A Simple Love Story. Not!

"So, on behalf of this lovely opportunity to hang out once again, I think that we should do something fun and exciting!" Kevin said to everyone.

We were all laying around in over-sized chairs and couches at mine and my sisters house for about 2 hours after Joe and I returned from the mall.

Kevin was spread out in a chair that was in the left corner of the room while Nick was leaning somewhat on the arm of the couch, absent-mindedly playing with Allys hair because she was laying on his stomach and Duckie laying on hers. I was seated on the loveseat next to Liz while Joe was on the ground, leaning up against the loveseat and it was rolling onto about 4 now.

"Ok, what should we do?" Kevin asked while standing up and clapping his hands, trying to motivate all of us since his before statement didn't get any response from us.

"Wisconsin is pretty boring, I'm not gonna lie!" I said after yawning while Duckie quickly brought up an idea of ice skating.

"Yeah, that could be fun!" Kevin said somewhat excitedly that someone else was trying to get out of the house and do something.

Liz and I looked at each and nodded while shrugging our shoulders and I got up to go get a sweartshirt, but I instantly fell from something grabbing my ankle.

Not even bothering to get up and already knowing to my question, I asked what the heck just happened.

After a few seconds of listening to everyone choke on their laughter, except for Joe who was laughing loudly, I rolled over onto my back and glared at him.

Trying to think of anything to get him back with, I simply smirked and said, "Now you're not allowed to go ice skating with us." but my smirk quickly left my face when Joe rolled over to me and straddled my waist while he held his hands up above his head while telling me to take it back.

"Or what?" I asked with a laugh as I tried wiggling out from underneath him, but almost immediatly after the words left my mouth, he stricked and started tickling my sides, causing me to wiggle around even more underneath him.

After a few seconds of my begging from him to stop, he told me to take it back at again and my stomach couldn't take it anymore so I quickly said, "Fine! You can come!"

He smirked down at me from still being on top of me from my quick surrender and I struggled to get out from underneath him and after no avail, I asked him if he could please get off of me so I can go get a sweatshirt for our ice skating fun.

"What's the secret word?" he said to me in a sing-songy voice with a smile and I looked up at him with a confused look, still trying to get out from underneath him and when I couldn't get him off of me I took a guess.

"Umm...Please?"

He didn't move an inch.

"How about Joe is the Greatest!" I asked after a few seconds.

All he did was smile slighlty while saying, "You're getting closer!"

"Joes' Awesome!"

"Almost!" he said back to me and I gave up, not knowing what the heck he wanted me to say, so I quickly devised a plan to get him off of me.

I slowly contorted my face to make it look like I was scared and slowly lifted my hand to point to the ceiling while screaming "SPIDER!"

Joe instantly jumped off of me and was down the hallway in a blink of an eye, accompianed by Ally and Duckie who were afraid of spiders as well.

I got off the ground and couldn't contain my laughter from seeing all of their faces and laughed out, using the wall for support, "Oh, come on guys. They are more afraid of you then you are afraid of them."

"That was not funny!" Ally pracitcally yelled and she actually sounded really upset for once and the tone of her voice brought my laughing to a dead stop while I engulfed her in a hug to make it up to her.

"I'm Sorry. I just wanted to get Lard Butt off of me." I said to her while nodding my head in Joe's direction but as soon as he realized what I said, he came running at me, making me abandon Ally's hug and run up the stairs while laughing.

I spared a glance over my shouldr, only to see Joe smiling while chasing afer me and I couldn't help but laugh a little even more from how un-upset he was about me calling him a lard butt.

As I mde it to my room, I tried to shut my door, but he managed to stop the door and stood in the doorway with an evil smirk on his face.

I looked around my room, realizing I just cornered myself unless I could get past him in the doorway, but from the way Joe was standing there with a smirk on his face, he knew he had me.

"I take it back!" I quickly said while throwing my hands up to show that I surrendered but he only took a step towards me while lightly pushing the door shut behind him and hearing the small click of it, proving that it was shut all the way.

I took a step back to counter-act his step but I felt my bed hit the back of my knees and I knew that I was going to get tickled like crazy in a few seconds, but he took another step towards me, making me completely forget that my bed was behind me and I attempted to take another step back, only to fall onto it and Joe to run and jump onto my bed next to me while I squeezed my eyes shut, getting ready for him to tickle me, but it never came.

I slowly opened up one eye and then opened the other to see him leaning on his side, his face cupped in his hand while looking down at me with a smile on his face and I couldn't help but ask him what he was thinking about.

"Nothing...you just...you amaze me that's all."

Feeling the blush rise up on my cheeks, I let out a nervous laugh while quiclky getting off of my bed and making my way over to my closet to get a zip up sweatshirt for ice skating.

After much deleberation, I narrowed it down to two sweatshirts, one white fuzzy one and one baby blue one and I turned around and asked Joe which one he liked better while holding one up to me for a couple seconds before putting the other one in front of me.

"Which one is softer?" he asked back and I gave him a confused look before holding up the white fuzzy one and then asked him why it mattered which one was more soft.

"Put it on." he answered me, completely dodging my question.

I rolled my eyes and let out a sigh before turning around to put the blue one back and then proceeded to put the white one on.

Upon zipping it halfway up and flattening it out, Joe's arms wrapped around my waist and I couldn't help but smile from feeling a whole bunch of butterflies come to life in my stomach, looking at the reflection of my mirror that was on the back of my door.

Joe's head was right next to mine, with a huge smile plastered on his face before leaning down a little bit and having his chin rest on my shoulder while rubbing small circles with his thumbs agaisnt my stomach, making me catch my breath.

Damn, we make a cute couple!

"So I can do this!" he whispered into my ear while giving me a quick squeeze and I looked at him in the mirror with a confused look while letting out a very confused, "Huh?"

"You asked, why did it matter if the white one was softer, and I said that this is the reason why it would have to be softer. So I can give you hugs from behind." he said, whispering into my ear.

His sentance sent chills up and down my spine while saying that and I couldn't help but blush a little bit from how close he was to my cheek, his lips hitting it slightly from when he whispered in my ear.

I practically chocked out the next sentance, but it came out none the less.

"I love hugs from behind. They are the best."

I leaned slightly back into him, just to take in the moment and trying to ignore my tingling body and my nerves.

"And why's that?" he whispered back, rocking me slighlty from side to side, his lips lighlty hitting my cheek from his words which just caused more tingles to run through my body while a heat flash occured from having to contain my nervous giggles.

"Because they are so unexpected and I love that feeling. It's like a surprise." I said while opening up my eyes to look at the reflection again to see him smiling widely at me before he stopped his hug from behind and turned me around to face him.

My heart felt like it was going into overdrive from how fast it was beating and I was pretty sure my blush was definantly noticable at this point in time, but there was nothing I could do. Nothing that I wanted to do. I wanted to be here with Joe like this...whatever situation we were in.

Romantic and extremely suspenseful maybe?

The look in his eyes at the moment made me want to melt right there and I couldn't get my head to think straight as he brought me a little bit closer to him when he wrapped his arms arms around my waist while smiling adoringly at me.

And right as he leaned his head in towards me and I fluttered my eyes shut, I heard the click of my door and we instantly jumped back from eachother to see everyone in the hallway, eyeing us suspiciously.

Ally was in doorway, smirk presant on her face and it became an extremely awkward standing there getting the questoining stares from everyone before I finally piped up and said that we should get going.

"Yeah!" Kevin said excitedly as I made my way from my bedroom towards them after stealing a side glance at Joe to see him blushing slightly with a guilty looking smile on his face.

I couldn't help but smile either from what would've happened as I made my way down the stairs towards the living room to grab my purse and opening the front door for all of them to file out of the house since Big Rob was waiting outside in the SUV for us thanks to Kevin calling and letting him know what was going on.

"Come on guys! Lets go!" I said having them all file out, Joe being the last one who stopped and looked at me for a few seconds before walking out the door.

I shook my head and looked the door behind me and right as I put my keys in my purse and turned around, I was picked up and thrown over someone's shoulder in a swift fluid motion.

"What the heck?!" I laughed out while trying to squirm out of my assaliants hold but that only caused Joe to let me know that the more I squirmed the more likely he would drop me so I stopped and just watched my pathway make it's way past and then an idea popped into my head.

"You know, I have probably the best view right now, you know that right?" I said as a smirk creeped across my face and I used some of my stomach muscles to look up at him to see him look behind him to look at me slightly before laughing and saying, "Yeah, I know I have a great butt, what of it?"

I tried to contain my laugther from hearing him say that and said "I wasn't talking about your butt, I was talking about the snow. I've never seen it looks so pretty before in the sun."

"Oh, you like the snow, huh?" Joe asked rheotorically and I already knew what he was about to do before he already did it.

"Well, here!" he said as he bent down a little bit to dip my face into the snow.

I couldn't even say anything to him becuase I already knew he was going to do that me and the fact that we made it to the SUV so he let me get in before he trailed behind me to go ice skating.

* * * * *

"Ow! That one hurt really bad!" Joe yelled from the ice as he pouted out his bottom lip while rubbing his butt.

I couldn't help but laugh before checking my surroundings again.

There wasn't a lot of people there, only about 4 or 5 so we practically had the whole ice skating rink to ourselves. Plus, it was really fun to watch everyone around myself ice skating.

Nick only fell about 2 or 3 times, but Ally was there trying to help him up, but in turn ended up falling herself.

Kevin and Liz were barely skating for how slow they were going, but it was cute watching them both wobble slighly and squeeze each other's hands to steady themselves.

Joe had fallen.

A lot.

And as I was looking at Kevin and Liz who were slowly making their way around the rink and wondering if they were dating, Joe had fallen. Again.

"OWWWW! That one was the worst I think!" he yelled from the ice and then just sat there. "I don't like this whole skating thing. I think we should go do something else."

"Like what?" I asked him back as I came to a halt in front of him to help him up.

"I don't know, but not something that consists of me falling a lot."

"Well, then I guess we just have to go back to the hotel and do nothing because you're going to fall no matter what we do." Nick said clinging onto Allys arm as she guided him over to where the two of us were.

I couldn't help but laugh at Nick's statement and went to go give him a high 5, but Joe grabbed my other hand and yanked me down to the ice and making me land right on my butt.

"Now that, was funny!" Joe said as he started laughing while I glared at him while I slowly started to get up.

"Ok, fine. We will do something else, but you have to get off of the ice first." and before he could grab me and yank me back down onto the ice, I skated out of his reach while Nick and Ally did the same, all of us laughing.

We all made our way over to the little doorway, laughing slightly at the sitting Joe who was currently whining about how he couldn't get up without help, making us all laugh a little bit more.

After about 10 minutes or so of silence from the skating rink, I started to make my way back to go help him but instead, I saw the image of Joe running, that's right, running on the ice in his sock with his ice skates in his hands.

"Please put your skates back on Sir!" a booming voice said over the announcing system, but it was pointless since Joe was practically off the ice and all I could do was laugh.

"I..cant...feeell mmyyy...feeeet!" he said, in between his chattering teeth.

"Well, then you should've kept your skates on!" I shot back at him, doubled over in laughter from the fact that he got yelled at over the announcing system.

"I couldn't get up with them on, plus they were hurting my feet." he said, after sitting down next to Duckie and rubbing his feet a little bit to warm them up.

After the whole fiasco of an employee coming over to yell at him but then realized who he was and asked if she could have his and his brothers autographs we all decided to head back to mine and Ally's house for hot chocolate and some grilled cheese sandwiches.

We sat down to watch a movie after making a complete mess in the kitchen, thanks to no one else but Joe from wanting to help, we popped in Shooter and eveyrone took to their seating arrangements while I went to go make a couple of bags of popcorn and bring out drinks for everyone.

Liz and Kevin were laying on the loveseat, him against the back of it while Liz was wrapped up in his arms.

Duckie sat on the couch with Joe and myself while Nick and Ally were laying on their stomachs on the floor.

Everything was fine and dandy until the part where Mark Wahlbergs character had to make his own IV and I turned away from the TV, not being too fond of needles while muttering "Tap me on the shoulder when it's done!" and then squeezing my eyes shut and plugging my ears to not hear or see anything.

A couple seconds afterwards though, I felt a hand cover my eyes and an arm wrap around my waist while being pulled into something warm and solid.

I looked up to the side slighlty and noticed Joe watching the movie intently and I couldn't help but smile widely from his little action of 'protecting' me from the needle scene.

About a minute passed before a felt a soft tap on my knee from bringing my legs up to curl myself in a little ball and Joe nodded his head towards the screen to tell me the scene was over with, taking my hands away from my ears and relaxing a little bit in Joe's arm and side.

10 minutes passed by and when Joe's thumb started tracing small circles on my hip bone, I realized that he still had his arm around me while he grabbed a couple kernals of popcorn from the bowl and I whispered to him, not to disturb anyone, that he didn't have to have his arm around me anymore.

He just shrugged his shoulders, eyes glued to the TV screen and I let out a mock upset sigh before moving out of his grip but he pulled me back into him and whispered, "I know I don't have to, but I want to."

And with that said and his final movement from his arm for him to get comfortable again, we sent each other a smile before we both returned to watching the movie.