My Life as Liz Jonas

Chapter 9: Best Summer Ever?

NORMAL POV

"Joe are you ready to start soundcheck?" Nick yells from the stage as Joe and his mysterious friend look away from each other.

"Yeah I'm coming." He says as he continues to stand by her side making Nick and Liz to exchange confused looks.

"Alright I'm here but before we start I have to introduce you to Ashley." Joe says as they walk up the stage and meet with Liz and Nick.

"Hi how's it going." Nick says to her with a smile. He didn't really want to know how it was going, he was just saying it to be polite.

"It's going amazing. You guys are so lucky to be able to do this for a living." Ashley says as Nick looks over at Liz who gives him a confused look.

"Um...I forgot I had to go do something. See you all later." Liz says as Nick looks at her confused. "I don't know what do or say." She whispers to him before walking away.

"So you're going to watch the show?" Nick says trying to keep the conversation going. Again just to be polite.

"Yes I am and a couple of other shows too." Ashley says as Nick looks over at Joe with a confused look.

"I decided to invite her on the world tour besides she just finished filming a movie and traveling the world is a way she could relax." Joe says as Ashley grabs his hand and they intertwine their fingers while Nick tries to hide his face full of disgust.

"Okay I'm here and ready to go." Kevin says as he comes up the stage with his guitar over his shoulders. "Hey Ashley." He says casually as Nick looks at him confused.

"Hi." Ashley says as she and Joe turn to face each other and start talking one another.

"Do you know her?" Nick says to Kevin as he looks at him with a puzzled expression. "You just said hey like you know her." He clarifies as Kevin shrugs his shoulders.

"We met like 10 minutes ago." Kevin responds as Nick nods. "I wouldn't worry too much about her." He says as Nick looks at his brother confused.

"What is that suppose to mean? You do know she's joining us on the rest of tour. Joe invited her." Nick says as Kevin looks at him shocked.

"Okay that I didn't know." Kevin says as he looks over at Joe and Ashley.

LIZ'S POV

"Tell me what happened." I text into my phone and send it off to Nick.

"Hey Liz." I hear someone say as I look up and see Demi.

"Wow you're hair." I say as I notice her hair dyed much lighter. "When did that happen? I don't mean that in a bad way I'm just saying I saw you not to long ago." I say as Demi chuckles.

"I did it 2 weeks ago while my family and I were vacationing in Mexico. I felt like I needed a change." She says as I nod.

A change? Does that change have anything to do with...hm? I don't know...my brother?!

"It looks nice." Is all that I say cause frankly I don't want to say or what I was thinking.

"Liz you're brother and I might not be a couple anymore but know that we can still do the activities we planned." Demi says as I nod and smile.

"I am so glad you said that cause I thought you were going to be mad at me and want nothing to do with me." I respond as she shakes her head.

"Liz of course not. You're my best friend and besides its not you're fault Joe broke up with me. I should have known that if I was getting into a relationship with him it would end bad." She tells me before walking away and leaving me standing there speechless.

"Wow." I hear Alyson say as I turn around and see she was standing behind me.

"You heard everything?" I ask her as she nods. "I'm just...I'm...I don't know what to say." I say as she shakes her head.

"I wouldn't know what to say either." Alyson says as I nod. "I don't think she's trying to be mean. She's just saying that the break up won't effect the friendship between you two." She adds as Liz sighs.

"She's just mad. I bet she'll get over it as soon as our visitor leaves." I say to her as she gives me a confused look. "You haven't met her." I say sighing.

"Wait are you talking about his girlfriend?" She says as my eyes widen. "What?" She says confused.

"Girlfriend? How? What? No." I say not believing what she was saying.

"She told us that. We asked her what she was doing here and she told us she was Joe's girlfriend." Alyson says as I realize what was on line.

NORMAL POV

"His girlfriend? No I don't believe that. Joe introduced her as Ashley and that's it." Nick says to Liz as she does last minute touch ups on her wardrobe.

"Alyson says otherwise. I really don't like what's going on." Liz says to Nick as she sighs. "I know what I'm going to say sounds selfish but I just...I thought this summer was going to be different." She adds as Nick shakes his head.

"Liz no you don't sound selfish. The first tour is suppose to be fun and now it's being dragged into all of this drama." Nick says as Liz shrugs her shoulders.

"Alyson reassured me that this was going to be a great summer disregarding the love triangle that's going on." Liz says as Nick chuckles.

"Just so you know Dani, Kevin, Frankie and I are helping Alyson in making sure that this is the best summer for you." Nick says as Liz smiles.

"Guys it's almost time." Kevin says as he peeks his head into the room signaling that it was time to get on stage.

"Talking about Ashley again?" Kevin says to his two younger siblings as they make they're way to the stage.

"Of course. Why wouldn't we. This entire situation is like we're on a soap opera." Liz says making her brothers laugh.

"Hey guys." Someone says as they emerge from a hallway in front of the trio making them jump and scream.

"Hi." They say in unison lacking enthusiasm. Why would they be happy to see the person who had potential in causing problems.

"Joe wanted me to tell you to ignore the labels that people have been putting on me and we both want to talk to you after the show." Ashley says to them as they stay quiet and nod.

"See you after the show." Liz says giving her brothers the opportunity to walk away.

"Liz wait." Ashley says making Liz stop in her tracks. "We haven't formally met and I want to have a friendship with you. I really hope we can be the best of friends and get to know each other one on one." She says as Liz nods.

"Kay." Liz says unsure of the words to say.