Joe's pov

Math sucks, I thought to myself as I sat at my desk staring at my paper. I mean, the Pythagorean Theorem. Really? Ugh! I was staring at my paper when I heard a knock at the door. Everyone heads shot up as a small woman, probably 35, walk in the door. She whispered something to my teacher. She nodded in response and looked up at me.

"Joe, Julie, and Macy, please follow Ms. Avery to the clinic." Ms. Bourne said.

I looked over at Macy and Julie and noticed that they both had on the same bewildered expression that I did. We slowly stood up and walked towards the door.

The hallways were deserted since it was the middle of the period, except for one or two students at their lockers. After 30 seconds of walking in silence, Julie finally asked, "What's going on?"

"Nick's in the clinic. He's pretty banged up. He's in a lot of pain. Probably sprained some ribs but nothing too serious. He keeps asking for you three so I told him I would get you guys. That seemed to calm him down a bit." Ms. Avery replied.

My big brother instincts kicked in and I took off in a full out sprint down the hall and towards the clinic, leaving the others behind. After what seemed like hours, but was only seconds, I opened the door and saw Nick lying on a cot. He didn't look good. He had bad scratches all over his face and he was clutching his ribs. His eyes were closed and his breathing was rugged.

"Oh my god, Nicky, are you okay" I asked running over to him and running my fingers through his curls. That always calmed him down.

"Joe?" he whispered.

"Yeah, Nicky. It's me. I'm here." Just as I said that, Macy and Julie walked in. I looked over at them. Macy had a shocked expression on her face and Julie had a hand over her mouth, while trying to blink back tears.

"Nick, what happened to you?" Julie whispered as she walked over to Nicks other side. She stopped by the sink and grabbed a wet towel, holding it against Nicks head. You could tell her motherly instincts were kicking in.

"I don't know. One minute I was walking to the track with everyone else and the next thing I know, I'm rolling down that stupid hill. It hurt. Bad. There were rocks everywhere and with every hit, I could feel my ribs throbbing." Nick replied, hoarsely.

"So you just tripped?" Macy asked, skeptically

"Yeah, I guess so." Nick replied. I could tell there was something that he wasn't telling us.

"And that's all? There isn't something that you're not telling us?" I asked suspiciously.

"No, nothing else." He whispered.

"Okay, well let's get you home." I told him, as I picked him up bridal style and took him to the car. I decided to drop the discussion for now but later I'm going to talk to him and figure out what he isn't telling us. Macy and Julie followed me to my car. I threw Macy the keys as she sat down in the driver's seat. Julie and I sat in the back on either side of Nick as Macy began to drive.

Nicks POV:

I couldn't do it. I couldn't tell them about Tyler and Adam. It's probably not anything anyways. I'm probably just being paranoid. All I know right now is my ribs are throbbing and I just want to lie down.

Joe's POV:

As Macy pulled into our driveway, I noticed that Nick was asleep. It was only 10 AM, so we had the rest of the day to kill. I slowly got out of the car without waking Nick up. I picked him up once again and started walking to the door. I walked through the threshold and into the living room, almost tripping over the couch for the second time that day, and made it to Nick's room. I tucked him into his bed and joined Macy and Julie on the couch.

"So what are we going to do today? I have until 4o'clock, because of my soccer practice. You guys are still coming right?" Macy asked.

"Of course." I replied. "And Nick is coming too." Hopefully he will feel better. I was secretly excited to go to her soccer practice because I'm finally going to ask her out. I'm nervous that she might say no, though. Oh, well, may as well try.

"Okay cool. So what do we do until then?"

"Well, I bet I could kick both of your butts at guitar hero." Julie declared.

"Hahaha, no. Nobody can beat the awesomeness that is Joe Jonas." I cockily declared.

Macy and Julie rolled their eyes as they grabbed their guitars. We are all very competitive. We must have played 6 games before we got bored. Just as I had declared, nobody beat me. I was going to rub that in their faces later. It was only noon now and we were still bored

"Okay now what do we do?" I asked

"How about truth or dare?" We heard Nick reply from the top of the stairs.

"That's a good idea." Macy answered "How do you feel Nick?"

"Better. Can I go first?"

"Sure." We all sat down in a circle. "Okay, Jules, truth or dare?"

"Um, truth." She never picks dare. She is such a chicken.

"Shocker. Okay, who was your first kiss?"

"Brennan Johns in sixth grade." She answered quietly.

"No way! You never told me that!" Macy yelled.

"Well it was during a stupid game of spin the bottle and I didn't think that counted as my first kiss but whatever. Okay Macy, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"I dare you to drink mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, pickles, and hamburger all blended together in the blender."

"Ewww! That's disgusting! But I'm not going to pass up a dare so let's just get this over with."

We all filed in behind Julie into the kitchen. She grabbed all the ingredients and put them in the blender. When she was done she poured it into a cup. It looked so disgusting. It had turned out green. Macy plugged her nose and took sip after sip until it was finally gone. She looked like she was going to vomit.

"Okay, it's gone. That was so gross, Julie! I'm going upstairs to brush my teeth." She yelled, running up to Julie's room.

As soon as she was gone, we all busted out laughing and gave Julie high-fives. Macy came back down five minutes later.

"Okay Nick, truth or dare?" She asked him. Nick pondered that for a minute but decided to go with truth. Man, he's a wimp too! That's no fun.

"Nick, who do you have a crush on?"

"Miley, still." He quietly replied turning bright red. All of our mouths flew open. He still likes Miley? Wow. I never knew that.

"Okay, last but not least Joe. Truth or dare?" Nick said.

Why he even ask that. Of course I'm going to pick dare.

"Dare." I cockily replied. A smile spread across Nicks face. Oh god, this can't be good.

"I dare you to kiss Macy, on the mouth, for at least 5 seconds."

Uh-oh. I looked over at Macy and noticed that she was looking at me.

"Okay…" I slowly replied inching over to Macy. We got closer and closer, until our lips finally met. I swear, fireworks went off. Our five seconds were up and we pulled away each blushing.

Nick smiled. "Isn't Macy's soccer practice soon?" He asked us.

"Yeah it is. How do you feel?" Julie asked Nick worriedly.

"I feel better. My ribs still hurt a little." He said as he lifted up his shirt revealing bruises and scratches covering his whole stomach and chest area.

"Oh wow Nick. That must hurt. Come on little brother; let's go get you some ice while Macy goes to change in Julie's room."

"Alright." Nick replied as Macy ran upstairs. Ten minutes later, Macy came back down stairs. She had changed into a purple tank top, black soccer shorts, shin guards, socks, and cleats and had her hair in a ponytail. Even dressed down she looked beautiful.

She grabbed a water bottle, her soccer bag, which was also purple, and her soccer ball. We all headed out the door and started to walk, since the school wasn't that far away.

We were about halfway there when I heard myself ask, "Hey Macy, can I talk to you for a second?

"Sure." She replied.

I told Nick and Julie to go ahead as we stopped. I took a deep breath and began.

"Macy, ever since we first met, I have had a huge crush on you. I love your smile, your eyes, the way you laugh, your personality, everything. You have helped me through everything. I want to thank you for that and I wanted to ask you if you wanted to be my girlfriend." I asked her nervously.

She looked at me and smiled. "Joe, I have had a crush on you since we first met. I love everything about you too and I would love to be your girlfriend."

I smiled so big, I thought my face was going to fall off. I grabbed her hand as we ran to catch up with Julie and Nick. When we finally reached them, they looked up at us and smiled, "About time." Macy and I blushed but laughed. I was so happy that I hadn't noticed that we had reached the soccer field. Nick, Julie and I walked over to bleachers after we said bye to Macy and watched her.

Macy was fast. I had never known that about her. She ran an entire mile without stopping once and finished a minute ahead of everyone else. After they ran, they had to do some shooting drills. Macy could kick hard and accurate. I'm going to have to keep in mind never to make her mad. After shooting for 20 minutes, they did a scrimmage. Macy played center forward. Julie, Nick and I watched in amazement as she received the ball, dribbled through 4 defenders and scored a goal. We cheered loud. I was proud to call her my girlfriend. After her practice she ran over to us and jumped into my arms.

"You were amazing out there." I whispered.

"Thanks" she replied with a smile on her face. We walked back to our house. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful but I had another bad feeling about tomorrow.