Chapter 2: Dark Horse

Over the next week, I pack up my apartment and say goodbye to all my friends. The hardest person to leave behind is my mom. But after I packed up the uhaul, I drove to her house. I walked in to the smell of cinnamon rolls and bacon.

"Mom? I am here and it smells delicious." I walked into the kitchen to see her pulling the cinnamon roll out of the oven and the bacon and orange juice already on the table.

"I figured you should have one last meal before your drive to the other side of the country. Sit down and enjoy." So I do as I'm told and enjoy breakfast with my mom, which may be the last one for a while. "I am going to miss you so much Nicolas, but I want you to know that I am so proud of you for everything you have done. Your dad would be so proud of you." And with that she brings a huge smile to her face and mine as well. Yes it still hurts when someone brings up my dad, but my mom and I agreed that we will not cry over his death. He wouldn't want us to so we both have grown and now we remember all the great things about him.

Once I finish eating I stand up, "Alright mom, I have a 2 day car trip in front of me, so I better hit to road." She stands up and pulls me into a hug.

"I am going to miss you so much Nicholas and I am so proud of you for everything you have done. Now go enjoy your time in DC, and bring me back a beautiful girl friend." With that my mom and I both laugh. She has been trying since I graduated college to find me a girlfriend; however there was always something wrong with all those girls. I am just waiting for the right one. My mom walks me out to my car and I get in. She kisses my cheek through the window and we say our goodbye for now. As I drive away, I look back and see my mom waving as I head towards the interstate.

Two days later I arrive to my hotel room in DC. Until I could find an apartment, the president was paying of a hotel room at the nicest hotel in DC. I put my bags down and laid down on my bed and stared up at the ceiling. Tomorrow my life would change forever as I meet both the president and the girl I would be babysitting for the next couple months. I slowly drift off to sleep and am awoken at 0430 to my phone alarm. Well here goes nothing. I detach the uhaul from my car and type an address into my GPS, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave aka The White House.

When I get there, I show the guard my ID and he lets me in. I look for a place to park when I see my name on a sign, Reserved for Officer Nicolas Jonas. My own parking spot already, I couldn't believe it. As I pull in, I look at the spot next to mine, an all-white 2015 range rover. When I looked at the sign next to mine, it said reserved for Miley Stewart. My first glimpse into this girls life, and I am already extremely jealous of her car. I make my way through the door and I am greeted by the president's secretary, Alyssa.

"Hello Mr. Jonas, the president and I have been expecting you, please follow me this way." She says to me as she starts to walk away. I follow her but am extremely memorized by everything around me. This isn't my first time in the white house, in fact we came on a couple tours when I was in the academy. However I have never been in this part, the part they don't show you on the tours, where the presidents lives. We turn into an office and there sitting behind his desk on his phone was THE president of the United States, William Stewart.

"Mr. President, Officer Jonas is here." Alyssa says to him which causes him to turn around and look at me.

"Hello Nicolas, I have head great things about you, which is why I know you are perfect for this job. Plus your father and I were best friends from Kindergarten all the way through college. He was a great man, and I knew if you were anything like your father then I could leave my daughter's life in your hands." He stands up and put his hand out for me to shake, which I do.

"Thank your Mr. President for giving me this amazing opportunity, I promise that I won't let you down." I say

"Oh Nicolas, please call me Billy Ray, Mr. President sounds too formal coming from my best friend's son."

"I'm Sorry Mr.- Billy Ray." He laughs at me before picking up his phone.

"Miley sweetie, I need you to my office right now. See you soon, love you." He hangs up then looks at my "Miley is on her way, but please have a seat until she gets here. Then I hear the door open and look behind me to see the most beautiful girl walk in through the door.

"Yes daddy? I was in the middle of an important conversation with Demi about the total fashion disaster Selena was when she got to school today." She then looks at me, "who are you."

"Sweetie, this is Officer Nicolas Jonas, and he is your new body guard until we figure out who is threatening you and our family. He will accompany you everywhere you go."

"Ugh daddy? Does he have too? I am 20, I do not need a baby sitter! I am a big girl and I can take care of myself." I try not to laugh, big girl? She looks all of 5' 5" and 110-120 lbs, unless her attacker in a midget, I doubt there is much she could do to fend them off.

"Miley Ray, he is your body guard and if you sneak off without him, you will be in trouble. I will take away your phone and your keys. You will only have your car to drive to and from school. Nothing else."

She groans, which is really sexy. No Nicolas. Stop, you cannot think that way, she is your responsibility for the next few months and you will not get feelings for this girls. "Fine Daddy. I love you."

"I love you too sweetie and knowing that Nicolas is with you at all times will help calm my nerves with whoever is out there." He says and Miley leaves her room, and I follow after.

"You know you don't have to following me everywhere right? I am old enough to take care of myself and I don't need a baby sitter following me around. That's totally not cool."

"I am sorry to inform you miss, but I am under direct orders of your father to be with you at all times." I tell her as we enter a room, and as I look around, I figure out it is her bed room. Its full of sorority letters and pictures of her and her friends. And posters of different actors, none of which I could tell you who they were. I wasn't really into all that.

"Ugh fine, so Nick, tell me about yourself because I'm sure you know everything there is to know about me."

"I prefer to be called Nicolas actually," The other person who called me Nick was my dad but I kept that to myself "and I graduated from the Naval Academy 3 years ago and now I am an officer in the navy."

"Well Nick," Oh she already is testing me, this is going to be a long couple months, "got a girl friend?"

"Nope" I reply to her, please tell me she won't be like my mom and try to hook me up with her friends.

"What?! why not?! You're like 25, shouldn't you be like married or something and starting to have kids?" I laughed at this, is this really what college students think of 25 year olds?

"Actually I have never had a girlfriend, never have to time for it. My job comes first, and I think that is enough questions about me." With that she opens up her laptop and starts doing something on it. After a couple of hours of sitting there, she gets up.

"I'm going to take a shower, Demi and I are going to the mall later and I need to get ready." She looks me up and down "We need to get you some new clothes, you can't look like that if you're going to be seen with me." With that she walks into the bathroom and shuts the door behind her. I look at the way I dress, there is nothing wrong with the way I dress. But I guess if it will make her happy I will. I look over at her bed and see she left her phone. I grab her phone and open it up. I've gotten really good at all this technology stuff so I put a GPS tracker into her phone so I can see where she is at all times. I put her phone back to the original spot and take out mine.

After about 30 minutes, she walks out of the bathroom fully dressed. "We are meeting Demi in 30 minutes at the mall so let's get going."

And that's the end of chapter 2, not much has gone on yet. Sorry gotta build up to the good stuff. Haha