So this is chapter two. I'm really glad you guys liked the last chapter. Hopefully you'll like this one too! I wanted to thank Lexidalou and katieswift for reviewing! I love to hear from you guys! :)

Chapter Two: Noodle Wars

It felt so good to be back with everyone. I felt so at home with them. A year away really was too long. As we entered the room I was stunned. I mean, come on, a swirly slide? How cool is that? And a bright orange couch? This apartment was amazing!

"You guys actually live here?" I asked as I crossed the threshold.

"Yeah. Pretty cool, huh?" Kendall said. I could only nod in agreement.

"Kayla Sweetie, you'll be sharing a room with Katie." My mom said. "Boys, you can drop her stuff in there."

"It'll be just like old times." I laughed. Katie and I had shared a room back in Minnesota. We were close, even for sisters. Most 16 year olds would hate to share a room with their ten year old sister, but I didn't mind.

It took a little while to unpack all of my things. Thankfully Katie offered to help me. We got each other caught up on what had happened to us for the past year, and soon there was a knock on the door. Kendall opened the door a little way and poked his head in.

"If you two are done gossiping," He said, "We're going to head down to the pool." I threw my pillow at him, but he caught it and threw it right back.

"Give me five minutes!" I yelled at him as he closed the door. Then turning to Katie I asked, "Is that what he thinks we do all day? Gossip?"

Katie laughed. "Boys will be boys." She acted so mature for her age, sometimes it scared me.

I couldn't wait to go to the pool. I had caught a glimpse of it on my way in and it looked incredible. I quickly changed into a cute blue swirl bathing suit and put a pink tank top and a pair of jean shorts on over it. I noticed that Katie was still sitting on her bed reading and hadn't changed.

"Aren't you coming?" I asked.

She looked up from her book and shook her head. "I've got some important things to do." I gave her a questioning look. "It's all about profit." I laughed. She was always coming up with new ways to make money on people. When we were little she wouldn't settle for a lemonade stand. Kendall had told me how on their first day in LA she had made a 'VIP' section on the pool deck and charged people ten dollars to enter. She was quite the entrepreneur.

"Alright. I'll see you." I said as I left our room.

"Finally!" Carlos exclaimed as I came into the living room. "Come on, let's go!" He practically dragged me to the pool. Kendall and James, who were carrying pool noodles, just laughed.

"Los Angeles is just so... sunny!" I said once we got out side and I saw the pool. "Is it like this all the time?"

"Pretty much." The boys all said at once. I sat on a lounge chair and laid my towel and beach bag next to it. Carlos cannon balled into the pool followed shortly after by the rest of the guys.

"What are you doing, Ladybug?" James yelled from the pool, using the nickname I had obtained from my character in the third grade play.

"Yeah! Get in the water!" Carlos said as he attempted to dunk James underwater.

"It's my first day in LA. I want to relax for a little bit." I said closing my eyes and feeling the sun warm my body.

Suddenly the sun was blocked out by four hockey heads. I opened my eyes, glaring at them, to see the evil smiles on their faces. I knew there was no escape, but I wasn't going to go down without a fight. They picked me up, kicking and screaming, and brought me to the edge of the pool despite my desperate demands to be put down. They then threw me into the pool.

When I finally surfaced the guys were standing at the edge of the pool looking down at me. "Welcome back." They all said at once. I laughed. James held out an arm to help me, but because he wasn't expecting anything, I was able to pull him into the pool with me. Kendall, Carlos, and Logan came in to join us and we spent the next hour or so competing in races and noodle wars.

We were in the middle of an intense noodle war. Everyone was turning on each other. Currently it was all of the guys against me.

"This is so not fair!" I said blocking a blow from Carlos. I hit him on the head and he glared at me. "Not so tough without your helmet are you?" I mocked. That's when James decided he was going to help me and turned against his friends. I looked at him, I mean really looked at him, for the first since I came to LA. He had definitely gotten a lot more attractive since I had last seen him. I mean he had always been the pretty boy of the group, but…

This fleeting thought, which caused me to be distracted for a moment, resulted in me being hit on the head by Kendall. Logan and Carlos pretended to be shocked that he would whack me with the noodle and quickly changed sides. This didn't last long though, and soon it was every man for himself. It was great to be back with the guys.

Hope you liked it! Please review and let me know what you think! I'm going to try to update this story about once a week, but if I get a lot of reviews and see that you guys are liking the story, then I'll try to update more than that.