"Look, ok, I'm not supposed to say anything. Siv told me to drop it, but…"

"But what Nareesha?" I question, holding on tightly to the edge of the bench, waiting for the bad news, but it didn't come, rather the opposite actually.

"Nathan…He has a huge crush on you."

I sputtered for a few seconds while Nareesha looked up at me with a bright smile. "And you guys kept this a secret why?"

"I don't know, I guess we just figured it was up to you and Nathan to figure out."

"Yeah, but if neither of us knew we liked each other how was anything ever supposed to happen?"

"Girl don't ask me, blame Siva and the boys. Nathan told them not to tell you, he was embarrassed thinking you didn't like him and all. It was really cute actually."

"Girl you got a man, stay away from mine," I chuckled.

"No worries there honey. Anyways, what're you gonna do about the Rihanna thing?"

"I donno…Maybe you could suggest something else?"

"Oooh, what if you were all Rihanna and you just kept the partner thing going? That way you get to stay with Nathan and you don't have to get all incestuous with your brother."

"Yes! Brilliant!" I exclaim.

"But I'll only suggest it to Brian on one condition!"

"What?"

"Siv and I are gonna set you and Nathan up on a date and you have to go. No questions asked, you guys need to talk about all this stuff." She says seriously.

"Ok fine." I sigh, unsure of what was to come, but at the same time trusting Nareesha and Siva entirely.

"Alright, good, let's go back." She smiles.

I stay where I am.

"What?" Nareesha asks.

"It's gonna be embarrassing to go back in there…They all just sorta stopped and stared at me when I left…"

"Look it'll probably just be a few moments of awkwardness and then everything will go back to normal. It'll only get worse the longer we stay here."

"Yeah, true, ok, let's go," I say, finally getting up.

I walked in to everyone looking worriedly at me. Finally Nathan came up to me and I blushed profusely.

"Hey, you ok?" He asks.

"Brilliant," I smile.

Meanwhile Nareesha was talking to Brian.

"What's Nareesha talking to Brian about?" Nathan asked.

I decided to play dumb, "Hmm, I donno."

"Ok guys," said an annoyed looking Brian, a satisfied Nareesha standing to the side next to Siva, "Things have changed. You will each stay with your respective partners and all continue on as Rihanna."

I looked at Nathan out of the corner of my eye and he looked thrilled.

We ran the Rihanna parts a few times before filming.

"You're a little too good at this Rihanna thing," Nathan whispers in my ear, causing me to shiver.

"Eh, I try."

"Yeah, you succeed," He says, leaving me with a chuckle and the usual trace of red in my cheeks.

The next day we all sat down to watch the final product and I must say it turned out pretty well. We thanked Brian for all his help and then he was on his way. I was sure we'd make an 'A' on this stupid project.

Nathan and I were hanging out in my room later on that night just talking and laughing. It felt good to catch up with him.

About thirty minutes into our conversation Nareesha and Siva bounded into my room both looking suspicious. I immediately knew what was happening and got a bit nervous.

"Ok Sykes, you come with me, little McGuinness you go with Reesha." Siva said.

"What're you guys up to now?" Nathan laughed.

"You'll see," Nareesha smiled deviously, grabbing me and whisking me away out the door and down the hall to the bathroom. Nathan went with Siva into his room to do who knows what. I'm assuming to get dressed.

"I'm gonna make you look gawjous dahling!" Nareesha said, causing me to laugh.

"I mean I thought you made me look pretty great yesterday."

"Eh yeah but that was more sexy, today we're going for a more subtle look." She answers.

"Ah I see."

When she was done she gave me a little black dress to put on and some of her new shoes she had just designed. I think I looked pretty, and Nareesha made to assure me that I did. I thanked her profusely many a time that night.

Finally I was ready. Nareesha fled down the stairs before me and announced my name as I descended downstairs.

As I was nearing the last couple steps I slipped and lost my balance. Needless to say I was already embarrassed, but luckily someone caught me. Of course it was Nathan. It was pretty romantic if I do say so myself. Truly picture perfect. Which, speaking of, Nareesha took about ten pictures just of that moment, telling us we would want them later.

"You caught me," I stuttered, still a bit shaken from the fall.

"Always the clumsy one you were," He smiled, before placing me back firmly on the ground.

I blushed again, and he took my hand in his and squeezed it, letting me know it was alright. I looked down at our locked hands and smiled. I guess Siva must have let him in on the big not-so-secret secret.

Everyone awed and Nathan told them to hush up as he turned a brilliant shade of pink.

"So where are we going?" I asked turning towards Nareesha.

"Follow us," She said, leading us out the back door.

What I saw afterwards was beautiful. They had decorated the whole backyard with pretty little fairy lights and put out a cute table with two chairs.

Nathan and I stood in awe, our hands still held tightly together.

"We got the idea from our anniversary. But don't worry Taylor, we hired in some cooks so you won't have to deal with Jay and Max's awful cooking." Siva replied.

I just laughed, noting how horrid a cook all the boys were.

Nathan and I sat down and Siva and Nareesha left us.

"Well I'm impressed," Nathan laughed.

I looked around, "Me too."

We finally looked at each other before bursting out laughing.

"This is a bit ridiculous though," He said.

I laughed even harder, "I agree."

We look over towards the door to see Nareesha and the boys duck out of the way, causing Nathan and I to laugh ever more.

Jay popped back up and gave Nathan a threatening look before walking away.

After Nathan and I stopped laughing he looked at me.

"You know, I don't think I told you how beautiful you look tonight."

"You know, I don't think I told you how beautiful you look tonight either," I replied causing him to chuckle.

"Always the joker."

"That I am, but thank you, you do look very handsome as well," I smiled.

"Thanks," He blushed at the compliment.

"So I guess they wanted us to talk?" Nathan questioned.

"I guess so," I said but we were interrupted by the cook bringing us our salads. We thanked him before turning back to each other.

"So what do you want? Like do we stay friends…or…?" I ask, trying to begin the conversation.

"I donno…I mean don't get me wrong I'd love for you to be my girlfriend but," and then I just tuned him out…He wanted ME to be HIS GIRLFRIEND. I couldn't believe it. I leaned over and kissed him interrupting his speech.

He kissed me back before we broke apart. "Wow," was all he said.

"So what were you saying?" I spoke innocently.

"I-I-I'm not sure to be honest," He said and I laughed.

"I mean look," I began in reply to his 'but', "I'm not some clingy girl. If you genuinely don't feel you want to be with me—" This time he cut me off with a kiss, even better than the first.

"Does that answer that?" He asked, to which I nodded with a small smile.

"Look ok, the only issue is that you travel a lot right?" I ask.

"Yeah, yeah I guess so," He replies.

"So what do you wanna do then?" I ask, I didn't want to be the one to suggest it, but his head popped up with a thought.

"What if you go with us?" He asked.

I looked shocked, despite me having the same thought.

"I—I, yeah, yeah I could do that." I said, "I mean I am about to graduate high school. I just have a week left and then I'm done, and I could always just do online college courses and if worse comes to worse maybe Nareesha would hire me to do some online stuff for her or something." I was planning on majoring in mass media with concentrations in advertising and PR, a bit specific I suppose but then again, just like Nareesha and even the boys, I knew what I wanted to do.

"Wait, lemme talk to Scooter. Maybe he'd let you do our social networking. You know, work the twitter, do the flips and the website. Stuff like that." He said excitedly. I laughed at how cute he was.

"Slow down Nath. One step at a time," I said patting his face.

"Yeah, I suppose you're right. I guess I'm just happy is all. My girlfriend is gonna come on the road with me." He smiled, leaving me with a smile as well.

He leaned over and gave me a kiss as our main meals came.

"So what do you think your parents are gonna say and Jay too?" He asked.

"Oh they'll be thrilled! They've been asking me to mooch off of Jay for years!" I say half-jokingly.

Nathan laughed, "I guess what I meant is do you think they'll let you go?"

"Oh, yeah, they wouldn't mind." I smiled before taking his hand again.

After we finished we walked hand in hand and went inside to tell the guys and Nareesha the plan, to which they were all stoked about. We even called Kels and she was excited too, taking time to congratulate Nathan on finally landing a girl.

Needless to say I went to bed happy, but tomorrow would be another day, tomorrow I was going to meet Nathan's parents…I mean I'd met them before a few times but never as his girlfriend. Nathan had told them the news and he said Jess was especially thrilled but nonetheless I was still nervous. Tomorrow was another day…

(Please tell me what ya'll think I spent some extra time on this one! I hope I did it justice.)