Alright, alright...so one day, several months ago, I decided to try my luck at a Jonas fanfic, after reading some of my sister's fanfics. But here's the problem: I'm not a Jonas Brothers fan. Well, I think Nick is pretty cute, but that's about it. So I've been working on this for a long time, and the result is...
Well, you're gonna have to read it yourself.
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Okay, read the darn thing...
More than millions of people signed up for this. Probably even a billion, of people all around the world wanting to win the Jonas Extra Sweepstakes, where one lucky grand prize winner will get to take two people along with them to the Jonas T.V set in Los Angeles, where they get to meet the Jonas Brothers and be extras for a few episodes of their show.
All girls freaked out over this contest and entered probably 200 times, making the chances of winning for people who entered once about 1 in 10 billion.
Yeah, it was that cool of a contest.
So, say you entered only once, already knowing about how the chances are around 1 in 10 billion, and you actually become the grand prize winner? Would you be surprised?
Kimi sure was. Her four sisters were shocked. Her parents were shocked. Her friends were shocked.
How could this 15 year old girl, who never was really a fan of them in the first place, win this contest? Really really lucky, they say.
The lucky winner decided to take her 16 year old sister, Kris, and her 12 year old sister, Keri Lu, along with her to meet the Jonas Brothers and be seen as extras on the show.
So now three freckled sisters jumped on a pre-paid plane trip to L.A, to start shooting. They'd be there for only a few days.
While in their limo on their way to the set, Kris looked in her compact mirror, applying more lip stick, double checking her long blonde hair that she straightened, and smiled at herself, her bright blue eyes shining.
Keri Lu was already ready to meet the handsome boy band. Her light blonde hair that reached the middle of her back was pulled up alittle behind her, and she kept playing the "Gummy Bear song" on her cell phone, blinking dark blue eyes and grinning.
And the grand prize winner, Kimi, bounced along with her sisters as the song played, her medium-blonde curly hair about her shoulders, but her blue eyes were looking outside the car, watching parts of L.A pass by.
Sure she was excited, but she still couldn't really take it all in just yet. She thought the Jonas show was pretty nice, but she hated how Kevin Jonas was stupid, she didn't like how Joe got "stage-fright" in one episode even when he goes up on stage every night in front of thousands of girls, Macy was cute but very annoying, Stella is sort of selfish (but with a good sense of style), having different parents even EXISTING in the show was totally unnessascary (the dad creeped her out), and Nick was pretty much the only one not annoying. He was quiet and took things seriously, like Kimi herself.
As they got closer to the set, Kimi felt a little more anxious. Being on T.V with the Jonas Brothers? Well, not actually ON it, just being in the background, but still!
Kimi smiled to herself as she stretched. This was going to be really fun. It was a once in a lifetime thing to do, and she needed to enjoy it.
"OH MY GOD THERE'S THE SET!" Lulu practically screamed, pressing her face to the window as they pulled in.
Kimi's stomach began swirling on the inside, and then she paused when she opened the limo door. Was there something glowing flying through the sky a second ago?
"Hurry up, Kimi!" Kris said from inside the car, and Lulu pushed her out. When Kimi looked again, the glowing thing was gone.
The three sisters were led inside a building onto the set of the show "Jonas", and Keri Lu grabbed Kimi's shirt for support.
There was the set for the inside hallways of the school. Some extras walked around, some in school uniforms, others wearing black t-shirts and headgears running around fixing up some of the little problems everywhere. Kimi, Kris and Lulu dropped their jaws.
They stepped onto the set, Lulu staring at the ground, happy that the Jonas Brothers probably took the same steps as she. This really did look like the real inside of the school, only, the camera never looked outside, which helped the illusion.
Kris sort of bounced a little, "Wow!"
Kimi smiled, "This is going to be really fun."
"It's the atrium!" Keri Lu shouted, running through and opening the door to the little room outside, beginning to rub her hands on the stone bench, "Kevin sat here!" She stood up, "Joe stood here!"
She began to spin, her arms halfway out (due to the atrium being a little snug), "Nick got bird crap on his shirt and was rained on here!"
"Wow, Keri Lu." Kris commented, as she and Kimi walked up around the outside of the atrium, "You watch Jonas too much."
"I know." Was all Lulu said, and she began to rub her face onto where Nick sat.
"Hey, are you girls the winners of the Jonas Extra Sweepstakes?" A voice came from behind them. When the girls turned, and when Lulu exited the atrium, they gasped.
It was Nicole Anderson, the co-star of the show! She played Macy Misa, the #1 fan of the Jonas Brothers.
"Wow, nice to meet you!" Kimi said happily, shaking Nicole's hand, "I'm Kimi, the grand prize winner." Then she blushed. She shouldn't brag like that.
"Hi Kimi!" Nicole said, totally unfazed, and she looked at Kris and Keri Lu, "Hi, girls!"
"I'm Kris." She introduced, shaking her hand, too, flashing her best smile forward.
"I'm Keri Lu!" Instead of shaking the hand, she actually hugged Nicole instead, "Hi Nicole!"
"Um, hello." Nicole smiled sweetly, while pushing her brown hair behind her ear. "So, have you met the guys yet?"
Keri Lu jumped away. "The guys? No we haven't! Where are they? Where's Nick?" she frantically looked around the poor, startled actress.
"They're around here, somewhere." Nicole looked over her shoulder. Kris straightened up stiffly.
"There they are!" she quietly exclaimed. Keri Lu's knees began to wobble, Kris fixed her hair, and even Kimi perked up a bit.
Nicole turned around. "Kev-" She was intruppted by a female worker.
"Nicole, you have to go to make-up." she said. Nicole smiled and nodded.
"Thank you, Janet. Alright guys, I'll see you soon!" Nicole skipped away.
"B-b-b-but!" Keri Lu stuttered. Her dark blue eyes filled with sadness as she saw Nicole skip away. "Who's going to introduce us?"
Kris stepped in. "We don't need anyone to introduce us. Let's go talk to them ourselves."
Kris was more of the social butterfly, between the three. As they all walked over (Keri Lu was wobbling the way), Kimi grinned.
They were about to meet three incredible men.
Kris took a hold of Keri Lu's hand, and as they walked, something knocked into them. Something hard and warm, like a fuzzy warm ball.
Jolting to the side, Kimi was the first to fall, knocking her head on the tiled ground.
Kris fell right next to Kimi; her long, straightened blonde hair, spread across the ground, in every direction known to man.
Keri Lu was the next one who tripped; she fell, sprawled out on the ground.
And they all blacked out.
"Whoah, whoah, whoah!" a fuzzy voice said from above. Kimi slowly opened her eyes.
"I've never seen you guys before! Are you making Nick Lucas angels? I wanna do it too!"
Kimi then noticed a brunette girl lay on the floor next to her. People walked past them, snickering, as they saw four girls laying on the school floor, one of them moving her arms and legs.
She recognized the girl, "N-Nicole..?"
"Nicole?" The brunette jumped up back on her feet, fixing her skirt, "My name's Macy! Macy Misa! President of the Jonas Fan Club!"
"Macy...?" Kris slowly sat up, "Are we filming already?"
"Filming what?" Macy stared at them, "Are you guys new students?"
"New students?" Keri Lu was up on her feet faster, "I thought we were called "Extras"!"
"Um...I don't know what you mean-" Macy was inturrupted by her Jonas-heads calling her. "Bye!"
Keri Lu shrieked when she then heard the familiar voices of two men. Kris gasped. Kimi was still on the floor.
"Kevin.." Joe said to his brother as they walked in the atrium, "Do you see what I see?"
Kimi blinked. Didn't they already film this part?
"Aww!" Kevin smiled at the sky, "A cloud in the shape of a rabbit! Cute!"
"No, lower."
"What the-?" Kris cocked her head, staring at the two brothers from the outside. Lulu was too paralized to speak. Kimi was still on the floor, but she was sitting up now.
Kevin then looked down on the ground, "Aww! A rabbit in the shape of a cloud! Even cuter!"
Joe shook his head, "No, higher."
Kevin moved his head alittle higher, "Wow. Someone put a rat's nest on that girl's head."
"Um, Kevin, that's her real hair."
That's when Kimi shot up and turned to look at them. Kevin and Joe widened their eyes, then waved at her nervously, then quickly shuffled out of the atrium and bolted down the hallway.
"I think they know you heard them." Kris said in her ear, coming to her right.
"Ooh, they're embarrased!" Keri Lu came to her left, "That's so hot!"
"I don't care anyway. What I want to know is where are we. Are we being Punk'd?" Kimi glanced around the school halls. People walked through, chatting by the lockers and all that school stuff...
"PUNK'D?" Keri Lu leaped 3 feet, "We could meet Ashton!"
"I doubt it." Kris commented, then she pointed at the staircase, "Oh my gosh, look!"
Keri Lu and Kimi turned to the stairs to find Nick Jonas and another girl sitting on the steps, talking nicely to each other. They couldn't hear the conversation, but it seemed like they were having a good time.
"Nick with a goofy smile on his face?" Keri Lu asked (who is able to quote Jonas forwards, backwards, left and right, up and down, sleeping, you get the idea.).
"Okay." Kris turned to Kimi, "You know a lot. What's going on?"
"I have one guess." Kimi answered.
"What is it?"
"That I have no guesses."
Kris then glared at her care-free answer, and Kimi turned away, "Well, you asked. But I have no clue what's going on, either. I suggest we go on and see what happens."
Over to the left, Nick had finished his conversation with the girl, and did a funky dance while he walked.
"Guys, watch this." Keri Lu smiled, getting an idea. She flipped her hair in front of her shoulders, and strutted down to Nick.
"What's her name?" she asked. Nick turned and looked down at the short girl next to him.
"Excuse me?"
"Have your real parents been replaced by that creepy dad and red haired mother? Are you allgeric to shellfish? Would you date a twelve year old?"
"What?" he asked in confusion.
As she tried to speak, her mouth became numb, and she slurred her words. Finally she said, "NEVERMIND!" and ran back to Kris and Kimi, Nick staring after her, then going on about his business.
"Oh my gosh, ya'll!" She cried as she hid behind Kris, "Why'd you make me do that?"
Kimi hit the back of Lulu's head, "Now look."
Kevin and Joe had joined Nick in the middle of the hallway, and it looked like they were asking him very serious questions.
"Let's see what their talking about." Kris said, about to take a step, but Kimi grabbed her arm.
"I have a better way." Kimi grinned.
"Nick, every time you meet a girl you fall too hard too fast." Joe explained to his younger brother, "It's like, you meet a girl, then BOOM: Instant Love. Then BOOM: You get dumped."
He then threw his hands in the air, "Then BOOM: Broken heart. Then me and Kevin are picking up the pieces."
Kevin then cupped his hands with nothing in it, "Oh look, it's Nick's broken heart!" He made a sad face.
"That happened like one time." Nick argued.
"SIX TIMES!" Joe and Kevin corrected.
"Well, don't worry." Nick said, about to head to his locker, "Because I'm going to take things nice and slow."
"Whoah, guys, look." Joe then pointed behind Nick.
All three brothers looked down the hallway, to see three girls strutting down just like they do everyday. The oldest, about 16, had long blonde hair and bright blue eyes. The next they couldn't guess the age, but she had strange curly-ish hair that reached her shoulders, and the last one, who might've been young but didn't look like it, also had blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Their walking just like us.." Nick murmured, "And I've never seen them before. Besides the girl on the right. She came up to me and asked me some strange questions."
"J-Joe...!" Kevin stuttered as he watched the girls walk, "The one in the middle...! It's that girl...!"
"What about her?" Nick asked, suspicious, "Did you do something, Kevin?"
"Oh, it's nothing!" Kevin replied nervously.
"Kevin thought the girl in the middle had a rat's nest on her head, is all." Joe just shrugged at Kevin, "It was actually her real curly hair, and she heard us."
"Oh, good!" Nick said in mockery, clapping his hands, "Now you can go and do the all wonderful "Apologizing Time" for hurting her feelings!"
"But I don't wanna!" Kevin acted like a little kid, "It's too embarrassing..."
"'Tis the only way, my good friend." Joe patted his brother's shoulder, "And I hope you have fun with it!"
"Not so fast." Nick said as Joe attempted to escape, "You didn't tell Kevin to apologize when you should've, so you have to accompany him while he does so."
"WHAT?" Joe then stood up straight, "Nick, I am your older brother, and I shall not do what you say!"
Nick then gave him a terrifying look in the eye, and Joe slumped, "Oh, fine.."
Kris noticed the three boys walking over, and tugged on Kimi. "Their coming!"
Once Keri Lu heard the two words from Kris' mouth, she stood up straight, and hid behind Kimi. "What if Nick asks me about what I asked him?"
"I'd love to see your expression..." was all Kimi said.
They slowly walked up to the three girls. As they grew closer, Keri Lu ducked on the floor by Kimi's feet.
"Ahem..." Kevin said. Kimi turned her sight from Keri Lu's shortness, to the tall, dark haired man.
"Oh. Hello." Kimi smiled and waved.
"Uh...listen...?" Kevin stopped. He didn't know her name.
"Kimi. I'm Kimi." she patted herself.
"Right...Kimi...um...I want to apologize to you...about what I said...back there in the atrium...I really didn't mean to." Kevin stuttered.
Keri Lu nervously tugged on Kimi's pant leg as Nick scooted around Kimi.
"Oh." Kimi said, swatting Keri Lu's hand. "That's alright. I forgive you, and I know you didn't mean it."
Kevin had a sigh of relief. "Oh. By the way, I'm Kevin." he held out his hand.
"Nice to meet you Kevin." Kimi smiled and shook his hand.
Kris coughed, and Kimi turned around. Joe was behind Kris, staring down at her. Kris' eyes bugged out, and she mouthed, "What is he doing?"
Kimi chuckled and returned her focus on Kevin, who was on his toes, strangely looking over her shoulder.
She turned around, and saw Keri Lu squatting. "Um...Lulu? What're you doing?"
"NOTHING!" Keri Lu shot up, startling Kevin, "It's not like I was trying to hide, no, of course not, AHAHA!" She laughed alittle too loudly and turned alittle too fast when Nick tapped her shoulder from behind.
"Hey, you're that girl who asked me all those ridiculous questions a few minutes ago, weren't you?" He asked, keeping a serious tone.
"Uh...yeah?" Keri Lu's eyes then welled up with tears, "I'M SORRRRYYYY!"
He raised his hands quickly when people started turning heads, "No, no, it's okay! I was just joking! I just barely heard any of those questions, anyway. You were talking too fast."
"REALLY?" Lulu snapped back into action, receiving another slap across the head from Kimi, "I forgive you, Nnn-New guy I don't know!"
Kris came up next to Nick, "You guys are the Lucas Brothers, right?" She smiled, "My name's Kris."
"I'm Joe...!" Joe squeezed in between Kris and Nick, shoving Nick backwards, throwing Kimi off balance, who was right there at the time, and Kevin and Lulu watched the whole thing.
Joe flashed his brilliant white teeth and stretched his arms, making his muscles show, "I'm Joe Lucas." He repeated.
"And..?"
Joe whipped to Kimi, who was examining her nails. She continued, "You're showing off your muscles to my sister for what reason?"
Kevin nudged Lulu with an elbow, studying her up and down, "You're so cute for a 14 year old!"
Lulu grinned, "That's nice, but actually I'm-"
"THIRTEEN!" Kris cried, throwing an arm around Lulu's neck, causing Lulu to cough and hack, "We used to be homeschooled, and we're all ahead one grade. So, it's her first year of high school!"
She pointed to herself, "I'm 16, a senior." She pointed to Lulu's head, "She's...13, a freshman." She then moved her finger to Kimi, who was staring at her with a strange expression, "And she's 15, a sophmore!"
"15?" Nick looked at Kimi, "There's no possible way you could be 15. You don't..."
"I don't what?" Kimi narrowed her blue eyes, putting a hand on her hip, with the other hand she started fingering through her outwards curly hair, "I don't look 15? I look 12? Or 13? What were you going to guess, Mr. Nicholas?"
Nick blinked for a second, "U-Um...I knew you were 15...I just.."
"Mm hm." Kimi turned away, "Class will be starting soon. We'd better go."
"Um, sorry!" Keri Lu said as Kimi walked away from them down the hallway, "Kimi doesn't like it when people mistake her age. But that's just how she is."
"Uh...okay..." Nick called as Kris and Keri Lu followed their sister.
"KIMI!" Keri Lu hit Kimi repeatedly on her arm. "YOU MADE ME WALK AWAY FROM THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! WHICH IS NICK! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!"
What Keri Lu didn't know, was that Nick's locker was in the direction that Kris, Kimi and Keri Lu were walking. He laughed behind them.
Keri Lu slowly turned around, in shock. "Oh crap..."
Nick only patted her head, and opened his locker. "That's what everyone says..."
"Y-Yeah..." Lulu sounded drunk then, embarrased and flattered that Nick patted her head.
Kimi drew Kris away and whispered, "Why did you call Keri Lu 13?"
"Because this is high school." Kris replied, "Keri Lu's only 12, but if anyone knew that, she'd have to be sent back to the middle school."
"Are you telling me that you've accepted what just happened to us? We're now in the real Jonas world, and you're okay with that?"
"Yep. I believe we've got no choice but to get our way through the show."
Kimi and Kris nodded to each other, and Keri Lu was still chatting with Nick, who was politely smiling and listening, and suddenly Joe appeared.
"So...Kris." He began flashing muscles again, his sleeves rolled up, "You and your younger sisters are new here?"
"Yeah, that's right." Kris smiled, "Why are you playing with your arm sleeves?"
Joe pulled his sleeves back down slowly, "I like playing with sleeves.." He said quietly.
When Nick opened his locker, Kimi saw that it was covered with pictures of the girl he was chatting with earlier.
"Are those...?" Kimi blinked.
When Nick realized she saw them, he slammed his locker, "Yeah, uh...nice meeting you girls. Um, Kimi, we have the same classes, so you gotta come this way.." He then made sure his locker was actually locked.
"Yeah, sure." She tried holding in her laughter as she followed Nick away from Kevin, Joe, Kris and Keri Lu.
A few seconds passed, and then Kevin looked at Keri Lu and said, "He had hundreds of pictures of that girl in his locker, didn't he?"
"Yes, Mr. Kevin Lucas, sir." Keri Lu replied, although she didn't see for herself, but she knew the episode anyway.
"We thought so." Joe shook his head, and they all four rolled eyes.
"Ah, what fun this school day is!" Keri Lu said as she met back up with her sisters, "Everything was soooo much easier than usual! Freshman high school is so fun!"
"My guess is that if the Jonas Brothers fail school, the show won't continue, so now there's easier schoolwork." Kimi blinked and she glanced at the atrium, "Oh...there's Nick again with that girl."
Kris turned around, and Lulu cried, "OH MY GOSH!"
There was Nick and the blonde girl again, chatting happily inside the atrium with a guitar. Obviously they were talking about music. Kevin and Joe were spying on one side.
Keri Lu ran ahead away from the other two, and came up between Kevin and Joe, "HEY!"
The boys jumped, "Oh, hey, Lulu." Kevin said, "We're watching Nick talk to that girl. Penny's her name."
"Yeah, I know, I've seen the episode."
They stared at her, "What?"
"Never mind!" She smiled.
Then as Kris and Kimi came up next to them, they saw that Nick and Penny were now hugging each other.
"Look at them all cozy together..." Joe said, smiling at Kris when he noticed her.
"It would be very rude if somebody burst in." Kimi commented, letting her school bag fall from her shoulder to her hand.
"Great idea, we definately gotta do this." Kevin proclaimed, "Come on, Kimi!"
"Okay, I'm coming." But when the two brothers opened the door and entered, Kimi stayed where she was, and Lulu ran in with them.
"Nick?" Kevin exclaimed in a shocked tone.
"Didn't see you out here!" Joe grinned.
Nick and Penny turned to them, and Nick said, "Oh really, because this whole thing's glass and we're the only two people here."
"This thing's glass?" Keri Lu asked, squeezing between the two boys, "Hi, are you Penny? I'm Keri Lu, and I just met the Lucas Brothers today! I had no clue they went to school here!"
"We've heard so much about you!" Kevin said before Penny could respond.
"No they haven't." Nick went in between his older brothers, the hyper 13 year old, and his crush.
"The only thing he does nowadays is talks about how WONDERFUL you are!" Joe said happily.
"No, I don't." Nick stayed serious.
"It's nonstop." Lulu added, "And I've only known him for a few hours!"
"No, it's not, and this isn't your business." Nick looked down at Lulu, "Your sisters may be looking for you."
"Not my business?" Lulu faked surprise, "Why, Mr. Nick, sir, you've got to be kidding-"
"I'm sorry." Kris walked in suddenly, "Is Keri Lu bothering you guys? Oh, come on, Lulu." She attempted to drag her out.
Suddenly a hand was on Penny's shoulder and another girl was there. She had brown eyes and blonde hair, and she asked, "Are these clowns messing with you?"
"Yes." Nick answered.
"NOOOO!" Kevin, Joe, Lulu and Kris said together, and Kris yanked Lulu out of the atrium, where Kimi stood, her back to the glass walls, listening to everything.
"Leave the guy alone!" Stella said, "He's hanging with a friend...I think he deserves a little privacy."
"Ohhh, okay!" Joe patted Nick's back.
"See ya at home, Captain McHappy!" Kevin smiled and they both left the atrium, high-fiving Kris, and then Joe said, "Hey, I came up with that!"
"Ah, it's funner than I thought to be in Jonas!" Keri Lu proclaimed happily, "But do you know where Kimi went to?"
Kris looked around, "Um...she goes to different classes, so maybe she's not done yet?"
What they didn't know was Kimi was sitting on the bench of the atrium, reading a book. It was practically soundproof in here, most of the buscle from the halls barely penetrated through, leaving a nice quiet place to read in.
"Um, excuse me, can I sit here?"
Kimi jumped, not knowing someone had entered. Oh, it was Penny, and she was holding a guitar.
She scooted and made room, "Sure, go ahead."
Penny sat down, positioning her instrument on her lap so that it didn't hit Kimi, "Are you new here? I think I've seen your unique hair, but that's it."
"My name's Kimi, and yes I'm new." She nodded to Penny, then continued reading, "Me and my sisters enrolled here under very unusual circumstances."
"Are you a sophmore?"
"Yes..."
"So you've met Nick Lucas?"
"Yeah, I have." She looked at Penny, "Why do you ask?"
"Well, I don't mean to be rude, but I was going to meet Nick here." Penny smiled, "And-"
"I get it. You don't want me to be around." Kimi glanced at the extra room on the green bench, then she smiled for the first time in front of the girl, "It's a musician thing, right?"
"Um, you can put it that way." Penny then smiled herself, "Thanks alot for understanding..." She paused, "...Um...Lyndsay."
"Kimi."
"Right."
Suddenly the atrium door burst open and Nick ran in with his own guitar.
"Oh, hey, you made it." Penny said happily.
"I wrote you a song." Nick said quickly.
"What?" Penny exclaimed, and Nick went and sat on the bench, legs on each sides, readying his guitar. Kimi, who was now between them, realized that Nick was so transfixed with Penny that he hadn't noticed she was in the atrium sitting in front of him, as well.
She leaned back uncomfortably, letting Nick see Penny so he wouldn't snap out of it and notice her.
"I wrote you a song." He repeated, "And I came here to play it for you. You wanna hear it?"
Penny stammered, obviously excited, "A-Are you kidding? Duh!"
Nick blinked, licking his lips in nervousness, then he breathed, "Okay," And looked down, beginning to play. A few notes came on again and again, and then, as if some sort of vision, things went colorful.
Kimi thought of what was going on in Nick's head, because they video-taped it in the show:
"You...ya like driving on a Sunday.
You... ya like taking off on Monday.
You...you're like a dream. A dream come true.
I was just a face you never noticed.
Now I'm just trying to be honest with myself, with you, with the world.
You might think that I'm a fool,
For falling over you, So tell me what can I do to prove to you
That it's not so hard to do?
Give love a try One more time Cause you know that I'm on your side Give love a try One more time Yeah yeah...oh..."
There was a few small seconds of silence, and Kimi realized she had her book on her lap, and she was smiling. She blinked to herself. Wow, Nick really did sing well.
"Wow..." Penny said finally, "That was...That was beautiful. You..you wrote that for me?"
"I hope that's all right.." Nick seemed content that she liked the song.
"Are you kidding?" Kimi finally said, "Of course Penny liked it. Who wouldn't? Those first notes were great. How did they go? Doo doo dooooo...doo doo doooo."
When she turned her head, she saw Nick was staring at her as if she had appeared out of nowhere, and she smiled.
"How did you get in here?" He asked, a bit of annoyance creeping into his voice.
"Um, Nick, Mimi's been here the whole time." Penny answered first.
"It's Kimi."
"Right."
Nick blinked, and the fact that she HAD been there was making him still stare at her. Kimi stared back, totally not afraid to do a stare-off.
"But," Penny continued, going back to the subject at hand, "Nobody has ever written a song for me before, let alone a rock star!"
Nick then looked back at Penny, and blushed, and Penny said, "You have a great smile."
"Ssshhh..." He said.
"You'll ruin his image." Kimi finished.
"Can you teach it to me?" She asked, and Kimi rolled her eyes.
"Um..I mean, it's pretty simple, um..." Nick held up two fingers, "..You just turn up the corner of your mouth-"
"I think she meant the song." Kimi interrupted.
"Yeah, I wanna learn the song." Penny was grinning now.
"Oh, right." Nick cleared his throat, getting ready to play again.
Kimi then stood up, "I'll see you guys later, 'kay?" She cocked her head at Nick, "Really good song there. I'm glad Penny enjoys it."
She waved at Penny, "Bye, Penny, nice meeting you!"
"Nice meeting you, too, Cammie!" Penny waved back.
"Kimi."
"Right!"
Kimi exited the atrium and saw Keri Lu had plastered herself on the glass wall, and disconnected herself and ran to her, "Kimi, how on earth did you be in there when he sang the song!"
"Three words: Short Attention Span. And he's the smartest out of all of them!" Kimi put her hands in her pockets.
When she opened her locker, she noticed two shadows looming over her. When she turned, there was Kevin and Joe towering over her, arms crossed.
"Why hello, Miss Kimi." Kevin started, a strange twinkle in his eye, "We didn't see you there."
"No kidding?" Kimi turned back, putting her books away.
"So, what were Penny and Nick doing back in the atrium?" Joe asked, and he was leaning so close that Kimi jumped when she faced back.
"Nothing of your concern, I'm sure about that." She replied tautly, and Keri Lu laughed out loud.
"Did you know Penny's going to sing at a show tonight?" Kevin poked Kimi's head, "And she invited Nick."
"It's not going to turn out well." Kimi mumbled quietly.
"Not turn out well?" Joe followed her as she walked, "What do you mean?"
"I dunno. Just the way she acts...I'm not sure."
Keri Lu jumped up and down, "SHE'S IN LOVE WITH A BOY NAMED JIMMY!"
Kevin and Joe turned their heads, they didn't quite hear her, "Huh?"
"I meant..." Keri Lu blinked, "...I'M IN LOVE WITH A DANCE NAMED "SHIMMY"!" She began shaking her hips, making sounds.
Kevin happily joined the 12 year old, and Joe nodded, understanding.
Kimi blinked, "Anyway, I may have only known you guys for a little while, but...I can tell Penny's probably thinking of a guy other than Nick."
"But that's impossible!" Joe and Kevin gasped, and the oldest put his hands on his hips, "How can you tell?"
"A young woman's intuition." Kimi replied.
"We should go with him, then." Joe exclaimed, "I want to see if that theory of yours is true or not! Plus, we can support him!"
"And YOU'RE coming with us!" Kevin pointed at her, "..If..that's okay with your parents."
"Me? Traveling with the Lucas Brothers?" Kimi giggled, and Lulu's face was a bright red, "I don't think my parents would mind at all. Problem is..."
Keri Lu interrupted, "If Nick saw that Kimi was there, it wouldn't be pretty...Meaning I should go as well!"
"What about me?" Kris asked, finally coming up, "Sorry I'm late. A ton of boys wouldn't leave me alone."
Joe's eyes bugged out, "Did they ask you out?"
"I didn't give them the chance to."
Joe then sighed with relief.
"We can wear disguises, silly!" Kevin acted as if a lightbulb went on in his head, "That way, Penny won't see us!"
"School's almost over, anyway." Joe agreed, "Come with us to our place, 'kay? We'll give you a ride. Do you want to be dropped off at your house first?"
Kris then made a sad face, "Oh no...we don't have to go home just yet...we can go to your house!"
Joe instantly fell for it, and Kimi and Lulu stared at her. Kimi glanced back at the atrium, where Nick was smiling and was ever so happy.
In the Lucas Firehouse, Nick was attempting to find a good outfit to wear. But nothing he picked seemed good enough for Penny to see. Finally, he just gave up and bonked his forehead against Stellavator several times.
Then there was a knock on the door. Nick turned, rubbing his head, and went to see it was Joe and Kevin.
"Why do you guys have to forget your keys?" He asked, opening the door.
"Because..." Kris' face appeared over Joe's shoulder.
"Kevin and Joe..." Kimi was by Kevin's side.
"...are always like that!" Keri Lu finished, who had grabbed Kevin's back and was dangling, trying to see over him at Nick.
"We invited them over." Kevin said to Nick's surprised gaze, "Kimi's got something to say to you."
Kimi's eyes bugged, and Joe nodded, "Yeah, she said-"
"OKAY, LETS GO INSIDE!" Kimi interrupted, trying to get in.
"Um.." Nick blocked her way, "Guys, you shouldn't have invited then, it doesn't look good in here right now..."
But Lulu got herself under Nick's arm and was already in, "Ooh, look at this place! It's so cool! Look at all the music sheets on the ground!"
"You're still trying to find an outfit for your girlfriend's show tonight?" Joe asked, walking in and seeing the Stellavator on.
"She's not my girlfriend." Nick said quickly.
"You're obviously crazy about this girl." Kevin pointed out, and Lulu nodded in agreement.
"And you're a little bit nervous whether she likes you, too." Kris said.
Nick sat down on a chair, and Keri Lu sat at the chair next to him, cheeks flushing, and he said, "I'm not nervous."
He put his feet on the coffee table and Kimi smirked, "Oh, really?" She tapped her fingers on Nick's shoes, which were actually a different from each other.
Nick blinked, quickly removing his feet, and clearing his throat, "Th-That's what Stella put together."
Everyone smiled, then Nick said quietly, "Please don't tell Stella."
"So are you guys friends with her?" Kris asked.
"We've been friends for like, ever." Joe answered, "She's our fashion designer, also."
"Bro, we're just worried that you're doing the "Fall hard too fast" thing again." Kevin said, changing the subject, and Joe and Kimi nodded.
"No, I'm not." Nick said, annoyed.
"Dude, you wrote her a song." Joe shrugged.
"Did Kimi tell you that!" Nick shot up.
"No, there's sheet music everywhere!" Joe picked up the pieces of paper, tossing them in the air.
Kevin picked some up, " 'Penny's got me going Crazy' ..."
"Penny's got me going crazy!" Lulu sang, "Knock me off my feet! Now you've got me begging, baby!"
Kevin stared at her, then continued, " 'Burning up for Penny ' ..."
"I'm slipping into the lava..." Kris rocked back and forth, "And I'm trying to keep from going under.."
Joe's eyes sparkled, "Wow, you guys think of great lyrics for bad titles of songs..."
Kris and Lulu grinned, and Kimi was quiet, looking behind her as if expecting something.
"Do you sing, too, Kimi?" Nick asked her.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, a little, but not the kind of songs any normal person would like." Kimi shrugged.
Suddenly Tom Lucas entered, wearing a bath robe and a shower cap, "Why is there sheet music in the shower?" He asked, holding a wet piece of paper.
"DAD THERE'S GIRLS HERE!" Joe screamed, leaping up and standing in front of Kris, trying to block her view. Lulu twitched, and attempted to hide behind Nick, and Kimi distracted herself by messing with her shoe laces.
"WHOAH!" Tom jumped back, and he laughed nervously, "Sorry for bothering you guys. Didn't know you had friends over!"
Nick looked down, shaking his head.
"What, there's friends over? And they're girls?" Then Sandy Lucas, their mother, entered and she made a small gasp, "You guys do have girls over!"
"Mom..." Kevin groaned.
"Wow, there's three!" Tom said happily, and Sandy stared at him, wondering why he had a bath robe on, "One for each of you!"
Joe pointed to Kimi and Lulu, "They're both 12."
"I'm 15." Kimi said in a demonic low and angry voice. Then she suddenly brighened up and stood, "Nice to meet you guys! My name's Kimi, and this is my sister Kris, and my other sister, Keri Lu."
"Oh, why aren't you polite!" Sandy grinned, "You girls are so pretty!"
Kris smiled, and Keri Lu said, "Thanks!"
"We just met them today." Joe said, "They transferred here."
"Wow, nice!" Tom said, "So, enjoying this place so far? Awesome to be around rock stars, isn't it?"
The three sister nodded, clearly not liking the dad's creepiness, even before meeting him they thought him weird.
"So, what do your parents do?" Sandy asked.
Kimi's eyes widened, Keri Lu coughed, scratching her head with her elbow in the air, but Kris didn't seemed fazed. When Kimi looked at her, she realized that the 16 year old already had an answer.
"Our mom and dad have foreign jobs out of the country." She answered confidently, smiling, "In the..." She then hesitated, "The..."
"BAHAMAS!" Keri Lu jumped, "They work in the Bahamas!"
The Lucas Brother's parents nodded, "Wow." Sandy blinked, "Did you use to live there?"
"Um. Yes." Kimi looked down, "Our parents moved us around alot for many years. Um...until I told them at our old school that I couldn't take it anymore." Her voice was starting to crack, just like she planned.
"Where was your old school?" Kevin asked, not moved yet.
"Ba...hama High?"
Kevin gasped, "That school has the top subject in Basket Weaving, doesn't it?"
Keri Lu looked around, "..Y-Yeah, I was going to major in that."
"OH!" Kevin got up and hugged her, "You're so awesome, Lulu!"
Keri Lu grinned, and blushed at the feeling.
"So then." Kris continued, "We decided to transfer to another school, so we can live in one place while our parents traveled."
"Sometimes I miss them.." Kimi gathered her hands to her chest, "But it's for the best..."
The dad was actually wiping his eyes. Joe's lip was trembling, and the girls couldn't tell whether Nick cared or not.
"Where do you guys live now?" Their mom asked, blinking tears.
Kimi let some hair fall in front of her face to seem more "epic". This family was so gullible, "With our great-aunt at her two bedroom apartment! There was no other choice, but now we realize that we don't want to be such a burden to our dear great-aunt. Having three extra girls to take care of so suddenly would be a tremendous load on her shoulders!"
Kevin was sobbing now, "Oh, you poor, poor people!"
Kris was faking tears, and Joe was trying to comfort her.
"Oh, the pain!" Lulu cried, grabbing onto Nick's shirt, "Oh, the agony!"
Nick didn't move, he just sat there, wearing Keri Lu on his collar.
Sandy put her hands on her hips, "Well, there's only one thing left to do..." She held her hands out, "You can live with us!"
"WHAT?" All three boys jumped up, Keri Lu falling off of Nick. Kimi smirked to herself. Plan worked.
"Why not?" Sandy asked her sons, "They have no where else to go. And we never have girls around the house, anyway. Plus we have plenty of room, as well."
She actually then hugged Kris, "It'll be like having my own daughters for once! I'll be your temporary mother, so don't cry now!"
Kris hugged back, "Oh, thank you guys so much. We'll be good, we promise!"
Nick was now twitching, but then he yielded. There was no arguing with his mom, "So, uh..where will they sleep?"
Kimi pointed over at three bunk beds over to the side. Kevin opened his mouth, and raised a finger, but decided to stay quiet. He guessed he could give up his bunk beds...
"Oh, well, fine." Joe actually had a happy face on.
"Um...Mom...don't they need a room by themselves...? They're...uh...female and all..." Nick was slightly red.
Sandy was about to speak, when Tom inturrupted, "I have an idea!" he exclaimed, running out of the room.
All seven of them stood there while Tom came back with a wheelbarrow filled with white shower curtains and hooks.
"Uh, Dad...?" Kevin started with a tad bit confusion.
"...What are you doing?" Joe finished.
It took Tom Lucas only about 10 minutes to hook the shower curtains up to the ceiling and letting it drape in front of the bunk beds, making like a half-circle of a small room.
"Privacy!" Tom said joyfully, "I needed something to do with these shower curtains for ever!"
"Honey, I told you to throw those away 3 weeks ago.." Sandy pointed out, and their sons held in laughs.
And no one noticed that Lulu was scooting closer to Nick.
"That's a very good idea, but..." Nick began to speak, but Kimi interrupted.
"I heard that your friend, Stella, designs clothes? Maybe she could hook us up with a few outfits so we could...Advertise her fashion...?"
Joe and Kevin nodded, "Seems like a good idea..." The oldest said.
"I'm going to go whip up some snacks!" Sandy said happily, clearly pleased that girls were finally here, "And Tom, you'll catch a cold if you stay like that forever." She left the room with a big smile.
"Well, one more thing..." Tom held up some sheet music, "'S.O.S Penny'...'When You Look Me In The Eyes Penny'..." He looked at Nick, who came by his side, "Is someone a little too much in love again?"
"I'm not in love, okay?" Nick slumped, "And would everyone please stop saying "again"? Happened like a couple of times..."
"Like six times?" Keri Lu asked quickly, earning a stare from the three boys and the dad.
"Well look..." Tom turned to his son, "I'll let you in on a little secret. Okay? Your mother was the twenty-third love of my life."
Kimi's eyes widened, "...Wow..."
"Yeah." Tom shrugged, "I was walking down the aisle of the school bus and passed twenty-two girls before I saw your mom. Ha-ho! BOOM!"
Joe and Kevin punched their fists through the air, laughing.
"That's funny." Nick muttered.
"Sort of." Tom said.
"Not really." Kimi sighed.
"I didn't think..." Tom looked at the sheet music again, "Look, seriously. I want you to know that I'm here for you if this little heart of yours breaks again. Not again...for the first time. Not that it is. If it does.
I'm here for you. Ok?"
Then he grinned, "But if I'm not around.." He went over to Kimi, grabbed her arm, and shoved her at Nick, who caught her, "You've got three girls you can cry to!"
Kimi grew serious, pushing herself backwards quickly, fixing her hair.
"Dad.." Kevin said, "Me and Joe got it covered. And now with Kris, Kimi and Lulu...they can help with the covering!"
"Okay..." Tom began to wring the soaked paper out, "Think we can still wring a hit out of this one...Hehe heh...okay.."
"You should take a shower." Nick said.
"Yeah, I better get out." Tom turned around and quickly left the room.
Kris stood up. Joe did too, "Nick. Dude."
Nick sat down on the coffee table, Joe next to him and putting an arm around his brother's shoulders, "How about me, Kevin and the girls come with you to Penny's show tonight? Just for support."
"No. No.." Nick shook his head, "If you guy go, it'll draw too much attention. I mean, everyone will be looking at JONAS and not paying attention to Penny."
"We'll wear disguises!" Kris jumped on Nick's other side, "Or we can go...uh...low key or something?"
"Or maybe MY version of low key!" Kevin said happily.
"Wonder what that is..." Kimi and Nick exchanged strange glances.
Keri Lu landed herself on Joe's lap, "Let's pick matching disguises! So we can look like a couple!"
Kimi sighed.
At CeeBeeDeeBee's where Penny was performing, Nick wore a weird brown hat, sunglasses, and a weird brown jacket. Joe had a spectacle and a mustache (in which he was stroking in a strange way), Kevin had a brown curly wig, and a bushy mushtache. Keri Lu had stolen one of Nick's black fedoras, and had a large fake mole on the right side of her mouth. Kris had her hair pulled in a tight bun with a chocolate brown wig, and wore bright red lipstick. Finally, Kimi had a large pair of black glasses which magnified her eyes, her curly hair was in a ponytail and to top it all off, had a red beret sitting on her head.
On the round table, from left to right it went Kimi, Nick, Keri Lu, Joe, Kris and Kevin.
Nick shook his head, and Kevin said, "See Nick? People in here don't even know that JONAS is in da hoouusee!" He crossed his arms.
"Seriously?" Nick asked, "How did YOU get to be the oldest?"
Kevin rolled his eyes, "Nick, I'm not really THIS old. Its a wig and a mustache taped to mah face!" He pointed to his head.
Kimi groaned in exasperation, Keri Lu just bobbed in excitement.
Joe was doing the same, and Nick said, "What's your problem?"
"Stella got me to test out these new Stelcro pants, and they itch like crazy..." Joe kept shifting in his seat.
"Why are we here?" Kimi then said, "I'm still feeling as if things aren't going to go right."
"Are you always so negative?" Nick looked at the 15 year old.
"Yeah, stop bashing on his happy night!" Kevin leaned in closer.
"Oh, you have no idea..." Kris muttered to herself.
Suddenly everybody started to applause as Penny came up on the stage wearing a little red dress and carrying her pink guitar.
"Thank you." Penny said to the audience as she sat down on the stool with the microphone, "Um...I'd like to start off this set with my newest song. Its called "Give Love a Try"."
Nick quickly yanked his sunglasses off, almost jumping forward.
"Easy there, bucko." Kimi said, grabbing his shoulder and pulling him back.
Penny began playing the notes and started to sing.
"Isn't that the song Nick wrote?" Joe asked to Kris, who nodded.
Kevin looked at Nick, "Nick, your girlfriend's stealing your song."
"I wrote that song for her and she can do what she wants with it, and she's not my girlfriend. Alright?"
Penny suddenly stopped, "Oh, sorry! I completely forgot. Um, I'd like to dedicate this song to the coolest, sweetest, grooviest guy on the planet."
Nick started adjusting the collar on his jacket, Joe patted his shoulder smiling, and Kevin grinned. The three sisters exchanged strange glances.
"A guy whose heart is filled with music..." Penny smiled, "My soulmate."
Nick smiled, but it faltered when he saw Kimi's pitying face, the bigger eyes from the glasses enlarging the expression.
Keri Lu began slurping her soda rather loudly, as if trying to drown out what Penny was going to say. After a little bit of bickering, Nick finally yanked the glass away from her, so he could hear.
Penny then held out her hand, but not to Nick, "Jimmy!"
Everybody started to clap again as a guy stood up and waved at everybody, as he wore an "I 3 PENNY" T-Shirt.
The spectacle fell from Joe's right eye, the mole fell from Lulu's face (she stuck it back on right after), Kevin and Kris widened their eyes, Kimi's hand moved to Nick's shoulder in a comforting way.
"Dude..." Joe said to Nick, "Your girlfriend has a boyfriend."
"She's not my girlfriend." Nick repeated, "Can we just go, please?" He stood up and left, Keri Lu and Kimi quickly following.
But Keri Lu had stopped next to Jimmy and said with an angry look on her face, "YOU...!"
Jimmy widened his eyes, not at the girl, but at the large mole on her face.
"YOU..." Then Lulu smiled, "Thank you for dating Penny! Now he's all mine!" And she skipped off.
"Sure." Kevin said, as he and Kris stood up, Joe attempted to, but realized he couldn't move.
"Uh oh.." He said, "I think I put the Stelcro jeans on inside out..."
"How do you know?" Kris asked.
Joe looked up at Kris with a scared look, "Just a feeling..."
Kevin and Kris looked at each other, and as Kevin sneaked off after the others, Joe got up, the chair hanging off of his butt.
And as Joe shuffled by Penny's boyfriend, he smacked the guy with his chair, "Jimmy." He seethed.
The dude stared after him, only to jump when a girl with chocolate brown hair and red lips smacked him across the head as she walked by.
Nick sat in the atrium, playing his guitar by himself, when Penny entered, "Hey!" She said happily, "What happened to you last night? I didn't see you."
"I was kind of in the back on the down low, and Joe was wearing his pants inside out." Nick replied, looking up at her, "It's...kind of a long story."
"Right." Penny moved and sat down next to him, "So? What did you think? Your opinion means a lot to me."
"Actually, I was kind of surprised to hear you sing "Give Love a Try"." Nick answered.
Joe, Kevin, Keri Lu and Kris were sneaking by the atrium, watching, as Penny said, "But you wrote it for me to sing, right?"
There was a second of silence, Nick looked at her, "...Oh."
"I mean, that's why you wrote it, right?"
"Yeah.." Nick's voice lacked, "Yeah, that's why I wrote it. I wrote it for you...to sing."
Penny blinked, "You hated it." She realized, "I feel awful."
"Are you kidding? You were awesome, and to hear you sing to Jimmy, who apparantly is your...boyfriend." He looked over his shoulder, "Was...magical..."
"I'm so relieved!" The Clueless Penny said, "I can't wait to tell Jimmy!" She stood up fast, and as she left the atrium Nick heard her say, "Hey, Cindy!"
"Kimi."
"Right."
Kimi walked around Penny, and ended up by Nick's side.
That was when Joe, Kevin, Keri Lu and Kris burst in, "Nick." Joe said, "How'd it go? We couldn't hear a thing."
"There's nothing to hear." Nick said, picking up his guitar, "We talked it all out. It's just one big misunderstanding. Since Penny's already with-"
"Jimmy, not Johney." Keri Lu interrupted
"Whatever." Nick shrugged, "She and I are just going to be friends."
"Really?" Kevin asked.
"Everything's cool." Nick glanced at Kimi, "I told you I wasn't taking things too fast."
"I guess we had this one wrong..." Joe said, blinking.
"You sure did."
"Looks like our little Nick is growing up." Kevin observed, grinning.
Nick moved his gaze to the ground, "...He sure is."
"Oh, Nick! I almost forgot!" Penny ran back into the atrium, Nick threw his guitar to Kris behind him, "Remember when you said I could record my demo in your studio?"
"Yeah."
"Well, what if I sang "Give Love a Try"?"
"Uhhh.." Nick started.
"You're joking, right?" Kimi asked, coming closer.
Penny looked at the curly blonde, "Yeah, Fannie, Nick said I could earlier!"
"Kimi."
"Right!"
There was a bit of silence as Nick looked back to his brothers, then he replied, "That's a great idea. I mean I wrote it for you, right?"
"Right." Penny grabbed Nick in a hug, "You're awesome!" Then she let go and left.
"You're awesome." Keri Lu repeated, pushing Nick a little. Her, Joe and Kevin smiled and left the atrium.
"So totally awesome." Kris said, giving Nick his guitar back, then followed the others.
Kimi began to leave, but then stopped when Nick asked, "How did you know?"
She looked back, "Huh?"
"I said how did you know?" Nick shrugged, "That Penny had a boyfriend this whole time. Did she tell you?"
"No." Kimi smiled.
"Then how did-"
"I'm a girl, Nick. Almost a young woman." Kimi walked in front of him, tilting her head up at him, "I could tell. Not sure how, but I could simply tell."
"Are you one of those physic people then?"
"Naw." Was all Kimi said, her smile disappeared and she became emo again, as she turned and headed back out after the others.
Nick did his half-smile, and followed her out.
At the recording studio of the Lucas Brothers, as Kevin and Joe were working on the machines, Penny, who was fixing her guitar, said to them, "Your brother writes amazing songs."
"Its really nothing." Nick said as he left the recording booth, "I write songs all the time."
"It's true!" Keri Lu said, coming over, holding a Sprite soda can, "I learned he can write songs before breakfast."
"But we never really use them because they're always like..." Joe put his hand on his stomach and said, "MA STomaCH's GRowliNG FO LOOVE!"
Nick rolled his eyes, looking down.
"So, you guys live with the Lucas Brothers now?" Penny asked Keri Lu, raising an eyebrow, "How do you guys know each other?"
"They're related to-" Kevin stopped as Keri Lu elbowed him.
"...They're related to some friends of our parents?" Joe finished.
Keri Lu smiled.
"Okay," Nick came up, "Why don't you get in the booth so we can get a level?"
Penny nodded and did as he said. Nick then looked at Joe, who asked, "What?"
"So Nick.." Kevin said, "How do you want to tackle this?"
Kimi walked up, sitting on a nearby chair with a soda, waving at Penny in the booth, who waved back.
"First, hit the backing track." Nick replied, glancing at Kris as she appeared too, "Then pick up the rhythm guitar. Then hit the lead vocal."
"Ok." Kevin nodded.
Nick then looked back at Penny, suddenly widening his eyes at her for a second.
"Dude." Kimi said, getting his attention.
Nick stared at her, then stared at the machines.
"I can't do this." He said finally, standing up and leaving.
Kevin and Joe looked at each other, Penny sat there confused in the recording booth, Keri Lu watched him go.
As the two brothers began to follow Nick, Kimi stood up, "Let me talk to him. Sometimes you need a mature person to handle this."
Joe and Kevin blinked, Keri Lu did a thumbs up to Kimi, and Kris was looking at Penny.
Kimi glanced at all three fireman poles, then she picked the one in the middle and slid down easily.
"Hey, what's up?" Kimi went over to the bar Nick was sitting on.
"Nothing." He replied without looking.
"You've only known me for a little bit, but..." She sat next to him, "I'm sure you could tell me."
"You'll just tell Kevin and Joe, and they'll make fun of me." Nick muttered.
"Well, I know they're your brothers. But did you really think I was going to tell them?" Kimi tilted her head.
"I didn't take it slow with Penny." Nick said, looking at his hands, "I burned rubber and went like a hundred miles an hour."
Then he rested his hands on one of them, "Man. I thought I was getting better at the romance thing."
"I guess not." Kimi agreed, grabbing one of the green things in the bowls in front of them.
"I made a total idiot of myself." Nick said as he munched on the same thing, "How dumb can I be?"
"You're not dumb." She shrugged, "You can probably get mad alot or something. Lulu told me it's a benefit to the others cause you get great songs out of it."
"True." Nick nodded, "What do I do now?"
"You could fall down a well."
"Nah."
"Or fall into a ditch."
"Noo..."
"You can hide in your closet for a few months...Or maybe..." Kimi swallowed another green thing, "You can go ahead and record that thing with Penny. Then go on about your lives."
"If I do the closet thing, would you bring me food?"
"No, I'd rather make you starve which would make you realize that sometimes following my advice is not such a good idea, and then you'd come back out and join the real world."
She noticed Nick smiling at her. She smiled back and ate another green thing.
"By the way..." Picking up one of them, Kimi examined it, "What are these?"
"Dunno." Nick replied.
When they reached the top again, they found Penny looking alittle worried.
"Everything ok?" She asked.
Kris and Lulu poked their heads around.
"Yeah, we were just...um..." Nick glanced at Kimi, who stood back by the doorway, Kevin and Joe came up behind her.
"Look." Nick started, talking to Penny now, "When I said I wrote the song for you, I didn't mean I wrote it FOR you...I mean I wrote it FOR...YOU."
"Yeah I know, and it's really great that you would write me a song." Penny nodded, "It's just..."
It took a second, Kevin and Joe smiled down at Kimi, Nick leaned against the railing.
"Oh.." Clueless Penny finally said.
"Yeah.." Nick looked at her, "I guess I just got a little carried away in my head. A little bit. I do that sometimes."
"Nick, I feel terrible..." Penny looked down, "I mean...I hope you don't think that I led you on. I really like you, and when you wrote me a song, I thought-"
"No, it was all me."
"You kind of fall hard, huh?"
"Yeah, that's what they tell me...and tell me..."
"No wonder you write such good songs." Penny said.
There was a small bit of silence, then she said, "I'm going to get my stuff and go."
She began to leave, Kevin and Joe looked at Nick, expecting something, Kimi being neutral.
"Wait." Nick said, Penny stopped and looked at him, "You should at least stay and record the song."
"No, I can't sing it now that I know the about why you wrote it." Penny started.
"Yeah, so why don't you leave-" Keri Lu attempted to move but Kevin, Joe and Kimi grabbed her before she could do anything.
"But won't Jimmy be disappointed and stuff... since you dedicated it ...to him." Nick blinked.
"I broke up with him." Penny informed.
Kevin, Joe and Kimi's jaws dropped, they all high-fived.
Nick blinked, "Why?"
"Well, because he didn't like the song and anyone who doesn't like an awesome song like this just doesn't get me." Penny took a step towards him.
"So you're saying the song is available?" Nick asked, stepping towards her.
Now Kris had to join in on grabbing a hold of Keri Lu before she tackled Penny.
"It's completely unattached." Penny replied, smiling.
Nick smiled, too, "I think we have a demo to record."
XXXXXX
As Kevin held the headphones to his ear, Keri Lu had her own pair as she listened, Kris and Joe leaned back and forth with each other, as Penny and Joe sang their song.
Kimi leaned back in her chair, closing her eyes.
Maybe somehow being transported to the world of JONAS isn't so bad as it would be...
"Okay.." Stella walked past Keri Lu, Kris, Kimi and Macy, who were standing in a line.
Joe, Kevin and Nick stood across from them in a line, as well, "Now, the final test is to see if your average fan..." Stella gestured to the four girls.
Macy and Keri Lu were clutching each other, all estatic, Kimi folded her arms, still completely serious, and Kris just stood there, blinking.
"...Can tell which is the Stelcro garment." Stella finished. She was holding a green clipboard and a green pencil.
She faced the girls, "Two of the boys are wearing regular clothes. One is wearing Stelcro." She smiled.
Going over to Keri Lu and Macy, she said, "I want to see if you can tell which boy is going to be-"
Macy and Keri Lu starting screaming, jumping forward and tackling Joe, who started crying out in terror as pieces of clothes flew everywhere.
Kevin and Nick stood there wide-eyed, Stella stared, Kimi and Kris actually laughed their heads off.
Macy and Lulu jumped back, holding pieces of the uniform shirt.
"Yeah..." Stella picked up the pieces on their hands, "That wasn't the one.."
Macy's face fell. Lulu just smiled.
Over behind them, Joe was standing in his underwear, with a shredded shirt and a terrified expression.
As he and Kevin stumbled to escape, Kevin cried out to Macy, "WHO ARE YOU?"
Nick looked at Kimi and gestured towards the steps, "Shall we?"
Kimi, who was still laughing, grabbed his shoulder for support, "Sure..."
Soooo, that's it. Ill be working on chapter 2, but don't expect it so soon, 'kay? It took a long time to create chapter 1, soooo...I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and all that jazz. Leave a review of what you think and such ^^