Chapter Three: We Can Go Anywhere

A/N: Reviews make me smile so please leave me another one after you finish this chapter :). I got tickets to the summer tour; 17th row Nick's side yeahyeah! They go on sale to the public Saturday and sell hella fast so make sure you get yours asap! Anywho, hope you like this chapter :).

Disclaimer: We Can Go Anywhere: Jesse McCartney.

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Slow down, things have been a little crazy
Right now, it's time to get away
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Vanessa's POV

Sunlight poured though the curtain less windows when I opened my eyes the next morning. I looked around frantically trying to figure out where I was, but when I turned around a sleeping Kevin Jonas caught my eye. Looking at him sleep, his chest moving up and down as smooth as the breaths he was taking, I automatically felt a wave of calm come over me; his straight hair was sticking up randomly and his mouth was open slightly causing him to let out small snores. I looked at him a little longer and giggled when he let out a small snort and wrinkled his nose. Turning my attention to the DVD player, I noticed that the small digital clock on it read 8:30 and I sighed and leaned back against Kevin (I think I was too sleepy to notice that I was sleeping on top of Kevin Jonas, and not in that way) and drifted back to sleep.

When I awoke at what I thought was only five minutes later to something vibrating under my back, I let out a small groan and tried to go back to sleep. I soon felt Kevin's hand lift me up carefully and the other reach into his pocket and pull his phone.

"Kevin Paul Jonas II where are you?" I heard someone scold on the other end of the phone, the person I guessed was his dad. I opened one of my eyes to see that he had the phone about half a foot away from his ear, which caused me to laugh. His attention turned towards me and he winked before answering the phone.

"I'm at Vanessa's house dad, I just fell asleep last night, it was an accident and it won't happen again."

I heard his dad pass the phone to someone who seemed to be a little calmer than his father, a little, being the operative phrase, "Kevin honey is Frankie okay?"

He sighed and sat up more and I lifted myself off of him and shifted myself to face him instead, "Yes mom he's fine, we're both fine I just fell asleep."

His dad then came back onto the line, "We want you and Frank home immediately. No detours, no stalling, or getting lost. Your mother and I want to have a chat with you when you get back."

Kevin nodded and once he exchanged his goodbyes, hung up the phone. He then looked at me with an apologetic smile, "Sorry about that."

I shrugged and joked, "I guess the chances of them having me baby-sit again are one in a million."

He laughed, "Not if Frankie has anything to say about it. Plus I don't think my family wants to see me sad."

"And why would you be sad?"

"Simple, because it would be extremely hard to see you again." He looked at me and gave me a gentle smile, that and his compliment caused me to blush slightly, and I had a feeling I knew where this was turning, "And this would be the 'no stalling' rule my dad told me about." I laughed as I got up and held my hand out for him to take so I could help him up, and he took his thankfully but didn't let go as I led him up the stairs. I'm guessing he didn't really need help getting up.

When we reached Catie's room, his eyes widened at her almost Jonafied door which caused me to laugh quietly. I opened the door slightly and saw that Selena, Catie, and Frankie were all curled up on her bright pink bed. I led Kevin in and while he went over to wake up Frankie I went to wake up Catie by kissing her forehead. Her eyes opened slowly and I whispered, "Frankie's leaving sweetie, I thought I would get you up so you could say goodbye."

She gave me a sleepy smile and whispered back in that not really a whisper little kid voice, "What about Selena?"

I shrugged and took her hand, helping her off the bed, "We can leave her be, she's a big girl after all." Catie nodded and we headed to the door where Kevin and Frankie had been waiting for us and when we got to them they led us out of the room all the way down to my front door, where Catie and Frankie had decided to say cute little seven year old goodbyes…leaving me and Kevin to a conversation of our own.

"Here's hoping that you won't be grounded."

He laughed, "There's not much to take away while your on tour since you wake up early, have an interview somewhere, then go eat, a photo shoot, a sound check and then finally a show. Late nights and early mornings but I wouldn't change it for the world."

I took in what he said and was in awe, I wished that I had the ability to share my passion with the world like he did, but I knew that that would probably never happen, probably.

"What about you Miss. Henrie, got a secret passion?" His voice broke my thoughts and I smiled.

"Maybe I'll tell you the next time I see you, if I do and if you're lucky."

"I'll see you again." Kevin smiled and leaned towards me, slowly, and kissed my cheek lightly. I could already feel the small blush creep onto my cheeks when he turned his back and walked out the door, leading Frankie behind him by the hand. When they got into his car, he gave me a small wave before putting the keys into the ignition and driving away sooner than I wanted them too.
--You can find out, what it is you're really after
Time is on our side, come on we're leaving everything behind
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Third Person POV

The second hand inched towards each tick slower, at least in Vanessa's opinion. She turned her attention away from the turtle paced clock towards her turtle looking teacher. It had been almost two months since Vanessa and Kevin had last seen each other, bit it didn't mean they had forgotten one another. Since his departure, they had been texting or talking on the phone non-stop, much to Mrs. Henrie's disapproval. It wasn't that she thought that Kevin wasn't a nice boy, it was his Hollywood status and his age, her and Vanessa have had many arguments about 'what boys his age want' and since their first argument about the subject, they've barley talked.

Vanessa's focus was directed to her phone when she felt it vibrate in her pocket. She immediately set her pen down and pulled it out; she smiled when she saw who it was from,

Hey Pretty Girl, just wanted to let you know that were heading west and that we'll be there by the end of the week. I hope your days going well!

-Mufasa

Just as she was about to text Kevin back, her teachers monotone voice barked at her, "Henrie, main office."

Startled and scared, Vanessa quickly grabbed her stuff and made her way to the main office. As she pulled the door open to the small waiting area of the office, her eyes widened at the person who was standing no more than three feet away from her and her lips went from a frown to a grin. She tried to contain her excitement as she stepped up to the secretary's desk, who was filling out her early dismissal form.

"Ms. Henrie next time you plan to leave early please have turned in a note the day before. I'll be calling home to let you're parents know because I know how you kids are; have a nice weekend."

Vanessa took the form from the secretary, nodded, and followed her ride out the main doors of the school. Once they had gotten to the back parking lot, she jumped onto their back and ruffled their straight, dark brown hair with a grin, "Kevin Jonas you dirty liar."

He laughed and hoisted Vanessa securely on his back and held her legs so that he was giving her a piggyback ride to his car, "It's great to see you too Pretty Girl." During one of their various text message conversations, Kevin and Vanessa had come up with nicknames for each other, Kevin was Mufasa after the infamous rap Catie had shown her while Vanessa's nickname from him was Pretty Girl, partly after her favorite song by Sugarcult and partly after the fact that Kevin thought she was pretty, but that small hope Vanessa had well since pushed to the back of her mind.

"You said you would be here by the end of the week, not five minutes."

Kevin smiled and let her slide down off of his back and unlocked his car, "You know it's not too late to bring you back in." He slid into the front seat of his car before leaning over and opening her door, which she thanked him for, and hopped in next to him.

"You haven't seen me for two months and you want to lock me up in that place?" I'm feelin the love."

He laughed as he turned around in his seat to make sure the coast was clear so that he could back out smoothly, "Just like my greeting was 'Kevin Jonas you dirty liar!'" Kevin mimicked her voice as they turned out of school grounds and chanced a glance her way, and saw that she was sliding her blue ray bans over her big brown eyes and while she wasn't looking at him, he observed her appearance; she was wearing a jean skirt with brown flip-flops and a nice brown floral, flowing tank top with a rib cropped white sweater. Her hair looked as though she had just come out of a beauty salon, her bangs over her white eyes while her blonde locks fell down to about her shoulder blades.

Kevin's view had been obscured thanks to Vanessa's hand waving in his face, "Earth to Mufasa! I just totally burned you!"

He shook his head and smiled, "Well I guess I'll let you win this time, since I know you stink at burns most of the time."

Vanessa stuck her tongue out at me as a response and I, of course, called her out on it, "See that's exactly what I mean."

"Shut up 'King of the land'" Vanessa whacked him playfully on the arm and used air quotes around the phrase 'King of the land' and continued, "So where are we going anyways?"

Kevin looked over at her with a thousand watt smile on his face as he pulled into a parking lot, "The beach."

She gave him a 'duh' look, "Uh, hate to break it to you, but I don't have a bathing suit and I don't plan on swimming naked in the Pacific Ocean."

"Exactly why we're parked in front of a surf shop." He stated simply, a grin lighting up his face as he slipped on his own pair of sunglasses. Once they had both gotten out of the car, he locked it and led Vanessa into what looked like a family owned surf shack.

Just as the duo was coming up to the counter to pay, Vanessa started grinning like a maniac, "Jazz!" She made her way over to a petite girl who looked around her age and hugged her while Kevin stood back a foot or so.

"Ness what are you doing out here? It's been so long." They mutually pulled away from the hug but the smiles never left their faces.

"I moved out here two months ago with my mom since she remarried, shocker." She said the last part sarcastically. Jazz and Vanessa had known each other for a couple of years until Jazz had moved out to go to UCLA for collage; she was a freshman there.

Jazz rolled her eyes and looked a couple of inches behind her to Kevin, "And who's this? Boyfriend already?"

Both Kevin and Vanessa let out an awkward laugh, but not awkward enough for her to notice, "Uhm no this is one of my best friends, Kevin Jonas."

Her eyes widened, "Oh you're in that band of brothers!" Kevin nodded with a smile and shook hands with Jazz, not really knowing what else to say, and thankfully he didn't have to because she had something more to say. Jazz pulled an extremely tall guy who was working at the opposite register by the hand and grinned from cheek to cheek, "This is Robert, my boyfriend."

Everyone shook hands and once Jazz and Vanessa had arranged a time and date to meet, they parted ways, Jazz and Robert for the beach while Vanessa went into a changing room, Kevin waiting outside it for her.

"So how do you know her?" He asked.

Vanessa replied as she was leafing through the plastic bag that held her Vanessa had finally settled on a pink and brown floral pattered two piece, much to her displeasure which Kevin paid for, despite her protests against him doing so, "We went to school together back in Massachusetts, she's a year ahead of me, and we were really good friends, still are but I just hadn't seen her in while, you know."

He nodded understanding what she meant when they walked across the street to the beach since it was across the way, "So how come your home? I mean not that it's bad, but I kind of didn't expect to see you until early December."

Kevin laughed, "The tours over, I mean as much as Joe, Nick, and I love having the ability to live out our dream everyday, it can sometimes be a long road to home, you know? And all three of us definitely need the rest."

"Well tell everyone I say hi."

He nodded, "You can do that because you'll hopefully be coming over for dinner tonight."

Vanessa looked up at him with a grin on her face, "That sounds fun; I'd like that."

Kevin's grin matched hers, "Good because I don't think my mom was going to take no as an answer." Vanessa laughed at his comment before lying out the towel Kevin had given her from the trunk of his car, while Kevin proceeded to do the same. Once they had finished with their towels, they took of their respective articles of clothing and set them neatly down on the towels; then both teens looked at each other with matching smirks and raced each other into the water. Vanessa watched Kevin dive in head first and come up for air no more thank five seconds later and hake his head like a dog, which caused her to let out a small giggle while she tiptoed cautiously around the ocean; she loved it so much but at the same time was so scared of what lied at the bottom. Kevin submerged himself again and before she knew it, he had grabbed her by her hands, which we're under water, and dragged the rest of her body under.

When they had come up for air, Vanessa narrowed her eyes at him, "Kevin Jonas you are so dead."

He laughed at her facial expression; her nose was scrunched up and her lips had formed into a pout while her eyes were still narrowed, but before he could dodge it, Vanessa had splashed him. He shook his head again and wiped his eyes to see that she was now smirking.

"Hate to break it to you pretty girl, but I was already wet."

Her face formed a pout again, "You can't let me win just once?"

"Now what's the fun in that? Besides, I let you and your 'amazing' burn take the prize on the way here."

Vanessa poked her tongue out at him before diving underwater without help from him this time. Kevin waited for her to come back up before saying something about her constantly poking her tongue out. When she finally came up, they both noticed how close they were to each other and he whispered, "You know if you keep poking your tongue out like that something might happen to it."

She let out a soft laugh, "Like what?"

"Like this." He put his thumb under Vanessa's chin and tilted her head up, and slowly they both leaned in until they we're centimeters apart when,

"Oh my god it's Kevin Jonas!" A girl screeched in the water, causing both him and Vanessa to jump apart, the later immediately turning bright red. Kevin's eyes widened at the sudden and extremely loud outburst and quickly took Vanessa by the hand as they both ran towards their stuff on the beach, the paparazzi and various fans suffocating them with things to sign and the flashes of cameras as they made their way to Kevin's car. Once they had safely got into his car, they pulled out of their parking space and endured a very awkward car ride towards the Jonas household.

You know that sun is shining
We'll keep driving
Doesn't matter where
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When the duo had finally pulled up to the Jonas household and Kevin had safely parked and locked the car, he apologized, "Sorry about everything."

Vanessa picked up what he meant by everything and she immediately shrunk back to the girl she used to be, the one who let people influence her decisions, the girl who functioned like a robot by day and lived in fear of her boyfriend by night; she felt like her life had automatically gone back to square one and her hopeful relationship with Kevin backtrack into the negative numbers. She tried to shrug it off as Kevin led her through the foyer of his house into the kitchen where Mrs. Jonas was just finishing up dinner.

"Hi Mom." Kevin went around their marble island and planted a quick kiss on his mom's check while Vanessa stood on the other side of the counter, caught up in what he had said.

"You're just in time." She looked up from the salad bowl, noticing Vanessa for the first time, "And you must be Vanessa." She held her hand out for Vanessa to shake, which she took lightly and nodded.

"Nice to meet you Mrs. Jonas."

"Please call me Denise" She noticed the blondes facial expression and immediately shooed Kevin out of the room to help his brother's set the table. Denise put down what she was doing and immediately came around the island and sat on one of the chair and pulled out the next one for Vanessa to sit on, which she did slowly, "I know we only just met Sweetie but if you ever need anything or just want to chat, then just bug one of the boys for my number or just talk to Kevin, but I'm getting the feeling the problem that I think you have, is with my eldest son."

Vanessa looked up at her and chuckled at her remark, "It's not about Kevin it's about boys in general."

Denise nodded, "Boys make mistakes, I've experienced that first hand, but then there are those boys that make mistakes and apologize for them, even if they don't regret that particular mistake, they only apologize because they don't want to lose your friendship and they're not sure how you feel. You have to show them that you don't want to be just friends," She rolled her eyes at the pun, "you have to show Kev—I mean the boy that you want them, not like that though, just that you do feel the same." She ended her advice with a small smile which Vanessa found comforting and trusting, just like Kevin's.

"It did a lot, thanks." She thought over what Denise had said in her head for a couple of moments until she heard footsteps from behind her. Vanessa swiveled around in her seat and came face to face with the rest of the band, immediately causing a huge grin to replace the pensive look on her face. Joe's grin matched hers as she got out of her chair and hugged him tight.

Before letting go he whispered something in her ear, "You wanna catch up later?"

Vanessa pulled away, still grinning and nodded before hugging Nick who hugged her back. She still stood by her belief that he was most definitely not fifteen. By the time they had caught up, Mrs. Jonas had called them all for dinner, causing Nick and Joe to sprint to the table, which Vanessa laughed at.

"Nesquick!" Frankie screamed when he saw her and immediately bolted towards her, hugging her legs so that she couldn't move.

"Hey Frank how are you?" She bent down to his level and smiled at him.

"I'm good, when can I see Catie again?"

Vanessa laughed, "Maybe sometime this week if you're allowed."

Frankie grinned at her as a reply and led Vanessa to her seat in between him and Kevin and across from Joe. Once everyone at the table had settled in and filled their plates with food, conversation started rolling from every which way. The only two people who weren't talking we're Nick and Vanessa. Nick looked up at her and gave her a questioning look to which she returned a smile. He shrugged and dug into his mashed potatoes, hunching slightly, even rock stars can have bad posture, she thought to herself, and continued to keep to herself until Mr. Jonas spoke.

"So tell us about yourself Vanessa. I never knew David had any siblings."

She looked up at Mr. Jonas and nodded, "He doesn't really like to tell anyone, it's a sibling rivalry kind of thing."

"You don't really have a good relationship with your siblings?"

Vanessa winced at his wording and Kevin noticed, and when he was about to stop his dad from saying anything more, Vanessa replied, "I do, but with David it's more like I have a second dad, he gives me all this advice and I wouldn't be surprised if I heard he's been scarring boys away from me."

"Except for one." Joe coughed out, which caused his brother next to him to snicker and his mom to give him a stern look. Both Mr. Jonas a Frankie missed his comment while Kevin and Vanessa blushed slightly, which caused Joe to again, make things even more…

"Awkward." He called out lightly.

'Cause we got that open highway, leading our way
As long as you are there, we can go anywhere
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After barley surviving dinner, Vanessa helped Joe clear the table, since he caused the 'ruckus' as Denise put it, and she felt bad that he would have had to clear it all by himself, plus she was going to hang out with Joe anyways, Kevin wanted to talk to Nick about something, he didn't really tell her, so she just decided that it was the perfect time to talk with Joe. And in couple of minutes, her world was going to be flipped upside down. Once they had finished clearing in silence, he led her upstairs to his room. While Joe lied down on his bed, Vanessa took his decor; his walls were a darkish green, but not light enough to not darken the room, he had a big twin bed in the middle of his room up against the wall, and his dressers were covered with random nick knacks and various articles of clothing…weather they we're clean or dirty she wasn't sure. He had a TV on the dresser straight across from his bed and what looked like the 'instruments' to rock band in one corner, and the game system in the opposite corner. Vanessa heard a movement and looked towards him to see that he was patting the place next to him. She walked over and lied down next to him and turned on her side to face him with a small smile.

"So what's going on in the famous Joe Jonas' world?"

He laughed, "I get to catch up on my sleep, work on the next album, and go to yet another Disney party."

"Oh very glamorous." Vanessa commented, "Meanwhile I get to be stuck inside a smell building with bad food for 180 days of my life, joy."

"Except for today, your prince charming came and rescued you."

She snorted, "Yeah and that ended well." Joe gave her a quizzical look which Vanessa rolled her eyes at with a small smile, and retold her entire afternoon from the text message from Kevin all the way to the awkward car ride back to his house. Joe sat there, not interrupting her and observed her features. Her hair was still curly, but probably not as curly as it was when his brother had first picked her up from school, and her eyeliner had smudged slightly, but you could tell that it was almost gone. Joe studied her lips, and how she licked them occasionally as his eyes wandered down to her neck; he noticed that she was very bony, but petite at the same time, kind of like Nick. His eyes traveled back to her neck, spotting a birthmark that looked just like the one on Kevin's neck and back up to her lips, and without any hesitation, without thinking it through, he leaned towards her and pressed his lips against hers lightly. Vanessa's eyes widened at the gesture, but closed and before she knew it, she responded to his kiss. She moved towards him more as he draped his arm around her hips, his hand pressing her closer to him. He opened his mouth slightly and in matter of seconds, they started making out. After what seemed like forever, when in reality was only ten minutes, they mutually pulled apart for air. Vanessa's eyes widened at the image of what had almost happened with Kevin hours earlier. Shit, Kevin. She got up from her place abruptly and straightened herself out before turning back to Joe, whose eyes we're closed and was massaging his temple, his purity ring glistening in the light.

She spoke softy, "I think I should go." And with that, she turned her back on Joe, and without saying goodbye to anyone but Frankie, walked to the nearest public bus stop and was on her way home.

Breakdown, all the pressure that surrounds you
Allow it all to fade away, we can move on
Looking in the rear view mirror, wave goodbye
C'mon we're leaving everything behind
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A/N: OH SNAP! Bet you didn't expect that ;). Haha I came up with that today so hmm what'll happen when Kevin finds out? Or what if he doesn't at all? Review and you'll find out :D.