Here With You: An Allstar Weekend Love Story.

There I was, 2 p.m. on a Saturday, standing outside my neighbors house. I could hear him and his friends jamming out, so I decided to wait there, at his doorstep, until they finished another song. I loved hearing his voice. Gah. About two minutes, and several deep breaths later, the house was remotely quiet.

"Finally." I said quietly, anxious to see his face.

Anxious to his face. My neighbor, Zachary David Porter. Oh God, I'm probably blushing.

I quickly pointed out my index finger and rang his doorbell. I heard the music chime through his house. Then, I heard 5 pairs of feet rushing down the stairs.

Finally, Zach answered the door. I swear, there was a ring of golden light around his body. Dang, he was cute when he was out of breath.

"Hey Zach" I said, a little dreamily, as I was feeling a little woozy at the sight of him. I felt the blood rush to my face as I came back to reality.

"Hey Sam! What's up?" He replied, giving me a friendly but slighty awkward smile. Crap, was I scaring him?

As I mentally cursed to myself, I heard a chuckle and a cough from behind Zach.

Shit! Cameron, Nathan, Michael, and Tom were all standing behind him. Oops.

"Oh! Hey guys…guess I didn't see you there!" I chuckled awkwardly, writhing inside at how embarrassed I was. I'd have to kill them all, since they witnessed my stupidity.

"Hahah, obviously not!" Teased Cameron. There, it was decided. He would be the first to die. My best friend, Sara wouldn't like that very much. (;

" 'Heyyy…Zach….I looooove youu!'" Nathan mocked, with a dreamy, fan girl-like twinkle in his eyes. Nope, I was DEFINITLEY killing him first.

Crap. Was that how I looked? I coughed and regained my composure. That's so embarrassing, oh God, how could I do that! Just standing there like an idiot. Sheesh. Oh no! They probably thought I was a stalker! Watching them from Zach's porch, listening to them as they talked and goofed around. Fu-

"Hey guys, do me a favor?" Zach asked, interrupting my mental rant.

"Yeah, sure, what?" The boys replied."

"Shut up. And Cameron, you reacted the same way when you saw sara yesterday, so don't even start." Zach scolded.

Mikey nudged Cameron and wiggled his eyebrows as Cameron blushed and shyly covered his eyes with his hair.

Wait! Say what! Cameron likes Sara? THIS. IS. MAJOR.

"AHEM. Excuse Zach, a DIFFERENT Sara. Right, Zach?" Cameron said, instinctively trying to cover up his secret crush.

"Oh, yeah, suuure Cam." I said, with a devilish smile. Wait till Sara heard about this! She would probably have a heart attack. Heh heh heh!

"Well, anyway, Sam." Zach continued, emphasizing my name so they boys would get the hint not to interrupt. "We were just playing a couple new songs that Nate and I wrote, wanna come hang out and critique?"

"Yeah, sure! Let's hear it!" Now, what I wanted to say was, OF COURSE, STUPID. I LOVE YOU. But that would just be a little bit too awkward. You see, Zach didn't quite acknowledge the fact that I'm basically in love with him. He was friendly, with an emphasis on the friend part. It was pretty obvious I liked him, though. All of my friends knew, and so did his. But he just never brought it up. Maybe he would think it's embarrassing…? Whatever. He was inviting me up to his room, I'm not complaining.

"Aw, look, she's blushing. Be safe, you two!" Cameron said. He had obviously recovered from what Zach said.

"You know Cameron, I think Sara's free, you want me to invite her over? She's probably done with her voice lesson by now, so you two could ya know, 'hang out'." I said, making air quotes with my fingers.

Cameron glared at me, but still said "Fine. Invite her over. I'm not gonna ask her out or anything, though. It's not like she even likes me or anything."

"Oh, definitely not dude, you guys just flirt all the time. No biggie." Tom said, dripping with sarcasm.

As we walked into Zach's room, I took out my phone and sent a text to Sara.

" Hey Girl! Whatcha up to? I'm at Zach's house. Cameron's here tooooo :p wanna come over?"

She texted back almost instantly.

"yeah sure! What's he wearing? Does he look cute? never mind, he always looks cute. Be there in 10! Xoxo"

"She's leaving her house now." I announced, leaving out the part about Cameron.

I could see Cameron grinning across the room, but I decided not to tease him.

I guess now is as good a time as any for introductions. My name's Samantha Least. I'm 17 years old, and I live next door to Zach Porter! I'm five feet and four inches tall, and I have dirty blonde hair and dark blue eyes. I'm a volleyball player and theater actress, so I'm pretty skinny if I do say so myself.

Cameron, Michael, Nathan, Zach, and Tom are all members of a band called Allstar. It used to be outerspace politicians, but they decided to change it! They're currently competing in Disney Channel's Next Big Thing contest, and if I do day so myself, they're pretty damn good.

My best friend, Sara Chung, is Camerons object of affection. ;) She has stick straight hair that's black with chestnut and red highlights that flows halfway down her back. She has almond shaped eyes that are the prettiest shade of light brown. Like melted pools of milk chocolate. She has really tan skin (natural!) and she's skinny. Like me, but still curvy, unlike me. She basically outshines me in the beauty category any day, in my opinion. Not that she'll ever agree with that. She also does a lot of plays, snagging lead roles all the time. She has the most gorgeous singing voice, with deep, rich, low notes, and gorgeous, smooth high notes. She's also a dancer. Ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, everything! No wonder why Cameron likes her. Sheesh. Not that I care, or anything, Zach's plenty for me!

Zach ran downstairs to grab some water bottles,and Nathan was just messing around with the guitar, playing a smooth, tropical kind of melody. Tom and Michael were clapping and snapping and beat boxing, making beats with anything they could get their hands on.