Chapter 10: Drama-lama-ding-dong

"Let's get out of here," Kevin whispered to me and Nick. The three of us left the room and went upstairs.

"Ouch," Nick said.

"Wait, are Demi and Joe together?" I asked Nick.

"Umm…" Nick started to say.

"You knew they were together and you didn't think to tell me?" I demanded.

"Megan, chill out. Joe just said he liked her. He never said they were together," Kevin said. I tried to calm down but my best friend was downstairs yelling at her boyfriend.

"JOE! I HATE YOU! MEGAN!" Katherine yelled. I hurried downstairs and gave my friend a hug. Joe was standing behind her and I glared at him. Demi was standing behind Joe smirking.

"Come on, babe," I said, taking Katherine outside. We walked around the neighborhood for a few minutes when she finally started to talk.

"Megan, he doesn't love me anymore," she whispered.

"Did he say that?"

"No, well…he implied it. He said he liked Demi, which kind of means he doesn't like me anymore."

"He said that?" I asked, astonished.

"Yeah. And she was standing right there! I used to like her but now I hate her more the devil!"

"KATHERINE!" I heard someone yell from behind us. We turned around and saw Joe running towards her. Katherine turned back around and continued to walk away. I didn't move. Joe passed me and I watched him catch up to Katherine. He finally did and swung her around and started talking. I couldn't hear what he was saying but she didn't look happy. Joe continued, what looked like spilling his heart out to her. I finally saw a smile flash across Katherine's face and Joe kissed her.

"JOE!" Demi yelled from behind us. Joe pulled back and looked at Demi. Katherine suddenly looked hurt again and slapped Joe and ran away. This time Joe didn't chase her but I did.

"KATHERINE!" I yelled. When I passed Joe I just glared at him. When I caught up with her, I gave her a hug.

"Joe…Joe…" she cried. I shushed her and stroked her hair.

"It'll be OK," I said.

"But you kissed her!" I heard Demi yell.

"Demi, it's not like…" Joe started to say but Demi smacked him and got into her car and drove off. I kind of felt bad for Joe. Even though he had hurt my best friend, he was still one of my friends and he didn't deserve to be treated like this. I got Katherine a cab and she drove back to her hotel and I walked back to the Jonas house.

Joe was sitting on the couch while Nick and Kevin were yelling at him. "What the heck were you doing?" Kevin demanded.

"Joe you're such an idiot!" Nick put in.

"Yeah, a stupid idiot!" Frankie added.

"Frankie, not helping," Nick said. He saw me walk back into the house. "I'll talk to you guys later," he said, taking my hand and dragging me upstairs. We sat on his bed and he gave me a hug. "Are you OK?"

"I'm fine. It's Katherine I'm worried about."

"My brother messed up big time," Nick said. "He told us that he like Katherine more than Demi and that him and Demi were just friends."

"Really?"

"Yeah." There was a knock on the door and Nick answered it.

"I wasn't interrupting a large make-out session, did I?" Joe asked.

"You did actually," Nick said, laughing.

"Whatevs," Joe said, walking into Nick's room. "Megan, what hotel is Katherine staying at? I have to fix this."

I hesitated for a minute but eventually gave Joe Katherine's hotel and room number. Joe left and Nick joined me again on the bed. "Megan! Nick! Come downstairs, please!" I heard Mrs. Jonas yell. We walked downstairs and sat on the couch. "OK," Mrs. Jonas said. "What are you guys doing today?"

"Umm, we didn't have anything planned," Nick said.

"OK good, because a radio station called…"

"NO!" Nick yelled. "It's break! I don't want to do an interview!"

"OK, just making sure," Mrs. Jonas said. "So what do you want to do today? We should do something as a family." Mrs. Jonas saw me look slightly hurt and added, "Megan, you're practically a Jonas so we consider you family."

"WOW! Nick and Megan are getting married?" Frankie yelled from the other room.

"Yeah, Frankie. You didn't know that?" Nick said, laughing. I blushed but laughed along with Nick.

"Where are you getting married?" Frankie asked.

"Vegas," Nick said, smiling at his brother's stupidity.

"When?"

"Tonight!" I told him.

"Megan, I'm so happy for you!" Frankie yelled and gave me a hug. "You're going to be my sister! I'm going to go tell Molly!"

"I think we should tell him we're not getting married," I told Nick.

"Who says we won't," Nick said, kissing me.

"Ehemm," Mrs. Jonas said.

"O, forgot you were still in the room, mom," Nick said, putting his head down. Nick laughed at his mom and she sent us upstairs.

As we were walking Mr. Jonas walked though the front door. "DAD! DAD!" Frankie yelled. "Megan and Nick are going to Vegas tonight to get married! They told me! Can we go?"

Mr. Jonas looked appalled and yelled. "NICHOLAS JERRY JONAS! YOU GET DOWN HERE THIS INSTANT!"

"Yeah dad?" Nick asked, laughing.

"Dad, why are you mad? You should be happy that they're getting married!" Frankie said.

"YOU CANNOT GET MARRIED AT AGE 16!" Mr. Jonas yelled.

"Chill, dad, we were just kidding," Nick said.

"You were kidding?" Frankie demanded.

"Yeah," Nick said.

"Molly is going to be heart broken!" Frankie cried and stormed up the step.

"Nick, that is not something to joke about," Mr. Jonas said.

"Honey, I kind of started it," Mrs. Jonas said, walking into the room.

"Well, I really think we shouldn't joke about that," Mr. Jonas said sternly. Nick and I turned around and walked upstairs but Mr. Jonas stopped us. "Not that fast you two."

"What, dad?" Nick asked.

"Where are you going?" Mr. Jonas asked.

"Uhh, upstairs?" Nick said.

"Why don't you do some chores," Mr. Jonas suggested. Nick groaned and we walked back downstairs.

"But mom said we were going to do something as a family today," Nick complained.

"OK, so then what do you suggest we do?"

"Let's go drive Go KARTS!" Frankie suggested.

"OK, where's Joe?" Mr. Jonas asked.

"Umm, relationship issues," Mrs. Jonas said. Mr. Jonas rolled his eyes and walked upstairs.

Joe came home a few minutes later. "She won't talk to me," he said. I gave him a hug.

"I'll talk to her later. We're going GO KARTING!" I said, trying to get Joe excited.

"OK," he said. We all went out to the car. When we got there, we paid and ran to the car rink. Frankie had to ride with Kevin because he was too short. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas decided just to watch. The engines started and we started to drive. It looked, at first, like it was going to be a race between Joe and Nick but I caught up with them.

I drove up between Joe and Nick's car and they sandwiched me. "GUYS! STOP!" I yelled, trying to break free.

"No way," Joe said. I felt someone hit me from behind. I turned around and saw Kevin and Frankie right behind me.

"Great, I'm in a Jonas sandwich!" I yelled. Joe moved his car away from mine, attempting to get ahead on the final lap but I didn't let him.

Have you seen Taledega Nights? When they do the slingshot thing? Well imagine that. Kevin's car pushed mine forward and I crossed the finish line 3 seconds before Joe did.

"WHAT!" Joe yelled. "HOW DID YOU BEAT ME?"

"Mad skills," I bragged. We got out of the car and Nick threw me over his shoulders.

"CHAMPION!" he yelled. We walked around some more and came to a dunk booth.

"Who would you like to dunk?" the man asked. Everyone looked at Joe.

"I'll do it if you do it," Joe said, pointing to Kevin.

"I'll do it if Nick does it," Kevin said.

"And I'll do it if Megan does it," Nick said.

"I'll do it if Frankie does it," I said.

"I'll do it if Joe does it again!" Frankie yelled and we all laughed. Joe took his cell phone out of his pocket and got in the dunk booth.

"I think Nick should throw," I said.

"We get three tries, I'll go after you," Nick said to me.

"Umm, I don't know if that's a good idea," I said.

"Come on," Nick said. I picked up a ball and tried to AIM it at the Target but I ended up hitting Joe in the head.

"Megan, what the heck?" Joe yelled, rubbing his head.

"I told you I can't throw," I said, blushing. Nick laughed and picked up the next ball. He threw it and it landed right on target. Joe fell into the water.

When he emerged, he said, "Kevin, your turn."

Kevin sat on the stool and Nick tried to get me to throw again. I did but it didn't hit the target again. Joe threw it and Kevin fell into the water.

"Megan, you have to dunk him," Kevin said as Nick went to the dunk booth.

"OK," I said uncertainly. I picked up a ball and threw it with all of my might. It hit the target and Nick fell into the water. "I DID IT!" I yelled.

"Wow, I was not expecting that," Nick commented, shaking his curls. "Your turn."

"Fine," I said, walking into the dunk booth. I couldn't hear what they were saying but it looked like they were arguing on who threw the ball. Frankie picked one up and threw it. I ducked as it flew over my head. Kevin took the next ball and missed also. They only had one more chance. Nick picked up the last ball and threw it. It missed by inches. I hopped out of the dunk booth. "You're such a loser," I told him.

"What? I just didn't think you'd want to get with when it's 50 degrees out," Nick said.

"Right," I said sarcastically. We left the carnival.

"Wait, is that Katherine?" Kevin asked, pointing over to a bench.

I started to walk over to her but Joe stopped me. "I'll talk to her," he said. Joe walked over and sat down next to Katherine. The rest of the family walked back to the Jonas' car. Nick's cell phone vibrated and he picked it up.

"Hello? Yeah. Well that's good. Sure. What time will you be home? Sure. No prob, bro," he said, closing the phone. "Joe said we could go home without him, he was going to take Katherine back to the hotel."

We drove home in silence. "Megan?" Nick asked once we got up to his room.

"Yeah?" I replied.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing," I lied.

"Megan, what's wrong?" he asked, seating me on his lap.

"It's just…Katherine."

"What about her?"

"Well, I just don't want her to get hurt anymore."

"Megan, I really don't think Joe would hurt her that bad," Nick said.

"I know but…"

"But what?"

I didn't reply.

"What, Megan?" Nick asked.

"Katherine's mom died when she was little and her dad takes his anger out on her."

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