Big Time Return
Chapter 2:
Lost Out Here
I don't own Big Time Rush. Just for fun and angst.
"Yeah, some things have changed since you've been gone," Logan heard from behind him. He turned and saw Kendall standing with James and Carlos.
Logan felt his throat go dry. That had never happened before when he was with Kendall, James, and Carlos. He felt like he was intruding by being at the Palm Woods. The look Kendall had on his face let Logan know that he wasn't wanted. It was the same look Kendall used to use on kids back at school in Minnesota when they would tease Logan for being a nerd or for being too skinny to play hockey.
"Hey Logan, nice to see you,' Carlos said as he stepped forward and gave Logan a hug.
"Hey man," James said.
Kendall walked past Logan without a word, heading to the elevators.
"It's been a long day," Carlos said apologetically.
"He's just tired. We weren't expecting to see you," James said.
"But we're really glad you're here. It's been too long," Carlos said excitedly.
Logan looked from his friends to the elevator. He seriously doubted his decision to come back to the Palm Woods. He wasn't even sure what he was doing there. He wasn't sure what he was expecting to happen. It had been over six months since he had spoken to his friends. He kind of disappeared in Minnesota when he was recovering from the amnesia and accident that happened after the earthquake.
"We should probably head up. Have you said hi to Kendall's mom and Katie? I'm sure they'd love to see you," Carlos said, breaking Logan from his thoughts.
Logan looked at them and debated if he should go up when out of the corner of his eye he saw Camille and Mark preparing to enter the lobby of the Palm Woods.
"I should get going actually. You know how Kendall's temper is. He'll probably need to get used to the fact that I'm back," Logan said hastily.
He glanced out the door and saw Camille and Mark getting closer to them. Holding hands, Camille and Mark seemed unable to see Logan even though they were looking right in his direction.
Logan felt his pulse quicken and his breath came in quick bursts. He rushed out of the front entrance of the Palm Woods and ran until he came to the parking lot where he sat down on a bench that was way too hot from being directly under the sun all afternoon. Logan vaguely remembered that Kelly was supposed to be with him but he didn't check to see if she had followed. He held his head in his lap and tried to breath. He felt dizzy from the sudden excursion of running from the cool Palm Woods lobby into the heat of the California sun.
"Are you okay?" Logan heard Kelly ask.
He lifted his head and saw her sit next to him. "I'm just great. My best friend won't speak to me, the girl that I was in love with is with someone else, and I have nowhere to stay while I'm here in LA. I didn't really think this through Kelly. Could you take me back to the airport? I'm just going to go home," Logan said.
"Wow Minnesota really made you soft didn't it?" Kelly said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Logan asked.
"You would have never given up after 10 minutes before. I think being in a public school has made you soft. You've become a sheep," Kelly said.
Logan looked at her with a confused look. It wasn't usually Kelly's tactic to be antagonizing but Logan assumed that maybe she had changed in the past year too. She seemed more sure of herself.
"I'm not a sheep. I've always been cautious," Logan tried to defend his cowardly ways.
"Sure cautious, but you would always at least try one plan before giving in. You don't even have a plan," Kelly said.
"It was kind of a spur of the moment decision," Logan said.
"You had plenty of time to come up with a plan on the airplane," Kelly said.
"I fell asleep on the airplane, actually," Logan said. He saw Kelly give him a disapproving look. "What? Sneaking out of my parent's overprotective house and trying to get to the airport makes a guy tired."
"It's as simple as this Logan, if you want your friends back and if you want Camille back you need to fight for them. You have to come up with a battle plan because this is going to be a war. Getting you back into Big Time Rush is going to be easy, I could do that in my sleep, but Kendall is going to take some convincing, and Camille has spent the past year trying to replace you with Mark. She's an amazing actress to be pulling that off because she has everyone fooled," Kelly said.
Logan laughed a little at the statement. "Everyone but you? And the guys, I assume?" Logan said.
"I think she has the guys fooled too. Camille is Mark's date to the release party," Kelly said.
Logan put his head in his hands again. He didn't want to think of Camille on some other guys arm. He didn't want to think of how amazing she was going to look. He didn't want to think of her being held by some other guy as they danced to the songs that he recorded first. Songs that he would know by heart.
"So let's say I stay and try to fight for everything that I kind of gave up in the first place, where do I stay? I can't exactly go and live in 2J with the guys," Logan said.
"That's a simple fix Logan. You'll stay with me," Kelly said.
Logan raised his eyebrows at that. He had never really thought of Kelly's personal life before and he had really never pictured where she went after they finished recording for the day but he did kind of wonder.
"Won't that be kind of awkward? I mean, I'm 17 and you areā¦"
"Don't finish that thought or I'll take back my offer. It won't be awkward at all. I have a two bedroom apartment. I'm in between roommates right now so it is perfect timing on your part," Kelly said.
"I wasn't sure how long this trip would last, so I have some money that I've saved up but it's not going to be enough to pay for rent or anything. I might have enough for a couple of meals actually. I forgot how expensive everything is here," Logan said.
"Don't worry about it. This month is paid up already and if you can cook better than I can then we won't have to eat fast food all the time like I do now," Kelly said.
"I can make pretty good lasagna and I can follow recipes pretty well," Logan said.
"Great. I think this is going to work out well. You haven't picked up any weird Carlos habits in the past year have you?" Kelly said.
"No. I pretty much just sit still and look pretty," Logan said.
"Great!" Kelly said. "What do you say we head out? We can get you set up in the apartment and strategize how you're going to get back in the band."
"Thanks for everything Kelly," Logan said as they made way their way to Kelly's car.
Authors Note: Thank you everyone for all the reviews and alerts that you sent my way over the last 2 weeks on this and my other stories. I really appreciate it! I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update. I hope you like this chapter. I promise it gets better but I wanted to explore Logan and Kelly a little. I promise more Big Time Rush as a group in the next chapter. I really do appreciate that you read and enjoy it. Thank you again!
