Author's note: OKayyyss this is my first multi chapter story fic! I know I should be updating band of idiots but the next shot kind of stemmed off into this and it kind of just evolved… What can I say
Katie opened the door skillfully with her foot; She was holding several bags of groceries in her hands and the morning paper (not that she was reading it in the morning) was tucked underneath her chin. Any normal sister probably would have dropped everything when she walked in on the four teenage boys pulling apart the sofa and draping blankets and pillows everywhere. Instead she rolled her eyes and kicked the door shut.
They looked up momentarily but didn't bother to ask her if she needed any help. Typical really, she sighed, "should I ask?" she chucked the groceries on the counter, only a few falling to the ground in the process. She bent down and snatched them up quickly.
"Mmm depends." Kendall managed to respond underneath a pile of sofa cushions. "On what?" she asked disinterested as she began picking out perishables to put in the fridge. "Will you be mean?" Carlos asked wide-eyed peeking out from underneath a blanket, he looked a little like a puppy.
"Judgmental?" James asked with actual puppy dog eyes, he toyed with the couch cushion innocently.
Her eyes settled on Logan who was apparently trying to unsuccessfully read a book on the last part of the couch that wasn't currently being dismantled. He had his feet tucked underneath him and was dodging flying pillows with a certain practiced ease.
"Well...all I will say is…. that has to be the worst fort you've made since my Girl Scout days."
*Flashback*
"Okay so here's what's gonna happen, Kendall." She turned to him and he gave her a mocked salute. She looked up briefly from her new clipboard to glare sternly at him and laughed when he shrunk away.
"Okay you will be hitting up this street, Molly's sister likes you so she'll defiantly be up to supporting the fudge nutter cause." Kendall looked up surprised and cocked his head sideways smiling slightly before shaking his head. He turned towards Logan for help. Who obviously didn't want that as he flailed his arms around stepping backwards.
"Hey don't look at me! Your there Den-mother Kendall...why AM I here again?" he asked exasperated as he surveyed the rest of the troop. Most of the other girls sat on the grass appearing less enthused by the selling process then Katie. They looked tired actually this whole ordeal was taking up most of their Saturday.
"Becauseee" Katie drawled, "Kendall asked you very nicely and said 'cause we're bestest friends!'" she covered her hands over her eyebrows as if to enlarge there size and pulled a smoldering/pleading look at Logan saying the last part in a overly southern sounding accent. He glared at her, "I didn't find it funny when he said it Katie, what did you think had changed?"
She stared him down "well he did say something about how it would help you get a bike, but you know if your just gonna poke f-" he looked conflicted and Katie saw an opening "P-uleaseee." Katie was not above begging, but it wasn't difficult with Logan she didn't even have to look up from her clipboard as she grabbed Logan's arm as he began to turn away. "Now, you need to hit this block, lotsa cougars."
"Katie!" Kendall cried mouth opened. "You shouldn't know what a couger is!" he stared her down hard and then sighed, hauled her over his shoulder. "Kendall put me down! Think of the fudge nutters!"
"I am NOT dealing with this today, come on girls let's go get some pizza!" Kendall called from behind him. They all excitedly followed him like puppies. "But we have to do SOMETHING Kendall!" Katie protested from his shoulder. "Fine, Logan?"
"What patch are you guys working on?" Logan asked rolling his eyes at Kendall's horrible Den-mothering. If it wasn't something he could competitive he wasn't particularly good at giving direction to the girls.
Completion was a whole different ball game; like the scout's picnic last year. It was an event where all the troops in the area have a picnic and play games, for fun of course… But Kendall spent most of the day screaming like a pageant mum.
Logan had never witnessed something so hilarious in his entire life, he was shouting hockey terms during the three- legged race and Logan nearly fell over in laughter during the spoon race. Katie actually pulled him by the ear to tell him he was scaring all the other girls. It had been so amusing Logan couldn't even resent that Kendall had dragged him to ANOTHER Girl Scout extravaganza.
"Well were working on our tent making patch at the moment mister," a younger girl answered Logan and then skipped past him giggling.
A giant smile spread across Kendall's face "you know what would be more fun to build then a tent?" the girls looked up at him fearfully, he had that look in his eye. "I'll bring the first aid kit" Logan assured Katie quietly.
*End Flashback*
"Hey, hey, hey it's a work in progress." James retorted holding his hand up defensively. Katie rolled her eyes in response, Where was the structure? The creativity? She could do a more sound design for a fort in her sleep, the big question though was why wasn't Logan fixing this mess?
As if to respond her unanswered question Logan looked up from his book and defended James; "It's a learning experience." Katie rolled her eyes and he shrugged, "they've got to learn to do it on their own." Katie snorted "when" she surveyed the mess "will they ever need to know how to do this on their own?" Logan shrugged.
Katie sighed "If I ever have a sleepover, this…" Katie gestured to them with her arms "is what I imagine it would look like" she finished smirking as she headed for her room.
"Hey" James shouted after her "it is NOT a sleepover!"
"Yeah! It's a… it's a social gathering that… that happens to end with everyone sleeping in the same locational venue!" Kendall added as her door slams. "If anything it's a sleep meeting," Logan says putting down his book, giving into his need to fix the train wreck of a fort. Carlos agreed with him nodding enthusiastically, "he's the smart one, he would know!"
Several arguments and blanket avalanches later, the fort was built… well sort of. They crowded around Logan and his laptop, "Logieeeee give us something to do!" Carlos whined hanging upside down from the barren couch.
"Okay, okay. Mmmm lets see. Sleep over…Ahem I mean social gathering that happens to end with everyone sleeping in the same venue... okay here we go, games." His fingers glided effortlessly over the keys, Kendall proceeded to read over Logan's shoulder, commenting on the options "boring…boring…boring…wait."
He broke into a grin. "Go back to that last one…"
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"So what we just answer these questions about each other, and see who gets the most right?" Carlos verified.
"Who answers for who though?" Logan quires, his face peaks from above his laptop uncertainly. Kendall looks around for a pen and Logan runs his hands down the side of the couch until he finds one. "Hey there's a lot of money down the sides of this thing," Logan said brightly. "Mine!" Carlos screamed and tackled Logan; Logan threw the pen to Kendall while tried to shove Carlos off.
Kendall then began to scratchily write each or their names on a separate piece of paper. He looks around briefly before pulling off his beanie and putting to names inside.
He thrusts it towards James who in turn looks at him with a horrified expression. "I am not putting these"- he points to his newly manicured hands, " in that" he gestures to Kendall's beanie with disgust. "Whatever princess," he pauses and looks around, "Logan?"
Logan shoves his hand into the beanie muttering about how he had to get new friends. He opens the crinkled paper and smiles slightly. He was sooo winning this game. He holds it up to the others, showing the piece of paper with Kendall's name on it.
"What! No fair! That's like me getting Carlos!" James exclaims waving his hands around. "You still might pretty boy, but you'd have to touch the hat." Kendall smirks and waves the beanie in front of James face. "Finnneeee.' James juts out his bottom lip and puts his hand in the fraying fabric. He quickly pulls out a piece of paper, "Logan" he sighs, that wasn't too bad.
"James." Carlos says brightly as he pulls the paper out of the beanie, waving it in Logan's face in some kind of challenge "and that leaves me with Carlos, okay…let us begin, Logan first question."
Logan scrolls down the computer. "Okay, so we'll each write down the answers, so… what would you bring to a desert island?" Carlos and James immediately begin to scrawl down on their paper with fever.
"Okay...What would Carlos bring, Kendall?" Logan asks after he puts down his own pencil "rollercoaster" Kendall says smirking "YEP!" Carlos says excitedly holding up his paper. "You know you didn't have to draw the rollercoaster right?" Logan says rolling his eyes.
"My hair does NOT look like that!" James exclaims pointing at a poorly drawn stick figure with a flowing tuft of hair on top next to another two stick figures on the rollercoaster. "I didn't have a lot of time okay!" Carlos responded defensively.
"Wait where am I?" Logan questioned looking at the two remaining stick figures that were clearly Kendall and Carlos. Due to the fact they were wearing a beanie and helmet respectively. "Don't be silly, that's you down there, Logie!" Carlos points to a dot on the bottom of the page, "you wouldn't go on cause you said it wasn't safe" Carlos grinned proudly "Pfft" was Logan's annoyed response as Kendall and James snigger in unison "well can you blame little dot me? That thing barley looks structurally sound-"
"OKAYYY moving on- Carlos, what James bring?" Kendall interrupts, they were never going to finish this ROUND at the rate they were going let alone get through the game. "His Lucky comb, but I don't see why he would need it though." Carlos says still staring at his awesome rollercoaster.
James gasps, "Its better then a rollercoaster!" Before James and Carlos go into a full out brawl Kendall interrupts them again. "Okay, okay looks like Carlos is right, so James what would Logan bring?" They all glance at him and say "flare gun" at the same time. Logan laughs awkwardly and responds "ah-ha ha um have we maybe already had this conversation?"
"Lets just go to the next one…" Kendall says as he begins to read the computer screen. "Hahaha here's a good one. How much do you talk to your mum? Logan?" Kendall asks.
"Haha what kind of a question is that? Okay, well… Kendall you talk to your mum loads, I mean she lives with you!" Logan says laughing. "True" Kendall says shrugging. "And Carlos is never NOT video chatting with his mum," Kendall finishes smirking.
"Well James never talks to HIS mum." Carlos says almost immediately after. "What? Do to!" James says spluttering. "Um, who's mum flew to LA because of their lack of communication skills?" Kendall says sarcastically after a very put on cough. "Hey!" James relays. "Oh come on James… Italk to my mum on the phone more than you talk to your mum." Kendall retorts, he was being all smirk-y and smug "Well it's not my fault my mum is scary!" James exclaims arms flailing.
"Now that you mention it, I probably talk to Mamma Knight on the phone more than my mum too. Since we always have to call if we stay out late and… but that's beside the point." James adds, "What about Logan? He wouldn't even hug his mum the last time she was here!"
"Shut up James! The question was talking and you don't know what YOU'RE talking about so leave it alone." Logan grumbles as he folds his arms and turns his head. "Okayyy, new question." Carlos says in an overly cheery voice as he snatches for the laptop.
"What's your favourite ice cream flavor? Carlos read, words coming out rushed and disjointed, the boys rolled their eyes in unison (for a moment the tension ceased- of course Carlos would choose something food related.)
All the boys dropped their previously defensive positions and dived for their respective pieces of paper. They hugged the pieces of paper close to their chest, "do we even have to ask?" Logan said to Carlos with a wide grin, Kendall snorted, "Oh let me guess for you two…" Logan smacked him "that's not how we're playing- you only guess for Carlos." James laughed and snatched Carlos' paper and waved it in Kendall's face "don't need to guess, we all know you twos unholy love of rainbow ice cream!"
Kendall looked queasy, "get that thing out of my face, that's disgusting" he glared at the forlorn outline of a rainbow. "I didn't have time to colour it" Carlos complained. James threw a pillow at Kendall "yeah Kendall relax." Kendall frowned and moved to sit next to Logan who patted him on the shoulder, "well I know what you two like" he told Kendall grinning, and shifting so they could both fit on the couch.
"Double choc fudge" James and Kendall chorused and high fived each other, "that's the best!" Logan made a face "that's way to sweet" Kendall rolled his eyes, "I love sweet things!" Kendall nudged Logan and Logan threw a pillow at him, Carlos stole a pillow from the fort and defended Kendall. James jumped into the fray, blocking most of the attacks towards Logan while screeching about how they were messing up his hair.
The tension was completely eased; they were all sort of tangled up in a post-pillow fight pile. "I'm sorry about what I said Logie" James muffled into his pillow, looking up to lock eyes with his shorter friend. Logan lent over and mussed his hair "it's cool, I think we're even now." James shot up and groped for a mirror to check out the damage.
"I'm sorry too James" Kendall told him, pushing Carlos off him, "I shouldn't have said that stuff about your mum- it was way out of line." James put his mirror away after assuring his hair was still perfect "don't worry, you were right I probably should call my mum." They all shuddered at the thought of talking to Ms Diamond "-well maybe not right now." James amended surveying the mess of pillows and blankets of their fort,
"She didn't approve of us making these at seven, I can't see she'd be cool with it now." Logan laughed and threw another pillow at James, "I think we took away some of the pillows at the base, it's going to fall down." He added, Carlos shrieked "no!" and stole back the pillows trying in vein to recreate the fort.
James picked up the laptop from where Logan had put it to save it from the scuffle, "okay question number three is… what are you most afraid of?" Carlos stilled his hands on the fort… Logan twitches violently and Kendall reaches out a hand to steady him.
Kendall grabs his pencil "okay…" he starts writing and the others pick up their paper after a moment. Logan hugs the paper to his chest, "no judgement right?" he gave James a meaningful look. "Why do you think I'm going to be the guy who makes fun of you?" James whines, "James- you are always the guy who makes fun of me."
At that moment Mama Knight walked into the room, taking in the scene with practiced calm. "Boys" she said slowly, kicking a stray pillow out of her path, the four boys jumped at the sound of her voice.
"Time for bed." She waved a hand at the mess on the floor, the fort was mostly knocked over even with Carlos' 'reconstruction' and the blankets had been tossed around the room. "You can clean this up tomorrow."
They all sighed, the sleep meeting had been disbanded, and Kendall grabbed their papers and scrunched them together throwing them at the rubbish bin. In went in, "score!" he cheered, and then slumped at the glare his mum gave him. "Your sister is sleeping!" they all became a lot quieter, collecting their stuff and shuffling off to get ready for bed.
Mama Knight wished them all good night, kissing each boy on the forehead as they passed her, trudging off to bed. She looked at the room, spotting her romance novel on the floor, bent and trodden on- it must have been on the couch. She picked it up and it fell apart- oh the boys were so doing chores tomorrow!
She headed into the room, not hearing the creek of a hinge and a door opening.
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Stephanie stumbled sleepily to the door, it was still considered early in the day and she had spent most of last night filming for a side project she was working on 'Midnight madness.' She didn't like it anywhere near as much as 'Big time terror' but then, she didn't think she could trick the big time rush boys twice.
She expected her dad, hands on hips, to remind her of the audition she had this afternoon. She grimaced, she hated that she needed to be in a union to live here, but it's not like any directors were taking her seriously as a technical producer/budding director. She opened the door and it was not in fact, her dad that should have been a no brainer anyway because why would her dad knock anyway?
It was Katie Knight.
"Katie?" she said in surprise, she and Katie didn't talk much due to the substantial age gap, though they had briefly bonded when she taught her how to use fishing wire to freak the boys out. "I have a proposition for you" Katie told her, straight to the point with a sly grin of her face, she recognised the look- it was the same one she saw Kendall use right before he and his friends did something devious.
"Shoot" Stephanie held the door open for her, and Katie breezed past into the living room, she looked around. Her dad had let her have some creative design of the living room and she was aware it looked vaguely creepy. Katie didn't even blink at it, and Stephanie let out a big smile, she knew she liked this kid.
Katie gave her a hesitant look; this could go either really well or really bad. Stephanie didn't really have any ties to the Palmwoods besides living and going to school there. All her friends were local movie buffs and aspiring directors, and Katie was about to ask her to do some questionable things. And it wasn't like Katie could actually pull off something like this by herself.
Then again Stephanie was a horror buff, she may get a kick out of it.
"How would you like to help me scare the boys?" Stephanie grinned a wide; all encompassing grin.
"What did you have in mind?"
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"They just left them there?" Stephanie asked in disbelief, Katie nodded slow and deliberate "boys are stupid," She muttered to herself. She sorted through the papers, nodding and then slowly her eyebrows began to rise.
"Are… are you sure about these? This is what big time rush is afraid of?" she had a feeling she'd be smiling for days; this was really just too good. "Yeah" Katie said casually, she was already making a list of ideas on her clipboard "I got up to get some water- the boys were being loud and I heard them playing their stupid sleepover and then they were just… siting on the rubbish bin, like fate."
"Sleepover games?" Stephanie asked snorting, it wasn't a real surprise "they call them sleep meetings- or sleep gatherings or whatever, I don't see why I wasn't invited they didn't even sleep in their stupid fort." She glared at the papers for a second and then smiled evilly, "this will be good for them, help them overcome their fears."
"So whose is who's?" Stephanie asked shuffling the papers, stopping momentarily on the one she hoped was Carlos' (not that it really mattered- they all were the funniest things she'd ever read.) Katie shuffled them and stopped on a different note, "I'm not to sure" she bit her lip. Stephanie bit hers too, "are you sure these are reliable Katie?" they weren't exactly things you would want anyone to know you were afraid of.
"Oh yeah, Kendall made them do that Boy Scout thing we're they promise to swear the truth, they put their hands on the book of pranks and everything." If Katie's face didn't look so serious Stephanie might think she was joking, "so… that's serious?" Katie nodded gravely "very serious."
"Okay then, I guess it's just a matter of working out whose is who" Stephanie scrunched up her face, drawing a blank. "I'm just not sure how-" Katie waved a note in her face, "this one" she said determinately "is Logan's."
"How can you be so sure?" she asked curiously "it's like cursive and Logan is always going on and on about the importance of legible handwriting. Apparently doctor's have really messy writing and it's a leading cause of medication errors." Stephanie raised her eyebrows and Katie flushed "Sometimes it's nice to have an adult conversation- even if it is just with Logan."
"… So you talk about Handwriting?" Katie made a face at her, "It annoys me too, I mean the rest of the boys have really disgusting handwri- you know what never mind." She shook her head and then clapped her hands "Okay, so we have Logan, what about the rest of them." Stephanie mulled it over for a moment and then grinned, "we test them!" Katie scratched her head, "how?"
"We start out small and see who reacts to what before picking them off one by one." She smirked and Katie's eyes lit up, "you" she told her happily "are brilliant." Stephanie beamed "I know" she rubbed her hands together, "but first we start with Logan?"
Katie traced her fingers over the cursive writing, and smiled.
Logan wouldn't know what hit him.
Review please! Yeah the Girl Scout thing is kind of irrelevant but I just started writing it. So let me know what you think there afraid of, I'm curious :)xxx