Chapter One
Kristi got to know more about Nick. They became really best friends and did everything together. She met Joseph and Kevin who were Nick's older brothers. She even met Mandy, Joseph's best friend. They all grew up together like one big family. Kristi knew the Jonas family like her own. They were so close that when Kevin taught himself to play the guitar, he gave group guitar lessons to Joe, Nick, Mandy, and even Kristi. She usually went over to the Jonas household when there wasn't much to do at her house. A few years later, Nick stopped showing up to class. Whenever he did show up, he was either arriving late or leaving earlier than the rest of the kids.
3 years after they met [Nick/Kristi=10 years old]
Kristi knocked on the front door of the Jonas family. A big eye appeared through the eyehole on the door. Kristi knew what was going to happen next so she turned and ran away as the 13 year old Joe burst through the door and tackled her to the grass.
"KRISTIIIIII!!" he yelled.
"Ouch…Hi Joe. What do you want?"
"Oh nothing. Just wanted to say hi." Joe said as he got up.
"Joe what are you-----hey Kristi! Why are you on the grass?" Mandy asked Kristi.
"Oh, I don't know. You know Kristi, she just loves our grass." Joe whispered loudly to Mandy.
"Hey!" Kristi said throwing a small rock at Joe. Mandy laughed. "So why'd you invite me over? Are we gonna go watch a movie or what?" Kristi asked.
"Well.." Joe looked at Mandy with a more serious face.
"C'mon let's go inside…." Mandy grabbed Kristi's hand. Once they went inside, Kristi started looking for Nick.
"NIIIIICK!!" Kristi yelled.
Nick was upstairs sitting on his bed. He was writing in his new composition book. Ever since 2nd grade when Miss Cruz gave them that poetry assignment with the composition books, Nick had always written down whatever he thought in a composition book. It was sort of like a journal, but mostly in poetry form. He just finished what he was writing when he heard Kristi yell for him downstairs.
I'll Miss Her
I'll miss her laugh that was always contagious
I'll miss her concern whenever I would need her
I'll miss her intelligence when I don't get my homework
I'll miss her jokes when I'm feeling down
I'll miss her hugs that she would always give me
I'll miss her smile that could light up my day
I'll miss her the warmth of her presence whenever she's around
I'll definitely miss Kristi, my one true friend
She makes me smile she makes me laugh
She knows what I'm feeling at any given time
She's taken me out of my shell and my life has changed
So much that now I am forced to leave her
Kristi is a character, a very funny friend
For even though I'm leaving, I hope our friendship will never end… ?
"Nick?" Kristi was knocking on the door to Nick's room. Nick shoved the composition book under his pillow. He opened the door.
"Hey!!"
"Umm hey Kristi…" said Nick.
"Whatcha doing?" Kristi asked sitting on Nick's bed.
"Nothing. Just laying on the bed thinking." Nick answered while closing his bedroom door.
"About what?"
"Umm…stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"Ohhh nothing." Nick said. They were both looking at each other. There was an awkward silence. After about 5 seconds, they both burst out laughing. Nick knew that these were the type of moments he would definitely miss the most about Kristi. "Ohhh Nick, you might as well tell her now…" Nick thought to himself.
"Hey, Kristi? Ummm I don't know how to say this but---------" Nick got cut off.
"Boys and girls!! Time for some snacks!!!" Mrs. Jonas yelled from the kitchen downstairs.
"C'mon let's go downstairs!" Kristi grabbed Nick's hand. They both started running and laughing downstairs. Kevin, Joe, and Mandy were all in the living room.
"AAAAAAAH NICK ST-----oh." Kristi soon became quiet. Nick was chasing Kristi into the living room. When they got there everyone in the room had a serious face. Mandy's head was resting on Joe's shoulder with a very sad look on her face.
"Dude, did you tell her?" Kevin asked.
"Umm I was getting there…" Nick answered.
"Tell me what?" Kristi asked.
"Okay, I'll tell you…" Kevin said. "Kristi, you know how Nick, Joe, and I…we love to sing right?"
"Yeah…"
"Well Nick's been doing some performances on broadway these past few weeks and when Nick helped write and sing a song with Joe and I, we sort of got…discovered." Kevin explained.
"And now we're signed on as an official band." Joe said.
"…The Jonas Brothers…" Nick finished.
"What?! Oh my gosh! That's AWESOME!" Kristi screamed.
"But…" Kevin started.
"There's something else…." Joe continued while Mandy started crying into Joe's shoulder.
"We're moving." Nick mumbled.
"Wait…wh-what?" Kristi asked. "What do you mean moving? Where?"
"Los Angeles." Nick answered.
'LA?!" Kristi was surprised. "Wow, that's far…"
"We know…" Kevin said.
"We really don't want to leave. But our future career is relying on this move. So we have to go." Joe said.
"Oh…so when do you leave?"
"Tomorrow morning." Nick said.
"What?! Wh-wh-why? Tomorrow? That's so soon…" Kristi stuttered.
"We know…our uncle, who is also our manager, just told us this morning." Kevin said.
"Well technically, we're not really MOVING. Our mom will be here with Frankie from time to time. We're not totally selling this house. We love it too much." Joe said.
"Yeah and we can't just sell the house and let go of all the fun memories we've had here. We're just going to have a second house in LA, but we're still keeping this one." Kevin sighed.
"We're really sorry it's so soon. If we could, we would've told you sooner." Joe explained as he wrapped his arms around the crying Mandy.
Kristi was speechless. She had no idea what to say. She was happy for her best friend and his brothers and their musical success, but she didn't want them to leave Wyckoff. She ran upstairs into Nick's room trying to fight the tears that were dying to come out. She sat on his bed and looking out the window with tears pouring down her face.
"Kristi?" Nick knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"
"….yeah…*sniff*"
Nick walked over to Kristi and sat next to her.
"I'm sorry." He said.
"No, it's not your fault. I just don't want you to leave…*sniff*"
"I know….I don't want to leave either…" Nick said. "Well, maybe I could just tell mom that I don't' want to sing…."
"But you HAVE to! You guys could be popular……. like 'Nsync!!" Kristi said. Nick scoffed and they both laughed. Nick knew 'Nsync was a major past obsession of Kristi.
"*Siiiigh*…I'm really going to miss you, best friend." Kristi smiled. She wasn't crying so much anymore.
"Me too." They hugged. When they were hugging Nick saw his composition book sticking out from under his pillow. A light bulb lit up in Nick's head.
"Hey you know what? I have an idea." Nick said.
"What?"
"Remember when we first met? We talked using the composition book?"
"Yeah why?"
"Well….." Nick started searching through his bookshelf. He pulled out two brand new composition books. These were his spares that he kept in case he needed some for school. He sat on the bed next to Kristi and gave one to her while he held the other.
"Whenever we feel like talking to each other, we can write in these. It'll be just like 2nd grade again. So whenever we see each other we can always swap books and read what the other has said in the past few weeks/months. Of course we'll still talk on the phone and internet, but it's hard for me because mom thinks I'm still too young for a cell phone. Kevin hogs the phone too much with his girlfriend [because he doesn't want to pay for those minutes on his phone] and Joe will hog our only computer talking to Mandy….So we can just use these…" Nick said.
"Um, okay. Let's decorate them!" Kristi smiled looking for some art supplies. They decorated the covers of each other's books. Kristi drew a red electric guitar and cut it and pasted it on the cover along with a drawing of a little boy with brown curly hair and a little girl with long brown wavy hair holding hands. She drew lots of pictures of memorable moments her and Nick shared together in the past 3 years and made a pretty picture collage. She finished it by writing "Nick Jonas && Kristi Karlyle. Best Friends Always and Forever." Kristi added some finishing touches and made sure everything was glued correctly.
Nick drew a picture of an acoustic guitar. He knew that Kristi loved to play the guitar just as much as he did. He drew pictures of musical notes because he knew that her life revolved a lot around music. Like Kristi, he drew pictures of many funny moments they've shared together. One of these pictures for example illustrated a tall boy with hair that stood in different directions [Kevin] throwing a big water balloon at a little girl and little boy [Nick and Kristi] who were linking arms. He drew a picture of Kristi with her wavy brown hair and him with his curls sitting next to each other. In the picture they were smiling and laughing just like the day they first met. Across his cover/collage he wrote, Nick J. + Kristi K. // BFF. [? chyeah that rhymes! Lol]
They traded books again and looked at their brand new covers. Kristi hugged Nick.
"Thank you, Nick!" she squealed. "I love it!" she said admiring her new cover.
"Yeah, I like mine too." Nick said as he stared at his new cover.
"Ohhhh NIIIIICK! KRISTIIIIII!" Joe yelled from downstairs.
"C'mon let's go downstairs." Nick grabbed Kristi's hand and they ran downstairs.
Nick and Kristi spent the rest of their last afternoon together having fun. They both had so much fun as if Nick wasn't going to move across the country the next day. Kristi slept with a smile on her face that night. But the morning that Kristi dreaded was just around the corner.
Kristi woke up the next morning and looked at her clock.
"6:37?!?!" Kristi screamed. Nick told her they would be leaving at 6:30 AM sharp. Kristi panicked and got dressed as fast as she could. She prayed that they didn't leave yet. She ran up the street and saw……
