Spending more time at her college dorm than at home had become a bigger problem than Rianne had originally thought. Not only was she being piled with schoolwork left and right, but she hadn't been able to find the time to spend with her boyfriend... and that was causing some serious problems, not only with them, but with one of her best friends. It hadn't really hit her how bad the problem was until she received the voicemail from Nikkita, and then she knew that in order for her to be that pissed off? Justin must have been pretty hurt. It wasn't like Ri had intentionally stopped spending time with him, but it had become extremely hard to do so lately, and in all honesty, it was her fault for not really saying anything to him.

Taking off her glasses and closing her laptop, she put her hair up so it was out of her face and drove over to the apartment. She honestly felt extremely guilty about the whole situation, but there was nothing she could do except apologize because really? There wasn't a good enough excuse for her not calling him, especially on his birthday. School was becoming more of a burden every day, and now that this was all happening because if it, she wasn't sure if she could go through finishing it. As she walked up to the front door of the apartment, she pulled her keys out of her pocket and pushed the door open. At first glance around, she didn't see him. "Justin?" she said, loud enough for him to hear at any part of the apartment.

Justin was in Lexus's apartment, luckily for him she let him stay in her apartment. Justin found out Kita called Rianne which honestly? He wished she hadn't. Justin wasn't going to pick up a phone and call her cause honestly? its not for him to do. It was HIS birthday. Justin's probably more hurt than anything else, Justin was falling and falling hard but right now he went smack into the concrete at full speed and now it hurts. Justin walked back to his apartment, it was weird it was HIS apartment but he didn't feel like staying there cause of Rianne living there even though he was so pissed? He didn't want to kick her out and be out on the streets. Justin can be mean and certainly cold hearted but he'd never do that.

Justin waited before going to the apartment the door was unlocked meaning she was already inside. He sighed deeply and was seriously trying with all his might to control his anger. Justin has a serious anger probelm and it shows very well. Justin walked into the apartment. Probably the one thing that made him angry was just a few moments ago when she said 'if she had know it would've bothered him that much she would've said something'. Justin saw her standing in the room but didn't say anything he just waited for what she had to say before saying anything. Justin then thought why is he being quiet? He's never quiet but he wasn't going to be mean he did what to hear what she had to say so he left it with a simple "Hi"

Honestly, being away from home for so long had been wrong of Rianne. She knew that, and she knew she fucked up when she didn't even bother to call Justin on his birthday or anything. He was right not to call her because it was her job to do so and she had failed to do it. To be honest, it hadn't even really slipped her mind. Rianne had been planning on surprising him for his birthday, but suddenly one of her professors decided it would be nice to give her a report due on that exact day. Which was why she completely forgot about it after. Even if she hadn't gotten the chance to call him or even talk to him that day, Rianne did care about him, a lot more than she had shown lately, and she was really afraid she was inches away from losing him now.

Seeing him again was like having reality hit for the first time. Everything felt so good like you were walking on clouds or something and then all of a sudden, you fell right off of that cloud and into the real world. The only difference was that school was boring as fuck, and Rianne didn't like doing it but did because she wanted to get somewhere in life. Anyway... She looked at him for a second before speaking. "So... Tell me how you're feeling because I want to know," she said finally, taking a seat on the couch and looking at him.

Justin looked at her as she spoke, somehow he was feeling like she was twisting it around so he'd end up feeling bad cause of the whole school thing but he wasn't really. "Well, I feel shitty" he said bluntly he wasn't going to go into a big long story cause thats just not him. "I really didn't think that I have to tell you that it would bother me alot if you didn't call on my birthday. What the fuck? It's my fucking birthday. I only turn 21 once. You're already 21 so I guess that really doesn't matter" he said to her he was getting angry and trying really REALLY hard to control.

"Hell, even Perez made a HUGE announcement about it. The only person I wanted to atleast wish me a happy birthday? Didn't. Because she's too busy" he said not even bothering to sit next to her cause right now? He couldn't stand to look at her. "And I don't mean, I don't want you to do your schoolwork cause thats what you're supposed to be doing. It takes two minutes to pick up the phone." he said to her. Rianne was the ONLY person he wanted to spend his birthday with, and if she couldn't he would've been fine with just talking to her on the phone. Instead Justin got completely shitfaced and passed out. Nice birthday.

Even if Rianne was being piled with schoolwork, she wasn't going to pin it on Justin or try to make him feel bad about anything because really, it was her fault. She listened to his explanation of how he was feeling, and strangely she felt a lot more patient than usual. It was sort of weird how someone could bring out the best in you without even trying. "Okay, I know, that was stupid of me to say. I should've known it would bother you, and I was really planning on doing something for you, but the plans got all fucked up by a stupid project," she said. "I don't know why I didn't call, but it did matter, and it still does," said Rianne, having trouble finding the right things to say. God, her head was spinning.

Of course she didn't blame him for not sitting next to her. If she were him, she probably wouldn't have wanted to sit next to her either. Ri listened to him as he continued to explain how he felt and everything. "I'm really sorry," she said after a second. "I should have called. And I should have said something even before all this, just to let you know that I'd be busy, but it's just... hard, to want to do so well and focus on two things at the same time," she said. "But the thing is, I want to. I want to be able to make time for you and I want you to be in my life, I just probably haven't made the best effort to show you that lately." She really didn't want him to be angry, and she could tell he was holding back some sort of anger, so she paused for a moment in case he wanted to... explode, or something. She could probably take it, he wouldn't physically touch her. When she was sure he was composed enough, she spoke again. "It really is my fault, because even though school did have me totally busy for the past month or so, I could have taken a minute or two to call an I didn't. I just... hope you'll let me make it up to you. Because I do care about you a lot and I don't want things to be messed up because of the stupid things I do," she said, taking a deep breath.

Justin was getting angrier then she said.. it was hard? It's not that hard. That just made it sound like she didn't even want to at that point. "It's hard? How is it hard? To dial 7 digits and say 2 words?" he said Justin was probably being selfish and well he had a right to be. Justin stuffed his hands in his pockets. "It's been.. 5 days, and it only took you for Nikkita to call you. Otherwise? You wouldn't have done anything thats mainly the thing that pisses me the fuck off" he said. If she hadn't Rianne wouldn't be sitting here right now telling him how sorry she was.

"So saying you're gonna make it up to me is pretty pointless because you wouldn't have even noticed untill someone called you which honestly? Is really fucked up" he said to her. Justin.. did love her, he wasn't going to lie about that but he was so mad right now he felt like he was dating Adriana again, cause at that time? He loved her too. "Maybe it's payback? Cause I'm spending alot of time with Lexus? Or maybe it's Karma being a bitch since I was so mean to Jessicka." he said as the anger was comming out. Lexus was his sister, and she needed all the help she could get, and even though him and Jessicka are cool again but he still treated her like garbage. "I'll be honest, I can't even look at you right now. Which... is why I'm staying at Lexus's apartment."

Okay yeah. He had a point. Why hadn't she called him? Honestly, she had no idea. She didn't say anything to that, there was really nothing left to say on that subject. Rianne just listened to him speaking again. "I know, you're right, I probably wouldn't have. But I'm glad she did because I honestly didn't realize that it hurt you this badly," she said. "I really don't have an excuse for not calling you. I'm really sorry, I truly am," she added after a second, still trying to keep her head on straight.

Rianne knew that he had been through a lot with Adriana, but she hadn't known exactly how bad it was up until now. She didn't want to put him through that same thing, but she had, and now it was just a total mess. "Eventually when I got around to coming home I would have said something, since I got your present and all," she said, "but yeah, it probably would have been a while, which is my bad." Ri wasn't going to lie to him and say she was going to call that day because come on, that'd seem like total bullshit. Besides, she didn't want to lie to him. The last thing he said... Well it hurt. Stung like a bitch. But you know, Rianne figured she deserved that, so she stayed quiet for a second. "I don't really blame you..." she said finally. "But I want you to know that I really do care about you, even if I haven't done a great job showing it at all. I want to be with you, only you, and if you need time to cool off by staying somewhere else? Do that. I can wait. What I can't do is let you go due to my own stupid mistakes, because... I don't know. Somehow, us together is just right, even if it has its ups and downs," she said.

Justin couldn't take standing anymore so he walked to a recliner and sat down in it. Rianne said 'You're right' dispite everything else she said. "I don't want it" Justin said to her, he didn't want her present. It's not about presents anyway. Eventually. "That's really good to know that if she didn't call you? You wouldn't have noticed. That reaaaaaaaaaaally shows how much you care." he said trying not to get mad he wanted to have a conversation without blowing his lid but it didn't seem like it was working. Justin really didn't care if what he said hurt her at this point he was just so mad.

"So...EVENTUALLY you'd come back with a present like....a present is going to make everything all better." he said. He didn't care he was throwing shit at her right now cause you couldn't seriously blame him for being so pissed off right now. "No no, I'm starting to doubt that to be honest...because EVENTUALLY we'd be together." now he sort've knew how Lukas felt with the whole Terah situation. "I know school is important but you make time, you know whats funny though...that day we went to the park? You could've said something then and you didn't."

Yeah, wow she was just digging a deeper hole for herself. "I'm really, really sorry! I don't have any excuse for not calling you, I know it was really fucked up but there's nothing I can really do about that now," she said. Rianne really did want to fix things, but she wasn't sure exactly what she could do to make it better. She just looked at him for a moment, knowing that he just couldn't bring himself to look at her. Honestly, she couldn't think of a good enough excuse because she knew she'd hurt him, and she wasn't going to make up any excuses anyway.

"Ugh, no! I know it wouldn't fix things, but... Okay, forget the present," she said with a sigh. No, she definitely couldn't really blame him for being that pissed off, because she knew he'd been hurt like this before. "Justin, I'm sorry, okay? I know I had the opportunity to say something but I didn't, which was totally my fault. But I do want to fix this, I do. I just don't know what I can do right now to make you see that I really do care about you and that even though I didn't make enough time for you, I want to do that now." Yeah, it was probably way late to be saying, but it was better late than never.

Justin sat in the chair and just seriously couldnt handle hearing her bullshit anymore. "Please just shut up I can't listen to this anymore. The only reason you're here is because Nikkita called you. I cant be with someone who needs to be reminded to be here." Justin said to her. He just didnt want to wait and wonder when he was going to see her.

Justin sighed he was just getting madder and madder the more she spoke "I think it will be better if we just dont see each other. Your too busy so you just continue doing what your doing and dont worry about me"

She didn't really know what else there was for her to say. To be honest, when he spoke she figured it was probably better this way because... Well, she really just... didn't have the time. Rianne could have tried to change his mind, but knowing how stubborn he was? It wouldn't do shit. So she figured... she couldn't do it anymore either. College was growing more and more stressful and to be honest, Justin needed to find someone who could make time for him. Frankly, that girl wasn't Rianne, and she was okay with that... Letting him go would be hard, but again, it was for the best. "Okay, if that's what you want, then... okay." That was really all she could say at the moment, and to be honest? It was all she really needed to say. Things just weren't working obviously, and so... she just had to let that go. Glancing at him one last time, she made her way toward the door and walked outside. She could come back for her stuff later.