CHAPTER 1 - NATE'S P.O.V
If a trip could change Shane back to who he was, it was worth it.
During the trip, Shane complained about everything.
The food, the chair, his hair, the sun, yes, almost everything.
When the plane lands at the airport and we have retrieved our luggage,
We see a dark-haired guy who apparently waiting for them, with a sign that said
''Gray'' with messy handwriting on.
Jason chuckles quietly, and when we look at him strangely, he asks,
'' What? – It's funny to know that Little J and Kelian made that sign ''
Then the guy with dark hair approached us with a smile and said:
'' Jason, you are finally here! ''
Jason also smiled and said,
'' I've been missing you people!''
The guy said,
'' Yeah, Little J have been talking about you since last week! ''
The guy with dark hair atteniton laughed and turned to us and said,
'' I'm so sorry, I'm Scott Torres, your host! ''
I laughed, and made a slight nod to him by saying,
'' That's okay, I'm Nate and this is Shane ''
I brought Shane in the greeting because I knew he wouldn't say hello voluntarily.
Then Scott said hello to Shane to, Shane just nodded and in the meantime we went to the car,
Jason started to ask Scott about '' Little J '' while we hopped in the car, I really wondered Little J was, so I asked Scott,
'' No offence, but who's Little J? ''
Shane snorted.
I turned to glare at him, and then Scott answered,
'' Oh, Little J is my youngest little sister''
Jason also said
'' She's adorable and she is in your age, Nate! ''
Scott was about to say something when his cellphone started to buzz.
He answered with,
'' What did you do now? ''
Jason chuckled when you could hear the person Scott was talking to was under an attack.
Scott slowly said,
'' Kelian, please save your sister and keep Cai in her room an-..''
'' -... yes, I'm home in 30 minutes and please stop Cai from killing Little J. ''
He threw the phone in his back-pack and sighed, he also muttred something about buying the girls a mood-ring each.
Shane laughed and said that maybe, now when we were in NY i could get hooked-up.
I just ignored him and turned my iPod on.
About 25 minutes later, we arrived at a large apartment building and climbed out of the car.
Scott showed us to an elevator in the small lobby and when we stepped into the elevator, Jason smiled expectantly.
The first thing that happened when we stepped out of the elevator and came into the apartment was that a dark-haired girl ran past us in striped boxer shorts and a white t-shirt.
Two seconds later, another girl running in the same direction, while she screamed,
'' LJ, just give me the damn phone! ''
The girl named LJ shouted back,
'' Hell no! - You took my cereal! ''
We just stood there, completely flabbergasted and looked down the hall where the girls had ran.
Scott sighed and said:
'' Do any of you watch The Hills?
- If you like drama, you're gonna love it here. ''
Jason started laughing, and I thought about the girl in boxer shorts.
Then, the girl in boxer shorts, (she was effin' beautiful) came running to Scott, smiling and jumped in his arms,
'' Scotty! – You're home, I'm safe! ''
Scott chuckled and said,
'' Little J, what did you do now? ''
LJ looked at him innocently and said, '' Nothing bro! ''
Then, she saw Jason and hugged him and squealed,
'' Jake, your home! ''
By now Jason was smiling so wide that he looked like a Cheshire Cat and said,
'' How could I not come? – I haven't seen you guys in 6 months!''
She smiled like an angel and said softly,
'' Yeah, we have been missing you! ''
Then another girl come into the room meanwhile scanning a menu asked,
'' Scotty, what's for dinner? ''
I wondered how many sisters he had.
Scott just shrugged and said,
'' Mitch, why don't you choose? ''
Then, LJ said, '' Yeah, you always pick the good stuff. ''
SHANE'S P.O.V
I was still dumbfounded by seeing that Jason, my brother, the geek - actually knew people and I was interrupted in my thoughts when another girl came into the room while she was reading a menu, and when she looked up, I forgot to breathe, she was so beautiful.
Her big brown eyes, heart-shaped face and brown hair and when I realized that I have been staring, I quickly covered it up by coughing.
Nate and Jason looked at me strangely but I really didn't care.
Back to NATE'S P.O.V
Shane was so weird these days, but it has been the strangest yet.
Jason then asked LJ if she could sing for him, as a preview and she happily replied that she would love it if he wanted to hear her sing.
She said that we would follow her, and we did.
We walked through the little apartment and she pointed out that we were going to sleep in the same hall, strangely enough, my heartbeat increased for a few seconds, just by knowing i would sleep close to LJ.
During the tour to the music room, Jason asked LJ why Caity was so mad at her.
LJ simply shrugged and answered,
'' Oh, that? – She took my cereal and I took her phone. ''
Mental-note; don't ever take LJ's cereal.
Then we came to a steel door LJ stopped and opened it and let us go in before her. Behind the steel door it was a large music room with microphones, guitars, drums, a piano, keyboards, everything for a music-lover.
Both of us watched wide-eyed around the room
(Shane had oddly enough stayed with Scott and Michie.)
Then, LJ clapped her hands to get attention again.
Jason and I broke our trance and sat down on two chairs.
LJ walked in to the recording room and set the things up.
When she was done, she asked us,
'' So, what do you guys wanna hear? ''
Jason clapped his hands excitedly and said,
'' Oh, Little J, sing Laughing? '''
I must have looked extremly confused beacause the look on my face made LJ laugh, it was an extremly cute laugh too..
Jason asked LJ if she could handle it, and she said, ''Anything for you bro! ''
Then , LJ smiled softly and she went and sat down at the piano and began playing a small intro.
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving
Or freezing or so very poor
No one laughs at God when the doctor calls after some routine tests
No one's laughing at God when it's gotten real late
And their kid's not back from that party yet
No one laughs at God when their airplane starts to uncontrollably shake
No one's laughing at God when they see the one they love hand in hand with someone else
And they hope that they're mistaken
No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say "We've got some bad new, sir,"
No one's laughing at God when there's a famine, fire, or flood
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or...
Or when the crazies say he hates us
And they get so red in the head
You think that they're about to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
Ha ha
Ha ha
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they've lost all they got
And they don't know what for
No one laughs at God on the day they realize
That the last sight they'll ever see is a pair of hateful eyes
No one's laughing at God when they're saying their goodbyes
But God can be funny
At a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke or...
Or when the crazies say he hates us
And they get so red in the head
You think that they're about to choke
God can be funny
When told he'll give you money if you just pray the right way
And when presented like a genie
Who does magic like Houdini
Or grants wishes like Jiminy Cricket and Santa Claus
God can be so hilarious
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one laughs at God in a hospital
No one laughs at God in a war
No one's laughing at God in a hospital
No one's laughing at God in a war
No one's laughing at God when they're starving
Or freezing or so very poor
No one's laughing at God
We're all laughing with God
She sang with so much emotion and both me and Jason were stunned.
She smiled and asked,
'' How did it sound? ''
Jason was still speechless and I said,
''LJ, you're beau- i mean, that was beautiful - did you wrote that song? ''
She blushed and said,
'' Yes, but .. ''
I stopped her before she could go any further,
'' No but, it was good! ''
She smiled like an angel at me and I felt my face become hot.
Then, Jason really choosed the right time to say,
'' Oh, little sister, you're so honest in your songs.''
LJ was about to say something when we heard Scotty scream,
'' LJ, DINNER, BRING THE BOYS WITH YOU. ''
LJ yelled back,
'' NO, I PLAN TO LEAVE THEM HERE!''
Then she turned to us again and said,
'' It's time to eat! - We need to bring Kelian! ''
She left the room and stood infront of her own door and knocked and asked softly,
'' Kelian? - Are you there? ''
Then a little boy in dreadlocks opened and asked sleepily,
'' Hey Little J, what's for dinner? ''
LJ laughed and said,
'' Aw, don't start you too ! – I'm not that little & I dunno about the food, we should go and check? ''
Kelian looked up at her and said with a grin,
''LJ, you're so little that Little J should be your name! ''
Jason chuckled quietly.
LJ quickly glared at him.
Kelian took her hand and followed her into the kitchen.
When we came into the kitchen we saw Uncle Brown sit and try to eat Chinese-food, and when he saw LJ and Kelian, he put his Chinese-box down and hugged them both.
Then Uncle Brown noticed us and said,
'' Boys! ''
Me and Jason grinned and replied at once,
'' Hey Uncle B! ''
LJ gave Kelian a box of Chinese food and said,
'' Kel, it's Chinese, it's your favorite! ''
Kelian just grinned and said,
'' What kind of food is not my favorite? ''
Mitchie walked in and said simply,
'' Caity's food. ''
Kelian made a disgusted grimace and agreed,
'' Yeah, nobody eats that stuff. ''
Everyone sat down and began to eat.
Then Uncle Brown spoke to LJ for any problems that arose after ''the thing'', (what thing?) She hesitated but said,
'' Yeah, the time after the pictures he sent .. it was difficult, but of course, ''
'' - Scotty took care of them. ''
Scott grinned at her and LJ nodded to Uncle Brown.
LJ made a choking sound, and started laughing, and Mitchie was only seconds later.
All the guys looked at each other and wondered why they laughed when they saw that Mitchie tried to point to something behind them and when they turned they saw a pretty girl (who I assumed was Caity) standing there, dressed in a bumblebee costume and she looked pissed.
Kelian and Scott began to laugh also.
I couldn't start laughing, because it would be rude.
I looked over at Jason, and he looked at her as if he had never seen anything so beautiful before.
Whoa, Jason has a crush on a girl who is dressed in a bumblebee-costume?
Well, who am I to talk about things..
When LJ had collected herself enough, she asked Caitlyn,
'' Hey, Cai! - why are you wearing a bumblebee costume? ''
Caitlyn replied,
''If you really wanna now, Little J, I got a job at Barney's. ''
Mitchie looked like she'd been slapped.
'' Barney's!? – What about your acting?! ''
Caitlyn looked embarrassed out and responded,
'' Sis, it's just dreams. ''
This made LJ stand up and protest,
'' No, it's not just dreams! ''
Now both Mitchie and LJ yelled,
'' –It's a part of you! ''
'' - You can't give up your dreams! ''
''YES, I CAN AND I AM! ''
''NO, SO WHO ARE YOU NOW?! ''
'' CAITLYN - THE BUMBLEBEE-GIRL?! ''
'' I can't act that good! ''
'' YES, YOU CAN! ''
'' IT'S MY LIFE, NOT YOURS! ''
That was when that Scott had had enough.
'' SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU! ''
All three of them looked wide-eyed at Scott.
'' Caity, say that your sorry. ''
'' I'm sorry Mitch, Little J. ''
LJ and Mitchie looked at each other, grinned and said simultaneously
'' It's okay, sis. ''
Scott muttred about getting them mood-rings.
Then we continued to eat.
A bit later, outside the office
JASON'S P.O.V
Nate and I decided that we would listen to Brown and LJ's conversation
'' So .. What were we talking about? ''
'' We talked about the problems, Uncle B. ''
'' Oh, now I remember puppet. ''
'' Goodie. ''
'' Well, does the boys know? ''
'' No, not even Jason. ''
What was it that I didn't know?
''Why did you say anything to them? ''
'' I feel so stupid! ''
'' Little J, don't. ''
'' I'll do it anyway. ''
'' He got under your skin, but we trusted him too. ''
'' I loved him, but now it's just scary. ''
I glanced at Nate, and saw that he had a heart-broken expression.
But who is scaring my Little J?
'' I'm so sorry ''
''Don't be , just tell me about the letters. ''
'' The letters were okay but the pictures are so creepy! ''
'' Let me see them. ''
'' Okay, but tell me that I didn't overreact. ''
'' Cutiepie, you never overreact. ''
Then we only heard Uncle Brown's slow breath.
I looked at Nate and he looked just as confused as I felt.
BROWN'S P.O.V
I read the letters, looked at the pictures, none of them seemed to be taken at close range, but when I reached the last photo, it was a picture of LJ's in her bed as she slept. I looked anxiously up at LJ and saw she had tears in her eyes, while she said,
'' I don't know how he could get into the apartment and so close to me. ''
She started to cry.
Back to JASON'S P.O.V ( cuz' everyone loves Jason. )
We heard Little J tell Uncle Brown about coming into the apartment and something, then we heard her cry, and I had never heard her cry before so I was surprised.
This must be serious if it made her cry.
Then we heard how Little J calmed down and how she got up to leave the room.
Nate and I started running and ran all the way to the guest room where Shane and Kelian was waiting for us.
Kelian quickly asked about how it was with LJ and Shane just sat there looking thoughtful, when we heard a knock that made us all startled. It was just Mitchie, who also wanted to know what we had heard, but when neither of us answered her,
she, of course very skeptical looked at us, one-by-one, and when she came to Shane, he turned a light shade of pink.
Still skeptical, she asked us again what we had heard,
''So? – What's the news? ''
I quickly tried to cover it up by asking,
'' What news? – The date-rumor about Russell Brand and Katy Perry? ''
Oh, oh .. Now she looked pissed.
''Jake, don't give me that shit! ''
Kelian poked me in the back and whispered,
'' Tell her, she'll go crazy otherwise! ''
I gave up and turned my attention to Mitchie,
'' Okay Mitch, I'll tell you ... ''
Nate and I told the others about what we had heard, and when our story was done,
Scott opened the door and said that it was time for bed.
He also asked,
'' What are you guys doing in here? ''
All five of us reacted quickly and answered at once,
''Nothing. ''
He didn't believed us.
Before Scott would start investigating, LJ came and put her head under his arm and told Kelian that it was time to sleep.
Kelian smiled sleepily and walked towards her while he yawned.
NATE'S P.O.V [ well, i love Nate too.]
I threw myself down on the large mattress and got butterflies in my stomach to think only of that LJ was in a bed just a few feet away, I had just started to fall asleep when I heard the door opened again and saw that Scott had come back and looked like he wanted to say something important. Doubtful, he began by saying,
'' I need to ask you guys a favor. ''
Jason replied quickly,
''Yes, anything Scott. ''
Scott hesitated again,
''I want you to keep track of the girls. ''
My heartbeat increased and I asked,
''Why? ''
Scott said,
''We have been threatened, primarily Little J. ''
Both Jason and I inquired,
''What? - Why LJ? ''
He said he couldn't explain yet, but that LJ would do it when she felt ready, he said, also, directly to me that I would start in the same class as LJ and that we would tell Shane that he would work with Mitchie in the music-shop.
SHANE'S P.O.V, meanwhile in the bathroom.
[ this is why he wasn't in the other room. ]
I stood in the bathroom and brushed my teeth and thinking about everything that had happened today.
- I had met Mitchie, and I had even talked to her without being a jerk.
Nate seems to have a little crush on Little J, probably just because he saw her without trousers, it's probably as far as that guy ever going to come.
I was interrupted in my thoughts (again) when I heard that someone came into the room where my brothers were. I realized it was Scott and he told them that he needed to ask a them of a favor.
- I'm sure he needed to borrow some money, I knew he wanted something from us - all had to borrow money when they found out that we were rich.
But, it wasn't money or luxury cars he wanted to borrow, he wanted us to keep track of his sisters, beacause he couldn't keep track of them when they were at work or in school.
I heard Scott tell my brothers that his sisters had been threatened.
I thought about it for a moment and it wouldn't be so bad to keep track of Mitchie..
I heard the guestroom-door shut quietly, I decided that now was the time to go back into the guestroom. My brothers looked up when I came into the room, and when Nate asked me if I heard what they were talking about, I lied easily,
''No, something about you losing your virginity? ''
I just smirked and said that Nate had a crush on Little J, just because he saw her without trousers, I continued to tease Nate by saying that he just wanted to lose his virginity.
The rest of my insults were lost when Nate punched me in the jaw and when I defended myself and Nate continued to beat me until Jason could pull Nate off of me.
Then LJ walked into the room and said that she heard trouble and wondered what was happening, and when she saw that Jason was holding Nate and me sitting against the wall, she slowly backed out of the room without saying anything else.
I just smirked and Jason looked at me with disappointment in his eyes.
I felt guilty and told Nate that I was sorry,
'' I'm sorry Nate, I took all my anger out on you. ''
Nate just mumbled that he needed some air and walked out of the room.
An hour later we heard that Nate came back and lay down on his madrass.