After 3 years of being without each other, they were back together.

Except Joe had no idea.

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Ambition put Harper in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Now she's fighting for her life with someone who wasn't supposed to be more then a paycheck...

Nick never planned on falling in love with his best friend's girl, but one drunken night leads to a whole lot of drama and unexpected romance that the both of them are fighting tooth and nail.

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can;
and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
(Alphonse de Lamartine)

Losing the love of your life is a pain that can never be truly quantified.
Meeting someone who understands what you are going through is incomprehensible.
Potentially falling in love again is inconceivable.
But, learning to heal – to let go of illusions of what was and what might have been – is the hardest thing of all.

In the darkness before the dawn. In the swirling of the storm.

When I’m rolling with the punches and hope is gone,

leave a light on...

“It’s almost twelve,” Joe breathed quietly in Maya’s ear, despite the fact that all of their friends were mere feet away from them.

Maya’s breathing hitched. It was never spoken out loud that 12 am was a thing between them. It was just something she’d noticed – like a coincidence. She looked at Joe questioningly, wondering if it was planned that way all along. Like it was his master plan for all these years. 

12 am. It was their time.

“You…” She breathed, unable to finish the sentence.

“I covet this time of night,” he whispered, leaving a kiss on her forehead before walking away, silently begging her to follow him.

For three months he's been keeping track of their names in his little black book.

But none of them matter.

None of them are her. 

A Joe Jonas one-shot

They were best friends, but the night before Olivia Torres left to college would prove to change her relationship with Joe Jonas forever.

It only takes a moment for the course of your life to be steered in a different direction. You think you’re right on track but suddenly that path that you were driving along takes a turn and you’re treading new ground. That’s how I came to LA. That’s how I met Nick Jonas. That’s how my life, as I knew it, was being left behind in the dust.

Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear
Take the wheel and steer

It's driven me before and seems to have a vague
Haunting mass appeal
But lately I'm beginning to find that I
Should be the one behind the wheel

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Amber Lynn knew that all too well.

With parents who were unsupportive of her decision to pursue an acting dream and attend school in Los Angeles, she found herself in the City of Dreams, struggling to make ends meet.

And when you needed cash, lots of it and fast, there was only one thing to do; sell yourself.

What she hadn't counted on was Joe Jonas barging in on her life, like a knight in shining armor, rendering all of her attempts at keeping her nightly activities from her fellow student futile.

But she wasn't the only one with a secret.

"So where was I at this point? Did I achieve anything? Did I find anything besides Nick’s perfectly toned body? Did I get the answer I really needed? Did I get the answer I really wanted? No, I would still be the girl moping on what could have been instead what did. Nothing would ever be moving forward but just staying still. Nicholas was the only person who could make me feel completely incompetent and be oblivious toward it. I was in love with the one person I couldn’t have. He destroyed my heart about a trillion times and still smiled because he’s an idiot enough not to realize it.

I was enough of an idiot to let him snatch my heart in the first place." -Maya Kibble, chapter 13

What happens when the one person you wanted was the one best friend who was getting married to the one girl who had nothing in common with your one best friend and now that one best friend asks you to be the one best man - oh, one best girl?