"Come in!" Anna shouted after hearing 2 sharp knocks on 2J's door. A girl with bouncy jet black curls and navy thick rimmed glasses walked in.
"Ho-La!" The girl greeted shutting the door behind her.
"Why do you insist on pronouncing it wrong?" Anna laughed coming over to greet the girl.
"Why do they insist on spelling it with an H if we're not supposed to pronounce it?" She joked back. Anna looked as if she were going to challenge it but thought better of it. She already knew how it would end.
"So what's up Sam I am?" Anna asked walking over to the living room.
"You're so lucky I love you, but to answer your question I was just coming by to see if you and Elly wanted to come shopping with me." Sam answered taking a seat next to her on the couch. At the mention of her name, Elly walked out of the bedroom still in pajamas and sporting red puffy eyes.
"I'm not in the mood," The usually bubbly girl frowned.
"Elly what happened?" Anna asked worried running up to her friend.
"Kendall and I got into a fight," She stuttered holding back any tears that might be left over. Anna and Sam silently took Elly into their arms and squeezed her tightly.
"What did my idiot brother do now?" Anna asked trying to lighten the mood. The two girls resumed their positions on the couch seating Elly between them.
"He didn't anything, it's my fault!" Elly sobbed burying her head in her hands.
"That's bullshit Elly now tell us what happened please?" Sam consoled her rubbing her back.
"I was reading the newest issue of US Weekly and there was a picture of the guys at some party in Miami from last week. It was a picture of the guys and some random people except one of the girls looked familiar. Then after staring at the picture for 10 minutes I recognized who it was and got so pissed so I called him up."
"Wait who was the girl?" Anna asked stopping Elly in the middle of her story.
"Jo Taylor," Elly answered as if the name itself was revolting to speak.
"His ex?" Sam asked.
"That bitch!" Anna fumed. Elly smiled a bit seeing her best friend go against her own nature.
"Yeah her. So I called him last night around 1 AM to ask him what the deal was."
"Elly are you crazy? Wasn't it like 3 AM for him?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, I kind of forgot the whole time difference thing. So after he picked up I just sort of went off on him. I yelled for a good 5 minutes before he could get a word in. When I finally let him talk he told me he was disappointed in me."
"I hate when he says that! He said the same thing to Carlos and me when he found out we were dating behind his back. Stupid big brother," Anna interjected grumbling the last part causing both Elly and Sam to giggle as they remembered that day as well.
"Anyways," Elly continued stifling her giggles. "He told me he was upset that I didn't have more faith in him, and our relationship. Then he told me to look closer at the picture until I saw that Jo was holding hands with someone else in the picture and not him." She finished.
"She was holding someone else's hand?" Sam asked. "Who?"
"That guy Jett, that stupid co-star she cheated on Kendall with." Elly responded with mild traces of contempt.
"That man whore," Anna gasped causing all three girls to burst into a fit of laughter.
"I love this side of you Anna; you should get angry more often." Elly said with a smile.
"So did you apologize then?" Sam asked.
"Kind of…I blurted out I'm sorry and then hung up." Elly said cringing. "He tried calling back but I just ignored it. Ugh now I feel horrible again. He's probably going to dump me for this."
"Elly listen to me, I know my brother and he is head over heels for you. He would never do that. Do you trust me?" Anna asked forcing Elly to look her in the eyes and answer. Elly gulped and nodded her head yes before being pulled into a tight hug.
"I miss Logan," Sam sighed breaking the silence surrounding them. Anna and Elly glared at her jokingly before grabbing the decorative pillows on the couch and whacked her with it. "What was that for?"
"For reminding us about how much we miss our boyfriends!" Anna yelled whacking her with a pillow once more.
"Okay change of plans. My grocery shopping can wait another day. I propose a sappy chick flick day," Sam announces.
"Great idea!" Anna exclaims "I'll get the tissues." She shouts as she runs into her bedroom and emerges with an open box of Kleenex.
"What movie should we start with?" Sam asked.
"Anything Nicholas Sparks please!" Elly cried out getting comfortable on the couch. She folded her legs underneath herself and used the arm rest as a pillow. Sam sat on the opposite end of the couch taking an identical position with that arm rest. Anna has just pressed play and was hurriedly closing the blinds and turning off any light source before she took her seat in the middle.
They had watched "Dear John" and "The Notebook" before the box of tissues was emptied. Elly ran to the boys' room and stole their practically full box before they settling for "A Walk to Remember" Approximately half way through the movie Sam's phone rang loudly startling the three girls. Sam's ear perked up as strains of Usher's Lil Freak interrupted their movie marathon.
"When did you change your ringtone?" Anna asked causing Sam to blush.
"I didn't technically change it, this is a personalized ringtone. It only plays for one person." Sam answered trying to hide behind her hair.
"And who does it play for?" Elly asked mischievously. Sam stuck her tongue out before walking out into the hall to take the call.
"Logan?" Sam asked shyly after answering her phone.
"Sam, baby God how I miss your voice." Logan's voice crackled through some static. Sam could only smile and giggle at his proclamation. "I didn't catch you at a bad time did I?"
"No no no! I was just watching a movie with Elly and Anna, no big deal. How are you doing? What are you guys up to? Where are you guys?" Sam began shooting off questions.
"I'm tired; we just got out of sound check for tonight's show. Tonight's the hometown show so people are freaking out trying to make sure it's perfect. We're on a break right now but Griffin wants us back in an hour for rehearsal."
"Oh okay I'll let you get some rest then."
"I miss the sound of your voice more than 60 minutes of sleep," Logan said interrupting Sam. Sam could feel the heat in her face intensify and could only imagine how red her blush was. They both just held the phone to their ear and focused on the tiny puffs of breath each emitted. Sam sat crossed legged on the floor outside of 2J absentmindedly twirling her hair around her fingers. They did this for quite a while before a noise on Logan's end disrupted their revere.
"What was that?" Sam asked.
"Kendall just came in and slammed the door," Logan explained. "Kendall what's up dude?"
"She won't answer the phone!" Sam heard Kendall shout.
"Is he talking about Elly?" Sam asked.
"Yeah he's been trying to call her for the past couple of hours. She hasn't answered once," Logan answered. Sam was about to responded when she heard a struggle on the other end of the line.
"Fine you get 1 minute and then I get my phone back," She heard Logan say defeated.
"Sam? It's Kendall. Is Elly with you?"
"No I'm by myself right now. Why?"
"Do you know why she's not answering her phone?"
"Well yeah she's afraid that you're going to break up with her over last night."
"Why would she think that? Never mind! Sam could you do me the biggest favor ever? Can you find Elly and tell her to listen to her voicemail right now?" He asked before handing the phone over to Logan without waiting for a response.
"Um okay sure." Sam answered in time to hear another voice boom over Logan's response.
"I've got to go now, but hey the record company wants to do a live stream of the show tonight so look out for a link on the Big Time Rush twitter page. Bye baby I love you."
"I love you too." Sam said waiting to hear the click of the line hang up before heading back inside. "Elly where is your phone?"
"In my room charging, why?"
"Because someone has driven themselves crazy trying to talk to you and he has requested that I ask you to listen to your voicemail immediately."
Elly stared at Sam weirdly for a good minute before getting up slowly to get her phone. Elly emerged from her room a few minutes later with tears freely flowing down her face and her phone permanently attached to her ear.
"Oh God Elly what happened?" Anna asked worriedly.
"That stupid brother of yours still thinks I'm mad at him. He literally just left 15 messages saying how spry he was that he had talked to Jo after everything that happened with her and Jett. He thinks I want to break up. How did I screw this up so much?"
"Pfft. You knew my brother was stupid before you started dating," Anna joked trying to cheer up her best friend.
"Wait his last message says that he has a surprise for me in their show tonight and to wait for the link to a live broadcast around 8 tonight." Elly said curiously putting her phone down on the coffee table.
"Logan told me the same thing too; I wonder what they have up their sleeves."
"Oh yeah! I forgot that Carlos mentioned something about them broadcasting the show live this morning." Anna said. Both Elly and Sam shared a look before grabbing the pillows they used on Sam earlier and using them on Anna.
"Guys violence is never the answer!" Anna screamed as she was smothered with pillows.