Rather Be With You (1) “It All Started With a Wedding!”
Chapter 4 : Rather Be With You (4) “Jennifer Heart”
Kevin, Nick, and Wendy were still at the mall. They had a lot of trouble leaving because after the rush of fans in the bathing suit shop, more showed up. Nick and Kevin figured that this would happen, so they came up with a plan.
“Okay, so here’s what we need to do.” Kevin said pulling Nick and Wendy closer to him as if they were a small football team going over their play. “Wendy, try and stick with one of us the whole time, or else you will be torn apart by these girls.” Kevin said before revealing his what sounded to be a magnificent plan.
“Okay.” Wendy said looking somewhat scared.
“We are going to run.” He said smiling and without giving them a heads up he yelled “GO!”
Nick grabbed Wendy’s hand and began to run. “Wait where are we meeting up?” Nick yelled to Kevin who was running the opposite way.
“THE CAR!” Kevin yelled back, almost being tackled by giant girl. Nick and Wendy laughed as they continued watching Kevin dodge the girl, but realized they should continue running. A few girls were following them, not as many as Kevin had following him though. They found themselves able to ditch the few by running into a sports store. Nick laughed again at the thought that there was no way the girls would find them in there. The store was humongous. In the middle of it was a place to go rock climbing, and to the sides were racks full of sports/exercise equipment.
Nick happily walked over to where some weights were and lifted them up with ease.
“What are you doing?” Wendy asked him looking slightly confused.
“Working out.” He smiled and began to curl some of the weights allowing his muscles to be shown, now more defined.
“Why? I thought we had to make it back to the car?” Wendy said, now admiring his muscles. She had found herself attracted to guys who were tone and in great shape, which was why she ended up with Dustin in the first place. Nick had noticed her looking and decided to impress her by bench pressing 150lbs.
“Nick, stop… you’re going to kill your self.” She quickly ran over to spot him as he lay down on the bench, positioning his hands so he could lift the bar. Wendy had known all about weight lifting and spotting people when they decided to bench. She had to do it many times for Dustin, although she was not strong enough to lift 150lbs herself, if Nick were to help her everything would be okay.
Nick slowly began to lift the bar off of its holder and brought it down to his chest. He seemed to be able to push it up with ease and found himself doing 10 bench presses. They were tougher than he had made them look, but he wanted to impress Wendy so he put up with the pain he now had in his arms.
“So I think we should get going.” Wendy said, trying not to sound too impressed by how much Nick had just lifted. The truth was she was extremely impressed because her own boyfriend couldn’t even do one 150 lb press.
“Wait a few more minutes.” Nick grabbed Wendy’s hand as she started for the door. Wendy smiled at his gesture and stayed, not realizing that her and Nick still had their hands interlaced. He glanced down wondering if she had noticed and then squeezed her hand a little to see if she would pull away. She felt him squeeze and became embarrassed and quickly moved her hand to her hair to brush it behind her ears. There was an awkward silence for a minute or two and then Nick headed to the exit. Wendy had followed him, but only thought about what had just happened. She was confused and found herself wandering through a crowd, Nick no where in sight.
“Crap… now I’m lost.” She thought to herself and found a bench to sit down on; hoping Kevin or Nick would come find her.
A few minutes later, Wendy noticed a tall, dark, extremely handsome figure walking towards her. Her face became flushed when she realized it was Joe. He was walking her way with a pretty brown haired girl hanging on his arm. She was rather tall, extremely thin, and looked as though she was a model. Her hair had a razored look to it and hit just above her shoulders. Wendy tried to not look his way as she sat there lost. She wondered if he would notice her, or if he would be so wrapped up in the girl on his arm, he wouldn’t even glance her way.
“Wendy?” Joe asked seeing her sitting on a bench looking around like she was a lost puppy.
“Oh… Joe. Hi, ummm… what are you doing here?” she said trying to sound casual.
“Shopping with… my… ummm… Jennifer.” Joe said hesitating on what he should say. He didn’t want to call Jennifer his girlfriend because it might ruin his chances with Wendy, but on the other hand letting Wendy know that he had a girlfriend may make her a bit jealous, so there are definitely its ups and downs.
Jennifer stuck out her hand for Wendy to shake.
“Jennifer Heart, I have heard so much about you.” She said shaking Wendy’s hand and returning it back to Joe’s.
“Why would Joe talk about me to her when they are dating. Wait, this is his girlfriend right? He never said that she was.” Wendy thought to herself but was interrupted when Joe said something.
“She’s heard a lot about you from Nick.” Joe looked over at Jennifer and then back to Wendy who had a look of hurt on her face. So Joe wasn’t the one talking about her so much, it was Nick. No wonder Kevin seemed to laugh every time Wendy came over.
It was beginning to get late and Wendy still had no idea where the car was. She looked up at Joe and then asked him if she could have Nick’s cell phone number.
“Why?” Joe asked with a bit of jealousy in his voice.
“Well, I’m kind of lost, and I need to call him so I can find my way back to the car.” She pulled out her cell phone and waited for Joe to read off the number to her.
“I’ll just call him for you.” He grabbed his own phone and dialed Nick’s number.
“Yo Joe, what’s up?” Nick asked on the other end of the receiver.
“Well, I’m here with Wendy, who is lost, and needs you to tell her how to get back to the car.” Wendy raised her hand up for Joe to give her his phone.
“K, let me talk to her.” Nick said.
“No, just tell me and I’ll tell her.” Joe shot up quickly.
“Fine…” Nick began his instructions and Joe repeated them out loud.
“Find your way to the Parking Garage and then head up to level 3, they will be parked right in front of the elevator.”
“Thanks.” Wendy yelled and ran off as fast as she could.
She just wanted to get as far away from Joe as possible. He was acting funny, not allowing her to have Nick’s number or even talk to him over the phone. She didn’t like how he acted; it was a big turn off to her.
She had finally found her way to the garage and followed what she had remembered of the directions. She had forgotten which level Joe had said, so she went to each level before seeing Kevin’s car parked on level 3.
“Took you long enough.” Kevin said as Wendy hopped into the back seat.
“Well if someone didn’t decide to leave me all high and dry in a mall that I have never been to, I might have been back sooner.” Wendy looked at Nick, who had a guilty look on his face.
“Sorry.” Nick said frowning. “I had some stuff on my mind and forgot.”
“You forgot about me? Way to make me feel special.” Wendy laughed and stared out the window. She watched as the cars passed by and Kevin had turned on the radio.
“Today, in our number one spot, we have The Jonas Brothers with “When You Look Me In The Eyes.” The announcer said and Wendy listened intensively. She had not had the chance to hear how the boys sounded and found it odd that she had never heard of them before. She had been listening for about 30 seconds when both Kevin and Nick began to sing along with the radio.
“Yay, I get my own live concert!” Wendy exclaimed out loud.
She had liked how they sounded. Nick had an amazing voice… and even though Kevin rarely sang, what she heard of him sounded amazing as well.
Before they knew it they had arrived back at the Jonas’s house. It was starting to get dark, but Nick and Kevin still wanted to go swimming. Wendy went up stairs and found herself changing in Joe’s bathroom for the mere fact that it was the only one unoccupied. Wendy decided to take a look around before she got changed and opened one of his cabinets. In this cabinet she found tons of Cologne and Body wash.
“Well at least I know he takes care of himself.” She said to herself quite loudly.
“Who takes care of themselves?” Nick yelled through the door.
“No one.” She yelled back, shutting the cabinet door quietly and changing into her swim suit.
“Are you almost ready?” Nick yelled as Wendy opened the door. Nick’s eyes fell from her eyes straight down to her breasts then further down and back up again.
“Did you just check me out?” Wendy questioned him, trying her hardest to sound serious and not laugh.
“Ummm… no… I mean… yeah.” Nick stumbled across his words before finally admitting to it. His face became beat red and Wendy couldn’t help but laugh at how embarrassed he was.
“It’s okay Nick. I get it all the time.”
Wendy’s body was rather tone, from working out with Dustin all the time. He made it so she kept lean and fit. If she was to skinny he threatened to dump her, but if she was too big he said the same thing. So she had to maintain a specific weight at all times. It wasn’t really fair to her, but she did it because it made her feel good about herself.
Nick and Wendy found their ways down stairs and out to the pool. Nick didn’t hesitate to jump in and neither did Kevin who happened to already be in, swimming around on his back.
“Well look who decided to join us.” Kevin said wiping away the water that landed on his face as Nick jumped in.
“Isn’t it cold in there?” Wendy asked inching her way towards the pool.
“No…” Nick said getting out of the pool and picking Wendy up ready to throw her in.
“Don’t do it Nick.” Wendy said in a threatening voice.
She did not kick and scream like most girls would to try and get him to let go. She played everything off as if he were to throw her in; he’d be in for war.
He obviously didn’t take her serious and threw her in a second later. He stood out of the water laughing, but before he could open his eyes he was pushed.
In that minute Nick took to laugh at what he had just done, Wendy had swum to the edge of the pool and pushed him in. She was the one now laughing at the look he had on his face. Everyone could tell that Nick had not expected her to be that fast.
She once again hopped into the pool and swum towards Kevin.
“Why didn’t you guys tell me your pool was heated?” she relaxed on her back waiting for an answer.
“If we told you that, there would be no fun in throwing you in.” Nick found his way closer to Wendy and placed his hand on her stomach.
“What are you doing?” she asked lifting her head out of the water.
Nick grinned and moved away.
“I had to see if those were real.”
“What?” Kevin asked confused and looked over to Wendy who had the same look on her face.
“Her abs.” Nick answered.
“Of course they are. How could they be fake?” Wendy stood up and moved her way to the edge of the pool to sit.
“Well, some people get implants these days.” Nick said trying to sound smart.
“Nick, I have never heard of Ab implants.” Kevin laughed and splashed some water at Nick.
“Oh, it’s on now.”
Nick and Kevin were having a huge Splash war and realized that Wendy was just watching the whole thing. So they decided to start splashing her and she screamed.
“That’s so not fair. That’s two against one.” She hopped back in the pool.
“No… it’s two against two.” Joe shouted as he did a cannon ball into the pool. He emerged from the water and shook his long hair to let the water out. It hit everyone in the face. He began to splash Kevin and Nick.
“What are you waiting for?” Joe looked over at Wendy nudging her to start splashing. She was so overwhelmed by his appearance she stood there not listening to anything being said. His skin looked so smooth; she just wanted to put her hands on him. He had nicely tanned skin and his body was in just as good of shape as hers was. She did not come out of her thoughts until she was hit in the face with water by Nick. He laughed and shook his head from left to right. He knew she was checking Joe out and wanted to end it as soon as possible.
Everyone finally got tired of water being in their faces and they all chose to relax. Joe sat with his arms on the cement, but his body still submerged in the water, while Nick and Kevin were floating around on their backs. Wendy happened to be sitting on the edge of the pool, like she had been earlier, her feet dangling into the pool.
All of them seemed to be thinking, which left nothing but the sound of crickets chirping.
“I wonder if I’ll ever get a girlfriend.” Kevin thought.
“Why does Wendy have to like Joe?” Nick thought.
“Why is it called a drive way if we park in it?” Joe thought.
“What am I going to do? Nick is giving me signals, I like Joe, but I have a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend.” Wendy thought.
They were all finally interrupted by Denise.
“Dinner Time.” She yelled and they all quickly got out and dried off.
“Wendy, your mom said that you and Kelly could spend the night.” Denise served the food and place 8 plates at the table.
“Oh, okay. But I don’t have any clothes to change into.” Wendy said taking a bite full of spaghetti.
“One of the boys will give you something to wear.” She said smiling and sat down at the table. Dinner was rather quiet as well, other than Frankie and Kelly laughing because Joe was making weird faces at them. Wendy was nervous to be spending the night at their house. Yes, her sister was there with her, but she had never spent the night at a house full of boys. Her night was bound to get interesting.
“Okay, so here’s what we need to do.” Kevin said pulling Nick and Wendy closer to him as if they were a small football team going over their play. “Wendy, try and stick with one of us the whole time, or else you will be torn apart by these girls.” Kevin said before revealing his what sounded to be a magnificent plan.
“Okay.” Wendy said looking somewhat scared.
“We are going to run.” He said smiling and without giving them a heads up he yelled “GO!”
Nick grabbed Wendy’s hand and began to run. “Wait where are we meeting up?” Nick yelled to Kevin who was running the opposite way.
“THE CAR!” Kevin yelled back, almost being tackled by giant girl. Nick and Wendy laughed as they continued watching Kevin dodge the girl, but realized they should continue running. A few girls were following them, not as many as Kevin had following him though. They found themselves able to ditch the few by running into a sports store. Nick laughed again at the thought that there was no way the girls would find them in there. The store was humongous. In the middle of it was a place to go rock climbing, and to the sides were racks full of sports/exercise equipment.
Nick happily walked over to where some weights were and lifted them up with ease.
“What are you doing?” Wendy asked him looking slightly confused.
“Working out.” He smiled and began to curl some of the weights allowing his muscles to be shown, now more defined.
“Why? I thought we had to make it back to the car?” Wendy said, now admiring his muscles. She had found herself attracted to guys who were tone and in great shape, which was why she ended up with Dustin in the first place. Nick had noticed her looking and decided to impress her by bench pressing 150lbs.
“Nick, stop… you’re going to kill your self.” She quickly ran over to spot him as he lay down on the bench, positioning his hands so he could lift the bar. Wendy had known all about weight lifting and spotting people when they decided to bench. She had to do it many times for Dustin, although she was not strong enough to lift 150lbs herself, if Nick were to help her everything would be okay.
Nick slowly began to lift the bar off of its holder and brought it down to his chest. He seemed to be able to push it up with ease and found himself doing 10 bench presses. They were tougher than he had made them look, but he wanted to impress Wendy so he put up with the pain he now had in his arms.
“So I think we should get going.” Wendy said, trying not to sound too impressed by how much Nick had just lifted. The truth was she was extremely impressed because her own boyfriend couldn’t even do one 150 lb press.
“Wait a few more minutes.” Nick grabbed Wendy’s hand as she started for the door. Wendy smiled at his gesture and stayed, not realizing that her and Nick still had their hands interlaced. He glanced down wondering if she had noticed and then squeezed her hand a little to see if she would pull away. She felt him squeeze and became embarrassed and quickly moved her hand to her hair to brush it behind her ears. There was an awkward silence for a minute or two and then Nick headed to the exit. Wendy had followed him, but only thought about what had just happened. She was confused and found herself wandering through a crowd, Nick no where in sight.
“Crap… now I’m lost.” She thought to herself and found a bench to sit down on; hoping Kevin or Nick would come find her.
A few minutes later, Wendy noticed a tall, dark, extremely handsome figure walking towards her. Her face became flushed when she realized it was Joe. He was walking her way with a pretty brown haired girl hanging on his arm. She was rather tall, extremely thin, and looked as though she was a model. Her hair had a razored look to it and hit just above her shoulders. Wendy tried to not look his way as she sat there lost. She wondered if he would notice her, or if he would be so wrapped up in the girl on his arm, he wouldn’t even glance her way.
“Wendy?” Joe asked seeing her sitting on a bench looking around like she was a lost puppy.
“Oh… Joe. Hi, ummm… what are you doing here?” she said trying to sound casual.
“Shopping with… my… ummm… Jennifer.” Joe said hesitating on what he should say. He didn’t want to call Jennifer his girlfriend because it might ruin his chances with Wendy, but on the other hand letting Wendy know that he had a girlfriend may make her a bit jealous, so there are definitely its ups and downs.
Jennifer stuck out her hand for Wendy to shake.
“Jennifer Heart, I have heard so much about you.” She said shaking Wendy’s hand and returning it back to Joe’s.
“Why would Joe talk about me to her when they are dating. Wait, this is his girlfriend right? He never said that she was.” Wendy thought to herself but was interrupted when Joe said something.
“She’s heard a lot about you from Nick.” Joe looked over at Jennifer and then back to Wendy who had a look of hurt on her face. So Joe wasn’t the one talking about her so much, it was Nick. No wonder Kevin seemed to laugh every time Wendy came over.
It was beginning to get late and Wendy still had no idea where the car was. She looked up at Joe and then asked him if she could have Nick’s cell phone number.
“Why?” Joe asked with a bit of jealousy in his voice.
“Well, I’m kind of lost, and I need to call him so I can find my way back to the car.” She pulled out her cell phone and waited for Joe to read off the number to her.
“I’ll just call him for you.” He grabbed his own phone and dialed Nick’s number.
“Yo Joe, what’s up?” Nick asked on the other end of the receiver.
“Well, I’m here with Wendy, who is lost, and needs you to tell her how to get back to the car.” Wendy raised her hand up for Joe to give her his phone.
“K, let me talk to her.” Nick said.
“No, just tell me and I’ll tell her.” Joe shot up quickly.
“Fine…” Nick began his instructions and Joe repeated them out loud.
“Find your way to the Parking Garage and then head up to level 3, they will be parked right in front of the elevator.”
“Thanks.” Wendy yelled and ran off as fast as she could.
She just wanted to get as far away from Joe as possible. He was acting funny, not allowing her to have Nick’s number or even talk to him over the phone. She didn’t like how he acted; it was a big turn off to her.
She had finally found her way to the garage and followed what she had remembered of the directions. She had forgotten which level Joe had said, so she went to each level before seeing Kevin’s car parked on level 3.
“Took you long enough.” Kevin said as Wendy hopped into the back seat.
“Well if someone didn’t decide to leave me all high and dry in a mall that I have never been to, I might have been back sooner.” Wendy looked at Nick, who had a guilty look on his face.
“Sorry.” Nick said frowning. “I had some stuff on my mind and forgot.”
“You forgot about me? Way to make me feel special.” Wendy laughed and stared out the window. She watched as the cars passed by and Kevin had turned on the radio.
“Today, in our number one spot, we have The Jonas Brothers with “When You Look Me In The Eyes.” The announcer said and Wendy listened intensively. She had not had the chance to hear how the boys sounded and found it odd that she had never heard of them before. She had been listening for about 30 seconds when both Kevin and Nick began to sing along with the radio.
“Yay, I get my own live concert!” Wendy exclaimed out loud.
She had liked how they sounded. Nick had an amazing voice… and even though Kevin rarely sang, what she heard of him sounded amazing as well.
Before they knew it they had arrived back at the Jonas’s house. It was starting to get dark, but Nick and Kevin still wanted to go swimming. Wendy went up stairs and found herself changing in Joe’s bathroom for the mere fact that it was the only one unoccupied. Wendy decided to take a look around before she got changed and opened one of his cabinets. In this cabinet she found tons of Cologne and Body wash.
“Well at least I know he takes care of himself.” She said to herself quite loudly.
“Who takes care of themselves?” Nick yelled through the door.
“No one.” She yelled back, shutting the cabinet door quietly and changing into her swim suit.
“Are you almost ready?” Nick yelled as Wendy opened the door. Nick’s eyes fell from her eyes straight down to her breasts then further down and back up again.
“Did you just check me out?” Wendy questioned him, trying her hardest to sound serious and not laugh.
“Ummm… no… I mean… yeah.” Nick stumbled across his words before finally admitting to it. His face became beat red and Wendy couldn’t help but laugh at how embarrassed he was.
“It’s okay Nick. I get it all the time.”
Wendy’s body was rather tone, from working out with Dustin all the time. He made it so she kept lean and fit. If she was to skinny he threatened to dump her, but if she was too big he said the same thing. So she had to maintain a specific weight at all times. It wasn’t really fair to her, but she did it because it made her feel good about herself.
Nick and Wendy found their ways down stairs and out to the pool. Nick didn’t hesitate to jump in and neither did Kevin who happened to already be in, swimming around on his back.
“Well look who decided to join us.” Kevin said wiping away the water that landed on his face as Nick jumped in.
“Isn’t it cold in there?” Wendy asked inching her way towards the pool.
“No…” Nick said getting out of the pool and picking Wendy up ready to throw her in.
“Don’t do it Nick.” Wendy said in a threatening voice.
She did not kick and scream like most girls would to try and get him to let go. She played everything off as if he were to throw her in; he’d be in for war.
He obviously didn’t take her serious and threw her in a second later. He stood out of the water laughing, but before he could open his eyes he was pushed.
In that minute Nick took to laugh at what he had just done, Wendy had swum to the edge of the pool and pushed him in. She was the one now laughing at the look he had on his face. Everyone could tell that Nick had not expected her to be that fast.
She once again hopped into the pool and swum towards Kevin.
“Why didn’t you guys tell me your pool was heated?” she relaxed on her back waiting for an answer.
“If we told you that, there would be no fun in throwing you in.” Nick found his way closer to Wendy and placed his hand on her stomach.
“What are you doing?” she asked lifting her head out of the water.
Nick grinned and moved away.
“I had to see if those were real.”
“What?” Kevin asked confused and looked over to Wendy who had the same look on her face.
“Her abs.” Nick answered.
“Of course they are. How could they be fake?” Wendy stood up and moved her way to the edge of the pool to sit.
“Well, some people get implants these days.” Nick said trying to sound smart.
“Nick, I have never heard of Ab implants.” Kevin laughed and splashed some water at Nick.
“Oh, it’s on now.”
Nick and Kevin were having a huge Splash war and realized that Wendy was just watching the whole thing. So they decided to start splashing her and she screamed.
“That’s so not fair. That’s two against one.” She hopped back in the pool.
“No… it’s two against two.” Joe shouted as he did a cannon ball into the pool. He emerged from the water and shook his long hair to let the water out. It hit everyone in the face. He began to splash Kevin and Nick.
“What are you waiting for?” Joe looked over at Wendy nudging her to start splashing. She was so overwhelmed by his appearance she stood there not listening to anything being said. His skin looked so smooth; she just wanted to put her hands on him. He had nicely tanned skin and his body was in just as good of shape as hers was. She did not come out of her thoughts until she was hit in the face with water by Nick. He laughed and shook his head from left to right. He knew she was checking Joe out and wanted to end it as soon as possible.
Everyone finally got tired of water being in their faces and they all chose to relax. Joe sat with his arms on the cement, but his body still submerged in the water, while Nick and Kevin were floating around on their backs. Wendy happened to be sitting on the edge of the pool, like she had been earlier, her feet dangling into the pool.
All of them seemed to be thinking, which left nothing but the sound of crickets chirping.
“I wonder if I’ll ever get a girlfriend.” Kevin thought.
“Why does Wendy have to like Joe?” Nick thought.
“Why is it called a drive way if we park in it?” Joe thought.
“What am I going to do? Nick is giving me signals, I like Joe, but I have a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend.” Wendy thought.
They were all finally interrupted by Denise.
“Dinner Time.” She yelled and they all quickly got out and dried off.
“Wendy, your mom said that you and Kelly could spend the night.” Denise served the food and place 8 plates at the table.
“Oh, okay. But I don’t have any clothes to change into.” Wendy said taking a bite full of spaghetti.
“One of the boys will give you something to wear.” She said smiling and sat down at the table. Dinner was rather quiet as well, other than Frankie and Kelly laughing because Joe was making weird faces at them. Wendy was nervous to be spending the night at their house. Yes, her sister was there with her, but she had never spent the night at a house full of boys. Her night was bound to get interesting.
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