Blaine and Nick were walking on the sidewalk talking as they waited for Jeff to show up when their phones beeped in synch. 'Emergency Warbler meeting. NOW!' said the text. The two boys looked at each other then rushed off to the choir room knowing that Wes only capitalized now when it was something big.

When they got there all the warblers were there but Jeff so they grabbed the first two seats they saw. "Kay, is everyone here?" asked Wes and Nick raised his hands," Where is Jeff?" "We'll have to start without him. Thank you people for coming on such short notice. As you know, I have called us all together and the reason why is a big deal. I was called into the headmaster's office this morning to be told some big news.

I take it all your all familiar with ET" At this everyone nodded so he continued. "Well, apparently they got an exclusive that Riker Lynch went to this school. The Lynch's were able to get the story off the air but it was brought to the headmaster's attention that we have a popstar walking around Dalton undetected. He told me this because he wanted my help in making sure the guy felt safe, even if his story got leaked, though he didn't tell me who it was. So, I got to thinking that I could recruit him for the Warblers.

The Dean told me to leave it alone but I was able to get a video of the guy so we can do some snooping of our own. When we figure out who he is I want to get him recruited, and protected, especially if his identity is leaked, okay?" asked Wes and everyone nodded, though they were shocked that Wes was actually encouraging them to snoop around.

When Wes saw everyone nod he put the video in. At 17 seconds, everyone gasped and Wes quickly paused the video not believing his eyes. There was Jeff, clear as day. Jeff. Jeff his friend and fellow warbler who he had passed up for solos 7 times and is apparently a popstar. Jeff was Riker Lynch. No one could rap their mind around it. They all knew Jeff. He was fun-loving and open like a book. There was no way this was him, yet it had to be.

While they were all just looking in shock at the screen, the doors to the practice room opened and in walked Jeff, Riker, they didn't know who he was anymore. "hey, guys, sorry I'm late. I was at the da- "Jeff cut off upon seeing his face from the Forget About You video on the screen in front of him. "Uh…" Jeff couldn't think of what to say, he had hoped he could have kept this from his friends.

"Jeff… is that you?" asked Nick. "Are you the person on the screen? Are you Riker Lynch?" Nick interrogated him. "I…Nick..I..um…maybe?" was all Jeff could get out because his mind was racing. They knew, they knew. His friends knew his biggest secret. He knew this day would come, what with R5's growing popularity, but he thought he'd have more time to figure out how to tell them. Now, there was no more time, it was out there and Jeff was trying to pick up the pieces.

"It is!" said Nick looking at Jeff in betrayal, how could his best friend keep something like this from him? "Jeff, erm, Riker? Why?" asked Blaine. When Jeff looked around the room and saw everyone staring at him in shock or betrayal it was all too much, he had to get out. So he did. He turned around, hurried out of the room and ran into the dance studio before locking the door behind him and making a call.

With The Warblers

Everyone just sat in shock for another minute until Nick got up and headed towards the door. "Nick, wait! Give him some time, he has to process this. His biggest secret was just revealed, let him have some alone time." Sid Wes, using his most authorities voice. "Well, what am I supposed to do? I want answers." Said Nick. "We'll watch the video then look him up on YouTube and watch some of the videos to get our answers. If you have questions, we'll ask him once he's calmed down." Answered Thad. Nick nodded and Wes pressed restart on the video.

Video begins

At the first scene, they could make out R5 and presents so they could guess that the band's name was R5. 0:06 The Warblers then got the name of the video (I Can't) Forget About You. 0:20 The Warblers didn't know Jeff could sing so well, most of them thought he was mediocre since he never got a solo while the council wondered how they didn't see how good he was until now.

0:24 They didn't know Jeff could play the bass, so they were shocked when they saw him strumming the chord on it. 0:27 Blaine gasped and everyone looked at him as they paused the video. "I know who he is! He plays Austin on Austin and Ally, his name's Ross Lynch." Said Blaine not surprising anyone that he would know about a Disney Channel show.

0:50 At this point they were all bobbing their heads along and were again shocked to see Jeff jamming out on the bass, they realized he could play but didn't realize that he was having so much fun playing. 1:22 The Warbler smiled as Jeff/Riker began another solo and the council still couldn't believe they didn't realize how much talent Jeff had. 1:41 As Riker looked in the room the Warblers couldn't help but notice the music video on the TV screen in the background. They hoped they could find that one, they wanted to know everything they could on the life Jeff kept from them.

1:52 When the saw Riker and the other guy lean in on Ross's microphone they realized how much fun it seemed like Jeff was having and they were happy for their friend though also jealous that he never shared that with them. 2:30 "Looks like being a Warbler helped Jeff there." Said David, trying to break the tension that was still in the room. 3:03 "Run, Forest, Run" yelled Blaine getting some laughs from the freshman but those close to Jeff just continued to look at the screen. 3:53 They all laughed at the girl's predicament and were about to look up Riker Lynch on YouTube when the practice room doors opened and everyone turned to see who it was.

With Riker

Riker locked the dance studio and pulled out his phone, calling Ross, knowing that he was off the set today and with the rest of the family. "Hey, Ross. Are you with the everyone?" asked Riker. "Yeah, do I need to go on speaker?" Ross asked sensing that something was wrong with his brother. "Yeah." Answered Riker. "Kay, one sec…..Riker, you're on speaker." Said Ross. "Sweetie, what's wrong?" asked Stormie. "They know." Said Riker. "They know?" repeated Ryland. "How? We made sure that the story didn't air." Said Rocky.

"I don't know how but I walked in the practice room after facetiming Allison and they were watching the I Can't Forget About You video and my face was paused up on the screen. They all just looked at me and Nick was like, 'that's you.' I don't know what to do." Explained Riker. "Do you trust them?" asked Rydel. "I do, but some of them can't keep a secret to save their lives, what if they spill? This is my chance at a normal life and now its screwed up." Said Riker. "You knew you were going to have to tell them eventually." Said Ratliff. "I know, but I thought I'd have more time or at least tell them myself." Said Riker. "Well, give it a shot, let them see the real you and explain things to them. If it gets out then we'll get you a bodyguard or you can continue schooling on tour." Compromised Mark.

"Kay, I think I'm gonna go see them, I kinda left in a hurry." Responded Riker. "Kay, honey. Love you!" said Stormie and Mark. "Love you, bro!" added Rocky, Ryland, Rydel, and Ross. "Bye, Rikes!" said Ratliff. "Love you guys!" said Riker before ending the call. He sighed before pushing himself off the floor and unlocking the studio. He walked towards the practice room but stopped as he heard his music coming from outside the door. 'I should just leave.' Riker thought but then reminded himself that he had just said he'd try and knew that if he didn't he would be showing his siblings it was okay to just give up. He was the oldest, he couldn't do that so he swallowed his fear and opened the door.

Main Pov

Jeff, erm, Riker stood in between the doors with all the Warblers eyes on him. "Ummm, hey guys." Riker said and then say the YouTube search screen on the big screen. He slowly made his way to an open seat which just so happened to be next to Nick, Blaine, Wes, Thad, David, and Trent. Everyone just stared at him for a minuet until he finally broke and said," Soo, what are we doing? I mean as much as I love being stared at by my friends it's kinda weird now." Some Warblers looked away and others had the decency to look ashamed but others just continued to stare.

Finally Nick said," Why didn't you tell me?" "I wanted to, Nick, but I couldn't. Once r5 got big this was the only way I could keep a normal life, at least part of the time. I wanted to be able to walk down the street without attracting a crowd and walk into a building and no have everyone look at. At the same time, performing's my dream and I love it. I was able to have both by making Jeff and making sure no one knew of r5 near me. I wanted to tell you I did, but I couldn't if I wanted to have a normal life, or to let my siblings have a normal life. It wasn't just me but my whole family, we all decided to do this and to tell someone could reveal it all, so I'm sorry, but I couldn't." Explained Riker.

"I get it, you wanted a normal life with the fame you got and to tell would give that up." Simplified Blaine. "Yep." Said Riker. "I think we're all just trying to process this still but, to answer your question we were about to look you up on YouTube." Said Trent blushing when he admitted what they were doing. "You're welcome to stay. Maybe you could help answer some of our questions." Said Thad and Jeff nodded so Wes searched Riker Lynch into the YouTube search bar using his phone that was set up to the screen.

When they looked him up they clicked on the first thing on the screen. Without looking at it they put it at full screen at pressed start.

AN: The video they are watching is I Can't Forget AboutYou, official video.