Disclaimer I do not own Big Time Rush. Bold is spoken Spanish.

-Chapter 3-

The Band and Ana were at the studio all day recording with Gustavo for three consecutive days. 'I thought recording was going to be difficult, but it was cake. We did a song about three times and Gustavo would come through and say It's all great.' Ana thought as she spread out on the couch. Every day they basically recorded 3 songs, which they were surprised about. Gustavo loved all of their original material so far, but wanted a couple of days with Pedro 'Papi' to come up with 3 new songs on the album. He said he wanted it to have a little more of a 'Latin Pop' feel to them. Gustavo have them the next couple of days off to relax. So the band, minus Pedro 'Papi', planned to go to a park the next day. They were going to Barbeque and play some sports. The guys invited Carlos and his friends to come out and enjoy the weather. 'Tomorrow is going to be fun' Ana thought.

The next day the Band got to the park early to start the pit. It was a nice park with a big open field for sports and tall trees surrounding it with benches and tables. Ana finished setting up the snack table, while Josue, Jorge and Jonathan finished setting up the fire pit and started to cook. The other guys were bringing more stuff out of the truck like lounge chairs and various sports equipment. Ana went to put some water and drinks in the ice chest to get them cold when she found they had brought no ice. 'oh no man, who was in charge of bringing the ice.' Ana thought.

She looked for Ricardo, who was responsible for organizing who brought what. "Hey Ricardo!" She yelled to him as he came back from his truck. "At your orders, doll" he said setting down the last couple cases of soda.

"We don't have any ice. I love hot soda and hot water. Who was suppose to bring it?" she said as she pointed to the huge ice chest. He stood and looked at all the faces in deep thought. He shrugged his shoulders like it was no big deal. Ana rolled her eyes "Someone has got to go on a trip for some."

"Easy. Call Carlos and his friends. Here" Jorge said from the fire pit as he tossed his phone to Ana, "Tell him to bring some. Problem solved."

Ana caught the phone and looked up Carlos. He was not hard to miss because the photo was of his face covered in sauce and a huge smile on his face. She called him and he answered on the second ring. "JORGE!" he yelled into the phone. Ana smiled "Hi Carlos. This is Ana. How are you?"

"I'm great. I'm with the guys right now and we are on our way."

"I was calling to ask you a huge favor."

"Yeah sure, whats up?"

"Well these geniuses forgot ice. I was wondering if you could stop by the store and get some. About 3 of the big bags would be good. If it is not too much trouble." She waited for his reply as he asked the guys with him. She could hear them agree, but heard someone say to ask her if there was going to be any hot girls there. 'That could only be one of them.' Ana thought. Then she heard a soft thud and Carlos quickly covering up the background by saying a little too loudly "Sure no problem. See you in a little."

Ana laughed and replied "Thanks! And tell James the only girl going to be here is him." Carlos cracked up laughing before he relayed what she had said to the guys, who then started to laugh at James. Ana quickly said "Bye and thanks again."

About 20 minutes later the guests arrived with the ice. The guys started to shake hands with them and get reacquainted. Chuy and Fernando grabbed the bags from the guest and brought the bags over to Ana. As she finished setting up the drinks and water in the ice chest, Carlos got to her first. "Ana, good to see you."

Ana smiled and shook his hand "Thanks again for the ice. Glad you guys could make it." Carlos leaned in and said a little softly "Good one on James. I do not think any girl has ever called him a girl. He is sort of fuming. " She chanced a glance at James. He was busy talking with Lucho at that moment.

She said "It is okay, he has got to get his big girl panties on to hang out around us." Carlos laughed loudly and drew the attention of a couple people from the group, one of them being James himself. Ana shot him a knowing smirk.

Carlos left to go to Jorge at the grill. Kendall came and said hi next followed by Logan. It seemed like James was either going to avoid her or say hi to her last. So she turned back to getting the plates ready for serving the guest. Hamburgers and Hotdogs were already coming off the grill. She handed Carlos, Kendall and Logan plates to serve themselves as well as point out some good dishes to eat. 'I'm going to be a gracious hostess and just go give him his plate. The Big Baby. Really it was just a joke.' Ana thought. She turned to give the last plate to James, when she came face to chest with him. 'Damn he is taller than I remember.' Ana immediately thought.

"Here you go James. Please help yourself." Ana said looking up at him with a shit-eating-grin on her face. Lucho stood next to James and saw the scowl that appeared on James as he looked at Ana.

"James, why the face. Ana being a bully or something." Lucho said then looked at Ana. Seeing that Lucho was waiting on her for an answer she said loudly "James, the cry baby, is upset because I said that he would be the only girl here." Her gaze into James eyes never faltering. James smirked and replied, also loudly, "If I am the only girl here, what does that make you? You sure could play the part of a boy."

Lucho chuckled and went to wrap his arm around Ana's shoulders "Well what you fail to realize is that Ana is neither a girl or a guy. She is a category all her own. There are Males, Females, and then there is Ana. But she should know better than to bully a guest." At that last statement he got her in a head lock and rubbed the top of her head with his knuckles. Everyone started to laugh. Ana turned her head and playfully bit down on Lucho's arm until he released her. She gave him a death glare, to which replied by baring and snapping his teeth. Ana walked away from the two, going in on the laughter of the group.

While everyone ate, conversation was easy. Ana found the new guys were really easy to get along with. Logan was smart. They were able to geek out a little bit about some science things. They both had in common with they were interested in the medical field before joining their respective bands. She told him about how she originally joined the band to pay for college. She liked that she had finally had someone to talk to about interesting science topics and new medical advancements currently being made. Anytime she tried to talk to her band or family, it was always the same reaction. Glazed over looks in their eyes and topic changes. Carlos was hilarious! He was a bundle of almost uncontrollable energy, which could be due to all the food he was eating. Carlos, Ana, and the three trumpet players, Josue, Jorge and Jonathan, had a chugging contest because Carlos did not believe Ana could beat him. They all chugged a can of soda. Of course, Carlos won with Ana coming in a close second. Ana wanted to be a sore loser, but Carlos' smile and laugh was infectious so she could not be to mad about losing. Kendall was a great guy. They talked about music, movies, books, and his life in Minnesota. She told him how living in California snow was non-existent unless you went to Lake Tahoe, so she had never seen snow. He told her about winters and growing up with his best friends. Then he started to talk about hockey and it went all downhill from there. Ana was a die-hard San Jose Sharks fan and Kendall was a Minnesota Wilds fan. At that point Logan and Carlos jumped into the conversation. They discussed why their respective team was better, pros/cons to new rule changes, and their personal most hated team or player in hockey. When she tried to talk to James, it seemed they would end up just tossing little jabs at eachother. 'I guess it is just a case of being destined to always fight. At least him and Lucho are like brothers separated at birth.' Ana thought.