Tiffani headed upstairs to where JC was, she saw an overhead red light near the studio office door. She knew that he was busy recording something. Frowning, she decided to not stand around and wait until the waters died down, she found a pack of sticky notes and wrote “I saw the red light on and I didn’t wanna bother you, whenever you are not busy, come and talk to me. P.S Thanks for the Chinese food. Placing the note on the door, she backed away and headed downstairs to the front door.

“Come on Max.” She called out to her dog who was smelling the piece of chicken in the bag. “Max, you can have the chicken bone later, come on.” The dog obediently followed her and jumped in the car/ Tiffani turned her car on and headed out of JC’s driveway.

Valentines Day

It had been two days since Tiffani had last seen JC, he must’ve been still heated about what happened between her and Lance. Tiffani smiled at the thought, Lance wasn’t that bad of a kisser, he just went for it like he wanted too. And she was enjoying it a bit too much, until JC came in and ruined everything. Well, maybe he didn’t ruin it, maybe he was scared of something. Tiffani just shrugged and continued looking for a red dress in her closet. She was going to the Valentine’s Day dance with Lance, at the Grove, how awesome was that? Her mom came into her room carrying a bouquet of multicolored roses.

“Look what Chris sent me.” She gushed.

“Those are pretty, they arrived today?”

“Yep, and there’s a note, it says “Happy Valentines Day Agatha, hope you like these, I didn’t know what color you wanted them so I got one of each, lol, but anyway, here they are. Yours truly, Chris. P.S Hi Tiffani, how are ya, I have one special flower hiding in the roses for you, let me know if you like them, oh and Max, do not eat the roses..haha.

They both let out a chuckle when Chris mentioned Max about eating the roses. Tiffani looked for the flower that Chris put in, she pulled out a yellow tulip.

“It’s your favorite flower Tiff.” Agatha said giving her a smile.

“Yeah it is, how did he know that?” Tiffani wondered.

“Maybe JC told him.”

“Yeah maybe.”

Agatha saw a concerned look on her daughter’s face, “Is everything alright Tiff?”

Tiffani let out a sigh “No, Josh and I had a small argument because he caught me and Lance kissing and we-

“Wait! You kissed Lance?” Agatha shrieked in surprise.

“Uh yeah?”

“And you didn’t tell me? Was he good? Is he a good kisser, I want details.” Agatha rambled.

“Mom! I didn’t go that far, and I didn’t wanna tell you just yet, cause I knew how you would react.” Tiffani said shaking her head.

“Oh ok, I understand, but tell me, what happened?” Agatha seemed so interested in the conversation that she forgot about the flower vase in her hand.

Tiffani explained how JC reacted and got angry, then he locked himself in that studio office of his and that’s the last time I heard from him.

Agatha nodded slowly. “Well, maybe you’ll see him at the Valentines Day dance.”

“Yeah, maybe.”

“Don’t worry about it, JC has a short fuse sometimes, he’ll come back around.”  Agatha said getting up from the bed and walking out the room.

“Yeah I hope so.” Tiffani replied.

At the dance

“JC come dance with me.” Anna said, pulling him back on the dance floor.

“I just sat down Anna.” JC chuckled but went with her anyway, her hips were swaying with the music as he pulled her close to her.

It was an outside party so they were Valentine decorations all around, the paparazzis were probably taking videos and pictures of whoever they saw famous, JC told Anna to stay in the dim lighted area so that way they won’t be caught. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone familiar, realizing who it was, it was Tiffani and Lance, laughing together.

JC bit his lip but continued dancing with Anna, when the song was over, he and Anna went up to them.

“Hey guys, uh Happy Valentines Day.” He muttered.

“Same to you.” Lance asked.

“Anna you look great, love the color of that dress.” Tiffani blurted out.

“Oh thanks, girl, it was the last one they had at the store, so I had to buy this.” Anna said motioning the dress to her. Anna told JC that she was going to the restroom to go freshen up.

“Tiff you wanna come?”

“Yeah.”

Lance and JC watched both girls walk away from them.

Lance sat down on a table and took a sip of his drink, “So Jace, what’s up?”

“The sky.” JC smiled a bit, he was trying to stir up some humor between them.

“You aren’t still mad at me or Tiffani aren’t ya?”

JC stared at him for a moment. “No, look I’m sorry, I know that I’m probably being a jerk to you now, and I know that you guys are both adults and can take care of yourselves, it just bothers me that she’s my sister, and I can’t really see her kissing anyone, you know what I mean?”

“Well JC, she has feelings you know, just like you do for Anna, after all, she told me herself that it was your idea to set me up with her.” Lance explained.

“I know, I know, I feel like she’s drifting away from me, it’s like she’s growing up too fast or something.”

“Jace, you’ve always been like that, even with us, you wouldn’t let us go out to parties cause we had interviews in the morning.” Lance laughed at the thought.

“Big Daddy C huh?” JC said thinking about his old nickname.

“Exactly, look she told me about that she wants to work with you music wise, I haven’t heard her sing though, but since you sing, maybe she also has some singing skills in there.” Lance wondered.

“Yeah she does, though she was only singing for fun, I didn’t listen to her surround sound voice yet.” JC replied.

“Well, whenever you talk to her again, just you know, the same thing you told me, you tell her, communication is key, she really cares about you, when you were injured on that hospital bed, she was the one there for hours on end, and I know that you did the same for her when she was sick, so both of you, understand eachother, go talk to her, it’ll do you good.” Lance explained giving JC a warm smile.

Who in return smiled back. “Thanks Lance, you always have the right words to say.”

“I do, don’t I?” Lance winked.

At that moment, Anna and Tiffani came back from the restroom.

“Hello boys.” Anna greeted.

“Hey Anna, why don’t you go talk with Lance for awhile, I wanna talk to my sister about something.” JC asked.

“Oh sure, come on Lance, let’s go see if we can go find the snack bar.” Anna pulled Lance by the arm and disappeared into the crowd.

“Tiffy?” JC told her softly.

“Thanks for the chicken.” Tiffani said flatly.

JC disregarded the thought but continued talking “Look Tiff, I already spoke to Lance about what happened, I know that both of you are adults, but the thought of you kissing him full on the lips was just too much to take, it’s like you are growing up too quickly before my eyes and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”

Tiffani looked at him, her expression soften a bit. “Aww Josh, don’t feel that way, I’m always gonna be with you, I am looking forward to sing with you, I’m just starting to like Lance, and I know that my life and yours has been a difficult road, but that’s behind us now, I do care about you a lot Josh, you know that, and I would do anything for you, just don’t get mad at me until I give you a reason to get mad at.”

“I care about you too Tiff, I do start jumping through conclusions without listening to what the other person has to say.” JC responded.

“True.”

“When did you get so smart anyway?” JC chuckled.

“I have a big brother that taught me everything I needed I know.” Tiffani smirked.

JC smiled at her pulled into a hug, “oh that reminds me, I bought you these.” He reached into his bag and pulled out a bouquet of yellow tulips.

“Oh Josh you didn’t.” Tiffani asked in amazement, “these are my favorites.”

“I know, that’s why I got them, I told Chris to give you a single yellow tulip at first.”

“Yeah I thought about that, I was like how did he know that my favorite flowers were tulips?” Tiffani asked.

Just then Anna came out of nowhere. “Nice tulips.” She was carrying a slice of pizza in her hand.

“They have a lot of great food over there, you should go get them before its all gone.” Lance told them, he was eating a fried chicken wing.

“That pizza does look good, I should go get a slice, are you coming Josh?” Tiffani said placing the tulips next to Lance’s table.

“Coming.” JC said and started following behind her, he gave a smile to Lance and Anna that everything was okay between them.

Anna gave him a thumbs up while Lance gave him a smile. “That’s what sisters and brothers do, they argue with eachother, and they love eachother again.” Lance said to himself chuckling when he was thinking about it.