"We can nowhere but up, from here, my dear…"

Alissa woke up, her iHome alarm playing Up by Justin Bieber. She smiled to herself, looking at the bottom of the bunk above her, letting the soft music play. One day, she dreamt of meeting this boy.

Getting out of dreamland, she slowly rolled out of her warm covers. She gasped as the cold air in her room touched her warm skin. Quietly, she exited her room, shutting the door quietly as to not wake her sister Charlie up. She walked past her mom's room, went into the bathroom area, and took a hot shower. The water was soothing to her, but she couldn't stay in; she had school to get ready for.

Rolling her eyes, she turned the water off and dried herself off. Wrapped in a towel, Alissa walked back to her room and changed into a flowered blue Hollister skirt, a V-neck white top with a blue tank top underneath, gladiators, and her cross necklace.

After changing, Alissa padded across her room towards her sister Charlie. Gently shaking her, she said "Charlie…you need to get up sweetie, you have early choir practice before school and I need to take you." she said.

Charlie opened her eyes to a squint, "Tell Mr. Judd that I'm skipping choir today, I want to sleep in." she whined in her fifth-grade voice.

"Charlie, you were the one who wanted to audition for this choir. Now get your booty out of bed and get ready." Alissa said.

"You're right." Charlie huffed and climbed off the bunk bed. She quickly threw on a pink sundress and flip flops. "Can you do my hair though; you always do it really pretty." She said, smiling.

"Alright, just let me eat first and then I'll do two braids. Sound good?" she asked. Charlie nodded and went into the kitchen with Alissa.

Alissa peeked into their pantry, there wasn't much food today. She sighed. Every since dad had left, they didn't have the luxury of a ton of food choices. But they did have enough food to get by, and for that Alissa was thankful.

She pulled out the Great Value brand of Cookie Crisp cereal, two bowls, and two spoons. "Hey Charlie, grab the milk would you?"

"Okay." Charlie said, grabbing the milk carton from the fridge. She handed it to Alissa and sat at the table.

Alissa poured their cereal into the bowls, added milk, and stuck the spoon in the bowl. She handed the bowl with a little less cereal to Charlie, and kept the more plentiful one for herself.

"Girl you're my one love…my one heart…my one life, for sure, let me tell you one time…" Alissa heard her phone ringing. Her ringtone was One Time by Bieber:]. She pulled her phone out of her backpack.

Text from-Klarah

Ahhh! JB sweepstakes to one of his concerts! I just signed up! You should too! :)

Alissa smiled and jogged to her room, grabbing her laptop. She brought it back to the kitchen table and booted it up, eating cereal while waiting. She typed in her password when the screen popped up, opened the Internet, and went to the usual site.

The sweepstakes were plastered all over the homepage of the website. If you won the sweepstakes, you got 4 free tickets to one of JB's My World Tour concerts, airplane tickets, and a hotel room.

Oh, how could I get it? Everybody is going to see this. There is no way that I could get it. She thought. And then the song Never Say Never played in her head. "I will never say never." She whispered and clicked the submit button after entering her information.

Text to-Klarah

I JUST DID! :) I hope either you or me will get it! :)

She set her phone down, and then saw the time on the bottom right hand corner of her laptop screen. 7:50. "CRAP!" She said and shoveled the rest of the cereal in her mouth. She quickly got a brush and two elastics. She wove two piggy tail braids in Charlie's hair, shut down her laptop, and ran out the door with her sister.

"Put your seat belt on Charlie." Alissa said, seated in the driver's seat of her beat up truck. She was so glad that they had bought this before her dad had left.

Charlie snapped her seatbelt on and handed Alissa her iPod.

"You know me so well." She chimed to Charlie with a smile. Alissa hooked her iPod up to the stereo system in her truck and clicked on the Bieber playlist. Charlie began to sing along beautifully, followed by Alissa. They were meant to be sisters.

2 days later

Alissa and Klarah stared at their rejection emails. There was a dead silence for at least three minutes before Klarah piped up. "You know what? I have wanted to meet this dude for at least 2 years! Why can't we ever win?"

Klarah was sleeping over at Alyssa's house for the weekend while her dad was on another business trip. Her mom was home, but she just liked hanging out with her best friend. "So where's your dad at again?" Alissa asked her, trying to change the subject. Losing things never made her happy, especially when it had to do with Bieber.

"Brazil. Isn't that crazy? He gets to go to all these fun places! He never invites me to come! He's gone so much." Klarah said.

"Well he'll be back for like a month, won't he?"

Klarah gave a sarcastic chuckle and shut down the laptops. "Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that he'll be going somewhere cool again soon. He's always gone on these crazy business trips." Klarah complained.

"At least your dad doesn't go on a business trip and then decide to make it permanent and never come back home." Alissa said.

"I'm sorry Alissa." She said quietly. "I forget how lucky I am to have a dad sometimes."

Alissa simply waved her hand at Klarah, "Cut the pity." She said with a smile and ran to her room.

She plugged her iPod in, playing "Somebody to Love" by Justin Bieber. She pulled out her and Klarah's secret box that they had made 4 years ago and had still been maintaining. The outside of the box was covered in a modge podge of different kinds of scrapbooking paper and words that spelled out "A & K's Bestie Box."

Klarah smiled and slid the lid off the box. The inside was covered with pictures of Alyssa and Klarah's adventures together. Klarah laughed as her eyes layed upon their 7th grade Spanish presentation picture. "Look at those ridiculous dresses. We sure didn't have good taste..."

Alissa laughed. Memories flashed through her brain as her eyes zoomed across all the pictures that the box contained. She and Klarah had been best friends since first grade, age six. And now they were 15 and had come so far. "Awe, look at that one! It's our picture with Mrs. Clark." She said, referring to their first grade teacher.

Klarah smiled and then saw one of their favorites: Pictures taken at the Neversaynever3d movie. The best one that they had taken was the one by a cardboard cutout of Justin; Alissa on one side, Klarah on the other, smiling as big as ever.

Alissa pulled out their journal, and wrote about how they lost the Bieber sweepstakes, and put the journal back in the box and slid it under her bed.

"Love me, love me, say that you love me, fool me fool me, oh how you do me…"

Klarah stopped to dance to her phone for a second, listening to one of her favorite JB songs playing as her ringtone. She looked at the ID number on the front of her phone; it was her dad.

"One sec Alissa, it's my dad; he usually calls once a week." Klarah answered her phone. "Hi Dad… I've missed you too… Exciting news? Well go on!" Klarah said.

After a few minutes of Klarah listening to her dad talk, Klarah looked up at Alissa, her eyes wide with excitement.

Was Alissa thinking what Klarah was thinking?