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After exploring the whole hotel, having to avoid several security guards to get to places they wanted to see, they found that the pool was the best place to spend time outside of camp. Lauren was lounging on a chair, reading a book. Charlotte was swimming laps in the pool. Since the people staying at the palm woods were extremely preoccupied with their tans, no one seemed to want to go inside the pool. And, so Charlotte had ample space to swim. It was her only sport passion. She wasn't very coordinated and had no hand-eye coordination whatsoever.
As she was halfway done with a lap, she heard a muffled cry that sounded roughly like, "Look out!". Suddenly, there was an ample splash and a bunch of bubbles blocked Charlotte's view of what jumped into the pool at such great speed. She raised her head above water, spitting out that which entered her mouth, and yelled "What the hell was that?" She didn't have her glasses on since she was inside the pool. And, so she got up towards her lounge chair and put on her glasses to see the scene before her.
On her left was Lauren's lounge chair where there were three guys panting, looking into the pool. Lauren was nearest to one with spiky dark brown hair. They were talking to each other and Lauren, as well as him, had a goofy smile on her face. Next to him there was another guy. This one had long brown hair, almost down to his shoulders. He seemed like he would be a model, and, sure enough, he was looking at his reflection in the pool water. Charlotte rolled her eyes at this. She moved on to the next boy in the line. Do they come in packages of three?, she asked herself. The last one standing next to the pool had dirty blonde hair and dark eyebrows that were his most prominent feature. As she was coming closer to the three guys and Lauren, another guy splashed out of the water. As his face stayed out of the pool, Charlotte could tell he had brownish skin and a buzz cut that showed he had black hair.
"Dude! That was sick!" he said while patting a helmet that was on his head. Wait, a helmet? In the pool? Charlotte thought.
The one with the eyebrows helped the one with the helmet out of the pool. They came to stand in a semi circle across from Charlotte and Lauren.
"La La... who are these guys?" Charlotte asked.
"Oh, um. Charlie, this is Logan." she said while signaling to the one nearest her with the spiky hair.
"Hello, Charlie is it? Pleasure to meet you." Logan introduced himself.
"Hey, I'm James." The model one said while flashing, Charlotte was sure, his 1 million dollar smile.
"How's that working out for you, James?" Charlotte said.
James furrowed his eyebrows, while all his friends said, "Oooooh."
"I'm not quite sure what you mean." James questioned.
Charlotte started to get angry. You could see it in the way her eyes narrowed and her lip curved up that she had just found the perfect comeback. She opened her mouth. But just as she was about to let loose, Lauren put her hand on Charlotte's shoulder and said, "Charlie, calm down. It's no big deal."
Charlotte let out a deep breath and closed her eyes tight for a couple of seconds.
The one with the dark eyebrows came forward and said, "Um, yeah. Hi, I'm Kendall Knight. I'm sorry if we disturbed you in your spare time, Charlie."
Charlotte smiled and waved a hand towards him. "Hi, it's nice to know someone here has a little sense."
The one with the helmet, who had originally disturbed Charlotte came up to her and Lauren and said, very enthusiastically, "Hi, I'm Carlos... hi!"
Charlotte looked at him expectantly, raising an eyebrow. Carlos looked back confused as to her position towards him. He thought he had been nice. Logan cleared his throat sensing the awkwardness in the air. Then he looked at Lauren, who was staring at him, and smiled. She smiled back. James had now gone to staring at his reflection in Charlotte's glasses. Kendall bumped Carlos shoulder to shoulder and gave him what could only be described as 'the look'. "What?" Carlos whispered quite loudly to Kendall. Kendall only responded by emphasizing his 'look'.
"What?" Carlos said, not remembering to whisper.
"He means you should apologize." Lauren whispered. Carlos face was now filling with recognition of what he had forgotten to do.
"Oh, uh. Charlie, I'm sorry I jumped into the pool randomly and got in your way."
Charlotte heaved a sigh. "Fine. It's not like anyone actually cares if they disturb me or not."
See, that was the thing about Charlotte. She had random phases of depression, as did Lauren. She had them more and more frequently as the year progressed. Charlotte did not believe in love. Lauren was a strong believer of it. Lauren was also incredibly popular with the guys. While not all of them asked her out, many felt as close to her as if she was their sister. Charlotte was noticed by guys as well, though almost never for the same reason as Lauren. She had a very unique style of fashion, to put it nicely. Her closet consisted of mostly black shirts and pants of different colors. She had snake skin pants, green ones, purple ones, blue ones, pink ones, red ones, etc. She liked to wear knee high socks at every opportunity she got, and band t-shirts were her trade mark. For obvious reasons, she didn't attract the right kind of attention. It wasn't that she was jealous either. It just made her feel like no one in the world actually cared about who she was or what happened to her or what she cared about. No one but herself.
Kendall's eyes softened, Charlotte noticed since she had not taken her eyes off of him since he had first spoken. He seemed the most sincere out of all four. It seemed, however, that Lauren disagreed with her. Kendall smiled at Charlotte, revealing two very adorable dimples. Charlotte practically melted on the spot. But, she knew better than to fall for some Hollywood boy. "Now, why would you say that?" Kendall replied.
Lauren rolled her eyes and responded before Charlotte could, "Ignore her. She has trust issues and while her self-esteem in herself is high. Her self-esteem from others for her is extremely low... if that makes sense."
Surprisingly, James was the one to speak. "So you're saying she feels good about herself but she thinks others don't feel the same way about her?"
Lauren nodded. Kendall spoke, "I disagree." He looked straight into her eyes, completely serious.
"W-what?" Charlotte questions.
"I said, I disagree." Kendall repeated.
"No, I know what you said. But... why? No, wait. Never mind, don't answer that. I don't wanna know." Charlotte shook her head and put her ear phones in, well, her ears. She shuffled and the song "Big Time Rush" by Big Time Rush started blaring from her Ipod. Lauren started to bob her head and hum to the music. Both of them loved their songs. Charlotte closed her eyes and started mouthing the words, and was about to turn around when she a shock ran through her body.
Instead of walking away, she opened her eyes. In the scene before her, Lauren's face was reflecting her. Mouth agape, eyes wide, total surprise. James, Kendall, Logan and Carlos were singing along to the song Big Time Rush. Except, it didn't sound like they were singing along. It sounded like they were the song, without the technical additives of the album of course.
"You... ah... bu-... you-you're Big Time Rush." Charlotte whispered, fearing that if she spoke louder she would scream from excitement. She wasn't big on the Hollywood star scenery and didn't recognize them.
James smiles and says, "The man, the myth, the legend." Charlotte's open mouth twisted into a grimace. James' smile faded and he retreated behind Kendall, even though he was taller than Kendall. Logan and Kendall rolled their eyes at his reaction. And Lauren and Carlos were too engrossed in a conversation about spaghetti. Charlotte briefly listened into their conversation.
"No way, man! Spaghetti sauce is way better than meatballs. It makes the sauce be even throughout the whole plate." Lauren argued.
"Excuse me but with meat sauce you can't even taste the meat. Meatballs are clearly better." Carlos clarified.
Charlotte stood there staring at them when she felt arms wrap around her shoulders. She looked up to see Kendall smiling down at her, and on her other side was James combing himself with a black comb.
"All this talk about food is making me hungry. What do you say we go eat somewhere?" Kendall asked.
Charlotte shrugged and said, "Sounds good to me."