Life Goes On

By: Riley

Summary - -Somewhat of a sequel to the 'With Friends Like These' series. BTR and their friends are all adults now, and while they're making lives of their own, they're still living it Big Time.

*Note – This is only a 10 chapter story and it's a happy one, there's not a lot of drama because I just wanted to write a happy story about all of them after their abuse and other problems they had. I hope you guys like it.


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"STOP TOUCHING ME!"

Sydney Jackson-McGuire slapped his brother, Patrick's, hands away from him, leaning over in his seat as far as he could to get away from his outstretched hands.

"I'm not touching you," Patrick replied with a laugh as he continued to dart his hands towards Sydney's face, keeping them a few inches away from touching his baby brother. "I don't know what you're freaking out about, but I'm not touching you."

"Leave me alone, boofhead!" Sydney was practically in the aisle now as he tried to lean away from his brother.

"Would you both just shut up?" Beside them, Noah put down the book that he was reading and slid his headphones off of his ears. "Everyone around us is starting to stare because you guys are shouting so much." He placed a finger on his chin, pretending to think. "And, oh yeah, we're on a plane!" He transferred his book to his left hand and hit Patrick and Sydney on the legs with it.

"Does it really surprise you?" Ronan McGuire, who was sitting across from them in the other aisle with the boys' two older sisters, Riley and Rhuben, stated as he also put down the magazine he was reading. "Being 18 and 13 you'd think that guys would grow up and mature a little? Honestly, I think that the opposite occurred with you all, you're getting even more immature as you grow up." Beside him, Rhuben cleared her throat loudly and looked at him with a pointed stare. "Ok, you all know when to be serious when it's needed, but you still need to work on your volume from time to time."

"That's not our fault," Riley shrugged one shoulder. "We're just used to having to yell to be heard over each other," she then grinned. "Besides, it's mostly your fault for letting us shout at each other so much."

"So either way the blame is always going to fall on me?" Ronan rolled his eyes. He raised himself up in his seat and turned to the passengers that were looking at him. "I apologize for them." He said.

"Well that really makes us feel like a ball of sunshine," Patrick stated, rolling his eyes.

"Exactly," Rhuben replied and then looked down at her carry-on bag when she heard a beep coming from it. She leaned forward and stuck her arm in the bag, pulling her phone out as she did so. She turned it over and pressed a button at the top and pulled up a text message. "Just got a text from Jo," she announced.

Patrick, Noah, and Sydney perked up and leaned over; waiting to hear what she had to say.

"She says that for old times' sake we're all going to meet up at Rocque Records before we head out to the restaurant to catch up." Rhuben stated as she sent back a quick text and put her phone into her pocket.

"We've only been away for 6 months," Riley stated as she raised an eyebrow. "They're acting like we've been gone for years."

"Yeah," Sydney agreed as he sat up, pushing his overgrown hair out of his face. "But you're forgetting that they've been doing their own thing too. And more often than not, while we were back in Australia we were constantly on the go. So now going back to California, there are a lot of things that we need to talk to them about."

The Jackson-McGuires are on their way back to their second home in Los Angeles, California. After having moved from their home in Australia as they tried to make it big in America, the first place they moved to (and never left from) was LA. Once there, they met the upcoming boy-band/music group Big Time Rush and became friends with them almost instantly. Now five years later it was one of the trips they took back and forth from Australia to America as those two countries are their biggest markets. Every time the Jacksons left, they left for three to six months to work on their music and their career back in their home town. But that wasn't including the tour that they go on. That causes them to leave their friends and family for almost a whole year.

So what Sydney said was true, everything that they had gone through in the past six months, they were going to have to tell their friends, especially the good news that they had that they had been dying to tell their friends ever since they heard it. Plus, it was going to be nice to be with their friends again, to just hang out and have a good time without the pressures of a tour getting in the way.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now landing in Los Angeles, California. It is currently partly cloudy and 80 degrees. Thanks for flying Quantas air and have a nice day."


A/N: So the last chapter in this is an epilogue, so the first nine chapters are about everyone and how their lives are going now that they're older and that they've finally put their past behind them. Sorry BTR didn't appear in this chapter, but of course they'll be there in the next one. I hope you guys like it. This story should be updated pretty quickly, probably going to be done in 10 days, I don't know, I haven't decided yet.

Ages for everyone

21: Kendall, Logan, Carlos, James, Riley, Rhuben, Jo, Camille, Stephanie, Dak, WayneWayne

18: Patrick and Noah

17: Katie

13: Sydney

I'll update again soon, so you guys don't have to wait too long. :D

Cheers,

-Riles