Let's Get Famous: A Following A Dream story

Chapter 1:
Rissa’s P.O.V
“I love you,” I told my current boyfriend, Jeremy. It had been almost 6 months since Nick had left. Nick was getting harder and harder to contact because of his constant traveling and doing concerts.
“I love you too!” Jeremy smiled. Jeremy was tall and had shaggy blond hair and deep blue eyes.
“I love you more.” I leaned my head on his shoulder.
“No, I love you more.” He said.
“I get it you love each other! Now stop being so PDA!” Mandy said walking up to us in the mall. She never liked the fact I had gotten a boyfriend who wasn’t Nick. But, she never knew that I had kind of told him that I loved him. I had given him my revised paper on “What Nick Means to me” it said I might just like him more than a brother, but even when we were able to talk, he never brought it up, not once. I finally gave up, and I was getting depressed, my parents were really scared because I was barely eating and my grades (for a couple months) had dropped to failing grades. Mandy had even tried to get me over it but, it didn't help. Eventually I found Jeremy, my new boyfriend, who Mandy didn’t like. But, I was eating again and my grades went back up enough to get me to pass. For Mandy that was the only good thing. He kind of helped me over the whole Nick thing without ever knowing about it. He had said "Too bad that Nick guy lost out on you." It meant more to me than Jeremy knew.
“Sorry, Mandy.” Jeremy apologized.
“It’s okay, I guess.” Mandy mumbled. “So, Rissa have you heard from Nick lately?”
“Nope, he hasn’t returned phone calls, e-mails, or letters ever since they were on Good Morning America 4 months ago.” I said.
“Oh, I haven’t gotten a returned call or anything since then either.” Mandy said.
“I do know they’re doing things! They’re going to be on Radio Disney tonight. I’m going to try and call in to talk to them.” I said.
“Oh please, they’re the biggest brother band since Hanson; there will be so many girls calling you’ll never get answered.”
“Mandy, do you have to be so negative?” I asked. Jeremy rolled his eyes; he didn’t like us really talking about them. He said he had heard enough from his little sister.
“I’m going to go home, call you later babe.” He said as he stood up.
“Ok, bye.” I said as he walked out.
“What happened about ‘I like Nick’?” Mandy asked.
“Well, we haven’t talked in so long and no one really knows when they’ll be here.” I said.
“Yeah, but come on, do you feel the same about this… Jeremy, as you do Nick?” Mandy asked.
“Yes,” I answered plainly.
“Rissa, no, I’m sure you don’t.” Mandy crossed her arms.
“Mandy why do we have to go through this every time Jeremy and I are on a date?”
“You’re right, so how do you plan on getting to talk to them on Radio Disney?” Mandy asked changing the subject.
“Well, I guess calling and hoping I get put through!” I said.
“Cool, I’ll join you. We can put it on speaker!” Mandy said.
“Cool,” I said. So we went home and turned to Radio Disney on Music Choice.
“Hey, we’re here with the Jonas Brothers and they’re answering you’re questions!” the DJ said.
“O-M-J! I’m on with the Jonas Brothers?! Hi! I’m Melissa from Washington state!” said the girl who got picked up first.
“Hey, I’m Nick.”
“I’m Joe.”
“And I’m Kevin, what do want to know?” Kevin said energetically to the girl named Melissa from Washington state.
“Who are your best friends?” Melissa asked.
“Well, my best friend is John Taylor who is in our band.” Kevin answered.
“Mine are Amelia from Australia and Mandy like, Mandy from the song.” Joe said.
“Yeah, Mandy’s definitely one of mine and Marissa McKinzey.” Nick said.
“That’s us.” I whispered to Mandy.
“I know!” Mandy said.
“When was the last time you talked to them?” Melissa asked.
“Well, we haven’t talked to them for a while, except John Taylor since he travels with us.” Joe answered.
“That’s all the time you have Melissa we’re going to move on to our next caller.” The DJ said.
“Oh, okay, thanks guys!!” Melissa practically screamed.
“Hurry, dial faster Mandy!” I yelled at her.
“You’re on Radio Disney with the Jonas Brothers!” we heard the DJ say into the phone.
“Oh, awesome, Hey guys it’s Rissa and Mandy!” I yelled.
“Yeah, right, hey Rissa and Mandy.” Nick said. He didn’t believe us.
“Nicholas, it’s really us.” Mandy said.
“No, really, who are you?” Kevin asked un-amused.
“Rissa McKinzey and Mandy Vandamye.” I said.
“Whose phone calls, and e-mails, and texts never get answered.” Mandy added.
“Okay, well, nice to talk you two, we’ll call you for real later.” Joe said. He was never a fan of posers.
“Guys, seriously it’s Mandy and Rissa.” I said.
“I’m sure you are, now seriously, what do you want to know?” Nick asked.
“Why my best friend doesn’t recognize my voice.” I said dryly.
“Rissa, I’m sure it’s you. You are Rissa right?” Nick asked exaggerating every time he said Rissa.
“Seriously, what’s going on? Why can’t you tell it’s us?” Mandy asked.
“We can't believe it because it’s not you, not the REAL Rissa McKinzey and REAL Mandy Vandamye.” Joe said.
“You two are posers; we’d like it better if you’d just admit you aren’t Mandy and Rissa.” Nick said kindly.
“But Nick, we ARE Mandy and Rissa!” I yelled.
“Okay, whatever, well then you know everything you need to know, you are our best friends.” Joe said.
“Who’s our next caller?” Kevin asked tiredly.
“Excuse me!” I yelled just before they hung up.
“Those boys are so thick headed!” Mandy yelled.
“I know! It’s just wrong! We talked to them and they didn’t even recognize it!” I hung up the phone and threw it on the couch.
“Stupid boys and their stupid boy brains; whoever wrote that episode of Hannah Montana was right! You might as well scoop out the brains and put nuts up there!” Mandy said.
“Mandy, I’m pretty sure the nuts are what are up there now.” I said.
“That is so true!” Mandy said crossing her arms. After complaining about them for the next half hour Mandy went home and I went to bed. Early the next morning I climbed into the tree house we used to hang out in. I knew it would be okay, since Mr. and Mrs. Jonas still owned the place. In fact we took care of the yard and stuff still so it would look the same. The hot June sun beat down on the small tree house and I looked through the pictures Mandy and I had hung up. It made me almost wish we hadn’t gotten them famous. Then I heard someone climb up the ladder. I was pretty sure it was Mandy.
“Hey, what’s up Mandy?” I called out.
“I’m not Mandy!” I looked to the doorway and it was Nick!
“Nick!” I went over and hugged him.
“You look amazing Riss!” he said. I had kept my promise; I had kept my hair pulled back so people could see my eyes. Then because of Jeremy I started actually dressing up, like wearing make-up and stuff!
“Thanks,” I said, I still hadn’t let him go and he hadn’t let me go yet either.
“You’ll never believe it Riss, last night we were at Radio Disney and two girls posed as you and Mandy!” Nick laughed.
“Nick that was really us!” I said.
“No way, really?!” Nick looked distressed.
"Yes, really." I laughed.
"I am so sorry! It didn't sound like you two at all! You two sounded like 5 year olds!" He said.
"It's okay; you're off for three months now right?" I asked hopefully.
"No, just one week." Nick sighed.
"But, I thought..."
"We got really popular really fast, and our breaks are much shorter." Nick looked down as if he almost felt bad for coming back.
"Hey, it's one week we have together!" I said.
"Yeah," he smiled. I tugged on the golden locket he had given me. "You still have that?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" I asked.
"Well, it's just six months and you know." he said.
"I never let it out of my sight." I said.
"Hey Riss I brought us..." Jeremy climbed into the tree house and paused.
"Hey, Jeremy." I smiled.
"Hey, Rissa, this is Nick?" he asked.
"Yeah," I said.
"Wow," he said.
"Nick, this is Jeremy, my boyfriend." I said slowly.
"Your boyfriend?" he asked half-heartedly.
"Yeah," I said looking at Nick. He turned his head and the sun caught his eyes, my heart did that flipping thing again, I hated it because I had a boyfriend but this time I didn't dismiss it as nothing.
"Oh, well, I'm Nick, obviously you knew that." Nick introduced himself.
"Yeah, my little sister is obsessed with you guys." Jeremy said.
"Oh, well, don't let me get in the way of you two, I can go inside." Nick said shyly.
"No, wait, you're probably not here long, Riss, tomorrow 7:30?" Jeremy asked.
"Sure, I'll see you then." I said.
"Okay!" he smiled and walk back out of the tree house.
"Wow, so a boyfriend? That's, wow." Nick said staring at the wall.
"Yeah, well, you know, you and Miley I heard about,"
"No, Miley and I aren't dating; we did for a little bit at the end of the Best Of Both Worlds Tour in place of Aly and AJ. But, it didn't work out." Nick explained.
"Oh, really, that's interesting." I said.
"Yeah," he said. There was an awkward silence and my watch beeped.
"American Idol tonight." I said.
"Oh, okay, see you tomorrow, I guess." he sighed.
"Yeah, bye Nick." I said awkwardly.