Title: A Lifetime

Summary: One letter tore them apart, and one word might bring them back together. Nina had some bad blood with someone back home. Let's see how things go when they're reunited once more. Will they get their happily ever after or will they finally go their separate ways. After all some loves last a lifetime.

Genre: Drama/Romance

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I do not own HOA or BTR.

Point of View: 3rd Person

A/N: I hope you like this!

The next morning everyone in the house except for Nina was in the common room discussing what happened the night before. This whole situation was confusing for the Anubis kids. "I mean how in the world does our Nina know Big Time Rush?" Ranted Amber.

She's been going on a huge rant for about an hour. "Maybe we should just talk to her," reasoned Fabian.

Amber for once, stood there quietly. "I don't know. It might just be my hidden smartness coming out but, I don't think she wants to tell us."

"James!" Kendall screamed as he pounded on James door. After seeing Nina last night, James locked himself in his room. The memories were just too much for him as they were for her. "James open the door!" He still didn't open. Then, Kendall remembered the necklace Nina handed him. He dug around in his pocket for what seemed like forever until he got it out. "Nina told me to give you something. I guess I'll just slide it under the door."

Kendall slid the accessory underneath the door and said "She said she's sorry for how's things went."

He heard the patter of footsteps from the other side. All of a sudden the door ripped open. James was huffing and puffing, and his eyes shined red, fresh from crying. "She gave this back?"

Kendall only nodded. James mumbled down thing and grabbed a pair of shoes from his room and ran out the hotel room. "Where are you going?" Kendall asked as James ran down the hall towards the elevator.

James stepped inside the elevator and as they doors closed he fiercely said, "Anubis house."

"I'm not going to talk to her!" Eddie demanded.

"You should!" Reasoned Joy.

"And why is that?" Eddie asked already knowing the answer.

"Because your both American!" Alfie cut in.

They all broke out into an argument. Patricia, who was fed up hearing about this yelled, "Will you all shut up already?" They all quieted down and stared at the red head. "I am sick and tired o hearing about this. How about I go and ask Nina so that you all can shut up. Okay? Good."

Patricia stomped out the room and was halfway up the stairs when someone knocked on the door. She let out a huge sigh and opened the door. It was James. "I need to talk to Nina," he breathed.

Patricia for one of the very few times in her life has nothing to say. She just pointed upstairs and mumbled, "First door on the right."

Nina sat on top of her bed, looking at an article about Big Time Rush's members. The interviewer had asked a question that caught Nina's eye.

In your song Worldwide it was about a girl, are any of you in that type of situation?

Of course Nina's eyes darted towards James' answer.

You know we all could have been in this type of situation. The weirdest thing is though, I wish I was in that situation.

Nina gasped inwardly and jumped as the door to her room suddenly opened. She looked over towards the door and just stared. James held up the necklace and closed the door. "You can't give this back," he spoke.

Nina stared at the necklace dangling from his hands. "Why not?"

"Because it means we're actually over." He looked at the necklace. "And this was the last thing that meant anything to either of us. The last thing that represented our relationship, and you just can't give it back."

Nina shook her head. "You can't say that James. You're the one who said we should break up. I was ready to talk about it like adults and-"

"Then why didn't you fight for us?"

Nina was taken aback by this. As if it's her job to fight for a two person relationship. "No! Don't you dare say I should have done anything. We both made that decision."

"Yeah, but-" James began.

"But what?" Nina questioned.

"We broke up in the heat of the moment. I honestly don't think either of us meant it." James came and sat down next to Nina on the bed and spoke quietly. "How do you think things would have turned out if we hadn't broken up that day?"

"Honestly?" Nina asked when she turned her neck to look at him. He only nodded. "I think," she began. "I think we would have had an off and on relationship. With me here and you there. I think we both wouldn't be able to take the pressure. I mean come on James. We were only 16. It would have really held us back, and I think things would have ended way worse than they did before."

James chuckled. "Worse than me calling you a bitch. Which I'm sorry about by the way."

"Same," Nina agreed. "I didn't mean to call you an ass by the way."

Silence fell upon them and James twiddled his fingers. "There was something I wanted to tell you that day that I never got the chance to."

Nina looked up at him, with slight fear in her eyes for she was afraid of being hurt again.

"Ok. Wow I never realized how hard this would be for me to say. I mean I practiced this in the mirror over a hundred times over the past year, and it's still really hard. So, I'm just going to out and say it. Nina, around you I'm a different person. The person who I want to be all the time. Around you I don't need a lucky white v-neck, I don't feel the need to admire myself like a self obsessed person. I began to care about you more than anyone else in the whole world." He looked down at the floor and whispered, "I just really needed to say that."

Nina was still processing what he just said. She's never had someone confess something like that to her. Ever. Instead of addressing it directly, she just pulled up the article she had just finished looking at. "I have a question," she began. "Did you really mean what you said? In this article. Cause it was a week after we broke up, and I just thought-"

He cut her off with a kiss. One that shocked her, yet pleased her. They both got lost in it. Fingers tangled in each other's hair, and only stopping for half second breaths. "Did that answer your question?"

Nina only stared at his eyes, and shook her head no while pulling him back in for another kiss. Another 5 minutes of making out later they lay together on top of her bed, cuddling.

"Gustavo is probably wondering why you've been out so long," Nina inquired.

"He won't miss me. I'm fine right here."

Nina shook her head. "No. Go back. I don't need you getting in trouble. Besides you can come see me tomorrow."

She got up out of the bed and pushed him towards her door. She grasped the necklace out of his hand and chained it around her neck. "What are you doing?" He asked. "I thought you didn't want it anymore."

"What are you talking about?" Nina asked. "My boyfriend gave this to me. I would never give it away," she laughed as she talked. Her smile just seemed to light up his world.

James opened the door and began to walk towards the staircase. "Hey," he turned towards Nina. "I'm glad I came here today."

A soft smile appeared across Nina's features. "Me too."

James walked down the staircase and smiled, completely oblivious to the Anubis residents staring at him from the common room. About ten minutes later, Nina walked down the stairs and into the kitchen, looking for something to drink. She rummaged through the fridge until she found a bottle of water. When she closed the fridge door she jumped back fifty feet as Amber was standing behind the door. "Amber, what are you doing?" She asked, her heart beating a hundred miles per hour.

"We need to talk Nina," she said. She raised her hand over her eye. "It's important."

Nina's face went serious and she nodded her head quickly. "Okay let's go get the others."

Nina started for the common room, but Amber grabbed her arm. "No! It's only you I need to talk to." Nina looked at her puzzled. "Come on! Let's go upstairs." She dragged Nina up the stairs and into their room.

Nina, startled at Amber's behavior sat on the bed. "Amber are you okay? Is it the cup?" She asked frantically.

"No Nina! That's not why I called you up here," Amber explained. "I called you up here because I want to know what happened last night. So spill!" She urged.

Nina smiled softly as she thought about her last talk with James, but she's not ready to share what happened yet. "Spill what?" Nina asked innocently.

"Ugh. Nina you know what I'm talking about. You, James, the whole awkward thing that happened last night!" Nina just sat and stared at Amber. "Nina Martin I won't let you forget this," Amber declared as she left the room.

Nina didn't listen though. She just laid back on her bed, still smiling from the bliss of her kiss.

James emerged through the elevator doors with a smile on his face, and it was quickly wiped off when Gustavo marched down the hall with a deadly look on his face. "Where were you?" He boomed.

James winced at the sound of his voice. Gustavo is not a very forgiving man. Especially when one of his singers goes MIA for an hour and misses an interview. "Out?" James sheepishly replied.

"Really James?" James smiled nervously. "I don't know if you realized this, but you were gone for an hour! You missed an interview. I don't know where you were, but you're not missing anymore. You are banned from leaving this hotel unless it's for work." Gustavo declared.

James jaw dropped from pure shock. Gustavo started walking back down to his room a and James followed him down the hall, arguing his case and Gustavo just ignored him. "Gustavo if you just-"

James was cut off by the sound of Gustavo slamming the door in his poor, dejected face.

Kendall, Carlos, and Logan peeked their heads out of a hotel room and looked over at there poor friend. "Hey buddy," Carlos said as he walked towards James. "Everything okay?"

James just grunted and pushed past his friends and into his room. "Whoa. What's up with him?" Logan asked as he too stood next to Carlos.

"Okay," Kendall began. "He either had another fight with Nina or Gustavo and James are arguing about Nina."

Logan did double a double take and threw Kendall a questioning look. "Wait. James went to go talk to Nina?" Kendall nodded. "What happened?"

Kendall shrugged his shoulders and replied. "I don't know, but it seems like we have to find out and help."

Carlos smiled. "Does this mean we get to use tree hats?" He asked excitedly.

Logan looked at them both skeptically. "Guys, I don't think-"

Kendall raised his index finger in the air. "Not yet Carlos, not yet. What we can do is sneak into James' room and figure out what's going on."

"Can we at least use walkie talkies?" asked Carlos.

Kendall nodded with a proud smile on his face. "Guys this isn't a-" Logan began once more.

As always he was interrupted. Logan threw his hands up in is frustration and walked over to James' room. He whipped out a universal room key and unlocked his door. "Fine. I guess i'll just go along as always. Not like it goes any other way."

Kendall smirked and told Carlos, "Told you it would work." Kendall walked past a deceived Logan and into James room. He looked around and ran back out alarmed. "James isn't in his room!" he scream whispered.

James thought carefully about his next move and pressed send on his phone. He walked past the hotel with a bag in hand. He dialed a number in his phone and lifted it to his ear. "Hello?" he asked. "Mom its me. Do you think you could arrange a flight for me and one other person in a few days?"

James sighed and walked down the road. On the way to Anubis House.

Another knock was heard at the door of Anubis House and Trudy was the one to answer. "Why hello dearie. May I help you?"

James stood in front of her beaming. "Yeah. I came here to talk to Nina Martin."

Trudy stepped aside and let him in. "You got here just in time. Victor was about to instill curfew, but between me and you I'll let you talk to her in the common room. I'll just go and get her for you."

James walked into the common room and sat down on the couch, wringing his hands nervously as he waited for Nina. Soon enough she came downstairs and smiled as she saw him in the common room. "Hey," she greeted. "I figured I wouldn't see you until tomorrow."

James smiled nervously. "Me too."

Nina sensed something was wrong and sat down next to him. "What's wrong?"

James stood and began to pace around the room. "Okay, so when I went back to my hotel Gustavo was pretty mad that I had missed an interview, and he banned me from leaving the hotel."

Nina's eyes practically bulged out of her head. "Then what are you doing here? You're gonna be in so much trouble with Gustavo, and you know the last thing I want is for you to get in trouble because of me."

James sat down and again and held her hands. "I know that, but the thing is we just got back together and I didn't want us to be apart, and Gustavo was being a real pain about it. So I might have sent him a text threatening to leave Big Time Rush and sneaked out to see you."

Nina blinked twice and stared at James. "Two things babe. One, you're stupid and two, you're a damn idiot!" Nina hissed as she thumped him. "Why in the world would you do that? You love performing!"

"I know that," James began. "But how many chances do we get to be together? Cause we both know that I want to make this work." Nina sighed and looked up at James. "You're going on break right?" Nina nodded. "Then come to Minnesota with me. We can go back home and just be us."

Nina sighed. "I don't know James. I still have friends here, and we were actually planning to go out on vacation together."

"Well then they can come with us! I can easily get enough tickets for them too!" He held Nina's hands and stared deep into her green eyes. "Maybe now you can show them how your life was back home! Come on babe," James pleaded.

Nina looked deep into his eyes. She saw how much he wanted this. "Fine." He broke out into a smile. "I'll tell my housemates, but you have to promise me you'll at least talk to the guys. Let them know you're okay."

James didn't say anything, but just smiled. He didn't promise nor did he deny the action.

Tomorrow's a new day and one that'll surely be interesting.

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter please review!