Yay a new chapter! I am really excited to write this chapter! It's a little sad though…
Kendall's POV:
My cell phone chirped, somewhere in my bedroom, causing my heart to skip a beat and Jo to jump at my side. She groaned, and rolled over so her face was up against mine. Her beautiful eyes stared back at me, half annoyed that my cell phone woke us up, and half happy because as soon as she rolled over we felt our baby kick. I smiled thinking back to the first time Jo had felt our baby kick, just two weeks ago. Since then, baby Lizzie was always moving around.
"Do you have to get it?" Jo whispered, adjusting her position so her head was resting on my shoulder. I sighed, knowing that I should go get it, but I was just so comfortable in bed with Jo.
"Yes, I should. You know that I would prefer staying with you, but it could be work." I said, sitting up in bed. Man, would I be mad if it was Gustavo calling to say we had to record today, on a Sunday! I threw the sheets off my body, and was suddenly blasted by cold air. I stumbled over to the fan switch, and turned it down to low. Then I walked over to where my phone was still chirping. Sighing, I bent down and picked it up.
"Hello?" I said as nicely as I could manage at 8:00 on a Sunday morning. And trust me that isn't very nice.
"Well that's not a happy tone." James said on the other line. Immediately, I felt bad for being mean to one of my best friends.
"Sorry James, I thought you were Gustavo." I said apologetically. I knew not to be to mean to James, who was having a very rough time lately. Any small amount of anger could send him toppling off into another drunken depression. He was just so torn up over not becoming the greatest actor, singer alive yet.
"It's ok, buddy. Listen me and the boys have an offer for you." He said, sounding surprisingly happy. My heart skipped a beat, hearing excitement in James' voice for the first time in years.
"Sounds good! How about you come over in about fifteen minutes and we can discuss it." I said.
"Ok, we will be there." The line went dead, and I gently closed my phone. I turned to my wife, who had her eyes closed again. I hated to wake her up, knowing that she couldn't sleep very well with a baby that is already six months grown inside of her, but she would want to see my friends too. Plus, she hated to be asleep when there were people at our house. I walked back toward her sleeping figure, and gently shook her arm. A groan escaped her lips, and she turned around again, trying to avoid me. I shook my head, and climbed into the bed. I shook her arm again, and whispered,
"Jo you have to get up."
"No, I don't want to." She said, almost in a baby's voice. I laughed, and repeated what I had said seconds earlier.
"Why?"
"Because, Jo, we have company." Right as I said that, I knew I did the right thing. She sat up fast, pulling the covers up to her chin. Her head whipped from side to side, checking to make sure whoever was here wasn't in her bedroom when she was only in PJs.
"Don't worry, they aren't here yet." I said reassuring her.
"Then who is coming over?" Jo asked, now getting out of bed.
"James, Logan and Carlos," I responded walking over to my closet. "James was on the phone, he said they had an offer for me."
"Hmm" Jo said quietly, though I still heard her. I had excellent hearing. "What do you think they mean?"
"I don't know…" I said, stripping out of my undershirt. I put on a Minnesota Wild t-shirt and some jeans. I turned around, and saw Jo was also stripping out of her PJs. I quickly turned back around, not wanting Jo to catch me watching her change.
"Oh, Kendall always the gentleman." She said from right behind me. I cautiously turned around, and saw Jo standing in front of me in a green flowered bathrobe.
"Did you forget we are married?" she asked with a smirk. I just smiled at her, and bent down to give her a quick kiss.
"I'll be down when I'm done in the shower." She said with a laugh. Spinning around, she walked off to the bathroom, and quietly closed the door behind her.
I left our bedroom, and descended down the stairs of our house. It wasn't huge, but it also wasn't small. Jo and I agreed it was just right for us, with three bathrooms, and three bedrooms. It was a beautiful house to start a family with. Of course, if we wanted to we could have bought a large mansion, like Gustavo's, since Jo had all the money from acting jobs and I had Big Time Rush money. Combined we could have bought TWO mansions. But, Jo decided we were going to use that money for our daughter, and to decorate the house how we pleased.
I walked into our bright and lively kitchen, that Jo had just finished painting a few weeks ago. Now it was Eco Green, from Sherwin Williams. The appliances were white, and the chairs were a wood brown. I had wanted to paint our bedroom first, but Jo insisted we do the kitchen because of the ugly color it formerly was. We had just moved in this house a few months ago, out of the apartment at the Palm Woods that we lived in before. Jo had said that we needed to be living in a house before our baby arrives, so as soon as we found out she was pregnant, we started searching for a house to buy.
I scooped our ground coffee into our brand new coffee machine, and then filled it with water. I pressed the glowing ON button, and listened as the machine roared to life, and started brewing enough coffee for Jo, my friends, and myself. Minutes later, after I had gone and sat on the couch that Jo and I bought five days ago, Jo came downstairs now showered and dressed. She had put on a grey and blue striped t-shirt that was made especially for pregnant woman, and grey sweatpants. Her damp hair plastered to her neck and shoulders and she was still wearing her blue fuzzy slippers.
"Hey, Kendall is the coffee ready yet?" she asked, walking over towards me and embracing me in a hug.
I sighed, breathing in the beautiful scent that wafted off her freshly cleaned hair. Tropical Island.
"Nope, not yet I just got it started…" I said when we broke apart.
She nodded and then made her way over to the massage chair that her parents bought us. She sat down and turned it on, and within seconds she was groaning as the massage chair took care of her aching back. I smiled watching relaxation spread across Jo's face. Just then there was a knock at the door.
"That would be them." I said, walking towards our front door. Grasping the knob, I pulled the door open and became face to face with my three best friends.
James, Logan, and Carlos smiled at me from the porch step.
"Hey Kendall!" Carlos said bright and cheerful as ever. James and Logan raised their hands and waved at me.
"Hey guys, come on in." I said gesturing into my home.
"Thanks." James and Logan said at the same time.
I walked back into my home, with my friends closely following behind. I turned to offer them a cup of coffee, which had just finished brewing. I fell silent though, studying their faces as wonder and awe spread over. They took in the beauty and gleam to my house. I did have to admit, it was in better shape than the homes that my friends lived in. Hell, my life was going a lot better than any of theirs, too. I was happily married and expecting a baby girl, while they either were an alcoholic, living in a pig-sty, or working at the craziest hospital ever.
"So do you want any coffee?" I asked after several moments, breaking the awkward silence.
James, Logan, and Carlos quickly snapped out of their wishful gazes, and nodded yes to my offer.
I walked over to the coffee machine and poured coffee into five cups, while Jo greeted my friends over at the couch. I poured coffee for me and Jo into two cups that were engraved with our names on them. Jo's mother had given them to us when we went up to visit her in North Carolina; a few weeks after Jo found out she was pregnant. Then I poured coffee for my friends, into fancy hand crafted cups that we purchased on our honeymoon in Hawaii.
"Here you go." I said, handing James, Carlos, and Logan each a cup of coffee. They thanked me and then sat down on the couch. I turned around and passed Jo's coffee to her, and then sat down. Everyone sipped their coffee, James, Carlos and Logan on one couch, and Jo and I on another facing them. After a few moments of awkward silence, as my friends continued to stare around my house in amazement, we started talking. We talked about work for a while, discussing when Gustavo is going to release the new song we just recorded a few days ago. Then, Logan told us about his recent trip to NYC with Camielle. As he talked though, I sensed something was wrong. His voice wasn't the same happy voice that I was so used to hearing when he talked about his wife. Instead, it was a fake happy. And somewhere behind that mask of fake happiness, I sensed guilt and sadness. I knew that James, Carlos, and Jo heard it too, because they stared at him, full of confusion, as he talked. Of course, he didn't see their confusion though because the whole time he was talking he was staring into his coffee. Then Jo started talking about our baby, and Logan's sadness disappeared. But I still sensed something weird going on, something that my friends weren't telling me. I knew that is must be the offer that James was talking about. And it must be a good offer. This was the first time in weeks, maybe months, that James didn't reek of alchol, Carlos was covered in dirt and grime, and Logan wasn't about to explode from stress. Instead, James was sober, Carlos was clean, and Logan was actually relaxing. I knew right then that whatever this "Deal" was, I knew it was going to be good.
James finished off the last of his coffee, and gently set his floral mug on the table in front of him. He took a deep breath, and then glanced around the room at everyone. Jo fell silent, in the middle of telling about how she is planning to decorate Lizzie's room, and joined me, Carlos, and Logan in staring at our James. He looked at Logan and Carlos, who were seated next to him, and smiled. Carlos and Logan nodded their heads yes, as if agreeing to whatever he was thinking.
I looked at Jo, who just looked back at me, the same confused face that I knew I bore too.
"Kendall, as you probaley remember, I mentioned an offer on the phone this morning." James said turning his head back to me.
I nodded, and placed my now empty coffee mug on the table.
James took a deep breath and then said something that I never could have prepared myself to hear.
"The four of us got offered a here year movie deal, shooting out of country. We leave tomorrow."
Ok so the end of this chapter! Jeez when I look back its longer then I thought…
So sorry if you didn't like this chapter, but I wrote it to give you more information about how Kendall's life is going. In the last chapter I showed how James Carlos and Logan's lives are going, so now I wanted to show Kendall's so you can see the difference. Kendall's life ( Outside of BTR going downhill after many years on top) is going great, while the rest of BTR isn't having the greatest times. I'll update soon so you can see the reaction of Kendall to the movie deal, but I have other stories I have to update to so please be patient! Thanks u rock!
Sorry about that killer author's note…
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-shawna13
