A Simple Love Story. Not!

I did a quick intake of breath, having everything click together in my head.

Oh my god. I'm in love with my best friend. How boring and unoriginal is that?! Oh wait, just found out I was in love with Joe...not the time to think about originality.

"What's wrong?" He asked me with worry in voice from the intake of breath that I thought was a lot quieter than it really was.

"Umm...." I struggled with words to try and figure out what to tell him.

I just found out I loved him, I'm not gonna tell him. Plus, we aren't even dating...that would be weird.

He pulled himself away from me a little bit to look at me in the face from how I was trying to buy time.

"Ohh...ummm...nothing. I just...." I looked at everything but him, hoping something would help me think faster. "I just got a chill that's all." I quickly said and then laid my head down on his shoulder again.

He simply nodded his head before resting his head back on mine and pulled me closer to him to keep me warm.

That was a close one.

Although having his arms around me did make me 'warmer', it just made me a little depressed, thinking that he didn't think about me the same way.

He nuzzled his head into mine for a little bit and I heard him take in a deep breath, my curly hair surrounding his face while he whispered, "I missed you a lot." into my ear.

I smiled widely from hearing that and slowly moved my head away from to look at him, giving him time to move his head and not hit him. "Really?"

He let out a small laugh before nodding his head and smiling at me.

"I really missed you this past month or so. Not being able to see you and stuff really got to me. I mean, sure we had the phone and stuff, but it just isn't the same as this. I like this."

A huge smile made it's way onto my face from his words as I slowly nodded my head in agreement.

"I know what you mean. I like this too. And I missed you a lot as well."

He smiled sweetly at me, making my head spin, and then leaned forward and kissed my forehead. Sure...it was a little weird that I counted to 6 in my head until he let go, but I really wanted that kiss to be someplace else at the moment.

The song finally ended and I sent him a smile, unlocking my hands from around his neck and non-chalantly rubbing my forehead where he held his lips for 6 seconds.

I turned aroud to make my way back to the table when Joe grabbed my wrist gently and I turned aroud and looked at him with a confused look on my face and asked him a quick, "What?"

There was nothing more that I wanted at that point in time, the way his eyes bored into mine, that I wanted him say, "I'm crazy about you. I love you. Be mine. Forever." but then he looked away and any hope that I had that he might say that vanished.

"You umm...." he stated and then looked down at the ground quickly before looking up and around the place before his eyes landed on me. "You look really great tonight."

I sent him a smile while saying, "You don't look too bad yourself Mr. Jonas." and he smiled while laughing at me a little bit.

"I like your skirt too." he said, letting go of my wrist to point it out to me.

I looked down at it quickly before looking back up at him while saying, "I figured you would.", sent him a sweet smile and then turned around and headed towards the table, finally being able to breath steadily for what felt like hours.

The last hour and a half went by pretty smoothly besides me keeping my distance from Joe.

I was really freaked out about what Nick said. I had to tell Joe eventually, but I didn't really know if I actually loved him or I just liked the way I felt when he was around.

Is there really a difference?

Kevin and Nick seemed to notice me distancing myself from him, in fear that I might blurt out my new found feelings for him, and they kept trying to get me talk to them about what was going on but I always found a reason to get away from them.

"I love this song!"

"I'm gonna go get something to eat really quick."

"Oh wait. I gotta go to the bathroom."

Nick already called me out on my feelings for him and I really didn't want to admit to him that he was right. Plus, I just found out that I loved him, I wanted to actual bask in the feeling for a few minutes before getting questioned by the guys two brothers.

Everyone had left, for the exception of myself, Ally, Duckie, Liz and the Jonas'. Duckie and Liz's parents left when it was around 1, telling us to behave and reminding us that we had to come clean up tomorrow morning.

I looked around myself to see Kevin and Nick being the only people still awake at 3:00 in the morning. Everyone else was passed out besides the three of us.

Liz was currently sleeping on Kevin. They both had their legs propped up on the same chair while they sat next to each other on other chairs, her head resting on his shoulder while they both had their arms wrapped around each other torsos.

"So, should we clean this up now...." Ally started and then yawned. "Or wait till tomorrow?"

"Ugh...don't say we have to clean!" Duckie groaned out while snuggling into Ally's shoulder while Ally leaned onto Nick.

I barely even heard them talking since I was too busy staring at Joe. Yet again. His was sitting in the chair next to Nick who had a now sleeping Ally on him while she had a sleeping Duckie on her back. I couldn't help but have a small smile form on my face from seeing Joe sleeping.

He was out cold with his head rolled back and his mouth slightly open. He had one arm stretched across the back of the chair that was on the side of him that was empty, his hand dangling off over the edge and it twitched every few seconds. He had his other hand laying in his lap and one leg was thrown up on a nearby chair while the other one was stretched out on the floor.

He was way to adorable for me not to look at him, and for his own good.

And then a hand popped out of nowhere, making me break my daze that I had on sleeping Joe and I followed the hand to the arm and the arm to the person.

Nick.

I should've known.

Once he saw that he had my attention, he laid his arm back down in his lap before rubbing Ally's side with it and was smirking a little bit while he shook his head at me.

I glared at him while mouthing a "What?" to him and he simply mouthed back, "You know!" while pointing at me, then to Joe and then back to me.

I just rolled my eyes from this still, "We need to talk about what's going on thing?" going on and looked over at Liz and Kevin, unfortuantly, and Kevin saw Nick and I's little exchange and then pointed to himself, Nick, and then me and then did the talking motion with his hand.

I again rolled my eyes before mouthing the word, "Later." to them and hoped that they would forget about it all together. Although, neither of them would.

For the past month of trying to plan this whole surprise for Liz and Ally, I really got to know the boys. Well, I already knew Joe, but I got to know Nick and Kevin better. Kevin treated me like the little sister he never had, aside from how girly Joe was about getting ready in the morning, and Nick always went to me for advice about stuff. Kinda like I was his bigger sister he never had.

I sighed and then got up from my seat, stole quick glance at Joe before I started cleaning some of the cups and plates up, and tried to be as quiet as possible so I didn't wake up Liz, Ally, Duckie or Joe.

As I started putting some of the pretzals and chips into bags that Liz's parents left, I noticed someone walking towards me.

I laughed slightly from seeing Joe rubbing his eyes to wake himself up and tripping over his feet slightly to make his way towards me.

"What are you doing?" I managed to whisper to him through my quiet laughter and then turned my attention back towards the snack packing I was doing before he came over. "I thought you were asleep."

"I was until Nick kicked my chair and told me to help you clean some stuff up cuz Ally was asleep on him and Liz was asleep on Kevin. So I'm here to help." he said while swinging his arms around, waiting for me to tell him what to do.

"You don't have to help. It's no biggie. I got this." I said while keeping my head down and my hands busy.

It was insane how now that I know how I feel about him, I still can't control myself. It's like I'm more nervous around him now that I had been before. And I really didn't like that. I never got nervous around guys, so why was Joe any different now?!

"Did I do something wrong?" he asked me a few minutes later, grabbing my wrist and making me look up at him with a confused face.

"No. Of course not!" I said to him. "Why would you think that?"

"Just cuz you have been avoiding me ever since we danced and you didn't even look at me when you were talking before. You always look at me when you talk to me. I've noticed that about you. No matter what you're doing, you always look at the person you're talking to, and you weren't just now." he said back to me and sadly, I could hear the pain in his voice from me not looking at him when I was talking to him.

I let out a loud sigh and looked around the room quickly before looking back at him.

"I'm sorry Joe." I stated while putting my hand on my forehead. "I'm just really tired that's all."

He smiled sweetly at me and nodded his head in understanding before moving his hand from my wrist down to my hand and grabbed it while saying, "Then let's all leave and come back early in the morning to clean this up." and then turned around for me to follow him.

I really was tired and with him holding my hand, I was relaxed for the first time after we danced.

How is it that the guy who made me all nervous and anxious, can also make me relaxed when holding my hand? It doesn't make sense!

A half hour later, everyone was their appropriate sleeping quarters. Liz and Duckie were at home, Ally and I were home and the boys were back at their hotel and I was more tired then ever.

Ally was already in her room, probably passed out already, and I was changing into my pajamas and then quickly crawled into bed. And right as I shut my eyes, my phone started to vibrate on my desk.

I groaned while rolling over to check what time it was on my alarm clock and read the red neon lights say that it was 3:48.

Who the heck is texting me this early in the morning?

I quickly threw off my comforter and made my way back over to my desk to grab my phone and not to much surprise, I saw Joe's name underneath the little envelope.

I didn't even bother to open and read it because I was so tired and a little irritated now.

It was almost 4 in the morning and he's texting me. No.

If I don't answer, he'll think that I'm asleep already.

I made my way back towards my bed, after setting my phone down on my desk, and right when I crawled back into my nice and warm bed, my phone went off again.

I threw my comforers off of me while huffing out a "Joe!" under my breath in a threatening tone as if he was able to hear how upset I was and that's when I heard it.

"What?"

I froze mid-step and stared at my door for a few seconds before running to my phone and opening up the text message that he sent to me saying, Open your door

I took in a deep breath and held it, not really knowing what to do at this moment.

He's here. Outside my bedroom door. How he got in...shit! I didn't lock the front door. Gah I'm an idoit!

Irritated with myself and the fact that it was going on 4 in the morning I made my way over to the door and ripped it open to see him leaning up against my door frame, a smile coming onto his face from seeing me. But it quickly went away when I grabbed him by his shirt collar and pulled him into my room and shut the door behind him.

"What are you doing here?" I whisper yelled at him while he took a seat on my bed.

"I..." he said while looking at me and then looked down at my bedspread, picked at it for a few seconds before looking back up at me and saying, "I actually don't know. I just wanted to see you that's all." and then started to take his shoes off as if I told him to make himself at home.

I crossed my arms over my chest while glaring at him before snapping, "At 4 in the morning you wanted to see me?" putting all my weight on my right hip to show him how upset I was with him.

"Well...yeah." he stated as if it was obvious as ever. "I haven't been able to see you for a month and now that I have the opportunity, I want to see you." he explained and he almost had me melt. But then he continued with talking. "Nice pajamas by the way." he finally finished while laughing slightly and checking me out in an obvious manner to have me look down and see what he was talking about.

I looked down and noticed how half naked I practically was, wearing a 'Hello Kitty' tank top with matching black booty shorts, causing myself to blush a deep shade of red for a few seconds.

How f-ing embarrassing! Here's the guy, that I'm in love with, who doesn't know it, at 4 in the morning and wants to see me and what am I wearing?! Booty shorts! Great. Just f-ing great!

I quickly turned around after having my anger with him go away and started going through my closet to cover up and then Joe said, "Wow this is a tough decision. I can't tell if I like seeing your smile or butt better."

I whipped around and glared at him for a few seconds while his smile fell from his face.

"I said I like your smile, not a glare and now I think about it, I liked the other view better."

Completely forgetting about wanting to cover myself up, I crossed my arms yet again, put all my weight on my right hip and said, "Seriously Joe. Why are you here?" and tapping my foot impatiently for an answer.

"I already told you. I just wanted to see you." he simply said.

"But at 4 in the morning, when I'm tired and in my pajamas?" I asked him back, my anger starting to subside from seeing him have his head hanging low from me being mad at him.

I couldn't be too mad at him. I mean...it was really cute. He wanted to see me....

"Hey, at 4 in the morning is when girls are naturally beautiful. They don't have all that make up on and they are most likely sleeping so they can't talk." he said and laughed slightly at the end to show that he was kidding.

I couldn't help the small bit of laughter emit itself from my throat before I shook my head and crawled into bed behind him.

"Well, I'm tired, so if you don't mind, I'd like to get some sleep. Either sleep on the floor or downstairs on the couch. Good night." was all I said to him before smothering myself in my comforter to try and get snuggly and warm for bed.

"What? I come over at 4 in the morning and I can't even sleep in the same bed as you?" he shot back at me and I laughed from hearing flabbergasted he was. "As I distinctly remember about a month ago when you first met me, you said and I quote 'Ya know, if you get uncomfortable down there, you can sit on my bed. It is a queen you know." he stated while holding up his index finger, making him look slightly smarter and also a lot more dorkier.

I stared at him for a few seconds before I bit my lip and then threw the comforters off of me and muttered a, "Fine. Get in." and then rolled onto my side so I was facing my wall, my back towards him.

This is going to be hard as hell. How am I supposed to sleep with a guy that I love and have him not know? Ugh! Could life get any harder?!

I felt the bed dip in on his side, indicating that he was on the bed after he pulled his shirt off along with his pants and leaving him in his boxers, and then he pulled the comforter over the two of us and making me warm again.

It was unusually silent between the two of us for a few minutes, and the silence was making me fall asleep quickly. I let my eyes drift shut and right when I was about to enter dreamland, I felt Joe stir a little on his side of the bed and he leaned over me, making me snap my eyes shut and try to even out my breathing.

"Good night Beautiful." he whispered into my ear and somehow, I managed to stop myself from shuddering from having his breath hit my neck. But my stomach was sent into somersaults from hearing him say that.

I wanted to say something back to him, but the only that came to mind was telling him that I loved him, so I laid there, perfectly still and counting to 2 in my head for every breath I took in before I let it out.

After what felt like forever, he sighed and leaned back over to his side of the bed and I relaxed a little bit in my fake slumber and let the whole night play back in my head.

From Joe saving me from that creepy guy, to the two of us dancing and his kiss that he gave me for 6 seconds on my forehead.

The last final thing though that I had floating around my head was how amazing it felt to feel his arms wrap around my waist and pull me closer to him, his breath hitting my neck as he nuzzled his head into the pillow and some of my hair.

Yep. I'm definitely in love with this boy!

The next morning I woke up to laying partially on my side and also partially on Joe's chest. One of my arms was resting on his chest next to my head while both of his arms were wrapped around my waist to keep me close to him.

I pushed myself lightly up off of him a little bit to look at him and I couldn't help but smile at how cute he looked sleeping there.

He looked like an angel.

His hair all dishevled from probably moving around in his sleep last night. His soft pink lips looked perfect and it looked like he was smiling slightly by the very small upturn of the corners of his lips. His eyes turned up very slightly and his long eyelashes curled up slightly as well. His nose was absolutely adorable and I fell in love with that alone before moving back to his lips.

I felt so safe in his arms being wrapped up in them and right as I was about to lay my head back down to just lay there and dream about what it would be like to wake up like this every morning, he opened his eyes quickly, shut them, brought one of his hands up to rub them quickly before opening them again.

"Good morning Sunshine." he croaked out from not using his voice and stretched a little bit.

"Good Morning! Did you sleep good?" I asked him with a smile and then rolled onto my side to get off of him so he could stretch some more.

He yawned out a yeah and then said, "I slept great. What about you?" and then brought his arms back to himself and rested them on his bare stomach.

"Amazing." I said with a smile as I rolled onto my stomach, buring my face into pillow and no later than 10 seconds later, Joe was laying right on top of me.

"Joe...can you...get...off of..me?" I managed to say in between shallow breaths.

"Are you calling me fat?" he asked back in a fake offended tone while rolling off of me.

"No, I was taking in a deep breath when you laid on me and I couldn't get my full air supply." I explained while turning my head to look him and sending him a smile.

He laid down next to me on his stomach as well, and turned his head to the left so we were looking at each, the pillow covering half of our faces while he muttered a small, "Sorry."

We looked at each other for a few seconds before I realized how he wasn't even blinking. It was like he was staring at me and I could feel the increase in my heartbeat just from his stare.

"What?" I laughed out nervously.

"Nothing." he stated while shaking his head. Or at least attempting to. "You just look really pretty in the morning." he finished and then sent me a small innocent smile.

"Ha. Ok." I laughed sarcastically. "Whatever you say." and then I rolled my eyes at him and turned my head away from him to look at my wall.

"I'm serious. I think you look really pretty in the morning." he said while starting to poke me in the side with his finger, causing me to giggle slightly before saying, "Ok. I believe you." and then turned my head back towards him while he ceased his poking.

The two of us just laid there for 5 more minutes, staring into each other's eyes and when I saw a small smile form onto his face, I wished that I would've made a stupid super power wish last night to become a mind reader so I knew what he was smiling about.

Suddenly he pushed himself off of my bed and leaned onto his elbow and looked down at me as I jumped from how quick he was and how much he scared me from just doing that, a strand of hair falling out that was tucked behind my ear and onto my face.

I went to reach up and tuck it back in place because I wasn't ready to give up this staring moment with Joe, but he beat me to it.

His calloused fingers lightly brushed against my cheek, making the blood rush to the area and show itself as his hand trailed from my cheek to behind my ear, my heart pounding so loudly in my chest that I was surprised that he couldn't hear is since that was all I could hear at the moment. His finger then grazed from behind my ear back to my cheek and followed my jaw all the way to my chin and I swallowed hard from having to prevent myself from blurting out that I loved him, or commanding him to kiss me.

"Ok!" I said really loudly, putting an end to our moment and quickly got up off of the bed, going to my closet to get some clothes to wear for the day while simulataneously trying to stop my skin from tingling where he had touched me.

I heard him let out a loud sigh as his body hit the bed as I pulled out a yellow t-shirt and jeans, bra and underwear and said over my shoulder that I was going to go take a shower really quick and get ready for the day, all the while trying to slow my heart beat back down and walk straight. My legs felt like absolute jell-o at the moment, and it was all because of him.

The day was pretty uneventful to say the least.

Joe got reemed at by his brothers for not telling them where he went last night, or early this morning, I should say, and Kevin and Nick managed to corner me and made me talk about what happened last night. Eventually, I told them that I was falling for Joe, and quickly, and Nick busted out in a little joyous dance while singing, "I was right, I was right." But they promised not to tell him and Nick instantly changed the subject on how to ask Ally out while Kevin went back to cleaning up.

"How about....you get her a whole bunch of balloons and you write like, "Will you be my girlfriend-" I cut myself short from seeing Joe making his way over to us.

"I'll think of something." Nick muttered and then took off towards Ally and Duckie to help them with the garbage.

"So, I came to a conclusion that at my birthday I'm going to have everyone wish with me for super powers." Joe stated upon reaching me. "That way I might get them." he finished, proud smile on his face while holding the garbage bag, he had in his hands, open for me while I threw some plates and cups in it.

"Ok Joe." I managed to say without laughing. Although it did come out sarcastic. "You keep thinking that."

He then scoffed and proceeded to be 'mad' at me for 15 minues until I apologized to him for hurting his feelings and doubting his wish, and then conversation just seemed to flow for us after that.

It wasn't awkward or weird or anything, and I really hoped it wouldn't be now because he had to say goodbye.

I remembered the last time we said goodbye to each other. Right after the time we kissed. He gave me a kiss on the cheek and told me it wasn't a "Goodbye." It was a "See you later" because we would be seeing each other again. Goodbye's meant that you won't see that person ever again, See ya later's meant you would see them later, no matter how long of a time frame it might be.

"Well, ummm, I guess have a safe flight. And umm...you can text me or something when you get back to California. But ya know..only if you want." Ally stuttered out to Nick while giving him a hug.

"How about I call you when I get back to California?!" he asked her sheepishly with a smile which she returned after they broke apart from their hug.

"Ok. Sounds good." Ally said to him, smile wide on her face before she quickly leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"And since I don't know when I'm going to see you again...." Nick trailed off while looking down at the ground and sliding his foot across it slowly, a small blush creeping up onto his face.

"So....what?" Ally asked, her giggly state of mind gone to be replaced with a confused one and I couldn't help but laugh from how nervous and yet cute the two of them were around each other.

"Well..." he started and then grabbed her hand that was hanging by her side. "I'm gonna kiss you." he stated after taking a deep breath to calm his nerves. "But only if that's ok." he said quickly afterwards, afraid that he might offend her if she didn't want one.

"Ok." Ally managed to choke out through her huge smile that was on her face and that's when I looked away to give the two of them privacy for their first kiss. Plus, I didn't want to see my sister kissing a guy, no matter how much I approved of them together. I turned my attention onto Kevin and Liz but quickly swept my eyes over them since they were having a very intimate moment, and looked over at Joe and Duckie saying goodbye.

He gave her a quick hug and a small kiss on the cheek before turning and walking towards me and my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my chest from seeing him walking towards me with a giant smile on his face.

He bent down and wrapped his arms around my hips and lifted me up into the air while I wrapped my arms around his shoulders to steady myself before he put me back down.

"Hey you." he said seductively, sending my heart into overdrive as he pulled me into him for a hug and I managed to sigh out a "Hey." back at him while my head was still spinning.

"Well, I guess this is another see you later. I had a lot of fun. And don't forget about my birthday! Mind reading or invisibility!" he said to me, shaking his finger at me to make me remember.

"Joe, you're birthday is in the same month as mine, which is 7 months away. I don't think I'm gonna forget." I laughed out while he simply shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whatever. Then we're both going to wish for that on our birthdays!" with a small laugh.

I nodded my head and said an "Ok. Fine." while laughig softly as well.

"I hope I get to see you relatively soon." he said, pulling away from me just enough to see my face. "Although we are going to be pretty busy for the next couple of months with filming some parts for Camp Rock and then being on tour again after that. But we'll keep in touch and hey!" He said, sounded more enthusiastic about the new idea that popped into his head. "Maybe you can come out to California for a while and stay with us or something while were off in the summer!" he finished, clapping his hands together at the part of me possible coming out and staying with him and his family.

"We'll see Joe. Let's just make it through the next couple of months. You might get sick of me by then." I said with a chuckle as he scoffed and pulled me in for another hug.

"I could never get sick of you. I love you too much!" he stated and then kissed the top of my head, having my heart pound dangerously in my chest from hearing those words leave his lips.

Sure...it's not the same love I'm feeling for him...but it was a start.

"Well, I love you too Joe." I stated to him while giving him a hug back and then Nick's voice broke us apart, telling him that they had to go.

He nodded his head sadly and then turned towards me again while saying, "See you later." and gave me a kiss on the cheek along with one more hug before he let go of me and made his way over to Ally and Liz to say goodbye to them and I made my way over towards Nick and Kevin.

We had a three way hug as the both of them said, "You have to tell him." in each of my ears, causing me to laugh slightly from how precise they were with their timing on that statement. "I'm not going to now. I'll tell him next time I see him. Ok?"

They both gave me skeptical looks as they pulled away from me and then Kevin nodded his head and Nick pointed his finger and said, "You better!" before all three of them started to make their way through security. Waving back to all of us girls with smiles on their faces.

All 4 of us were crying, Liz moreso than anyone else and Kevin blew her kiss before they were out of sight. We huddled together and hugged it out and when we all were in control of our tears, we made our way to our cars and went our seperate ways back to our houses, thinking about the boys.