Chapter 2:

Miley's eyes grew big and her mouth hung open. She withdrew her hand, and Joe whispered a quick apology.

"You . . . like me?" Nick said slowly and quietly. He was flattered, but he was still in love with Emily.

"Ummmm . . ." Miley was unable to come up with words.

"Wow! This is awkward," Joe said after a long pause, "I'm going to go find Kevin." Then, he got up and walked over to the trailers, leaving Miley and Nick alone trying to avoid eye contact.

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Emily and Mitchel were playing darts with Kevin when Joe found him.

"Hey, who's winning?" Joe said after Kevin threw a 50 pointer.

"Kevin's kicking our butts," replied Emily without taking her eyes off Mitchel.

Kevin went and pulled the darts out of the board. "Joe, if you can get the bullseye in three shots, you win."

Joe threw his first dart and totally missed the board. Then he threw his second one and hit the black rim, no points again. He was aiming his third dart as Nick and Miley approached.

"Nick's taking me out on a date tomorrow!" screamed Miley, with a huge smile acrossed her face.

Joe gasped and accidentally let go of his dart. Bullseye!

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Emily, Mitchel, Joe and Kevin were sitting in Emily and Mitchel's trailer while Nick and Miley were out on their date. The boys were playing Texas Hold 'Em while Emily read a book.

Everything was calm when Joe's cell rang.

"I fold anyways," said Joe as he reached for his phone. "Hello?"

"Hey Joe!" came AJ's voice from the cell. "Do you have the latest issue of Popstar!?"

"Uh . . . yeah, I think Emily does," replied Joe, very confused.

"Go to page 6!" AJ said, Joe couldn't decipher her emotion.

"Ok," he said into the phone. He turned to Emily, who had put her book down at the mention of her name. "Em, go get Popstar! and go to page 6."

Emily got up and grabbed the magazine from her bedside table, and flipped to the right page.

"Oh My God!!!" she screamed, dropping the open magazine onto her bed.

Joe and Mitchel jumped up and ran over to her side. They looked down and saw the headline of the page, 'Joe Jonas and Emily Osment are a confirmed couple. Caught liplocking in Canada'.

Mitchel whipped out his cell and phoned the magazine. Emily reached over, grabbed his cell and closed it.

Mitchel, what were you going to say to them?" Emily started with a worried look on her face. Then she continued in a mocking tone. "Emily's not dating Joe. And I'd know to, because I'm her boyfriend!"

Mitchel looked hurt.

"What!?!" came a scream from Joe's cell. "Mitchel and Emily are going out!"

Joe looked down at his cell. The screen said 'Call Ended'.

"Fuck!" Mitchel quickly dialed AJ's number, but the line was bus. Next he tried Aly's number but it was also busy. He left out a sigh. "Well, might as well tell Popstar! now."

Emily bit her lip, staring at her boyfriend with a frightened expression on her face. After a minute of silence, she let out her breath and spoke. "Fine. Phone them."

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Joe and Kevin were waiting up for Nick in their trailer.

"There they are," said Joe with very little enthusiasm.

They watched as Nick and Miley said an awkward good-bye. Miley went into her trailer, and Joe and Kevin raced back to the laptop to write their blog on MySpace.

Nick came in with a big smile on his face.

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"Cut!" called the director right before lunch two days later. "Y'all are making me sick! Stop all your damn lovey-doveyness. I'll give you the rest of the day off, if tomorrow you act properly." He sighed and walked away.

Joe walked over to Kevin while two couples made their lunch plans.

"Ugh!" he moaned. "They are disgusting," looking at Nick and Miley.

"At least Nick has found a girl who truly likes him as much as he likes him." Kevin smiled.

"Yeah, but - -" he sighed and looked down at the ground sadly. A moment later he took a deep breath and continued, "Can you keep a secret?" He looked at his older brother with hopeful eyes.

Kevin put his arm around his little brother's shoulders. "You know I can."

"I mean from Nick," Joe said sadly, looking at the ground again.

Kevin stood there, with his arm still around Joe, for a minute. Then he swallowed and answered, "Joseph, I will not tell Nick a word you tell me." He smiled a small reassuring smile.

"Okay," Joe whispered, "I'm in love with Miley."

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"Hey, Kev, want to go down to the city tonight?" asked Nick a few days later. "Miley and Emily are going to have a girl night, so me and Mitchel thought we should have a guys night."

"Uh, yeah, sure," answered Kevin, he had become very uncomfortable around both of his brothers lately. "When we going?"

"As soon as I find Joe," responded Nick who smiled a questioning smile when he sensed his oldest brother's uncomfort. "Have you seen him?"

"Uh, no," Kevin answered. And then added when Nick walked away, "probably with your girlfriend."

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"Hey, isn't that Taylor Swift?" Nick nudged Joe who as giving Kevin an intense stare.

"Uh," Joe turned around, "Yeah it is, what's she doing here?"

"I don't know, why don't you ask her?" Nick called Taylor over.

"Hey guys, I haven't seen you in a while. You're all looking great," she said, adding a flirtatious smile in Joe's direction. "So, who's this?" looking at Mitchel then back at Joe, "Ans what have you been up to?"

"Ummm, this is Mitchel Musso," Joe started, and Mitchel smiled at Taylor and she smiled back. "We're shooting a movie about an hour north of here. What are you doing here?"

"I'm here with Carrie Underwood on tour," Taylor said to Joe, still smiling. "We're playing at the GM center tonight, want to come?"

"Sure," Joe said with a smile.

"Uh, can Miley and Emily come to?" Nick asked, smiling as well.

Taylor's smile dropped slightly for a fraction of a second, "Who are they?"

"Miley's my girlfriend," answered Nick.

"And Emily's mine," added Mitchel.

Taylor's smile grew even bigger, "Okay, they can come too. This is going to be fun."

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"Hey, do you know the words to 'Teardrops on My Guitar'?" Taylor asked Emily backstage at the concert. They had become instant friends.

"Yeah, I love you music, I have all your songs on my IPod."

"You should totally come perform it with me!" Taylor and Emily were equally excited. "Want to know what would be fun, we should get Joe and your boyfriend to come on stage."

" Oh my gosh! Yeah!"

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Emily and Taylor sung 'Teardrops on my Guitar', 'I Heart ?', 'I'd Lie', 'Stay Beautiful', and 'Permanent Marker' together. Then Taylor sand 'Tim McGraw' with Joe. And then, Emily and Mitchel sung a duet to 'Mary's Song (Oh My My My)'. And while they performed, Nick and Miley made-out in Taylor's dressing room, and Kevin hit it off with Carrie.

"Oh, I have to go on stage now," Carrie said sadly to Kevin, "it was really nice meeting you."

"Maybe we could hang out after your show." Kevin said hopefully.

"That would be great, and want to meet up in New York next weekend?"

"I'm sure I can arrange that."