Through-out the thunderstorm

No need to be alarmed

If I'm not in my room

Hoping it's over soon

Through-out the thunderstorm

I will be in your arms

I will not be afraid

Because you're with me"

[original song by me ]

I rolled my eyes when Nate started clapping

"Amazing!" he told me with a smile.

"Why thank you Nathaniel" I said and we laughed together, something that I really missed doing.

I was glad that for once, Nate was finally hanging out with us all. The group never felt complete after Miley came because Nate wasn't there. We were all laying down in Miley's backyard when Shane spoke.

"Miley. Jason's coming tomorrow. It will be nice for you guys to finally meet." Shane said and Miley smiled.

"I know! I'm excited. Maybe he'll be as awesome as you." she said with a smirk.

"Babe. No one's more awesome than me." Shane said and flipped his hair which caused all of us girls to start laughing.

"Shane, if I didn't know any better, I would think you were hitting on my girlfriend." Nate said.

"Psh. I could do so much better." he said playfully and smiled at Miley who had a fake hurt type expression.

"I thought you loved me Shane." she said sadly.

"Don't worry baby. You always have me." Nate said after a brief chuckle escaped his lips.

Miley leaned over and gave him a quick peck on the lips. It didn't really bother me. I guess I'm used to it now.

Mitchie sighed. "Only 3 more days before you guys leave." she said and we all frowned.

"But it's only a promo tour. We'll only be gone for a couple of weeks." Shane replied, his voice weary.

"Just in time for the talent show…" I muttered.

My school was having a talent show. Connect 3 would do a Q&A before the talent show and perform a song afterwards. Mitchie and Miles were entering and they wanted me to enter too. I didn't want to enter because I was nothing compared to my friends. I might possibly go on stage during the jam session where anyone can sing and dance after the Connect 3 performance though.

"Enter." Miley said.

"Nope."

"Whatever." she replied and I laughed.

The next day I was at my locker and Miley squealed from behind me.

"Whoa! When did you get there?" I asked, perplexed.

"Hot new guy. Staring at you!" she squealed, softer this time.

"Ok?" I asked.

"Here he comes…." she mumbled and walked away.

"Hey. My name's Jacob [yes. Taylor Lautner ] and I couldn't help but notice you. Mostly because your friend there has a very loud scream. I was looking for my locker and I believe this is it right here." he said, pointing to the one next to me. Now I had Miles and Mitch on one side, and then him.

I couldn't help but giggle. "Hey. I'm Alex. Newbie huh?" I asked.

He chuckled. "You could put it that way."

"And I did." I said with a smile.

He laughed again. "You're funny. I like you." he said with a smile but his expression soon became worried. "No! Not like that. I meant like as a good friend. But it's not like I would mind being more than friends. But only if you want to! Feel free to stop me from rambling like they do in the movies anytime now." he looked at me, his cheeks red.

"It amused me. Well if you were serious about that more than friend part, feel free to ask me out anytime." I told him, kissed his cheek and walked away.

"What was that?" Nate whisper screamed at me.

"A kiss?" I asked, surprised about how nonchalant I was being.

"But you just met him!" he replied.

"I like him." I said simply as we walked into homeroom.

Nate plopped down beside me.

"OK… I guess I won't make a big deal about how you don't know him or anything…" Nate told me.

"Good." I said, slightly annoyed.

"OK. I'm sorry. Don't get mad at me please-" Nate started. He's been paranoid with me getting mad at him again every since we made up.

"Don't worry love. It's fine." I reassured him with a smile and gave him a small hug.

He smiled and a whole new conversation started about Jason coming home this afternoon. I was so excited. I really missed Jason since he went to college. I love him to death even though he can be a bit…clueless.

At lunch, I saw Jacob looking around for places to eat. I began to motion him over but some other guys did before. I personally was excited for him to ask me out; if was going to of course. I lost hope about 20 minutes into lunch and, truthfully, forgot about Jacob. That it until he slowly approached our table.

"Hey Alex." he said with a smile when he finally got close enough to speak.

"Hey Jacob." I replied brightly.

"Well I thought about what you said and decided to ask you out but turns out you hang out with rock stars so I was a bit intimidated…" he said, his cheeks were faintly red.

"Oh my gosh. Just ask her out dude! If you don't, we're going to feel bad about 'intimidating you'!" Shane yelled which earned 3 kicks, one from each girl at the table, and a chuckle, from Nate of course.

"Err… Ok? Alex. Will you go out with me?" he asked nervously.

"Of course. Here's my number." I said and wrote it down on a napkin. "Call me." I said and winked.

He smiled ,said thanks, and then walked away.

Mitch and Miles began squealing under their breath and I rolled my eyes but started laughing when Shane did it too.

Miles, Mitch and I went home with Nate and Shane to see Jason. As soon as I came through the door, I saw Jason and screamed.

"JASE!" I yelled and through myself in his arms. "Oh my gosh. I've missed you!" I told him.

"I've missed you too Ally." He told me with a smile.

Mitchie then yanked me out of his arms and gave him a hug.

I noticed Miley standing further away, awkwardly. I could see how she could feel awkward. Mr. and Mrs. Gray weren't too fond of her because they blamed her for Nate's and my fight and I think they had a hunch about me liking Nate. It seems like everyone knows but Nate and Miley.

I walked over to her and dragged her towards Jason.

By the time I finally had gotten her stubborn butt over there, Nate and Shane had also already hugged their brother.

"Jase, this is Miley." I said and shoved her towards him when she let her guard down.

"Hi." she said softly with a slight smile.

I could see the surprise on her face when he pulled her into a tight hug.

When we began laughing he pushed her away with a worried look and asked "This is our new best friend right?"

"Yes Jason." Mitchie replied with a smile.

"Oh OK." he said and pulled her back into the hug.

Oh Jason. You gotta love him.

Ok; because I threw of chapter with the 2 parts of a chapter, I'm making two chapters in one:

The rest of the evening went according to plan and seeing how much Jason liked Miley, I felt Mr. and Mrs. Gray began to like her a bit more too.

The next day was a Friday; and the last school day with Nate and Shane before they went on that pre tour thing or whatever. I sighed and approached my locker that morning.

"Mornin' sunshine." I heard someone say from behind me.

"Hey Jacob." I said as I turned around and gave him a small hug. "I was upset that you didn't call me yesterday…" I said with a frown and sighed.

"Oh I had better things to do." he said with a smile, catching onto the joke.

"Oh yeah? Things like what?" I asked.

"Making peanut butter sandwiches, brushing my teeth, you know, the normal important things in life."

I gasped but couldn't hide the slight smile on my lips. Mitchie then walked over.

"Mitchie! Jacob made me feel bad." I tattled and he gasped.

"I did no such thing." he told her.

"You better hope you didn't or else we'll have no choice but tell our 'intimidating rock star friends' " she told him with a smirk.

At that, I began laughing and he glared at both of us.

"No one was talking to you Michelle!" he replied. He and Mitchie hit it off in the 2 classes they had together after lunch yesterday.

"Alex was!" she retorted and his face fell. "Haha! You lose!" she said with a smile.,

"Loser!" Miley said as she walked past him.

"I don't even know you and yet I feel as if you just insulted me…" Jacob told Miley.

"She most likely did just insult you. She's a very rude person…" Shane told him as he walked over to us also.

"Hey Shane! Guess what?" she asked excitedly.

"What?" he returned the amount of excitement.

"Shutup." she said flatly.

"Told you!" he whispered in Jacob's direction and we all started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Nate asked as he too came over.

"Oh you know. Making jokes at the new kid's expense. The usual."

"Oh goodie!" Nate said sarcastically and then the first bell rang. Ironically, Jacob was in our homeroom so he accompanied us to the classroom.

At lunch, Jacob came and sat with us. We were in a middle of a conversation.

"Don't leave." I told Nate.

"But Ally I have to do this for the sake of my career." he replied.

"Quit." I replied like the answer was obvious.

"Now I would be more than happy to do that for you but I know you don't really want me to do that."

"Yes she does. And so do we. Just quit." Miley said referring to her and Mitchie.

"You see, Shane already agreed to quit." Mitchie said with a triumphant smile.

Nate rolled his eyes at Shane who just shrugged.

"They put up a very convincing argument." he told Nate.

"Am I interrupting something?" Jacob asked me.

"Nope. Just witnessing Nate being the worst best friend EVER!" I replied.

Nate just pulled me into a hug while I pouted, but wrapped my arms around him anyway. I pulled away when Jacob started talking.

"Well this seems a bit private so I'm going to leave" he said and cut off my protests "No buts. It's fine. Oh and by the way, you might want to eat outside because people are staring and I think some people are taking pictures on their phones so I wouldn't be surprised if you guys end up on TMZ tomorrow." he said as he got up.

We looked around and Jacob was right so we grabbed our lunches and headed to the bleachers. I leaned on Shane and he put his arm around my shoulder.

"It's fine Ally. You won't have time to miss us. It's only like 2 weeks." Shane told me.

"What? I thought you were quitting!" I yelled.

"Oh right." he replied.

"No one's quitting because if we even tried to really quit you'd probably hit us." Nate told me.

I sighed, knowing he was right.

I noticed Miley and Mitchie whispering to each other and then they finally spoke.

"OK. We have come up with a plan." Miley spoke.

"You guys will go on tour. Me, Ally and Miles will spend basically every moment together and you pay for us to catch a plane to where ever you are on the two Fridays and give us tickets to the concert so after the concert, we can have our usual movie night." Mitchie told us.

I saw Nate and Shane nodding with a smile and I knew that they agreed to he plan.

I couldn't help but smile too. It sounded pretty good.

My phone buzzed in my pocket and saw that I had a text from Jacob.

lunch is ovr

I replied with a thanks and we headed back into school, dumping our trays as we came through the cafeteria as a shortcut.

The day was pretty good and we were walking out of the door when my friend Emily came up to me with a panicked look on her face.

"Alex! GiGi's coming back on Monday!" she whisper-screamed and then said bye and walked away to tell someone else, I assumed.

My smile immediately became a frown as I realized my worst nightmare was coming back and I wouldn't even have Shane and Nate to be there for me.

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