Goodbye.

Chapter 3;

Suddenly my cell phone's blowing up with your ring tone
I hesitate but answer it any way
You sound so alone
I'm surprised to hear you say

You remember when we kissed
You still feel it on your lips
The time that you danced with me
With no music playing

You remember those simple things
We talked till we cried
You said that your biggest regret
The one thing you wish I'd forget
Is saying goodbye

Saying goodbye
Ooh
Goodbye

Nick couldn't help but stare, in fact he could have looked at her all night. Why did I have to be such a idiot and hurt her?Why didn't I make her stay? Why didn't I tell her I loved her there and then. Maybe if I would have told her, she'd of believed me... Nick thought to himself, still staring at her in the middle of the living room dancing. His heart pounding in his chest, he attempted to make his way over to her, to finally tell her when all of a sudden she had gone. How could someone disappear into thin air? He scanned the room, then sat back onto the sofa which was now occupied by both Joe, Kevin, and a girl who seemed to be trying to come onto Kevin, but stupidly drank too much and made an absolute idiot of herself in front of everyone slurring her words.

"HIIII. I'mmm Jossssieee. Who are youuuuu? I haven't seen you arounddd herrrrrrre?!"

She was really starting to piss Nick off, and Kevin just stared at her wide-eyed, as if scared for his own life.

"I'm Kevin.. nice to meet you Josie.." he let out a nervous laugh and scooted closer to Nick, spilling his drink over his top slightly.

"Argh! Kevin!" Nick shouted jumping up in shock. This was the last thing he needed.

"I'm gonna get another drink.." He said, lifting himself from the sofa to the kitchen and pouring another cup of 'orange punch'. After his eighth, maybe ninth cup, Nick felt light headed. He couldn't walk, not talk properly and the room seemed to be spinning. Looking down at himself, he realised that his top was still damp from Kevin. How fast did I drink those? He though to himself as he slowly staggered upstairs, making his way to Mikaela's room. He remembered that she still had some of his clothes, and opening her wardrobe door, he pulled and tugged at his t-shirt.

Mikaela heard a slight banging noise from her room as she applied more lip gloss in the bathroom. She slowly made her way into her room and as she struggled to open her bedroom door, she stumbled in and realised that there was a guy with a t-shirt over his head, struggling like a cat stuck in a cardboard box.

"What are you doingg?" she asked, ever-so drunkenly. Mikaela never drank, and still unaware that someone had spiked the punch with vodka.

"I'm stuck" came a muffled reply.

Wow.. he has a really nice body...nice arms, nice pecks.. nice...well, everything. He better be cute too! Mikaela thought to herself as she stumbled in further and tugged at his shirt until she came face to face with him.

"Nick..what are you doing here? I thought you weren't going to come.."

"Uhh, well.. I bought you a present a while back, when we were still.. you know.." he drifted off looking at his feet, slightly sobering up.

"Oh..okay. Are the guys here?"

"Yeah, both of them. But anyway, I have your gift here.."

Mikaela walked over to her bed, sat cross-legged, not really caring that her dress was a little too short to do, and looked up at him. Nick slowly walked over to her, took his place on the bed, and pulled out a box from his jacket pocket.

"Here.. it's nothing big, or special, or amazing, or.."

"Oh my god." She cut him off.

"Nick.. this is.. just... wow.." she looked at the necklace in astonishment. It was a small, diamond heart, with an inscription on the back.


'I never lived before your love
I never felt before your touch'

Suddenly Mikaela's eyes felt hot and a small teardrop slowly fell down her cheek. Not knowing whether to kiss him, or hit him, she wiped her face and looked him dead in the eyes.

"Is this some kind of fucking joke?!" She screamed at him, launching herself off the bed.

"What?! No! I just thought.."

"Well whatever you thought, Nicholas, was wrong. COMPLETELY WRONG."

Nick fell silent. She only ever called him his full name when she was angry at him, and he had only heard that tone in her voice once. When they had broken up.

"What was the real reason you came here?! To win me back?! To look like the good damn freakin' guy? You cheated on me Nick, and worse, denied it!" She now had tears streaming down her red cheeks.

"What?! Are you seriously that deluded that you think I'd cheat on you? Even after all this time? Maybe you should get off your freakin' high horse, and take your head out of your ass for ONE moment and you would see that I never cheated. I Lo.." Nick stood silent, his cheeks as red as hers.

"You what?" Mikaela said quietly, shocked by his sudden outburst.

"It's not important now..Look. I didn't come here for an argument, or to be forgiven, even though I did nothing wrong, I came here to give you this, and now I have. I'm out of here."

"Wait.." Mitzi almost whispered. "Don't go. Look Nick, I've been thinking, before all of this, we were so close. You were my best friend, and we were so good together. Can't we just..."

Nick's heart raced so fast, he thought it was going to smash out of his chest at any moment.

"...try to talk? Be friends again? Just friends?"

Suddenly his heart stopped. His head blank, and his face expressionless. She doesn't want to try again. Well, she does but, not the way I'd want to.. He thought to himself sadly.

"Yeah..sure, I guess. But please believe me, I didn't cheat... Never would."

Mikaela smiled slightly, although she still didn't quite believe him, she didn't have any expectations to date him again. Just friends. That's it. She walked towards the door, and set off downstairs to enjoy the rest of her party.

Nick came downstairs just a few moments after Mikaela with a slightly goofy grin on his face, Joe who noticed, elbowed Kevin who looked over and smiled slightly, he hadn't seen Nick smile like that since he had been with Mikaela.

"Soo, where have you been, bro?" Joe asked giving his younger brother a wink.

"Uh, I guess I just sorted things out with Mikaela.." he smiled, the same old glint in his eye.

"So you two are like, back on?" Kevin asked, moving slightly away from the now unconscious girl spread half on the sofa next to him, half on the floor.

"Well, no. But we're going to try to sort it out, friends and all."

"Who knows man...who knows" Joe smiled nudging him lightly. The sound of Joe's voice echoed around his head all night.

Who knows? Who knows?

The next morning.

Mikaela looked around the room. It was an absolute state, and to make it worse, it was half 10, and her mother would be back in roughly 2 hours, and although her mother was alright with the whole 'party' thing, she definitely wasn't okay with mess. Mikaela jumped up, waking people up as she went, trying to shoo them all out.

"The quicker you get out, the less likely you are to be made to clean up!" Mitzi shouted though out the house, making the people who were awake run for the door, and the people who were still sleeping, wake up with sudden shock.

Within two minutes everyone had left. Well, everyone minus three sleeping bodies.

"Oi! Get up!" she shouted at them. God, how could they sleep throughout the screaming racket she had made?

One body slurred, and rubbing his eyes with his hands, Nick smiled as he stretched, watching Mikaela from behind as she swarmed around her house like a crazy old woman. Slightly laughing at the visual image he had created in his head, he stretched, and got up.

"Hey, need any help?" Nick smiled down at her as she pulled out a roll of black plastic bags.

"Uh, no, it's okay. You can go." Mikaela said not even bothering to look up.

"Well, I don't think those two will be moving any time soon, so I may as well.."

"Fine, here's some bags, go clean upstairs".

God, he'd forgotten how bossy she could get. In between Mikaela tidying downstairs, nick upstairs, Joe and Kevin crept out of the door. They didn't really feel like cleaning with a hangover that they had. They didn't feel like much except sleep.

Nick and Mikaela threw themselves onto the sofa. Two hours later and the house was finally clean. Mikaela yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Sleepy?" Nick asked as he smiled at how cute she could be.

No, bad Nick. Stop. Friends only. Friends only. Who knows..?

"Uh, just a little.." she said as she erupted into yawns again.

"Well, sleep then". Nick laughed as she rolled her eyes and stared at him.

"What will you do? I mean, you can leave if you like, the house is tidy... only if you want though..." Mikaela looked up at him, his dark brown eyes never strayed from hers.

"Oh, I was just gonna... I don't know... watch a movie?"

"Oh, okay, well, don't keep it on loud, otherwise I won't be able to sleep" Mikaela laughed as she rested her head on the sofa, making herself comfortable as Nick picked out a DVD and put it in.

Within half an hour, they were both fast asleep, Mikaela resting on his shoulder.

A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE LYRICS USED, OR THE JONAS BROTHERS (to my uttermost dismay..)

AND THE ONLY THING I DO OWN, IS THE PLOT, AND FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

Thanks, Char. Xoxo

p.s

Songs used in the fic; Miley Cyrus – Goodbye.