AN: I just want to thank everyone who took the time to review my story and all of those who favorited/alerted my story and whatnot! It really makes me happy to see these notifications in my email. Hahahahah! It makes my day brighter(: It is now 2am. I am still sick-ish and I SHOULD be getting a lot of rest but I felt inspired so I wrote this chapter out. I hope Carlos doesn't seem OOC. I just hadn't realized how much of his stupidity I didn't put in here. Lol. Enjoy!

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Carlos Found There…

The four boys, Kelly, and Gustavo were now currently sitting in the black stretch limo to take them to the studio for their photo shoot. Kelly was busy arguing with someone on her cell-phone while Gustavo busied himself with a magazine. Carlos took this as his moment to break the elongated silence.

"But I don't get it, Kendall, you're the leading man in this group! If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be here!"

James nearly choked on the bottle of water he was sipping, "If it wasn't for him?! Carlos, it was your audition that blew Kelly and Gustavo away! Remember? You turned them down because they rejected Logan."

If Carlos were sipping on water, he'd be choking this time, "Rejected Logan?! All of us were rejected except for Kendall!"

"Carlos! Enough! I don't know what drugs you're on, but I'm glad it doesn't show," Kelly intervened, "just, stop talking! Luckily, you won't have to talk since they're just taking pictures."

Gustavo continued leafing through what looked like a Tiger Beat magazine, "Yes, Carlos, it was your audition that really wowed us. Of course, your reaction on Kelly at the time may have caused us to be a little weary of your mental stability but—"

"Gustavo, enough! We don't need a trip down memory lane. Dogs have good enough memory on their own. Or is that elephants?"

Logan dropped down from the sunroof, "Did you just call us fat?"

"She might as well have! Look at how pudgy I am!" James lifted his shirt, exposing his well-toned abs, and started pulling at his skin.

Kelly rolled her eyes, "See, really, James has potential to be the face of Big Time Rush. But that's it, just the face. Vocally, he's better off in the background. Aside from Kendall's incredibly uncoordinated dance movements, James has to have the worst sounding voice I have ever heard. He literally made my ears bleed—"

"WHAT?!" Carlos shrieked.

"But you wanted him here along for the ride." Kelly continued, "And as I always say, 'If you wanna keep a dog in check, you've gotta give him treats from time to time.' So, enjoy."

"WHAT?" Carlos shrieked again.

James pulled his shirt back down and turned to the window to look at his reflection, "I can't be the face of Big Time Rush; I'm so hideous looking. No guy would want to have to see my ugly mug."

"WHAT?" Carlos kept shrieking.

Kelly watched James as he checked himself out, "Also, his low self-esteem issue is NOT working out."

Carlos did a double-take, "Did you just say 'guy'?!"

"C-Carlos? Are you? A-are you feeling okay?" Kendall warily glanced over to his friend, trying to hide his eyes under his hair. It was clear he didn't want to be the center of attention, but he was sincerely worried about his friend.

Carlos responded with a "yeah" and gazed down to the floor. He wasn't sure what was happening and he didn't like it one bit. If they were all doing this as some sort of practical joke, they were going way too far. But knowing Kelly's exceedingly horrible acting skills; she should have cracked a smile or a giggle at one point.

The rest of the car ride was met with a comfortable silence, with just a little bit of conversational exchanges here and there. Kendall laid his head on James' shoulder as they both started leafing through the Tiger Beat magazine Gustavo had just finished reading.

"Carlos, wake up! …please…?"

Carlos jolted and opened his eyes, "Huh?"

"What?" Logan looked at him funny and slid out of the limo, "I said, 'wake up'! We're at the studio!"

"Man, how long was I asleep for?"

"Mmm, about two minutes."

"That's why I feel so cranky."

The pair walked together into the studio where Kelly was busy scolding the photographers for not having set up already. James and Kendall were in the next room over having translucent powder applied to their faces. The gay guy assigned to do Logan's face strutted outside to call him in.

Logan furrowed his eyebrows, "Aww! I get a gay guy?"

The gay guy gasped and elicited a series of lisp-coated complaints. Logan apologized as it was very unprofessional on his part and sat down in his station. His make-up artist cupped his face in his hands and turned him left to right.

"Honey, you are very lucky. You have a very vibrant, natural blush. I would kill to have these rosy cheeks."

Carlos rolled his eyes, upset at the fact that Logan's incredibly pale skin did not clear up the slap marks yet. Carlos awaited his turn noticing there were only three make-up artists. Having three artists seemed excessive enough seeing as they were boys and were not to have extensive make-up put on their faces. Kendall finished ahead of the other two and walked out telling Carlos it was his turn. Watching Carlos walk away reminded Kendall that he'd either be by himself, or stuck having to converse with Kelly and Gustavo. He didn't like either option so he turned around following Carlos back in.

The photo shoot was as uncomfortable as they imagined it would be. Though unlike their first time, this time around they weren't put into incomprehensible scenarios or getups. Most of the shoot was inside the studio under heavy lighting in front of a blank wall. For the last few hundred photos, the photographers wanted them outback where they had cleaned an enormous brick wall just for the boys to pose in front of. Walking out, the boys quickly took note of that fact that they had spray-painted the bricks to make the red more vivacious. They did their normal boy band poses when suddenly one photographer stopped taking pictures.

"Hmm, alright. Now, to end this shoot, let's have you guys be wacky or something. Uh, do something your fans wouldn't expect you to do."

The boys stood there in thought, which is exactly how Logan got his brilliant idea.

"I got one!"

Logan propped his chin up with one hand, placing one finger on his lips as if he were deep in thought while he tucked his other arm under his elbow. Everyone just stared at him but figured this was probably the most he'd ever put slight thought into doing something. James lifted his shirt, exposing his well-toned abs, and turned his head to one side. He lifted one arm over his head and started kissing his biceps. Kendall, after almost having a mental breakdown inside his own mind deciding whether or not to do so, jumped front and center puffing out his chest in a very Superman-like manner. Kelly and Gustavo clapped at seeing him so confident for the first time. Carlos looked around at his three friends and stood there dumbly with his mouth slightly open.

"Good, Carlos. You look very natural. I'm assuming you're going for 'brain-dead'?" Asked one of the photographers as he took the picture.

The other photographer took a couple more shots and said, "Well, it wasn't as wacky as I was hoping, but it's good enough. Alright, thanks guys! You're done for the day."

The boys, Kelly, and Gustavo were sitting in the limo once again, now on their way back to the Palm Woods Hotel. When they arrived the boys hurriedly got off relieved to be back at their home ready to relax. They hadn't taken in how tiring three hours worth of picture taking would be. Kelly walked to the front of the limo with a checkbook in hand, seemingly to pay the driver right here. James and Kendall talked to themselves as Logan bent down to tie his shoes. Carlos yawned as turned around. He was about to turn back around when he noticed Logan in the reflection of the car's window. Out of the corner of his eye, Logan was still hunched over trying to figure out which shoelace went into the rabbit-hole. He freaked, but he didn't say anything as to not freak anyone else out. If he was just imagining things, he would have come off as crazy—well, crazier than he has been. He watched with great curiosity and swore he heard the Logan in the reflection talking to his reflection, which had his back facing him. He leaned forward and squinted his eyes as if that were to help him hear better.

"Carlos, I don't exactly know how it's possible that in one day you became so intelligible, but I'm happy. Now we can hold rational conversations with each other. And now, I don't feel as pressured to be looking out for you."

That hurt. Carlos felt a little pang in his chest as "Logan" continued ranting about how relieved he was to know Carlos wasn't such a dumbass anymore.

"I've always had my intellect, Logan. I'm actually very smart. I just didn't want to make you feel inferior. I mean, all you've got is your brain so I kept up the charade that, yeah, I was a dunce. But now that you know, there's no point in hiding it, right?"

Carlos saw that. Logan felt a pang in his chest when the other Carlos blatantly insulted him. But what happened next completely blew him away. The other Carlos raised his hand and started to caress Logan's cheek. Logan looked at the hand stroking his face and averted his gaze. He heard the other Carlos chuckle and let go. Logan noticed he wasn't being watched anymore and slowly raised his eyes to lovingly look at the boy in front of him. At least, it gave off a "lovingly" kind of look. The other Carlos turned around directly positioning himself with the Carlos that was watching the exchange between them. The other Carlos smirked and winked but before anything could be said or done, the limo drove off.

"Carlos, you conceited freak, you've been staring at yourself for the past two minutes. The limo's gone now by the way." Being called a 'conceited freak' by James would have set anyone off, but Carlos was too in shock to react.