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Big Time Guest Star: Chapter 1

"I like it!"

Kelly groaned inwardly. It was all she could do not to scream. But Arthur Griffin was the bigwig, the big man on campus, the ultimate voice of authority, or, in other words, her boss.

"Make it happen!"

And with that, the powerful and eccentric man left the studio, on his way to drive some other poor unsuspecting fool nuts with his crazy ideas.

Kelly glared across the office at the annoying brunette who was about to launch a world of trouble on her boys. The brunette in question flicked her hair over her shoulder and just smiled—smug—that she was getting her way. Kelly knew that it was her business to protect her client, but this was not good!

"Gustavo, you can't honestly think this is a good idea!" Kelly exclaimed, still glaring across the room as she spoke to her rotund boss who was seated to her right in front of the sound board.

"You heard the man," Gustavo said, shrugging off the whole situation. "It's no big deal."

"No big deal!" Kelly was about to let loose and tell him exactly why this was a big deal, but was interrupted.

"This will be good for your little band, and good for my client," the brunette said. "It's a win/win situation."

"Win/win!" Gustavo interjected. His look of distaste let the dark skinned woman know that he was tired of the subject already and just wanted to get on with the day.

Kelly was going to continue arguing but was interrupted once again when a ragtag group of teenagers tumbled into the studio's recording area laughing and carrying on just like any other day.

"I can't believe you caved!" Carlos laughed, pointing at James.

James shrugged, looking heavenward as he ran a hand along his newly shaved jaw line.

"You would have caved too if yours itched as much as mine," James grumbled.

"What in the world," the brunette near Kelly murmured, finally getting a clear view of the boys.

Gustavo rolled his eyes and grunted.

"They had a contest to see who could grow the most facial hair," Kelly explained through clenched teeth, dreading what was coming once the 'pleasantries' were over.

"Ah," the other woman nodded, finally understanding why the other three boys looked the way they did.

Kendall's jaw and upper lip had hair that matched his eyebrows which made it look even worse compared to his dark blonde locks on the top of his head. Luckily he hadn't been growing it long enough for the mustache to resemble Magnum P.I. whom Kendall apparently was going for with his new look. Kelly was glad there wouldn't be time for it to get that far.

Carlos' face was like a group of mini tiny barely there bushes. He, above all, looked the most ridiculous. Along his jaw line were random skin patches because for some reason it wasn't all growing evenly. Kelly knew that he was extremely frustrated by this and had even gone so far as to sneak into Gustavo's mansion to see if he could find some hair growing cream since he was positive the slightly balding man had to have some somewhere.

He hadn't found any.

Then there was Logan.

Logan had apparently lucked out—if you could call it that—in the hair growing department. Of course, it made sense to Kelly considering the number of times she had seen Logan later in the evening and his five o'clock shadow was already showing. Since his facial hair was obviously growing faster than the others, he took it upon himself to groom it, even shaving off some of the sides so that what he was sporting resembled a goatee more than a beard. Of the three, Logan was the only one that looked, as some girls had been saying much to the disgruntlement of the other boys, hot.

Kelly cleared her throat and leaned forward, pressing the button to allow sound into the recording area when she spoke.

"James? You shaved?" She really didn't care about their little contest. The boys all knew they were only allowed a month to do it before their next television appearance. She was only bringing attention to James' face because she was putting off the inevitable.

"I couldn't take it anymore, and, I mean, I looked like a lion!" James defended himself, throwing his arms up in a little fit, still feeling attacked on all sides for not lasting the full month.

"I've never seen anyone scratch their face that much," Carlos laughed. "All the girls thought he had some disease or something!"

"It's probably because you dyed it to match your hair," Logan inputted, laughing too.

James continued to glare at them all, including Kendall in his glacial gaze when he laughed as well.

James would have probably gone into a diva fit—as Kelly privately referred to them—if Kendall hadn't looked into the sound booth just then and saw the other person standing behind the window.

"What's she doing here?" Kendall asked, glowering at the brunette woman who had tried so hard to break him and Jo up months ago.

Jo's publicist, Amy.

Kelly looked to Gustavo to explain, but the man was fiddling with the buttons and completely ignoring the conversation going on around him. Or at least pretending to ignore it. Typical, she grumbled to herself.

"Remember when you guys did the New Town High soundtrack and the producers said they wanted Big Time Rush to appear on the show?" Kelly finally said, easing into an explanation with the back story.

All the guys nodded. They were showing signs of excitement. Even Kendall, despite his intense dislike for Amy, was fighting back a huge smile. Kelly knew that Kendall would jump at the chance to spend time working around Jo since he never got to see his girlfriend as much as he wanted to.

"Well," she started, but was interrupted once again when Amy bumped her out of the way to get to the microphone that projected sound into the recording room.

"Instead of some cheesy guest appearance having you boys play for some high school dance, the producers want an actual storyline," Amy said.

The boys all looked at each other, somewhat confused, but still excited at the prospect of being on television.

"Dogs!" Gustavo interjected, pushing Amy aside, clearly wanting to speed things along. "You all will be in one episode. But, one of you will also guest star on New Town High for a three" he held up three fingers "episode arc. And Griffin already approved it, so it's gonna happen!" He glared, daring them to argue.

He didn't need to worry.

The boys were already off in lala-land dreaming of being on the show.

Kendall imagined he was wearing his black leather jacket, his nasty beard gone but the mustache still fully in place as he strolls up determinedly to Rachel and Drake. He grabs the beautiful blonde away from the skeazy jerk face. Then he punches Jett—er, Drake before hopping on his big black Harley with Jo—er, Rachel and driving off into the sunset.

Kelly saw Kendall with his hands pushed out in front of him, grasping air. It looked like he was driving. She shook her head.

Logan, remembering his last movie dream sequence, immediately built on that, imagining that he was a secret undercover high school spy that has to protect Rachel from ninjas sent to kidnap her because her father was some important diplomat.

Kelly saw Logan start to move his hands and kick out his legs like he was in some sort of kung fu movie.

Carlos imagined Megan smiling at him. He couldn't remember her character's name, but he would make the perfect new love interest for Jo's best friend…or whatever Jo's name was on the show. He would get a second chance to romance her and make up for not remembering her name. On the show, he could take her on one of those girly picnics Kendall's always taking Jo on…of course he would need to be careful in case ants attack. Those buggers would crawl all over the blanket, the food, and their bodies before they could even notice because they would be so caught up in each other. Carlos could feel them even now. He started smacking his arm, his leg, scratching his sides, jumping around as he felt his skin crawl.

James was about to drift into a truly gnarly fantasy about being the hottest most popular guy at New Town High. They would even put up a new sculpture out front to replace the old dude who did something stupid like found the school. Before he could so much as strike a pose, Carlos bumped into him. He tried to get back into fantasy mode, but Carlos' blatant slapping and scratching made his face start to itch again and before he knew it, he was scrubbing at the imaginary beard that was no longer there.

Kelly smacked her forehead.

"Dogs!" Gustavo shouted.

The boys were oblivious. Either too caught up in their fantasies or being driven insane by imaginary ants to respond.

Kelly rolled her eyes and grabbed the air can. She held it to the mic and blasted, wincing.

The boys jumped and Logan accidentally chopped Kendall on one of his outstretched wrists because he was so distracted.

"Yow!" Kendall exclaimed, grabbing his hand.

"Whoa-whoa-whoa," Logan exclaimed, falling backward when he tried to stop mid-kick, ending up on the floor on his back. He groaned.

James was slowly easing up on rubbing his now red jaw, but couldn't help glaring at Carlos again and saying, "Next time bring ant spray."

"Oh!" Carlos said, brightening from his spot against the door jam where he was trying to scratch his back on the edge. "Good idea! Thanks!"

"Logan!" Gustavo shouted.

"Yeah?" Logan said, sitting up and wincing.

"They want you," Gustavo said.

"Me?" Logan exclaimed, excited, jumping up quickly from the floor in his excitement.

"HIM!" the other three boys shouted.

"And don't shave," Amy interjected, squeezing between Kelly and Gustavo to give him the direction.

"Um…okay?" he said, shrugging and dragging a hand through the mess on his chin.

"The producers will love it," the publicist explained. "It'll go well with your character."

"Cool… which is?" Logan asked, images of fighting ninjas going through his head again. He struck a fighting pose.

"New student, got kicked out of his old school, laid back, gritty, lead singer of a rock band with a Maroon 5 type feel," Amy listed all the characteristics of his role.

"Coool," Logan said, grinning at how awesome that sounded.

"Hey!" James interjected. "Why him? I have way more audition experience!"

"So?" Logan said, shrugging.

"No!" Carlos pushed away from the wall. "I'm better! I can do my own stunts!" He said it like New Town High was the biggest action adventure show on television.

Kelly could already see this wasn't going well. She knew it was only going to get worse before it got better.

"James," Amy began, "you have more of a Bieber feel than an Adam Levine feel."

Outraged, James huffed. "Bieber? Bieber? I am way prettier than him! And who's Adam Loofah?"

"Adam Levine is the lead singer of Maroon 5," Kendall muttered, surprised his Hollywood crazy friend didn't know that.

Kelly could tell that Kendall was not pleased with this change in events.

"Besides, you would probably have to cut your hair," Gustavo said, knowing that would shut James up.

"Eeep!" James grabbed his perfect hair, protecting it from such shameful words. "No! I'm good! I'm out!"

"And Carlos, you can't brood," Amy said to the irritated stuntman.

"I can! See?"

Carlos immediately crossed his arms over his chest and appeared to be deep in thought. He held the pose as long as he could, thinking the pose was all it took. His facial expression looked more like an innocent pout than a brooding rough guy.

Kelly could barely restrain herself from the laughter bubbling up inside of her. As bad as this situation was about to get, trust Carlos to make her see the humor.

Carlos tried to stay firm, but then his nose started itching. He was trying to ignore it by wiggling his nose and twitching his cheek hoping no one would notice. Then his shoulders started shifting when his back started crawling again. He finally gave in and started scratching.

"Darn ants," he muttered.

Logan went to sit behind the drums, obviously still in his own little world, really excited about being chosen. Kelly could tell he was already thinking about the role, trying to figure out this character he would have to play. She wasn't sure why he was playing with the drumsticks though. Hadn't he heard Amy say he was lead singer? Kelly shrugged to herself.

"So, what about me?" Kendall asked, having waited for his other friends before giving in to his curiosity about why he wasn't chosen.

Kelly knew that Kendall would be the first to think of how wrong it was to have Logan play this character. From the description, it was apparent that he was going to play a bad boy. And, as had been established when they first arrived in Los Angeles, Kendall made the better bad boy of the four.

"You were never in the running," Amy said, with a wave of her hand dismissing him.

She started to speak to Logan again but Kendall interrupted her.

"Why not?" he asked, confused and a little ticked off at being dismissed.

Logan started twirling a drumstick in the air before jabbing with it. Kelly sighed, assuming he was back into his ninja fantasy again. She readied the horn assuming she would need to blast him back to reality in a few minutes.

Amy sighed in exasperation. "Have you ever seen Gigli?"

"No?" Kendall said, not even knowing what she was talking about.

"Starring J Lo and Ben back when they were engaged," James interjected. He may not know the name of every member of every band, but he knew his celebrity gossip. "It bombed."

"That's putting it nicely," Amy said. "It stank up the box office. Was only in theaters three weeks before they pulled it! You never saw it? Most Americans haven't seen it. No one wanted to. And do you know why?"

Kendall shrugged. It was obvious he had no idea why they were talking about this. He looked at his friends thinking maybe they had a better idea.

Surprisingly, Logan paused to think about the question too. Kelly figured he must still have a grasp on this reality and put the canister back on the table.

All the guys shrugged at Kendall, not knowing the answer either.

Logan went back to jabbing the air.

"Because no one wanted to see a couple who were already a couple on the big screen," the brunette explained.

Kendall paused, thinking hard and putting two and two together.

Kelly winced.

"So you're saying…" Kendall trailed off, eyebrows furrowing.

"Logan will be playing Gabe, Rachel's new love interest."

Logan dropped his drumstick.

To be continued…