.:Chapter Four:.

"So baby brother, where are you taking Girlfriend for your date?" Natalie asked as she stood behind her brother. WayneWayne rolled his eyes as he continued to run a brush through his hair. "It better be someplace good, you need to make a good impression on her since this is your first date even though you've been together for so long."

WayneWayne was about to correct her, but then remembered to keep his mouth shut. Sometimes he forgot that they had been fake going out for so long, according to his family. But that was only because he was used to seeing news of relationships in Hollywood all over the internet, the only blessing that he could find about being on a kid's show was that no one really cared what he did. Yes, mothers and kids cared about the things that he did in his private life, only because the adults wanted him to be a good role model for their kids, and the kids thought that he really was the Orange Ziggle Zaggle and couldn't distinguish between a character on a show and himself.

He didn't think it was going to be as complicated trying to keep things quiet, but was quickly proven wrong when he had to come up with lie after lie to get his sisters off of his back. Of course, it didn't help that his mother was constantly asking loaded questions and giving him strange looks when he answered to the best of his abilities. He was sure the stress was going to get to him at some point.

"That's really none of your business, Nat," WayneWayne replied. He turned from the mirror and placed his brush on the dresser before crouching down to tie his shoes. "But since you brought it up, I'm not going to look in the rearview mirror and see you and Jaycee following us am I?"

"Maybe." Natalie gave a teasing smile. "But that's just so we can be sure that you keep your hands to yourself." She rapidly raised and lowered her eyebrows. "Then again, if you don't, that may be a good thing, too." She shrugged. "You risk crashing the car but…" she reached out and shoved WayneWayne's shoulder. "What a way to go, right?"

WayneWayne couldn't help but blush as he turned to ace his sister. "You do that on purpose don't you?"

"Yyep!" Natalie grinned. "But it's not my fault that you get embarrassed so easily." She reached out and pinched WayneWayne's cheek in her hand.

WayneWayne slapped her hand away. God do they have to do that? He started to leave the room, Natalie trailing close behind him. "Ok, Nat, you know I love you, but you really got to leave me alone sometimes." The two went down the stairs towards the living room. Their mother was in the kitchen, washing dishes. "I can make my own decisions and I don't need you and Jay to constantly be breathing over my shoulder."

"But it's so fun!" Natalie said.

"Fun for you, maybe," WayneWayne retorted.

"Exactly!"

WayneWayne let out a sound of frustration, although he could feel himself starting to smile. He knew that his sisters liked to tease him and make fun of him; it was part of the territory as being the youngest. And he could admit that there were times that he liked to be babied by them; they were a lot closer than his annoyances with them would show at times. But was it bad to feel that he needed his space sometimes? He wanted to try and find a way to tell them that he wanted to move out, but he wasn't sure how his mother or sisters were going to react and whether or not he would actually get the guts to say it. At least he could distract them with the façade that he was putting up.

Saved by the bell, WayneWayne turned to go to the front door. He noticed that Natalie was following close behind him, again, and walked faster to reach the door first. He grabbed the doorknob and wrenched the front door open. "Hey!"

Riley opened her mouth to say something, but stopped when she saw the look of urgency on his face. "Are you ok?" She asked, gently tilting her head to the side. "You look kinda sweaty…and…weird." She placed her hands on her hips. "Not that's any different from usual, but-"

"Quick!" WayneWayne grabbed her arm and started to pull her out the door. "Before they see you and stop to ask a million questions!"

"Wait a minute!" Natalie suddenly appeared in the doorway, grabbing onto Riley's other arm. "You can't think that you're going to leave this house without talking to me first." With one tug, she pulled WayneWayne and Riley back into the house. Riley shook off Natalie's hand and backed up, rubbing her arm, looking at them silently.

Damn it! This isn't going to end well, WayneWayne ran a hand over his face before glaring over at Natalie; she just winked back at him before leading the way to the living room. Natalie sat down on the couch and motioned for Riley to sit next to her, but she opted to stand, her eyes darting around the room as she continued to rub her arm. "Nat!" he hissed.

"So where were you two planning on going tonight?" Natalie asked, keeping her eyes on Riley, ignoring the glares that WayneWayne was sending her way.

"Oh, the same place we were when we decided to start going out," Riley said smoothly. She gave a half smile. "The mall."

WayneWayne nearly laughed out loud at the horrified expression on Natalie's face. "The mall's not such a bad place Nat," he said, walking over to stand next to Riley. "I mean, there's the food court, all of the stores, the…fans…" he trailed off, briefly wondering if he would rather deal with the fans or with his sister's overly psychotic, stalkerish tendencies whenever he brought a girl around them. At that point he was rooting for the mall.

Natalie jumped at the bait. "You don't want to deal with the fans? Then have your date here!" She threw her hands into the air, as if she just had the best idea in the world. "It's original, it'll be perfect. How many people have their first date at the house?" She reached out and grabbed WayneWayne, pulling him onto the couch before doing the same with Riley. "You two sit here, I'll get you something to eat."

WayneWayne placed his face in his hands as Natalie scurried out of the room and towards the kitchen. He heard cabinets open and close, glasses clinking, and the water turning on and off. She came back, setting the glasses of water down on the table in front of them before leaving again. "Remind me to kill her when I get the chance," WayneWayne said, his voice muffled from behind his hands.

"Not if I get there first," Riley commented. "No offense," she added quickly. "It's just…"

"I know, you don't like having a lot of attention on your and my sisters stick to like glue when you're around." WayneWayne pulled his hands from his face and looked at her apologetically. "Look, I'm really sorry about-"

"You don't need to apologize." Riley snorted. "Technically this whole thing is my fault anyway." She glanced down at her hands, running her fingers over each other. "If I had kept my mouth shut and didn't get so freaked when I first met them, we wouldn't be in this mess."

"Oh, that wouldn't make a difference," WayneWayne said. "Cause they latched onto you after they found out about Dak's thing about Rhu. They figured that if there was something going on with those two, then there was something going on with ush." He scratched the back of his neck. "You just reinforced it after that, so it's not really…" he dropped his hand, chuckling. "Yeah, it's kinda your fault." Riley reached out and smacked him on the arm. "It's not much of a date though," he said. "Considering Nat being here and my parents upstairs."

Riley's cheek twitched. "Yeah, well, it's not like it's real, remember?" She lowered her voice, in case Natalie was listening to them. "I figured that it's basically, only a couple of more week and then we can convince them that we broke up or something, so we don't have to worry about it anymore." She lifted her eyes and scanned his head. "In fact, I'm surprised your hair hasn't fallen out from stress yet."

"That's not funny," WayneWayne said.

The two laughed lightly.

"Look, I don't blame you if you want to get out of here," WayneWayne said, motioning towards the front door. "I'll cover for you." He studied her, noticing that she was still rubbing her arm, gently biting her lower lip. Her knee was bobbing up and down and her eyes continued to shift. Something flashed across her face before she looked at him, relief shifting the first emotion away.

"That'd…be great actually," she said slowly. "Not that I'm trying to get rid of you or anything-"

"It's alright, I understand," WayneWayne said. The two got to their feet and headed towards the door. He raised his voice, so he was talking to Natalie. "Don't worry about the food, Nat, something came up and she has to leave."

"Oh!" Her footsteps echoed from the kitchen. "Are you sure?" Her head popped around the corner. "I was just about to leave you two alone." WayneWayne studied his sister, looking for signs of deceit, but saw nothing but sincerity in her eyes. Though he wasn't sure which reason.

"Yeah, she's sure," WayneWayne replied. The two walked into the foyer. Riley turned to say something to WayneWayne but her eyes shifted behind him. WayneWayne turned to see that Natalie was still watching them. "Ah…" WayneWayne rubbed the back of his neck as he turned to face Riley. He could tell from the look on her face that she had seen his sister as well. "I could be wrong about this, and I really hope I am…" he crossed his arms over his chest. "But I think she's waiting for us to..uh…kiss."

Riley's eyebrows twitched and she frowned for a moment, causing WayneWayne to lower his eyebrows in confusion. She put her hands into her coat pockets and turned away from him for a moment before turning back. "Well, they're going to have to get over it," she said. "Cause, frankly, the fact that she hung around, waiting for something to happen, and forced us to have a not-exact-date just made things even weirder than it already was." WayneWayne smiled and nodded. She then reached out and pressed an index finger to his chest. She raised her voice, so Natalie could hear them. "Just look at it this way, Dubs. Repressing desire can only make it more powerful. So the next time I see you, we are in for one hell of a titanic kiss." She turned towards the door to leave.

"If I can survive the wait," WayneWayne replied, playing along. He reached out and grabbed onto the doorknob, opening it for her.

Riley shrugged. "It's not waiting, WayneWayne, its anticipation." She gave a short wave and started to walk down the steps towards the driveway. But then she stopped in her tracks and turned back around, looking up. WayneWayne, who had started to close the door, stopped and waited for her to come back to him. "Eh…" she shrugged again, her eyes shifting up for a moment before resting on WayneWayne's face again. Something flashed in her eyes. "Screw it."

She placed a hand on his neck and the other on his arm, standing up her tip-toes to kiss him.

WayneWayne tried to ignore the feeling of his sisters' eyes boring into his back and concentrated on the show that they were putting on. He figured that if they could get through that night, he'd be able to do it for real soon.

THE END

A/N: So I found a way to finish this story. I changed the overall plot that I had for it to be put into the sequel, only because I feel that this story is better just to show/imply things that'll happen in the next one. And that's also because I didn't fully think about how this story was going to go when I first started writing it. So that's why it ends so abruptly. The main reason I brought this back is because I don't like leaving stories unfinished, but also because I figured since they have a more laid-back relationship, I should have somewhat of a humorous story between the two of them as you can see with his family. That being said, this story ends here when they go on their first 'date'. (I only say it like that, because, technically, it's not real).

This story will be redeemed in the sequel since I have so many things from the timeline that I didn't show here; how Riley is feeling about Kendall going after Lucy and how that affects things with WayneWayne, Riley telling their friends that they're faking and how the guys react, everything that goes on with his mom, everything that goes on with his sisters, his family's reaction to the news of her and her siblings' abuse, and how seemingly simple, yet complicated their relationship is (especially since they're not really together yet).

So, essentially, it could be considered a prequel story, and then have More To Life actually be the real story, which'll be up soon.

Cheers,

-Riles