Windows Down
By: Riley
Summary – What happens when BTR and DE go on vacation to Hawaii to film their 'Windows Down' music video? BTR/OC Friendship.
.:Chapter One:.
"So just to make sure that we have this clear," Rhuben Jackson-McGuire held up a finger as she looked at the four boys that were sitting in front of her. "You want us," she motioned to herself and her twin sister, Riley, who was standing next to her. "To go to Rocque Record to help you guys convince Gustavo that he should let you go to Hawaii to shoot a music video for your single Windows Down?" She looked thoughtful. "Is that about right?"
"Yep," Carlos Garcia replied with a warm smile and a nod.
"And what makes you think that we're going to go do that?" Riley asked with a snort, moving her large black tray that she was holding in her right hand to her front. She moved both hands onto it and looked at Carlos, Kendall Knight, Logan Mitchell, and James Diamond with an incredulous look. "Other than that, what makes you think that our help will actually convince Gustavo to let you do it?"
The four boys were at the Cascade Café, a restaurant that they frequented in the mall. They liked the food there, but it was also helpful that their best friends worked there part time when they weren't working on their own band, the DarkElements.
"Ok, so this is what we were thinking," Kendall said, resting his hands on the table in front of him. "We're eighteen now and we're starting to get more of a sense of responsibility."
The twin girls snorted.
"Hold on, let me finish," Kendall held up a hand. "You're going to like this idea, I promise." He cleared his throat. "With the new set of responsibility that we have, it shows that we're growing up. And because we're growing up, we wanted our fans to see that with our music, which they did with Elevate."
"Yeah," Riley and Rhuben prompted him to continue, nodding slowly.
"And because we recently finished our new song, we want to show Gustavo that we can handle the responsibility of making the music video to it ourselves," Kendall continued. "Kind of like you guys do."
"The only different being that we make up the story of the video, what we want to wear, what we want our make-up to look like, and the kind of locations that we want and everyone else does everything else," Rhuben reminded him. She shook her head. "That's completely different than…taking a trip to Hawaii."
"That's the thing though," Logan spoke up. "We haven't really had a vacation in a long time." He shrugged as he gave a small smile. "So why not kill two birds with one stone? We go on vacation to Hawaii, that way Mama Knight and Katie can get a vacation as well, and then we'll take small video cameras with us to film the whole thing. When we get back, we can edit the videos that we take and turn it into the actual music video."
"The song is a summer song as it is," James reminded them. "And why not make it more summer like than to have a vacation video?"
"And because our fans are getting older and want to see new things, we think that it would really resonate with them as well," Carlos added.
"Yeah, right," Riley gave a half smile. "In smart-speak, that just means that there are a bunch of girls out there that want to perv over your bodies, so you're planning a video where you're half naked the whole time just to draw them in." She reached out and lightly hit Carlos on the arm with her tray. "I know your how guys' minds work."
"Well, we get off of work in, like, ten minutes," Rhuben said as she looked at her watch. "Do you guys have time to wait?"
"Yeah, go ahead," James nodded. "We'll just finish our milkshakes while we wait for you guys."
The twin girls walked off to finish up the rest of their shift. While they were gone, the guys continued to try and come up with points that they could bring up to Gustavo and Kelly to convince them to go. It was a long shot, a very long shot. How many record companies allowed you to take video cameras, go off to a tropical vacation, and tape the whole thing just so you could make a music video? Not many, especially not with a band that was that young. Typically you only got that sort of freedom after a while of working with that company as well as a measurable amount of success. So they were partially crazy for wanting to try something like this, but as Kendall always said, a life without risk is a life unlived.
"Move over," Riley instructed when she and Rhuben came back, dressed in their street clothes as opposed to their work uniforms. They slid into the booth by the boys. "Ok, so how do you expect us to get Gustavo to let you guys go?"
"Well, you used to be under a contract with him," Logan reminded them. "So we figured that because he knows that you guys helped us a lot, that he could take your word for it."
"That would be nice, Logie-Bear, if it weren't for the fact that our reputation precedes us," Riley said with an amused half smile. "Gustavo trusts us when it comes to working with you guys, but when it comes to you getting your way on this, it might be a bit more difficult."
"That's why we need your brothers' help too," Kendall insisted, speaking of Riley's and Rhuben's younger brothers, Patrick, Noah, and Sydney. "All together, you guys can get what you want."
"Is that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?" Rhuben asked sarcastically. She rolled her eyes and grabbed Carlos's milkshake, taking a sip of it before handing it back to him. "Ok, so let's say that we do get this done." She slowly smiled. "What's in it for us?"
"We want you guys to come with us," Logan replied.
Riley and Rhuben shared an identical look of shock. "We just thought that you were going to pay us or something, not that you actually wanted us to go." They said in unison.
"Why wouldn't we bring you guys?" James replied, flipping his hair from his face. He looked over at his friends. "We all agreed that we want to bring you guys along to thank you for everything that you've done for us these past two years."
"Ok," Rhuben moved her strand of purple hair out of her blue eyes. "But we thought that helping us get rid of Robert-"
"-Taking us to Minnesota for Christmas-"Riley continued.
"-And putting us in both of your album thank yous, individually and all together-"Rhuben added.
"-Was thanks enough." They concluded.
Kendall, Logan, Carlos, and James all laughed at the spectacle. Though the two of them are identical twins they hadn't really done anything at the same time up until this past year. Before, at sixteen years old, they were too busy trying to take care of their brothers as well as fall victim of abuse at the hands of their then foster father, Robert Jackson. At seventeen they had to deal with the trial of their abuse as well as getting adopted by their music producer, Ronan McGuire. Now they were more carefree and more like themselves that they acted more like twins usually did. It always made the guys laugh whenever they, or their younger twin brothers Patrick and Noah, spoke in unison.
"Well," Carlos frowned slightly. "To be perfectly honest, it's also because we want to have a good vacation before…we sort of start to go our separate ways." He said quietly. "What with all of us turning nineteen soon and then you guys planning on taking the whole year off of making new music, we know that you guys aren't going to be going on tours and stuff with us anymore. So we just want to have, like, one last hoorah before things start to change."
Riley looked over at her sister and the two laughed lightly. "Ok, just because we're not recording any new music or working with Rocque Records anymore, it doesn't mean that we're not going to help you when you need it or we're not going to be there for you guys."
"Uh, yeah, we're best friends for a reason," Rhuben added. "So, no worries on the possible 'we're-gonna-split-up-and-not-see-each-other-again' future." She said reassuringly.
"But we still want you guys to come along with us," Kendall insisted. "There's no doubt about that."
"But first, you have to convince Gustavo to let us do it," James said. He then placed his hands together and stuck out his lower lip, the other guys doing the same thing. "Please? Please? Please?" He fluttered his eyelashes.
Kendall, Logan, and Carlos all did the same thing, eventually causing all four of the boys to start shouting over each other, bringing in stares of the other people that had gone to the restaurant to have lunch. Rhuben shook her head as Riley rolled her eyes, both of them used to their antics at this point.
"Well," Rhuben raised her hands into the air before slapping them onto the table. "Looks like we're all going to go to Hawaii."
A/N: Ok, you all probably think that we have too many stories going on to put up another one. But this one is different because it is only five chapters long. I had the idea after noticing that I haven't written a lighthearted BTR fic in a while and wanted to one that showed a lot of friendship and humor. So why not when they're on vacation? My first chapters are always kind of short, but the other four should make up for it. I hope that you guys like it.
Cheers,
-Riles