to be Justin shifted, "Nadia-"

"No, fuck this. I'm not signing anything and I'm not having any lawyer read your bullshit contract. Grow some balls Justin and realize that this is your life. Either take charge of it or don't see your kid. The choice is up to you."

Justin looked at me with desperate eyes, "Nadia, please just slow down. You're right the choice is up to me and I want to see my son, but in order to be able to do so we have to go through all the legal stuff. This isn't the finalized contract, that's why you need a lawyer to go over it with for revision. Please can we just talk about things?"

I sighed and looked down, "Sorry, you're right."

Next to me he mouthed 'thank you' and in front of me Craig adjusted in his seat, "Now that that's settled we need to talk about Justin going back to Calabasas next week. What's going to happen with that?"

"What?"

Justin answered before the other two did which I was thankful for, he was easier to talk to, "You knew we were just visiting New York which the girls were doing business."

"No I know," Of course I did, "but I live here and I never planned on moving back to Calabasas. I actually was thinking about moving back to Ohio." And I was in the back of my head, the past few weeks were really overwhelming and I missed my mom. This was not to mention that my parents haven't seen much of Jayce.

"Wait, what?" Justin looked at me confused and before he could say anything a phone started to ring. Behind the desk Craig's phone rang causing him to hold up a finger and leave the room. His departure allowed Scooter to sit at the desk and finally speak to me.

"Nadia, I'm on your guys' side here. I hate management right now and I'm trying to get things back to normal, but with that being said we gotta figure some stuff out before Justin goes back to Calabasas. And Justin you gotta figure out what's going on with Hailey."

Justin's eyes widened, "Scooter, can we talk about that later?"

"Have you told Nadia?" Justin stayed silent and I said confused while Scooter shook his head and let out a sarcastic laugh, "You need to get your shit together, buddy. I can't help you if you're gonna help yourself. I'm gonna go tell Craig that we set this meeting up for a different time, if that's okay with you, Nadia?"

I nodded and Scooter quickly left, leaving me in silence with Justin, "You gonna tell me what he was talking about?"

"I'd rather not." His voice was low and showed no emotion. I, on the other hand, scoffed and rolled my eyes, "Listen to Scooter and get your shit together, Justin."

Justin ran a hand through his hair, having an internal debate on whether he should confess whatever secret he was keeping, "Nadia, I will tell you I just can't right now. Just give me time, please."

"What the fuck ever, Justin."

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Okay, so I know that a good amount of people read the original version of this chapter, but I hope that does not discourage you from reading this. As I mentioned in the Some Explaining note, I am going to be changing this story around a bit so again try to bare with me. If you are not liking the story or hate me, that is your right but please keep in mind that it is my story. All the love 💜