The boys are sitting in their usual lounge chairs by the Palmwoods pool, when suddenly Jo, Camille and the Jennifers walk by, all huddled together and chattering excitedly. The guys all follow them with their eyes as they move across the opposite side of the pool.
The guys exchange looks with each other, but shrugging as none know what's going on. They keep an eye on the girls from their side of the pool, trying to keep a low profile. They watch as the girls sit down by the fire pit. No longer huddled together, the guys can finally see that there is another girl among them. One they've never seen before.
A beautiful girl, short, with long brown hair. It flows as she whips it back with her hand. She holds a big smile, which show small dimples in her small cheeks. Her body is curvy, but in an attractive way.
The guy's mouths fall open at the sight of her, even Logan and Kendall, despite them already having girlfriends. Suddenly the girls laugh at something, which shows off her perfect white teeth and a sweet sound rings through. It's her laughter, it seems.
It rings in Carlos' and James' ears as they watch her. Not even the perfect Jennifers are in their vision anymore. No other girl exists right now besides her.
They don't even realize how much they're all staring; when they suddenly notice the girls are all looking at them. They are pointing and giggling amongst each other.
Lopsided grins appear on their faces as the girl smiles at them. She waves and they lazily wave back. The sound of someone clearing their throat slowly brings them back to reality.
The guys look to their right to see Camille and Jo standing there, looking absolutely fuming with their arms crossed. Logan and Kendall gulp.
"Hey Jo.." Kendall starts.
"Camille, you look lovely today.." Logan tries.
"Save it. I can't believe you were staring at the new girl like that." Jo tells them, while Camille shakes her head disapprovingly.
"Hey, in our defense, Carlos and I don't have girlfriends. So, are we free to go?" James asks with a sheepish smile.
"No!" Both girl yell and James looks at his hands. "You two shouldn't stare at girls like that. We are not pieces of meat!" Camille shouts. "As for you!" She points at Logan, who shrinks in his seat. "Come with me." She grabs his arm and starts to drag him off towards the Palmwoods. He throws a pleading look towards his friends. They mouth a 'sorry' as they watch Logan being taken away.
"Jo.. I'm sorry. I am!" Kendall is now standing next to his girlfriend who is tapping her foot and still has her arms crossed. "I was just surprised, because I hadn't seen her before. But you'll always be the only girl I want to stare at." He says with a sly smile. Jo rolls her eyes and sighs.
"Alright, fine. I'll forgive you. And I'll even introduce you guys to her." James and Carlos share a quick high-five, before they follow Jo and Kendall, who are already walking towards the fire-pit.
The girls sitting there are still chattering and giggling, when Jo clears her throat. They look up. The new girl just smiles while the Jennifers put on their stuck-up faces and flip their hair back before standing up.
"We'll see you later, Sarah." Blond Jennifer says, while the girls look the guys up and down with distaste. "Let's go, Jennifers." They walk away in slow motion and gasp when they notice the guys aren't even looking at them. They shoot them a glare and stalk away.
James is already flashing the new girl his million-dollar smile, while Carlos just stares shyly. James is quick to move next to her in the fire-pit, sitting next to her and putting his arm behind her.
She smiles with amusement and waits for him to start talking.
"Hi there. I'm James Diamond. I'm in a band." Kendall rolls his eyes and goes to sit as well, with Jo next to him.
"We are in a band." Kendall tells her, holding out his hand. "I'm Kendall."
"I'm Sarah, Jo's friend from North Carolina." She replies and shakes his hand.
"And that idiot over there is Carlos." He says with a chuckle, stopping quickly when Jo slaps him in the arm.
Sara looks in front of her and immediately doesn't know what to say anymore.
"Wow." Is all she says. The others look confused.
"What?" Kendall asks her, looking a little amused. She looks at him with wide eyes, realizing she said that out loud.
"Sorry, it's just not everyday I meet a cute Hispanic guy like him." She replies, looking straight at Carlos with a flirty smile. Carlos' eyes grow wide and he looks even more nervous than before. She's so sure she can see him blush, if it wasn't for his dark complexion.
Jo and Kendall look at her in shock and chuckle, while James starts to cough dramatically, moving his arm away from her.
Sarah looks Carlos up and down, and stops at his eyes, throwing him a seductive smile. He gulps and doesn't know where to look.
"Wow, look at the time. Shouldn't we head to the studio, guys?" he stammers, avoiding the seductive look in her eyes and looking at Kendall instead. He in turn chuckles and looks at his watch.
"Hm, you're right, it really is. Alright, let's go." He gets up, while James is still staring between Carlos and Sarah in shock. "Come on, James." He pulls on his friend's arm, who reluctantly follows him.
"Did you see.. I mean, Carlos.. I.." he mumbles in shock.
"Yeah, yeah, save it for the Limo." Kendall tells him as he drags him along.
Carlos stands by the fire-pit nervously, obviously not knowing what to say.
"Uh, bye." Is his last sentence, before he starts to hurry after his friends. Suddenly a hand on his arm stops him. He looks up and his breath is taken away for a moment when he looks into Sarah's eyes. They're blue, like the ocean. He can just feel himself getting lost in them.
Sarah looks into Carlos' eyes and bites her lip when she is so close, she can smell his cologne. She feels a little light-headed as she begins to drown in his deep brown eyes. It is then that she notices how muscular his arm actually is.
They don't even notice how long they're standing there, until Kendall suddenly clears his throat next to them. They snap out of they're daze and see him waiting impatiently.
"Are you coming, Carlos?"
"Uh, yeah. Sorry." Carlos shakes his head, trying to clear his head. He starts to walk again, but looks back once. She waves with a smile and he dreamily waves back, before his arm is grabbed by Kendall.
"Come on, lover boy."
Sarah chuckles as she watches them walk away and sits back down. She lets out a satisfying sigh and then looks at Jo, who eyes her with raised eyebrows.
"What was that?" Sarah shrugs.
"Did you see him? Wow, I mean, I've always had a thing for cute guys with a tan, but that was just.. wow." Jo chuckles and shakes her head. "I think I'm in love."
"You hardly even met him. Trust me, he's a sweet guy, but he's like a big kid too and he's not always that bright."
"Hm, we'll see. I'd love to get to know every side of him. And I do mean every side." Jo puts her head in her hands out of embarrassment.
"Just stop.. I'm getting images into my head.."
"Oh, come on, Jo. Don't tell me you and Kendall haven't.. you know."
Jo looks down at her hands. "Well, no, we haven't. I mean, we've discussed it, but we both want to wait for the right time." Sarah groans.
"Oh my god… you are such a goody two shoes."
"Oh and you have experience?" Jo asks her teasingly.
"Not a lot, yet." She says, licking her lips.
"You're thinking about Carlos again, aren't you?" Jo asks with a chuckle. Sarah just shrugs innocently. "Look, Carlos is sweet, like I said. But he's young and innocent too. He's not like that." Sarah smiles.
"I'll bet you anything that there is a Latino fire burning inside of him, just waiting to be unleashed." Jo has to cover her mouth to keep from laughing.
"I'm sorry, but are you talking about Carlos Garcia? The one who breaks up a fight between his friends by making them think of kittens? Or the one who actually gave the swirly slide in their apartment a name? And let's not forget, he has never had an actual girlfriend before."
"Really? Huh. Interesting. But I know that I am right about that Latino fire. It's there, I know it is. You just have to push the right buttons and he will unleash like a tiger." This time Jo does laugh and shakes her head.
"Wow, you really don't know Carlos, do you? And I thought you had good people skills."
"Laugh all you want, Jo. I am going to prove it to you. Carlos Garcia has a different side to him that I am going to set free." She smiles to herself as a plan forms in her head. Jo just sits besides her, still laughing.
"Carlos, a tiger…Oh my god, that is hilarious.. Wait till I tell Camille and the guys about this.. wow.." She says, during her laughter.
The next day…
The guys are in 2J, playing some dome hockey when a knock sounds on the door.
"That's probably Jo, I invited her over for dinner." James and Carlos groan mockingly. Kendall grabs a pillow on his way to the door and throws it at them. They duck it, laughing at him.
He opens the door and kisses his girlfriend on the lips.
"Hey, sweetie." She tells him as she walks by him. "I hope you don't mind, I brought some friends with me." Kendall keeps the door open as he welcomes Camille and Sarah.
Logan immediately heads for Camille, while James and Carlos head for the kitchen, taking out supplies for dinner.
Logan and Kendall go sit on the orange couch with their girlfriends, while Sarah heads for the kitchen and sits down at the bar.
"So, what are you guys making?" Carlos, who was sitting with his head in the oven, hits his head loudly. Sarah winces at the sound as he comes out, rubbing his head. "Sorry." She says with a smile.
He nervously smiles back.
"So, what are you guys making?" She asks again.
"Uh, honestly, I have no idea." He sheepishly responds, rubbing the back of his neck. "Normally Kendall's mom makes us dinner. But she took Katie to an audition and told us to make dinner ourselves, so we're looking for something to make and then you guys showed up. So now we have to make more and I think we should just order pizza." He rambles. She chuckles.
"You're cute." His smile falters and he looks down at his hands. Sarah notices he looks a little down. "Did I say something wrong?"
"Uh, no. It's nothing." He waves it off, smiling slightly, but it doesn't reach his eyes. He turns around and wants to walk away, but he bumps into James. He looks up and sees his friend glaring at him. "What?"
"Dude, even though I hate you now that she picked you over me, but you can't just walk away from her. She wants to get to know you. So get back over there." He starts to push his friend towards Sarah, but he struggles heavily.
"I can't go over there." James sighs.
"Why not?"
"She called me cute." He says with a small pout. James sighs again and rolls his eyes.
"A lot of girls call you that."
"Yeah and it means I'm always they're little brother or something."
"You think I see you as my little brother?" Carlos whips around with wide eyes to see Sarah behind him.
"I-I uh.." James chuckles behind him and then walks away, giving his friend thumbs up. Sarah smiles and walks closer to him.
"Look, I know we just met, so I don't really know you and you don't really know me. But when I said you were cute, I didn't mean it like you're my little brother."
"You-you didn't?" he shyly asks as he looks down at his feet. She grabs his hands and he looks up at her.
"Trust me, it just wouldn't be possible. You want to know why?" She smiles seductively again as she says the last part in a near whisper, getting closer to him. He gulps and nods. She leans forward and whispers in his ear. "If I had these thoughts I'm having about you right now about my little brother, they'd arrest me for incest."
His eyes grow wide and he stumbles backwards, nearly tripping over his own feet. She keeps standing, her eyes holding as much seduction as she can muster with a smile that could kill.
The others look up at a crashing sound coming from the kitchen, when Carlos nearly trips again and crashes into one of the cabinets. They send him a questioning look, but he just waves it off and smiles.
"I'm fine. I uh.. I need to grab something in my room. Excuse me." He hurries into the bedroom as quick as he can, leaving the others to stare after him in wonder.
"I'll go see if he's okay." James announces as he stands up to go after him.
Sarah innocently walks over to the orange couch and sits down next to Jo, who gives her a questioning look of her own.
"What?"
"What did you say to him?" Jo asks her.
"Me? Who says I did anything?" Jo crosses her arms and raises her eyebrows, not believing her friend. "Okay, fine." She says, letting a small smile through.
A sudden shriek can be heard coming from Jo and Camille as Sarah tells them what happened. Logan and Kendall look shocked, but slightly amused at the same time.
"Let's go talk to Carlos." They say, holding back some laughter and the two of them get up and walk into their shared bedroom.
They find James, trying to coax Carlos into telling him what happened as they sit on the bed together. The two guys stifle their laughter when they notice the pillow conveniently sitting in Carlos' lap.
"What's with you two?" James suddenly asked, after noticing them in the doorway. "You look like you might burst into laughter at any second."
"Sarah told us what happened." Carlos' eyes widen at this and he looks away from them. "It's a very interesting story." Kendall says with an amused glance at Carlos. Logan can't say anything, he just nods along.
"Well? Tell me." James demands from them. Carlos shakes his head at them, basically pleading them not to.
"Well, apparently, Sarah told Carlos, that she… I can't even do this, Logan you tell them.." Kendall says, before starting to laugh. Carlos hangs his head in embarrassment. Logan just shakes his head, waving a hand, laughing all the while.
"She told him.. she.." He tries, but he doubles over in laughter.
"Really funny guys, thanks." Carlos tells them with a glare.
"So now that everyone else knows, tell me too. I feel left out here." Carlos sighs. "Come on, man. It's me. You can tell me anything."
"Come here, I'll tell you.." Kendall tells him while his laughter has subdued a little. James walks up to him and Kendall beckons him to close closer, so he can whisper it in his ear. James does and as he hears about what happened, his eyes widen at Carlos, who sinks further into the matrass with embarrassment.
"Dude.. You dog. I didn't know you had it in you!" James tells him with a smile, patting him on the back like a proud dad.
"I didn't do anything." He whines.
"Doesn't matter. To have a girl like that like you like this, you did something right. Now, you need to make the next move."
"The next move? Meaning what?" Carlos asks, a little fear in his voice.
"It means, you need to sweep her off her feet, man. You can't win over a girl like that with flowers and chocolate. You need to seduce her."
With that, Logan and Kendall burst out laughing again. Carlos sighs heavily. James just glares at his friends. He walks over and pushes them out the door, closing it behind them. He walks back to the bed and sits down next to Carlos, whose looking more nervous than ever.
"Look, I know you don't have much experience with girls, especially in that department. But.."
"Much? I don't have any experience, James." He tells his friend with a shocked face.
"Carlos, relax." James tells him, putting a hand on his shoulder. "It is time to put sweet innocent Carlos aside and bring out the man inside you. I know it's in there, somewhere. If we look really close.." Carlos glares, but as James keeps going, he smiles a little. "I know you can do it. Just walk right up to her and tell her you're going on a date."
"You mean ask her."
"No, I mean tell her. Like I said, she's not like other girls. You need to treat her differently. And since she's already seducing you like this, it means you need to toughen up. Just tell her you're going out. Bring out the bad boy inside of you."
"I don't know.." He says, hesitation taking over again as he fumbles with the strings on his hoodie.
"Carlos." James says, making his friend look him in the eyes. "I know you can do it. Now go out there and get her." The reassuring smile on his friend's face makes Carlos feel more confident than ever. He slowly stands up and wants to slap his helmet, when James grabs it off his head.
"Yeah, don't use this." Carlos nods, a little less confident, but he smiles nonetheless and opens the bedroom door. He walks into the living area, James in tow. He looks around and finds Kendall, Jo, Logan and Camille on the couch, with pizzas on the coffee table.
"Uh, where's Sarah?" Logan and Kendall start to laugh again, earning them both a slap from their girlfriends.
"I'm sorry, she got called out for a musical audition." Jo tells him, giving him a reassuring smile. "But she'll be back tomorrow, hanging out at the pool."
Carlos smiles sadly, but feels better when James squeezes his shoulder from behind him. "Just get her tomorrow."
He smiles and decides to shrug it off for the moment. "Alright, let's eat. I am starving!" he says, jumping over the back of the couch, squeezing himself between the two seated couples, who protest loudly. He makes a grab for the first box of pizza, immediately engorging a large slice.
James chuckles and hurries over. Because when there is food on the table, you can't wait, not with Carlos already starting to eat. Not if you still wanted to eat yourself.
The next day at the Palm Woods pool…
The guys walk through the doors of the Palm Woods pool, slouching and walking over to their lounge chairs, before letting themselves fall onto them with a groan.
"Ow, my body hurts…" Carlos whines as he lays there, not longer able to move.
"So does mine.. Even my hair hurts.. I hate Gustavo…" James whines as well, letting his legs dangle over the edge of the chair a little. He'd like to pull it onto the chair, but he doesn't have the energy left.
"Me too… I mean, seriously… five hours of dancing? With Mr. X? That's just torture…" Kendall groans.
"Five hours and I never want to do those dance steps again." The others just nod in agreement to Logan's sentence.
"Hey Carlos." James calls out. Carlos barely moves his head towards him. "Your girlfriend's back." Carlos moves his head to where James is lazily pointing and indeed sees Sarah across the pool.
She is lying down in another lounge chair in a black top with shorts underneath, making Carlos shiver and gape at her. She slowly sips a smoothie, when she turns her head in his direction. She's wearing sunglasses, so Carlos can't be sure she's staring at him.
But a smile soon appears on her face and she puts the smoothie down. Carlos stares intently as she suddenly grabs a bottle of sun tan lotion. She sits up and starts to slowly rub the sun tan lotion all over her body as seductively as she can.
Carlos wants to look away, but he can't. He starts to squirm in his chair and his breathing moves faster. He quickly looks at his friends and notices none of them seem to notice what she's doing. He looks back and his mouth falls open. Somehow, she has managed to find a guy to start rubbing her back with sun tan lotion while he looked away for a mere second. All the while the guy is rubbing his hands down her shoulder and back, she stares at him, biting her lip in pleasure.
In that moment, something comes over Carlos. He doesn't know what's going on, but he suddenly finds himself walking over to the girl, grabbing her by the arm and dragging her inside the Palm Woods. He doesn't listen to her cries of protest and surprise as he keeps dragging her with him to the staircase. He makes her go down with him until they end up on the bottom floor, the basement. They walk over to a door and he opens it, quickly dragging her inside and closing the door behind them.
"What are we doing down here?" He turns on the light without looking and just stares at her. She stares back with a smile and seems a little nervous. "Carlos?"
In one movement, he pushes her against the wall, throws her sunglasses to the floor and starts roaming her body with his hands. She gasps and moans in pleasure and surprise.
"You've been teasing me for three days now. Frankly, I'm done with it." He tells her in a husky voice. She gasps again as he engulfs her lips in a heated kiss, eliciting a moan from her. His tongue quickly seeks entrance into her mouth and she is more than happy to oblige as she lets herself get caught up in the moment. She loses full control and kisses him back ferociously.
Hands grope each other's bodies as the two hungrily kiss each other. He starts to kiss her neck and she breathes heavily as he moves down her collarbone and trailing kisses down lower, stopping where her shorts start. Her eyes are closed in satisfaction, when suddenly she doesn't feel anything anymore.
She opens her eyes and finds him staring at her with an amused smile and one arm on the wall to steady himself. They are both breathing heavily and looking at each other through half lidded eyes.
"Why'd you stop?" She asks in a whisper, not trusting her voice enough to speak out loud.
"Wow…" He chuckles slightly. "I've never done that before.."
"Could've fooled me.." She breathes.
"I've never even had an actual girlfriend, barely ever kissed a girl.."
"Yeah, sorry, but I really don't believe that." He walks close to her again, leaning his body against her.
"Well, I haven't. But I have to admit, I liked it.." He whispers into her ear, sending shivers down her spine.
"So did I… so why'd you stop?" She regrets asking him as he immediately steps away from her again, trying to get his breathing under control.
"We barely know each other.."
"We have time, we can get to know each other." She breathes out and walks closer to him. But he steps back again.
"No, we shouldn't do this, it's too soon."
"You started this one, baby, not me." She latches her arms around his neck and goes to kiss him again. He almost gives in, but then quickly pushes her away.
"I'm sorry.. I want to get to know you better first."
"So, what do you have in mind?"
"Dinner, you, me, Friday night. I'll pick you up at 8, wear something fancy." He grabs her one last time and hungrily kisses her and her neck, making her close her eyes in pleasure once more. Then, suddenly he's gone. She opens her eyes and instead of finding him grinning at her, she finds the door open and him gone completely.
"Wow…" She breathes out with a lazy smile, before grabbing her sunglasses, straightening her clothes and slowly going back up the stairs. She tries to straighten her hair as well, hoping no one notices. She walks nonchalantly, but knows she can't hide the huge smile that is now permanently etched on her face.
Carlos lets himself sink back into his lounge chair with a smile. His friends are right where they left him, half asleep in their own chairs, lazily overlooking the pool.
"Hey, so where did you go?" James asks him, not even bothering to look at him.
"I had to take care of something." He says with a grin, putting his arms behind his head and enjoying the sun.
Sarah shakily walks out of the Palm Woods lobby and walks over to her lounge chair.
Carlos just lies in his chair, as do the other guys, when James starts to shift a little. Carlos looks at him.
"Not comfortable.." James mumbles at him, while looking over the pool. "Hey, what happened to her?" He says, his gaze resting upon Sarah. The other guys look too, exchanging looks of shock with each other. Carlos just smiles knowingly.
Jo and Camille have now taken up the chairs besides Sarah. They exchange a look when they see her.
"What happened to you?"
"I'm n love…" She breathes. The girl share another look of confusion.
"With whom?" Camille asks her.
"I was right you know." She lazily says. Both girls raise their eyebrows. "About Carlos. He does have a fire inside of him and I just got a sneak peak." The girl's eyes widen as they sit up straight, they're full attention now on Sarah.
"Alright, spill." Jo tells her as they lean in to hear what happened between their friends.
"Seriously, I wonder what happened to her." James says again, not fully sitting up straight. Carlos has to hold back a chuckle.
"Maybe Carlitos here knows, since he dragged her off with him when he left." James stares at Carlos in shock, whole Carlos looks at Logan in shock.
"You saw that?" he asks in surprise. Logan shrugs.
"My head happened to be turned that way." Carlos turns his head back to James and jumps a little when he finds his friend eagerly staring at him with a smile.
"So, what happened?" Carlos smiles.
"Well, I have a date o Friday." James cheers and pats him on the back.
"I knew you could do it, buddy, way to go. So, how did you pull it off? What did you say?"
"Oh, it's not really what I said…" They look up at a sudden shriek coming from the girls across the pool. Their eyes are directed towards him in great shock. He smiles shyly and looks away.
"What was that about?" James asks his friend, slightly amused that apparently something big just happened to his younger brother.
"Well.. I just…" He shrugs, avoiding James' gaze, when suddenly he gasps.
"Oh my god, you kissed her, didn't you?"
"I might have done that, yeah…" He trails off, leaving James to look at him, wondering what he's not telling. Then, his eyes widen and he punches his friend in the arm.
"Dude, you made out with her?" He whispers harshly, while Carlos robs his arm in slight pain. James laughs a little. "You don't even know her! How did that happen?"
"I don't know. She was rubbing sun tan lotion all over herself and I just.. I don't know what came over me. I just went over, dragged her with me to the basement and we.. made out.." He says the last part quietly, with a shy smile as he looks at his hands.
The other guys, who have been listening in are completely in shock.
"But you're Carlos. You've never even had a girlfriend. How do you go from that to making out with a girl and making her look completely dumbfounded like she doesn't know what just happened to her?" Kendall asks, making Carlos smirk a little.
"I don't know. I guess something just happened, I think I may have put down a wall I didn't know I was keeping up." The guys shake their head with big smiles.
"Our little Carlitos is turning into a man." James says as he dramatically wipes away a fake tear and rubs his knuckle on his friend's head, who struggles. The other guys start to laugh.
Here's something completely different. Ever since I've seen the show, I can't help but think about this. I believe that even though Carlos Garcia is an innocent kid, who can't seem to find love, that there is a whole other side to him. I for one, would love to see this side be shown, not like this though, that would be too much for Nickelodeon. But I would like to see him actually get together with someone and show a more grown-up side.
Anyway, let me know what you think, I might add another chapter. I just want to finish that another time. So f you liked it, let me know, I'll think about adding a follow-up chapter showing more of that Latino fire being unleashed ;)
For now enjoy!
Love, Baxxie