Chapter 4

Demi's POV

I sat beside Joe in the car...well not really beside, seeing as he seemed to be trying to get as far away from me as he could. I looked up at Nick, who had his head resting back, eyes closed, bobbing his head to the beat of whatever song he was listening to. Kevin was gazing out the window, seemingly content. I turned back to Joe and who was frowning down at his phone, so I whipped out my beloved Blackberry and sent him a quick text. I saw him turn towards me with a confused look on his face, so I gestured towards Kevin and Nick, not wanting them to know there was something wrong. I pointed at his phone again, to indicate he should text me back, and he did,

Message from: Joe, The Cute, Funny One - Dems, you honestly did nothing wrong! :P Why do you think you need to fix something? :)

I glanced over at him and sighed, ok, there obviously was something wrong, I texted him back, taking some of my frustration out on my poor phone keys,

Message to: Joe, The Cute, Funny One - Because! You went all weird on me out in the hall...and Nick's doing his thing where he knows something he shouldn't and you're practically sitting on the door of the car in your attempt to stay as far the hell away from me as you possibly can! :( Joe, I'm sorry for whatever I did ok? :(

I heard Joe sigh heavily, but kept staring straight ahead. So I had absolutely no warning that Joe was moving towards me, until I felt his jeans brush against my bare thigh. I couldn't hold back a gasp as his smell invaded my senses. Joe's smell, there was no way to describe its affect on me, it made me want to get as close to him as possible and made me start thinking about him in ways that were nothing to do with us being best friends. I vaguely felt my phone buzz and realised that he must have text me back. But I was too distracted to even check.

"Demi," Joe breathed in my ear, leaving a trail of goosebumps behind. I snapped out of my trance and turned my head towards his. We were close, very close. I saw Joe's eyes flick down to my lips and I did the same to his. "I..." I opened my mouth to say something, but Joe cut me off, placing a gentle finger on my lips. He slowly removed his finger and I bit my lip as he moved even closer. We were so close now that our noses were practically touching, my brain was overloading, all that was going through my head was 'Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God, he's gonna kiss me!' I felt Joe reach out and caress my arm, leaving, yet another trail of goosebumps. His eyes were dark with desire and I moved by body closer, I was practically in his lap. I was sure he was going to kiss me when suddenly we were interrupted by a snort. I saw Joe's eyes widen as he seemed to come to his senses and we both jumped apart.

At the same time, we both swung in the direction of the noise and saw that Kevin was sleeping peacefully, obviously having snorted in his sleep. I turned to look at Joe whose look of alarm had changed to one of relief, matching my own. I quickly checked on Nick, only to see he was still deeply engrossed in his music, his eyes still tightly closed.

I started to process what had just happened, then realised that I wasn't in any state to and instead, pulled back out my Blackberry, tweeted, then shut my eyes and tried to rest, smiling as I felt Joe move closer so that our thighs were touching again.

Joe's POV

'Shit!' I thought, 'Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Damn Kevin and his stupid dreams!' I was so close to kissing her! And I'm pretty sure she wanted to kiss me too. I felt my eyes fall on her, seeing her relaxing like that made me smile. I looked her up and down, enjoying the way her black skirt rode up her tan thighs and that her purple top dipped just low enough to give me a teasing view of her cleavage. I heard Nick tut and turned to look at him, he winked at me and mouthed "caught you checkin her out' and wiggled his eyebrows at me. I just smirked and shifted closer to her so that we were touching again. I heard her sigh contentedly, and I turned to smirk at Nick, who just raised his eyebrows in an amused manor.

I felt my phone buzz and saw I had another twitter update from Demi,

Twitter Update from ddlovato - I seriously love my besties, the jonasbrothers :D You guys are the best!

I smiled as I read it, then logged into our Jonas Brothers twitter account and tweeted,

jonasbrothers - ddlovato we seriously love you too, Guurrrlll :D Besties for life :P xxx

I smiled to myself, knowing that Demi would probably reply when we were back at the hotel and that would probably start up a 'jemi/nemi frenzy'. I was glad that Nick considered Demi as a friend only, and she considered him a brother. I really had no idea what I would do if 'Nemi' ever happened! I sighed and closed my eyes, shaking the thoughts from my head. I started to fall asleep, dreaming about 'Jemi'.

Demi woke up suddenly and looking out the window, realised that the car was back at the hotel. She saw the mountain of paparazzi outside, flashing their cameras already, though no one had exited the car. The flashes must have been what had woken her up. She looked around to see that all three boys were still fast asleep, she knew they were heavy sleepers, she'd had to try and wake them up enough times to know that. She decided to try Joe first as he took the longest to wake. She slid towards him, 'God, he looked so adorably sexy when he was asleep', she thought. Then mentally chided herself, 'no, Demi, bad Demi, best friend...NOT boyfriend'

"Having fun?" Demi turned sharply to see Nick, who had either been finally woken by the paparazzi, or had never really been asleep, snickering at her. "Eh, y-yeah," she stuttered out, "I was just trying to figure out how to wake him up, for your information!"

Nick snorted derisively, "Sure, Dems, suurrrrreeee," he winked at her and she just stuck her tongue out at him, "Shut up and wake your brother," she muttered, pointing to Kevin before turning back to Joe. She reached out to caress his cheek, then remembered that Nick was probably watching, so instead, she placed a hand on his shoulder and shook it lightly, "Joe," she said softly, "Joe, you gotta wake up, were at the hotel."

Joe muttered softly and tried to turn away, Demi was getting impatient now and shook Joe a little harder, "C'mon Joe," she said louder. His eyes flew open, and Demi's impatience flew out the window when she saw that confusion in his eyes. He reached out to grab her hand and brought it to his cheek, he rubbed his stubble against her hand and Demi couldn't hold back a moan. His eyes flew wide open and they both wheeled round to look at Nick and Kevin, who had missed what just happened, 'thankfully!' Demi thought.

Kevin was scolding Nick and holding his cheek, obviously Nick had decided, unlike Demi, that it would be best to wake Kevin up as quickly as possible...in the least gentle way possible, by poking him in his cheek.

Demi turned to look back at Joe and felt her cheeks heat up with embarrassment as he looked at her with a pondering expression on his face. She cleared her throat to get Kevin and Nick's attention and purposely turned towards the door, making sure they were ready, before opening it. She stood out and was blinded by the flashes and deafened by the hundreds of questions being hurled at her.

No matter how many times this happened, Demi would never be able to get used to this, she felt herself shrink back against the car, a terrified expression on her face. She couldn't see or hear anything but the flashes and thousands of words being thrown around, there was no way forward, they had formed a wall around her, trapping her against the car.

Suddenly, she felt an arm wrap itself around her waist and she tensed up, until she heard Joe's voice mutter in her ear, "S'ok, Dems, I gotcha."

She turned her head to look at him, but she still couldn't see anything because of the flashes, Joe seemed to sense this, pulled her closer and started to lead the way towards the hotel lobby. They got to a place where there was less paparazzi, but there was still plenty around. She sensed Nick come up behind them and place a hand on her back and saw Kevin move in front of her, the Jonas boys were effectively forming a bubble around her, to protect her. She felt Joe's arm loosen around her waist and she clutched at it, whimpering, "Don't let go, please!" she begged. He saw Joe shoot her a concerned look and once again tighten his grip on her waist. She leaned into him and sighed with relief once they reached the lobby, where there were no paparazzi allowed.

Joe's POV

I opened my eyes a crack, trying to gatherwhere I was and what had woken me up. I saw Demi's face soften as I looked at her in confusion, ah, she had woken me up. Her hand was still on my shoulder, so I reached down to bring it to my face. Don't ask me why, I have no idea why, but it just felt right. I rubbed my cheek against her hand, and felt a jolt go right through my body, as she let out a little moan, that moan made my little friend very happy! I mentally groaned, not again!

We both turned to see Nick and Kevin hadn't even noticed what had happened, 'Good,' I thought, 'that could have been awkward.' I turned to look at Demi again who was still gazing at my brothers with an amused smile on her face. Thoughts started running through my mind, about us, our friendship and what had been happening recently. She seemed just as attracted to me as I was to her. She turned towards me and blushed, then cleared her throat and turned towards the door. She threw a glance at her over her shoulder to check we were ready, then opened the door. The noise was deafening and there were thousands of flashes.

I mentally cursed myself for not going first, I was obviously still sleepy. I quickly scrambled towards the door and turned to look for Demi. She was cowering against the car and she look absolutely terrified. I felt my anger begin to build as I saw the bastards with cameras push closer and closer to her. Couldn't they see she needed space! I hurried towards her and slipped a hand around her waist, I felt her tense up so I bent down to reassure her. she relaxed and looked up at me, but I could tell by her expression that she couldn't see because of the flashes. I pulled her closer and began to push my way through the crowd, pulling Demi with me.

I stopped when we got to a pocket of air and turned to look for Nick and Kevin. I caught their eyes and nodded towards Demi, knowing they would understand. Kevin jogged over and stood in front of her, while Nick came up behind. I reluctantly started to retract my arm from her waist, until I felt her grab it and beg me not to let go. I happily pulled her close again, but I shot her a worried look all the same, she was really spooked. We reached the lobby and I felt, rather than heard Demi sigh with relief. She had her face buried in the side of my chest and she didn't seem to want to let go.

Kevin walked over to the reception desk to get our keys and I shot Nick a 'Help Me' look. He caught on and moved towards Demi, placing a hand on her shoulder, he gently shook her, "You ok there Dems." I felt her tense up when he touched her, but relax again when he spoke, but otherwise, she didn't respond. Nick shot me a 'You're On Your Own' look and with a quick "Sorry Dude," he hurried towards Kevin.

I cursed him, he was always useless with anything that was 'female weirdness' as he described it. I placed my other arm around Demi and pulled her into a tight hug. I could feel her shaking and my anger towards the paparazzi came steaming back. I muttered random words in her ear, trying to calm her down, and it seemed to be working. She stopped shaking and I saw Kevin and Nick gesture towards the lift, indicating that we should follow them up when Demi was ready.

Eventually, she pulled out of the hug and gave me a shakey smile, "Thank you," she said gratefully and i just smiled down at her, God she was cute. "No problem," I said brightly and then began to drag her towards the lift, "C'mon Dems," I whined, "I'm hungry!"

I heard her joyous laugh as we reached the closed lift doors and I pounded the button. I turned to smile at her, I loved when she laughed, and that was why I was acting like nothing had happened. If I thought about it too much, I might go back out a punch one of those paparazzi, and Disney would definitely NOT be happy with me then.

Hey guys, glad so many of you have favourited the story :) But I've still had no reviews :( *hint* *hint* ;) Anyway Really sorry that I haven't uploaded in AGESSSSS...but I've had a lot to do...hopefully this extra long chap makes up for it :D Hope you enjoy...R&R 3