• Schools out, baby!" I screamed to random people passing me. I walked out of the school to find all of my friends by my car, where we said we would meet after school. I was so excited that I ran right behind my boyfriend Joey, the older brother of two of my best friends, and jumped on his back.
    "You should really warn me before you do that." Joey said, laughing. Joey and me have been together since the beginning of the year. His sisters, Scarlet who is my age, and nick, which is a year younger, have been my best friends since, well forever. I have always liked Joey more than a friend since about the 8th grade. My junior year, his senior year, he finally realized he liked me back. And we've been together ever since.
    "Three years done, one year to go!" I said really loud. I looked around at my friends. They all looked so happy, which made me smile even more.
    My friends and I are like one really big family. We each take care of one another. It’s really good to have a "family" like ours. You see, my brother and I never had a real family. My mom left us after my brother and I turned 8 years old. My dad fell apart after that, so my brother and me were sent to live with my dad's friends, which happen to be Joey’s parents. But that's enough about my past.
    This summer, my friends and I are going on a road trip from Chicago to L.A. You guessed it, we will be traveling on Route 66.
    "Man, tomorrow we are leaving!" Joe said. He's my best friend, so we put up with him. I was bouncing around the parking lot by then. Yesterday, Joey said he had a surprise for me after school.
    "Joey! Joey! Joey! Come on, come on, and come on!" I said, pulling him towards the car.
    "Gee, calm down, you are acting like a little kid." Dylan said. I stopped in my tracks and stared at him.
    "What did you just say?" I asked in a serious 'I can't believe you just said that' kind of voice. He stared back at me for about a minute before looking to Joe for help. Joe just shrugged at him.
    "I'm sorry mew." Joey said. I looked at him again. I disliked, no dislike is too nice of a word. I hated when he made fun of my excitement for anything. Or when he tells me to calm down. I just got in the car without saying anything back to him. I took out my iphone, put my ear phones in and put it on full blast. About halfway through a song, Dylan, Cory, Scarlet, and nick got into the car. My phone started to ring. I was getting a text from Joe, Scarlatti’s boyfriend. You see, Scarlet doesn't have a cell phone yet, so I get all of Joe's calls and text messages for Scarlet until she gets one. The text from Joe was: 'Tell Scar I'm sorry I wasn't there. Thanks.' I turned around to face Scarlet in the backseat.
    "Joe says he's sorry he wasn't there today after school." and I turned back to the front.
    I was looking out the window when I felt Joey’s strong hand cover over mine. Even though we've been going out for almost nine months, my heart still beats faster when he's even near me. I smiled at him.
    "I'm sorry, mew." he said. I couldn't quiet hear him, but I could read his lips.
    "I'm sorry too." I said to him kind of loudly. He smiled back at me, flashing his pearly whites. I turned back to the window with a huge grin upon my face.
    When we got to our house, well their house that nick and I lived at for nine years, Joe was sitting on the porch, waiting for her to get out. 1
    "Joe bear!" Scarlet yelled running towards him. Joe blushed at his nickname given to him when Scarlet and him were 5 years old. Everyone knew those two were going to end up together, but they were to clueless to realize it until Scarlet was a freshman and Joe was a sophomore.
    "Schools out baby!" I yelled, practically in Joe's ear. He put his finger into his ear.
    "Great, I graduated and become deaf." he said. Everyone laughed at this.
    "Oops, sorry Joe bears." I said, holding my breath, trying not to laugh. We all headed for inside. I was about to step inside when someone's hands fell around my waist. I turned around to have Joey’s lips pressed onto mine.
    "Well, hello to you too." I said after a little bit, kind of out of breath. He smiled at me again without a response. I looked at him, "What? Do I have something in my teeth?" He laughed at me and shook his head.
    "Do you know what tomorrow is?" he asked. I knew what tomorrow was. Oh, I knew all right. I know what your probably thinking and let my tell you one thing, NO! It has nothing to do with a bed or darkness.
    Tomorrow was our nine-month anniversary. It was the night Joey was going to say 'I love you'. Well, at least that’s what nick said. He said that Joey had talked to him about it. I thought he would freak out but he really can't argue because my twin brother is going out with Joey’s youngest sister, nick.
    "Yes, I remember what tomorrow is. It's the first day of summer." I said happily. After I said that, Joey’s smile left his face.
    "That's not what I was actual-" I put my finger over his lips.
    "It's also our nine month anniversary. Don't think for a second I would forget." I said giving Joey a quick kiss and skipping inside to join the others.
    "Wakey wakey!" I shouted around the house. I went to each door and heard a few groans. I went over and knocked on mew’s door.
    "mew, it's time to wake up. mew?" I said walking in. I looked around the room but there was no sign of her.
    "Mew? Are you here?"
    All I heard was quiet. I ran out into the hallway.
    "Joey!" I screamed. I was starting to freak now by now.
    "Joey, what's wrong? Would you stop your yelling." he said with sleep still in his eyes.
    "nick, I can't find mew. Do you have any idea where she went?" I said. I usually don’t freak out like this, but mew isn’t like this. She doesn’t just take off like this.
    "Okay but yea, I do know where she went, but I promised not to tell you." he said.
    "It's fine. Just as long as I know that she is safe. She's safe right?" I asked. nick nodded and went back to bed. My blood pressure went down and I went into the living room. I must have dosed up to sleep because I was awaken by mew's face above mine. I was so happy to see her that i pulled her into a big bear hug.
    "Joey, whets wrong?" she asked. I pulled back and planted one right on her. She was surprised at first, but she got over the surprise.
    "Whoop, get a room." I heard from behind us. We broke apart to see Joey and nick laughing at us.
    "Yea, well, your mom." Joey said. mew elbowed me, "Nice come back." she whispered. Then she laughed and shook her head. She got up, left the living room and left me with the two others. called me about 10 minutes after I got home. 2
    "Eli, come over."
    :" I actually was going to just hang around my house for the night."
    :" Come over. Please. I am bored."
    :" Okay, fine. I will be there in a little bit"
    :"Okay, bye" nick said and then the line was dead.
    'Well, I have nothing else to do tonight.' I said to myself. I grabbed my cell phone and started for nick house.
    "Hurry up guys. She's here." I screamed to everyone. Joe, Scarlet, Joey, mew, nick and nick were going to go out the backdoor and leave me to surprise Eli. We haven’t seen each other in about six months and I need to see her. Everyone was still hanging around, just to annoy me, when the doorbell rang.
    "Ah, the doorbell rang?" Joe said. Everyone looked over at him. Scarlet, who was sitting next to him, patted him on the head.
    "Good job Joe. Now next week we will learn the ABC's." she said, making everyone burst out laughing, which made my face turn red.
    LEAVE ALREADY!" I yelled with anger. Everyone looked at each other and scurried out. I walked over to the radio to turn on "No Air" Eli's favorite song. I heard the door open and I bent down behind the couch.
    "hello? Why is it dark in here? Hello? nick? scarlet?" Eli said, looking around the room. I took the stereo remote and pushed play.
    "What the...?" she asked, confused. By then I was behind her and I covered her eyes with my hands.
    " Who-who's there?" she asked as her voice shook.
    "Oh my god, Nick!?" she said taking my hands off her eyes and spinning around. When I looked at her smile and a tear fell from her eyes, I could tell that I belonged here. She threw her arms around me and I thought she was never going to let go. But that didn't matter, after I saw how happy she was, that’s all I wanted to do, make her happy.
    "What are you doing here? Well that doesn’t matter. Oh my god, I missed you so much. I can't believe your he-" she went on and on.
    "Eli." I said calmly.
    "I mean, what about the tour? Oh my god, is Joe, Kevin and Frankie here? You didn't leave the tour because of me, did you?" I interrupted her a second time.
    "Eli."
    "So how was the tour? I want to hear all about it. What's wrong? You haven’t said anything." she said looking at me. Then all of a sudden, I had this feeling to want to kiss her perfect lips. So what I did next was so unlike me, but I pulled Eli closer to me and pulled her face closer to mine. Then I kissed her. At first she didn't do anything, so I felt I would have to go hid in a rock under the ocean floor like Patrick in sponge bob. Then all of a sudden she was kissing me back. After we broke apart, she looked at me and smiled.
    "I have missed you so much, Nick Jonas brothers." she said, leaning up against me, with her head on my shoulder.
    "I have missed you too." I said, leaning my head on hers.
    "Hey, why don't we just stay in tonight? How does that sound?" I asked Eli. She moaned like she was sleeping.
    "Sure. As long as I'm with you." she said.” nick much?" I asked with a laugh. She got up and slapped my arm."Hey!""I never said that I didn't like corny." I said putting my forehead to hers. She laughed her laugh that fills my heart with joy every time she laughs. We settled down for the night after that.
    Later that night.
    "Eli, I think your sitting on the remote." I said, holding back laughter.
    "Nikkei not sitting on it. I checked already.” she said, looking under her again.
    "I know. I have the remote in my hands. It was just funny to watch you look." I said, now laughing.
    "hey, you can be such a jerk sometimes." she reached over and moved some hair out of my face and then slapping me on the forehead.
    "Hey,ouch. I am going to have a bruise from you. And it's just from spending the afternoon with you. Just think how it will be when I spend the rest of high school with you." I said, and then realizing what I said, and slapping my forehead.
    "What? The rest of high school?" Eli asked, with an adorable confused expression on her face.
    "Yea, I'm staying here. It was going to be a surprise." I said. Her face filled with excitement and she gave me a hug.
    We settled down after our surprises with a movie. About halfway through the movie, it started skipping.
    "Look what you did, Eli. Now, you are paying for hitting me. You have to watch the movie in slow motion." I said. She raised her hand and then set it down again.
    "Okay. Fine." she said. I gave her a hug and we settled down onto the couch to finish watching the movie.
    "So when are we leaving today?" nick asked.
    "I have no idea. I will call and ask Joe. He's the one that is bringing us." I took out my phone to call Joe and the other Jonas brothers.
    hello?"
    Joe I have a question for you."
    Joe, what's up?"
    what time are we leaving today?"
    K:"I was thinking around like 12:00. Does that work for you?"
    you know Joe 10;00
    ok, we will be over then."
    , bye."
    bye." We both hung up and I turned back to Joey and nick.
    "We will be leaving around noon. So go and pack if you already haven’t." I told them as I walked up to mew's room. She was sitting on her bed reading a book. Typical. She is always reading a book or something.
    "Hey there beautiful." I said as I walked in. She looked up and smiled.
    "Hey you. Think of any better come backs?" she asked with a little chuckle.
    "Haha No"I said putting my head down.
    "Come here. It's okay. That's why you have me as your girlfriend. I always have better come backs." she said laughing. I playfully pushed her and she fell off her bed. She landed with a thump.
    "Ohm god! Mews are you okay?" I asked, hurrying to the side of the floor she was on.
    "Yea, I think so. I don't know. Can you help me up?" she asked. I took her hands and pulled her up.
    When she stood up, she stepped on her right foot and picked it back up.
    "Ouch, Joey. My ankle hurts. I can't walk, ouch, on it." she said.
    "Ok, ok. Just hop on my back. I will carry you downstairs and we will go and see a doctor." I said. She hopped onto my back and I walked downstairs.
    dun dunnnnn....

    "Well, it's fractured. Its not bad enough to be put into a cast, but you will probably need some crutches for about two to four weeks." the doctor said.
    "Okay. Thank you." I said as I took them from him. Joey and I walked out of the exam room and out into the waiting room. I saw basically everyone there. I was happy to see them even though I couldn't walk fast.
    "How is everything?" Nick asked. He had Eli snuggled up with him on a little couch.
    "I'm fine. I just have to use these for a few weeks. But nothing else major." I told everything. They all sighed in relief. I laughed a little bit and we all started for the exit.
    When I walked outside, Joe was waiting for me with the car.
    "Are you ready to party?" Kevin asked.
    "I don't know. Are you ready to partway Joey?" I asked giggling.
    "Yes as a matter of fact, I Am." he said in a quieter voice.
    "Okay, lets hit the road!" I shouted that was followed by some other shouting.
    We all piled into three cars. Nick Joey and Joe were driving and we would all take breaks and switch off.
    I sat up front with Joey while nick got stuck in the backseat.
    "How long till we have a break?" nick asked. I could tell that he wanted a new seat or something to do, cusp he was getting bored. So was I, but I had my ipod to listen to and my boyfriend holding my hand. About four and a half hours later, we stopped for dinner.
    "I'm hungry. I want ihop. Can we go to Ihop please?" I begged. Everyone looked at one another.
    "Why in the world do you want to go to Ihop? It's 6:00pm." Joe asked.
    Now, since I was at the doctor, we had to leave at 1:30 instead of noon.
    "Why not have Ihop at 6:00pm? Whets wrong with you? Give the cripple a break, woodchat?" Everyone started laughing and we went to Ihop, just for me. Everyone placed his or her orders and we all started talking. I was sitting there just listening in on everyone conversations. Tonight were Joey and my nine-month anniversary and he didn't even say anything. I was hurt. I mean, who can forget something like that. I didn't want to say anything to anyone to make him sad or anything. This road trip was about it being anti-drama.
    "mew, what's wrong?" Joe asked me backing away from his conversation with Scarlet.
    "Nothing. Just listening is all. Why do you think something’s wrong? Because there's nothing wrong Joe." I babbled on and on.
    "Oooook. what's up?" he asked. I got this feeling that he wasn’t going to let this go.
    "It's really nothing. Don't you worry about me, I will be fine." I said to him, patting him on the shoulder.
    "Ok, whatever you say. I will listen when you want to talk." he said turning away from me. It kind of sounded like he believed me. That was a good thing, cusp I don't think I even believed myself.
    About what felt like a hundred days, but was really only two hours, we finally left Ihop and started for the road again. Joey took over again. I fell asleep shortly after heading out again.
    The car stopped three hours later in the parking lot of a hotel.
    "What are we doing?" I asked. Hey, give me a break, I was sleeping for three hours.
    "Hey sleeping beauty. We are at our hotel. Come on. I will walk you upstairs." Joey said grabbing my bags and walking over to help me get out of the car.
    "mmmmhmmm. I gottcha." I said getting out of the car. I walked into the hotel, waited while Joey got our keys to the room and then we walked up to the room. We had to share a room with Scarlet and Joe, so we waited for them to come up to the room. When the four of us walked into the room, I set my things down and clasped on the bed. I was so tired that I didn't even have time to change into my pjs.
    "mew? mew, wake up." I heard someone say. I turn my head so it was facing the sound. It was Joey, of course.
    "Joey, I'm really tired. Can't this wait?" I asked in a grumpy way.
    "Not really. Please Lay, wake up. Its worth It." he said. So I sat up and to my surprise there were candles lit all over the room. I look over to see that Joe and Scarlet are gone.
    "Where did they go?" I asked pointing to the empty bed.
    "I don't know. They left just before I woke you up. It's okay though, they will be back later." he said like it was no big deal. And at that point, it wasn’t a big deal to me either.
    "Joey, what's all this for?" I asked but thinking that I already knew the answer.
    "Well, we never got any time to celebrate, so we have to now." he said throwing his arms out.
    "Joey. It's beautiful. I love it." I said standing up. I twitched when I put my foot down but I kept going.
    "mew, you should really keep off your foot. The doctor said it would help the healing process. I think you should-" he stopped right as I got up to his face.
    "What the doctor doesn’t know, won’t hurt him." I whispered. He laughed and cupped my face. He stroked his thumb up and down my cheekbone and said,” you are something else."
    "Well, I try to be." I said with a shrug. He chuckled a bit and kissed me lips. The kiss was so passionate. So real. So 'I can't get enough of you' kind of kiss. It was the perfect kind of kiss to start out the summer.
    "mew?" he said, pulling away, brushing the hair away from my face, and looking me dead in the eye.
    "Yea?" I asked. He pulled off his ring that he always wears around his neck on a chain. It was his dad's that he gave to his mom. Then his mom gave it to him to give to his someone special. And that someone special was me!
    "I want you to hold on to this." he said. He put it in my hand and closed it up.
    "Joey. What does this mean?" I asked.
    "I love you mew, and that ring holds my heart. And I am giving it to you." he said.
    "Joey, I love you too. I always have and always will." I said clutching the ring in my hand. I felt a tear slid down my face and I smiled at it. He smiled at me and I smiled back.
    Today has got to be the happiest day on this planet Earth. I heard a knock on the door.
    "Can we come back yet? We're tired and we want to go to bed." I heard Joe yell.
    "Yea, you can come in." I yelled back. They both strolled in and crawled into bed, as did Joey and I. We were holding hands under the covers when my phone started to vibrate.
    'I want to know everything tomorrow. I call a girls day out tomorrow.' Starlets text message said.
    'Okay. Sounds like a plan. Meet you at 10:00 tomorrow morning.' I pushed send and looked over at joey. He was already sleeping but he was still holding my hand so firmly that I knew we were going to be together through anything that came at us. I smiled to myself and fell asleep dreaming of what was yet to come. And that was a long time ago well Joey moved and got a new girl friend and I never seen hem again I miss hem