Nicks POV
When I woke up the next morning Summer had her head on my chest. I had my arms around her and she was still sleeping. I smiled when I remembered last night and kissed the top of her head. I rolled on top of her gently and when she was off me I got up and went down to the kitchen. When I got to the kitchen I saw Garbo sitting at the table eating a bowl of cereal. I stopped walking and looked at him. He looked up and smiled.
Garbo: hello Nicholas. Good to see you.
Me: uh…hi…?
Garbo: yep. That's the word.
I rolled my eyes.
Me: how'd you get in here?
Garbo: Tori gave me her key. I'm supposed to drive you to the hotel for some publicity thing. Something about a video and millions of fans…I don't really know.
I looked at him like he was crazy.
Me: thanks for the message. What time do we have to be there?
Garbo: (checks watch) four hours. So we still have time. AaaAAAannd….
I waited for him to continue.
Me: and?
Garbo: nah. Never mind.
Me: c'mon! tell me!
Garbo: we can take Summer. Tori's going too.
Me: is that what you wanted, then didn't want to, but then did tell me?
Garbo: sure…if that makes any sense.
Me: so summer's going?
Garbo: yep. Oh and by the way…I saw you.
Me: (head snaps up) what?
Garbo: I saw you this morning. I walked into her room to look for you and saw that you guys were pretty close…
Me: oh yea…we're that close…best friends.
Garbo: Nick, thou can lie to the media, but not to ones close friend, or thou self.
Me: garbo, you've REALLY lost it. THOU?
Garbo: oh c'mon Nick! I saw you guys holding each other. And I heard you telling each other you love each other.
crap. That's right.
Me: you stalker.
Garbo: sooo….you and her…like old times?
Me: if its what I think you mean then yes.
Garbo: Nice. But…isn't she going out with that Tony dude?
Me: (sigh) yea.
Garbo: oh man nick. This is bad. This is very, very bad. Its…its illogical. I CANT have it.
Me: sshh! I know. that's why you have to promise to not tell ANYONE. NO ONE! Please garbo.
Garbo: wait…no one? So this is…your brothers don't know?
Me: no. please don't tell anyone. Please. Especially Matt.
Garbo: why not Matt?
crap. He doesn't know.
Me: uh…because we just met him and he might tell the press.
Garbo: (nods) yea. So go wake Summer. It'll probably take her a while to get ready. No messing around.
I rolled my eyes and went up to Summer's room. when I got there she was still sleeping and I sat on the bed next to her. I brushed some hair out of her face and leaned down and kissed the corner of her mouth. Just like I knew would happen, she stayed sleeping. I laid my head on her stomach and just laid there. She still didn't wake up so I kissed the corner of her mouth again. Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled. I smiled back.
Summer: hey.
Me: hey.
I kissed her. She kissed me back. I pulled away.
Me: garbo knows.
Summer sat up.
Summer: what?
Me: Garbo knows about us…
Summer: how? And he knows im going out with tony?
Me: he's here. Tori gave him her key. He's going to drive us to some publicity thing. And yea. He knows about you and tony. But not about me and Matt.
Summer: oh man Nick. What if he says something?
Nick: nah. He wont. I trust Garbo. I already begged him to keep quiet.
Summer nodded.
Summer: what time do we have to be at that place?
Nick: four hours.
Summer nodded again and we both got ready. After a while we were ready so we were just waiting for it to be time to leave.
Garbo: Push Play is going to be there.
Me and summer looked up at him. That meant Mandy was going to be there…
Me: how come you didn't mention it before?
Garbo: I don't know…I think I forgot.
Me and summer looked at him as if he had three heads. Garbo saw the looks on our faces and laughed.
Summer: does Tori know?
Garbo: I don't know. possibly. Oh we have to pick her up too.
Me: thanks for giving us all the details.
Garbo: its what I'm best at.
Me: (under breath) I hope we never eat your cooking. You probably think you're good at that too.
Summer laughed and Garbo said "I heard that!"
That made us al laugh more. Finally it was time to leave. I had the backseat with Summer while Tori rode in the front seat. When we called her to tell her we were leaving the house she "called it".
(in the car)
Tori: Mandy's gonna be there.
Me: for sure?
Tori: that's what she told Joe.
Summer: crap.
Garbo: she's really different.
Me: yea. She used to be cool.
Garbo: I was talking to her the other day.
Tori: What? When?
Garbo: she called me. She said something about being glad to see her old friends again.
Me: obviously she didn't mean us.
Summer put her hand on mine. I held her hand right back. Soon we were at the venue where we would answer questions from the fans and have photoshoots.
We answered questions from the fans. They asked us the usual. If we had girlfriends. Kevin told everyone he was single and looking. Joe told everyone he had a girlfriend. And I told everyone that I didn't have a girlfriend, and wasn't looking for one at the moment. Once we were done with that we were just waiting. So far, there had been no sign of Push Play.
Then an assistant walked up to us, a nervous looking kid.
Assistant: um…Jonas Brothers?
Kevin: yes?
Assistant: Push Play is running late and they were supposed to do the entertainment, but we have no idea what time they're going to get here. Do you think its alright with you if you perform in their place?
Kevin: won't they mind?
Assistant: the audience or Push Play?
Joe: both.
Assistant: well, the audience won't mind, and we told Push Play that if they didn't get here on time they wouldn't get the gig.
Kevin: (sigh) we'll do it.
Assistant: thank you so much. We will pay you double what Push Play was going to get, seeing as you are unprepared.
Me: thank you.
He sighed with relief and walked away.
Summer: this is going to start drama with Mandy.
Joe: yep. Sure is. Damn. Where's Tori?
Summer: messing with Garbo.
Joe: what?
Summer rolled her eyes.
Summer: Not THAT kind of messing! Jeez. No look (points to Tori) they're putting stuff in people's drinks.
Kevin: TORI! GARBO! Get. Over. Here Now.
They both walked over.
Kevin: you guys can't do that here. We just got a spot.
Tori: its not OUR fault! They said you guys were gay. And you guys are NOT gay.
Me and joe laughed. Then Kevin explained the Push Play situation.
Tori: well, someone isn't going to be happy.
Kevin: I know. but how could we turn it down? I mean c'mon, we're getting paid double!
We all stayed quiet. Then we preformed four songs: Year 3000, Hollywood, S.O.S., and Hold On. Still no sign of Mandy.
By the time we were done performing and had gotten our money Mandy and Push Play showed up. Apparently, they had found out about us taking their spot. Mandy wasn't happy. She walked right up to us. Tori seemed excited. Everyone else just waited to see what would happen.
Mandy: why would you guys take their spot?
Kevin: they asked us to.
Me: and thanks for getting here late. They paid us double.
Mandy glared.
Mandy: you guys just can't stand the fact that someone else might take your spotlight right?
Joe: (very sarcastically) OH YEAH. You see, if Push Play all of a sudden just took our spot it would be the end of our career. We would be VERY devastated and probably never sing again. Gee I don't know.
Mandy: wow, joe. You've really changed.
Me: how Mandy. How has joe changed?
Mandy: for one, look who he's dating.
Everyone waited to see what would happen next. Tori laughed.
Tori: haha. Yea. He's dating someone with a life.
Mandy: so what, you saying I don't have a life?
Tori: what would you do if I said yes?
Garbo: OK. So, I think its time we go home yes? Summer don't you have somewhere to be?
Summer glared at Mandy.
Summer: No.
Garbo: REALLY? I could have SWORN you said you NEEDED to LEAVE. NOW.
Kevin: yea. We better go.
Mandy: scared?
Joe: that's it we're staying. Oh and don't worry Mandy, you missed the best part of the night.
Mandy: what?
Me: US. You missed US mandy. You know, you could have more than two best friends. Or however many you have. I could care less. You say we've changed? Wow. I see how dumb you really are now.
CJ just so happened to walk by and heard that one.
Cj: whoa. Who are you calling dumb?
Joe: how many Mandy's are annoyingly standing in my face?
Cj: I know you're not talking about Mandy.
Joe: wait, THIS Mandy? Yea I'm talking about THIS Mandy.
Cj got really mad. He looked like he was about to hit Joe. Immediately me and Kevin stepped up and Cj kind of backed down. But then the other guys from Push Play showed up. Talk about drama. We were all staring at each other, anything could happen. I felt someone lightly put their hand on my arm and I turned to look at the person. Summer had her hand on my arm and was silently asking me to calm down and just let it pass. I smiled slightly at her and hugged her. She hugged me back. That seemed to bring Kevin back to his senses and he let Tori calm Joe down. Then we walked away from them.
