Becky

When we got to the hotel I was sure I'd heard the words: Justin, Friday and Date a million times. Even though we'd teased her before we made our way to the airport Barbie couldn't contain her excitement, launching into a seemingly never-ending monologue about how awesome Justin was and how lucky she was for scoring a date with him.

"Ok Barbie, we get it, you're excited." Eve said as we lugged our bags over to the elevator. "But please quit going on about-" someone grabbed hold of my wrist and I turned to see Alex, I smiled and stopped, leaving my sister and Barbie to have their discussion.

"Hey," I said hugging him. "What's up?" I asked when the stony expression on his face didn't disappear.

"It's Zack, he knows you're into someone else."

"You told him?" I nearly shrieked and Alex shushed me, shaking his head.

"Of course I didn't tell him, he'd kill me!"

"I highly doubt that." I scoffed and Alex smiled.

"That's not the point, the point is until he calms down we won't be able to see each other." I frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean the trials." I shook my head.

"No! I don't want him to ruin this!"

"Ruin what Becky?" he asked, meeting my eyes. "We're nothing serious, yet any way."

I bit my lip and nodded. "I guess you're right, it's just, it's not fair!" I said resisting the urge to stomp my foot and he smiled at me.

"Trust me, I'm not happy about it either." He said and I smiled. "But I'm gonna be a man about it and put up with it, you should do the same."

"I'm not a man though, it's a lot harder to man up if you're not a man." I said with a small smile and he grinned at me.

"I'm very glad you're not a man." He said, chuckling quietly and I shoved him lightly.

"You'd turn gay for me if I was a man!"

"If you were as smokin' hot as you are now, then definitely." He said, giving me a wink and a smirk.

"So is that all you care about-?"

"Hey guys, how's it going?" a familiar voice asked and I stopped myself from rolling my eyes when Zack Ryder wrapped an arm around Alex's shoulder. "You gonna get your keys man?" he asked Alex before sending a quick grin my way. I smiled and said bye to Alex as he took off for reception.

"So…" Zack said, a nervous smile plastered on his face.

"So…" I repeated, tapping my foot lightly against the floor and praying that Alex wouldn't be too long.

"I was thinking, how 'bout you, me, Barbie and Alex have a movie night tomorrow?" he gave me a cheeky school boy grin.

"What about Eve?" I asked, totally avoiding the question and trying buy myself some time. I didn't want to go out with him, I had Alex, well I wanted Alex.

"Um sure." He said sounding a little put off. "Yeah she could come too!"

"I'm not sure," I bit my lip. "I mean Barbie's scored a date with Justin so she'd probably ruin whole night by talking about that." I shrugged and he looked at me like a puppy that had been kicked in face.

"Well why don't we replace Barbie with eve?" he asked and I frowned at him.

"Then poor Barbie is left on her own!" he sighed and I noticed him clench fists. "Maybe I could talk to Barbie and Eve later and sort it out with them." I said giving him a small smile and a shrug.

"Sort what out?" a voice asked and I smiled when Alex clapped a hand on Zack's on shoulder.

"Zack wants to have a movie night tomorrow; I need to sort it out with Barbie and Eve later." I said and he nodded.

"Well I hope you sort it out with them, I don't wanna be the only one stuck with Ryder here."

"Ouch, that one hurt Riley!" Zack said, sending his elbow into Alex's ribs.

"Hey cut it out you two, you're in public remember." I said, smirking and Alex rolled his eyes at me while Zack poked his tongue out.

"Sorry Mom." Alex drawled and I stepped closer to him to lightly slap his arm.

"I thought we were in public." Zack teased and I pouted.

"Two against one, no fair!" I whined and Alex chuckled.

"Sorry princess, that's just how the cookie crumbles." He said and I turned to him.

"Princess?" I challenged and he nodded, out of the corner of my eye I saw Zack step back, his hands raised in surrender. Alex folded his arms across his chest and smirked.

"You heard me." He said plainly and I narrowed my eyes at him, causing Zack to go,

"Ohhhhh you're in trouble!"

"Yeah, he's right. You're gonna-" my phone ringing cut me off and I saw Alex's smirk grow whilst I ripped the phone from my pocket.

"Where the hell are you?" Eve screeched down the phone. "One minute you're right behind me the next you're gone!"

"Hey, hey chill out Evie, I'm in the lobby with the guys." I said and I heard her let out an annoyed sigh.

"You know I hate it when you call me that and thank God, I though Mike had you."

"So he's a kidnapper now?" I asked and I could tell she was rolling her eyes.

"You know what I meant." She said tiredly and I nodded.

"So any ways what are you doing tomorrow?" I asked and Zack gave me a thumbs up.

"Why?"

"Zack was wondering if me, you and Barbie," Zack made a face. "Would wanna have a movie night with him and Alex."

"You do realise Zack has only organised this to get you back, right?"

"Well duh, I'm not that stupid. So wanna go?" I asked and I could tell she was thinking things through, to be honest I only really wanted to go because Alex would be there.

"So even though you know Zack will be all over you, you still wanna go?" she asked and I sighed.

"It should be fun." I tried and she laughed.

"Fun? Becky you and I both know that you're only agreeing with this because Alex will be there."

"So?"

"Well you guys won't be able to act all loved up and Zack will be all over you. How do you think that will make Alex feel?" she asked and I sighed, she had a point.

"We could work around that." I said and Zack frowned at me, 'Barbie' I mouthed at him and he nodded, Alex caught my gaze and raised an eyebrow before lowering it again and nodding.

"How?"

"We'll figure something out, so we'll all go right?"

"If Barbie is still alive, I don't think she'll survive too long if she mentions Justin again." I laughed. "Yeah, we'll go and you better arrange something with Alex, I don't wanna see his puppy dog face."

"I will, trust me on this." I said, sending a we need to talk look to Alex, who nodded at me. "I'll see you in a bit?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'll be in our room, 321, unless of course Barbie mentions her date again then I'll be driving somewhere secret to drop off her body." I laughed and hung up on her.

"So it's on?" Zack asked and I nodded. "Awesome!" he said running over to me and hugging me tightly. Over his shoulder I saw Alex roll his eyes.

"Yeah, well I'm gonna go now," I said, looking at Alex and then the elevator, he got the message.

"Yeah me too, I need to unpack and get ready for the show." He said and Zack nodded.

"Ok, let's go." Zack said, I groaned inwardly but allowed him to wrap an arm around me as we walked to the elevator.


Alex

When we reached the second floor Zack finally let go of Becky and headed out the doors.

"Well c'mon Riley," he said gesturing to me. "I thought you wanted to unpack." He said and I swallowed, trying to think of a quick lie that would let me stay in the elevator with Becky.

"Yeah I do, its just I need my lotion." Becky tried to hold in a giggle whilst Zack frowned at me.

"Lotion?" he asked and I nodded.

"Uh yeah, you see Eve was out of lotion and well I let her have mine and well I want it back." Zack burst into laughter and I could tell Becky was struggling to keep herself from joining in.

"Well whatever lotion boy, I'll see ya later." He said, nodding at me and giving Becky a small wave before heading off. Becky went over to the controls at pressed floor three before turning back to me.

"Lotion?" she asked and I shrugged.

"I needed an excuse to stay with you; you wanted to talk, right?" She nodded.

"About tomorrow…" she said, biting her lip as the elevator started to close and I raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Well you do know Zack's only arranged it as a way to get me back, right?" I nodded slowly, my suspicions had been correct. "So will you be ok with him like drooling over me all night, 'cause if you're not I won't go, I'll pretend I'm sick or something!" I smiled at her and shook my head.

"I'll be fine; don't worry your pretty little head."

"You're sure?" she asked and I nodded, a small grin broke out across her face. "Good because I have a plan to spend a little time with you tomorrow."

"Oh?" I said and she nodded. "And how are we gonna manage that?"

"Well I'm assuming he'll wanna sit next to me, so I'll tell him I've left something in the hall, he'll go out to get it and you steal his seat, simple." I raised an eyebrow at her.

"And then what? What possible reason could I have for stealing his seat?" I watched her bite her lip.

"We'll think of something." She said as the doors opened and I ran a hand over my hair.

"We better." I said, following her out of the elevator, causing her to frown at me.

"Um what are you doing?"

"I'm borrowing lotion, just in case Zack is waiting for me." She laughed and shook her head.

"I thought he was stalking me, not you, when did he turn gay?" she asked and I smirked.

"Hey, I'm a great guy, you'd turn gay for me if you were a man." She grinned at me and nodded.

"Definitely."

"Good." I said, reaching for her free hand, she allowed me to take it and we walked hand in hand to her room.

We reached her room in no time at all and she released my hand and rapped her knuckles gently against the wooden door of 321. Eve opened the door almost instantly and frowned when she caught sight of me.

"Um, why is he here?"Becky nudged me, trying not to laugh and I sighed.

"May I borrow some lotion?" I asked and Eve frowned at me.

"You're being serious?"

"Oh absolutely." I said and Becky burst out laughing, pushing past Eve to get into the room.

"Bye lotion boy." She called and Eve just frowned at me.

"So you want lotion?" she asked and I nodded. "Why?"

"Because Becky and I needed to talk about tomorrow so I told a lie so I could stay in the elevator with her."

"And that lie involved you getting lotion? If it's a lie then why are you actually after lotion?"

"In case Zack sees me without the lotion." I said and she smirked.

"I thought he was meant to be stalking Becky, not you." I shook my head at her.

"Both sisters using the same joke, not as funny the second time around."

"Sorry?" she asked with a small shrug. "I'll get you your lotion." She said before disappearing into her room.


I'm really sorry this took so long to upload! I hope you guys enjoyed it though, despite the wait! I'll try to get Chapter 18 written and up soon!

Peace out!

Gj :)