Disclaimer: I don't own Big Time Rush or any of the songs featured in my stories! I only own my OC, Sarah Mitchell. :)

-James' POV-

Sarah and I had a great time on our walk. It felt good to hold her hand. I think I'm starting to have feelings towards her.

She told me all about the song that she'll be singing with one of us. I feel so proud of her that she feels good about recording the song.

After our talk, we drove back from the beach and she acted really awkward. It was probably because she hadn't told the others about the news yet.

Right now, I was playing Castle Smashers with Carlos. Kendall was with Jo, and it seemed like they were getting serious. I wish that he would be a tad nicer to Sarah, but I don't say anything because she likes to fend for herself.

Did I mention she looked super hot in a bikini?

As soon as our video game ended and Carlos won, Logan came out of Sarah's room. She followed him out in her basketball shorts and v-neck. She was so beautiful when she didn't care about how she looked.

That's what I admired most, because I lacked it. This is a girl that wears her hair in a ponytail 24/7 and has never worn a dress.

My thoughts were interupted when she sat next to me on the couch.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey pretty girl," I told her. Which got me a glare from Logan and a snicker from Carlos. I can't help but compliment her. Sure, I ask out lots of girls and flirt with them non-stop, but with her...I mean it.

We all started talking about how sore we were from the dancing with Mr. X. That's when Sarah hopped up and started to the kitchen.

"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked, following her.

"Gee, I don't know...I'm hungry and in the kitchen, so what should I do?" she said with sarcasm dripping from her voice.

Carlos and Logan laughed and then Carlos suggested that she should make brownies.

"That's an awesome idea, Carlos! Sarah has always made the best brownies!" Logan said.

35 minutes later... We were all eating the most amazing desert ever. Carlos and Sarah were having a brownie eating contest and Logan kept telling them it wasn't a good idea because of the calories, carbs, and fat mixed with the short amount of time it was taking them to eat them.

Sarah won with 9 brownies while Carlos had 8, there were only 2 dozen which mean I ate 5 and Logan ate 2. Damn that girl could eat.

I wondered how she stayed so skinny when she ate like that. I've asked her before and she was all like, 'I'm sorry that I have such a high metabolism!' whatever that is...

It was about 11:00 when Kendall got back from his date with Jo. We were just finishing watching Paranormal Activity. It nearly scared the shit out of me. Carlos was hiding under a blanket and Logan went to bed because he said that the idea of the whole thing was stupid.

Sarah had to hold Carlos' hand at some parts because she was the only calm one. At some points, she'd find my hand and squeeze it. She doesn't get frightened too easily, but she hides it well when she is.

"I'm back from the best date, ever!" Kendall said while slamming the door behind him. He walked over to where we were sitting and collapsed on the couch.

"So you and Jo are getting pretty serious?" I said elbowing him.

"Yeah, I asked her to be my girlfriend... And she said yes!"

"So you really like this girl?" Logan asked.

"Only because she's hot and she really likes me!" I rolled my eyes at this.

"Jo is pretty hot," said Carlos, popping his head out from under the covers, startling Sarah.

"Wow," Sarah said while looking at Kendall. "Someone actually likes you?". She said with an amused smirk on her face.

"A lot of people do," he said turning to her. "People with good taste at least," he said with a sharp glare.

"Says you!" she said fighting right back.

"Woah guys, don't start again," Logan said trying to making peace.

"Stay out of it!" Sarah and Kendall yelled simultaneously.

"Don't yell at my brother!" Sarah shouted at him. I grabbed her arm and started to rub her back to calm her down.

"You yelled at him too!" Kendall said while raising his eyebrow.

"I'm allowed to! He's my brother!"

"You don't see me yelling at Katie, do you?"

"Katie's not your brother, dumbass!"

Kendall looked very angry, so he replied, "Whatever you say, smartass!"

"Look, you may not know this," she said really slowly. "but you've crossed the line when you've insulted a girl!" she told him in a firm voice.

"Sarah..." I whispered trying to calm her.

"I didn't insult a girl, I insulted you!"

I could see that she was fighting tears now, Kendall went way too far with that last comment.

She looked at him with tears in her eyes. It broke my heart because no one and no thing has ever made her cry. She didn't even cry when she busted her knee up in hockey and had to get 35 or more stitches- without numbing cream.

"I'm going to bed, tell Katie to do our special knock on the door," she said with her voice shaking.

With that, she ran to her room and slammed her door shut, I could hear her lock it too.

Logan and Carlos ran after her and we're trying to get in her room to comfort her. So, I decided to give him a peace of my mind. I stood up and walked up to him as he stood up to get something.

"Dude! What the hell were you thinking?"

"She was running her mouth!"

"You shouldn't have said that last comment," I said getting right in his face.

"Take it easy, she's tough...she'll get over it,"

"Did you not see the tears in her eyes? You made a girl cry, and she never cries!"

"Dude, get over it. Sarah will be fine,"

"Dude," I said mocking him, "She probably won't get over it anytime soon! You really hurt her!"

"Why do you care?" he said shugging. "I know I don't," he said with a smirk.

With that, I punched him, straight in the jaw. I was furious.

He stumbled back and raised his hand to his jaw, clenching in pain. He gave me a look of disgust that I gladly returned.

"Don't even think of punching me back, because you know you deserved it," I said while pointing my finger at him and walking towards the hallway, to Sarah's room.

I knocked on Sarah's door and it came right open.

What I saw made me sick to my stomach.

She was sniffling and a few sparse tears were freefalling down her face. Her head was lying on Carlos' chest and he was playing with her hair. Logan was rubbing her back when he looked up at me with a face that said it all. Seeing his sister cry broke his spirit because he'd never seen her so hurt.

I just stood there. Then Carlos and Logan looked at each other, then looked at me. Logan leaned over and kissed Sarah on the cheek. He sat there for a few seconds and then exited her room. Carlos followed suit by kissing her on the forehead and asking her softly if she was okay. She mouthed back 'I will be' and then he pulled her in for a long hug and kissed her forehead once more.

He got up, patted my back and slowly shut the door behind him. It was just me and her now.

She was sitting there and looking at her lap. The tears had stopped and were now a stain on her beautiful face.

I sat next to her and sighed. I wrapped my arms around her and she leaned into my chest.

-Sarah's POV-

I don't get it. Kendall has hated me for a while now, but now it's out of control. I was mature enough to apologize to him, but he ended up assaulting my lips! And then when I smack him, he goes and asks Jo to be his girlfriend...

He is a monster in my eyes.

He even told me that I was a smartass and not considered a girl. I hate it when people say that because it happened a lot when I was younger. I was always (and still am) a tomboy. So, people just love to say that I'm not a girl.

Kendall made me cry. HE made ME cry. I never cry. I feel undignified that all of the guys saw me, Sarah Mitchell cry.

Carlos and Logan followed me when I ran to my room and I ended up letting them in. Carlos was great at comforting me, and Logan knew just what to say. Logan told me that Kendall wasn't worth my time or my tears. He said that he was crazy for not being my friend.

Then after they left, James came in. He put his arm around me and we sat there for several minutes. My crying ceased but I didn't look at his face. I stared down at my hands and that when I noticed his right hand. It was bruised a dark shade of purple and one of his knuckles was oozing blood.

"Are you okay?" I asked him, finally looking up at him.

"Am I okay? Sarah, Kendall just made you cry and you're asking me if I'm okay?" he asked and then chuckled.

"I'm fine, but your hand," I pointed to it. "What did you do?"

"I punched the son of a bitch," he said nonchalantly, staring into his lap.

I jumped off of my bed, which released me from James' hold. "You punched him? But why?" I asked making contact with his hazel eyes.

He stood up next to me and grabbed my hand with his good hand and simply said "He hurt you,".

"I know, but you didn't have to hurt him back," I said at barely a whisper while looking down at my feet. "Now you're hurt," my voice cracked.

He hugged me tight and kissed my hair.

We pulled apart and he said, "I'd do anything for you, and it doesn't hurt as much as seeing you in pain from Kendall,"

I then kissed him on the cheek and grabbed his wrist to take him to clean his wound up.

I washed his knuckle out really well and wrapped it up.

It was a good thing that Mama Knight was back in Minnesota visiting someone. There was way too much drama and I didn't want her to know about it.

I washed the tear stains off of my face and took James back to the livingroom, where I found Carlos.

"Did Katie come back?" I questioned the Latino.

"Katie came in and went straight to bed," I nodded.

"Where are the other two?" I asked.

"Logan went to bed and so did Kendall, he better sleep with one eye open because Logan's pissed!" Carlos told me with a grin.

"That's what big brothers do, I guess!" I said sighing and flopping onto the couch with Carlos, James followed and did the same.

"Kendall is sorry," Carlos told me with look of sorrow on his face.

"Yeah, me too,"

"Why?" James and Carlos both asked.

"Well, now everyone is pissed at him, and I bet he's scared shitless of sleeping in the same room as my brother. Plus, since James decided to punch him," I trailed off while looking at James. "His knuckle is all bloody and his hand is bruised up,"

"Don't worry about it," James told me.

"Yeah, Kendall had it coming," Carlos said while nodding.

"I think I'm going to bed, night guys"

I heard mumbled "g'nights" and walked down the hall to my room. Katie was sound asleep and right when my head hit the pillow, so was I.

I woke up to noise in the kitchen and someone fixing breakfast. I got out of bed and stretched even though it was only 8:00 in the morning.

I walked into the kitchen/livingroom and saw Kendall awake and making breakfast for himself. I hesitated, but I knew that I had to fix us.

"Morning," I said in a tired voice, somewhat startling him. He said nothing and didn't even look up at me.

I approached the dirty blonde haired boy and reached for his face. That's when I saw it. He had a big reddish purple bruise on his jaw.

I looked into green eyes with my brown ones full of sympathy. Even though he had hurt my feelings, he was hurt physically. It made me feel terrible.

"James d-did that to you?" I asked with my eyes bearing into his, my hand still on his cheek.

"Yeah, but it doesn't compare to what I said to you. I'm so sorry," he mumbled the last part.

"Don't be; we're both at fault," I said taking my hand away.

"I completely deserved it, and I'm sorry that I kissed you earlier," he said while looking down at his feet.

"Don't worry about it, just pretend like it never happened," I told him. "And I still feel bad for James hurting you,"

"Don't feel bad, I'm just fine!" he chuckled and shrugged it off.

I looked once more into his olive green eyes and pulled him into a hug. He returned it and then we laughed.

"We were so stupid to fight," he told me. "Do you want me to fix you pancakes? It'll be my apology present," he offered with pleading eyes.

I nodded and we ate a nice breakfast.

I found James in his room and woke him up after breakfast. Kendall went to meet up with Jo in the Palm Woods park.

"James! Wake up," I whispered in his ear and he moaned something.

I couldn't help but laugh, because he was so cute when he was sleepy. I put my legs and each side of his body and sat on his stomach area. Then I shook him, which was really was funny because he woke straight up.

"Good morning!" I said in a super cheery voice. He opened his eyes and looked a little annoyed...

"Mmmhmm," he hummed and then yawned.

"Guess what?"

"Hmm?"

"I made up with Kendall this morning!" I said in the same cheery tone as before.

"Why?" he asked in an annoyed voice.

"Well," I started, "I figured it's better this way. I'm gonna be living here for a while and I don't want to cause anymore drama between anyone,"

"I guess you're right," he told me.

I smiled and started playing with his chocolate hair. Even though he had bed head, it still looked perfect.

Realizing that I was still straddling him, I said cleared my throat and said, "Maybe I should get off of you now..."

While I was getting up, he grabbed my hand. I gave him a confused look and he asked, "Can you make me chocolate chip pancakes?"

I grunted and said, "Fine, but I'll have to ask Carlos if he wants some too,"

I walked over to where Carlos was sleeping and yelled, "Hey Carlitos!"

He rolled over and fell off of his bed and onto the floor. James and I both laughed and I leaned over to help him up.

"Thanks a lot," he mumbled when I extended my hand and he took it.

When he got up, I asked, "Do you want chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast?"

He nodded vigorously and I laughed and walked out to make them.

I cleaned up the dishes from making the boys pancakes. Logan came out when I was making them and said that he was meeting Camille for breakfast. I liked Camille a lot and was glad that they were an item. She was about the only girl that I could stand that was the same age as me.

Katie came out of her room, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt.

"Good morning," she said.

"Morning Katie, did you want me to you anything for breakfast?"

"Nah, I'm headed to the park with Tyler," she told me.

She opened the door and was ready to go when I shouted, "Wait! Eat this granola bar on your way," tossing a granola bar that she caught. I'm so mom-like...

"K!" she yelled while running down the hall. That's an 11-year-old for you...

I went to my room and put on a new pair of basketball shorts, black ones this time. Then I put on a jade colored tank-top and slipped on my black Nike tennis shoes.

I undid my loose ponytail and brushed my hair out. Then I put on a black stretchy headband and pulled my hair back into it's usual high ponytail.

I never really worried about makeup, but today was a concealer day. Let's just say without it, I looked very tired. I didn't get much sleep from worrying about Kendall and James all night.

I walked out of my room to find James on our big orange couch and Carlos grabbing water out of the fridge. He looked nice. He was wearing a green polo and cargo shorts, unlike his usual hoodie and jeans combination.

I whistled and said, "You clean up nice, Carlitos! What's the occasion?"

He smiled, "I got a date with Stephanie! Can you believe it?"

Aww, he looked so excited and happy! "Of course I believe it! She told me she had a thing for you,"

"She talks about me?" he said with a happy and slightly confused voice.

"Yup," I simply told him, popping the 'p'.

He looked up at the time and said, "10:15! I better go, I'm meeting her in the lobby in 5 minutes!".

With that, he shuffled out the door of 2J without giving me the chance to say, 'have fun!' or 'good luck!'.

Why was everyone dating someone? I had never had a boyfriend, and now everyone else had someone to call their own. Kendall had Jo, Logan had Camille, and now Carlos had Stephanie.

I was interrupted out of my pity-party by my cell phone vibrating. I walked into my room for some privacy and answered.

"Hello?" I asked without looking at the caller-ID.

"Sarah! Mrs. Collins just came to the lobby and told everyone that prom is next Saturday!" it was Camille.

"That's so short notice! I can help you go dress shopping or something. Logan asked you, right?"

"Yes, he did! I was actually surprised. I'll help you do your hair!"

"No!" I said just a little too quickly. "I mean, I'm not going..."

"What! Why?" she said over dramatically.

"It's not like I'd actually get a...date anyway," I stated while biting my lip.

"What about you and James? He's single right now..." she trailed off.

"I doubt he'd ask me! Listen, I really just don't want to think about this, but we'll go shopping this week,"

"Sounds like a plan! I'll text you,"

"Bye Cami!"

"Bye Sarah!"

We hung up and I went back into the living room where James was.

"I'm going out for a jog, wanna come with?" I asked him.

"Sure, just let me get my sneaks on," he told me while going into his room to get his shoes.

He came jogging out of his room.

"Ready to go?" he asked me.

"Of course!" I replied.

James and I jogged for 3 miles and didn't say much. Silence was comfortable around me and him.

I wanted so bad for him to ask me to prom, but I knew he probably had his eyes set on someone else. Besides, every girl would go to prom with him whether he asked or not.

I never realized how much I liked him until Camille mentioned that I should go to prom with him. We would be good for each other, but it would never happen...

We got back to 2J and my phone rang as soon as I walked through the door.

"Hello?"

"Sarah Mitchell? This is Kelly Wainwright, Gustavo's assistant," a woman's voice said through the phone.

"Hi Kelly! What's up?"

"Gustavo wants you in the studio to record, today. He wants Big Time Rush there with you," she explained to me.

"Recording is today? Well in that case, we'll be right over,"

"See you soon, thanks,"

"Thank you! Bye!" I hung up and smiled.

I'd be recording my first song ever today!

"Sarah, why did Kelly call you?" Carlos asked from the couch.

"Because, Gustavo liked the song I did and wants us to all record it!"

"You can sing?" Kendall asked.

"Gustavo called me above average, so I guess yeah," I shrugged.

"That's amazing!" said Carlos while hugging me.

"Yeah, the best thing he's said about us is almost average!" Kendall informed me.

"Really? I think you're better than me though!" I said.

"Let's get to the studio so that we can listen to my baby sister sing!" said Logan while getting his keys off of the counter.

We all ran through the door and were on our way to the start of my singing career.