The beginning of this fic is based on Big Time Crush, but the outcome is much different. The Big Time Rush boys are 19 now, and Katie is 16.
Wake Up and Love Me.
Katie POV
You shift in your seat under the sun in the luxurious Palm Woods pool area. Your let your long brown hair fall around your shoulders and pull your legs up onto the seat, while readjusting your dark sunglasses. You smooth down your pale blue sundress and continue reading your book.
Well, pretending to read your book.
Your big brother, Kendall would never approve of you sitting poolside to watch all of the young, shirtless, soon-to-be-stars lounge around the same pool as you. So you tell him that you're reading your book every time you do. Kyle, a guy you've had your eye on for a week or so now is lounging around today on a beach chair across the pool from you. He's playing his guitar to himself, following some sheets of paper as he does. He starred in the movie remake of some adventure book last month.
Kendall and his friend Carlos is in the pool with Kendall's girlfriend Jo and their friend Camille. One of Kendall's other friends, Logan, is sitting at a table with Peggy, his girlfriend. James, Kendall's shallowest, but best-looking friend is lounging on a chair next to you. His tanned, shirtless body has the best abs you've ever seen, and he picks up his mirror and flips his gorgeous hair around about once every five minutes.
Between Kyle and James, you're pretty sure you're in heaven.
"So what's your book about?" You're surprised he's talking to you. Normally you're only existent to him when you're blocking a mirror, or when he tries to convince you that you've got a crush on him when you really don't. Who could fall in love with a guy this shallow?
You know for a fact that you haven't been reading the book, so you try to make something up. "Uh, well.. So, um the dude starts off in-"
"You're not really reading the book, are you?" He asks the question in a tone which tells you that he already knows the answer. You turn to look at him through your dark sunglasses and laugh at the amused look plastered on his face.
"Am I really that obvious?" you reply while taking off your sunglasses and placing them on top of your head.
"Not to most people. But everytime I look at you you're looking in any direction but that of the book. And you've been down here for an hour and a half and you haven't turned a page yet." You look down at your book which reads Chapter One at the top of the page.
"Stalking me much?"
He laughs while he rolls his eyes. "So who have you got your eyes on, then? Seeing as you don't look like you're planning on reading that book anytime soon."
"No one, James. Like I could ever get a boyfriend without the four of you scaring him off." You look at him blankly as he waves your comment off, acting like it's never happened before. "There's no one here worth looking at anyway."
He sat up a little straighter at this and turned to face me. "What?" He took his sunglasses off and looked straight at you for an answer.
"You heard what I said."
"What about me?"
"What about you?"
"Hello!" He motioned his hand over his face and then along his torso. "I'm worth looking at!"
"Yeah, you're great James, okay?" you remark sarcastically, hoping he'll shut up so that you can go back to perving. He just rolled his eyes and lay back down in his seat.
You put your sunglasses back on and decide to read the first page of your book. You get bored halfway through and look back up at Kyle, he's talking to some other guy now. You see them laugh at something then watch as the other guy waves to him and starts to walk away. Kyle goes back to his guitar. Your eyes move to James's hand, which is slowly trying to edge your sunglasses off. You let him pull them off and then shut your eyes as the ends flick in front of your face to fold up.
You turn to look at him and give him a face that asks What are you doing?. "You're looking at that adventure movie kid? Katie, do you have a crush on him?" He pokes your side and you hit his arm with your book.
"I'm not four, James. I'm not crushing on one of them." He raises his eyebrows at you. "Besides, didn't you hear what I just said about the people here?"
"Yeah, I heard. You were clearly lying because all you have to do is look at me and then see that there is at least one person, Me, who is worth looking at here." You roll your eyes. "And you clearly think that guy is worth looking at. So, if it's not him, who is it?"
"No one!"
"Katie!"
You groan, knowing if you don't tell him now, he'll never stop asking. "Fine! Kyle, the one in the blue bathing shorts with the guitar."
He smiles at you triumphantly and then turns to look at Kyle. "How come? Why him?"
Excuse Me?
You shake your head and start to get up from your chair. "This is why I don't tell you anything, James. You either question things, or you make what I say sound stupid or wrong."
"No, I didn't mean it like that." He grabs hold of your wrist and pulls you gently to look at him. "Sit back down." You sit down on the edge of his chair.
"What then James? What did you mean to say?"
He shuffles forward on his seat so he is seated behind you. "How come you're attracted to him? Did you like that movie he was in?" He nudges you and you push his arm back. He's trying to lighten up the mood by making jokes, but it's not really working for you.
"I don't know," you sigh, your tangled fingers suddenly becoming very interesting to you as you look down at them. "I don't know why, I just am."
You shrug and look behind yourself at James. You catch him staring at your neck, right where the line of your halterneck dress is tied. He's sitting much closer to you than you thought, close enough to smell his scent. He smells like a mix of cologne and peach, the peach probably coming from some hair or skin product he uses.
"You're not going to meet him by looking at him across the pool all day and pretending to read a book. Go talk to him." He smiles at you, then pushes your shoulder forward, urging you to get up.
"Nah, I'll talk to him later." You turn back toward the pool and watch Kendall and Carlos playing volleyball. You feel James's hands on your waist pushing you forward. "No, later." You push his hands off and see Kendall turn around and look at you then turn back to Carlos.
James's hands make their way to your waist again, firmer this time. "Stop!" You're louder this time, enough for Kendall to turn around and look.
"James!" Kendall points at James's hands on your waist and he takes them off and puts them in the air where Kendall can see them.
"Not what you're thinking, bro!" James calls to him, lowering his hands to his knees. Kendall gives him a warning look, then turns back around to Carlos. You turn to James and raise your eyebrows at him. "What? I could take Kendall if I needed to." He flexes his muscles to prove this to you and you turn back around. He sighs. "Katie, Go talk to Kyle! It's for your own good! All you have to do is talk to him!"
"No! What don't you understand about no, James?"
"Come on! I'll come with you if you want."
"No, I don't want to go talk to him right now, and I definitely don't want you to come with me!" He gets up and starts pulling on your hand to get up. "Stop!"
"Katie, Come on!" He pulls you off the seat and begins to drag you around the pool.
"James, stop! I'm shy, okay!" You swing your book into his abs and he lets go of you.
Winded and out of breath, James is doubled over, clutching his stomach. "That's so adorable. You're cute, Katie," he replies to you. He then tries to make his way back to his seat and loses his footing, slips over, and falls straight into the pool.
Kendall and Carlos start laughing as they look over at James, then at you. You notice Logan and Penny look over at you and Camille and Jo turn their heads toward you from the far end of the pool aswell. You look over at Kyle, he's laughing at James aswell. Everyone seems quite amused.
James's face comes up to the surface and he pushes his hair out of his face, looks at you, then climbs out of the pool and storms off to the apartment. Kendall and Carlos start laughing even harder when this happens. "Nice Job, Katie." Kendall gives you a high-five and then moves back to volleyball with Carlos. You nod and then follow James's water trail up to apartment 2J.
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