One of the Guys

By: Riley

.:Prologue:.

"Pass it over here!" James Diamond called, clapping his hands over his head. "Carlos, pass it!" He wiped his sweaty palms on the side of his shorts and held his hands up in front of his chest. Carlos Garcia faked left around Logan and then passed the basketball over to James, who drove it to the hoop and took a shot. It went in easily. "Yes!" he cheered, punching the air with his fists. "Whoo!" He grinned and turned to Carlos, exchanging a high-five.

"That was just luck." Kendall Knight grumbled as he grabbed the basket ball and balanced it against his hip. Logan Mitchell, who was standing by his side, nodded in agreement. Kendall continued to sulk as he chest-passed the ball to James.

"No, that was just skill." James returned with a large grin as he passed the ball back.

"It's not just skill," Carlos chimed in, smiling as wide as James was. "It's the fact that you suck at basketball," Carlos pointed at Logan, who laughed sarcastically and pushed his hand away from his face. "And you just don't like losing." He added, smiling over at Kendall.

"Especially not to you." Kendall replied. "You're probably the most uncoordinated person the planet." He smacked the top of Carlos' helmet so hard that it flopped down over Carlos' eyes.

"And I don't suck," Logan put air quotes around the word. "At basketball. It just so happens that it's one of the sports that I'm not very good at."

"Hm, if I'm not mistaken, you've never really been great at sports anyway Logie," Their friend, Rhuben Jackson-McGuire commented as she walked up to the boys with Camille Roberts. Rhuben smirked as she had her arms crossed over her chest. "So I don't see how that would have changed over the past few years."

"Love you too." Logan replied sarcastically.

"What are you guys doing here?" Carlos asked, happy to see them as always.

"The Palm Woods gym was being closed for renovations or some other thing that Bitters is trying to get money from, so we decided to come here." Camille replied with a bright smile. "I'm guessing that's what brings you guys here as well?"

"Yep," Kendall replied, matter-of-fact. "One of our only days off so we decided to just have a 'guy's day' and hang out, only the four of us. Well, James wanted to come to the gym. But then I noticed that the basketball court was empty, and we haven't played in a while-"

"And Kendall and Logan are really sucking at the moment." James replied.

"I can tell." Rhuben replied.

"Again," Logan shot her a look, feeling even more defensive. "Love you too." He and Rhuben, and Rhuben's twin Riley, had been best friends since they were eight or nine (they argue about the age every now and then) and it wasn't a secret that Logan wasn't great at sports than he was a school. So she and Riley, and apparently the other boys, always gave him a hard time about it.

"Do you want to play with us?" James asked as he spun the basketball on his finger for a second before balancing on his hip, taking the stance that Kendall had held a few moments ago.

"Nah, we got to get back to working out," Camille replied, shaking her head and pointing over her shoulder. "We're doing yoga today." She added with an excited smile. "My mom and I do it all the time and I thought that I could teach some to Rhu."

"Besides, I thought you said that it was a 'guys day'?" Rhuben replied as she used air-quotes this time, her eyebrows raising a little.

"I don't see why it should matter," Kendall replied as he shrugged. "You're, like, one of the guys." He grinned, not knowing that that was something that many girls didn't want to hear, no matter how much time they spent hanging out with their guy friends. "So come on and play."

"No thanks." Camille insisted, a somewhat sharp edge laced to her tone.

"We got to get going." Rhuben added, her eyes narrowing a fraction of an inch.

Poor guys. Apparently they don't know that you shouldn't call a girl, just 'One of the Guys'. It hurts their feelings and it can cause their self-esteem to go shooting down. But with the girls that they know, hearing something like that could throw them for a loop.

And there was definitely a loop heading their way.

A/N: Short prologue, but they get longer after this. I just wanted a story that shows something that a lot of girls go through, and it's being one of the guys, especially when there is a guy that you like and he only sees you as one of the guys or just as a friend in general. So I thought 'I wonder if the girls on BTR have ever felt that way' so that's where I got the idea for it.

Cheers,

-Riley