Please read the 1st story in this series, Best Friends and High School, before beginning this one.

ALEX

I smiled at my best friends who were surrounding me in the car on the way home. Today was the last day of school. We were officially high school seniors. Well except for Shane. His graduation was tomorrow. Jason was driving us to our favorite restaurant, Five Guys (we love our burgers). I turned to my boyfriend, Nate Gray.

Yes, THE Nate Gray of Connect Three, the most amazing band to ever grace this Earth. We got together about 4 months ago and we've had some arguments, but us previously being best friends, we worked everything out pretty quickly.

"One week!" I said with a smile.

He returned the smile and pulled me closer to him, his hands on my waist.

"Yup. One more week until the entire world will get to hear my amazing girlfriend's beautiful voice."

I playfully rolled my eyes and kissed him on the cheek.

In one week, Connect Three's Summer Tour would begin. Opening acts: Mitchie Torres and Alex Russo.

Since I figured out about the tour 4 months ago, I've been writing like crazy. I have a bunch of love songs, for obvious reasons, and a few break up songs about past relationships. I glanced at Mitchie who was kissing her boyfriend, Mr. Shane Gray, on the cheek. He said something in her ear that made her start giggling and he smiled at her as she did so.

They got together about 3 months ago. I mean Shane confessed his feelings a month earlier but this is Mitchie Torres we were dealing with. I remember when they finally got together oh so clearly.

"WHERE'S SHANE!" Mitchie yelled, exasperated.

He'd promised to pick her up for ice cream but he was 20 minutes later.

"I hope that was a rhetorical question…" I said as I clicked open to one of Nate's texts.

Mitchie rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch, staring out of the window. All of a sudden a limo pulled up to the driveway.

"Is it him?" she asked, surprised, as she was expecting him to come in his red Hummer.

Her question was answered when Shane stepped out of the limo, in a tux.

I began laughing. "What are you wearing?" I asked as I answered the door.

He chuckled and walked over to Mitchie.

"I set up a private, candlelit dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town. Mitchie. I like you. Heck, I may even love you. Please, would you be mine?" he asked, hopeful.

"YES YES YES YES!" she squealed and ran and gave him a huge hug.

"WE'RE HERE!" Jason yelled and interrupted my memory.

I smiled and Nate got out of the car, grabbed my hand and helped me out.

"Let's go gorgeous." He said and gave me the best thing smile in the world.

I smiled and began walking, our hands still intertwined.

SHANE

I smiled as Mitchie hopped out of the car, excited to be here.

"We're here!" she said and turned to wait for me to get out of the car. "Let's go Shane!" she said with the cutest smile in the world.

"I'm coming sweetheart." I said and caught up to her. I wrapped my arms around her waist and we walked into the building after Nate and Alex.

"We're here!" Alex squealed to Mitchie.

I laughed as they began jumping up and down like they were 5 and they ran through the doors into the actual restaurant…well food place. Five Guys wasn't really classified as an actual restaurant. Well not to anyone except for Mitch or Alex.

Nate and I shared a look and laughed.

"Explain to me why we're seen in public with them." Nate said with a smirk.

"I really don't know. You tell me lover boy." I said and he rolled his eyes with a grin.

"BECAUSE YOU LOVE US! Duh!" Mitchie said to us.

"That's obvious. The real question is why we're seen in public with you!" Alex added.

"Maybe because we're rock stars?" I told her.

"POP stars aren't that impressive." Mitchie told me and stuck her tongue out at me.

We grabbed our food and made our way to a table. We began eating and talking, and of course laughing,

"Oh god." Alex said, gesturing to the door.

We turned our heads to see Miley walk in with her boyfriend Jake Ryan. You know, that kid from those toothpaste commercials. And supposedly he had his own show but I've yet to see it on television.

Miley turned her head, and of course made her way over.

"Hey guys!" she said, apparently STILL in denial that we are most definitely NOT friends any more.

"What?" Mitchie asked, exasperated. Miley had been trying to talk to her all day yesterday when she heard she was going on tour, like she hadn't already known.

"Mitchie. No need to yell!" she said and laughed. "Would you guys mind if we join you?"

"Yes." Alex told her with a glare.

Even though Alex won in the end, she still resented Miley for saying what she said to Nate and herself. Miley apologized but when we didn't accept the apology, she ignored us for a while. All of a sudden a few weeks ago, she told us that she wasn't upset anymore and that we could be friends. I'm not sure why she couldn't understand that we didn't want to be friends.

We returned home from Five Guys and the girls slept over our house in their room (but of course snuck over to our rooms when my parents went to bed).

ALEX

Today was the day. I was leaving to go on tour with my best friends AND my boyfriend. I grabbed my laptop, iPod, Blackberry, and song book and threw them into my messenger bag. My real luggage had already been moved into the tour bus. Our parents said they trusted us, seeing we all had purity rings, and we were all sharing a tour bus. There was a girl's room and boy's room with two beds in each room. Then there was a living room and a kitchen area. I looked out my window and saw Nate motioning for me to come one. I said my hard goodbyes and sighed as I stepped onto my home for the next 3 months.