DISCLAIMER: I don't own Big Time Rush, I only own the plot of the story, my OC Giulia Davis and any future OCs that might show up later in the story.
DESCRIPTION: Lucy goes on tour in Europe without telling anyone or even saying goodbye, leaving behind a heartbroken James. But when aspiring actress Giulia Davis arrives at the Palm Woods to make her dream come true, James finds himself falling for the young girl and she returns his feelings. But their newfound love is put to test when Lucy returns from her tour, confesses her feelings for James and makes it clear that she's willing to do anything it takes to have him for herself.
Hello everyone! This is the first Big Time Rush story I'm posting on here and it's based on the Big Time Rush TV show. I hope you guys will like it. For Lucy and Jucy fans out there, it's up to you if you want to read this story, but Lucy is not gonna end up with James and she's…well, evil. Oh and the OOC-ness is on purpose. You've been warned so please don't complain later. However, constructive criticism is accepted, it's what makes us writers better, right? Also, I'm open for any suggestions you might have, because let's face it, writers block is the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
Ok, enough with blabbering and on with the story
And here we go, the first chapter of Big Time Love Story. Enjoy!
Giulia Davis was just an ordinary seventeen years old teenager with an ordinary life, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Or at least that's how it seemed to be. She didn't have any friends, because she was the nerd girl in a class full of rich, spoiled brats, the only one among her classmates who was there with a scholarship, which she had gained for having excellent grades in middle school. Her classmates hated her and considered that she didn't belong in their class because she was the only student in the class who couldn't afford to pay for her studies and instead the state was paying for her. For that reason, they were bullying, mocking, humiliating her everyday. On top of that, she was always being given as an example for the rest of her classmates because she had the highest grades and she never got sent to detention, which made things even worst for her: her classmates hated her even more and in their pathetic efforts to impress their teachers, they forced her to do all their homework and projects and then claimed that they did all the work themselves. But Giulia was a cheerful girl, she always had a bright smile on her face no matter what and she took it all with her head up, she didn't want to give her bullies the satisfaction of seeing her weak, hurt. However, behind the happy face that she displayed at school everyday, there was a tortured heart, shattered in millions of pieces, not only because of what she was going through day after day at school, but also at home, a pain that couldn't be described in words, a suffering that nobody knew about because she hid it so well.
The poor girl was an orphan, living with an adoptive mother who hated her maybe even more than everyone at school and made it her daily mission to make Giulia's life miserable. Her real parents were both dead. Her father had a car accident and died a few hours later at the hospital. His wife, eight months and half pregnant with their first child, had such a strong shock when she was told that her husband had passed away, that she went into labour on the spot. A couple hours later, a beautiful baby girl was born but unfortunately the mother died shortly after giving birth due to some complications that occurred during the delivery. The baby girl was adopted two months later by a woman who was a widow and she was named Giulia, Giulia Davis.
Giulia had two big passions besides Maths which was her favorite subject at school. She loved acting and singing. She had the main part in a couple plays at school which got her even more hate and even envy from her classmates and thus, more humiliation from their part. However, nobody knew that she could sing too, because she only sang at home when she was alone. She was very talented and her dream was to become an actress, but she also had the voice of an angel.
When high-school was finally over, Giulia felt so happy and relieved. And how could she not be? It was finally over with the bullying, the mocking, the humiliation she had been going through day by day for the past four years. No more doing homework and projects for the same people who had tortured her mercilesy. Her life with her adoptive mother was still a nightmare though, but that was about to change too and sooner than she was expecting.
It was four days before the graduation festivity and Giulia was heading to her locker to grab all her stuff when the panel with ads in the hall got her attention and she stopped in front of it. There, among the many papers spread on the panel, was a pink flyer that caught her eyes. On the flyer it was written that there was an audition in two days at the gym and all the girls who wanted to become actresses were invited to try their luck. A famous agent named Rose Parker was going to be there to personally choose a girl who was going to move to Los Angeles, California, to start an acting career there. As she was reading the information on the flyer, Giulia felt a little hope awakening in her heart. If she were to be the one chosen by Mrs Parker, she could have started a new life far away from Minnesota and from everyone and everything that had hurt her. So she decided to give it a try and she wrote all the details she needed on her notebook and then she went to her locker, grabbed all her stuff and hurried home to call the number on the flyer and get herself signed up for the audition and then to start working on the act that she was going to play there.
Time flew like the wind and before Giulia knew it, the day of the audition came. It was a couple hours before she was supposed to be at the gym and she was already starting to freak out but she calmed herself down and repeated the act a couple more times until it was time to leave. She headed to the high-school with heavy steps and her heart caught in her throat, hoping and praying to be chosen by Rose Parker, so she could leave her miserable life behind in Minnesota and start a new and hopefully better one in California. Half hour later she was outside the gym and seeing the large group of people waiting at the door, she started to freak out again. She started to lose the hope that she felt when she found out about the audition and she felt a sudden urge to run away but remembering why she was there in the first place, she took a deep breath and stood still in the line that was formed in front of the door, waiting for her turn. From time to time, a woman holding a clipboard was showing up at the door, calling a name on her list.
After what seemed like an eternity, Giulia heard her name being called. Before she entered the gym, she looked behind her and she was surprised to see that there was nobody else outside. She was the last one and if they called her, it meant that Mrs Parker hadn't chosen yet, which meant she still had a chance but she had to give everything if she wanted to be better than all the girls that had been there before her. The lady with the clipboard leaded her from the hall with the locker rooms to the main room where the PE classes and local games were held. She stopped for a moment in front of a small improvised stage and looked around. There was a long table in front of the stage, just like those from the TV shows with juries and sitting at that table there were three people: a red haired woman looking to be around forty years old was sitting in the middle, a gray haired man was sitting on her right and another woman, with blonde hair, looking a bit younger that the red haired one, was sitting on the left. They all had clipboards in front of them and were talking to eachother. Giulia stepped on the small stage and as she did so, she started to shake like mad and the earlier urge to run away was back but she took a deep breath just like before and she went in front of the three members of the jury, who immediately took notice of her presence and stopped talking to eachother to pay attention to her . She introduced herself and briefly explained what she was about to play for the people in front of her and then she started her little act. When she was done, not only the three people in the jury but everyone else in the gym was clapping their hands and cheering. The red haired woman stood up from her chair and introduced herself as Rose Parker. Then she said a couple words but Giulia was so overwhelmed with all the attention and positive reactions she received that it took her a while to realize what Rose Parker had told her. Giulia was going to California! Mrs Parker was so impressed with her acting that she didn't need to think more, she knew on the spot that Giulia had something special, she had talent yes, but she also had that something that she, Rose, was looking for. After being congratuled by the jury and the other people in the gym, Giulia exchanged phone numbers with Rose and then left the gym. With shaky legs and trembling from so many mixed emotions, she headed home.
Giulia was so happy that words couldn't describe what she felt, her dream was finally coming true. It was the first good thing that was happening to her in a very long time. She was going to leave far away from the woman who made her life a living nightmare. That evening she went to the cemetery to visit the graves of her real parents, like she had been doing for the past seven years. She put fresh flowers at the two graves that were next to eachother and with happy tears she told her parents the good news. She was convinced that they could hear her wherever they were and she knew in her heart that they were happy for her. When it started to get dark she left the cemetery and as she was walking home, she realized that she needed permision from her adoptive mother to leave the country, since she was still underage. Suddenly, all her happiness was replaced by fear. Her adoptive mother only lived to make her life a living hell, she hated her so much that Giulia was afraid she wouldn't let her go to follow her dream. So the moment she entered her house, she called Rose and asked her to come over the second day to talk to her adoptive mother. She thought that if Rose was there, then maybe they could both convince the woman to give her permission for the departure. Rose agreeded to come over, so Giulia gave her the address and after hanging up she went straight to her room, since she had decided to skip dinner so she didn't have to meet her adoptive mother.
The second day, Rose came over and she talked with Giulia's adoptive mother. Suprinsingly, the woman agreeded to let Giulia leave the country and she made it very clear that she was not going to come with Giulia, wherever she was going, which Giulia was very grateful for since she wanted to go as far away as possible from that woman. After Rose left, Giulia went to her room, letting a sigh of relief escape her lips at the thought that her adoptive mother was not going to stop her from leaving and that she was going to leave only with Rose.
At the graduation festivity, when the principal called her to receive her diploma, Giulia took the oportunity to tell everyone there that she was the one that had been chosen to go to California to start an acting career. A lot of gasps were heard and people were whispering things to eachother. Giulia left as soon as she made the announcement but on her way out of the big room where the festivity was held, she was congratuled by everyone. The same brats that had been torturing her for the past four years, were congratulating her with smiles on their faces, but Giulia knew that their smiles were fake and that deep inside they were rotting with envy that the nerd girl with a scholarship was going to become famous soon and it made her heart fill with joy. She knew she was being a little too proud but she couldn't help it. For the first time in her life, her happiness was not fake and the wide, bright smile on her face was not hiding any pain.
A week later Giulia was leaving the house of her adoptive mother to go to the airport where she was supposed to meet up with Rose and board the plane to California. As she was going through the boarding gate, she couldn't help but wonder if her life in California was really going to be like she hoped and wished. Sure, being famous had a lot of advantages but also plenty of disadvantages. Before she knew it, she was already in the plane, taking her seat next to Rose. Soon, the plane started to move on the runway and when it took off, Giulia looked on the window and as she was watching how the land below was becoming smaller and smaller, she hoped that her life was really going to be better than it had been back home in Minnesota.
The flight only lasted a couple hours and when the plane landed on the LAX Airport in California, Los Angeles, Giulia had to pinch herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming. After retrieving their luggage, Rose leaded her to a taxi that was already waiting for them and gave the driver the directions to where he was supposed to take them. Giulia thought she heard wrong when Rose asked the driver to take them to the Palm Woods hotel. She had heard about it before, after all it was a famous place, home to future celebrities, whether they were actors, singers or had any other artistic inclinations. On top of that, it was also the place where her favorite band, Big Time Rush, was living. The thought that she was going to live in the same place with those four boys and that she was going to meet them very soon, made her want to jump of joy.
As soon as they arrived at the Palm Woods, Rose accompanied Giulia at the reception to get her key card and then upstairs to her apartment, where they talked for a couple minutes and then Rose left, leaving her all alone. Rose had kindly sent all her stuff through a delivery company a day before they left, so there were boxes scattered around but Giulia didn't want to start unpacking right away so instead she took a look around the apartment, her new home. The living room, which also had a kitchen area, was overlooking the pool area of the hotel, which was curently full of people . The apartment only had one room but it was big and it had a bathroom too, unlike her old room back at home. After looking around her new home, Giulia was still not in the mood to start unpacking and since it was a beautiful afternoon with such a beautiful weather outside, she decided to go to the pool. She took her favorite book from her backpack and she left the apartment.
The pool area was packed with people, some were in the pool, others were resting on loungers. Giulia spotted a free lounger and sat on it. She looked around her, a smile lightening her face. Something told her that she was going to make some good friends there and it made her happy. After looking around for a couple more minutes, she opened her book with the intention to continue reading from where she had left off on the plane. But just as she was about to lower her eyes on the pages of the book, she caught sight of a handsome boy staring intently at her from across the pool. He had short brown hair and piercing hazel eyes and he seemed very familiar to her. She stared back at him and the moment their eyes met, her heart started to beat so fast that she thought it was going to jump out of her chest as she realized who was the handsome stranger staring at her.
Sooo…this is the first chapter. It was more like an introduction about Giulia and her life. Some things might be confusing, but they will all be explained in later chapters. Anyway, I hope you guys like it so far and if you do, pretty please review, it means a lot to me. And stay tuned for the next chapter! *winks*