Disclaimer: I do NOT own any of the people from Big Time Rush unfortunately. Those all belong to the wonderful masterminds of Nickelodeon.
A/N: The boys are all their current age in real life; Carlos 21, Logan 21, Kendall 20, James 20. I do however own Cassandra & her hometown friends & fam and other characters not mentioned in the show.
Big Time Change
Back Story
Cassandra Ley,21, is currently finishing up her final year at USC with a degree in international economics. She always focused on school and thought the show biz was a waste of time and not a solid job. She was determined to achieve her goals. One day while visiting home in San Francisco, her parents explained that once Allison graduated high school in June, she was planning to move to Hollywood to pursue in the show biz field. The parents thought that since Cassie was already living in the area for school, she should just move in together with Allie and watch out for each other.
Cassie POV
I can't believe mom and dad let Allie do this. She doesn't even have a set goal of being a singer or if she wants to be an actress. What's more stupid is that I have to move in with her at this place called the Palm Woods, the hotel for the future of Hollywood. I'm already dreading it. Sure it was only a 30 minute drive to campus, but I don't think I can last a day with a bunch of drama queens and kings thinking their hot stuff. Stuffy, pretentious, spoiled little-
I was cut off by Allie's squeal of excitement as I pulled up to the Palm Woods.
"OMG Case! This is amazing! I'm so excited! This will be the beginning of the rest of my life!"
"Yeah yeah…" I rolled my eyes at her over enthusiastic reaction "Help me with our luggage, I just need to check in with someone called Bitters and the rest of our stuff should have been delivered already."
We stroll in the lobby and I spotted the reception area with a rather grouchy looking man behind the counter. "Hi, we're the new residents for 2K, I'm Cassandra, we spoke about our arrangements a couple of weeks ago".
The man looked uninterested in what I had to say and just stated " Welcome to the Palm Woods..yaddy yaddy yada. Here are the rules: No parties, no loud noises, no obstruction…"
I would have continued listening to his droning when I noticed Allie talking to a couple of guys by the couches. I looked around the lobby, seeing all these aspiring celebs and I can only wonder why they didn't pick more solid stable career paths. I start worrying a bit about how I would be able to concentrate on my grad school apps and studies in this kind of setting. Of course my parents didn't think about how this would affect ME, I was the "responsible one". Boy that was getting old. I turned back to Bitters , suddenly realizing his name really suit his persona, and just nodded to his prattle. Finally I got the keys and I walked over to Allie.
"That only took forever and a day"I grumbled to her, and noticed the guys she was talking to were still there. They weren't bad looking at all.
"Hey Case, this is Big Time Rush! They were just telling me about the Palm Woods, and the people here. Guys, this is my older sis Cassandra."
The four boys started to introduced themselves to me. The one with the fuzzy eyebrows and blondish hair stepped up first. "Hey, I'm Kendall! " He seemed pretty chilled and down to earth. Kind of like one of those guys that put morals before everything"
The one with brown hair , and completely swagged out took my hand and said " James, nice to meet such a pretty girl like you. Let me know if you want to do something later or eve-" The guy with the slight faux hawk nudged him and whispered "I'm sure she doesn't want to be hit on!" It was clear that James is the flirt of the group
The latino guy wearing the helmet pushed James aside. "I'm Carlos! " I laughed inside. Carlos seemed so energetic and happy. I can only wonder why he wears the helmit.
The last one was the one who nudged James earlier. He just smiled and said " Logan." reaching out and shaking my hand . Hmmm he seems so polite but that was all I could figure out about him.
Kendall : "So just moving in to the Palm Woods? Which apartment are you staying at?"
"Oh we got 2K… we should get there now to check it out and unpack"
Carlos , who was talking to Allie at the moment heard and exclaimed "2K, That's right next to us! Sweet!"
"Well guys it was cool meeting all of you but we should get going. Lots to unpack. See you guys around." I nudged Allie and started heading towards the elevators.
Logan then spoke up and said " Do you need any help? " as the rest of the guys chimed in their offer
"I don't want to bother yo-" I was cut off by Allie and she answered "Sure that would be great! " putting her flirty smile on as she and Carlos made eye contact. Hmm I should ask her about it later.
Soon we were piling into 2K which was already filled with boxes of both Allie and my stuff. The kitchen looked amazing. I was going to have a blast baking and cooking here. And thank goodness everything was furnished. Pretty soon we were off to work. First we divided up the boxes to different rooms. Logan picked up my box full of my books and I wheeled my suitcase to my room. When he dropped the box down he was a bit out of breath and said "Whoa that was a bit heavier than expected"
"Oh. Sorry. Those are my books, you could've just left them in the living room and I coulda got to them later. "
"Oh, It's fine. What books are in here? If you don't mind me asking"
"The weight ismostly from my textbooks but I have a bit of everything Nicholas Sparks, Shakespeare, Vonnegut…"
"Wow, never figured you to be into so much literature..wait textbooks?"
"Yeah, I just like to keep some of my textbooks for reference. Never know when you need to remember rules for derivatives or economic terms. I've always been a bit of a closet nerd."
He just looked at me in awe and said "You're amaz-" He was interrupted by James bringing in a couple of my other boxes. James then said " Hey Cassandra, this should be the last box for your room. Do you want to go hang out now?" Wow this boy came on without hesitating.
" Sorry, I still need to unpack everything, but how a rain check on that?" I couldn't help but notice Logan's smile dropping a bit. The three of us headed back out into the living room where Allie, Carlos and Kendall were already unpacking the dvds and games. James joined Kendall at going through our dvd collection, while Carlos and Allie were just in a deep convo about gaming and stuff.
"I guess I'll start unpacking the kitchen stuff, you can go join them if you want Logan". I started heading towards the kitchen and Logan just responded " I think they have enough help. I can help you". I just smiled and thanked him.
Unpacking took a bit longer than expected because before we knew it, it was almost 6pm. "Crap, it's 6 already…Hey if you guys want you can chill here and I'll order pizza. On me, as a thanks" Everyone cheered and was sitting on the couch putting in Sweeny Todd in the DVD player as we waited for the pizza to arrive.
Since school was about to start in about a week, I still had a lot of things to organize. I got up and said "Okay, I need to unpack the rest of my stuff…just come get me when the pizza's here. " I left the boys and Allie and went into my room and started taking stuff out of their boxes. I turned on my laptop and let some music play as I start to organize everything. I was singing along to Take a Bow-Rihanna as I was standing on my chair stacking my books up on the shelf when I heard someone clear their throat behind me.
It scared me and the book I was shelfing, which happened to be my 1000+ pg taxation book,dropped and hit my head pretty hard causing me to lose my balance. I closed my eyes expecting the pain to set in when I realized it didn't. I opened my eyes and saw Logan. He caught me and was now holding onto me bridal style. He just softly chuckled and said "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." and put me down on my feet. "I knocked but I guess you didn't hear me. I was wondering if you need help?"
I thought about it and was embarrassed.. Crap.. did he hear me singing like an idiot…. " Oh" was all I could think to say. I was rubbing my head since it was throbbing from the book. I took a step towards my other books and it hit me like a ton of bricks. The pain and dizziness finally set in and I started to wobble and was about to faint over. Logan rushed over and held me by the waist "Whoa whoa, maybe you should sit down."
We sat down on my bed and he began to examine my head.. "what are you a doctor?" I laughed and asked. He just smirked. He brushed the hair away from my face so he could get a better look and for the first time, our eyes fully met. His brown hazel eyes made me melt and we just looked at each other.
My mind is thinking a million thoughts per minute. Wow, his eyes, his smile. What is going on? I barely know him! Our faces came closer to closer to each other….as if we were being drawn and pulled together. I closed my eyes and he closed his and "Guys the pizza's here!" Kendall yelled from outside.
It bursted our little bubble of a world that we were in and we just nervously chuckled and joined the rest outside. Throughout the rest of the night we avoided eye contact..just focusing on the movie. I can't look at him! What happened in there was a spur of the moment thing. You just met him. Get a hold of yourself Cassie! He probably doesn't feel the same way. Calm the F' down.
Soon the movie ended and we were all calling it a night. The boys were at the door and we were all saying our goodnights and Carlos mentions "don't we get hugs?" and me and Allie couldn't say no to his puppy dog eyes. First Kendall, then Carlos. When I got to James, all I smelled was his man spray and it was a bit hard to bear. He just held on and said " It was so nice to meet you Cassie!" Kendall and Carlos eventually had to pry him off. Then it was Logan. We looked at each other and decided it was best to just hug. His hug was soft yet comforting and it made me sigh. Finally we broke apart and I walked him to the door since he was the last one of the group and Allie had gone back to her room.
"Nice meeting you Cassie, sorry about the book again." He said with a cute smile forming on his face.
"Good night Logan. Thanks again"
"Good night Cassie" and as soon as he said that, he gave a quick peck on my check and left.
I closed the door, holding the side of my cheek, and all I could say was "Wow"
Hmm this Palm Woods arrangement might be good after all.
A/N: Still deciding if I want to do this in a first person POV or a third. Let me know your ideas on this. Love it? Hate it? Review please. XOXO :)