[ TEXT MESSAGE ] To Merlin @ magicmoments

[musicsavesmysoul]

Hey, baby bro. How you and B doing? I heard shit hit the fan a lil bit. Just wanted to check on you. Don't text if you ain't up to it. Just gone some news I wanna share with you. Love you loads.

"Baby, just for tonight we're making love worldwide."

[likefatherlikeson]

Who: Justin Campbell and Sasha Stanford
What: Down Under Adventures
Where: Sydney, Australia
When: After this

Sasha, being the unassuming introvert that he was and always had been, could think of little worse than a family reunion. He had been to one in his own family in recent months and other than catching up with some cousins he had always gotten along with, the family he barely knew reduced themselves to grilling him about Justin. At the time, Justin was okay to go along with him but Sasha didn’t want that. He had seen the writing on the wall and it was before Justin was recovered enough to have handled it well. A few months later, Justin came to a family wedding with him as his date but luckily, the family respected the fact it was the bride and groom’s day and mostly left Sasha and Justin alone to do their thing, which was mostly sticking to quiet corners until the night was over.

Now, it was a Campbell Family Reunion in Sydney, something that had been in the making since before Mark even knew Justin existed and was likely going to have upwards of 300-400 people attending from around the world. So many people that Justin was going to be performing at the party. At first, Mark wasn’t sold on the idea. Sasha discovered that Justin’s grandparents - Mark, Sam, James, and Alec’s parents - were both from large families. Justin’s granddad had eight brothers and sisters and his nana was one of ten children. That meant Mark had a LOT of cousins and it was one of these cousins who emailed him and asked him about Justin performing because not only would it be incredible but it would be a way for the family members to see Justin in the flesh, in action, without everyone getting up in his face on the night.

( This was before Justin’s drug relapse and subsequently severe psychotic episodes. It was before he signed a record and solo tour deal, and before Caden decided to officially take Footloose on the road... )

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