-CHAPTER 1-

B-ay-lee. Baleigh. Yup, thats me. On the flight to New Jersey, From Austrailia! I'm shorter than most people in this country, I noticed that while climbing onto the plane. I'm 5'5", with brown hair, blue eyes, and side-swept bangs. I'm aslo very preppy. Luckily for me, no more braces so my teeth are very straight! Anyways, starting high school in a completely different country isn't exactly the idea way of breaking into freshman year. Especially with the fact that I'm from Austrailia. From Sydney, Austraila to be exact. I can't believe my parents made me do this. Well, I did kinda make the choice but still...in the middle of New Jersey? Where it snows? I couldn't feel less at home. Right now, I couldn't even find my way out of the airport to meet whoever it was that my parents wanted me to stay with.

Wait a minute, I see three guys waving frantically in my direction and calling my name. As usual, they pronounced it wrong. I hate having a hard-to-pronounce name. Figuring the only way to get them to shut up and stop embarrassing me was to get over there, I carried my bags over to the three boys. Thankfully, they had stopped shouting by the time I got to them.

"She's cute, not to mention shortish for an Austrailian." I caught one of the boys whispering.

"Ahem. She is standing in front of you and knows that she is vertically challenged and would rather you not rub it in. Besides, you have no idea how to pronounce my name."

"What? Baleigh?" said the boy I assumed to be the oldest. He said the "Ba" like BUH, which annoyed me even more. "

No. It's B-AY-LEIGH." I said, stretching out the syllables. All I got were three blank stares in response. I sighed, "Well, if you can't say my name help me carry my bags." They picked up a bag each.

"Our mom sent us to pick you up from the airport. You must be that girl who's gonna stay with us for a while. I'm Nick." said the youngest one. "

Holy crap...you're Nick? The last time I had seen you was when you were like 3!" I said. I looked at the other two. "And you're Joe"

"Umm, yea.."

"We used to hang out when we were like 6! And he's Kevin, who I never saw because he was always in school!" I said.

"You sure remember us well." muttered Joe. Kevin hit his arm. I glared at him. "And for the boy who used to memorise facts about everyone you still don't remember how to pronounce my name." His jaw dropped.

"I like her already," said Kevin, smiling.

"So what have you guys been up to over the past 10, 11 years?" I asked as we got into Kevin's car.

"Not much, other than getting a record deal, touring the country, puberty and we have another brother" Said Joe.

"He's kidding right? about the record deal and touring part?" I asked Nick. He shook his head.

"Ever heard of the Jonas Brothers?" Nick asked me.