1. Mere Coincidence?
"Bye, Lacey, see you next year!" Courtney Tallis called to her classmate as she opened her locker to take out all her books and turn them in. She grabbed all her textbooks out and set them on the library book cart behind her. All her notebooks went into the garbage and as she was cleaning out her other stuff, an old picture caught her eye. It was a picture of herself and her best childhood friends, the Jonas Boys; Kevin, Joe and Nick. They used to live right across the street from the Tallises but they left almost a year ago. The whole family left to Los Angeles, California so that the Jonas boys could try their luck at a record deal. Since they left, she and the boys exchanged letters and phone calls but eventually stopped. Although Courtney was sure that her mother and Denise Jonas talked to each other on the phone a lot.
She sadly put the picture in her backpack, shut her locker and headed outside. As she started walking home, two fanciful girls who were also her classmates, Lorelle Davis and Elyse Humphrey, came running up to her.
"Courtney!" Elyse called as they caught up to her, "Courtney, have you heard?"
"Heard what?" Courtney asked, completely clueless.
"There's a hot new boy band on TRL!" Lorelle explained," They've been number one for three weeks with their awesome songs, S.O.S and When You Look Me In The Eyes. "
"Yeah!" Elyse added," And their CD came out today! See?" She took the case out of her purse and held it out for Courtney to see. Courtney took the CD from her and stared at the cover.
"The Jonas Brothers?" Courtney asked.
"Yup, Kevin, Joe and Nick." Elyse piped, "And did you know that they are actually from here in Wyckoff?"
"Yeah," Lorelle added "And they used to go to our school."
"Yeah," Elyse chimed," And they used to live right across the street from you Courtney."