Chapter Two: Might Have Been

A/N: HOLY JESUS IM SO SORRY! Real life just took an extremely bad turn this weekend and thus produced the worst week you could ever imagine, seriously. Plus my power went out Saturday and I didn't realize how busy I was last weekend but what's done is done, unfortunately /. But here's chapter two (there's two versions, I like this one better P) and before you go skedaddle and read the chapter, I just wanna thank you all for your reviews, they made me smile, so feel free to do it again and brighten up my week! Hope you like this chapter, I've got the general idea for chapter three so yeahh PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!

Disclaimer: I don't own the boys or David Henrie, but OMFG it would be so cool if I did lol.

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I break away from every situation like this one most times baby
But since you been round here I've given in, my dear, to your captivation daily
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Vanessa's POV

After getting back from work, I immediately collapsed onto the plastic covered couch in the bare living room, soaking up the silence until I heard the couch squeak, and I know I hadn't moved an inch. I opened one of my eyes to see Catie and Frankie inches from my face. I screamed loudly, flipping over the back of the couch and landing on my back painfully. I groaned from my place on the floor when the dynamic duo had made their way into my face again, "What's for dinner Nessie?"

"Yeah what's for dinner Miss. Vanessa?"

I slowly rose from my place on the floor and settled cross legged, giving Frankie a strange look, "Frankie where did you get Miss. Vanessa?"

He shrugged, "I heard Mom calling you that when you were with Kevin last night."

I nodded in understanding, "Well you don't have to call me that, you can just call me Nessa or--"

"Nesquick!" He pumped his fist into the air in triumph, like he had invented something new.

"Or Nesquick." I smiled, "Anyways, what do you guys want for dinner? We have mac n cheese, pasta with this top secret sauce--"

"The pasta!" They both cheered, causing me to laugh. With what they thought was their help, I had finally gotten up from the floor and started making my way towards our newly restocked kitchen. I took out the pasta and the packet of 'top secret sauce' and started boiling the water, both of them looking at me expectantly.

"So what do you two want to do while you wait for dinner? We've got ping pong, board games, a movie, and other stuff."

Catie and Frankie looked away from me and whispered to each other for a couple of minutes when I heard the front door open. I felt my eyebrows rise in curiosity but grinned when I turned the corner, was one of my closet friends, Selena Gomez. She squealed and rushed over to give me a hug while I hugged her back just as tight. She pulled back and grinned, "Oh my gosh it's been so long Ness you look ah-mazing!"

I laughed off her compliment, "Selena it's only been a couple of weeks."

She frowned slightly and joked, "Well I'm glad to see I've been missed."

Again, I laughed and led her into the kitchen, "You're so dramatic." When we got into the kitchen I noticed that David and Frankie we're caught in a tight arm wrestling match while Catie cheered Frankie on, figures. I poured the pasta into the boiling water and quirked my eyebrows yet again, "David how the heck did you get in here?"

"Back door." He said shortly, giving Frankie a small advantage. I rolled my eyes and turned my attention to Selena, who had a huge smirk on her face.

"So, Ness, can I ask why Frankie Jonas is here?"

I shrugged as I stirred the pasta, "I offered to babysit him."

Selena gave me a 'what the heck' look, "Am I missing something here? Since when are you friends with the Jonas boys?"

I shrugged again and looked up at her, "I was forced to take Catie to one of their concerts last night and in the Meet and Greet line or whatever, Joe offered to let Catie give Frankie her Webkinz to him in person, thus leading me to meet them."

"Joe likes her!" Catie piped up from the table, where Frankie was yet again pumping his fists in the air, my guess was that he had one. David came to stand behind me and observe my cooking when I scowled at Catie's remark, which caused Selena to interrogate me more.

"Oh really? And do you like Joseph?"

"No." David answered for me, which caused me to slap him in the stomach and glare at him.

"Get out of here Dave unless you'd like to babysit." He glared at me before retreating up to his room. I took out another pot and poured in the right amount of milk and the sauce powder and sat down next to Selena who looked at me expectantly, causing me let out a sigh of frustration.

"No I don't like Joe, Joe does not like me, he likes Reilly, and we are aquatintces."

The younger girl muttered 'I knew it' to herself which caused me to laugh. She looked up with wide eyes, "You like Nick don't you? You know he'll be illegal when your birthday rolls around."

I gave her a weird look, "First of all, it only would be if we had sex and someone reported it, second of all, no, and third of all I didn't even talk to him." I rose from my seat and poured the sauce into the pasta and laid out five bowls, assuming both David and Selena hadn't eaten yet.

"Well their's obviously some guy in your life and OH MY GOSH IT'S KEVIN!" She screamed.

My eyes bugged out so far I'm surprised that they were actually able to return to their normal size, "Why are you screaming? Besides I've only had one conversation with him and I looked like a total idiot." I said before calling David down from his room and getting Catie and Frankie settled at the table. When we all sat down, Selena decided to continue our conversation.

"Kevin and Vanessa, I like it." This statement caused me to choke on my pasta, as well as David who looked up with the same bug eyed expression I had had no more than five minutes ago.

"No way, mom would kill you Ness he's twenty and you're only seventeen."

"Both you be quiet." I growled, "In case you forgot his brother just so happens to be listening and we probably won't see each other again."

Sure enough, Frankie had stopped sucking his pasta down when he had heard his oldest brother's name, "So I won't be seeing Catie ever again."

My eyes widened, "Of course you'll see Catie again sweetie, I'm just telling them how unlikely it is that I'll talk to your brother anymore than I did last night."

"According to him it's not." He said innocently before he continued vacuuming his pasta, his statement causing Selena and Vanessa to raise their eyebrows in curiosity at each other. The subject had been dropped, for what Vanessa hoped would be the rest of the night, and dinner was eaten in silence. Once dinner had been finished, both Frankie and Catie wanted to play Xbox 360, so they asked David to set it up for them. I saw Frankie take Catie's hand which caused me to smile and immediately think about how much Frankie reminded me of Kevin. After talking with him for just that one night, I couldn't get over how different he seemed; different from most of the boys that had come through my life and how even one night with a stranger could affect someone in such a way where they couldn't stop thinking about them. I was too absorbed in my Kevin thoughts to notice that Selena had been waving her hand in my face for the last thirty seconds, but when I did I gave her an innocent look which she narrowed her eyes at.

"You won't be able to avoid the topic for forever since I'll be here until you kick me out tomorrow morning."

"Or now." I gave her a sweet smile which she scowled at. I walked into the living room where the two seven year olds were and plopped down on the couch. Catie and David were playing each other in Guitar Hero while Frankie jumped onto the couch and situated himself next to me while Selena sat on my other side.

"Kevin thinks you're pretty." He looked up at me, what he said causing me to smile and Selena to 'aww'. I rolled my eyes at her reaction but quickly looked down at Frankie's innocent face and again noticed how much he looked like his eldest brother. They had the same round face and when Frankie would laugh you could tell it would be just like Kevin's, but he was definitely going to have Joe's personality and Nick's big heart, the best of all his brothers. I responded to Frankie's statement by kissing the top of his head, already attached to him after a couple of hours with him. I could only imagine what it would be like if I had spent this much time with Kevin.

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I'm not the type who gets voted most likely to be victimized by those old butterflies but
You're the exception your love is infectious, and the fever is climbing high

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Joe's POV

We had finally taken the exit to Los Angeles when I flipped open my phone and scrolled my contacts down to Vanessa, a picture of a beaming blonde next to her name. I looked up from the picture to Kevin, who had been strumming absentmindedly on his guitar obviously too wrapped up in his own thoughts to care about the fact that one of the strings had broken. I then looked over at Nick who simultaneously looked over at me, his face etched with worry about our brother. I nodded towards the bunk room, and led him into it. Once we were both in there, I closed the small door and we sat down on his bunk.

"Nick, you know that girl from last night at the Meet and Greet?"

He rolled his eyes, "We see a lot of girls at Meet and Greet's Joseph."

"The one that we brought into the lockdown room, that's currently babysitting Frank?"

"Oh yeah Vanessa right? And the little one's Catie?"

I nodded my head, "Yeah that's why Kevin's acting…un-Kevinish right now."

He too nodded his head and then his eyes widened, "Oh no Joe, you can't possibly be trying to set him up, you know what's happened in the past. You're not exactly the best matchmaker in the world."

"If I recall, I got you and Cassie hooked up." This got Nick to zippa the lippa, if you know what I mean, "Exactly, now follow me young grasshopper, we have work to do."

I could feel Nick roll his eyes at me while we walked out into the main living area. We both sat down again, opposite of Kevin, when a smirk came over my face.

"Hey Kev, Nick and I we're planning to have a Guitar Hero who stinks more battle tonight and since you're on expert, we don't really need you." It sounded harsh but it was true, Kevin was the best Guitar Hero player I've ever met, "SO do you mind picking up Frankie?"

He looked up from his guitar and shook his straight hair out of his face, "Yeah sure whatever I just need the address." I wrote it down and handed it to him and the minute we pulled up in front of our house, he was gone within five minutes.

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Well I hope you don't mind if I fall asleep on your shoulder
Now turn out the lights and let the night begin
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Vanessa's POV

It was a around midnight, Frankie and Catie had set up a place for Frankie to sleep until one of they Jonas' came by to get him. I set up a place in my room for Selena, which she took the liberty of saying how boring the white walls were, forgetting the fact I had just moved in yesterday, and that I had definitely known that. We changed into our pajamas and were watching a movie when the doorbell rang. I got up to answer it in just a white tank top and baggy sweatpants, too lazy to find actually pajamas and my hair was in a high ponytail. I swung my door wide open to find Kevin on my doorstep. I knew I looked really stupid with my mouth hanging open and my eyes huge.

He gave me a cute little wave and a nervous smile, "Hey Vanessa, can I come in?"

I stepped aside to let him in and closed the door behind him, still unable to form a complete sentence in my mind, but apparently my mouth could, "It looks like someone missed me."

He laughed, "Actually I miss my little brother, have you seen him?"

"Oh burn Ness." Selena commented from behind me, causing me to turn around and glare at her, "Alright I'll go get Frankie now." She headed up the stairs while I led Kevin into our living room where the movie had been paused.

"What are you watching?" He asked, his gaze moving from the TV to me.

"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." I replied. Kevin's eyes lit up when I said this which caused me to let out a small giggle, "I take it you like this movie?" He nodded. I hopped over the back of the couch and settled in, then turned around to face him and pat the spot next to me, "You can sit and watch with me while Selena's getting Frankie, god knows she's seen this one too many times."

Kevin laughed and made his way over to the couch and plopped down next to me, draping the arm that would have been next to me across the top of the couch. I clicked the play button and watched the movie with him in a comfortable silence.

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And I hope it's alright if you're still mine when we're older
Cause I wont spend another day wondering what might have been
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Selena's POV

When Vanessa glared at me, I took it as my signal to clear out of the room so she could get her 'flirt' on, if you could even call it that. The only reason I say that is because a) she's my best friend (besides Demi of course, who both hate each other, lucky me) and I can make fun of her like that and b) because she's extremely hopeless and bad at flirting. I remember one time I was staying at her house back in Massachusetts over Christmas with our two families, we went ice skating and this guy used a really cheesy pick up line, and she came up with an ever cheesier remark (if that's even possible). Ever since then, I've deemed her a hopeless flirter instead of a hopeless romantic, which she also is but the problem is that she would never initiate anything, always gotta be the boy in her world. And people wonder why it took so long for women to gain the right to vote, just spend a day with Ness and you'll want to shove her into a US History textbook.

I knocked softly on Catie's door (which I could tell was hers since it had a huge sign that said Catie, and million's of pictures of the Jonas Brothers all over it) and then opened it to find her and Frankie watching movie on the family's portable DVD player. Frankie looked up at me when the door creaked so I decided to have a one on one chat with the man since Catie had fallen asleep.

"Hey Frank, do you mind if you stay the night here with Catie?"

He looked up at me with puppy dog eyes, "Why did they forget about me?"

"No of course not sweetie, actually Kevin's downstairs he's just a little…preoccupied right now." I replied putting an arm around him and giving him a comforting side hug.

"Is it with Nesquick?" I nodded and he added, "You know he thinks she's pretty."

I nodded again, "I know, she think's he's pretty too, she's just not very accepting of boys."

"Why not?" He asked.

I racked my brain for something to say instead of what immediately came to my mind, and if Frankie ever repeated those words I'd have every Jonas known to man after me, so I went with the second best thing, "Because theirs a certain type of boys that has…cooties."

Makes you wonder what I originally wanted to say huh?

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I was so cynical just inconvincible, nobody seemed worth trusting
But sure enough just when I'd near given up you appeared there among the destruction
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Vanessa's POV

After a couple of minutes of complete silence, except for the dialogue in the movie, Kevin spoke, "So how do you know Selena?"

"Through my brother David. You know Henrie, David, Wizards of Waverly Place?"

"No way!"

I nodded, "The only good thing about having him as a brother was meeting Selena. The party's they have for all the 'Disney stars and their families' not my thing."

He raised his eyebrow at this, "How come I've never seen you at one of those?"

"Like I said, it's not my thing, and as much as I love dresses, I don't really want to wear a dress in front of a bunch of people I don't know."

"Well you know Selena, your family, his co-stars, and my family, so why not go to the next one?" Kevin asked making a puppy dog face. I looked away from him down to the couch smiling.

"What are their no other girls there that could entertain you?"

Kevin's jaw dropped, pretending to be shocked, "There are but right now I just want to get to know one in particular."

I looked up at him to make sure that he wasn't kidding or anything, not that I took him for that type, and from the look on his face I could tell he was serious. His eyes we're soft, his eyes glowing a certain shade of hazel I'd never seen before and his smile was sincere. All I could comprehend to do was smile back and him and continue to watch the movie.

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Now it's official I've lost my initial suspicions and skepticism
You got me caving in; feeding the craving, I see now what I've been missing
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Kevin's POV

When Selena had went upstairs to get Frankie I figured she wasn't coming back down for awhile, if ever, so I decided to just chill out with the girl who had been haunting my thoughts ever since I'd met her, not knowing if I would ever see her again, and if I did what would I do? And apparently, I would see her again and we would watch How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. But then more questions popped into my head like how long would I see her, would I see her after this, and would I get her number. I was sucked out of my thoughts when I felt something put pressure on my shoulder and sure enough, there was Vanessa's head, her loose blonde ponytail letting out the small ringlets of curls the stress of the day had decided to keep intact. I pulled the blanket that had just barley been covering her legs up over her entire body as well as mine and wrapped my arm around her. Then I kissed the top of her head and almost instantly after I had started paying attention to the movie again, I fell asleep.

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Got my permission to break the tradition
No limited editions this is a persistent
Change of disposition no more inhibitions
I don't wanna spend my life wishing
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A/N: Uhm so I'll make this short and sweet unlike the before A/N haha; I hope you liked this chapter, I had so much fun writing Selena and Frank the Tank and I hope I did justice! SO before you go PLEASE REVIEW! Like I said, you have no idea how much you'll brighten my week .