I'm Thankful For...
SS by Diane

"J, Jenny and I are going shopping in half an hour."

"Ok, let me go get ready."

Britney looked at Justin with surprise.

"Uhm.. Isn't there a big football game you're watching with the guys? Oh and plus.. You never liked to go shopping with us."

"Yeah.. It's just a football game, there'll be others. It sounds like you don't want me to go?" Justin pouted.

"No baby.. It's just that I would've thought you'd rather stay here and watch the game. And I don't want you to be bored." Britney said taking his hand.

"I won't be bored. I just want to spend as much time with you as possible. And if that means tagging along on your little shopping adventure then so be it. At least I'll be with you." Justin leaned down to kiss her lips.

"Ew. Can you love birds get a room? We're trying to watch a football game here and you guys are kind of kissing where we can't see the game?" Chris joked making Britney giggle.

Lynn looks at the scene in front of her with a warm smile. She noticed that ever since Britney and Justin slowly reconciled about a month ago, Justin never seemed to let Britney out of his sight.

"J, are you sure?"

"Yes baby, positive." He said wrapping his arms around her.

"Well ok then. It's just that it seems like you think I'll disappear whenever I go somewhere without you. Don't get me wrong, I love you always being with me, but I just don't want to feel like i'm holding you back against some things you'd rather like to do." Britney says softly.

Justin looks down.

"Baby.. I'm not going anywhere ok? I'll be back here with you in a few hours. I'm just going shopping with Jenny. I don't want you to miss out on this game that you enjoy watching every year on Thanksgiving weekend with the guys." Britney said lifting up his chin.

"Ok I'll stay. I'll miss you." Justin smiled warmly after a few minutes passed.

"Its only for a few hours, J." Britney laughs leaning up to kiss Justin softly on the lips.

"I'll be back before you know it. As much as I love you writing songs about me, please no Gone sequel." Britney winks.

Justin chuckles.

"Hey I can't promise you that." Justin said as Britney giggled hitting him playfully on his arm.

 An hour later.. Justin, Paul, Lance, J.C, Chris, and Joey were laughing on the couch crunching it up on chips. They were yelling and high-fiving when their favorite teams scored.

"Hey man, hand me a soda." Lance said pointing at Justin.

Justin grabs a coke can and hands it to Lance.

"No give me a pepsi." Lance said handing the coke back to Justin.

"God Bass, you're so picky." Justin chuckles giving a pepsi can to Lance.

"Thanks." Lance laughs giving his attention back to the game.

Justin just smiles as the guys laugh over something Chris commented. He couldn't seem to focus on the game. Justin kept thinking about

Britney and what she was doing. He missed her and it's only been what, less than two hours since she gone?

"When is she coming back.."

The guys all turn to look at him for Justin didn't realize his thoughts came out of his mouth. 

"Who Britney?" Joey chuckles.

"Huh? Oh yea." Justin mumbled, slowly realizing that the guys heard him talking to himself.

"Man, you're terrible.. You really got it bad for that girl don't ya? Good thing I didn't hit on her before you could get her again." Chris smirks.

Justin glares at Chris.

"Ok, ok just playing around." Chris chuckles holding his hands up in defeat.

Justin takes out his cell phone and walks to the quiet kitchen dialing Britney's number.

One... Two rings then her voicemail.

Justin hangs up and wondered why she wasn't answering her cell phone.

He walks back to the living room where everyone was watching the game and proceeded to find a spot on the couch.

Justin sits there quietly while all the commotion was surrounding him.

He looks at his phone, then stands up to walk back to a quieter place and try calling her again.

"Damn. Why isn't she answering?"

Two hours and a half later, Justin was finally able to reach Britney's cell.

"Hello?"

"Jenny? Oh hi.. Where have you guys been and how come Britney hasn't been answering her cell phone?" Justin said with a hint of worry in his voice.

"Justin chill." Jenny laughs.

"Well it's just that I've been worried to my stomach not being able to reach my girlfriend for almost 4 hours." Justin said sarcastically.

Jenny hands the phone to Britney who just came back from quickly getting something from the store. Britney immediately knows who's on

the other line and smiled as she places the phone to her ear.

"Aww poor baby."

"Britney! Baby how come you never answered my calls?"

"I'm sorry J. We got so caught up in our little girls afternoon out shopping our little butts off that I forgot to turn my cell on.. And to top that off, we ran into an old friend and went out to eat."

"Oh. It's ok." Justin said softly.

"How's your day been going with the guys?"

"Okay I guess. Not as much fun when you're not here."

"Aww.. Well we're on our way. I'll see you in a little bit. Love you." Britney smiled.

"Love you too."

15 minutes later Britney opens the door to Justin's house in Memphis.

She heard noise and laughter coming from the living room. Britney and Jenny sneak in quietly to where everyone was at.

Britney spots the back of Justin's head on the couch as she makes his way up to him.

"Whatcha up to?" She whispered her lips barely touching his neck.

Justin smiles as he turns his head his lips meeting hers in a soft passionate kiss.

Justin tilts his head to deepen the kiss as they both forgot where they were at.

"Eww. Yuck! You guys are GROSS." Jonathan said making a disgusted face.

Britney pulls away as she and Justin laughs.

"Hey little buddy. You won't always be thinking that." Justin winked at Jonathan.

"Ugh whatever. Kissing is just yucky!" Jonathan said taking a seat beside Justin on the couch.

Britney ruffles Jonathan's hair and laughs.

"Ok let’s hope you think kissing's yucky for a long time to come." Britney said.

"Don't get me wrong, Britney.. I think you're really pretty and all but ewww kissing.. I just don't get it. And kissing Justin?!"

"Aww thanks sweetie." Britney giggled.

"Hey! What’s wrong with kissing me?" Justin said turning to face Jon and pretending to sound hurt.

"I don't know." Jonathon shrugged.

Everyone starts to laugh.

Britney, Lynn, Jenny, and Sadie were all in the kitchen getting out some of the Thanksgiving food ready for the next day.

"I can't wait for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow." Britney smiled.

"I know.. The only reason you all are staying here for Thanksgiving are for grandma Sadie's famous peach cobbler."

"I can't argue with that." Sadie said winking.

Britney laughs.

"And turkey, turkey, turkey!" Jenny laughed.

"J? Have you seen my big nighty shirt with the cute little monkeys on it?"

Justin chuckles.

"Nope. Haven't seen no monkey. Check my suitcase, you might've put it in there."

Britney closed her suitcase and walks over to Justin's. She goes through his folded clothes and finds her monkey shirt in between his Abercrombie t shirts.

"Here it is!" She squealed.

Justin laughs as he wraps his arms from behind her.

"Why waste time trying to find it when I'm going to just take it of?" Justin said placing soft kisses on her neck.

Britney giggled.

She turns around in his arms and leans her head back giving him more access to his neck which his lips never left.

Justin's kisses went up to her neck, jawline, then finally her mouth. She captured his lips in her mouth as their kiss grew intense. Justin finds her tongue, making her moan.

Britney pulls away slowly trying to catch her breath.

"J..."

"Hmm?" Justin asks who was also out of breath finally opened his eyes to look into hers.

"We should stop this before it gets too far."

"Why? I was just starting to enjoy myself." He said resting his forehead againts hers and smiling an evil grin.

"Justiiiin.. We're at your parents' house."

"Since when did we ever let that stop us?"

"Well never.. but there's a lot of other guests in rooms nearby." She sighed.

Justin chuckled.

"Oh I get it. You're just scared Chris is on the other side of the door spying on us." He kidded.

"I would so kick his ass if I see that happening." Britney laughed.

Justin looks into Britney's eyes and is still holding on to her waist.

"Oh what the hell." Britney giggled wrapping her arms around his neck and finding his mouth to hers.

This took Justin in by surprise as he let her take over.

Justin walked backwards to the bed taking Britney with him. He turns around and lays her gently on the bed never once breaking the kiss.

Justin rubs his hands up and down her body. He lifts up her tank top as she lifts herself up a little bit to help him take it off.

Britney pulls on Justin's shirt pushing it up over his head. Then slowly pulling his pants down, she starts to place kisses on his chest.

Justin moaned when Britney was straddling him her lips all over his chest and stomach.

"If you don't get those pants off of you..." Justin groaned.

Britney giggles as Justin quickly tries to pull her pants off along with her underwear.

Britney pulls down Justin boxers as well and tosses it to the floor.

Justin flips them over so that he was on top of her. He places his lips on her breasts making her moan.

"J... Make love to me." Britney groaned out of breath.

Justin spreads her legs a little wider as he goes down slowly entering her. This movement made them both moan with pleasure.

Justin's head was laying on her chest as she ran her fingers through his newly growing curls.

"I love you." Britney whispered after they both reached their climax at the same time.

"I love you too baby." Justin said leaning up to kiss her lips.

The next morning, Justin put his arm on Britney's side of the bed only to feel it empty.

"Brit?" He said groggily.

No answer.

Justin looked around the room to see no sign of Britney.

He gets out of bed, finds his boxers and heads downstairs.

Justin follows the noise and smell to the kitchen. From the doorway to the kitchen, he smiles at the sight before him.

There was his mom cooking up some big breakfast and Britney with a messy ponytail in her sweats and a big t shirt on. Britney was laughing with Jonathan and Stephen as they were jumping up and down showing her a new toy they got.

I could tell Britney sensed I was in the room as she turns her head with a bright smile on her face.

"Hey sleepyhead." She said making his way up to him.

Justin grabs her waist and pulls her to him.

"Good Morning." He said capturing her lips with his.

"Eww! Gross!" Jon and Stephen squealed.

Justin and Britney threw their head backs and laughed along with everybody.

"What's that awfully wonderful smell?" Chris said walking into the kitchen and peering over Lynn's shoulder to see what was on the stove.

"Chris back off. Not yet." Lynn laughs shaking her head.

"Oh fine. Can't a hungry man at least see what he's about to eat." He said grabbing his stomach.

Everyone in the kitchen shakes their heads and chuckles at Chris's antics.

Justin, J.C, and Joey are in the living room watching some tv before breakfast is prepared.

Britney walks over to the couch and puts her hands on her hips.

"Is this what you boys are going to do all day? Just sit around, watch TV, and eat?" She said cocking an eyebrow.

"Isn't that what Thanksgiving is all about?" Joey chuckles.

Britney shakes her head and chuckles taking a seat on the couch beside Justin.

Justin wraps an arm around her and kisses the side of her head.

They remained comfortably in each others arms like this for awhile until someone Britney didn't really want to deal with showed up.

"Hey J man, sup." Trace greeted slapping Justin on the shoulder.

This startled both Britney and Justin as Britney pulled away from Justin and looked up at Trace.

"Britney." Trace said giving a nod.

"Hi Trace." Britney mumbled turning back around facing the other way trying to avoid him.

Justin noticed this movement so he took Britney's hand in his and held on to it tightly.

"Hey Trace... Good to see you." Justin said forcing a smile towards his old time best friend.

"You sound happy to see me." Trace retorted sarcastically.

Justin shook his head and looked down on his and Britney's linked hands.

"Yeah.. Trace, I don't think its a good idea for you to stay here."

Trace's eyes widened with a look of surprise.

"Oh I see how it is. It's because of miss little Britney there isn't it?" He snorted looking at Britney with a disgusted face.

"Trace." Justin started.

"No its you. Why do you come running back to her when you were so happy with being this great solo guy with all the girls? I just don't understand

you Justin. We had such a good time living this life that you now obviously are abandoning."

Justin's face was getting hot with temper.

Trace started again before Justin started to say something.

"Shit Justin. You also had Cameron Diaz! She's been a much better person to fuck."

"Shut the fuck up Trace." Justin yelled.

Trace looked at him with a smile.

"First of all.. It was YOU who enjoyed that party and girls life. I was never happy. I will never be happy without Britney. And you know that so stop

living in fucking denial. And why won't you fuck Cameron since you seem to think you know every damn thing I think. Which you don't." Justin said his voice shaking from anger.

Trace shook his head and chuckled.

"Whatever Justin. Just don't come running back to me when you get bored with Spears and want some fun in your life."

"That will never happen so quit wasting your time waiting." Justin was getting angrier and angrier by the second.

Britney started to stand up.

"Uhm.. I got to go do something." She mumbled.

Justin held on to her hand and looked at her with pleading eyes.

"It's ok, Justin. I think you two should talk without me being around." She tried to smile meekly.

"Ok. Baby you sure you're ok?"

Britney nodded, kissed his cheek and left the room.

As soon as Britney had gone, Justin stood up and blew off his steam.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" He yelled standing up to stand a few inches from Trace's face.

"Getting you back into your senses."

"What senses? You need to fucking get into your senses. Damn why can't you just fucking drop it. You know how happy me and Britney are when we're together. You know how unhappy I am without her and that parties and other girls will not change that. Maybe that's your lifestyle so you go ahead and do whatever and just fucking get out of our lives!"

"She's done it to you again hasn't she? Putting some magical spell over you to make you fall head over heels in love again with that bitch." Trace retorted.

Justin couldn't take it anymore. He was this close to giving Trace a mighty good punch in the face.

"Get the fuck out of here. NOW." Justin said his fists shaking.

Trace held his hands up and started to walk backwards.

"Heh. Fine Timberlake. Whatever you say. Oh I forgot to mention.. I have a surprise for you." Trace winked.

Britney and Lynn were in the kitchen preparing food for Thanksgiving dinner.

Lynn was putting stuffing in the Turkey.

"Honey, don't listen to that Trace." Lynn said looking at Britney.

Britney was sitting at the kitchen table getting the ingredients out for the pumpkin pie.

"Yea I know.. Sometimes he just really gets to me." Britney softly chuckled.

"I just hope they're not beating the crap out of each other out there." Lynn said shaking her head.

Britney looked up at her and gave a small gasp.

"You don't think ... I'm going to go see if they're all right." Britney said standing up.

"Hun, they'll be ok. I raised Justin well enough never to beat the crap out of someone.. On Thanksgiving day." She added softly chuckling.

The doorbell rang.

"I'll get it." Britney said standing up.

"I could just walk by to check on them without being too noticeable." Britney softly laughed.

Lynn shakes her head and smiles.

"Ok sweetie. Then you can report to me what's going on." Lynn winked.

Britney walked to the door. Only to find someone she was not expecting to be standing there.

"Hi Britney." Cameron greeted softly.

"Oh hey Cameron.. Come on in, its kind of chilly out there." Britney said opening the door wider to let her in.

"Thanks."

Britney didn't know what else to say and had no idea what she would be doing here.

"Oh I'm sorry. I didn't even mention why I'm here." Cameron started to say.

"Britney." Justin said walking over to her.

"Who's at the door?" He said putting a hand on her shoulder.

Justin looked over her shoulder and his eyes widened when he saw who was standing there.

"Cameron?" He said with surprise in his voice.

"Hi Justin. I thought you gave me a message?" Cameron says slowly and in confusion as to why he was surprised that she was there.

"What?" Justin asks puzzled.

Britney looked over at him.

"I swear I never left you anything, Cameron." He said flustered.

"Oh there there. I see you've found my surprise." Trace said smiling walking over to them getting ready to leave.

"What the hell is going on, Trace?" Justin demanded.

"Just thought I'd invite someone you forgot to invite for dinner." Trace said.

"Trace. Whatever you're trying to do, you better stop because quite frankly you're just fucking wasting everyone's time!" Justin yelled with fury.

Cameron realized she was at the wrong place to be.

"I see that I shouldn't even be here.. So i'll just head on out." Cameron said quickly grabbing for the door.

"Yes you're right. You should probably just go. I'm sorry for any of the inconvenience Trace has caused." Justin mumbled.

Trace shakes his head.

"I can't believe you man." Trace snorted shaking his head then finally heading out the door behind Cameron.

"Bye Britney, Justin." Cameron said giving a weak smile.

"Bye." Britney says softly.

When the door closed, Justin placed both of his hands on Britney shoulders facing her.

"You ok?" Justin asks looking into her eyes.

"Yes i'm fine... I should be asking you that. Are you ok? Britney asks touching his cheek.

"Now I am." Justin smiled leaning down to kiss Britney's lips softly.

The couple walks back to the living room where everyone was gathered at.

"What a way to start Thanksgiving." J.C chuckles shaking his head followed by soft chuckles from everyone in the room.

"Yeah.. I'm glad thats over with." Justin said shaking his head.

The day continued with both simplicity and chaos.

The girls and some of the guys were spending time in the kitchen cooking and preparing food for the big dinner.

This was messy yet fun.

"J!" Britney screamed when Justin put flour on her face.

Justin laughed.

Britney takes a handful of flour and dumps it on his head.

"Aww my Pillsbury doughboy." Britney laughed as Justin's hair and face turns white with powder.

"Oh no you didn't!" Justin laughed shaking his head then scooped Britney in his arms.

"Baby! What are you doing?" Britney giggles with a hint of southern accent in her voice.

"You're coming with me to wash this off." He smiled wriggling his eyebrows up and down.

"Ohh I see." She laughed as Justin makes his way up the stairs to the bathroom still carrying Britney in his arms.

Justin locks the door to the big bathroom and turns on the shower making it the right temperature.

Britney watches Justin the whole time and giggles shaking her head.

"Ok miss doughboy. Time to get cleaned up." Justin said smiling an evil grin.

He pulls her shirt up over her head and Britney wastes no time in taking his shirt off. Justin unhooks her bra strap giving her shoulders a kiss. This made Britney shudder. Then he slides down her sweatpants along with her underwear so that she was completely naked. Britney moaned as his touches filled her body and she slides down his pants and boxers as well. When they were both completely undressed, Justin takes her hand and leads her into the shower.

The flour on Britney and Justin's face quicky fades away as soon as the shower water hit her face. The flour on Justin's head took more time to get off.

Britney giggles as she rubs her hand on Justin's hair trying to wash off all the flour.

"Aww poor baby. Flour stuck on those curls." Britney stuck out her lower lip.

Justin leans down to kiss it.

"Haha. You put em on there, you get them off." Justin chuckles.

"Yessir." Britney said grabbing the bottle of shampoo.

When the last of the flour was washed off, Britney wraps her arms around Justin's neck.

"Do you know how much you turn me on being wet and naked?" Justin mumbled into her hair rubbing his hands up and down her body.

"Yes.. but we also know that we're still at your parents' house with people downstairs awake. I know it's tempting..." Britney moaned into his neck.

Justin couldn't take it anymore. He started to place kisses on her neck, then her shoulders and took time on her chest.

"J......"

"Hmm?"

"They're gonna hear us.." Britney moaned breathlessly.

Justin didn't stop.

Finally Britney gave in as she took his face in her hands and leaned up to kiss him passionately.

Britney's hands were running over his chest. Justin's hands were making sure to touch every inch of her body.

Justin pulled away from the kiss and continued with his lips on her chest, then stomach. Britney's hands tugged at his curls. He looked up at her and saw that her eyes were still closed so he stood up and leaned them againts the wall. Justin sucked on her neck slowly and started to enter her. Britney and Justin both groaned.

Justin thrusted harder and faster as Britney moaned in his mouth.

Both are breathing heavily after they reach their climax.

Britney laughed.

"What?" Justin asks looking at her.

"I hope they didn't hear us."

Justin chuckled.

The rest of the day was going really well. The guys and Britney were having a great time just joking around and having fun.

Everyone was so happy.

Finally, Thanksgiving dinner was ready.

Everyone was so excited and hungry for turkey.

As everyone was seated at the dining table, Lynn starts the prayer.

"Thank you God for blessing us with everyone we love here together on this special occasion, thank you for the food we are about to eat, thank you for your blessings, and thank you for keeping us all safe, happy, and healthy. Amen."

"Amen." Everyone says together.

Lynn asks everyone to tell what they were thankful for.

"Awww.. But i'm so hungry I could eat this table." Chris whined.

Lynn glares at Chris as everyone starts to laugh.

"I'm thankful for being here with you guys whom I love so much. I'm thankful for being happy... And i'm thankful for being happy and loved by Justin." Britney blushed.

"Aww." Justin said leaning beside him to kiss Britney on the cheek.

"Everything she said.. Well except I would say being happy and loved by Brit.. " Justin chuckled.

Once everyone said their thankings, Paul started to slice the turkey.

"Turkey!" Everyone was chanting.

They all got settled with the delicious food set on the table.

Needless to say, they were all pretty stuffed by the end of dinner.

Joey and Chris couldn't even get up off their seats.

Everyone laughed as Chris grabbed his stomach and complained.

"God I don't think i've ever eaten that much Turkey and pie." Chris groans.

After dinner, they were all sprawled out on the couch and floor watching movies.

Britney was sitting in between Justin's legs leaning her head on his chest on the couch watching "Legally Blonde II."

"This Thanksgiving has been really nice." Britney says softly.

"Yea it has.. Well except this morning. I really hated that." Justin said.

"It was kind of weird wasn't it .. But the rest of the day was great." Britney smiled looking up at him.

"Sure was." Justin smiled and giving an evil grin and wiggling his eyebrows up and down.

"Now what's that look for, Timberlake?" Britney asked cocking an eyebrow.

"Oh nothing.. Just thinking about my favorite part of today."

"Oh really.. And that would be?"

"Getting cleaned up." Justin winked.

Britney laughed.

"You are terrible."

"Yea but you love me anyways." Justin smiled brightly.

Britney chuckled.