We'd only just moved out here to L.A and already our Mom had booked us all, all sorts of lessons. Starting with dancing lessons at some dance studio. Don't get me wrong I love to dance and sing and all that, but our Mom just literally decided to throw us all straight into lessons without even letting us settle into our new home city.

Mom thought, if me and my siblings are being serious about having our music career's take off then she'd do whatever it takes to have it come true. Basically we gave up everything back in Denver to make sure our dreams come true. Man, I'm going to feel so bad if it doesn't come true.. You have no idea.

"Ross, will you hurry!" My mother, Stormie, shouted to me from downstairs.

"I'm coming!" I yelled back to her.

I was busy tieing my shoes to my converse. You'd think that a 14 year-old boy would actually know how to tie his shoelaces by now. Don't get me wrong, I do know how to tie my shoelaces it's just it's really early in the morning. Ross Lynch doesn't do early mornings.

Riker, my oldest brother, was lent against the door frame of my room looking at me struggling. I pretneded not to notice him because if he knows I notice him then no doubt he'll just continue to stand there and laugh. But if I ignore him, he'll leave and go downstairs.

I heard him sigh before footsteps came towards me. Riker. He mumbled something about me being an idiot and then he tied my shoes for me. Gosh I felt like a 5 year-old right there and then. I think I even blushed a little cause I felt heat on my cheeks. "I... err.. could of done that..." I said.

"Yeah, you sure looked like you could as well." Riker said as he stood back up straight as he smirked.

'Jackass'. I thought.
Don't get me wrong I love my oldest brother to death, but dear god... He's just a pain at most times that I could just get a car.. and run him over. But not literally causeI could go to jail and something tells me my parents won't be approving of it if I killed my brother with a car.

Once again I heard the resuming of my Mom and Dad hurrying me, my brothers and sister to get downstairs to the car before they leave without us. Which is strange, cause if they leave without us then they'll have no kids to drop off at the dance studio? Ha. Not such a smart move there I think not.

I ran downstairs where everyone was stood at the door. Riker, Rydel - My big sister -, Rocky - My other older brother - and Ryland, my baby brother. Turns out I was the last one down because I was getting glares from my Mom and a death glare from my sister. Wonderful. My own family want to kill me. Just by their glares... I could tell... My Mom and Sister want to kill me just cause I am running a little late.

"You going to stand on the stairs for the rest of the day or are you going ot come with us?" My Mom asked.

I hopped off the stairs one by one, we all made our way out of the door to the car and made our way to the dance studio.

The car ride from our house to the dance studio was 5 - 10 minutes. Once our parents dropped us off outside the studio, that was it we were on our own to go in there. Which we gladly did, there was a lot of teens in there. No eyes came towards us when we walked through the door. Which was good because I didn't really fancy having all eyes on us with them saying something. Oh well.

We then walked over to an empty spot in the room where we just sat there until the teacher came into the room and immediately introduced us all to everyone. Everyone in there seemed friendly, so I guess that was another good thing. The teacher then got us all to begin a couple of dance moves.

After about 2 hours or so of that, we all finally got to take a break. Though sometimes I sat on the side of the bench and watched a couple of people. Rydel's a really good dancer! I don't see why she doesn't dance more often, it's like she was born like that. I never knew she had it in her. I guess Riker, Rocky and Ryland were good too. But Rydel was just simply amazing, it was like I couldn't take my eyes off her whilst she was dancing.

Not to sound wrong or incest... She was just THAT good.

Whilst I was sat in my little day dream lost in my thoughts, I felt someone elbow me. Rocky. I glared at him until he pointed to a kid in front of us with brown hair and light eyes. I then immediately smiled at him. Not out of choice... It was like something took over me and made me smile.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey." The boy replied back. Even though he only looked a couple of years older than me.

"I'm Riker," Riker said introducing himself to the boy in front of us, who I was still smiling at, "this is my sister Rydel. My three little brothers. Rocky, Ryland and finally, the guy who don't know how to tie his shoes. Ross."

I glared at Riker "I know how to tie my shoes!" I protested "it was too early in the morning for me to focus."

Subtle laugher then came from the group of people around me, including the brown haired boy. Who I still had no clue what his name was.

"I'm Ellington Ratliff," Ellington said introducing himself "but.. I preffer Ratliff. So just call me Ratliff.."

"Nice to meet you Ratliff." Rydel said smiling, with a slight blush to her cheeks.

Yup. She had a crush on him.

"So, what do you do around here?" Rocky asked Ratliff straight away.

"Well, it's a dance studio," Ratliff said "so what do you think?"

"Funny." Rocky said sarcastically.

"No, I do dance and I also play drums." he told us.

Riker smiled "That's awesome!" Riker said happily.

"It is?" Ratliff questioned as he cocked his head a little.

"Yeah," Riker nodded "cause me, Ross and Rocky play guitar and Rydel plays keyboard."

Ratliff smiled "That's awesome!"

Throughout the rest of our break we all just hung out with this Ratliff guy, he's seems.. Great. Me and him hit it off almost straight away, we were talking almost all the time and for the rest of the dance lesson.

I could almost feel the heat of Rydel's glare at me, like she was jealous. If she's going to make it less obvious that she has a crush on Ratliff then she's going to have to stop glaring at me as if I am stealing him from her. Cause.. I'm not gay. I don't like men or boys. Even if I did, I don't think Ratliff would be my type. Oh my god, why am I even thinking about this.

After the dance lesson we all grabbed our bags and got Ratliff's number saved into our phone's. Rydel, needless to say, was one of the first to get his number. She may never of had a boyfriend in her life but she sure don't beat around the bush to get a guys number she likes. I couldn't help but shake my head at her. When I got his number I gave him a smile and left along with Riker, Rocky, Rydel and Ryland.

Our parents were already waiting outside for us when we got out of the building. I'm surprised they didn't let Riker drive us to and from the dance studio seen as though he's olde enough to drive. Unlike me, Ryland, Rocky and Rydel. Well.. Rydel may be able to soon but hey-ho.

When we all got home we either went upstairs into our rooms or we went into the livingroom. Riker, Rocky and Ryland went into the livingroom and I went upstairs into my room and Rydel went into her room. I get that Rydel has a small crush, maybe even big crush, on Ratliff... But she doesn't have to make it so obvious by sending me death glares. I mean come on. That's just getting low. My own sister jealous because I actually have the courage to talk to someone that she likes.

Within an hour later we were all called into the kitchen for our dinner. I didn't know why but whilst we were eating our dinner it was all filled with awkward silence like something bad had happened. Nothing bad had happened so I don't see why everyone's so silent. It's been a good day. We had a blast. Especially with our new friend Ratliffl.

Why do I feel like I am mentioning Ratliff way too much in my past sentences? Oh well.

"So," My Mom said breaking the silence at long last "did everyone have a good day?"

There was a chorus of 'yeah' and 'mhm's from everyone of us. Of course, Rydel had to butt in and say; "We met a friend today." Rydel said smiling as she playing with her food with her fork. I just rolled my eyes. It was so typical of Rydel to come out with something like that.

"Oh how nice!" My Mom smiled "what's his or her name."

"He's called Ellington Ratliff, but he likes to be called Ratliff." I said.

"Oh," My Mom said "do you like him Ry?"

"Yeah, he's a pretty cool I guess." Ryland said.

"I was talking to Rydel."

Everyone's head then turned to Rydel, including mine. The blush that crept up on her cheeks gave us our answer. Not that I doubted it before, but Rydel does have a crush on Ratliff. I knew it. I shook my head and looked back dow at my food.

"Aww, does Delly have a crush?" Rocky teased as he pouted.

"What! no!" Rydel protested, being indenial.

"Denial is not just a river in Egypt Ry." Riker said giving her a little point.

She rolled her eyes "Well.. I've only just met him, so I wouldn't say I like him, like him," Rydel began "I'd call it a tiny crush."

"So you like him basically?" I piped up.

"You might as well like him the way you were talking and hanging around each other." Rydel said to me harshly.

I was a little taken back by that. Clearly she doesn't understand the meaning of friendship and that he is the first friend that I've made in L.A. Gosh, she doesn't need to have her jealous head on. I just glared at her "Sorry for making friends with people." I mumbled as I looked back at my plate.

Rocky looked at me and then back at Rydel with his eye brows raised "Yeah, that wasn't very nice Ry." Rocky said.

Rydel rolled her eyes "Whatever."

"Jesus Christ, someone's PMSing today..." Rocky mumbled.

Rydel then just slammed her fork on the table before storming out of the room. Nice. Something sure has pissed her off today. I don't really want to find out because she seems to be taking it out towards me the most. What did I do? Nothing.

My Dad, Mark, sighed "Ross," He said "go see her."

"Why me?" I asked as my voice went an octave higher.

"Cause she seems annoyed at you."

"Oh yeah," I said putting my hands on the table "let me go up there. The one she's annoyed at for no reason. The one she's more than likely going to kill the most."

"Ross, please?" My Dad asked.

"Fine," I said standing up "but at my funeral remember to say I tried to warn you about not sending me up there."

"Just go!"

I then left the kitchen and ran upstairs outside Rydel's room. All I know is that once I go through this door, there is going to be one less member in this family. I took a deep breath and opened the door to find Rydel laid flat on her front on her bed into her pillow. I sighed and stood at the door way.

She made subtle movement as she stayed in the bed in the same position and I continued to look at her. I wasn't going to make the first move, I was going to wait until she noticed someone was in the room at the door way. Less chance of being attacked that way.

All I know was that I was stood there for at least 5 minutes when I got fed up and just cleared my throat. She turned her head towards the door, the way she looked at me she may as well of stabbed me with a dagger. She rolled her eyes and turned her head away from me.

I sighed heavily "Look," I said with annoyance in my voice "I don't know what the hell I have done to make you pissed at me. But will you keep your calm knock off the tude."

Rydel sighed before she got herself up by pushing herself up with her hands and sat up on the edge of her bed and she loooked at me "It's nothing you've done," Rydel said "actually.. Technically it is."

"What is it?" I asked walking over to her slowly as I became more interested "if I know, I think I can stop."

Rydel sighed and smiled a little "You're not going to be able to stop," Rydel said "I don't want you to either, I'm just being silly."

"No," I said as I sat next to her "tell me."

"It's just today when we met Ratliff," She said turning to me a little "you two hit it off almost straight away." I wanted to laugh at how pathetic it sounded, but I knew there had to be much more to it than just that "then the way you were both acting with each other and talking, dude, you'd met only 4 hours and already it seemed like there was already some sort of connection between you both."

I raised an eye brow "What connection you talkin' bout sis?"

She let out a little laugh "I don't know," She said "it just seems like there's something there."

"Yeah," I nodded "friendship. That's it. Nothing more."

Rydel lent back a little "Yeah, I know..." She said "Jeez... Relax. I wasn't hinting to you both being gay." She laughed.

Normally I'd of laughed. But there was no way in hell that I would ever date Ratliff. Ever.