Chapter Five: Burning Up
A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys! I'm using a JB song this time haha. Oh and before you read, there's quite a bit of Miley bashing so if you are offended by it then I'm sorry lol, I just got an idea with her disliking Miley, you'll see :). Oh and if any of you like Nicholas, which I'm sure you all do, then please check out my new story, Feels Like Tonight. I just want 5 reviews before I post again and I have two atm.
Disclaimer: Burning Up: Jonas Brothers, Inseparable: Jonas Brothers, and Shadow: Demi Lovato.
I'm hot, you're cold
You go around, like you know
Who I am, but you don't
You got me, on my toes
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The following week passed by effortlessly; while Vanessa was at school, Dani had decided to tag along with David to the set of Wizards of Waverly place. Vanessa rolled her eyes at the thought; those two were dangerous enough on their own, but add Selena into the equation and you can expect the apocalypse.
The once autumn weather had passed too soon for everyone's liking, and shifted into cold winter days; Vanessa's favorite kind of weather besides rain and snow, but she knew it rarely did any of the above in California.
Shifting her green Honda Element into park, Vanessa slid out of the seat and allowed her white and blue etnes to touch the concrete. She made her way to the trunk and pulled out her purple soccer ball decor blanket, the one that warmed her up during many soccer games back home, and trudged slowly towards the beach. She laid her blanket out and plopped on it, taking out her iPod out of her right denim pocket and thought about, for the hundredth time that week, what Joe had said a week prior. Vanessa then thought of what might happen if her and Kevin did get together; how would people react? Would they tell anyone? Would she be kicked out of the house at age seventeen? What would happen while he was away on tour where millions of girls threw themselves and lusted after him and his brothers while Vanessa was left behind in California; what would happen when she went to collage the following school year? Before she had time to formulate stupid answers to simple questions, she felt a weight pull the blanket down slightly. Vanessa whipped around to see just the person she was thinking about. Kevin smiled at her, lips closed, and pat the spot next to him for her to sit; Vanessa giggled silently to herself and scooted back to said sop. He gave her a side hug and left his arm around her waist loosely.
"Are you okay?"
Vanessa nodded with a small smile, "I am now."
He mimicked her nod, "If you need to talk or rant, you know I'll listen right?"
"Yeah but you being here is exactly what I need."
No more questions were asked; everything went silent except for the crash of the salty waves meeting the sandy shore.
I'm sinking into the lava
And I can't keep from going under
Baby you turn the temperature hotter
And I'm burning up, burning up
For you baby
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Early the next morning, Selena called Vanessa to wake her and Danielle up, and to let them know everyone was planning to get ready at her house; which meant that Vanessa had to attempt to tolerate both Miley and Demi.
A couple hours after the phone call, just as the girls were about to drive to Selena's, Mr. Henrie stopped his daughter. He looked much like David, except that he had blonde hair instead of the dark brown his son had, "How's Kevin?"
Vanessa turned around, an alarmed look etched onto her face, "He's good." Just as she turned around to open the car door, Mr. Henrie spoke again.
"Vanessa." He sighed, "I know your mothers tried to drill into your head that he's not good for you, but I know Kevin, he's got a good family and I know he's different; I just want you to know that I support you weather or not it's with him; I just want you to be happy."
"Thanks Dad, that uh means a lot to me." She mustered up what she thought was an appropriate response before taking a couple of steps forward and hugging him. She smiled up at him and kissed his cheek before walking back to her car so she could get to Selena's house before being yelled at by the host herself.
I fell (I fell), so fast (so fast)
Can't hold myself, back
High heels (high heels)
Red dress (red dress)
All by yourself, gotta impress
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Parking on the curb in front of the Gomez residence, Vanessa took in one last huge, perfume and un-Miley contaminated breath before leading Dani up to the front door and knocking. Selena came down, dressed in shorts and an old t-shirt, a grin stretched from cheek to cheek.
"Well it's about time you two got here! You're the last ones and are you aware this party starts in an hour?"
Dani laughed and answered for her and her best friend, "Yes we're aware and I think V here just wanted to avoid certain people for as long as she could."
Selena let out a short laugh before leading the duo up her way too long staircase and all the way to the end of second floor hallway, where Vanessa knew her room was. The door opened and she immediately cringed at the site of Selena's room, littered with various shoeboxes and dress covers, which looked more expensive then the dresses that each girl was trying on, which was at least ten girls; Miley, Demi, Emily Osment, Ashley Tisdale, and Vanessa Hudgens, to name a few. Vanessa figured Miley had invited most of these people without asking Selena, one of the many things that she disliked about her.
Dani laughed at the look on her face, "Dude relax, we only have to be here for a minimum of a half hour."
"And the actual party."
"And the actual party." She agreed, "but I'll stick with you as soon as lover boy crops up in the picture."
Vanessa sent her friend a glare and rolled her eyes, "He's not my lover boy." She and Dani moved towards Selena's bed and unzipped the dresses they had bought the previous weekend; her comment caused Dani to laugh.
"Like Jazz said, 'oh please, you don't see the way he looks at you', but this is obviously a touchy subject for you" Vanessa rolled her eyes again, which Dani paused to make a face at, which caused the blonde to laugh, "so what was your dad talking about?"
She cleared her throat and spoke in a voice that seemed masculine and deep enough to be her fathers, "How he supports me and Kevin and wants me to be happy, without him or with."
Miley, clearly eavesdropping, spoke up from where she was slipping on her yellow and brown dress, "Be careful of those Jonas boys, they can be hard to control." She winked at Vanessa, like a creepy 'I'm going to watch you sleep' wink and turned back to the rest of the girls, who were most likely gossiping about their 'flings', minus Selena, Emily and Demi.
Vanessa turned back to face Dani, with the same wide eyed expression as she had, and muttered, "I think she mistook herself for a Jonas."
"Gag me." Dani stated, which caused her to giggle, "Anyways, that's nice of your dad, since your mom's being a total fatore about the whole thing."
"Fatore?" Vanessa asked.
"Fat whore, urban dictionary."
"Oh my god your so weird." She laughed, "Yeah I guess it was nice, but nothing's going to happen since my mom's apparently a 'fatore' plus she, and probably the tweens who have posters of Kevin all over their walls, wouldn't exactly appreciate the age difference."
"Please Ness, age is only a number. Now be right back, I need to ask Em something, you think you can fend for yourself for two minutes?"
She laughed, "Yeah go have fun catching up on skateboarding."
Dani grinned and made her way towards the blonde on the opposite side of the room, dress in hand, while Vanessa started taking hers off the hanger. She examined it again with a small smile before shedding her pink fall out boy shirt and black basketball shorts in one motion along with pulling her dress up. Vanessa moved over towards a mirror and played with her hair slightly debating weather she should straighten in, when her favorite person moved to stand right behind her, trying to share the mirror.
"You should have put your makeup on before your dress, what if you spill something on it?" Miley asked in an innocent voice, too innocent, she thought.
"I don't need a pound unlike someone I know." She sent the small brunette a cheesy grin and started putting her eyeliner on her bottom eyelid.
"At least I don't go around with more than one Jonas Brother. I wonder what would happen if I told Kevin that the girl of his dreams was secretly hooking up with one of his brothers? I can see the look of distaste on his face now, with a hint of pain of course; what's that I hear? That would be his heart being thrown to the ground and stomped on."
Vanessa's eyes had narrowed, no way that mascara was going to be applied at that moment, and whipped around, "Listen here little Miss. know it all whore, I don't know where you get your information from, but it's completely false. And I wouldn't be talking, considering that you cheated on Nick twice with Cody and Thomas."
By this time, everyone in the room was silent, watching the two spit insults back and forth. Miley eyes were the size of Vanessa's now, if that was even possible for her, and hissed, "Just know that one person in this room betrayed you tonight."
Once she had turned away, Vanessa let out a small scream of frustration and turned around towards the door, swung it open, stomped out of Selena's room, fully knowing that everyone's eyes were on her back. Her vision had started to become clouded thanks to the pathetic tears that Miley had managed to squeeze out of her; to her Miley was that thing in your life that never seems to go away, no matter how much you tried to avoid it. She knew exactly what to do to cause a reaction out of her and fast; Vanessa wondered whom, if anyone had told Miley about her and Joe, considering the only people who knew were Jazz, Dani, and Selena. As she shook her hair out of her eyes, she ran into someone. Without taking notice to who it was, she tried to bypass them without being interrogated, but of course she didn't even have luck in that department. She felt a strong pair of arms wrap around her thin frame and automatically knew who it was, Joseph. Vanessa cried even more, her tears and makeup seeping into his nice purple button up shirt while Joe just rubbed her back, trying to calm her down.
Once he had reduced her to sniffling, he attempted to make her laugh, "Your lucky this shirts dark." He looked down to see her trying to fight a smile, which caused him to form his own grin, "Don't fight the smile Ness, you're prettier with one. Now tell me what happened."
"Miley." She mumbled into his chest, loud enough for him to hear.
"Yeah she would make me cry…if I was a girl that is, not saying that girls are whimpy because I think you could take me arm wrestling…but anyway what did she say?"
Vanessa laughed quietly and pulled away from his warm, hard chest for a second to reply to his question, "Someone told her about what happened between us Joe and she used it against me just cause I said she uses pounds of makeup."
"Ouch, so she can't take what's dished to her even if it's the truth? Weak man, weak." She laughed again, which Joe's smile grew wider at, "Now come on, you have a certain brother of mine to wow, so let's get you ready."
This was one of those moments where Vanessa thought about how lucky Reilly was to have Joseph.
I'm sinking into the lava
And I can't keep from going under
Baby you turn the temperature hotter
And I'm burning up, burning up
For you baby
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Joe stayed in the room with Vanessa, which made her roll her eyes; it was like she was breakable to him. She washed her face and reapplied her makeup in front of him, which made her extremely uncomfortable since it was many of her phobias. While she was in front of the mirror applying a small dash of eye shadow, Joe had decided to search around her purse for anything interesting. When she had finished, she turned around to face Joe, whose attention was elsewhere; on the small, rather personal, package that was now in between his index and middle finger. He wiggled it in front of her face with a grin on his face that Vanessa narrowed her eyes at.
"Joseph hasn't your mother ever told you it's rude to go though girls purses?'
He ignored her comment, just like he had his mother when she first told him that, "You can't even consider this a purse, it's more like a wallet it's so small."
"That's the point, it's small so it's not a lot of baggage." She laughed at the pun she had just created while Joe rolled his eyes, tampon forgotten. He stuffed it back into her purse and led her out of the room to the party.
"Thank god Kevin doesn't like you for your humor."
Walk in the room
All I can see is you
You're staring me down
I know you feel it too
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When Joe and Vanessa had finally come down for the party, it was in full swing. Various Disney stars from the summer, fall, and winter lineup were all compacted to Selena's backyard, along with the parents. Vanessa scanned the room for the one she was looking for and smiled; Kevin was on the opposite side of the garden from her, talking with Corbin Bleu. His black button down went with his dark blue skinny jeans; the dog tag around his neck caught the light and sparkled, just like the smile on his face.
"You've got something on the side of your mouth."
"Shut up Joseph." She snapped before abandoning him for Kevin. When she reached the eldest Jonas, she moved next to him, resisting the urge to reach out and grab his hand. She picked up bits and pieces of his and Corbin's conversation, which was about cars, the typical boy thing. Corbin looked away from Kevin for a second when he noticed Vanessa.
"Long time no see Henrie." This caught Kevin's attention; who looked next to him and noticed her. Corbin's arms were outstretched for a hug, which Vanessa accepted happily. Vanessa and him had met at the High School musical 2 premiere after party and had instantly clicked; he was like a big brother to her now, but there was a time where she had had a huge crush on him. But, as everyone knew now, that was obviously gone.
Vanessa returned to her place besides Kevin, "So how's the new CD? I need some new music on my iPod."
He shrugged and sent her a friendly smile before answering, "Almost done, it just needs to be mixed, which reminds me; when are you going to stop by and pick up your guitar?"
She could feel Kevin's eyes on her when she replied, "I'll try sometime after school this week."
Corbin nodded; "Sounds good, I'll catch up with you later." he left after that, making his way over to Zac Efron and the famous Vanessa, leaving Kevin and the not so famous one by themselves. They looked at each other and grinned; Kevin had taken her hands in his. While she played with his purity ring, Kevin moved closer to her, almost on top of her, and bent down to whispered in her ear, "You look amazing."
Vanessa shivered, his warm breath made its way down her neck; Kevin chuckled at her reaction and not being able to see her blush continued, "Would you like to dance?"
Kevin felt her nod, and kissed her forehead sweetly before leading her by the hand to the makeshift dance floor. He placed his hands carefully on Vanessa's waist, while she laced her arms around his neck. The smooth ballad flowed out of the various speakers scattered around the ward as the other couples joined them on the makeshift floor. As the song progressed, Kevin's hands tentatively slid from her waist, to pulling her closer and resting on the small of her back. Vanessa rested her head on his chest, and way too soon, the song had ended and everyone but them had moved when the next song came on, which Vanessa knew well, and started singing, "What day is it? And in what month? / This clock never seemed so alive / I can't keep up and I can't back down / I've been losing so much time"
He looked down at Vanessa with a smile and swept her bangs out of her eyes. She looked up at him and smiled, tightening her grip around his neck and continued singing absentmindedly under her breath, "'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do / Nothing to lose / And it's you and me and all other people / And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you"
"Is singing your secret passion?"
Vanessa looked up at him again through her long eyelashes, thanks to the wonders of mascara, and chuckled, "Not really. I mean I love it and everything, but only as a hobby. The stage is the one place I'm afraid of."
He smirked, "Stage fright?"
Her crystal blue eyes widened as she nodded, "Oh yeah."
Kevin chuckled, before glancing up at the stage to see that they we're setting up for his brothers, Demi, and Miley, "So what is your secret passion then?"
Vanessa thought it over for a couple of seconds; she knew what her secret passion—her dream was—it was just that she didn't exactly know how to word it without freaking him, or any other boy for that matter, out. She sighed, giving herself an extra couple of seconds before starting, eyes closed "I want to have a family within the next five years, I mean not totally have one, but at least be married and pregnant; in that order too." Vanessa laughed nervously, the song almost over, and finished, "I guess I want that picket fence and a rose garden you guys talk about in that one song."
He nodded, absorbing what she had said and replied, "I want to be there too, in five years, I just haven't found the right girl yet." The last chords of the song rung out, bouncing off the bodies of every couple; Nick and Selena, Cody and Demi, Sabrina and Mark, David and Dani, even Frankie and Catie. Everyone pulled away from each other's grasps in their own time, Kevin and Vanessa last, before Joe placed a hand on Kevin's shoulder and dragged him 'backstage.' Vanessa rolled her eyes at Joe's eagerness to pull Kevin away from her when Joe was the one who helped her get ready to 'whoo' him. She then turned around and decided to see how Dani was doing.
"What's hangin?"
"What's gotten into you?" Dani snorted at her friends question before answering, "I've just been chillin with Mitchel and Emily the whole time, you know, us skaters gotta stick together."
Vanessa rolled her eyes, "So you haven't even danced once?"
Dani gave her a 'duh' look, "Uh no why would I? I don't dance." She then smacked herself in the forehead, realizing the horrible pun, while Vanessa giggled quietly.
"Aw come on, you could have danced with Jason." She nudged her friend in the elbow, her eyes in the direction of the blonde with the incredible surfer hair before turning back to Dani with a grin, "He's single!"
She laughed, "Uh no thank you, I'm leaving in a couple of days anyways and I'm so not hooking up with someone at a Disney Channel party, but you can."
Vanessa rolled her eyes, "Yeah no, I don't think any of the parents would approve."
"Well then why were you so willing to throw me into the fire?!"
"Because you're leaving in a couple of days." She retorted smartly, before turning towards the stage and enduring Miley Slutcyrus' performance. By the time the parents had come back, Demi's band was all set up on the stage ready to go. She herself got up onto the stage minutes later, grabbed the mic, took a deep breath, and started singing;
"Did you feel that breeze?
A tide of chills swept over me
It must of been from the brush of your hand
Pull me into your arms
A little closer baby
I wanna see you standing
Next to me
So take a walk with me,
But keep the pace down
I don't want this night to end
Can't we runaway together?
Passions taking over skies
Leaving sand behind for them to choke on
They'll try to speak
Negitively about us,
But they can't say another word
They'll realize,
Jealousy has taken over their minds
Tying to break us down
But what they don't know
Is it only makes us stronger."
Vanessa clapped politely while the parents and rest of the Disney kids clapped wildly, god knows why, and attempted to wait patiently for the boys to start performing. To occupy herself and hopefully pass the time quicker, Vanessa scanned the crowd for her older brother, and found him seconds later. Pushing through the crowd, she tapped him on the shoulder and matched his grin, "I saw you with Kev." he commented nonchalantly.
"Ew stalker much?"
David laughed and slung his around her shoulders in an attempt to give her a side hug, "No, just looking out for you; there's a difference." Vanessa nodded and before she could think up of a topic of conversation, David spoke again, "I also heard about what Miley said."
He looked down at his little sister to see her roll her eyes, "Oh please she's a waste of space."
David laughed, "That might be what you think, but a majority of the people here don't think that."
Vanessa again, rolled her eyes, "I know which sucks because she really is! If her parents weren't so childish and irresponsible, then maybe she would have some structure or be chained to her bed and be a nicer person, either one would work for me, though I prefer the chained to her bed, because then I wouldn't have too see those buckteeth from a mile away."
"Well if it's any consolation, I believe you."
She smiled, "And that's why I sometimes love having you as my big brother."
David laughed and kissed the top of her head, before turning to face the stage again; the boys had finally finished setting up and were coming onto the platform. Joe nodded his head a couple of times before Nick counted to three. Seconds later, the melody of one of Vanessa's songs by them started, quickly followed by Nick's deeper, but still slightly congested voice, singing the first verse.
"Take my hand tonight
We can run so far
We can change the world to anything we want
We can talk for hours just staring at the stars
They shine down to show us
That,"
Joe cut in, singing the chorus, bumping Nick to backup as well as Kevin:
"you know when the sun forgets to shine
I'll be there to hold you through the night
And we'll be running so fast we can fly tonight
And even when we're miles and miles apart
You're still holding all of my heart
I promise it will never be dark
I know we're inseparable,"
As the second verse started, Nick was back to singing the main part:
"We could run forever if you wanted to
And I would not get tired
Because I'd be with you
I keep singing this song until the very end
We have done all these things,"
The boys sang though through the chorus again before both Joe and Nick sang the bridge, each taking a different line:
"I would give it all
Never let you fall
Cause you know we're inseparable
I would give it all
Just to show you I'm in love
Cause you know we're inseparable"
They finished it out, all three of them repeating the chorus before fading into the next song, which was also their current single, Burning Up. Vanessa, along with the rest of the crowd, was bopping her head along with the melody, thinking about the bridge in Inseparable. And after finally putting all the pieces together, she figured out the perfect present to give to Kevin for Christmas.
Too bad she didn't know weather or not he was on the same wavelength.
I'm sinking into the lava
And I can't keep from going under
Baby you turn the temperature hotter
And I'm burning up, burning up
For you baby
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A/N: WHOO done! Sorry, I totally thought I would have this all done by next Wednesday, but I obviously didn't. Again, my apologies, but yeah maybe you guys will figure out what she's giving him for Christmas, we're fast-forwarding to then, you'll see why when I get that chapter up. Anyways, read and review, they made me smile! I personally replied to all of the review, at least I think so, and if I didn't let me know.
Again please check out Feels Like Tonight, if you have a chance :). Thanks guys and girls :D.