Fortunately for me and my family, the pool room wasn't visible to the public, so we were able to swim and horse around in peace. Currently my three brothers and I were having a splashing contest that was slowly just turning into a shallow water wrestling match. It was fun and nice to just act like regular brothers without the public eye watching us. My mother and father were enjoying some time in the hot-tub just relaxing and pretending that they didn't know these four crazy boys. It was nice to have some fun family time, acting like a normal family might when staying at a hotel with a pool.

It had been a day since I last saw Meghan, and Joe hadn't stopped bugging me about this "unknown girl" ever since I got back. He was convinced I was in a good mood because of a girl, and he wasn't wrong, I just didn't want to jinx any further meetings with her.

After a few more minutes of goofing off we calmed down and started playing "Marco Polo" by Frankie's request. I unfortunately lost "rock-paper-scissors" and was "it". I felt a little stupid wondering around the pool with my eyes closed but hey, anything for my little brother. I'd love to say that I found someone right away, but actually it was taking a little bit longer than I would have liked.

"Marco!"

"Polo!" a chorus a male voices answered.

"Marco!"

"POLO!" I paused where I was and opened my eyes, because what I heard sounded dangerously close to girls voices. I looked towards the entrance to the pool, and sure enough three girls were standing in the entrance way, laughing. One was about my height with dirty blonde hair and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. The other one was a little shorter with dark brown hair with a tint of red and a nose ring, wearing just sweatpants over her bathing suit. The last one made me smile before I could even think about it, because it was Meghan, wearing shorts and a baggy T-shirt.

"Hey! Do you guys want to play too?" Frankie asked the girls.

"Sure! Why not?" Meghan shrugged looking at her friends, who both nodded. "Sounds like fun! Just give us a minute 'kay?"

Frankie seemed to accept this and went to sit on the side of the pool while he waited. My other brothers and I got out to say hello and introduce ourselves. This was going to be interesting.

We grabbed our towels and made our way over to the girls, who were now in their bathing suits. It was somewhat surprising to see them all wearing one-piece bathing suits. Not many girls did anymore, unless they had to.

"Hi, I'm Kevin." Said Kevin holding out his hand.

Meghan, polite as ever, smiled and shook Kevin's hand, with a small laugh.

"It's nice to meet you," she said. "Which means you're Joe." She teased, turning to Joe.

"That's correct!" Joe said shaking her hand.

"And these are my friends, Ashley and Kaitlin." She gestured to the two young ladies beside her. The three of us shook their hands and then it suddenly occurred to me; I hadn't told my brothers about Meghan and I hadn't mentioned to Meghan that they didn't know about her.

"Pleasure to meet you." Kevin added. "Um, this is also Nick and Frankie's over there." He said pointing to Frankie, who was beginning to grow impatient.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Meghan said, I let out a discreet sigh of relief. Good, she caught on that they didn't know about her. "I'm Meghan." She shook Kevin and Joe's hands, however, my downfall came when she turned to me.

"I already know you!" she joked with a laugh.

I froze when my brothers both looked at me with puzzled looks. Meghan's smile had disappeared and her face was slowly turning pink.

"Um," Meghan said rather nervously. "I, ah—I—yeah." She quickly turned around, walked to the deep end of the pool and dove into the water. Ashley and Kaitlin slowly left to join her, not quite sure what was going on.

"It was a girl!" was all Joe could think to say as he quickly turned to face me.

"What is going on, Nick?" Kevin asked.

I sighed, but reminded myself that this was nothing bad, right now it was just awkward.

"I met Meghan a few days ago in the elevator when I went to get a drink. And then again when I went to get the take out." I began to explain.

"Both times you came back happier than when you left." Joe remarked.

"Well yeah!" I retorted like I was stating the obvious, then realized they had never had an actual conversation with Meghan. Come to think of it, I hadn't had one that was longer than 5 minutes.

"She treats me like a normal guy! She makes me think and remember how lucky I am to be living this life and to have such an amazing family. The reason why I didn't tell you guys about her was because I didn't want to jinx seeing her again. I like talking to her, she…." I could feel my face getting warm. "She makes me feel good." I finished softly, looking at my feet. There was no other way to explain it.

My brothers had sly smiles on their faces. They looked around me to see Frankie being happily entertained by the three girls. I looked back at them wondering what they were thinking.

"Do you like her?" Kevin asked. Joe looked at me with a somewhat confident look, like he already knew the answer. I wish I did.

"I like talking to her, I like how she makes me feel but," I paused. I wanted to make sure I said this right. "Look, I don't know where this is going but right now, I just want to be friends and I think she does too."

Both nodded in acceptance of the answer.

"Alright man." Kevin said clapping me on the shoulder. "We respect and understand that. We'll support you with this decision and with whatever else happens.

"Thanks." I said as he walked away to join Frankie and the girls.

"Yeah," Joe said putting an arm around my shoulder. "We promise not to embarrass you too much."

"Thanks, Joe." I replied with a little bit of sarcasm. Joe left my side to join the others.

"CANNON BALL!!!" Joe yelled before splashing everyone.

I thought for a moment. Yup. I really am one lucky guy. I smiled to myself, happy with everything I had. I really couldn't ask for much more.

I turned around and watched for a moment the scene that was playing out in front of me.

Joe was having a splashing war with Ashley, while Kevin was carrying Frankie around of his shoulders as Kaitlin and Meghan were laughing and joking about something. I glanced over at my parents in the hot tub. My mother gave me a look of concern and my dad had a look that asked "Is everything ok?" I nodded in reassurance and even added a small smile for extra measure.

I went down to the deep end, dove in and swam towards the shallow end. When I came up Meghan was in front of me, water up to her neck, with an apologetic look mixed with concern across her gentle features.

"Meghan," I said with a small smile. "Everything's ok. There's nothing to worry about."

"You sure?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes."

"Absolutely?" she squinted her eyes in disbelief.

"Positive."

"Abspotively?" she asked with a smirk.

"Huh?" I had no idea what she just said.

She laughed. "Never mind." Then she splashed me full in the face. I stood there.

"Really?" I asked trying to seem somewhat intimidating. She laughed, apparently I'm not that intimidating.

"Tag!" she tapped my shoulder. "You're it! No tag backs!" She laughed swimming away.

"Hey! No fair!" I said chasing after her.

"Watch out!" She yelled to everyone else. "Nick's it! Run for your lives!" Everyone scattered, well as best as you can in water.

Soon a water version of tag had ensued. The only rules were you couldn't leave the water (unless you really needed to), no tag backs and you could only tap the shoulder for it to count (a little extra challenge). I have to say, it was a lot of fun. Everyone was laughing and playing and only caring about not getting caught, nothing else in the world mattered. It made me feel like a normal little kid, before the fame started. Funny how it always happened when Meghan was around.

After everyone was pretty much exhausted from playing, we all got out and started drying off. Meghan, Ashley and Kaitlin started to say good-byes but we invited them to ice cream to hang out some more (Joe's idea). Mom and Dad declined but the girls agreed.

"Where ice cream's involved, Meghan is not too far behind." Ashley joked.

"Hey!" Meghan said. "I like my ice cream! Don't judge!" Everyone laughed and we head out to the restaurant to get some ice cream, Frankie leading the way.

After having gotten ice cream, we all sat down in a large booth and started talking, everyone getting to know each other better. We found out that out of the three of them, Meghan was the bigger Jonas Brothers fan, having admitted that she had a couple of our calendars and been to a concert of ours once and owning all of our music. It was still strange to think of her as a fan, because she never acted like one.

All three were suit-mates at the college that they went to, Ashley and Kaitlin were studying Communications and Meghan was studying Music Education, ironically. They were a little crazy when they were together and obviously spent a lot of time together. They had been thoroughly enjoying their trip to NYC and were sad to see it ending, but were all looking forward to getting back to school.

After what didn't seem like very long, and after Frankie started to drift off to sleep, Kevin picked up Frankie and after having said good-night, started to carry him back to the room. After a few more minutes of talking and joking, the girls decided they should get to bed, they only had 3 days left until they were set to leave. Joe and I, being the gentlemen that we are, decided to walk them back to their room. We headed to the elevator and Meghan came over towards me and nudged me.

"What was that for?" I asked.

"Just cause." She said with a shrug.

"That's not a very good reason." I pointed out.

"Why not? It works for me!" she said with a laugh.

"It would." I laughed back, then paused. "What are your plans for tomorrow?"

She made a face like she was thinking really hard. It was kind of a childish look but for some reason it fit her personality perfectly and didn't make her seem childish, just more like a child at heart.

"I got nothing." She said letting out a breath. "Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering, I mean you don't have that long until you leave."

"This is true." I she said as we walked into the elevator.

"What's true?" Ashley piped up on the other side of Meghan.

"That we're leaving soon." Meghan answered.

Ashley leaned forward to see past Meghan to look at me.

"Well you're just a ball of sunshine aren't you?" She said with heavy sarcasm. Meghan let out a laugh.

"She really likes it here." She explained. "Which is surprising since you grew up in and love the country." Meghan said making a puzzled face at Ashley.

Ashley giggled. "I know."

"What are we doing tomorrow?" Meghan asked Ashley and Kaitlin innocently.

"Uhhh I don't know." Kaitlin answered. "I think we were going to just going to make it up as we went."

"Why?" Ashley asked.

"Nick wanted to know." I glared at her. She laughed, but Ashley was looking at me seriously with her eyebrow raised. I didn't quite know what that meant but I didn't think I liked it very much.

"Oh really?" She said like I was implying something. Yup, I knew I didn't like the look she was giving me. Her serious face broke and she started to laugh. "I'm just picking on you, Nick. Don't worry." Meghan just rolled her eyes. Ding!

"All ashore that's going ashore!" Joe announced. We all piled out of the elevator and followed the girls to their room 1006. We all gave each other hugs and said our good-nights. Joe headed to the elevator as Kaitlin and Ashley headed into the room.

"You know," Meghan said. "I honestly didn't think I was going to have that much fun tonight."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked not sure if I should be offended or not.

"Well I thought," she shrugged. "I don't know, that maybe you guys didn't know how to act like kids, well at least you and wow that sounds so bad." She said burying her face in one hand. I let out a laugh.

"Just because we're famous doesn't mean we don't know how to have fun and hey, I may have the label of 'the serious one' but that doesn't mean I don't know how to let loose."

"Yeah but you guys know how to have clean fun which doesn't usually happen in Hollywood. Plus the kind of fun we were having down there tonight," she smiled, "it was like being a little kid again and every good sense of the word. You know the kind of fun, when nothing else matters and it's all about being silly and goofy with your friends and not caring what others think. That's true fun to me!" She said.

I just smiled and let out a small laugh.

"What?" She asked with a laugh. "Don't make fun of me!"

"I'm not." I said shaking my head and laughing a little more. "I promise I'm not laughing at you."

"Then what are you laughing at?" She pressed.

I paused and thought for a moment. "I'll tell you later."

She raised an eyebrow. "Ok." She said drawing out the word. "Well, good-night, Nick! Maybe I'll see you before we leave, but if I don't…" she engulfed me in a big hug. It was one of those hugs that people don't really give anymore, the ones that friendly but you can tell that they care about you in some sense. The tight embrace full of warmth and care that only comes from inside a person. The kind you wished every friend gave.

I hugged her back, trying to return the effect but I was pretty sure I was no where close.

"…thanks for the small conversations and for," she paused as if thinking about what she wanted to say very carefully. "for being just a normal guy." She nodded as if that was an acceptable answer.

"I'm sure I'll see you again, but your welcome and thank you for treating me like a normal guy."

She smiled her broad smile. "Good-night, Nick. Have fun releasing your CD!" And with that she walked into her room, or at least she tried. She tried opening the door. She hung her head after realizing it was locked.

"Don't you have your key?" I asked.

"Nope." She said a forced smile. "No, Ashley took my key to open the door and now they have locked me out."

"If you guys don't let me in I'm never cooking dinner for you again!" She called.

"That's ok!" We heard Ashley's laugh through door. "We have your cook books we don't need you!"

Meghan got a mock look of a shock on her face. "Ouch! Fine! See if I ever go anywhere with you again!" She said and started to walk down the hallway. The door flew open and both Kaitlin and Ashley came running out the door and almost tackled me trying to tackle Meghan. They enveloped her in a group hug, however they completely lost their balance and all ended up falling on the floor. They lay there on the floor just laughing at their silliness until their sides began to hurt. I had to laugh as well, it was pretty entertaining to see a bunch of college girls lying on the floor after having fallen over.

"Alright." Meghan laughed getting up and helping each one up. "We better get back in before someone complains about our noise." The three of them got up and managed to get back to their room without falling over, but were still laughing.

"Good-night, Nick." Meghan said before she walked into the room.

"Good-night, Meghan." I laughed and she closed the door.

I walked back to the elevator to see Joe standing outside of it.

"You didn't have to wait." I told him.

"I know," he said and draped an arm around my shoulders. "I just wanted to see what your face looked like this time after seeing her." He teased.

"Joe, you know nothing happened right? Meghan and I are perfectly comfortable being friends." I explained, though my cheeks were getting warm anyway.

"Oh, I know!" Joe said. "Believe me, little bro, I know!" We stepped into the elevator. "Doesn't mean that you aren't happier every time you see her." He simply stated.

I smiled to myself. Alright, he had me there, I wasn't going to lie. She did make me happier but that was because she made me feel like I was just a normal guy.

"So now that you know what room she's in, you going to see her tomorrow?" Joe asked with a smirk.

I gave a smiled as I watched to numbers climb. "Abspotively."