Everyone walked outside to find the nearest restaurants. "Hmm, let's see. There's a Pizza Hut, a McDonalds, and a Taco Bell. Where do you guys want to go?" asked AJ.

Smiling, Calli replied, "Pizza Hut! I haven't had that in like 3 months!"

Miriam laughed, and wrapped her arm around Calliope. "Poor baby."

"I know!" Calli said, winking.

"I'll go to Pizza Hut with Calli," AJ offered, smiling at Calli. She beamed, smiling shyly back at him.

"Wow, Calli, you pulled AJ away from McDonalds... are you for real?" Howie joked, winking.

"No!' Raven laughed, poking Calli, who poked her back.

"Now now girls, don't start any poking wars," Miriam teased.

"Sorry Miss Miriam," both girls said, smiling innocently and holding back their laughs.

"I want McDonalds," Kiah said, changing the subject.

"Me too!" Nick laughed. They agreed that everyone but AJ and Calli would go to McDonalds. Together, AJ and Calli walked towards the Pizza hut.

"You know, you are so talented," He whispered in her ear, causing her to blush deeply.

"So are you..." she said, looking up into his brown eyes. "I bet you'll never guess what my favorite song of yours is."

"No, but you can tell me," he said, gently taking her hand and kissing it, causing her to look away shyly. He smiled, thinking her shyness was so cute.

"Or you can guess!" she laughed softly. He felt his heart beat faster at her deep laugh.

"Um, All I have to Give?"he said, pretending to be in very deep concentration.

"Close." she smiled slyly.

"anywhere for you?"

"Closer."

"I'll Never Break You Heart?"

"Nope."

"I give up." he sighed dejectedly.

Grinning, she replied, "If You Knew What I Knew." AJ was surprised, to say the least.

"Really?"

"Yup" she smiled, pulling AJ inside the restaurant.

"Two?" the person at the desk asked. They nodded.

"Smoking or non-smoking?"

"Non- Smoking." They both replied.

"Right this way." They followed the person to a booth in the corner of the restaurant. They were pretty much alone in that part of the restaurant.

In McDonalds-

Everyone had ordered their food, and they were sitting at a long table. Amee, who was sitting next to Kev, said, "I think AJ and Calliope are really hitting it off."

"Yea. I think he really likes her." Kev smiled

Miriam smiled, "That's good, seeing as he is her favorite." She laughed at the horrified expression on Nick's face, who pretended to be amazed that someone didn't like him.

Meanwhile, at Pizza Hut-

"So........." AJ said, laughing.

"So......." Calli replied, laughing.

"I have to ask you something that's been bothering me." AJ said, reluctantly.

Jess sighed, "Ok,go ahead." she whispered.

"Well, I kinda came into your dressing room on accident, and saw you sleeping." Calli blushed. "And then Miriam walked in. So I had to hide."

"Did you hear everything?" she asked, turning away in shame.

"Yea. Calliope... what's this nightmare that you're so scared of?" he asked gently, rubbing her hand. She stared down at his hand.

Sighing, she replied, "Ok, I guess I can tell you... just... can you not repeat it, yet? Please?" she asked. AJ nodded. "It starts out a good dream. I actually get invited to a party. and I'm having a pretty good time with my friends. But this person who threw the party has an older brother. So we start to flirt, and he pulls me into his room. One thing leads to another, and he starts to..."she started to cry. "starts to.....................starts to.....................he starts to rape me." she said quietly, looking away in shame. "I know it's just a dream but..." AJ looked surprised.

"Oh....my.....God." he whispered, going over to her and hugging her. "Are you ok?" Calli shook her head and sighed.

"I've been having this same nightmare for almost three months now." she said softly, feeling a chill run down her spine at AJ's soft lips upon her cheek.

"I'll protect you." he whispered, gently caressing her face with the back of his hand. Calli looked surprised.

"How? Why?"

"Why? Because I don't want you going through this another night," he said softly, meeting her sad gaze. "How? I don't quite know.. I'll just try my hardest to make you happy, to make you forget about it."

"You are so sweet," she whispered, looking down. "What did I do to deserve you?" Smiling, he caressed her cheek again.

"Let's go. The others are probably waiting by now." she said softly. AJ nodded, and stood up. He took Calli's hand and helped her up. She smiled as they walked out, holding hands. Raven looked at them as they walked up.

"Awwwwww." she laughed. AJ and Calli ignored her.

"Took you long enough! We gotta get back." Kev said. Everyone walked back to the concert hall. AJ gave Calli a quick kiss on the cheek, causing her to blush yet again, before she went into the dressing room.

"Bye, AJ. See you after sound check, right?"

"Yup." he smiled, then slowly walked off to his dressing room. She watched him walk off, and then walked into her own dressing room and gently sat on a chair, sighing happily. Kiah looked at her.

"Someone's in love..." she whispered to Amee, who then told Raven who then told Miriam. Jess was sitting there, oblivious to everything going on around her.

Back in the guys room-

AJ walked in and sat down, staring off into space. Kev came over. "Is my lil bro in love?" he asked slyly.

"Perhaps," he grinned foolishly. Kev smiled.

"That's great." he grinned, "Calli is a great girl. But I kinda like Miriam."

Chapter 6