So this, is a cute, fluffy and adorable story about Ross and Laura. They are fifteen in this first chapter and then sixteen in the next, seventeen, eighteen and so on. I'll probably go up to maybe twenty or something. It's going to be short like the other one and updated with Let's Go Nowhere That We Know, at times.

I also called it Timeless, because it's my favorite Austin & Ally song and truthfully, even if Ross is a little shit sometimes, he and Laura's friendship will always be timeless. And yeah, there's my cheesy moment of the day.

So anyway, I hope you enjoy this. I really like it. Hehe.

He was cute. Adorable even. Maybe even a little bit cuter and more adorable than she was.

She was happy he was her costar. If anything, she could see that he most definitely looked the part.

Austin Moon was Ross Lynch. Ross Lynch was Austin Moon.

It was meant to be.

Her eyes went to the left and she saw her mother sitting there, off to the side, while she and her other cast mates and directors, producers, writers and the two who made up the idea of the show in the first place had their first ever read through.

He was laughing his ass off.

She was too.

She looked up and there he was: right across from her, looking up at her too.

She smiled.

He smiled back.

Then it was her line.

He couldn't deny it.

Laura Marano was cute. Adorable, goofy, sweet and most importantly, she found things to be very easily entertaining.

To put it simply, she was his kinda girl.

Though, they had just met the week before for screen tests. They had tested together and he swore that their chemistry had sparked instantly. It was as though they'd known each other all their lives.

Well, maybe not that extreme.

But hey, they gotten the parts, so he figured that had to mean something.

She was saying her lines, her hands going to her ear, and she put the loose strand behind it. He was so engrossed in what she was doing, he almost missed his line.

Something about corndogs, he said it, didn't really pay attention to it.

His eyes went to his right where he saw his mother speaking to hers. His older brother, Rocky looking pretty amused beside her. He rolled his eyes and tried not to let the fact that he was knowingly smirking get to him.

He found it pretty lame that both of their parents (and Rocky, though that was by choice) had to be there. It was as though they had to watch every little thing they did. He felt like he was a kid who was being monitored over how much ice cream and cake he ate at a birthday party.

Sometimes, being fifteen sucked.

So did being born so late in the damn year. It felt like he wouldn't be sixteen for forever.

He watched her again, her hand tangled in her hair as she bit her lip and followed along with the script.

She looked up and smiled at him.

So, he did the gentlemanly thing and smiled back at her.

"Crazy read through right?"

She blinked, realizing that Ross was in her dressing room. His cheeks turned pink.

"Sorry, I um, should've knocked first. But… you know, I'm not that kinda guy." He walked into the room and sat down on her couch. She just looked at him, surprised he even had the guts to do it.

"Yes, and… you're strange." She said, scrunching her eyebrows together.

"So I've been told." He replied and casually leaned back, his hands behind his head as he looked up at her. She noticed his hat and moved her neck so that she could see it better.

"You wear a hat that says surf naked?" Her eyebrows went up, "those security guards let you in here with that?"

"It's not like we work for Disney or something," He scoffed and then he realized she had a point. "Wait.. I don't think they cared."

"You're going to be one of those guys who work for Disney but curse anytime they want to regardless, aren't you?" She asked and he smiled at her.

"Looks like you know me already."

"I don't, but whatever makes you happy I guess." She returned back to her homework, the math problem truly stumping her. She was deep in concentration for a few minutes when she felt something behind her and saw a shadow in her light.

She turned to look at him.

"Y equals four and x equals nine," He said and then moved away like nothing had happened. "It's really easy to solve."

"What are you, a math genius?"

"No, I just know how to do the problem," He answered back and she nodded, writing in the answers, before putting her pen down and turned back to him. He just looked at her, "what?"

"How old are you?"

"Fifteen, you?"

"Fifteen."

"That explains why your mother is here," He said, "and if you were curious at all, mine's here too. The blonde lady with the brown haired fuckhead."

She laughed at the nickname, "what you don't like him?"

"No, I love him." He answered, "he's just a fuckhead."

"I was right about you," She commented and then turned back around to do her homework.

"Wait, right about what?"

She didn't answer.

"Laura…"

Still didn't answer.

"You're going to torture me aren't you? I see a lot of this happening in the future."

She tried not to laugh, but failed and turned back around again.

"I meant," She began, "that you're going to be one of those guys who works for Disney and still curses anytime you want to regardless," She repeated her words from earlier.

"Right, because I said fuckhead.." Ross nodded and She just blinked back at him. "Rocky really is a fuckhead though."

"That's not nice to be saying that about your… what is he? Cousin? Brother?"

"Pet," Ross answered. She raised an eyebrow. "Okay, not really. He's my brother."

She looked at him confused, "how? You're blonde, your mother's blonde… he's got brown hair."

He shrugged, "I have a theory he's adopted, but that can't be it since we do sort of look alike, minus the hair color differences. We were all blonde when we were kids." He explained.

"Wait, all?"

"I have three more siblings, Riker, Rydel and then my younger brother, Ryland. And an honorary brother, Ratliff." He added, "he's in a band with us."

"You're in a band? Wow, you just keep getting cooler and cooler, don't you?"

He nodded, "yeah, R5. We're pretty freakin' awesome."

She nodded, "that's… cool. Very cool. I like bands, Beatles, the Who, Rolling Stones… I'm all about old school rock music."

His eyes it up, "no way! So am I! One of my dreams is to see the Beatles live, but for obvious reasons that can't happen, so I'm really just dying to see Ringo and Paul McCartney, I think that'd be pretty damn cool."

She smiled, "me too, they're still alive, so… we've got half a shot, right?"

He nodded, "right." Then it was silent for a few moments. She could see he had a short attention span, "so… do you have any siblings?"

She nodded as she wrote down how to solve the next math problem, "I just have an older sister, Vanessa. She's an actress as well."

Ross nodded, "so you're the baby of the family."

"Yup. And you're not right, because you have a younger brother."

Ross nodded, "I'm second to youngest though. I'm for sure the youngest in my band."

Laura turned to him confused, "but you just said you were in a band with your siblings. Ryland's the youngest."

He understood her confusion, "oh, no. He's not in the band, he's more like the manager."

"You have a manager who's younger than you?"

"Yeah, he's pretty good at it too."

"Wow, that's pretty cool. I have to admit."

Ross smiled, "yeah… I guess."

It was silent again.

He was unable to sit still.

She was just trying to concentrate on her homework and not think any unpure thoughts about her costar. She briefly wondered if it was too soon, since she was so young, but figured it was probably very normal.

"Take a break," He finally said and she looked up at him. "I wanna take you somewhere I found earlier, wandering around."

"I can't just—"

"Sure you can," He gave her a one shoulder shrug. "Just come on."

So she decided to take a break.

"Where are we?" Laura's brown eyes widened as she looked around, the view was amazing. She could hardly believed it existed. Ross pointed ahead of her, beginning to point out some things to her.

"There's Hollywood, see the sign? Then there's… I'm not really sure what it's called, but it's a city I think, and then over there, like way, way over there is downtown I believe and then somewhere in that general direction is the beach… I think."

Laura smiled at him, the light breeze blowing her hair onto her face. "You don't know your Los Angeles geography yet?"

He shrugged, putting his hands in his pockets, "I've only lived here for barely two years, I don't know much about it yet."

"Two years is a long time."

"I never visited those places, except for auditions or something. If I did, I just don't remember the names, I'm bad at that."

She nodded and then motioned for him to give her his hand, he looked at her, confusedly, but did as she asked, she held it for a moment and then held it in front of her. She pointed with her finger and he got the hint, his finger pointing as well.

"Century City, Hollywood, yes the beach is that way, either Santa Monica, Venice or Malibu, but that's further down, there's also Beverly Hills and Westwood before and after Century City and then yeah, that's downtown," She said and then let his hand fall down by their sides, not letting go. He just looked at her and she looked back at him for a moment, before they both broke out of whatever it was they were in and stepped away from each other.

"You know your shit."

"I've lived here my whole life," She answered.

"So then fifty degrees is pretty much cold for you."

She nodded, "it's not for you?"

"I'm from Colorado, it's pretty damn cold there."

She smiled, "and yet, you look like a surfer. Ironic."

He smiled back, "yeah, pretty ironic, I'd say."

It was the first day of filming the episode and they were both in the hair and make-up room. She was looking at him through the mirror and then asked the question that had been on her mind for a good few days.

"When's your birthday?"

He looked up at her, "December 29th." He paused, "yours?"

"November 29th," She responded.

He grinned, "we're exactly a month apart."

She smiled, "yeah and you're the baby of the cast," She playfully stuck her tongue out and she did the same, both laughing so much it took longer for their hair and make-up to get done.

When they were finished, Laura got off her chair to go to set, when Ross stopped her, his hand on top of hers.

"Timeless," He said.

She raised an eyebrow, "sorry?"

"Promise me, no matter what happens with the show or with our lives, that our friendship will always be timeless." He didn't take his eyes off of her.

She felt her heart skip and then smiled, "yes, we are forever, timeless."

And then they squeezed each other's hand to seal the deal.

"Tell me you've heard of this band," Laura held up a CD, walking into the schoolroom where Ross sat, his feet on the desk as he let out a yawn and watched her sit down beside him.

"What band?" He asked a moment later.

She handed him the CD.

Walk the Moon, he read.

"Nope, can't say I have." He handed it back to her.

"They're great, amazing, awesome, any other synonym you can think of." She was bouncing in her seat and Ross could see she was genuinely excited for him to give the band a listen.

"Okay, I'll check them out," He said, then thought of something. "On one condition."

She narrowed her eyes, "if it has something to do with food, I'm not—"

"Make a twitter account," He grinned at her.

"I don't really like the internet, and besides I don't have the right phone for it," She pulled it out of her pocket and then put it on the table in front of them. His eyes widened as he lifted it up to look at it.

"I'm pretty sure cavemen used this when they wanted to communicate with dinosaurs," Ross handed it back to her.

"Cavemen and dinosaurs can't communicate."

"They do in cartoons." Ross shrugged.

"That's because it's a cartoon."

"Yeah, yeah… words, anyway, get a twitter account and I'll listen to the band." Ross went back to reading his history book.

"But—"

"No one's going to hurt you on the internet, promise." He said, "well, actually I can't promise that, but I'll be the first person you follow, so… I can kick some ass if I need to."

Laura laughed, "you would kinda fail I think."

"I know some karate."

"Right and I know how to play the guitar," Laura scoffed.

Ross smiled, "you can someday."

Laura sighed, "fine. I'll get a stupid twitter, but… remember our deal, you promised you'd give them a listen."

He nodded, "yeah, yeah. I'll give them a shot. Now let's talk about your old school phone…"

"I'm not upgrading. I love it too much to part with it."

Ross sighed, "worth a shot, though, I don't think I'll ever understand that."

Ross was at home when he listened to the CD Laura lent him. The first song was good, then the second was better and by the third he was pretty much into it. He quickly pulled the CD out of his laptop and went downstairs to the living room where his family was watching a game.

He turned the tv off, and then put the CD in the player, ignoring everyone's complaints. Then he pressed play and everyone shut up.

"Wow," Riker said, "they're amazing."

Rydel agreed, "so good."

Rocky nodded, "who are they?"

"Walk the Moon, Laura got me into them. They're pretty damn good." He let the CD continue to play, ignoring the knowing looks his mother and father exchanged in between them. He just smiled, staring off into the distance. "I can't wait to
tell her."

Rocky smirked, "looks like someone's got a crush."

Ross' mouth dropped open. "I don't! She's my costar, that'd be kinda awkward. Plus, we're friends… I don't want to ruin that and therefore, don't have feelings for her."

"You're totally denying it." Rocky said.

Ross rolled his eyes, "whatever dude."

The smirk never left Rocky's face.

"Okay, you were right, they're really good." Ross lightly dropped the CD onto Laura's desk.

"Right? I'm dying to go to one of their concerts, they're just… so good! I can't help but want to see them live."

Ross smiled, sitting down beside her, "wait until you see my band live, you'll hopefully enjoy that too."

Laura just smiled, "there's a pretty high chance I will."

He locked eyes with her for a few seconds and then his eyes went to her laptop. She knew what he was hinting at and sighed, handing over her laptop.

"Alright, go ahead, make me a twitter." She said and he grinned. He typed in a few things, asked her a few questions and before she knew it, her account was made. She got her laptop back and saw that she was already following one person.

Ross, she assumed, and then got a notification. She looked at it and saw that Ross had followed her and then tweeted about her having an account and to follow her. She was so surprised when her amount of followers kept increasing.

Finally, good going Ross! She read in her mentions and saw that Raini had tweeted her among a few others.

She then heard giggling and looked up to see Raini was in the schoolroom, Calum behind her.

He high fived Ross and then Raini hugged Laura.

"Now, you're one of us!" She squealed.

Ross shook his head, "nah, she was always one of us." He winked at her and she blushed, looking away. "Timeless," He said.

"Timeless," She answered back.

Calum and Raini just looked at each other, completely confused and completely lost.

He met her dad two months after they filmed the first couple episodes. Her mother couldn't make it, so he had taken her to work.

He had just been walking down the hall, towards the school room like usual, when he saw her. He smiled and then walked through the door, he put his hands over her eyes and heard her giggle.

"Guess who." He said.

"Jesse McCartney?"

"Not even close."

"Zac Efron?"

"Very not close."

"Calum?"

"Closer."

"Austin."

"I guess close enough."

She giggled, "I know it's you Ross!"

He took his hands off her and leaned in so that his chin was on her shoulder, "watcha working on?"

"This dumb essay I have to write." She sighed, "I'm too tired to care about homework."

He looked at her, "you? Not caring about your homework? I am surprised, Miss Laura Marano!" He pretended to scold her and she rolled her eyes. The action made Ross laugh a bit and she giggled.

"Excuse me? What are you doing with my daughter?"

Ross stood up and saw an older man looking at him, a bit angry. He backed away and then sat down across the room from her.

"Dad, stop." Laura put her hand on his chest. "He's just a friend, a very good, close, best friend, okay?" Ross tried not to smile at the fact that she called him her best friend for fear of getting his ass kicked. "He's also the male lead of the show I'm on." She added. "If you kill him, for no logical reason whatsoever, then there won't be a show anymore."

"She's got a point," Ross spoke up and then winced a bit at his gaze, "…sir." He added and then quickly looked away.

"We need him, okay? He's Austin, I'm Ally. Without Austin, there is no Ally." Laura still held her hand on her father's chest.

"Just to point out," Ross hesitantly said, "there's like a zero chance I'm going to do anything to hurt your daughter, she's too awesome."

"Do you like her?" Her father asked.

Ross looked at her and she looked back at him, "what's the right answer without you killing me?" He decided to go with. "I do value my life you know. I'm only fifteen, I still have a good eight years to go." He then realized what he said, "not that I'm saying you're old," his eyes widened, "or that I don't value Laura's life either, because I do, I'm just—"

"You're rambling," Laura interrupted him with a sigh. "Look dad, we're supposed to be in school, can you just go to my dressing room and hang out for a while? I'll be done in a few hours."

Her father nodded, slowly looking at Ross, before, to both of their surprise, he loosened up and smiled at him.

"You're a good kid," He said, "treat her well, I'm trusting you," and with that, he left.

Ross just blinked his eyes, catching Laura's attention, "he scares me."

"Does he?" Laura faked her curiousity.

"I almost shit my pants."

She laughed, "yeah, he scares you."

"He's not in the mafia or anything is he?"

"Why do you ask?"

"He sounded Italian."

"He is."

"So he is in the mafia," Ross' eyes widened more.

Laura decided it'd be fun to mess with him. "Yup and you better watch your back."

Ross just swallowed hard and she tried not to laugh.

It was really, really hard.

But she did it.

Until he left the room to go to the bathroom (or so he claimed).

Then she just let go and burst into laughter, only stopping when he came back into the room and looked at her strangely.

"Look what I goooot!" Ross waved something in her face. Laura looked up and snatched it from his hands, her eyes widening, she jumped up, squealing and wrapped her arms around his neck, hugging him tight.

"What did you get her?" Raini asked.

"Tickets." Ross shrugged like it wasn't a big deal at all.

"Tickets? Tickets for what?"

"Walk the Moon!" Laura jumped up and down, "we're going to a concert? Together?"

Ross nodded, "Well, my dad's going to be there too, but yeah. We're going."

Laura squealed again and hugged him tight, "I can't wait!"

He hugged her back, "me neither." He said quietly and then hugged her tighter.

He wasn't sure, but somehow her father let her leave with himself and his father to the concert. He was surprised. He had genuinely thought he would make an excuse for her not to go, but he didn't. That made him kinda happy. It meant he trusted him. Trusted him not enough to kill him and he was more than happy with that.

"Best concert ever!" Laura said as they walked from the venue to the car. "I don't think I've ever sang that much or jumped around in my life."

"Yeah, I have to admit, it was pretty entertaining… and cute." He smirked at her as the reached his father's car. She gave him a look as his father unlocked the car and Ross opened the door for her. He smiled at her as she sat in her seat.

"Wow, what a gentleman," She commented.

"Can't help it, I'm sort of a romantic." He answered and she smiled.

"That was one of the first things I picked up about you," She replied. "You're an adorably handsome romantic." She then winked at him and he looked at her surprised she said it. Then took his seat in the front seat while she and his father talked a bit.

They pulled up to her house and he opened her door for her, walking her to her front door.

"Thanks for concert, Ross. I had the best time ever." She smiled up at him and he smiled down at her.

Then he put his hands on her waist and leaned forward, hugging her tight.

"See you in school tomorrow."

She smiled, "See you."

With that, she went inside and he got back into the car.

"You are one interesting kid," He father commented and he looked at him, surprised. But he didn't elaborate more and Ross was too tired to ask what he meant by it.

Though, his words never stopped bouncing around in his mind.

"Sleepover?" Laura looked at Ross unsure if she should actually go through with it. "Won't that be awkward?"

"How is it going to be awkward? You'll be with me, my brothers and my sister. In the living room, in full view." Ross said. He nudged her and smiled, "come on, it'll be fun!"

She couldn't believe she was agreeing to do it, but she nodded her head. "Fine."

"Yes!" He pumped his fist and then hugged her tight, causing her to laugh. He ran off and she just shook her head, going over her lines for rehearsal later that afternoon.

She showed up at his house at seven. Immediately after she rang the doorbell, he pulled her inside the house and then led her to the living room area where she found five other people on the couch, watching something on the tv.

"Laura, this is Riker, Rydel, Ryland, Ratliff and you already know Rocky." He said pointing the mall out as he introduced them. She waved at them, smiling and then turned to Ross.

"So, where can I put my stuff?"

"Here, I'll take you upstairs to my room," He answered and led her upstairs. They entered his room and Laura looked around seeing not only Ross' name on the wall, but Ryland's as well. "I share a room with Ryland," He explained and she nodded.

"Um, this is going to sound very silly, but I kind of forgot to bring something to sleep in." Laura sheepishly rubbed the back of her neck and he just smiled at her.

"No problem, I'll give you something to wear," He said and with that pulled out a pair of yellow sweatpants and a matching hoodie. He handed it to her and then he told her he'd step out of the room while she changed. He had to use the bathroom anyway, so he figured it would take that amount of time for her to change anyway.

He opened the door to his room a few moments later and then heard a loud squeal. His eyes widened as he realized that he'd just walked in on a half naked Laura and quickly closed the door, covering his eyes. She opened it a few moments later and without a word, they awkwardly walked down the stairs to the living room.

"Sup guys?" Rocky asked and Laura shrugged, going to sit down beside him. Before he could say a word, she snatched the remote controller from the video game they had apparently put on in the last five minutes she and Ross and been gone and then started to play it. "Huh, feisty." Rocky commented, he looked at Ross. "I like her." Ross just rolled his eyes and shook his head in response.

He woke up to the sound of giggling.

Opening his eyes, he saw that Laura was above him, giggling at him and he just looked at confused. She discreetly pointed down and he looked only to notice that he was… for lack of a better term, a bit happy.

His cheeks reddened and he immediately rolled over, not that that helped his situation, and hid his face in his pillow. He was so embarrassed.

"Hey." Laura whispered quietly and he opened his eyes to look at her. "Don't be embarrassed, it's natural and normal."

She was sitting right next to him, her knees on his sleeping bag. Her, being the only girl in the house at that moment who wasn't related to him, being so close, certainly wasn't helping his problem at all either. But then, he realized that he had nothing to be embarrassed about, so he just laid on his back again and looked up at her, a smile on his face.

She seemed surprised by his sudden change in attitude. He sat up, smirking and leaning back on his hands. Then, he leaned in close enough that he could whisper in her ear.

"I know you don't want to be the one to take care of this… so if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a shower, before Rocky steals it the chance from me, and take care of it on my own," He pulled away from her and her eyes were slightly widened. He could see she had a million thoughts running through her mind at that moment, but what he didn't know was the shiver that had gone down her spine. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and then nodded.

"You go do that," She finally said, opening her eyes. They both stared at each other, sharing a moment and knew from that moment on, things would be very different between them.

Ross got out of the shower, running a towel through his wet hair and stepping into his room when he noticed Laura was sitting on his bed. She was wearing very short shorts, a tight tank top, and her hair was in a high ponytail.

He couldn't deny that she looked attractive.

She was otherwise occupied, playing games on his laptop that he'd given her the password for the night before, stating that he trusted her enough. She was very concentrated, her tongue sticking out her eyes fixed on the screen.

He decided to scare the shit out of her.

He put both hands on either side of her and leaned forward, a smile on his face as he got closer to her. That seemed to surprise her enough that she looked up, startled to see he was right in front of her, their faces almost an inch apart.

"I'm out of the shower." The water from the shower dripped from his hair and onto her skin. She tried not to show that it had affected her in any way.

"I can see that." She answered back, she pushed the computer away and then to his surprise, wrapped her arms around his neck. She pulled him on top of her, so that she was lying flat on her back and giggled when he just fell on top of her. His bare chest so close to her caused a warmth to spread throughout her body.

She realized then that all he was wearing was a towel around his waist and she felt that tingle again. Ross, however, was just happy that she couldn't feel anything that was going on in the lower part of his body, already knowing he'd have to excuse himself to go to the bathroom in a few minutes.

They just stared at each other, neither one making the first move. Her eyes went up to his and she bit down on her bottom lip, which just made her so damn cute Ross wanted nothing more than to just kiss her until they both couldn't take it anymore.

Wait, what?

They were just friends, weren't they?

He realized that before he made a huge mistake, he'd have to get himself off of her and get dressed (also, possibly do that bathroom thing again too).

"Don't move," She whispered, "you're keeping me warm." She closed her eyes and Ross swallowed hard.

What the hell was she trying to do to him?

He closed his eyes too and they just laid there on the bed like that, both not making an effort to move or really make a move either.

Until,

"Hey! Ross! Out of the shower yet? Mom's got breakfast ready. You seen Laura by the way?" Rocky stuck his head into the room and immediately their eyes opened and Ross quickly jumped away from her. "Was I uh… interrupting something?" He asked, an amused look on his face.

"What? No! We weren't, there's nothing, we were just… messing around." Laura looked at Ross for confirmation and he nodded his head quickly.

"Yup and now I have to uh, get dressed, yeah." he gave Rocky the thumbs up and then walked out of the room.

"Hey Ross?" Rocky called after him.

"What?" Ross called back.

"I think you forgot something!"

It took a moment, but Ross came back, his cheeks red and flustered as he just grabbed clothes from his dresser and then quickly walked out of the room.

It was silent for about five seconds, before Laura spoke, "so what are we having for breakfast?"

Breakfast was in a word: awkwardly imperfect.

Okay, that was two words, but that's all Laura could think of to call it.

She and Ross weren't looking at each other and Rocky was just amused by all of it. Everyone else was confused, and both Ross and Laura hoped they stayed that way. Confused and unaware of what went on just a few moments ago.

Not that they wanted anything to happen because then that would change their friendship and they were pretty sure they weren't ready for that yet.

"So, Laura, why don't you, tell us a bit about yourself?" Stormie asked her and Laura nodded.

"Um, okay. Well, I'm from here, Los Angeles, I mean, not here in this specific house. I have an older sister, she's an actress, I've been acting since I was five and something a lot of people remember me from is when I was in Superbad." She then looked down at her food, but remembered something, her eyes lighting up. "Oh! And my sister is teaching my sign language. We practice together, since she has to know it for the show she's on."

"No way, what show?" Rydel asked her.

"Switched at Birth."

"That's your sister?" Rydel asked, "I love that show! She's amazing in it!"

Laura laughed, "thank you, I'll be sure to let her know you said that."

Ross had poked her and she turned her head to him, "when were you in Superbad? We've seen that movie like fifty million times and I don't remember seeing you in it."

Her face turned pink, "I uh, it's kind of, an awkward scene, if you want to think of it like that, yeah."

"Okay, how awkward could it be?" Ross asked her. "It's not like you had sex or something in it, right? You were a kid." Laura's cheeks got redder, if possible. "Wait, no way."

"I didn't have sex, why are we even talking about sex while eating with your family, is my question." Laura mumbled.

"Seriously, Ross? She's like the younger version Jonah Hill's character has a crush on. During that whole penis drawing scene. She even picks up a picture and looks at it horrified and runs, screaming out of the room. If I remember correctly." Riker said and then Ross' eyes lit up and he smirked.

"No way."

Laura nodded.

"So you're telling me that you, Laura Marano, who plays sweet innocent Ally Dawson, had a scene with penises?"

"Don't rub it in," She groaned.

"Oh no, I'm never letting this one go." He had a twinkle in his eye and she sighed, defeated.

"Somehow, I doubt you ever will."

After that semi-awkward sleepover, Laura felt like she was slowly becoming a part of the Lynch family. Rocky had said it was some sort of a tradition that they do a 'Lynch Family Initiation' thing and she had passed it. Whatever that meant.

But now, she realized, she and Ross were closer than ever.

Close to the point that they acted like an actual couple.

Sometimes, not all the time.

He'd lay on top of her a lot and she'd do the same. Or, they'd absentmindedly hold hands, without realizing it and they would stand super close to each other. Raini had commented that they didn't even know what the definition of personal space was, since they were always standing so damn close to each other.

But, truth be told, they didn't even care. They were happy with their friendship and that's what mattered to them.

"Ross?"

He looked up at Laura.

"Sup?" Yeah, he wasn't always as cool as he tried to be, but she wasn't going to break that news to him. He pretty much already knew it was true.

"Sleepover? Tonight?" She asked, her eyes twinkling. "Raini's house, be there or forever, be known as a weenie."

"What?" He laughed at her, amused. "Did you just call me a weenie?"

"Yes, yes I did."

Then, before she could run off, he wrapped his arms around her waist and picked her up spinning her around while she just giggled and laughed. He then gently put her down and held her tightly against him, resting his chin on her shoulder.

"I'm so not a weenie."

"Whatever you say," She laughed.

Raini and Calum were fast asleep and Laura was trying to fall asleep, but she was too cold. She was known to get super cold easily and the fact that she'd forgotten to pack more blankets or ask Raini for more, made her a little annoyed with herself.

She didn't know what she was going to do, since she wasn't going to be getting much sleep.

So, she decided to see if Ross was awake.

"Ross!" She whispered but he didn't make any movement to indicate he'd heard her. "Ross!" She whispered louder, still nothing. Then she threw her pillow at him and he sat up, shocked.

"Wha, what happened?" He asked sleepily.

"Are you awake?"

"I am now." He glared at her and she sighed.

"Sorry, I'm just really cold and I didn't know what to do. I can't sleep."

"So… you decided to wake me up?" He gave her a look and she giggle, shaking her head. He rolled his eyes and laid back down. THen he held one arm up, she tilted her head in question. "Come over here and lay with me." He said, "I'll keep you warm."

Her heart skipped and she wondered if he even realized what he was saying.

"Or you could just stay there and freeze all night, it's your choice really." He yawned and she bit her lip and making a quick decision got up to go lay down beside him. He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close enough that her head was on his chest. Then he put the blanket over them both and she got more comfortable, feeling drowsy all of a sudden, she just let out a breath of air and then relaxed against him.

It didn't take long at all for her to fall fast asleep once she was with by his side.

"Aw, so cute." She heard and woke up, opening her eyes to see Raini and Calum looking down at her. She felt someone move and looked down to see Ross' arms were wrapped tightly around her and that he was still asleep. She wiggled a bit and felt something twitch against her and froze, looking up at her friends.

"Something up, Laura?" Calum asked her and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Shut up, Calum." She muttered and then both he and Raini burst into laughter.

"We'll be in the kitchen making breakfast, take your time getting up though." Raini told her, "warn Ross before he completely gets up what's going on first."

Laura just rolled her eyes and then closed them, laying back down and getting comfortable again. To her surprise, Ross held her tighter and closer to him, almost like he was clutching onto a teddy bear or something crazy like that.

She felt him against her and she felt that tingle-shiver go down her spine again.

Only this time, it wasn't that awkward anymore.

She turned around so that she was facing him, her head right next to his and then put her fingers through his hair, rubbing his ear. He smiled at that and she smiled back, even though he technically couldn't see her.

"Wake up sleepyhead," She whispered and then to her surprise, he pulled her against him and then flipped them so that he was on his back and she was on top of him. He opened his eyes and she let out a soft, "oh!" The blanket covered their bodies, so if Raini, Calum or any of Raini's family members were to see them, they would probably think something was going on that really wasn't.

"How do you know I haven't been awake this whole time?" He asked with a soft yawn.

"Because you seemed like her were fast asleep," She answered, adjusting herself a bit. He bit his lip to keep from groaning and luckily for him, she completely missed it. "You have a um, friend though." Despite knowing what she was talking about, he still wrapped his arms around her and then tightly hugged her. She could feel it even more now and swallowed hard.

"Are the kind of friends that don't care about stuff like that?" He asked her, his voice was still sleepy and she couldnt help but think about how damn cute it sounded.

"I don't know." She answered honestly, and tilted her head, cutely at him. "What kind of friends are we?"

He smiled at her. "Best friends."

She laughed, nodding her head in agreement, "best friends," She repeated, "but… I don't think I can help you with your morning friend."

The fact that she was being so cool about it, surprised him. He was taking a risk by doing what he was doing, but now he knew. Laura wasn't like most girls, not that he had much to compare her with anyway, except for his sister, mother, cousins and other relatives, but still. She was different and he really liked that about her.

"You could someday," He mumbled so low, he was glad she didn't hear it.

"So, what are you going to do about it?" She asked him, wiggling her body a bit. She could feel him stiffen beneath her.

"That's not helping," He glare at her and she giggled.

Then, she leaned in and kissed his cheek. "Thanks for keeping me warm last night," She whispered in his ear and then pulled back. She sat up and then after about a second, stood up completely, the blanket falling down at both their feet. "Raini and Calum are waiting for us in the kitchen, go take care of that and I'll be there, waiting for you." She winked at him and he felt his heart skip.

Holy crap what was this girl doing to him?

"There he is!" Calum clapped his hands as Ross walked into the kitchen, a good five to ten minutes later. Though, five of those minutes were spent still lying in his sleeping bag, and then rest, well, he wasn't about to tell Calum anything.

"Shut up, bro." Ross playfully punched him and then Raini handed him a plate of pancakes. His eyes lit up, "ooh pancakes!"

"Wow, getting more and more like Austin everyday," Laura teased him as he sat down beside her. He just smiled over at her, thought to himself for a moment and then leaned in, giving her a kiss on the cheek. She blushed and put her hand where he had kissed her.

He looked up to see if Raini or Calum had noticed, and once seeing that they were preoccupied with their own thing looked at Laura. "I didn't give you one earlier, so… there it is."

They both realized then, that their friendship was going to evolve into something more at some point.

And it wasn't like either one of them were willing to stop it from happening.

For sure, they both knew they wanted it. When it would happen, who knew. But when it did, they knew they'd be happy with it.

They couldn't wait.

Yeah? What'd ya think about that? Heh. Let me know, here, on twitter, wherever you want. Also, message me if you have any ideas for stories cuz I'd love to write some for once.

Next chapter will be up soon, hopefully. I just wanted a drama free story you know? Though it won't be completely drama free. But still. Happy and upbeat, I like the sound of that.