March 6, 2007
Miley had left for tour a few days ago, with Tish, Brandi, Braison, and Noah in tow. They were in Tennessee tonight, and they'd be picking up her Mamaw, who would be with them for the rest of the tour. She'd played two shows so far and was so happy about how everything was going. She still missed Nick, but at least now she was doing something with herself.
"Hey Miles, we're here!" Braison called to Miley who was in her bunk, resting. She tried to ignore him because she was tired; however, when she felt the bus stop, she was up immediately. She was so happy to be back home. She loved it here and sometimes she wished she could live here all the time.
It was a little chilly outside still, so Miley grabbed a jacket and pulled on her Uggs and walked down the stairs of the bus and out onto the pavement. She wrapped her arms around herself as she breathed the fresh, Tennessee air in.
"Come on now, don't get all sentimental!" Braison mocked and shoved her a little. She pounced at him as he was running away and landed on his back. He carried her over to the grass and finally collapsed and threw her on the ground next to him.
"Brais! I'm gonna get all dirty!" she yelled at him.
"So what. You're gonna take a shower before you do anything anyway!" he told her and grabbed a handful of grass and shoved it in her face.
"Gross!" she shrieked and got up to tackle him, but he was too fast and was up and away from her before she was even off the ground.
"I wanna play!" Noah yelled as she ran as quickly as she could down the stairs of the bus with out falling. Miley and Braison laughed at her as she ran over to them.
"Hey! Me too!" Brandi said as she came off the bus as well, mocking her little sister.
The four of them walked around outside for awhile, every now and then taking off in a sprint to catch another sibling. It wasn't long, though, until Tish called them all back onto the bus.
"Miley, you need to go take a shower. They want you to do a meet and greet before the show today instead of after, so you need to be getting ready. Brandi, I need you to watch Braison and Noah for awhile. I have to go get Mamaw," Tish told all of them as they were all sitting in the living room of the bus.
"That's fine. We can find something to do around here, can't we?" Brandi said and put an arm around Noah.
"We can sing!" Noah exclaimed and they all laughed.
"Oh great. It never stops does it?" Braison joked and looked up at his mom.
"It never does, baby, it never does," she said and kissed the top of his head. "I'll be back in a little bit. Miley, after you get out of the shower, they want you in hair and makeup at 4."
"Alright, Mom. Thanks!" Miley said and waved to her mom, along with her brother and sisters, as their mom walked out of the bus.
"Party time!" Braison yelled as the door shut and got up to play the air guitar. Brandi and Miley laughed at him.
"I don't think so, mister. Now you can stay out here and sing with me and Noey or you can go into Mom's room and call your girlfriend," Brandi teased with him.
"I don't have a girlfriend!" Braison defended as he blushed.
"Right. And I'm not Hannah Montana!" Miley joked with him and got up to get in the shower.
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"Dude, seriously! That's not even a word!" Kevin told Joe as they were sitting in their tour bus.
"Hyperventipalitate is SO a word!" Joe defended and Nick looked up from his notebook to listen to his brothers' argument.
"Hyperventilate is a word, and palpitate is a word, but that is not a word!" Kevin said.
"Nick, help me out here!" Joe begged as he turned around to his younger brother.
"Sorry, dude, I'm going to have to with Kevin on this one," Nick said and strummed his guitar a little.
"Ugh! This is so unfair!" Joe said and threw his arms up in the air before turning back to Nick. "What's the sum of 6 and 43 divided by 7?" he spit out.
"What? I don't know," Nick said, looking strangely at his brother.
"Exactly! You can't do math!" Joe pointed out.
"Okay, and?" Nick asked as he became even more confused.
"I can! I can do math and you can't!" Joe taunted. Nick rolled his eyes.
"Okay, well, you can do math and I can decipher between real and fake words. Awesome, Joseph!" Nick teased and held his hand up for a high five. Joe scowled at him.
"Whatever," Joe said and turned back to Kevin. "I'm just that cool that I can make up words like that."
"Sure," Kevin said and rolled his eyes, much like Nick had just done. "Come on, now eat my dust sucker!" he yelled as the car he was controlling on the screen screeched forward and left Joe's at a standstill.
"Not fair!" Joe yelled again and picked up his controller to try and beat Kevin. Nick chuckled lightly to himself and went back to his notebook.
After awhile of playing, Joe and Kevin got pretty bored with the game and were trying to decide what to do. They decided to figure out what Nick was writing.
"Whatcha doing?" Joe asked as he tried to discreetly hover over Nick. Kevin laughed at Joe's obvious attempt that was failing.
"Writing," Nick said and pulled his notebook shut.
"Writing, huh?" Kevin asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Yup," Nick replied, trying to get them to leave him alone.
"Can we see?" Joe asked.
"It's not done yet," Nick told them.
"Come one, we can help you with it," Kevin said and sat down on the couch next to Nick.
"Yeah, let us help," Joe halfway begged as he flopped himself on the other side of the couch.
"Fine, but I've got final say on this whole song," Nick told them. His brothers agreed and Nick started playing. "Okay, all I've really got is a verse, and the chorus. Bridge, too," he explained and his brothers laughed.
"So you pretty much have the whole song written?" Kevin asked.
"No. I can't come up with a good first verse. The one I have is going to have to be the second one. It just wouldn't make sense as the first," Nick said.
"Alright, well play it!" Joe told Nick and he began to sing.
"Small talk on IM, just one word sentences. It's cool we're just friends. And if I had my way, we'd talk and talk all day," Nick sang and his brothers smiled. They knew who it was about as soon as he opened his mouth to sing. Everything he did was about her, it seemed. "Everyone knows it's meant to be," he continued, "falling in love, just you and me, 'til the end of time, 'til I'm on her mind, it'll happen. I've been making lots of plans like a picket fence and a rose garden. I'll just keep on dreaming; but it's cool cause we're just friends," Nick finished and continued to play the melody on his guitar.
"Catchy," Kevin pointed out.
"What'd ya think?" Nick asked.
"I think you're head over heals for her," Joe said and laughed a little. Nick, for the first time that they had said something about Miley and him, didn't blush. He just smiled knowingly and let it go.
"There's more," Nick told them.
"Well…" Kevin said slowly and waited for Nick to sing it.
"Thinking about how, we're gonna say our vows; it's cool we're just friends. As she walks down the aisle, I see all my friends smile; cause now we're more than friends," Nick sang and then started in on the first few lines of the chorus before he stopped playing. Well?" Nick asked his brothers.
"You think you're going to marry her?" Joe asked bluntly.
"I don't know. I've never felt this way before. And I could live the rest of my life feeling this way," Nick told them.
"That's pretty bold, man," Kevin said and put an arm around him. "She's a cool girl, Nick. Don't let her go."
"I don't plan on it," Nick said and they chatted for a few minutes about her before Kevin and Joe helped Nick finish the song.
"Sounds like a hit," Joe remarked when they had finished it.
"Isn't everything?" Kevin joked. Their fame had been rising quite rapidly. It seemed like each show they went to there were more and more fans, who kept getting louder and louder.
"One can only hope," said Nick and put his guitar down. "I'm starving!"
"Me too. Kevin, make us some food," Joe commanded. Kevin looked at him like he was crazy.
"Fat chance," he said.
"Fine, Nick, go make us some food," Joe told his younger brother.
"Nice try," Nick laughed back. "I'll get my own food."
"But I'm hungry!" Joe whined.
"Then make your own food!" Kevin retorted and got up to use the bathroom. Nick and Joe were each in their little kitchen, looking for something to eat. Nick picked out some cereal and while he was pouring his milk, Joe grabbed a bag of chips and flopped on the couch. He turned on the TV and then the satellite. Nick sat down at the flip down table and started to eat his cereal.
"Hey, look who it is!" Joe exclaimed and pointed at the TV. Kevin was just walking out of the bathroom and "knocked" on Garbo's bunk, telling him to get up. They were almost to where they'd be stopping to set up the show in Arizona.
"Who?" Kevin asked until he heard the music coming from the TV.
"You get the limo out front, hottest styles, every shoe, every color!" blasted from the TV. Joe couldn't help himself and got up and started dancing and singing to it.
"Dude, that's so uncool," Nick told his brother and laughed at him.
"Hey, she's your girlfriend," Joe threw back at him.
"No one ever said she was my girlfriend," Nick explained.
"We talking about Miley?" Garbo asked as he came out of his bunk and ran his hand through his sleep-hair.
"Yes, and Nick's trying to tell us they aren't together," Kevin explained.
"Give it up, man. We all know it's true," Garbo said and sat down next to Nick.
"How is it true? I can't even see her!" Nick tried to explain. They all laughed at him.
"Yeah, but you call her every chance you get. And text all day," Kevin said.
"And?" Nick asked. "We are just, like, best friends."
"You wrote a song about marrying her," Joe deadpanned and Garbo's eyes got wide.
"You wrote a song about marrying her?" Garbo asked Nick. Nick blushed slightly.
"Maybe," he said softly. All the guys started laughing at him.
"Seriously, are you together?" Joe asked and everyone shut up and looked at Nick.
"Yes," Nick replied, still speaking softly.
"Oh my gosh! Since when?" Joe asked like a little girl. Nick and the rest of them halfway laughed at him for this.
"A while. Late January? When she came over to help me paint my room," Nick explained.
"Awesome, man!" said Garbo and gave him a high five.
"I knew it!" Joe screamed. "Kevin, I told you that they didn't just paint!"
"We did paint, Joe," Nick said, looking at his brother strangely.
"But you guys did other stuff, too!" Joe pointed out.
"Not really. We really were painting."
"How'd you ask her?" Kevin asked. He knew that Nick was dying to tell them anyway.
"We were painting separate walls," Nick started to say excitedly, "and I asked her how I was doing and she turned around and I had written 'Will you be my girlfriend?' on the wall."
"Smooth. And they say I'm the romantic one!" Kevin said and patted his younger brother on the back.
"Asking Kaila to be your valentine by filling her car with flowers and candy wasn't too bad on your part, though," Garbo pointed out. Kevin smiled thinking about his girl. They weren't exclusive, but it was getting there.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," Kevin said and went into the kitchen to get an energy bar.
"I'm romantic, too!" Joe whined. They all just looked at him and laughed slightly. "What?"
"Joe, writing AJ's name in her own yard with forks in the ground isn't exactly romantic," Nick told his brother.
"Hey! She liked it!" Joe defended.
"And only God knows why," Kevin said and laughed. Just then, Nick's phone went off.
"Miley alert!" Joe and Kevin both said at the same time.
"Shut up!" Nick yelled at them and answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey, what's up?" Miley asked him as Nick got up and walked to his bunk and shut the curtain. This was about as much privacy he got on the bus when his dad was sleeping in the back room.
"Not much, pretty girl. You?" he asked and smiled, because he could tell she was smiling as well.
"Same. I'm in hair and makeup right now," she explained.
"Hair and makeup? Don't you just put on a wig?" Nick laughed.
"It takes longer than you think," Miley said and giggled back. "So where are you guys tonight?"
"Phoenix. What about you?"
"Back in Tennessee. We're picking up my Mamaw today."
"That sounds like fun," Nick said and there was a short pause. "I told the guys about us."
"Really?" Miley asked excitedly.
"Yeah. They kept bothering me about it. And they won't say anything. It's nice to finally be able to tell someone, though."
"They didn't already know?"
"They did, just not officially."
"Oh," she paused. "I miss you."
"I miss you, too, babe. I hate that we're so far away."
"Me too. Where are you at for the next week or so?"
"Well Phoenix tonight, then Irvine, and San Francisco, and then onto North Carolina, Virginia; pretty much all of the New England states."
"So pretty much no chance of us meeting up anywhere, huh?" she asked.
"I guess not. But I'll be home soon and so will you. The time will fly!" he said, trying to cheer her up, and convince himself that it wasn't so bad.
"I hope so. When's your charity?"
"The 11th. It's in New York, so it will be good to be close to home. Jersey side, that is."
"Hmmmm," Miley said softly.
"What?" Nick asked, laughing at her a little.
"Oh, nothing. I was just looking at this umm, thing, in my, umm, room."
"Okay, whatever. So is Hannah going to have a good show tonight?" he asked. He thought it was funny to pretend Hannah was another person. Miley liked it, too, though.
"Of course she is!" Miley yelled into the phone. "She's having a meet and greet in about an hour."
"Those are always fun!" Nick said.
"Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's the first one I've been able to do since we've been on the road."
"What, Miley is doing a meet and greet? I thought Hannah was?" Nick laughed.
"Oh shut up!" Miley said playfully. "So who do you like better? Miley or Hannah?"
"We've had this conversation before."
"But I'm asking again. Miley or Hannah?"
"Hannah's fun and all. She's got some pretty cool clothes. But Miley's got everything else. She's got a great family, great friends, and an amazing boyfriend who loves her."
"You always know the right thing to say, don't you?"
"Oh yeah, you know me, Mr. Cool!" Nick said. He and Miley both laughed.
"Something like that. Well, they want me to get off the phone so they can finish my makeup," Miley told him. Nick was sad because he wanted to keep talking to her, even if it was really about nothing.
"Alright. Have a great show tonight, babe," he said softly. He knew his brothers were probably listening by now.
"You too, Nick. I can't wait until I can see you again and you can hug me," she said sadly.
"I can't wait for that either. Tell everyone I said hey!" he said.
"Oh yeah, tell everybody there I said to have a good show!" she exclaimed.
"Will do. Love you, Miles."
"Love you, too."
"Bye."
"Tootles!" Miley said and they both hung up the phone. Nick looked over at the wall in his bunk and saw the one picture he brought of Miley and himself. He looked at her face every night before he went to sleep. He missed her so much, but knew that this was his life now, the touring and being away from home, and as much as he loved it, he couldn't get used to being away from her.
Nick finally got out of his bunk to find Kevin and Garbo battling it out on Guitar Hero and Joe was watching. Nick quietly sat down next to Joe, hoping that they were all too consumed with the game.
"You refer to Hannah as a separate entity?" Kevin asked, not looking up from the game. Before Nick had a chance to respond, Garbo piped in.
"Amazing boyfriend who loves her?" Garbo asked, in a girly voice. Nick was about to speak up, until Joe started in.
"Babe? You call her babe?" Joe quipped. Poor Nick didn't really know what to do. So he just decided to be honest.
"The Hannah/Miley conflict is funny, Kev. Yes, I call her babe, and yes, I love her," Nick finally responded. Not once did the boys stop playing the game, but they heard him. "Just don't say anything about the relationship to anyone. We don't want this getting out or anything."
"You got it!" Kevin said.
"No problem, Mr. Cool," Joe joked and Nick punched him in the arm. "Hey! You're getting strong, little man.
"That or you are just a sissy," Nick laughed.
"I am most definitely not a sissy," Joe said and puffed his chest up to look 'manly' or something like that.
"Maybe not by your definition," Garbo said.
"I'm not by ANY definition," Joe replied, confident in himself.
"We should buy you a dictionary," Kevin said and they all laughed. Only a little while longer and they would be in Phoenix, getting ready for the show. Nick just wished Miley was there, and he was pretty sure she wanted the same thing.
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'Hannah' had done her sound check awhile earlier and was not just hanging out backstage, preparing to go on. The concert started in about half an hour, but it looked like all the seats were already full! Miley loved to play at concerts like these, where it was a huge group of fans who loved music and loved to sing and dance with their friends. That's what life's all about anyway, right?
Miley had her laptop out and was on the internet. They usually didn't get much of a signal on the bus (only sometimes) and she wanted to check her email and all her other accounts. And she just happened to also be looking up directions.
"Whatcha doin' Miles?" Brandi asked as she came and sat next to Miley on the couch.
"Just checking my stuff," Miley said, not taking her eyes off the screen.
"What could be that interesting?" Brandi asked. "What're you lookin' at?"
"When we get a break for a few days. We'll be in Virginia."
"We should go to the beach."
"I was thinking of something else," Miley said mischievously. Brandi nudged her a little to let her in on the plan. Miley told her and Brandi agreed that it would be a good idea. Now they just had to get it approved by their mom.
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Sorry so long on the wait for an update again guys. Things are just crazy right now. I know this chapter didn't have anything really important in it, but I needed a sort of filler chapter between the last one and Nick's diabetes charity. Review as always, please, and don't forget to answer this chapter's question! Love you guys! Thanks so much for reading!
Question: If you could date one of the JoBros, which one would it be and why? Like, why would you think you would be a good match for them and vice versa? Similarities? Differences? I just want to get some ideas. And I know these questions don't seem important, and they are mostly for fun, but I'm getting some good ideas for my story with them.