Justin and Leah are good friends since Justin arrived to the bay with his family.

3 years later, Justin has family problems as his brother, Brody cheated on his wife, Ziggy with Simone Bedford, a teacher's assistant of Ziggy's mother, Maggie.

The Astoni family has a strained relationship with the Morgan family since Brody's affair was exposed, and Justin's friendship with Ziggy's father Ben became strained.

Justin told Leah about Brody's affair and Leah couldn't believe what Brody did to Ziggy. When Justin tries to make peace with Ben again, Ben refuses. Leah tells Justin that everything will be ok until he kisses her. They later have sex and later went for a drink at Salt together. They continue to see each other and sneak around to have sex, they start a friends with benefits.

No one knew what's going on between them. One night, while kissing, Roo, who returned home from her trip walked in on them and was the first person who knew about them. Justin's sister Raffy Morrison became suspicious when she came to Leah's house to see Roo and surprisingly sees Justin there, who claims that he's there to pick her up and take her home.

Raffy and her boyfriend, Ryder Jackson noticed Leah's hair was messy and Justin's shirt was inside out. Raffy then discovered that Justin and Leah are sleeping together. Leah then writes an article about sex without feelings and everyone read it including Justin who was furious at her, for writing about having sex with him, even though she didn't mentioned his name.

They argued but he later forgives her and their announced their relationship to the public and start dating.

L&J

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