Hey everyone! I am back. My Aunt's house was fricken huge! It was way out in the country so it was really pretty out there too. Anways, here is chapter 19!! I know that everyone is very excited to read it. I am very proud of this chapter so I hope you guys like it!
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Disclaimer: I do not own the Jonas Brothers
Claimer: I own the fictional characters and the plot.
Brit's POV
Now that Jasmine knew everything (well almost everything) I felt totally relaxed. I was happy that I didn't have to lie to her anymore. Since we were so close I had always felt guilty about lying. Of course, the fact that she knew I was lying just showed that I should never do it again.
I was also happy that she didn't hate me. She had listened to my story and the boy's story, and had admitted that she probably would have done the same thing if she had been in my situation. She also forgave me about everything that had happened and promised not to tell anyone. We didn't want it to get out into public, yet.
After we had eaten our lunch we decided to hang out some more. The boys wanted to get to know Jasmine more and Jasmine wanted to talk with them more. She had even swapped her cell phone number with Peyton. They had become friends pretty quick.
"I know where we should go!" Joe shouted out as we made our way through the Olive Garden parking lot and over to their car. We all turned around to face him. "The park!" He announced and everyone just starred at him.
"Are you serious?" Kevin asked making everyone laugh but Joe. Joe glared at his older brother and flexed his muscles.
"I just thought that we could hang out and have fun." He said and everyone shrugged.
"Sounds fun," Peyton said making Joe smiled. He grabbed her hand and pulled her close to him. Everyone turned around and got into the car ignoring their little 'romantic moment'.
"The park it is." Kevin muttered and started the car up. A few minutes later Joe and Peyton got in and he pulled out of the parking space.
We found a park that was by a bike trial. It had taken us forever to find it, but it was totally worth it. This way we could hang out and goof around without Kevin, Joe, Nick, or Peyton being spotted.
It would have been a really weird sight. Six teenagers hanging out at a park that had monkey bars and slides, but it was really fun.
When we first pulled up I jumped out and headed straight for the monkey bars. When I was little I would always play on them and do tricks on them like flipping up on top of the bars and crawling around them, or doing them two at a time. Those were what I had considered great accomplishments at the time. I hadn't been on monkey bars in what seemed like forever and as I gripped them tightly and prepared to drop my feet from the latter all the memories came flooding back.
Finally I pushed my legs off and swung myself. I grabbed onto on bar and then another. After swinging to a few more bars I let go and dropped to the ground. My hands were burning because I hadn't done that in a long time.
"Hey Brittney!" I looked up from my hands to see Joe waving at me wildly.
"Yeah?" I said as I started to walk over to him and the others.
"We are about to play Cherry Drop, do you want to?" He asked and I nodded my head. "Okay, then you're it!" He shouted.
I sighed and closed my eyes. Then I counted to ten. I felt my way over to the jungle gym and scrambled up and onto it. Then I began to slowly make my way around once in a while saying 'cherry drop' and having them answer back 'no one's home'. Finally I heard a voice that seemed reasonably close to me. I turned and reached out my hand and grabbed someone's shirt. "Gotcha! Your it!" I shouted and opened my eyes. Nick looked back at me sadly.
"Fine, I guess it's my turn." He said and I watched as he jumped down to the ground and closed my eyes. I ran over to the slide and crawled on top of it. No one would ever think that I would be there.
Nick counted to ten and with his eyes closed got onto the jungle gym. He began to walk around waving his hands wildly in front of him so he wouldn't bump into him. "Cherry drop!"
"No one's home!" I answered automatically. He started for the slide and I let my self slip down a bit. He reached down but couldn't reach far enough, so he thought I wasn't there and walked away. A few minutes later he tagged Joe.
Joe was it for a long time. He was very clumsy when he had his eyes closed. He was always tripping and we were always able to get away from him. He would forget to say cherry drop because he was concentrating really hard on getting around with his eyes close. A little later everyone got bored and quit.
"I like summer way more than winter." Jasmine said to Peyton's question. "I just hate the cold."
We were sitting in a circle in the grass just talking about random stuff. At one point we had started to play truth or dare but we had gotten bored of that too.
I hooked a piece of my brown curly hair behind my ear and concentrated on pulling out the perfect piece of grass. After I found it I plucked it out and put my palms together. Then I put the piece of grass between my thumbs and put my mouth up to it. I blew softly and a loud high pitch sound came from it. I looked up to see everyone covering their ears. "Stop!" Jasmine screamed. I laughed, but stopped anyways and listened to the others carry on their conversations.
Suddenly I felt a shadow fall over me and I saw a pair of feet. I looked up to see Nick standing over me wearing a nervous expression. "Hey," He said trying to play cool. He stuck his hands in his front pockets.
"Hey," I replied staying sitting on the ground. I knew that the conversation was coming. I had been thinking about it almost the entire day. I had tried to push it out of my mind, but I still felt hurt. There were so many what ifs running through my mind that I thought I would burst.
"Um…Could I talk to you, alone?" He asked slowly. I hesitated before reluctantly nodding. A small smile of relief came onto his face and he stuck one hand out to help me up. I took it and he pulled me up. He stayed latched onto it and led me over to the swings.
I got on one of the swings and expected Nick to get on the one next to me. To my surprise he went behind me and started to push me on my lower back. We just stayed like that for a long time in silence. The only sound was the squeak of the swing as I went back and forth. My heart was pounding and I was starting to sweat. Why won't he just tell me all ready
"So…" He broke the silence and then sighed. "I guess you probably want me to talk about…what happened?" I let silence engulf us again.
"Uh, yes," I said my voice full of uncertainty. He made the whole thing seem like a bad thing. That was definitely not a good sign.
Nick cleared his throat a few times and started to push me a bit faster. I had a feeling that he was to nervous to actually start talking. We would never finish this conversation!
"Did you mean it?" I suddenly asked. I just wanted to get this out in the open. I was through playing games, I couldn't take it anymore.
"Mean what?" Nick asked clearly startled at my little outburst. I let out a frustrated sigh.
"What you said to me last night before you fell asleep!" Surprisingly it was easier to ask this when I wasn't facing him.
"Oh, right. Well, it's a long story, but I guess you were going to have to hear it some time or another." I closed my eyes for a second letting his words sink in. What could be so long about it? Either he liked me or not. Either way our relationship would be totally changed.
"See; when I first met you I did in fact feel sorry for you. You were being bullied and it seemed like your life was just shitty. I, being the gentlemen that I am, let you stay with us. At first I just thought that it would be that little thing and I would never see you again, but when I saw you at our concert that same night I knew that we were supposed to be friends.
"As we hung out and got to know each other better I stopped seeing you as the girl to feel sorry for. You were stronger than that. You were better than that! You're the girl that should have guys chasing after her. You are nice, and funny, and sweet, and beautiful."
I ducked my head a bit so that he couldn't see my face which was now bright red. No one had ever complimented me this much. No boy had ever complimented me! It was really embarrassing, but at the same time I really liked it.
"I loved being friends with you. You told me everything and I told you everything. We could just talk about anything and never be bored. I was really content with that."
Content with being friends? My heart seemed to skip a beat and a feeling of dread spread through my entire body. I wanted to block out what he was saying. That he doesn't feel that way about me. That he just likes us as friends and nothing more. But I couldn't.
"Then Joe came in." I turned to look at him with a confused expression on my face. "Remember that day when we went swimming in our pool?" I nodded. "Well, after Joe threw you in and then jumped in himself I saw you looking at him. Joe and Kevin weren't looking at you so it was just me who saw. You were basically ogling him. You were starring at him like he was the hottest thing you had ever seen and that you really wanted to kiss him. Instantly something just clicked in me. You had never looked at me like that. I guess it made me jealous."
He was jealous because I was checking Joe out? This was all so confusing. First he tells me that he liked us as just being friends, and now he tells me he was jealous of the way that I looked at Joe? This was a conversation that we needed to have face to face. I jumped off the swing and landed perfectly on my feet. Then I turned and walked over to Nick. I starred him deep in the eyes and waited for him to continue.
"That basically brings us all the way to your question." He said finally and I took a deep breath to calm my nerves.
"I guess it does." I replied breaking the eye contact between us as I looked down at my shoes.
"Every time I tried to talk to you it would get ruined. I didn't know exactly what to say. Last night, when I was almost asleep, I figured that it was the perfect moment. We were all alone and it looked as though no one would come bursting in…" He trialed off and I looked up at him. He still hadn't answered my question.
"What I said, I really mean. It wasn't just something that I said because I was tired. It's because I really do like you." My eyes widened and a smile spread onto my face. He really did like me!
"I like you too!" I said finally and he grinned back at me. He took both of my hands in his.
"I've liked you for a long time, but I just didn't know how to tell you. Now that I just did I have one more thing to say."
"What?" I asked my heart pounding.
"Do you want to be my girlfriend?" I almost let out a scream and I felt like fainting. I could not believe that this was happening. I had been dreaming about it for awhile and it was finally coming true.
"Of course!" I said feeling like I was going to burst because I was so excited.
Without saying anything Nick pulled me closer to him. He dropped my hands and put his arms around my waist. Our faces were inches a part. I felt his breath on my face. "Good." He said and then kissed me. It was a sweet kiss that made me melt.
"Finally!" I heard someone say and we pulled apart to see Joe standing there looking at us with a triumpanth grin on his face.
"Huh?" I asked him.
"You two are finally together! I have been waiting forever! Nick just couldn't get the guts to do it and now he did!" I rolled my eyes and Nick put his arm around my waist.
"Yep," He replied and led me back to the others with Joe ahead of us.
When we reached the others who were still sitting around in the circle they all looked up. Peyton immediately noticed Nick's arm around my waist.
"Did what I just think happen happened?" She asked. Nick and I both laughed.
"Well, if you are thinking that Nick asked me out and I said yes, then yes it did." Peyton let out a squeal. I glanced over at Jasmine who mouthed 'details later'. I nodded and watched as Peyton stood up and walked over to Nick.
"Aw, little Nicky is all grown up!" She ruffled his hair while I laughed at Nick who ducked his head away from her.
"Hey! I'm way more mature than mister I-can't-play-cherry-drop over there." He motioned over at Joe who was trying to put is tongue to his nose.
"You have a point." Peyton said with a laugh while rolling her eyes. She walked over to Joe and patted his head. "But he sure is entertaining." Everyone laughed and Joe stopped trying to touch his tongue to his nose.
"What?" He asked totally oblivious that we were just talking about him.
"Oh nothing," Peyton replied using her acting skills to lie.
Kevin dropped us off at home late that night. When we walked in we explained to my mom that they couldn't see us yesterday so they had hung out with us all today to make up for it. She just smiled and said that they were very nice to do us and made us go to bed. She didn't even make us go to school because she knew we would be very tired.
Jasmine and I were at home all alone because she was at work. We didn't really feel like going anywhere, so we just sat in my room watching TV and eating potato chips. I told her all about Nick asking me out and she just sat their and listened. Only when I was finished did she speak.
"Oh my Jonas he is so sweet and romantic! You are very lucky." I sighed and leaned my head against her shoulder.
"We're both lucky."
"Do you think they let me come over to there house?" Jasmine blurted out. I sat up and looked at her. She looked a bit nervous.
"Well, probably. I mean, now that they really know you and you know everything they'll let you." I said. Plus I would want her to come with me now. I would feel guilty knowing that she knew I was with the Jonas Brothers and that she couldn't come.
Jasmine let out a soft sigh of relief. "I'm not going to tell anyone about them. If we told people we might get used just so others could meet them, ya know?"
"Yeah, I know, but people are going to find out eventually. It's going to be hard going out with a Jonas Brother secretly. Someone's bound to see us together." I said calmly. I had been thinking about it the whole drive back.
"And when that day comes, I'll be here for you." Jasmine said and hugged me. I hugged her back and grinned.
"You know I'm going to tell people that you know them too."
"Really?" Jasmine asked and we let go of each other.
"Of course, you're my sister so I want you to experience this with me." I said and she grinned at me.
"I can't wait to see the looks on our friends' faces when they find out were friends with, and in your case dating, the Jonas Brothers." I laughed.
"I bet you they are all gonna freak out and call us right once they find out to get details." I took a handful of chips out of the bag and started to eat them one by one.
"Hopefully that day doesn't come soon."
Nick's POV
After we dropped the girls of we went home. I walked up to my bedroom changed into my dark blue plaid pajama pants. I brushed my teeth and laid down on my bed.
This whole day had been perfect, starting from the beginning when I woke up with Brittney in the arms to the ending when Brittney agreed to be my girlfriend. I was content and it didn't seem like anything could change that.
Suddenly I heard a knock on my door and I sat up. "Come in." I said and the door opened revealing Kevin and Joe. They walked in and sat down next to me.
"So, how did you do it? How did you ask her out? What did you say?" Joe asked so many questions that I just decided to answer the last one.
"I just told her basically everything. From when I first met her to then, and then I asked her out and she said yes." I said slowly a smile creeping onto my face as I relived it.
"Well little bro you finally have her. Congrats." Kevin said giving me a high five and then standing up and leaving.
"Yeah, congrats," Joe said and stood up. "Night." He said and headed for the hallway.
"Night," I replied and turned my light off. I lay back on my bed and starred up at the ceiling.
I finally had Brittney. She knew how I felt and she felt the same way. How could life get any better?
I am very sad to say that The Not So Cool Girl is over. It was really fun writing it and I am happy about all the reviews I have gotten considering this is my first fan fic! I hope you guys liked it.
I've decided that I am going to do a sequel. At first I didn't want to, but now that I have thought about it more it seems like a good idea. I'll post the summary for it in the next few days. Just note that you guys might not get the chapters as fast as you did for this one because I want to make them better and longer.
I love you guys and I hope you read the sequel!
-Brit