Chapter Two
Hear me Croak
Miley rang the door bell to the Jonas house, little Frankie opened the door.
"Hi Miley!" Frankie said with a smile.
"Hi Frankie, are your brothers here?" Miley asked as Frankie let her in.
"Yeah, they're in the kitchen, Nick lost his voice and Kevin and Joe are trying to help Him," Frankie said as he bounded up to his room.
"Wait Frankie, what do you mean Nick lost his voice!" Miley yelled after him but it was too late Frankie was gone.
Miley walked into the kitchen to see Nick leaning over a humidifier, Joe was sitting beside him and Kevin was rubbing Nick's shoulders. Their parents nodded to her as she entered.
"Hey Miley," Joe greeted her as she come in and sat down next to their mother.
"Hey, what happened?" Miley asked.
"Nothing happened, Nick just lost his voice and we're seeing if this is going to work," Kevin said from his position from behind Nick.
"Do, ray, mi, fa, so. Laaa-Not working!" Nick croaked as he nearly choked on the simple notes, the moisture from the humidifier was making his skin wet.
"We know it's not working," Joe said with an "I told you so" sigh.
"And it won't work as long as you keep talking," Kevin said as he sat down on Nick's other side.
Miley nodded in agreement.
"What?" Nick croaked.
"Look Nick, this use to happen to Kevin and me all the time when we were your age, and the only thing that would help, is when mom and dad made us stop and not talk for a while," Joe said putting his hand on his brothers shoulder.
"That's what my daddy says too," Miley said.
Nick looked from Joe to Kevin to Miley, and then back to Joe, "I can do that," he croaked again.
"Nick-?" Kevin started.
"What?" Nick croaked again.
"You're talking," Kevin finished.
"Oh, Dang," Nick said and his eyes went big, "dang, dang," Nick's hands shot for his mouth.
"That's it, keep it that way or we are not going to be able open for Hannah Montana next Saturday," Kevin said looking at Miley with a wink.
Nick shot up, tipping his chair over in the process. He waved his hands in the air, shaking his head no. He put his chair back up, sat in it, and then zipped his lips shut with his fingers. He looked back at his brothers with a closed lip grin.
"That's it, now if you need to say anything for the next few days just use this," Joe said handing Nick a small white board and dry erase marker that they use for school, "We've never canceled an opening and we're not about to start now, because I know that would just break you heart, and when your heart breaks baby brother so does mine." He added with a small sniff.
Nick turned to his white board, wrote something and handed the board to Kevin. Kevin slowly read it, "You got record deals coming to the concert don't you Joeker."
"Kevin!" Joe said sounding insulted.
"Don't look at me Joe, he wrote it," Kevin said pointing to Nick.
"I can't believe you guys would think I would think about something like that when my baby brother has lost his voice," Joe said looking like felt hurt.
"Which one is it Joe?" Miley asked knowing the middle Jonas brother far to well.
"Hollywood records and they totally want to sign us!" Joe said braking into a smile.
Miley smile and giggled, Kevin shook his head and smiled, Nick leaned over to Joe like he was about to say something when Kevin stopped him.
"Oh no you don't Nick, use the pad," Kevin said handing the white board back to his brother.
Nick smiled as he slowly took the board from Kevin, and then quickly brought it around and whacked Joe in the arm with it.
"OW!" Joe said grabbing his shoulder.
"Couldn't have said it better myself," Kevin said as he gave Nick a high five.