.:Chapter Two:.

"Ok," WayneWayne shielded his face from the setting sun as he turned to address his friends that sat on the grass in front of him. He turned to Sydney, who was sitting on the back porch steps dutifully, a video camera in his hands. "The first shot that we're going to get is-"

"Wal-ly!"

WayneWayne let out a sigh, tilting his head down so his chin rested against his chest. He lifted his head, sucking his lips into his mouth as Jaycee and Natalie walked down the porch steps behind him. He turned back to Dak, Lizzie, Riley, Rhuben, Patrick, Noah, and Sydney and held up a hand, letting them know that he would be a minute, before he turned to them.

"Yes?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"Mom's home," Jaycee said as she placed her hands on her stomach. "She says that Dad is going to be home a little late today. And, Sam is gonna be a bit late as well." She lowered herself onto the steps beside Sydney and smiled at him, causing him to smile back at her.

WayneWayne crossed his arms over his chest as he narrowed his eyes over at Natalie, who smiled sweetly at him. "And you came out here just to tell me that?" He asked. Of course not, they came out here to embarrass me like they always do. He waited for Natalie to speak, rubbing his forehead, wondering what was about to come out of her mouth. He loved his sisters, but they did nothing but torture him, as he was the youngest of the family. He figured at some point they would grow out of it, but it seemed to be their life mission to make him want to crawl into a hole and die every chance they got.

"We also came out here to tell you that Mom said that you should invite your friends to stay for dinner and dessert." Natalie then batted her eyelashes innocently. Out of the corner of his eye, WayneWayne saw the Jacksons grimace as they looked at each other. "But we were expecting them to stay over anyway, so we went ahead and said that it was ok. OK?"

"What?" WayneWayne dropped his arms, nearly dropping his camera. He ran a hand through his hair, frustrated. His dark eyes flashed as he turned to his sisters. "You can't just do that, what if they had plans?" He asked. But Natalie had already grabbed Jaycee's arm and tugged her to her feet, leading her back inside. "Crap." WayneWayne muttered under his breath, turning back to his friends.

"Don't' worry about it," Sydney said as he got to his feet, brushing off his Metallica band t-shirt carefully. "I'm sure Ronan won't mind the sudden change in plans," He said and walked down the steps to his brothers and sisters. He tilted his head to the side and looked at Patrick curiously. "Do you think?"

"Nah." Patrick shook his head and the forced a smile, which looked more like he was trying to show all of his teeth. "Unfortunately, he'll probably think that it's a good that we're spending time getting to know WayneWayne's family. Or that we're honoring our commitments, as stupid as that is." His eyes flashed. "You know, with all of the intrusive questions."

"I'm sorry guys," WayneWayne said. He held his arms out apologetically before shoving his hands under his armpits. He looked back towards the house. "I'm thinking I won't have any say in what I do or say around here until I'm, like, twenty," He added.

"Don't worry, dude," Dak gripped WayneWayne's shoulder and lightly shook it. "I'm in the same boat. My Mom and Dad are starting to push me into commercials as well as guest spots on TV shows." He shook his fringe out of his eyes. "I don't think they get that I don't want to be a film actor anymore."

"Uh, there's a simple solution to that," Rhuben said, rolling her eyes. "Why don't you guys just get an apartment together? Or just move out in general"

WayneWayne's eyebrows raised and Dak looked at the sky. Rhuben let out a heavy sigh, rolling her eyes once more. It was obvious the two of them hadn't thought about it before. WayneWayne slowly tilted his head to the side. He would keep his privacy, he wouldn't have to worry about sharing the car with his sisters, he wouldn't have his business out in public with his family the whole time.

"That's a good idea, actually." He finally said. "You know, if my parents will allow me to move out." He added sharply. "But Mom was just saying that we need some more space. Especially since Jaycee and Sam are trying to save money by staying with us before they get a place of their own."

"Or, you could, hire a hit man to knock off your family and not have to worry about them anymore." Riley joked. Her smile then fell from her face as she looked at everyone around her. She scuffed her foot against the ground. "I know what you're thinking, I'm not crazy."

"We all let our imaginations run wild sometimes," Dak said as he put an arm around her shoulders and gave her a warm smile. "That's the beauty of having one." He then used his free hand to tap Rhuben on the head. "But she had a good idea, why don't we move into an apartment together?"

"What about me?" Lizzie demanded, placing her hands on her chest. "You expect me to be stuck at home with them? Next thing I know, they're going to start pushing me to…to…become an accountant or something."

Noah gave her an odd look. "How did you get accountant from dancing?"

"I don't know," Lizzie shrugged. "I was just thinking of the job that I could potentially hate the most, and I suck at math, so it was the first thing that came to mind." She smiled a little as the others laughed.

WayneWayne laughed along with them, but his laughter quickly faded as he ran both of his hands through his hair and then rested his hands on the back of his head. His friends were going to dinner. For most people, that would be great. But his family wasn't known for having a lot of tact, and his sisters did nothing but pry into his and his friend's business. Dak somewhat enjoyed it because it was the first time that people outside of his family actually cared about what he wanted to do (compared to his own) but his main problem lied in the Jacksons. They were very secretive and mysterious people; never really talked about their feelings or their private lives, and the Dooleys did nothing but dig into people's private lives.

It was either going to go very smoothly or it was going to be a disaster.

"Well, don't worry about them wanting us to go to dinner with them, I'm sure that we'll find some sort of an excuse to not go in the next twenty minutes," Riley said, crossing her arms over her chest. "It can't bet that hard."

"In the meantime, we should probably start cleaning this stuff up," Patrick said as he looked around he backyard; canvases, paint brushes, buckets of paint, drop cloths, piles of clothes, and props were scattered all around the yard, like a tornado had blown through everything and meticulously scattered it around. "It's might be better if we leave the shots with the fake blood for another day." He rubbed his hands off on the sides of his pants. "We can cover the bucket with plastic wrap or something and then mix it together again tomorrow."

"All right." WayneWayne motioned for Sydney to close the video camera, which the young boy did obediently. "Uh..." he thought for a moment before motioning to Patrick, Noah, Lizzie, and Sydney. "You guys can clean up the brushes and the paint buckets." He looked over at Dak and Rhuben. "You guys can move the buckets of blood and make sure it's covered, and maybe move the lights to the shed?"

"No problem," Dak replied, giving his best friend a thumbs up. He nudged Rhuben on the arm and tilted his head to the side. "C'mon." Rhuben nodded and followed him over to the buckets of fake blood that they had made.

"And d'you mind helping me with the scenery?" WayneWayne asked as he walked down the steps towards Riley.

"No problem," She replied with a nod. "Just let me make sure I have all of my stuff together." WayneWayne nodded back and followed her over to her backpack, shoes, and sketch pad. "So earlier my sisters were saying that they think it's funny that we haven't actually gone out on a first date yet." He said. "I think they're the only ones that noticed, my Dad and Sam bring the two of us up every now and then, but Mom doesn't really talk about it though. I'm sure that they're convinced that I'm secretly harboring feelings for Dak and am waiting for a chance to ask him out." He lightly twisted his fingers together. "But when we go on our date, I was thinking-"

Riley gave him a weird look as she stood up, flipping her sketch pad closed. "Who said anything about going out with you?" She asked, tilting her head to the side.

WayneWayne felt like his heart just fell to his feet. Sweat immediately appeared on his forehead form his nervousness. He cleared his throat before slowing thickly. "Isn't…that what we were just talking about?"

"You were asking me out?" Riley tilted her head to the side.

"Don't people do that here?" WayneWayne joked, deciding to try and make the conversation lighter. "Don't forget, I'm still kind of new to how LA works."

"It's been known to happen," Riley said, immediately catching on to what he was doing. She then moved the corner of her mouth to the side. "Sorry," she apologized quickly. "Contrary to popular belief I don't get asked out much…A lot of people say that I'm intimidating, which I don't really get, so…"

"It's alright," WayneWayne said quickly. "You don't have to go if you don't want to."

Riley's eyebrows lowered, looking a little annoyed. "Who said I didn't?"

WayneWayne was surprised. "You do?" He studied her face, just see if she was lying. He knew it was pointless though, he was never sure whenever she was lying, he didn't think anyone besides her family could ever tell. Riley looked away, shrugging for a moment.

"Why not," she replied. "I mean, I've pretended this long to be going out with you, how hard can it be to pretend to go on a date? It's like...one for PR or something." WayneWayne frowned as she blew some of her hair out of her face. "Family aside, I think you're pretty interesting."

"Thanks," WayneWayne said, not sure if it was a compliment or a put down. She and her siblings had a habit of being so sarcastic and having a dry sense of humor that they didn't notice if they were joking and accidentally hurt someone's feelings. "I think."

Riley shrugged as she gathered her things. "So, are we moving sets?"

"Yeah," WayneWayne turned on his heel, trying to keep the smile off of his face.

The group worked as fast as they could to clean up the backyard and to move things to places that they would remember so when they would start shooting again, they wouldn't forget. In that time, the Jacksons had figured out an excuse not to stay for dinner and Noah opted to relay the news to Jaycee and Natalie, rather than WayneWayne's mother, before the five of them left, leaving, Dak, Lizzie, and WayneWayne.

"So, was I hearing things or did you finally ask Riley out?" Lizzie asked WayneWayne, a large smile on her face. When WayneWayne gave her a shocked look, which answered her question, she let out a squeal and then turned to Dak, her eyes wide with excitement. "Now all you have to do is get Rhu to go out with you and then the two of you guys can go on double dates and get engaged at the same time and have a double wedding and-"

"Don't you think that you're jumping a little too far into the future?" Dak asked, raising his eyebrow. He then looked amused as he shook his head at Dak. "Why couldn't she be more tomboyish like Katie instead of more girly? I think I could handle that for a sister better."

"I think that's also one of the reasons why you like Rhu so much," WayneWayne replied. "Since you know she wouldn't be as high maintenance."

Lizzie faked an indignant gasp. "I am not high maintenance!" She leaned over and punched WayneWayne on the arm.

"Can't you control your sister?" WayneWayne asked, rubbing his red skin.

"You know as well as I do that she can't be controlled," Dak laughed. "But you finally asked her out, congrats," he grabbed onto WayneWayne's shoulder and lightly shook it.

"Can I tell Katie?" Lizzie asked, her head bent and her fingers already moving over the keypad to her phone.

"No, don't!" WayneWayne cried, causing Dak and Lizzie to both look at him in shock.

"What?" Dak looked curious. "Are you scared or something?"

"No, it's not that," WayneWayne rubbed the back of his neck. "Honestly, it's because I'm not sure how Kendall would react to it," He said. "Since they're best friends and all." Dak gave him a skeptical look. "Not that I'm scared of him or anything, I don't know, its complicated. But I figured; screw it, if he doesn't want to be my friend, that doesn't mean that we can't at least be civil to each other." He paused. "And I'm hoping that she would bring it up to him instead of me." He paused, turning back to Lizzie. "You can tell Katie, just tell her not to tell Kendall. I'll find a way to tell him eventually."

"That's the spirit," Lizzie said encouragingly. "Not everyone can like you and you can't force it either. It's his loss if you ask me." She then stepped over to her brother and looped her arm around his waist, leaning into his side. "It must suck though," she said. "Since you've been going after Rhu for years and she still says no when you ask her out."

"Not really," Dak said with a smile. "I know that the feelings are there, it's just a matter of time until she decides to give it a chance. She's still going to be my friend anyway." His smile widened. "Besides, maybe us getting our own place will impress her even more." He laughed along with WayneWayne and Lizzie as the latter shook their heads.

Can't blame him for being consistent.

"Wally?" WayneWayne turned around and saw his mother waving him over, still dressed in her work clothes for the office. She had obviously just gotten home as she was leaning against the doorframe to take off her heels. WayneWayne walked over to his mother, giving her a curious look as he approached. "I didn't mean to eavesdrop, but are you really going to be taking out Riley soon?" WayneWayne made a face. "I just couldn't help but get the feeling that you two weren't as close as she claimed you were," she said calmly.

WayneWayne felt something shift in his stomach. Does she know?

"Now you're going out?" Mrs. Dooley continued.

"I just asked her today, yeah," WayneWayne replied slowly. "Why? What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Mrs. Dooley said quickly. "I, personally, don't think that it's a good idea."

"What?" WayneWayne looked confused. "Why not?" He hadn't seen his mother act like this before. All of the friends that he had, even eh ex-girlfriends that he had, she seemed to be perfectly fine with. She was even friendly when she first brought Riley over to the house to introduce them, after she gave him a ride home from getting a book for his sister. But a short while after that, her demeanor around her and her siblings changed and he didn't have the slightest clue why. Now here she was, basically telling him that he had little to no taste in girls at all.

"I just don't think that she's right for you, and I'll leave it at that," Mrs. Dooley said, looking hard at her son. The two looked at each other for a moment before she turned to go back into the house. "Dinner's ready. Now that your friends have rudely decided not to come, don't expect anything other than Beef and Potatoes for leftovers for a while."

WayneWayne frowned and followed his mother inside.

A/N: Sorry this chapter is kind of short and very dialogue most of my other stories, I wanted to get right to the plot point with this story because I usually have a habit of drawing it out too long in the first five-ten chapters. So I did it in the first two. Oh and just so you know, I haven't decided yet, whether or not this is canon with our timeline (where Riley goes out with WayneWayne for a short bit while Kendall is going after Lucy). It would make sense and it could work, but at the same time, it depends on where this story goes.

I'll update again soon.

Cheers,

-Riles