-1Welcome everybody to my newest story! Glad you decided to come along for the ride. This story was thought up by my cousin Michaela. I think it's a wonderful idea and kudos to her for thinking of it. Throughout the story she will be helping me think of new storylines, events, and ideas. And if you haven't figured out, this story is based around ABC's The Bachelor.

So here we go with a new whirlwind story. Enjoy!

"I can't believe you guys put me up to this. This has got to be the most ridiculous thing I will ever do in my life," Nathan Scott told his friends as he began to pack an oversized suitcase with a variety of clothes.

"Dude, I still cannot see how you are not totally into this," Tim Smith, Nathan's longtime sidekick, answered, bewildered. "I mean seriously man, twenty-five hot chicks all to yourself. That only happens in any man's wildest dream."

"Yeah that's what I thought I would be thinking right now too. But it's weird 'cause it isn't."

"Well just be open minded," Nathan's half brother Lucas told him. "Just have fun. It's not like you really have to fall in love or anything like that."

"Yeah I guess but isn't that the point of the show?"

It had just been a normal night for Nathan. All the guys had gone down to the bar for a few beers and a basketball game. But little did he know that he was soon going to get roped into something that he really didn't feel comfortable with at all.

In one corner of the bar, dozens of young men had lined up. It looked to Nathan like an audition for something, but he didn't know what. Seeing all of the video cameras and crew members gathered around the area, it looked as if it was for some television show that was holding an open casting call.

"Dude, lets go check it out," Tim volunteered. "We might get on TV!"

Nathan followed his friend and brother to the table. Maybe it was an audition for that show the Real World, or Survivor, or Big Brother.

"Yo," Tim addressed the woman behind the table, "me and my bros are here to audition for this thingy." Tim Smith had never been one to care about using proper grammar when he spoke.

"We are?" Nathan asked, a dumbfounded expression painted his face. "I thought we were just going to see what this was."

"C'mon man. We're trying out, aren't we Luke? Don't you want to be on TV? Just do it," Tim attempted to persuade his friend to 'just do it.'

"Nah," Nathan said. "You can do it though. I'll just go save us a spot at the bar"

The woman behind the table took one look at Nathan and immediately took Tim's side.

"Sir," the brunette lady said before he was able to turn around and flee the area. "There's really nothing to lose if you just audition. It won't take too long and you can get back to your 'manly fun'" She giggled the most annoying laugh Nathan had ever heard.

"That's really okay Ma'am," he rejected trying not to sound annoyed. "I'll just go."

"C'mon Man," Tim pleaded trying his best to give Nathan the puppy dog look that clearly wasn't working all too well for him.

"What's the worst that could happen?" the woman smiled.

Nathan rolled his eyes.

"Fine," Nathan replied reluctantly. "I'll do it."

"Yes!" Tim exclaimed causing an annoyed reaction from both Lucas and Nathan Scott.

"What are we 'auditioning' for anyway?" Nathan asked.

"The Bachelor," the lady answered. "And you my friend are definitely Bachelor material."

"No way," Nathan declared before attempting to escape from the area. But Tim was able to grab hold of his arm just in time.

"There's no way you're getting out of this now my brother from another mother."

"So did you get the book?" Tim asked shooting a rubber basketball into a hoop that hung above Nathan's bed.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Nathan asked emerging from his closet with a small pile of apparel that included sweats, shorts, and T-Shirts.

"The book. The one season that Jesse was on the show they sent him a book with pictures of all the chicks before he got on the show. Did they send you one?"

Nathan and Lucas instantaneously spun their heads to stare at their friend.

"Yeah I got a photo album yesterday, but I haven't looked at it yet," Nathan replied. "I mean I might as well be surprised right? And how the hell would you know that I was going to get one?"

"I'm just smart like that," Tim replied.

Lucas chuckled.

"Pssh, Yeah right. What do you actually watch the show?"

"Well why not? Hot chicks are on it man!"

"Wow," was all that Lucas could utter. "Nathan where's the photo album? I want to see these girls."

"It's on the kitchen table I think," Nathan responded from inside the bathroom where he was gathering toiletries which included shampoo, a hairbrush, a razor, a toothbrush, toothpaste, Obsession cologne, and antiperspirant.

"Okay," Lucas answered heading out the door of his brother's bedroom and into the kitchen of Nathan's new house in which he had just purchased. "Got it," he said coming back into the room with a medium sized photo album titled "What to Look Forward To."

Immediately, Tim hopped off of Nathan's bed and stood over Lucas' shoulder to get a good look at the pictures inside of the album.

"Nate, do you want to look?" Lucas asked before he turned the cover open.

"Sure," Nathan called out. "Hold on a second." Within thirty seconds, the brunette emerged from the bathroom with a small toiletry bag in hand. "Okay I'm here," he said before tossing the bag onto the bed.

"Show me the babes," Tim exclaimed greedily as Lucas flipped the book open to the first page.

"You do realize I'm the one dating these girls not you, right Tim?" Nathan rolled his eyes playfully.

The men examined each page of the album thoroughly exchanging words about each and every girl. Tim's normal response to the photographs was either 'damn!' or 'Nathan you lucky bastard!' Lucas had thought a few of the girls were gorgeous. As for Nathan, he had thought all the girls were cute. They wouldn't have been cast on the show if they weren't. But one girl stood out in his mind and he couldn't get the picture of her face out of his head. She'd had wavy auburn colored hair as well as a natural beauty that most of the other women hadn't possessed. Maybe this wasn't going too be so bad after all.

"Damn brother, you're gonna have a hay day in Hawaii." Tim bellowed. "I mean seriously dude look at all these hotties with the bodies."

"Tim, remind me how old you are again," Lucas said.

"Twenty-five man. Duh!"

"He wasn't asking you to tell him how old you were Tim," Nathan told the man. "And by the way, you're acting like a horny high school boy."

"Dude I am horny. Just not in high school."

The brothers shook their heads. What would they do about Tim?

"So," Lucas changed the subject. "You all packed?"

"Pretty much," Nathan answered. "Just a few last minute things and I'm good to go."

"Well that's good. You're going to have fun."

Fun. Boy was that the truth. Throughout the entire experience so far he had been reluctant. Not once had he been excited to go to Hawaii, or meet twenty-five beautiful women, or anything. He hadn't wanted to do this and he had known from the minute he had unwillingly accepted the woman's offer to audition that it was a bad idea. This was probably the last thing that he would ever in his right mind think about doing. But here he was getting ready to get shipped of to Maui to try and fall in love with the woman of his dreams. Love. He hated that word. Love sucked, there was no two ways around it. He had been in love once, with his high school sweetheart. But the romance had come to a crashing halt when he found the love of his life in bed with his worst enemy. As much as he hated to admit it, he was scared of love. He had been through heartbreak before and even really didn't want to see dozens of women be heartbroken when he rejected them. And he didn't want to be heartbroken himself either in the end. Was it really possible to actually find everlasting love on some reality dating show? He was just going to have to wait and see.