A Simple Love Story. Not!

I went upstairs to my room and decided to change from the whole bubble incident and the fact that my shirt was semi wet from mine and Joe's fiasco in the kitchen.

Joe.

Just thinkig about him made me get butterflies in my stomach and my heart to beat fast.

Wow...that hasn't happened to me since Andy....Wait a minute! Does that mean that I like Joe? Oh my gosh I can't like Joe....no. He's like...he's like my best friend besides Megan and my sister. That's just so wrong...on so many different levels! Oh my gosh...I can't like him. No way, no how!

Trying to get my heartbeat back to normal since I had a mini panic attack about my feelings for Joe, I went to go reach for a random shirt to wear and right as I did, my phone started vibrating, indicating that I had a new text message.

I opened it up and smiled, just because I love the little envelope icon and clicked 'ok' to view it and it came up as DJ Danger.

What the heck?!

After a few seconds, it clicked in my head that it was Joe since that was his nickname for the party.

Don't even think about changing. You're wearing that top, but you can put on a skirt if you want. ; )"

I couldn't help but laugh at the perfect timing of his text message and text him back.

At first I didn't know who DJ Danger was but then I remembered that it could only be you. Lol. And I was just about to change but not into a skirt! Fine, I'll just air dry my shirt then since you got it all wet!

I set my phone back down and took off the pink shirt that I was wearing to throw it in the dryer for 20 minutes just to dry it off when my phone went off again.

Haha, you know you liked it and I'll see you in about an hour and half.

I laughed lightly and just shook my head slightly from his text and then closed out of the message icon and when I was just about to close my phone I saw that my background and banner was changed.

My background picture, that used to be of my sister and I making faces at my phone, was now the picture Joe and I took together 3 days ago in the SUV and the Banner said, "JAJisawesum!" and I couldnt' help but laugh for a few seconds before texting him really quick.

I like how you think your awesome and want to put it on my phone with your picture on it. Lol.

A few second later he text me back asking, What? You don't think I'm awesome?

I sent him a simple text message that consisted of one word.

No. and then a few second later just to syke him out, I sent him one saying, I think you're amazing. : )

After recieving a text message that consisted of a smiley face and, "I think you're pretty amazing too." I decided to give it a rest and just go relax and watch TV for bit before I had to go meet his parents.

About an hour later, Ally walked into my room, looking cute with her bangs pulled back with some clips and had a long red sweater on with some black leggings on underneath with some black flats.

"I'm all ready to go." she said with a smile while I got up and went to grab my jacket and purse while saying a quick, "Ok...let's go."

I didn't know why, but my stomach was going into flips.

Why am I so nervous about meeting his parents? It's not like we're dating or anything. We're just best friends...but still. And it's not like it's the first time I've meet someone's parent's before either. Oh my gosh...what the heck?!

Everything seemed to be hitting me full force as I was making my way down the stairs to get to my car.

I freaking met him 3 months ago online and now....I just met him 3 days ago, he's seen me cry 3 times, met all my friends, saw me completely trashed, and yet still wants me to meet his parents. This is all spinning way out of control. Or....is there something there? Oh my gosh...listen to me spaz about and then think that there's the slightest possibility that Joe Jonas, a famous rockstar, who has been like my best friend for the last 3 months, actually like me. Gah...I'm such an over-reactor.

"Lets go! We don't want to be late meeting them all for the first time!" Ally said anxiously, trying to get me to hurry up and unlock the doors for us to get in.

I quickly called Joe up after I started my car to let it warm up a bit to ask him where he was staying.

"We're at the Best Western Hotel off of Water Street and 6th and in room 203. Just call me when your outside the hotel room. Oh! And grab your swim suits! We might go swimming later."

I mumbled a quick, "Ok. See you soon" before turning to look at Ally who was giving me a confused look and then asked me what was going on.

"Joe said to bring our swimsuits cuz we might go swimming later on today." I said to her and she still looked at me while asking me again what was going on....it was her way of saying, "Tell me the real problem so we can fix it asap."

I let out a scoff when she didn't let up on her look and I opened my car door, her following suit while I said, "I'll tell you on the way there." to answer her question and re-entering the house to get our swimsuirts.

Once we were back in my car and on our way to the hotel, I explained everything to her from at the mall, to the party to what happened last night and the fight this morning and then the weird way he was looking at me during breakfast and why I was so nervous about meeting his parents.

"I think you're stressing so much because you really like him and-"

"What?! I don't like him!" I snapped at her while she put her hands up to defend herself.

"Just hear me out ok?" she said calmly while I turned my attention towards the road again to let her continue.

"You like him. And you don't want to admit it because 1. he's your best friend and you don't want to ruin that relationship with him and 2. it scares you a little because of the whole Andy situation. You haven't gotten that closure yet and you feel guilty for liking another guy and meeting his parents and all." she explained to me as I sat there in silence.

We only had about another 10 minutes until we would arrive at the hotel so that meant that I had 10 minutes to finish this conversation, try and to act normal and get rid of my nerves for meeting his parents.

"I don't like him." I stated after about a minute of silence passed between us in my car and she looked over at me with the, "You've got to be kidding me!" look on her face.

"I can't like him. He's Joe Jonas. It's unrealistic." I said, more to convince myself and yet failing miserably from having it laid out in front of me thanks to my sister. So instead of thinking about it even more and making myself sick to my stomach, I opted for what I do best.

I joke.

"Yo, that's illogical. I can't have it!" I said in a deep voice mimicking Nick from the Year 3000 video the boys made years ago, which made both of us crack up, releasing some of my nerves from everything that was out in the open now.

I like him. And that's not good.

"Yeah! Were here!" Ally said while clapping her hands from seeing the hotel sign come into her view and my joke that I made wasn't so funny anymore.

I instantly felt like I was going to throw up right there and my stomach felt like it weighed 20 pounds alone from it getting filled with nerves.

We headed into the hotel and was shocked to see so many paprazzi waiting in the front lobby, probably trying to figure out which room the Jonas's were in.

We quickly and noncahlantly walked past them and went to the elevator and hit the number '2' button and then called Joe to let him know that we were in the elevator as we spoke.

"Ok! Knock three times and then say that you like jellybeans." was his response to me telling him where we were and even though I wanted to ask him why I had to do that, I knew better.

It was Joe...there was my explanation.

We found room 203, knocked three times and said we liked Jellybeans, and the door flew open to a smiling Kevin.

"Hey girls." he said while waving us into the room and shutting the door quickly behind us while we said a quick "Hi." back to him.

No longer than about 15 seconds of being in the room, Joe ran in from the connecting room, and jumped onto one of the beds, landing on his stomach and saying, rather seductively with a smile on his face, "Hey You." and giving me a wink.

Ok...don't get me wrong....I liked it. After ya know, admitting to myself that I actually liked Joe Jonas, but still, it was still kinda weird that he did that. I mean...he knew how much I liked friends and Ross and Rachel used to say that all the time but come on?! It's like...

I swear...there's a microphone in my car and he heard me admit that I liked him and now he's using it against me.

I managed to choke out a "Hey." while trying my hardest not to blush while Ally said a quick hi to him as well before being led into the other room with Kevin and I faintly saw a woman come and give her a hug while saying hello.

Joe quickly got up from the bed and came and stood next to me, my eyes glued to the doorframe that let me see the woman hugging my sister and he simply whispered in my ear, "Don't worry. She's going to love you. She already does." and then grabbed my hand gently and led me to the room where I was assuming everyone was.

When he grabbed my hand, my nerves seemed to wash away only to be replaced by butterflies and a warm sensation running through my body. The starting point, our hands that were locked together and I knew that a goofy smile was coming across my face.

I didn't have much time to dwell on any other feelings that I was getting from his hand around mine because before I knew it, I was standing in a room that had 6 people in it, half of them I had yet to meet.

Joe quickly squeezed my hand and then let go and took a step behind me and put his hands on my hips, making me blush scarlet red from how touchy he was in front of his parents and yet we weren't even dating, and said, "Steph, this is mom, dad and Frank the Tank."

I let out a nervous laugh and brought my hand up to wave quickly while saying a very awkwad "Hi." to them, only to have his mother stand up from her seat that was currently next to Ally and say, "Oh, come over here. That's not how we say hello to the boys friends." and pulled me into a hug.

Just from her giving me a hug, I instantly felt more at ease, as creepy and weird as that sounds. His dad came over and gave me a quick hug as well while Frankie, who was jumping on one of the beds, jumped off, came over to me, gave me a quick hug around my legs and then went back to jumping on the bed.

After that, Joe went over to the table that was in the corner, not after having his hand brush agaisnt the small of my back, and propped his feet up onto the table and leaned back in his chair since everything seemed to be going smoothly.

I mentally yelled at him for leaving me so unprotected after a few moments of just meeting his parents.

Frankie would be easy, I was always good with kids..but parents...they scared me. Not them persay...but meeting the parents scared me. Especially after having meet Joe 3 days prior to now.

"Joseph! Get your feet off of the table. That is so rude!" his mother scolded him while taking a seat on one of the beds next to my sister while I slowly sat down next to Kevin who was on the ground in front of the TV.

"So, Stephanie." Mrs. Jonas started again and then leaned over and hit Joe's legs off of the table since he put them back up on it once she said my name. "We've heard a lot about you the last couple of months. How did you and Joe actually meet again? I forgot." she asked while chuckling slightly while saying the, "I forgot." statement.

I tried to stifle a laugh since Joe hissed at his mom to be quiet and gave her an irritated look but she just waved him off.

"We met in a chat room about 3 months ago and were talking ever since then." and I sent him a smile which he returned almost instantly and then I mock glared at him, biting back my laughter when he looked at me completely confused. "And I didn't even know who he was until 3 days ago when he finally told me."

She let out a small laugh and then turned to Joe and slapped his leg since he managed to get his feet up on the table again and then mumbled something to him, which I assumed wasn't good because he put his head down on the table like he got scolded for something.

"Well, I'm going to go set up the food that we have for you guys in the other room and just call you over whenever it's done. I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to talk in between now and before we leave." she stated with a sweet smile before exiting the room, Mr. Jonas at her heels.

"I know a girl named Stephanie from back home." Frankie said to me after a jump and then he stopped and landed straight down on his butt.

"Really? Do you like her?" I asked him back with a smile on my face.

At least he won't have a hard time remembering my name.

"Not really. She's kinda mean." he said and then picked up the remote to change the channel to some other show.

I let out a nervous "Oh." since kids his age always associate other people with the same name to be the same as the other person they know.

"Yeah." he sighed out and then leaned forward onto his elbows. "But she always is taking things from me whenever we play at the park and stuff. But I like you. You're pretty...and so is your sister." he said while turning off the TV from not being entertained by it and then looked over at Ally and I with a smile.

"Well, thank you Frankie. I think you're very handsome and come here. I have a secret for you." I said while curling my index finger towards myself for him to come over.

"I think you're the cutest out of all your brothers." I whispered to him and his face instantly lit up with a huge smile.

"Cool!" he said excitedly while Joe asked him what was cool.

"I know something you dont know." he started to sing in a mocking tone and I couldn't help but laugh when Joe got up and started chasing Frankie around, telling him to tell him what I said and all Frankie ever responded with is, "You can't handle the truth!"

Once the food was set up in the other room, Mrs. Jonas called all of us over into it and we all sat down and talked for a little bit while we ate and when we were done, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas said that they had to go get some little things for the road and that they were going to be leave in a little more than 5 hours to get to the next concert.

"Make sure you keep an eye on Frankie at all times! Oh! And don't forget, we're leaving at 6." she said to the boys as she closed the door and sending Ally and I a giant smile before she was out of sight.

"Can we go swimming now? I want to go swimming?" Frankie asked once the door was closed and he turned to look at his brothers.

"I don't kno-" Kevin started to say reluctantly but Joe cut him off by saying, "Of course we can! Go change!"

"Are you sure this is safe? I mean, you're parents just left and there is a whole bunch a paprazzi down in the lobby. Well, there was when we got here." I pointed out to them and Kevin and Nick both looked somewhat scared. Joe on the other hand just let it all roll off his shoulder.

"Don't worry about it. We'll go down in two groups of three and plus, we know the secret way to the pool that doesn't involve us going through the lobby." he said and then sent me a wink while Nick and Kevin both let out sigh but went to go change nonetheless into their bathing suits.

Kevin, Nick and Ally went first and they all had towels wrapped around them as they walked down to the pool area while Frankie, Joe and I waited in the room for a couple minutes before heading down.

"I'm so excited to go swimming!" I heard Frankie say from the other side of the bathroom door since I was changing and I quickly heard Joe say, "I bet I'm more excited than you!" and when I left the bathroom, Joe and Frankie were wrestling on the floor, laughing away.

We quickly left the room after they were done with their wrestling match, Frankie declaring himself the winner, and when we got down to the pool area, I saw Ally laying in one of the pool lounge chairs while Nick and Kevin were shooting baskets.

Frankie immediatly threw his towel that him and Joe decided to tie around their heads and went straight for the deep end to do a cannonball.

"He knows how to swim right?" I asked Joe quietly while keeping my eyes on Frankie to make sure he wouldn't get hurt.

"No." Joe said nonchalantly and I snapped by head over to look at him, my eyes wide from his answer. "But he'll have to learn sometime."

"Oh My Gosh Joe!" I yelled while turning to go into the pool to help Frankie since he was about to jump but Joe grabbed my hand and pulled me back into him. Right into his chest.

Oh my gosh.....

"I was kidding." he laughed out when I managed to get my footing back and was standing up straight. "Like I would actually let my little brother jump into the deep end knowing he can't swim." he said with a laugh and then grabbed my towel from me and put them down on one of the chairs while I glared at him.

"That wasn't funny Joe. I really thought you were serious." I huffed out at him while punching him playfully in the arm and he just rolled his eyes at me, sent me a smile before walking over to the deep end to join Frankie in another cannonball.

I walked over to the stairs that led into the pool and let my foot hit the water, just testing it out and it was slighly cold. I was just going to walk in slowly and have my body get used to the tempeture but Kevin came over to me and asked me with a smirk on his face, "Ya know, there's only one way to get used to the water right?" and I yelled at him.

"Don't even think about it!"

And when I went to turn around to get out of the pool, Nick and Frankie were standing there while Joe swam over to be by Kevin and I knew what I had to avoid getting dunked under m my own free will.

Right as I was mentally preparing myself for it not to be really cold, I heard a scream come from by the chairs and my attention was averted to see Nick carrying Ally bridal style over to the edge of the deep end.

"Nick...I swear-"

And then he jumped in and submerged her under the water and I couldn't help but laugh from the fact that Ally absolutely hates getting thrown or dropped into pools.

"What are you laughing about?! That's going to be your fate soon!" Joe lunged towards me but I quickly dodged him and went under water to get myself completely wet.

"You're no fun!" Joe whined once I resurfaced and I couldn't help but laugh at the dejected faces on both Joe and Kevin's faces from them not being the ones to get me wet.

"Nicholas Jerry Jonas!" Ally yelled as soon as she resurfaced and I couldn't help but break down into laughter from seeing her so mad at him while he chuckled at her response.

"I hate you!" she yelled and then splashed him but he spalshed her back before I knew it, we all were splashing each other and laughing our heads off.

"Let's play some basketball!" Frankie said excitedly once the splashing stopped.

"Yeah...let's get a little three on three action." Joe said and then wiggled his eyesbrows at me and I couldn't help but laugh slighlty.

"Captian!" Nick and Kevin yelled at the same time and then they divided us up.

After a lot of flirting between Joe and I since he always covered me and kept picking me up whenever Nick or Ally passed the ball to me, and also a lot of cheating on Joe's part and then Frankie and Kevin's, the game was done.

"You guys totally cheated with the splashing!" Nick yelled, trying to defend his team that consisted of Ally and I.

"Whatever...you're just a sore loser!" Joe shot back while Ally and I laughed.

We all played a couple rounds of Marco Polo, which Joe cheated yet again because he kept getting out of the pool to get away from people and by then I was a little tired.

"I'm just gonna relax." I said to them and quickly got out of the pool while Frankie talked Ally into doing some jumps with him off of the side, Nick and Kevin agreeing to jump with them as well.

"What's up?" I asked when I felt some water droplets hitting my legs and I opened my eyes since I was relaxing.

"Nothing, wanna go in the hottub with me?" Joe asked with a smile on his face and extended his hand to help me up.

All I could do was smile and grab his and from how absolutely hot he looked with his wet hair and the fact that he had water droplets on his amazing chest.

Joe instantly walked straight into the hottub while I took a seat on edge and let my legs in it.

He looked over at me with a confused look on his face for a few seconds from across the hottub and then he finally asked, "Why aren't you in here with me?"

"Hot tubs make me get lightheaded." I simply explained with a smile before looking over to the pool to see Ally and Frankie having a Splash War with Nick and Kevin and I chuckled a little bit before looking back at Joe who was staring at me straight faced and I lifted my hand to touch my face.

"What? Is my make-up running or something?"

"No." he said while shaking his head and then sent me a smile. "I'm just having a lot of fun, that's all." he simply stated and then looked down at the water to Was that a blush?!/i]

I could feel myself blushing from thinking that he was possibly blushing and looked down at the water as well, and after a few seconds, Joe came over by me and stood right in front of my legs while having his hands rest on my knees that were slightly sticking out of the water.

I knew I sucked in a large amount of air from feeling his hands on my knees and I couldn't help but smile at the same time, despite the fact that I was so warm and the butterflies that were in my stomach hours ago when I got here, now turned into birds because my stomach was fluttering so much.

"Can I...." he asked softly and I looked up at him through my eyelashes, hearing my heart beat in my ears from hit beating so loud.

"Can I try something?" he asked me just above a whisper as he moved closer to me, one of his hands leaving my knees to move up to my face and landing on my cheek.

..................

I couldn't even think straight at this point in time. My head was spinning like crazy and my breath was getting caught in my throat from how nerve-wracking I was getting from something that didn't even happen yet and yet I knew it was coming.

I gulped...a loud obnoxious one and nodded my head once, thanks to my vocal chords failing me and he sent me a sweet smile while letting out a small laugh before he moved closer to me and closed his eyes.

I followed right then with mine as his hand lightly pulled my face closer to his and then it happened.

"Who is that?"

"Joe is that your girlfriend?"

"How long have you been dating?"

Questions were getting thrown at us left and right and lights were going off and I snapped open my eyes the second I heard the first voice while Joe grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the hottub, running for our towels while Ally, Nick, Frankie and Kevin were doing the same.

"Meet back at the room asap!!" Kevin said quickly while grabbing Ally's arm since she was right next to him before taking off in one direction and Frankie and Nick in another.

I didn't even register what was going on, just haning onto Joe's hand for dear life and before I knew it, we were out of the pool and running down the hallway to get away from all the paparazzi.