Chapter 3

The Truth.

(5 days later)

Today is the last day of school for the term and walking with Maddy all day made me realise that this is still the same life except now, I am best friends with the Jonas Brothers and instead of my afterschool routine with Maddy, it was replaces with one that included Kevin, Joe and Nick. Monday night, I got a big detailed description of my life so far and today, things were going to be the same as they, apparently, were. I asked the boys for some days to consider things and to make things work I have decided to try going back to the way things were. Tomorrow will be my first date with Nick because we decided that to get back to doing 'normal' things, everything will have to the exact same as before.

"Earth to Kate?" Maddy was saying, waving her hands in my face. We had stopped in the doorway of our next class and apparently Maddy was asking me a question.

"So can I come over this avo or what?" she asked me.

"This avo? No… Can't," I said still in a daze.

"C'mon," she said tugging me to our bench in the biology lab, "you've been a wall all day," she commented, "it's not like you just met the Jonas Brothers," she continued, when I didn't respond, "you only found out who they were, like, yesterday."

I looked up at her alarmed, so it's not just me that can't remember. I better not push the subject because I wasn't supposed to tell anyone about the boys.

"Haha, yeah, because that would be stupid," I said giving a small laugh. She instantly dropped the subject when the teacher walked in announcing that they were going to be doing a pop-quiz.

The rest of the day was boring as usual, what else could you expect from school? On the way out with Maddy, I noticed Nick's car in the same spot as the other day, unfortunately Maddy noticed as well.

"Whoa, who's that?" she asked, I couldn't well her, as much as ii wanted too, and so I just shrugged.

"My ride," I said as I started walking towards Nick.

"Wait, Kate!" she called to me so I turned around.

"What? I really have to go; I have a lot of… Catching up, to do," I said hurriedly.

"Can I have a lift?" she asked, I really didn't want to rude to her but it was that or her finding out and I don't think I could ever forgive myself, or them, if that happened.

"Um, no, sorry Maddy, I'm a bit late and I have heaps on this avo," I said, well, it was mostly the truth.

"Oh, ok then," she said dropping the subject and turning to walk away with a hut look on her face.

"What's up with Maddy?" Nick asked as I hopped into the car glimpsing Joe and Kevin in the back, trying to hide.

"BOO!" I said as I looked into the back seat. Kevin and Joe started screaming like a bunch of girls while me and Nick laughed and then covered our ears at the squeal Joe gave.

"Wow Joe, you scream louder and more like a girl than our girl fans do when they see us," Nick said laughing. I hadn't seen this side of Nick yet, the carefree side that laughs… A lot. So far, it has only been the serious side, it's nice to see him having fun for a change.

"Haha, yeah guys, didn't you realise that I was born female?" Joe laughed, his laughing seemed to ease the tension from earlier and I was glad for it. Nick pulled out of his space, not wanting to cause a riot with the cars behind us. I was so glad the windows on Nick's car were tinted extra dark, people were staring at the car, obviously it isn't soundproof, because Joe's scream was heard by the whole school, and even Maddy turned around to stare.

"So, what's planned for this afternoon?" I asked the boys, who had turned the radio on full blast, while attempting to sing along with Forget You. For teen pop idols, you would think they sang well in a car. Nope, actually I didn't think any of them knew the words to the song and all three of them were belting out random words that fit the tune of the song.

"What?" Nick almost had to yell so instead I turned the music down, receiving glares from Joe and Kevin.

"I said, what's planned for this afternoon? because I don't think I can listen to this for much longer," I added gesturing to Joe and Kevin in the back who were now silently rocking out to Willow Smith's, Whip My Hair, I laughed watching Joe whip his, almost non-existent, hair, threatening to hit his head on the back of Nick's seat.

"Um, whatever you wanna do is fine by us," Kevin finally answered.

"What? I like doing tis, its fun as!" Joe exclaimed proudly. The sudden song change gave us all the more reason to sit in the car a while longer since we got back five minutes ago.

"It was Saturday, when I got that call," Joe began making me realise this was See No More, Joe's most recent single. "Far away from feeling tall," Joe sang as Kevin joined in.

"I know, I know, I know what the truth is," Nick, Kevin and Joe sang together proudly through the verse and the pre chorus, me deciding to join in on the chorus.

"I don't wanna wait for you,

I don't wanna wake up, thinking, hopin,

That you gon get it right this time,

Cuz you know that your so cold,

And I don't wanna see no more.

I can't get away from you,

Its one of the reasons why,

That I just can't get you out of my mind,

And all I keep seeing is your picture,

Girl I don't wanna see no more, uh oh,"

This continued throughout the rest of the song, them singing the verses and me joining in on the chorus.

When the song finished and we had successfully gotten out of the car and into the house, where a beautiful golden dog came up and started licking me.

"Elvis," I laughed, but I looked up realising that I didn't know the name of the dog up until now. "Um guys…" I said looking from the dog to Nick and back too the dog again. I shrugged, deciding not to mention it instead I just walked into the kitchen. I noticed a girl sitting at the counter, stuffing her face with food.

"CONNIE!" I said running over to her. She stopped midway through a slice of pizza and smiled at me when Joe walked in.

""Connie, I thought we told you NOT to come in and eat our food while we were gone?" Connie shrugged, finishing her slice of pizza and getting up to hug me.

Connie was one of the boy's closest friends and she moved in across the road a couple of weeks ago and I got to know her really well.

"Hey Kate, Joe," she said wiping her mouth with her sleeve; she was still the same carefree girl from the day she moved in. Wow, my life hasn't changed that much after all, I thought smiling to myself. "I thought I told you not to call me honey!"

"But I didn't!"

"I don't care, I still have a problem with it," she said beginning to yell at him.

"We thought we heard Connie here," Kevin laughed walking into the room surveying the food that Connie had left on the bench.

"What actually did happen between you two?" I asked Connie, an angry expression still on her face.

"What happened? I'll tell you what happened!" she spat out harshly, "someone, Joe, dumped me for that slut he calls a girl!" she yelled.

"Whoa, Connie, I know you don't like her but 'slut' might be pushing it a tiny bit far," Nick said stopping to assess the damage after Kevin, but only to walk on towards the fridge, grabbing a Diet Coke and then leaving again.

"It's never too far for that bitch, she ruined my life!" Connie yelled marching out after Nick.

"I'll take it that's a regular occurrence?" I asked, laughing awkwardly.

"Only when she sees Joe," Kevin said, slowly attempting to clean up the mess Connie had made. Meanwhile, Joe walked out in an attempt to calm Connie down, I laughed lightly watching Joe run after Connie through the window.

"Such a shame, they would be a great couple," I thought aloud. Kevin laughed and continued throwing out all the things Connie left. I walked out of the room and went to sit with Nick who was watching JONAS on TV.

"Don't you get tiered of seeing yourself on this show?" I asked Nick, he looked up in shock.

"Would you if you were in a TV show?" he retorted looking back at the TV. I laughed and watched the show with him laughing at Joe's failed attempts to get a girlfriend.

"It can't be that hard to find a girlfriend," I laughed. Nick looked up at me surprised.

"We look for girls who love us for who we are not what we are," Nick said.

"ALL your fans love you for who you are, Nick, and if they didn't, they went off to be Justin Bieber's fans instead," I made a face at Justin Bieber's name and Nick looked hurt, whoops I forgot that they are friends.

"Don't kill him," Nick laughed looking at my expression.

"I would if I could," I muttered, Nick laughed lightly and went back to watching his show.

When it finished, Nick had slowly inched closer to me on the sofa and Kevin smiled as he walked past to go find Joe who had been gone for a surprisingly long time.

Kevin ran back after walking in on Joe and Connie having a make out session. Wow, they solved that problem quickly! And we all thought Joe and Brianna had some sparks in the air, but, boy were we wrong! Joe and Connie were great together, even when they were fighting.

"So," Kevin started, breaking the silence in the room," Brianna was really nice, is she coming back anytime soon?" Kevin asked, I was wrong, Brianna had some sparks in the air but it wasn't with Joe, it was with Kevin. I smiled at the thought of Brianna going out with one of her idols.

"Um, she didn't say anything to me about coming back but if I ask her to, she definitely will," I added, Kevin smiled, I guess now I have to go find Brianna to tell her that Kevin is into her.

Me, Nick and Kevin continued watching TV until Joe got back and, boy, did he look happy.

"So, how'd it go?" I asked Joe smiling at him trying to contain my laughter, as were Kevin and Nick.

"Connie and I… Talked things out," Joe responded shyly.

"TALKED!" Kevin snorted making us all go into hysterics. Joe laughed along with us; I don't think he noticed Kevin walking in on them. That has got to be embarrassing for Joe. He stomped away to his bedroom to lie on his, almost non-existent, bed. Nick was in such a good mood that he jumped off the couch grabbing a notepad and started scribbling away with a pen, humming a tune to himself as he went.

This must be a common occurrence because once Kevin had got the gist of the songs tune; he went and grabbed a guitar, playing with some chords until he found the perfect one to begin with. When Kevin came up with a tune for the first verse, Nick stopped his work telling Kevin to change the chords slightly because they didn't match the lyrics of the song, ah Nick, always the perfectionist. I sighed causing Nick to pause and look up briefly before continuing with his work.

Kevin finished his guitar part just as Nick was putting the finishing touches on the lyrics. The boys left the room to go to their home music studio when I decided to go check up on Joe. Trudging through the rooms that had stuff scattered all over the floor, I finally found Joe, he was sitting on his bed listening to his iPod with his headphones in although I didn't know why because they weren't actually plugged in, silly Joe!

"So, Joe," I said making my way around the different items on the floor. This startled Joe and he leapt off the bed painfully landing on some of the things on the floor. He groaned in pain and when he looked down to what he landed on, he made an upset face leaning down to pick up the guitar hero mic that had fallen apart when he fell on it.

"I was wondering where this went," he laughed briefly before putting it on his bed to be collected on a later date.

"Did you want help cleaning your room Joe?" I asked him, because I REALLY wanted to be cleaning this mess on my last day of school before summer break, I thought to myself sarcastically.

"Um, yeah, if you wouldn't mind," Joe replied looking around, "I think a clean might be a tiny bit overdue," he finished. I made a face at him.

"Tiny bit?" I asked him, he looked around once more and shrugged.

"Ok, your right, it is a LOT overdue."

"Better," I corrected him and began picking things up and throwing them away.

"Hey! What are you doing with that?" he asked me as I went to put a trophy away.

"Um, I was going to put it on the shelf, is there something wrong with that?" I asked, he sighed in relief.

"No, I just thought… Doesn't matter."

We continued to clean Joe's room having a great conversation about what lots of things were doing in his room. We laughed a lot and by the time we finished, we had over four bags of garbage.

"Wow Joe, if this was what you called 'a little bit' messy, I'd hate to see 'a lot' messy," Joe laughed and we walked downstairs to put the garbage in the bin when we were greeted with Kevin at the bottom of the stairs.

"What was all that laughing?" Kevin asked sternly looking at the rubbish. "You were cleaning Joe's room?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, Kate helped me clean my room," Joe said excitedly.

"So we've been telling you to clean your room for months, no, years and Kate walks in and you, LAUGH! While cleaning it. What has this world come to?" he asked sarcastically.

"I don't know Kevin," I laughed, "maybe Joe was abducted?"

"Hey! I'm still here you know!" Joe said waving to us.

"Anyway… Nick and I have a new song for you guys to learn," Joe dropped his garbage bags and raced over to where Nick was, "you too Kate, Nick wrote you a part in the song, you have to learn it as well," Kevin added walking away.

"Wait, Kevin," I started, "how does Nick know I can sing, I'm pretty sure he's never heard me."

"He hasn't, I guess he knows ou well enough now to say that you're a good singer," Kevin said turning around slightly and motioning for me to follow him. "Is he right?" Kevin asked me quietly as we walked towards Nick and Joe.

"Yeah, I guess he is," I said walking in on Joe spazzing out at Nick because it's to first, kind of, happy song he has written since God knows when. When we walked in, Nick gave me and Kevin a sheet of lyrics to learn and walked away grabbing a guitar and playing the song over and over again in the corner so we could get used to the rhythm and tune.

I looked down at the lyric sheet and noticed that it was quite clearly labelled with out different parts and comments on how we can make it sound better. Kevin was right, the bridge of the song had my name scribbled in Nick's handwriting with the following added as a comment,

"I have never heard you sing but I'm pretty sure you're great,

Anyway, I thought your voice on this track would make it extra

Special. 3"

I couldn't stop smiling at the heart at the end and when I saw the lyrics to the song, I saw why he wanted me to sing it.

I'm feeling like a fool,

I shouldn't have done those things,

I'm begging you to take me back,

But I didn't wanna do this to you again.

The song was sweet and it was about making mistakes and I realised that it was pointed towards me, from Nick, and Connie from Joe. As soon as this realisation hit me, I started singing it along with the guitar and Joe and Kevin looked up at me with stunned expressions, even Nick's looked the same but somehow he was still playing.

"That bad?" I asked as I finished.

"Bad?" Kevin asked mimicking me.

"You're not bad," Joe said with his expression still stuck permanently on his face.

"You're bad," Nick said seriously, I looked up at him shocked but he continued, "You're bad, at being bad," he said, "you're absolutely amazing, I knew you were," he finished.

"He's right," Joe said looking up at me, "do you ever get tiered of being right?" Joe asked Nick.

"No, not really, actually it's quite the opposite," Nick laughed, the tension in the room easing slightly.

"Ok, so are we gonna actually learn this or just sit here looking flabbergasted?" I said looking at Kevin who in return shut his mouth and looked back over the lyrics of the song. Nick restarted the intro to the song and we sang almost perfect considering it was our first time through.

"Yesterday you walked into my life,

And I was so afraid.

But today I feel like it's the only way.

You had no choice but to leave,

And I couldn't let you go.

No-o-o! It didn't have to be that way.

Cause you're the only one that I can think about.

It's all my fault,

I fell for you again.

Every time you come around,

My heart won't let you go.

And this isn't where I'm supposed to be,

But I couldn't leave you alone.

No-o-o I couldn't let you go.

Today I'm such a fool,

The only way I can survive,

Is by letting you go.

It's not all that easy,

Telling someone its over,

But I've done it all before.

So why is it not over?

Cause you're the only one that I can think about.

It's all my fault,

I fell for you again.

Every time you come around,

My heart won't let you go.

And this isn't where I'm supposed to be,

But I couldn't leave you alone.

No-o-o I couldn't let you go.

I'm feeling like a fool,

I shouldn't have done those things,

I'm begging you to take me back,

But I didn't wanna do this to you again.

It's all my fault,

I fell for you again.

Every time you come around,

My heart won't let you go.

And this isn't where I'm supposed to be,

But I couldn't leave you alone.

No-o-o I couldn't let you go. (x2)"

"I think…" Kevin started but Nick cut him off.

"We just got the first song to yet another record; only this one will be featuring Kate Russel," Nick finished. Joe laughed before adding;

"We're gonna have to rename the band Jonas Brothers and Friend."

"What like Barney and Friends?" Kevin laughed.

"Hey, it's not my fault its such a great show!" Joe retorted.

"Joe, I thought Barney and Friends was a show for kids five years and under not fifteen and over," I laughed along with them, Joe just giving everyone an annoyed look and getting back to memorising the lyrics to the song.

"Guys, I gotta go," I said looking at the time.

"What? Why?" Joe looked up at me confused.

"Well, firstly, I have to go contact some people," I said glancing at Kevin whose face lit up, "and I don't know about you guys but my stomach can't hold out much longer, dinner is long overdue considering it's eight already."

"What? Eight? Oh how time fly's when your having fun," Kevin said, he was disappointed to see me go but if I surprised him and brought Brianna over on Sunday, he would be extra happy, meanwhile I had some serious girl time to catch up on with Maddy.

That night after I had organised for Maddy to come over and chill tomorrow and I had organised Brianna and Connie for a triple date with the boys on Sunday, it would be a total surprise to Joe and Kevin but I texted Nick so that he was ok with it, he just replied that the look on Joe and Kevin's faces will be priceless so he couldn't pass up the offer, I got into bed feeling completely satisfied with my work today and fell asleep almost instantly, with a smile on my face, only dreaming of what Sunday would bring.