A/N-I DO NOT OWN THE NAKED BROTHERS BAND!

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Nat woke up the next morning feeling slightly sore. He looked around the room, trying to remember what happened. When he saw Rosalina leaning her head on his shoulder, the memory came back to him.

They were together.

As in, as one of the band's past director's would say, 'little teen couple.'

He picked up his phone to check the time. 6:30 a.m. Nat sighed. "Rosie," He said softly, shaking her shoulder. "Time to get up."

She groaned, and rolled over, seeming to try to hide from him.

"Fine, I'm giving you until I get Alex out of bed, to get up."

"Good, then I'll sleep for another hour," She mumbled.

Nat shook his head at his girlfriend and walked into his bedroom. "Alex!" He shouted. "Wake up, it's time for school!"

Alex groaned and put a pillow over his head.

"Alex, if you get up now, I'll let you help me wake up Rosalina," Nat whispered.

"So what?" He mumbled.

"We can do whatever you want."

That made him sit up. "I'll be out in a few minutes."

"But I have to hear your plan first."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," He said, waving his brother off as he walked to the bathroom.

Nat walked out of the bedroom and back to the living room. "Rosie, it's time to get up. I got Alex of bed."

"Did you bribe him?" She asked sleepily, rolling over onto her back.

He shrugged.

"You bribed him. What did you say you would give him?"

Nat couldn't help but grin. "I wouldn't say it was a gift…but…"

"Nat!" Alex said, running out of the bathroom. "I got an idea!"

"Shhh, Alex!" He said quickly. "What is it?" He whispered.

Alex motioned for his brother to come closer and whispered it to him.

"I don't know…" Nat said.

"C'mon, it's not gonna hurt anybody!"

"Okay, fine."

"Yes!" Alex smiled and ran over to his drum set in the living room. He silently counted off and then began banging on the drums.

"Alex stop!" Rosalina shouted over his drumming.

He stopped playing and started laughing.

Rosalina sat up. "What was that?" She asked, looking at Nat.

"I told you that if you didn't get up before I got Alex out of bed that I would have to wake you up," Nat laughed.

She stood up from the couch. "Well now that I'm awake what do you want?"

He stepped closer to her and kissed her.

She smiled into it then pulled back. "You should've started with that."

Nat shook his head. "C'mon, we have to get ready for school."

~NBB~

Rosalina parked outside of Amigos and looked at Nat. "Remember, Jake is going to try to get to you. And now he has an even bigger reason because you and I are dating."

He nodded.

"Good luck, bro," Alex said, getting out of the car.

Nat and Rosalina got out too and walked into the school. Just as they got in the front doors, Rosalina reached over and took Nat's hand.

He glanced down at their hands, and then looked back up at her.

"Just remember, no matter what, I'm dating you, not Jake, okay?" She whispered to him.

He nodded. "Same with you."

She nodded too.

They walked to Rosalina's locker first and already people were staring.

"How fast do you think this will spread?" Nat asked.

"By second period at least half the school will know," Rosalina said, taking books out of her locker.

The couple was walking to Nat's locker, when Patrice walked up to them.

"Rosalina, I think you're confused or something. You're holding Nat's hand," She said.

"No Patrice I'm not. But I think you're a little confused, because since when do you have the right to try to mess up my friendship with Nat?" Rosalina said, letting go of Nat's hand and stepping closer to Patrice.

"Wh-what are you talking about?"

"Nat told me about how you told him those lies about me saying that I was too old for him? Or what about me ditching the band? You know I wouldn't ever say that!"

Nat put his hand on her shoulder. "Rosie, calm down. She's not worth it," He said quietly.

"Look Patrice, I thought you changed, but obviously I was wrong. I don't want to see you ever again, unless you're ready to just deal with the fact that I'm friends with sophomore guys." Rosalina stormed away towards Nat's locker, with Nat following close behind.

She stopped beside his locker, and crossed her arms over her chest.

Nat opened his locker. "Don't get so worked up over her. She's not even worth your energy."

"Yeah, but I really thought she was trying to change. I actually believed she was nice and…normal."

"Rosie, this is what she wants. Don't let her get to you, okay?"

Rosalina nodded. "Thank you."

They were walking down the hallway when all of a sudden they heard.

"Hey popstar, what do you think you're doing?"

They stopped and Nat groaned.

"I'll be right here the whole time, just relax," Rosalina whispered.

Jake walked over to them. "Why are you holding hands with her?"

"Because Jake, believe it or not, I know how to treat girls with respect," Nat said.

"Oh," Jake said, pretending to have sympathy. "So you wrote a song about her and she let you hold her hand? That's probably the closest you'll ever get to any type of girlfriend."

"Actually, he wrote more than a song about me, Jake. He told me he loved me, something you'll never hear," Rosalina spoke up.

Jake seemed slightly offended, but brushed it off. "It was something you told me."

"It was something I thought, but I know was never true. I admit it; I was an idiot for dating you. It was probably the worst thing I've ever done. Right behind leaving my friends behind."

~NBB~

Later on at lunch, right when Nat and Rosalina sat down, the guys started firing questions.

"What happened with Jake today?"

"Nat isn't injured anywhere else is he?"

"What about Rosalina going off on Patrice?"

"Guys, calm down," Nat said. "Jake came up to us today, because Rosalina and I were holding hands and –"

"Wait," Thomas interrupted him. "You were holding hands? I thought you guys were fighting."

"We made up last night," Rosalina spoke up.

"That's great!" Cooper said.

"But why were you holding hands?" David asked.

Nat looked at Rosalina and smiled. "I asked Rosalina to be my girlfriend."

"And I said yes," Rosalina said, smiling at Nat then at the guys.

"Finally!" Thomas said loudly.

The guys and Rosalina laughed.

"It's kinda true though," David said.

Qaasim nodded. "Yeah, we've been waiting for you guys to get together."

"So what happened with Jake?"

"Well, he came up to us because we were holding hands, and so Rosalina and I told him off," Nat explained.

"What'd he do?" Thomas asked.

"Walked away," Nat said.

"He just walked away?" David asked.

"Yeah, is that bad?"

The guys looked at each other.

"It doesn't sound bad, but you never know with Jake," David said.

Nat shrugged.

"Hey guys, do you think we could have a rehearsal today?" Cooper spoke up.

"Yeah, definitely," Nat said.

"Good idea, Cooper," Rosalina agreed, half smiling.

The guys agreed and began talking about something else.

"Hey," Nat said quietly, looking at Rosalina. "You okay?"

"Yeah," She said softly, nodding. "I'm fine."

"Are you sure?"

She nodded. "I promise."

Nat looked at her curiously, but when she gave him a smile, he joined his friends' conversation, thinking everything was fine.

…

Rosalina parked her car in front of the studio after school that day, and Nat sighed as he looked at the "The Naked Brothers stink!" message that still was sprayed on the wall.

"Alex, go on inside, we'll be in, in a little bit," Nat said.

"Okay." Alex got out of the car and walked inside.

"What's wrong?" Rosalina asked.

"I could ask you the same thing."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about you. I'm worried."

"Don't be, I'm fine."

Nat reached over and took her hand. "You know you can tell me anything, right? Especially now that we're dating."

"Yeah…it's just…I'm worried about you."

"Me?"

"Yeah. What if Jake tries to hurt you because of me? I could never forgive myself."

"Rosie, I can protect myself. If he tries to hurt me, then I'll take care of him. It wouldn't be your fault anyway."

"Yes it would, because he hates you because of me."

Nat sighed. "Listen, I'm fine. I'm okay, and my eye is even healed now. Don't worry about me. I won't get hurt."

She looked at him.

"I promise."

"Okay," She said nodding.

"Good. So let's get to rehearsal."

They got out of the car and walked into the studio. Cooper was already there talking to someone on the phone, and Alex was playing with his drums. Other than that, no one else seemed to be there yet. Cooper hung up the phone and walked over to the couple. "Hey guys."

"Hey Coop. Who was on the phone?" Nat asked.

"It was one of the police officers who were here the other day. They said they're going to look through Amigos's records to see if any of the students match the face of the person on the tape they took."

"Why are they starting at Amigos?" Rosalina asked.

"Well, I told them our suspicions, and they said that they would start at Amigos because of that, and it's probably the closest place a teen could've come from."

Nat sighed. "Okay. Well, what are we going to do about the graffiti?"

"I talked to some of the clean-up crew around here. They said until the police give us orders, they'll figure out some way to cover it up."

Soon after that, Thomas, David and Qaasim came in and they started rehearsal. Everything was going smoothly. They practiced 'Your Smile', 'I'll Do Anything', 'Mystery Girl', and 'Body I Occupy.' When they were done practicing, the band just sat around, hanging out, which was something that didn't seem to be able to happen much anymore. They stayed at the studio until it was almost dark outside, then Rosalina offered to give them a ride home, and then drove back to the Wolff apartment. Rosalina started dinner, and Nat tried to help but it didn't work, so he just set the table.

"So what happened today? Did Jake see you guys?" Alex asked at dinner.

"Yeah," Nat said.

"So what'd he do?"

"None of your business, Alex," His older brother said.

"C'mon, why can't I know?"

"It's not important, that's why."

"Whatever. I'm just glad it's Friday."

"Me too. I can get away from Jake for two whole days," Rosalina agreed.

It was the afternoon on Monday at Amigos High School. The day had ended and after school activities were in session. Rosalina had to stay after school because one of her teachers had to talk to her. Nat promised he'd wait for her, so he was walking to his locker to put his books away when someone stepped in his way.

"Well, look who it is. It's little Nat Wolff," Jake said.

"Get out of here Jake. I don't want to start anything," Nat said, trying to step around him.

But Jake followed him. "You may not want to start anything, but I do."

"Nat? Jake? What's going on?" Rosalina asked, walking over from behind Jake.

"Rosalina, if you knew what's best for you, you'd leave," Jake said.

"No, you don't scare me."

Suddenly, a couple of Jake's wrestling friends walked out from around the corner. They grabbed Rosalina.

"Let me go!" She said loudly.

"Sorry, no can do," One of them said.

"Hey, let her go! She doesn't deserve this. It's me you want to hurt, not Rosalina," Nat said.

"Oh yeah, that's right," Jake said as he punched Nat in the face.

"No, Nat!" Rosalina shouted.

Nat lunged for Jake but Jake reacted quickly and grabbed Nat by his shirt and threw him to the ground.

When Nat fell, he hit his head on the tiled floor, winced, and tried to get up but Jake pushed him back down. "Quit trying to act tough, popstar," He said, then kicked him in the stomach.

Nat tried to hold back a groan.

"Stop it! Stop hurting him!" Rosalina screamed. She kicked the boy who was holding her between his legs, and he crumpled to the ground and she ran towards Nat and Jake.

Jake grabbed her and kissed her roughly, pulled back and said, "I'll see you later Rosie." He motioned to his friends, and they ran off down the hall.

"Get away from me!" She screamed, and knelt down next to Nat. "Are you okay, Nat?"

"My head hurts," Nat groaned.

"I know, I know…it'll be okay. I'm going to get some help, okay?"

"I don't need help. I need to tell you something."

"Nat, don't push yourself. Just keep your eyes open, please," She said, as tears started to make their way down her face.

"I'm so tired, Rosie."

"You have to keep your eyes open, please, Nat, you have to."

"I love you, Rosie. You know that don't you?"

She nodded, as more tears fell down her cheeks. "I know. But you have to be okay."

"I don't know Rosalina…I don't know…"

Rosalina sat up on the couch. She looked around her. She was in the Wolff apartment, on a Friday night. She was shaking and crying. She got up off the couch and ran into Nat and Alex's room. "Nat?" She whispered, gently shaking his shoulder on the top bunk. "Nat, please wake up."

He sat up slowly and rubbed his head. "Rosalina? What's wrong?" He reached over and turned on the lamp on his bed. "You're shaking…what happened?"

Rosalina couldn't even explain the nightmare that woke her. It was still too fresh in mind, and all she could see was Nat getting hurt over and over again, and knowing she couldn't do anything.

Nat shut off his lamp, got down from the bunk, and walked Rosalina out of the bedroom. He led her to living room and sat her on the couch and he sat down next to her. "What happened, Rosie?"

She only hugged him tightly.

"It's okay…it's okay. It was only a dream. Just relax," He said soothingly, rubbing her back. "It's okay."

She pulled away from the hug as she calmed her crying to little hiccups.

"What happened, Rosie?"

"I had a nightmare…and J-Jake was h-hitting you a-and h-hurting you and I-I couldn't d-do anything," She hiccupped. "And th-then y-you almost…"

Nat pulled his girlfriend back into a hug, knowing what she was going to say. "Shhh, it's okay. I'm right here. I'm okay. Everything's fine." He rubbed her back. So this worry about him getting hurt must've been more than he thought. He felt bad for Rosalina. "Rosie, I'm okay. See? I'm right here, I'm not going anywhere. It was just a dream. It's not real."

Rosalina pulled back, still hiccupping.

He took her hand and placed it over his heart. "Do you feel that?"

She nodded.

"I'm right here, Rosie. I'm not going anywhere," He said, letting her hand go. He put her blankets she was using over both of them as she leaned her head on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry," She said after she calmed down.

"You have nothing to be sorry for. I'm sorry you had that dream. It won't happen, you know that right?"

"But what if Jake still hurts you?"

"I'll always come back, Rosalina. I'm never leaving you."

A/N-Awww, I wish I knew someone like Nat, don't you? (:

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