Tornado Alley is a colloquial and popular media term that most often refers to the area of the United States where tornados are most frequent. Although an official location is not defined, the area between the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains is usually associated with it. This story does not take place in The Common Tornado Alley, but it does take place in a town were tornado's are common. Hence the name Tornado Alley.

Tornado Alley

You know, life can take some very unexpected turns. Some good and some bad… Well you know for us… Lets just say that everything was going wrong. You never see it coming… Its like a car crash… You never see it coming until you hit head on. Lets say that the three month mark was our car crash… We hit head on and are still trying to recover.

At that three month mark, we were all trying to be Mercedes boyfriend. I didn't expect her to freak out the way she did when I told her off.

"We are not going to be your boyfriends anymore! Because your mean, rude and selfish!"

She started to cry. Then looked up at me with pure hate in her eyes.

"I'm not picking Big Time Rush! I freaking hate you all!"

She then picked up a fork and stabbed me in the shoulder on her way out. The pain pulsing thru my body. I fell to the floor trying not to scream. Logan said we couldn't pull it out because of were she had stabbed me with it. When we got to the hospital it took 13 stitches to seal it up. I let Carlos pick out my bandage color. Of course he picked purple. Everyone knew it was his favorite.

Gustavo still wasn't talking to me, by the time we got out of the hospital, three hours later. Kelly was trying to get him to speak but he was #!*% . As it turned out she wasn't lying, she really did pick the winners of the record. I felt terrible. James was still mad at me. He wouldn't even look at me. I still remember his face. Filled with pure anger and hate. It made my heart sink. I wasn't trying to kill our dreams. I just couldn't take it anymore.

That brings us to Minnesota. Once they fired us, Kelly and Gustavo. We packed up our bags and went back to Minnesota. Gustavo gave up his music career and went to go live in Hawaii. Kelly left us without saying goodbye and went to work for Hawk. To be honest, I've never felt this bad in my life. It had been about a month since this all happened when Mom told us we were moving to Arizona.

Carlos, James and Logan all went with us. They liked living with Mom, Katie and I. It was always an adventure no matter what. Mom had saved up $200,000 while we lived in L.A. This I wasn't aware of.

We had all gotten sick of Minnesota. Mom and Katie hated it the most. Everyday I wished we were somewhere warm. I no longer had the urge to play hockey. None of us did. We just hung out in the warm house all day. We had grown used to the warm climate and were no longer tolerable to the cold.

A few days later mom put the house up for sale. I never thought it would sell this fast, but within a week we were moving out. I had just gotten my room packed when mom told me they sold it. Since we still owed the bank money on it we only pocketed five grand.

Mom bought the most beautiful house. It was a foreclosure. When I met the family who previously owned it, I felt bad. It was a newly wed with one, two year old son and another on the way. I couldn't believe that they took there house from them. But I guess time moves on.

When I walked in I couldn't believe my eyes. This house was beautiful. It was a four bedroom, three baths and it had swimming pool! We moved to a small town in Arizona… I don't remember the name, I still haven't memorized it. Oh how I missed having a pool. The second the boys walked in they yelled POOL! Mom stopped them in there tracks and told them to go unpack there rooms before they play. They listened and walked up the stairs.

Carlos and I shared a room and Logan and James shared a room. While Carlos and I were unpacking I heard him mumble something.

"What did you say?" I asked out of curiosity.

"Its just like old times isn't it?"

"Sure feels like it. I like how the color on the walls in the same as it was in our bedroom in the Palm Woods."

"Yea…"

We stood there silent for a few seconds then resumed unpacking. I could hear James and Logan fighting in the other room about were to put things. It made me laugh. Logan was always indecisive and James just liked to argue.

After we at least got our beds put in our rooms and unpacked we went to go play in the pool.

"Boys we are going out" Mom said.

"Yea I better get going to." Logan said.

"Where you going?" I asked.

"I'm going to look at the local college"

"And I'm going on a date!" James added.

"How did you get a date? We just moved here!" I yelled.

"Some girl I met at the airport…" He said.

Carlos and I rolled our eyes.

"Guess its just us!" I said.

He tackled me and we flew into the pool.

"Ok enough! I'm hungry… Are you?" I asked.

"Yea. Corndogs?"

"Sure."

I had just got done making the hot dogs when I heard a load sound. I've never heard it before.

"Carlos knock it off!" I yelled.

"I'm standing right next to you dude." He said.

"Then what is that… Turn the TV on!"

He walked over and turned on the TV. Since I was a kid I had been terrified of tornados. I saw the warning on the TV and ran up stairs to look out the window. My worst fears were coming alive. There, in the background was a Level Five tornado and It was heading right for us…