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Fireworks.

It took four hours, six dresses, two pairs of shorts, and a pair of jeans before finally deciding on an outfit to wear. It took a half hour to straighten my hair the way I liked it, and twenty minutes to do my make up perfectly. After slipping on my Hollister ripped jeans, a white tank top in halter style, and a long sleeves green shirt with, I put on some forest green flip flops and made my way downstairs.

"Hey." Tiffany said appearing from the kitchen in a pair of short jean shorts, and a lone green flowing tank top with layers of white beaded necklaces. Her hair was down and scrunched.

"Arent you going to be cold?" I asked.

"Nope, Joe will warm me." She said winking. I rolled my eyes,

"You just met him a week ago and your already trying to snuggle up?"

"Obviously." Miara said coming down the stairs. She was also hardly dressed, and since when did my best friend form an alliance with my sister?

"We met them a week ago! We hung out with them twice, and they are rock stars. Are you delusional?" Miara glared offended.

"No we are not delusional, stop being so rude to us. Have you ever actually thought that maybe since they are always on tour and since they are going to be here for another month that maybe they would want to go on a date and spend time with some girls? That's us. So if your nice maybe you and Nick could be more than friends." I rolled my eyes.

"Me and Nick? He's a rockstar Mia, I'm a nobody who hardly knows herself, I highly doubt anything will happen tonight."

"You never know." Tiffany said winking and walking off. I walked towards the kitchen and poured myself some lemonade, letting the cold tart juice cascade down my throat.

I had problems and lots of them, I didn't know myself, I had no idea what I wanted in life for the future ( besides the fact I DID NOT want Jack in it) and every experience with a boy I've had was awful and only led to heartbreak. This still was the Summer Of Misery, I was still going through every problem I had before but now The Jonas Brothers were tossed into the mix and I'm being pulled towards going for Nick (who is obviously the hottest and nicest kid I've ever met) or following my brain which says to just stay friends because he'll eventually leave and never come back and I'll be heartbroken again.

But can I really hold myself back from flirting, is it worth the risk ?

Maybe Miara and Tiffany are right by going for what they want because you never know what will happen. I've never been the type to take risks and maybe this summer, I should try.

I was pulled from my thoughts by the sound of the doorbell and the familiar sound of the boys voices echoed down the hall. I quickly put my empty cup in my dishwasher and adjusted my hair, fixing my smeared lipgloss and facing the night by walking to where everyone was.

They all looked completely gorgeous, Joe had his hair straightened and had on some tight red skinny jeans, and a rolled up red and white striped dress shirt, with a sweatshirt over his shoulder. Kevin wore purple skinny jeans, his signature boots, and a back tee with a purple vest over that. A leather Jacket was in his arms. Nick looked spectacular in a turquoise shirt that had a bunch of different guitars on it with a yankees hat. He had a sweatshirt by Ralph Lauren hung over his arm, and he looked amazingly gorgeous. Oh shit, am I staring? I think I am, look away…LOOK AWAY! I told myself.

"Hey! I like your shirt." I said smiling at Nick and greeting everyone.

"Thanks, you um, look really nice too." He replied.

"Thanks, so are we leaving?"

"Yeah Adam is meeting us there."

"Ok sounds good, come on buddy!" I said grabbing his arm and dragging him out the door with everyone following. Tiffany caught my gaze and raised her eyebrows but I just winked, and made her smile. She knew the code. I'm actually touching him! This is soo much better than seeing him in a bathing suit.

"Where are we going exactly?" I asked as we walked down the beach, sand squishing between my toes and my hair blowing in the breeze.

"To see the fireworks, we found this really cool spot earlier." Joe said from his spot behind me, where he was flirting with Tiffany. If you could even call it flirting, its more like one cheesy pick up line followed by another. Miara and Kevin were also next to me, discussing topics that would basically bore you all to death. Me? I was walking next to Nick, feeling completely awkward and self conscious.

"So how did this afternoon go?" I asked Nick, breaking the silence between me and him.

"It was cool, we went to Ed hardy and a bunch of stores, signed some autographs and then came back."

"Oh, well did Adam find a date?" Nick looked confused.

"He's had a date since yesterday, he said the whole help in finding a date was a joke, I mean guys don't do that kind of thing." I stopped.

"He lied to me then, why would he do that?" Nick shrugged and looked a little uncomfortable. Then I felt bad, Nick shouldn't get involved in me and Adams drama, although when we get home Adam is going down.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable. So, what do you think of the Cape so far?" I asked flipping a strand of my hair over my shoulder and watching the sunset before us.

"I like it, its really…lowkey." He said staring at me. I felt my face blush, and couldn't help wondering if maybe I looked pretty in the sunset, because Nick looked gorgeous.

"Yeah, I bet its so small and dorky compared to Los Angeles but I've lived in Massachusetts my whole life, never traveled."

"You've never been out of Massachusetts?" I shook my head.

"Nope never. I really want to travel though, Paris, Madrid, Italy, England, California." I listed. He laughed a little.

"Whats so funny?"

"Nothing, I just like that you have goals."

"Oh thanks." I said blushing again. I felt someone tap my arm. So I looked back and saw Tiffany wink at me. This night would be a hell of a lot easier if I didn't feel pressured about this.

"Ugh how much longer ?" I complained. Joe was giving Tiffany a piggy back ride, And Kevin was carrying Miara bridal style because they complained about getting their shoes sandy but in reality I think we all knew they wanted the guys attention. I still feel awkward about this whole thing, I mean am I supposed to flirt with Nick? It couldn't hurt, and he was the only one who wouldn't give me a piggyback ride. I really shouldn't complain, I mean I was with the freaking Jonas Brothers!

"Oh um." Nick studdered, looking over at Joe who winked at him obviously. "Want me to carry you? I give great piggyback rides." He said. I laughed he was turning a million shades of red.

"Sure." I said hopping onto his back. He smelled like Abercrombie and It took every ounce of energy not to just kiss him. Instead I put a huge smile on and grabbed the Yankees hat right off his curly hair and slipped onto my head, jumping off his back and running in front of him in the sand.

"Heatherrrrrr giveee meee my hat backkkk." He whined playfully. I rolled by eyes in the same playful way.

"You want it? Try and get it." I said waving it in the air and running as fast as I could away from them down the beach. Nick chased me, our feet pounding the sand and our breaths getting heavy. The sun was finally gone and there was just darkness ahead, with the occasional view of a glow stick being thrown from the bridge beside us. Suddenly Nick lunged forward, tackling me down into the sand and taking the hat out of reach.

"Ouch, your squishing me!" I yelled laughing causing him to laugh.

Did I mention he was on top of me?

I stopped laughing for a second looked at him through the darkness, only seeing his outline and feeling his breath against my check.

"I got it." He said, and I could basically see his smirk in my mind.

"Yeah, good job." I said in between breaths. Suddenly the rest of the group caught up to us, but neither of us noticed.

"Getting busy?" Joe asked. Kevin smacked him in the back of the head and I blushed a deep red, my face getting hot. Nick quickly got off of me, brushing himself off and helping me up.

"We just tripped." He said awkwardly. Then there was silence, I cleared my throat and grabbed a flashlight out of Joe hands.

"Shall we continue?" I asked.

"Yeah, we're almost there." The group started walking again, and I stayed a moment looking at the spot me and Nick has just landed in. He noticed and walked back.

"You coming?"

"Oh yeah, lets go." I said walking forward with him, a smile on my face.

"This view is amazing!" Tiffany yelled as I climbed to the top of the rocks. We had walked to the very end of the beach, to the point we were right next to the bridge. The canal under it had lots of rocks on each side, so we climbed up so we were high, and the harbor where the fireworks were going off was in view. It was amazingly beautiful plus effectual because nobody had seen the boys and asked for autographs yet.

"It was definitely worth the walk." I said letting my eyes scan the harbor, seeing the lights and the boats gliding across the water. We laid down a blanket down and all sat, and watched as the boys emptied their bags to get sandwhiches and chips and cupcakes.

"You packed us a dinner? That's so incredibly sweet!" Miara said batting her eyelashes at Kevin who smiled back bashfully.

"Yeah, it was really great Joesph." Tiffany said to Joe kissing his check. He pretended to faint.

"Yeah thanks." I said quietly to Nick.

"No problem, besides it was really Joe and Kevins idea. They really like Miara and Tiffany." Nick whispered. I giggled.

"Yeah it's a little obvious by now." I said. Nick laughed and tickled my side, handing me a cupcake.

"Thanks, I want the blue one though." I said pointing to his cupcake.

"No I already called it." He said like a 5 year old.

"Did not! You just took it, and then I called it so technically I was the first to call it."

"Well I grabbed it first, you know finders keepers."

"Fine, OH LOOK I found a cupcake!" I said snatching the blue one out of nicks handing and biting into it. His eyes widened as I placed the pink cupcake into his hand.

"You ate my cupcake!"

You tackled me!" I said.

"True, but you know you liked it." I rolled my eyes, even though that's true.

"Oh yeah, cause you sooo incredibly handsome." I said wrapping an arm around him. He looked down at my arm around him then at me, and I immediately thought What the hell am I doing? I'm touching Nick and he looks uncomfortable! I moved my hand and patted his shoulder.

"I'm kidding you know, you look really…uncomfortable."

"No, I was just thinking." Suddenly it got really quiet. I looked around to see if Adam was in view, which he wasn't and then watched Tiffany lean her head on Joes shoulder as they had a thumb war…why am I even surprised? Kevin and Miara were taking pictures on Kevins phone, of everything pretty much everything in sight.

"So um.." I tried to think of something I could start a conversation with Nick.

"Are you cold?" He asked. I looked down to see I had goosebumps.

"Oh, yeah I guess, I forgot my sweatshirt."

"No problem, Take mine." He handed his sweatshirt to me and I pulled it on. It was a little bit but really cozy and smelled amazing. Like really good…

BANG!

I nearly fell off the rocks as the first fireworks flashed across the sky, streaking blue.

"OHH AHHHH!" Joe said pointing like a little kid. I laughed and Nick helped my back to my previous seat.

"You almost went swimming."

"Well don't worry, next time I'll try to bring you with me." He smiled and I smiled and we tilted our heads to watch the fireworks keep going off, but I couldn't help but wonder if Nick kissed me right now, how would I be able to tell the real fireworks from the ones the kiss would cause, because I can guarantee either way theres sparks flying.