"Hey!" someone was whisper-shouting, "Hey sis, get up!" Logan...

"Go away!" I mumbled while hitting him with a pillow.

I looked up at my brother and giggled as he looked at me with a tough facial expression. "Okay, now I'm gonna have to bring in the big guns,"

"No Logie! I swear I'll kick you in the mouth!" He reached his arms out and I cringed. He tickled my sides and I laughed involuntarily. "Stop! I'm begging! I'll get up!" I said between laughs.

The tickling ceased as I pried his hands off of me.

"James just left for the pool with Carlos and it's already 10:00, we need to work on this song," he said.

"Fine, just let me set up my keyboard. Kendall is here, right?" I asked because I couldn't play guitar and piano at the same time.

"Yeah, why?"

"I need him to play guitar and help write some of this song,"

"Ahh," he said walking towards the door. "Now get dressed, we have a song to write!" he told me while slamming my door behind him.

Since I was going to be home for most of the day, I decided to wear dark gray cuffed-sweatpants and a purple v-neck. I pulled my hair into a side-ponytail and clipped my bangs up.

I walked into the living room area to find Kendall tuning his guitar and Logan with a writing pad out.

"Good morning!" I said while yawning. "Who's ready to write a song?"

"Woo!" both of them said with a little enthusiasm.

...

2 hours later, the lyrics were done, but we hadn't rehearsed it with the guitar and keyboard.

"Let's take this from the top," Kendall instructed.

It was just me and him now, because Logan had to go to the pool halfway through to help Carlos keep James occupied.

I cleared my throat nervously as Kendall began playing the opening chords.

I sang softly, but that's how he wanted me to sing the first verse, to add character or something...

"If all our life is but a dream, fantastic posing greed

Then we should feed our jewelry to the sea

For diamonds do appear to be

Just like broken glass to me"

That verse was about how James got all greedy and wanted to win king. But in the end, he's only going to hurt himself and his friends. Diamonds was supposed to be directly aimed at him, about how he deceived me with his change in attitude. It is his last name after all...

"Good! Now you gain strength as you continue and play something on your keyboard,"

I played a little tune; it was simple and pretty.

"How's this?" I asked for his opinion.

"Try it out and we'll see,"

"And then she said she can't believe

Genius only comes along in storms of fabled foreign tongues,

Tripping eyes and flooded lungs

Northern Downpour sends its love"

I looked up and smiled at him, he smiled back. The 'she' I was talking about was me, saying that I thought that guys like him came only in fairy-tales. I was wrong.

"Hey moon, please forget to fall down,

Hey moon don't you go down"

Kendall joined in with soft background vocals:

"Sugarcane in the easy morning

Weathervanes, my one and lonely"

"We should get guitar dude to play electric with us,"

"He would do it!" Kendall said.

"The ink is running toward the page

It's chasing off the days

Look back at both feet and that winding knee

I missed your skin when you were east

You clicked your heels and wished for me"

That part was about getting restless about not seeing each other, and both of us secretly wanting to return to how things were. I told Kendall that it sounded cool, not that I liked James. He believed me and that's that.

"Through playful lips made of yarn

That fragile Capricorn

Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves

I know the worlds a broken bone

But melt your headaches call it home"

This was about how James and I fought, and we need to solve our headaches sometime soon.

(Sarah, Kendall, Both)

"Hey moon, please forget to fall down

Hey moon, don't you go down

Sugarcane in the easy morning

Weathervanes my one and lonely

Sugarcane in the easy morning

Weathervanes my one and lonely

Sugarcane in the easy morning

Weathervanes my one and lonely

Sugarcane in the easy morning (Hey moon, please forget to fall down)

Weathervanes my one and lonely (Hey moon, don't you go down)

Sugarcane in the easy morning (You are at the top of my lungs)

Weathervanes my one and lonely (Drawn to the ones who never yawn)

Sugarcane in the easy morning(Hey moon, please forget to fall down)

Weathervanes my one and lonely (Hey moon, don't you go down)

Hey moon, please forget to fall down

Hey moon, don't you go down

You are at the top of my lungs

Drawn to the ones who never yawn"

We finished and high-fived. This song was awesome! The ones who never yawn is about Aubrey, because I've seen all of the vampire movies and know that vamps never sleep. Clever, ey?

"You are singing with me at prom!" I said while pointing at him.

"Hey! This was supposed to be a solo! That means one person!"

"Gee Kendall, I never knew that!" I said with fully intended sarcasm. "I can call Gustavo and we can go to the studio,"

"Uh huh,"

"And he can listen, and love the song. Then he'll have to let you sing it with me!"

"I don't know if that'll work, but it's worth a shot,"

"I'm going to call him now!"

And with that I was mindlessly dialing my phone. I held it up to my ear.

"Rocque Records, Kelly speaking," Kelly's voice rang into my phone.

"Uh, yes Kelly? This is Sarah Mitchell, and is there any way that we can come in and show Gustavo the song?"

"Of course! You can come in right now, actually!"

"We'll be right over, Kendall is coming too,"

"Okay, I'll inform Gustavo,"

"Bye!"

"Buh-bye!"

...

Well, I'm back from the studio, and I have good and bad news.

Good news:

Gustavo loved our song, "Northern Downpour"! He said it was deep, and other things that I didn't really care about. I'm just excited that I get to perform at prom, and Kendall gets to be up there with me!

We really bonded over the song, and it sounds amazing.

Somewhat bad news:

I have to sing another song! And write it! But, I'm just going to use one that I wrote a while ago.

I wrote it when I had a brief period of jealously when James dated a model, for a whole month! They just used each other for a fame boost, but it hurt whenever I saw them together. Since then, I've gradually come to terms with my feelings. I guess that I've liked him for longer than I thought.

Anyways, the song is "You Belong With Me" and it has a little country/pop vibe to it. I plan on stealing Kendall's guitar to perform it.

I chose the song because it's my favorite that I've ever written and it's super personal. I felt like I needed to get the message out that James belonged with me and not Aubrey Stewart...

The song sounds like it came out of a diary. Truth is, my songbook is like a diary to me.

...

"So he really said that to you?" Camille asked. I nodded, I was just now telling her about my situation. I never wanted to say anything before, because I never really wanted to talk about it. And it's not like I've had time with the whole 'avoiding James' thing.

It was now 2 days before prom. We were cutting it close on time, but we were shopping at the nearby mall for our gowns.

"I can't even believe that he would say that to you of all people! He's your best friend!"

"I don't believe it either, but I think it's best for now that we keep ourselves separated," I said with a long sigh.

"You sound upset. You're trying to act like you're not, what else is bothering you?" she said with full concern on her face.

"I really don't know... I guess it's the fact that he's right about me not getting a date. It's really nothing, trust me," I assured.

"You never even wanted to go to prom until Gustavo told you that you had to," she said while raising her eyebrow at me.

"I guess it's just that- that I'm jealous of Aubrey," I said stumbling to say it. "She took my best friend away, she's famous, she's gorgeous, she's everything James could want- and everything I'm not!" I rambled on until Camille stopped me.

"So are you! Sure you're not famous yet, but you are beautiful, Sarah. You need a confidence boost, to make James see what he's missing." she said dramatically and pulled me into yet another dress shop.

It was a tiny stop, but it had hundreds of beautiful dresses. They were every color of the rainbow and my jaw was literally on the ground.

We went through all the racks.

I saw so many dresses that I wanted, but knew that I couldn't pull off. Camille found a burgundy dress with roses on one shoulder. She looked very, very pretty and it complimented her body well, so she decided to buy it.

I was yet to find a dress that was perfect, but after 30 minutes of going through the same rack over and over again, I was grabbed by the wrist and shoved into the dressing room.

"Camille!" I yelled in frustration. I looked over to see her standing there with a purple dress in hand.

"You are trying this dress on," she instructed while throwing the dress at me.

I caught it and shut the dressing room curtain. I took my clothes off, and took the dress off of the hanger. I slipped the dress on easily.

After adjusting the dress, I took a look in the mirror. The dress itself was a deep purple color, with purple gems placed in all the right places. It had one shoulder, with a strap that was made of the same violet jewels. It had a slit at about my mid-thigh and was very flowy. It ended at my feet. (Link of picture on profile!)

"Are you going to come out?" Camille asked.

"I don't know, I don't exactly feel sure about this," I said with an uneasy feeling.

"Sarah, just come out!"

I reached for the curtain and shut my eyes. I decided to 'rip the bandage off' and yank the curtain open as fast as I could.

I flinched a little and then slowly opened my eyes to see Camille smiling.

"Is it that bad? I said turning back around to the mirror in my changing area.

She got up from her chair and walked towards me. "How could you say that you're not beautiful?" she said from behind me.

I laughed lightly and ran my hand through my ponytail, getting a glimpse at myself.

This dress did make me feel pretty, and I sort of looked pretty. My sun-kissed skin looked nice against the dark color.

"You are getting that dress," she said in a matter-of-factly tone.

I nodded and turned around to hug her. She was the greatest friend that I could ask for. She made me feel better about myself, and she was all around beautiful inside and out.

I was glad that my brother was dating her, because she was an amazing person. She saw beauty in the simplest things and loved to help people almost as much as acting.

Sure, people at the Palm Woods thought that she was crazy. But, I thought that at first. I mean, the first time I ever saw her, she slapped Kendall and started screaming at him! I never would've thought she'd be this cool, or that she would turn out to be my best friend, and like the sister I never had.

...

We ended up buying our dresses and we were now on our way back to the apartment. We went out to eat and chatted for what seemed like hours.

"So, now are you excited about wearing a dress?" she asked from the driver's seat of her black convertible.

"I am, I really love that dress," I said with a smile.

We sat in comfortable silence for few seconds, and then she decided to speak up.

"You really like James, don't you?" she asked. I almost choked on my own spit.

She did know that I was sad/mad about fighting with him, and that I was jealous of Aubrey. But, I never just came out and said that I liked him.

"What makes you ask?"

"Sarah, I see how you look at him. I know that you miss him. You're jealous of Aubrey-"

"It was that obvious by the way that I looked at him?" She nodded. "I've always been best friends with him. After seeing him date so many girls, I realized that I care a lot about him,"

"There's nothing wrong with admitting your feelings for someone," she told me. "Just tell me that you like him and get it off of your system," she advised.

"Since when did you become my therapist?" I asked her, trying to avoid the topic.

"No changing the subject," she said sternly.

"Fine, I like James!" I exclaimed.

"Was that hard?" she asked with a smile.

"The only thing that's hard is knowing that he doesn't feel the same. I'm stuck between friends and something more... forever," I said slumping down in my seat.

"You don't know that he doesn't like you back,"

"Yes I do, plus I'm still mad at him,"

"I know, but you just need to let things play out," she told me. We were now in the Palm Woods parking lot.

She pulled in her reserved parking space and we got out of her car. She popped her trunk and we got our dresses out.

They were in one of those opaque black zip-up bags, so that they wouldn't get damaged.

...

We both headed to 2J so that we could hang out for a while. I knocked on the door, because I forgot my key.

Luckily James didn't answer it.

"Hello girlies!" Mrs. Knight greeted with a rather large smile. She was finally back from her trip to Minnesota.

"Mama Knight! I missed you so, so much!" I said while hugged her tightly.

"I missed you too!" she said back. She whispered in my ear about knowing what happened between James and me. She said she never thought that we would fight in a million years, I agreed.

"Yeah, I'm still mad about it. We'll be okay in a few more days. I think..." I trailed off.

She rubbed my arm and said, "Honey, you and him are inseparable. I know you'll be okay soon enough,"

"Thanks Mama Knight," I said, returning a small smile and walking into the living room with Camille trailing behind.

The guys were all sitting around the TV, watching who knows what.

Logan looked up and said, "Hey girls, would you like to watch a movie with us?"

Kendall, Carlos, and...James looked up when he acknowledged us. It hurt when my eyes met James', but I quickly looked back at Logan.

"Sure," Camille and I both said. "But we have to put our dresses up before we do that," I added.

"You're not going let us see?" Carlos asked.

"Not until prom night!" Camille told him.

We went into my room to find Katie sitting on her bed, playing video games on our little television.

"Hey Kay!" I said using my nickname for her.

"Hi Sarah, hi Camille," she said not taking her eyes off of the screen.

"Katie? Do you want to be the first to see our dresses?" I asked her.

She pushed the buttons on the controller and then the TV said "Game over" across the screen.

"Sure! I didn't know that you were actually going to wear a dress!" she said surprised.

"Yeah, Gustavo's making her," Camille responded.

"He gave you money, right?" Katie asked me.

"Yeah, I got his credit card," I said while unzipping the black bag that was holding my dress; Camille was doing the same.

"What do you think?" I said while holding the dress up to myself.

"I love it! You're going to look like a princess," Katie said with a big smile. "And Camille, I love yours too!" she said smiling even more.

"Thanks," we both said.

"I can't wait until I can go to prom," Katie said with a small sigh.

"I'm going to feel so old when you're old enough to go to prom!" I told her while zipping my dress back in my bag and hanging both in my closet.

"Well, I'm gonna get back to my video games!" she told both of us.

"Don't stay up too late!" I warned her.

"Okay, mom!" she said sarcastically.

...

We walked out of the room and into the hall.

"Are you sure that you want to hang out with..." Camille asked

"Trust me, I'm fine,"

"We could always go to my apartment,"

"Really, Camille, I'm fine! You worry too much," I whispered while walking into the living room, taking a seat between Carlos and Kendall. James was beside Carlos and Logan was on the other side of Kendall. Camille was on the end of the couch, next to my brother.

"What are we watching?" I asked while doing my best to focus on the TV and not the holes that James was burning through me with his eyes.

"Easy A," Kendall said.

"Emma Stone is attractive," Carlos sighed.

"Yeeaahh..." Kendall agreed.

I rolled my eyes and focused on the movie.

...

James' POV-

I was just sitting on our orange couch in 2J, when Camille and Sarah walked in.

Sarah looked pretty as usual, and I missed her.

I only asked Aubrey to prom because she was a surefire way to get prom king. My brain got in the way of my heart.

I obviously wanted to ask Sarah to prom, but who knows if she'd say yes. Who would say no to James Diamond? I haven't a clue, but it's too late to find the answer from her.

Sure, Aubrey is hot and all, but Sarah is much better. I knew that, and I should've told her that instead of telling her that she wouldn't get asked to prom.

I am a jerk.

The guys knew that I felt bad, and I'm surprised that they didn't hate me; especially Logan. They acted like nothing happened, but I noticed that Kendall had been spending a lot more time with Sarah. It was probably because Jo was filming constantly.

When she said something about getting her dress, I felt very happy for her. She was confident enough to wear a dress, and to perform in front of the whole Palm Woods School.

That reminds me, I'm going to have to perform 'We'll Be A Dream' with her at prom...that's going to be very awkward.

...

When Sarah walked in and sat between 2 of the guys, I couldn't help but stare at her.

I wanted so badly for everything to be okay, but it wasn't.

I hope that she didn't notice my wandering eyes on her throughout the whole movie.

Whenever she laughed: I smiled. I missed making her laugh.

I hope she knows that I never meant to hurt her. I've wanted to apologize, but I knew that I couldn't back down from my date with Aubrey. Her bodyguards would go psycho.

Plus, the guys have been spending so much time with me, that I have barely seen the girl. She may or may not be avoiding me, but I haven't even had the chance to talk to her all week.

"Well, I'm going to spend the night at Camille's house!" she said while the credits were rolling.

"Okay, just let me say goodbye to Logan," she said back while pulling Logan up from the couch.

"I'm going to pack an overnight bag," Sarah said while jogging into her room. A few seconds passed and I decided that I was getting very sleepy.

"I'm going to bed," I said while heading into the hallway. "Night!" I yelled from behind me,

I walked into the hallway as Sarah was walking out of her room with her bag. My heart pounded. She looked up at me with a look that was a mixture of sadness and anger.

She peeled her eyes off me and walked past me. Our shoulders brushed for a quick second, and I turned around to watch her walk away.

I miss my best friend.

...

Thanks for reading!

I miss James and Sarah's friendship already... :( but don't worry!

The songs mentioned were:

1) 'Northern Downpour' by Panic! At The Disco

2) 'You Belong With Me' by Taylor Swift

3) 'We'll Be a Dream' by We The Kings

I just love PATD, and the song seemed fitting. It's probably my favorite song by them! So, you should check it out! ;)

There's a link of Sarah's prom dress on my profile. The next chapter will probably have part of prom in it, so stay tuned!

Please review! I'd really appreciate it!