Here's a nice little two- shot for everyone to enjoy. If you read my story, It's our time now; the next chapter should be up by next week. I'm just about done writing it. For all of you who celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas. I hope you have a great holiday. Review and tell me what you thought. The next chapter should be up in a couple of days.

The three kids sat still waiting for at least one of their parents to come home. They wanted to talk to parents, to keep their parents from splitting up. They didn't care that it wasn't their fault; they just wanted the problem to be fixed. As soon as they heard the front door open each kid ran to see who it was. "Momma!" The youngest child called out.

"What are you all doing in here?" The mother asked her three kids. "Why aren't you out playing on this beautiful day?"

"Because we wanted to talk to you. We have some questions." The eldest child spoke up. She was very blunt for a thirteen year old.

"Alright well let's go into the living room and then you can ask away."

"Why are you and Dada not togeder anymore?" The youngest pouted. She was only four. She didn't quite understand why her father wasn't around very much anymore.

"We told you, it has nothing to do with any of you three."

"Mom, cut the crap. You don't have to tell us why dad's not around; just tell us your story. How you met? How you fell in love? Everything! We want to know, we deserve to know." Charli, the thirteen year old yelled.

"I don't think that's relevant to this situation." The mother turned away.

"It is to us! We have a right to know about how our parents met. It's only right since you made Dad leave." Blake, the only boy in the family and the middle child shouted.

"I did not make your father leave. Get that in your heads right now. Your father left because he knew you kids would have been so stressed had he stayed!"

"Why can't we be with him then instead of you?" Blake burst.

"We're not talking about this Blake. You want to know how we met? I'll tell you if you all stop yelling!" The three kids nodded their heads in anticipation. "Okay… wow, this was years ago. I had gotten a call from the director of my new television show. He said he had finally found the boy to play opposite of me. Before we started shooting they wanted to make sure we had the chemistry they were looking for, so the next day I made my way to the studio and there right in front of me was a boy with sparkly blue eyes and golden shiny blonde hair-."

"Daddy!" The youngest, Bailey, clapped like she was watching an episode of Barney.

"Yes, daddy." The mother smiled slightly remember the feeling she was instantly hit with the first time she met the father of her kids. "He turned towards me with this big grin on his face and stuck out his hand saying, 'Hi, I'm Sterling Knight. I'm so excited to be working with you.' And I knew right away that this was the guy who was born to play Chad Dylan Cooper.

"We began shooting Sonny with a Chance about a month later and Sterling and I had already become great friends. And I'd be lying to you if I said I didn't think he was cute, because he was… very much so. But he was just a friend. Pretty shortly after the first episode of Sonny with a Chance aired on the Disney Channel. And Sterling was the new hotshot of Disney. Soon our show was a fan favorite and both of our social statuses grew wildly.

"About a year later we were rumored to be dating, but the tabloids are always lying so we did nothing about it. We were just friends, or at least we had said that so many times that we just believed it. A couple months later shooting for the second season of Sonny with a Chance started and we were still really close. But soon I would be asked out by my best guy friend, Joe Jonas."

"Uncle Joe? Really? I don't see it." Charli interrupted.

"Yes, Uncle Joe. I remember the day I told my cast mates…"

XxX

"Demi has major news." Tiffany sang. She was informed just a couple of minutes before of this 'major news'.

"Ooo, do tell." Allison urged.

"Okay, well last night Joe finally asked me out! I knew he had been thinking about for awhile now, but he was just taking forever to do so and then bam! Last night he finally did it!" Demi screamed excitedly.

"Finally!" All but one cried out, looking at the one who hadn't shouted their congratulations Allison stopped. "Wait, what?" She had finally caught on to the name her friend yelled.

"Joe Jonas, he finally did it!" Demi smiled.

"Oh… well, congrats!" Allison faked a smile.

"Thanks guys!" Demi's smile grew as she took a look at Sterling, who had yet to say something.

Sterling noticed her glancing at him so he came up with a lie to leave the room. "Sorry I need to take this phone call. Be right back." He lifted his phone and said hello to no one while leaving the room.

After awhile all the chatting about how Joe had asked her out, Demi noticed that Sterling still hadn't come back into the prop house. She was worried, he did have a phone call after all, and what if it was something bad? She left the room and found him sitting on the ground with his head in his hands. "Hey, whatcha doing out here?" She asked him once she saw him.

"Just thinking." Sterling simply stated.

"You never came back in, I was worried." Demi paused, "Who was on the phone?"

"No one, it doesn't matter."

"Sterling, come on. We tell each other everything." Demi lightly touched his hand.

"Evidently not." Sterling muttered to himself pulling his hand back and standing up.

"What?" Demi asked confused at his sudden change in personality.

"It's not important Demi. Just leave it." Sterling told her coldly.

"Fine, I will."

"Good!"

"We're not our characters not Sterling." Demi joked, even though they did this a lot. It was a habit they had formed over the past couple of years. After fighting so much saying 'fine, fine, good, good.' The saying's kind of stuck.

Sterling cracked a smile, but it quickly vanished. "I guess I should say congrats."

"I guess you could."

"Congratulations Demi. I'm glad that you're happy." Sterling said honestly, even if he wasn't too happy about it himself.

"Thanks." Demi whispered. She didn't know why, but she wished Sterling was a little more excited about this news. She wanted him to approve.

"Alight, well, I'll see ya." Sterling said as he turned to leave the set.

XxX

"He just left." Charli gasped.

"I'm not done." Demi stated. "About five months later Sonny with a Chance filming was taking a break once again, so this day was our last one for a couple of months…

XxX

"Yes!" Sterling ran into the studio jumping up and down.

"What's got you so excited?" Tiffany asked.

"All the other cast members were waiting for his reply. "Well, a couple of weeks ago I had an audition for this great role and the director just called and told me I got the part!"

"Wow, Sterling, Congrats!" "We're so happy for you." Was sputtered out from the five other cast members.

"Thank you, thank you." Sterling bowed. "But get this. The movie is going to be filmed in Europe! Well, mostly Italy, but still, some scenes will be in like London and Paris. God, I'm so excited! I can finally get out of LA for awhile. It will be so nice to get away for a couple of months. Sterling babbled like a five year old at Christmas while Demi Lovato just sat in shock. He was going to be gone for a long time, in Italy no less. Demi had no idea why she felt so depressed about this.

About a week later the Sonny with a Chance cast had just had its wrap party for the second season. They were going to be faced with a four month break until it was time to come back for season three. Demi noticed Sterling's trailer door was open and went to go see what he was up too. She saw him still packing and asked, "Need some help?"

Sterling looked over to the doorway and smiled. "Well, I think I'm almost done, once I finish up this drawer."

"And is this drawer staying full?" Demi smirked opening up the forgotten drawer.

Sterling just dropped his head. "What would I do with you?"

"Forget to completely clean out your trailer, obviously."

"Obviously." Sterling agreed.

"So four months… wow, that's a long time to be apart." Demi said while packing some of his things from the forgotten drawer.

"Aw, you gonna miss me Lovato?" Sterling joked.

"Haha" Demi rolled her eyes. "It is a long time, especially with you all the way in Italy."

"Yeah, I know." Sterling sighed. "But you have your tour coming up, so that should keep you busy. And Joe…" Sterling's voice broke off in the end.

"Yeah… I guess."

"You know? I might get lonely in Italy with no one from home there with me." Sterling started. "I might need a visitor or two to keep me from feeling completely abandoned."

Demi caught on instantly to what he was saying and grinned. "You want me to visit?"

"It would be nice to be able to see you once in the four months I'll be gone." Sterling shrugged.

Demi's grin grew wider as she turned towards Sterling's smiling face. "You've got yourself a deal."

"Good, cause I'll miss you." Sterling said in Demi's ear as he gave her a big bear hug.

"I'll miss you too." Demi's muffled voice rang in his ears as she inhaled Sterling's scent for what could be the last time for awhile.

XxX

"Did you go to Italy? Is that where you got together? That'd be soo romantic." Charli swooned.

"Gross, I don't want to know that." Blake put his finger in his throat, imitating throwing up.

"Well, Blake you'll be happy to know that no, I did not go to Italy to see him."

"What? Why not?" Charli whined.

"Listen!" Demi scolded her daughter playfully. "I was on the European tour with the Camp Rock friends and Sterl- your dad, happened to be filming a few scenes in London, which is where we were performing that night. I knew he was going to be in London and I called and we caught up for lunch. We actually spent most of the day together. We decided that would be enough since I had a tour to finish for another month and Sterling would be wrapping up filming pretty soon. That was also when he mentioned to me how he and his costar Anna were an item. And for some unknown reason to me then, that upset me a lot more than it should have."

"You were in love with him. That's why it upset you." Charli clearly stated.

"But I didn't know that yet." Demi told her.

"So, what happened when Dad got home?" Blake questioned wanting to get off the subject of love.

"Well, I was still upset about him having a girlfriend, but then I was told he and Anna had broken up, so…"

"You fell in love!" The littlest child shouted.

"No, remember I still had a boyfriend. But we did grow closer. Joe was away filming a movie and my birthday was coming up. I had no plans to do anything because no one had told me about anything. I was just going to chill with my family. But Sterling told me that I would be spending my birthday evening with him. His exact words were, 'You're turning eighteen, an official adult, and you just plan to sit at home all night. That's not right and not cool at all. We're going to celebrate like real celebrities.'"

"That sound like Dad." Blake laughed.

Demi smiled at her son. He was a dead ringer for Sterling; he had the blonde hair and shiny blue eyes. He was the only one of the kids that had no resemblance to her at all. He even had Sterling's attitude and personality. "Yes, yes it does."

"So, Dad took you out?"

"Your father blindfolded me and when we got to our destination he guided me up the steps, making fun of me every time I moved my foot to find the steps. It was very rude." Demi joked.

"Daddy's funny!" Bailey cheered.

"He is, isn't he?" Demi added.

"Well go on, what happened next?" Charli urged her mom on.

"We got inside this building and right as Sterling pulled the blindfold off tons of people jumped out screaming, 'Surprise!'. It was so shocking that the rest of the night I remember as if it were yesterday.

"I had no idea what to think so I went to talk to Miley and Tiffany to thank them. I had a feeling that they had something to do with this and my assumptions were right, but not as much as I thought. They told me that this whole party was Sterling's idea. He was the one who wanted to do something special for me. They told me that they just helped out with decorating, but that your father planned the whole thing."

"That's so nice of dad. I personally never would do that for a girl." Blake said.

"You'd be surprised. So anyway a little later Miley and Sterling were up on stage. They had written a song together about me as a birthday gift; it was the sweetest gift anyone could have asked for. I didn't realize it then, but the lyrics your father wrote about me talked about love, while Miley's were just about friendship. But in the middle of the song, I was taken aback by yet another surprise… Joe. He was able to get off work for the night to come and surprise me for my birthday. I was so happy that I didn't notice the change in your dad's attitude. But I do remember going up to talk to him with Joe."

xXx

"Hey Sterling, this has turned out really well." Joe said walking towards the blonde haired actor.

"Yeah, it's great isn't it? Miley and Tiffany did a great job." Sterling replied politely, but sounded a little off.

"Yeah, I just wanted to thank you for doing this for Demi. I would've, but I just found out today that I would be able to come. So, thanks… again."

"No problem man. Demi deserved it. Well, I should go you know make sure all's well." And with that Sterling was gone.

xXx

"I didn't see him again until much later. I had just finished talking to Miley and I needed to find him. He had things to say that I needed to hear from him and only from him."

"What did you and Miley talk about?" Charli asked, curiously.

"Well it went a little something like this…" Demi started being released into yet another memory of her past.

xXx

"Demi, Demi, quick! We have to talk!" Miley shouted at her best friend after Joe had left her for a quick phone call.

"Jeez Miles, what's the rush?" Demi laughed.

"Demi, did you even listen to the song Sterling and I sang?"

"Are you kidding? Of course, I did! I loved it! It was the most amazing thing I have ever received." Demi told her friend.

"No, did you really listen to it?" Miley repeated with more emphasis on the really.

"Miley, what the hell are you talking about?"

"Read these lyrics, the one's in red are mine, obviously because of the handwriting. But the one's in black are Sterling's" Miley thrust a stack of paper's into the birthday girl's hands.

Demi looked down at the sheets Miley had just given her. She was so confused at her friend's actions, but chose to listen to her. She took her curious eyes off of Miley and directed her attention the papers in her hands and started to read the lyrics written for her. "Sterling's are in pencil?" Demi asked wanting to make sure of what she was reading.

"Yes." Miley clarified.

Demi stood frozen in her current state of mind for a couple of minutes. Miley took notice of this and chose to say something about it. "If you notice, Sterling's lyrics all mention something along the lines of a little four letter work I like to call… love."

"It's not possible. Sterling couldn't have written this." Demi whispered.

"Of course it is. Demi, Tiffany and I only decorated this place. This whole party was his idea. He booked it, he planned it. He knew how much you loved this place so he did everything possible to get it for you. He wanted it to be special for you. He wanted this to be the best night of your life. This was all his idea." Miley looked around the room at everything going on.

"Sterling and I are just friends."

"When are you going to realize that you and Sterling weren't meant to be friends? The guy is practically in love with you!" Miley tried to get that into her friend's stubborn head.

"But… Joe. Miley you like Joe."

"As a person, yes, but for you, no." Miley confessed

"This can't be true." Demi started to walk away, but stopped once she heard Miley mumble, "Then go ask Sterling yourself. He was going to tell you tonight, hence the song." Demi only paused for a second, before stepping out to the party thrown for her and looking for a certain person.

xXx

"What happened next momma?" Bailey asked.

"If you don't interrupt me I can finish." Demi said to her youngest as she tickled her belly.

Bailey's laughed echoed through the room and Charli added, "This is so exciting." Charli clapped her hands together. "It's so nice to hear how you and Dad fell in love."

"Nice? More like disgusting." Blake gagged.

"You get more like your father every day." Demi smiled at her only son.

"Just go on with the story." Charli urged.

"Okay, okay…"

xXx

"Hey babe." A boy suddenly wrapped his arms around Demi's petite waist. "Where did you run away to?"

"Just talking to Miley." Demi said to him still averting his gaze to look around the room.

"Who are you looking for?" Joe caught on to her distraction.

"Have you seen Zac?" Demi blurted.

"Yeah? He's over at the bar… why?" But Joe never got his answer, for Demi was already sprinting towards the actor.

"Where is he?" Demi glared at Zac.

"Where is who?" Zac asked confused at the birthday girl.

"You know who I mean." Demi snapped.

"It'd just be nice to know who you're talking about, so that way we can be sure that we're on the same page." Zac angrily retorted back.

"Where's Sterling?" Demi clarified, annoyed at the man before her.

"Oh, him? That's who you're looking for? You should have said something. He went out in the lobby of the hotel right after you started talking to Miley. He said he needed some air?" Zac joked.

"And you believed him?" Demi yelled in a hushed whisper.

Zac snorted. "Are you kidding? Hell no, of course not. But I understand that he needed some space, who wouldn't? He's upset. You wouldn't get that though." Zac spat out the last words in a harsh manner.

"Do not judge me, Zachary. You don't have that right." Demi hissed. She turned on her heel and walked out of the room that was hosting her party. As she walked down the hallway leading to the lobby she paused. She had finally found who she was searching for. There he was, sitting in a chair with a bottle of champagne in his hands. Demi understood instantly what the bottle was for. He was trying to drink away his problems. The couple next to him was actually enjoying the young actor's presence by talking to him and laughing with him. They seemed to be enjoying his snarky comments.

"Well, I hope you don't mind if I crack open this damn bottle. It's been bothering me just sitting here. Alcohol is meant to be drinked… drank… oh who cares. I'm opening this thing!"

The couple looked at each other with amused eyes, while Sterling took a big gulp of his beloved drink.

"Sterling Knight that is not the way to erase your thoughts." Demi scolded as she grabbed the bottle from his hands.

"What the hell are you doing woman?" He exclaimed.

"That's not how you talk to a lady."

"What are you doing out here, Demi? Don't you have a party you should be enjoying?" Sterling glared. "Or a boyfriend to be dancing with?"

"Well, when the host is having a party by himself… it sounds so much more exciting."

"Just go back to Joe. We all know that's where you really want to be, so… go."

"Sterling… I need to ask you something and I want an honest answer." Demi looked serious as she spoke these words.

"Do you hear that you guys? She wants me to be honest with her! Hah!" Sterling said to the older couple he was previously talking to.

"I'm being serious here Sterling."

"Fine, what?" He looked down at his hands.

"Well, uhm… okay…" Demi stumbled on her words.

"Just spit it out Demi. I don't have all night."

"Fine, okay… you asked for it! Sterling do you have feelings for me… feelings that a friend shouldn't have?"

"What?" Sterling looked up at her in fright.

"Answer the question."

"It doesn't matter. You have Joe anyways." Sterling tried to distract her from her question.

"It matters to me!" Demi sternly replied.

"Why? It's not going to change anything, but harm me. You're just going to go off and be all happy with Joe, while I'm left in the dark. All this confession would do is ruin our friendship."

"I want to know."

"I don't want to tell you."

"You have pretty much told me by stalling like this." Demi pointed out.

"I'm halfway drunk; I have no idea what I'm saying."

"I don't believe that."

"Fine."

"Sterling!" Demi yelled.

"…Yes." He whispered.

"Yes?"

"You wanted to know, so I told you. Yes, I do, happy?"

"I don't understand." Demi shook her head.

"What's not to understand? You asked me if I had feelings for you and I answered you, just like you wanted. You wanted to know that truth so I told you. There you have it! Practically set out in black and white."

"You threw me a birthday party."

"So?" Sterling shrugged.

"You threw me a birthday party."

"Because I didn't want you to be alone." Sterling stood up. "I wanted this to be the best birthday for you."

"It was…" Demi whispered not even knowing what she just said.

"Not because of me." Sterling muttered.

"That's not true Sterling. I just…" Demi stopped.

"It's just what?" When Demi didn't answer, Sterling said, "I thought so."

"Wait, Sterling! This isn't fair! You can't just spring this on me and expect me to understand where it came from!"

"It's not fair for you! What about me? I have had to deal with you going off talking about how great Joe is 24/7. I have had to deal with Joe coming on set and surprising you. I've dealt with the magazines and the pictures and the songs. I have dealt with it all and all you can say is that it's not fair to you. No, Demi, you don't get to say that!"

"Where is all this coming from?" Demi asked shocked at his outburst.

"You are a hypocrite! You have feelings for me too, Demi. If you didn't you wouldn't be so hung up on this. If you didn't you would have just let it go, but you're not because you have feelings for me. That's why you didn't want me to go to Italy, that's why you hated hearing that I had a girlfriend. You just are afraid to admit it because you don't want to take the plunge. Because you like taking the safe road not the dangerous path. You have feelings for me, but you're just scared to hurt Joe."

"Sterling…" Demi didn't know what to say so, she just stood there speechless. Sterling just smiled sadly and let out a bitter laugh before walking away, back to the party. As Demi watched him disappear she heard a voice mumble from behind her, "That boy is so in love with you."

xXx

"He told you? He just spit it out like that?" Blake asked in disbelief.

"Just like that." Demi smiled.

"But how did things just go back to normal?" Charli looked at her mom confused.

"For that whole next week, Sterling and I had a lot of trouble. The scene's we had to shoot all had to do with Chad and Sonny's relationship, which was hard because we didn't know what ours was. After about two days into the week, Joe was guest starring which just added to the awkwardness."

"Your boyfriend was guest starring on your show after the guy you wanted to be your boyfriend told you he practically was in love with you… that spells drama." Charli sang.

"It was an interesting week…" Demi paused for dramatic effect. "But what made it worse was all the talking. Everyone was talking about how Sterling and I weren't really speaking and about how our friendship seemed off. Nobody knew what had happened to make it so horrible. But it didn't help at all when the confused person overheard the source talking himself."

xXx

"Sterling, hey! Wait up!" Tiffany called out to her cast mate.

"Hey, Tiff." Sterling answered dully.

"What's going on?" Tiffany asked, worried about Sterling's gloomy attitude.

"Besides the fact that Joe is guest starring this week? Nothing, I'm just peachy."

"You sound so sure of that." Tiffany said sarcastically. "So… you're jealous."

"Am not!" Sterling denied.

"Yeah." Tiffany scoffed. "Like I'm going to believe that. Not even George Clooney's that good of an actor."

"Why don't you believe me?"

"Because you love Demi." Tiffany stated obviously.

"I don't love her."

"But you like her?"

"I never said that?" Sterling defended himself.

But Sterling didn't need to defend himself because it was pointless. Tiffany was a hard person to fool and she had known about Sterling's feelings for some time now. Girls just had this sense. It was like a sixth sense. Tiffany just wondered how Demi was dealing with all of this. But little did either of the two know Joe Jonas had heard the whole thing. Joe just wanted to know if Demi knew about this and what she would do when/if she found out. Things were finally getting back to normal for the two.

xXx

It was probably a Thursday when our director had had enough. So, he told us to get our act together and make up or else we were done. Of course, we knew he wouldn't really fire us, but we did need to talk."

xXx

"So…" Demi started.

"So…" Sterling mimicked.

"Aren't you going to start?"

"Why would I start? I'm not the one with the problem."

"You're the one who is ignoring me."

"Well, you're the one who is making this so hard!" Sterling fought back.

"Look, I just want things to go back to normal." Demi told him.

"I don't think that they can." Sterling replied, knowing that they wouldn't. He just couldn't do it. That's why he had talked to Lee Shallat Chemel earlier, saying that he needed a break from filming for awhile. Obviously Lee said he'd think about it, but hat Demi and him needed to work this thing out anyways. Demi, of course, happened to hear this whole conversation.

"I know you said that you would take a break."

"But how?"

"I overheard you talking, but that's not the point. You're not doing that Sterling, you and I both know that."

"Maybe I am. It's not up to you."

"It's not because we're going to figure this thing out. We're going to go back to normal." Demi demanded.

"Demi…"

"Sterling…"

"You know I wish it were that simple. But I don't know if it's possible. You need time to sort out your feelings and time to figure out what you want."

"Which is why we have to go back to normal to the way things used to be." Demi didn't even try to deny Sterling's statement.

"Okay, I'll try." Sterling caved. "And I know just how to start."

"How?"

"Tickets to go see Maylene and the Sons of Disaster tomorrow night."

"You are officially my hero!" Demi screeched.

"Well, hold on a sec, technically I haven't asked you yet."

"Sterling!"

"Demi, would you like to go to a concert with me tomorrow night?"

"Of course." Demi played along.

"Good."

"Now, you are my favorite person on this planet."

Sterling's grin grew even wider than hers. "I thought you would appreciate it this more than anyone else."

"Yes! Of course I do!" Demi jumped up and down excitedly.

"Well I'll pick you up at six. We can grab a quick bite to eat and then be on our way."

"Sounds wonderful, I cannot wait!"

xXx

"So, your first date was a silly concert?" Blake asked confused as to what any of this had to do with falling in love.

"It was not a stupid concert by any means. And even though it wasn't an official date, it was one of the best dates I have ever been on." Demi smiled at the memories flashing through her head.

Charli took notice of her mother's change in appearance. She could see that her mom was still in love with her father. She could see it in Demi's chocolate brown eyes that she still cared for Sterling deeply. Her plan was working. "Okay, so he picks you up, what happens from there?"

I hope you like it so far. If there are a lot of reviews the final chapter will be up maybe by tomorrow. Review!