Yes, apparently I can't wait a whole day to update lol. This one's a little longer and slightly more interesting, or so I hope.

I don't own WOWP or JONAS. Please review :)

Juliet stood atop a building in New Jersey, staring down at the bustling street below. The cool night air blew her long gold hair away from her face, and she sniffed at it, searching for something.

It was faint, but it was there. The scent she had been unable to find for the past couple of days: brick and pine needle. She smiled and took off, going into a steep dive before pulling up in bat form.

The farther east she flew, the stronger the smell became. It led her to a squat yellow house in suburbia. Considering it was three thirty in the morning, no one was awake inside. The pine/brick aroma was practically pouring from one of the upstairs windows, which happened to be cracked open slightly. Juliet landed nimbly on the windowsill and pushed open the sash all the way. She leapt through the opening, landed catlike on the carpet, and looked around. There was a bed in the corner of the room with someone asleep in it. All Juliet could see was a mop of dark hair partially covered by the comforter, but she didn't need to see her face to know who it was.

"Alex!" Juliet whispered, prodding her shoulder.

Alex woke up with a startled squeak and fell out of bed. "Macy! I told you, I do not want to do morning yoga with you!" She said, annoyed. But once she untangled herself from her covers and saw who it was, her mood changed. "Juliet! What are you doing here?" She asked in a low voice.

"I could ask you the same thing," Juliet replied. "Don't you know that your family's worried sick about you? Justin hasn't been the same since you left! He thinks it's his fault you ran away."

"Justin's worried about me?" Alex said, dumbfounded.

"Of course he is. He feels since he's the older sibling that it's his job to protect you," Juliet said.

"Oh."

"What'd you think, that he'd be mad at you or something?"

"Kind of."

"Well he's not. No one is. They've been too upset about you disappearing without a trace."

"I didn't know they cared that much."

"Alex, you're their family. And family cares a lot about family. I only wish mine had what yours does," Juliet said, a little wistfully.

"I thought you guys got along pretty well," Alex remarked.

"Well we do, and we all love each other, but it's different when you're the only one with a soul," Juliet told her. "If I were to run away, my parents wouldn't mind. 'She'll be back in a week or a century tops. She's a vampire, she can take care of herself,' they'd probably say." The girl sighed and sat on the edge of the bed.

"I never thought about that." Alex wrapped herself in the comforter and sat next to her brother's girlfriend.

"Yeah, well, it's really not that bad. I just want you to realize what you have," Juliet said.

"I realize it now."

"So will you come back with me?"

Alex bit her lip. Something inside her—she hesitated to call it 'conscience' because she wasn't exactly sure she had one—told her it was time to face the music. But it was going to be difficult. "Yeah, I guess I should. But I want to say goodbye to my friend Macy first. And…someone else."

"Okay, but hurry up. I can only travel at night, and there's not much of it left," Juliet said, glancing at the window.

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I woke up to the sound of my cell phone vibrating under my pillow. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and squinted at the screen. The name I saw on it made me smile.

"Hey Alex. Why are you calling so late?" I asked, whispering so my brothers wouldn't hear. Not like they could; both slept like rocks and snored like freight trains, but just to be safe.

"I'm going home, Nick."

I shot up, nearly falling off the side of my bed. I thought I had more time. "What, right now?"

"Yeah."

"But you can't leave yet! I—I wrote a song for you." Is it possible to be able to hear a smile? At that moment I'm pretty sure it was.

"I'm sure it's beautiful, but I don't have that much time. I'm waiting in the alley behind your house if you want to say goodbye," Alex told me.

"I'll be right down." I hung up the phone and jumped out of bed. Completely forgetting about shoes, I grabbed my guitar and ran downstairs as quietly as I could. It didn't really help that the firehouse was decades old and creaked all over, but since no one was chasing me down with a baseball bat yet I took it as a good sign.

Alex was standing in shadows of the alley with another girl I'd never seen before. When she saw me, she arched her eyebrows knowingly and said, "I'll be circling the block to make sure you're not bothered. Call me when you're ready, okay?"

Alex nodded. I had no idea what the strange girl was talking about, but it didn't matter now that I had Alex to myself.

"Don't you think your parents might hear if you play that?" Alex asked with an amused expression, indicating the guitar in my hand.

"Well considering they're very heavy sleepers and it's a pretty quiet song, I think it'll be okay."

I didn't give Alex a chance to protest. Balancing the Gibson Hummingbird on my knee, I plucked out the tune. "Lost in a sea of darkness last night, didn't know I was till you fell from the sky…"

By the time I finished, Alex was speechless. I didn't know whether to be glad or worried. I'd just poured all my feelings into that song and realized there was a possibility she didn't feel the same way.

"Wow, Nick. That was...wow. I guess I was wrong when I said that wasn't my type of music," she said softly. Despite the gloom of the alleyway, her eyes somehow managed the sparkle with that inner light I loved so much.

Now there's something you should know about me. I'm called 'the serious one' for a reason. I'm not really spontaneous, like Joe, or carefree, like Kevin. And I don't just randomly kiss a girl in an alley at four in the morning. As a rule.

But I guess rules were meant to be broken.

By the way, that part of the song that Nick sings I just made up on the spot. I didn't really feel like stealing another one lol. Hope you liked it :)