Hi, okay, no big intro this time, just thanks to the people who faved/alerted/reviewd my story, everything is appreciated greatly, and it's almost 3 am now, so enjoy and i hope you like it, if there are grammatical errors again, sorry...again, 3 am
oh! and i probs should've done this beforehand, i DON'T, i repeat, DON'T OWN BIG TIME RUSH, i own Amber Riley Riordan (which the name i don't even own, since Amber Riley is Mercedes from glee and Riordan is my fave author), but i do completely own Tess, Nick, Austin, Caroline, and basically any other name i decide to throw in here last minute :p
Chapter 3: Big Time Reunion
It was 8:25 now; Antonio and I just arrived at the hotel. I immediately ran into the building, not waiting to see if Antonio was behind me or not. I rushed up to the main desk and asked where the Festival of Stars contest was being held. She pointed me down the wall; she said it was last room and the very end of the hall. I quickly thanked her behind my shoulder since I already was making my run down the hallway.
I was too busy yelling over my shoulder to see I ran into a familiar person. It was Nick I found sprawled on the ground when I got up from my position lying on the ground. I groaned first in pain but then when we realized who the other was we tackled each other in a bear hug.
"Girl, where have you been? Do you know how worried we've all been over your little ass?"
"I know, I know, and I'll explain everything later, but it's a bit crazy right now. What time is it?"
"It's almost 8:30, so hurry up and get yourself ready and get on that stage!"
"Yes sir!" I said saluting him after I lifted him off the ground. I gave him a quick hug and then ran down the hall and slid through a crack in the door where I could hear people booing at something. I look up at the stage and I see Tess, my best friend, holding the mike and doing stand up comedy. She can never tell a very good joke. All I could do was stand there until I was shaken from my little surprise when I saw a blonde haired girl coming my way. I saw the angry face of Natalie Woods, and decided that was my point to make my getaway.
I got away safely as she didn't follow me backstage. I went to the sidelines to get Tess' attention by, well, waving my arms around like a lunatic, what else? She eventually looked over at me.
"Well it took you long enough! Ladies and gentlemen, it's my great pleasure to stop what I'm doing and introduce the beautiful and talented Amber Riordan!" she said and immediately people were cheering. Whether it was from Tess stopping with the jokes or that I finally arrived.
I quickly ran on stage and gave Tess a HUGE hug.
"Thanks SO, SO, SO much for covering for me." I say over the intro music.
"Yeah, well you owe me big time!" She hollered back at me pulling me away from me so she could look at me.
"Don't I know it?" I exclaim. "I'll repay you by telling you the craziest story."
"Deal!" she said running off stage. I sighed and stared out at the HUGE crowd in front of me. It wasn't just the people I knew from the trip, there were the leaders, then there were even people out there who were staying at the hotel.
"Well, hi everyone! Sorry for making you go through, that…" I said as I point my thumb to the sidelines where Tess walked off. Thankfully that gained me some laughs that relaxed me a bit. "Well, as you might've heard, I was going to perform a song that I've been working on for the past four weeks. But from what I've been through today, I've changed my mind." That little bit of information aroused people to start talking amongst themselves in the ground in a confused matter.
"Alright, alright, settle down. I know it's very shocking, especially to those out there who know me very well and know I love it when everything's perfect. But, what I was going to sing, doesn't express the feelings I feel now, the feeling of wanting to be heard, to be noticed and break out of my little shell that I have always had; although it's slowly been fading over the past few weeks. And hopefully this song will explain that further."
I walk up to the keyboard that was set up just for me, then attached the mike to the stand that was in front of it and sat down at the stool. I looked at the sidelines to see Tess, joined by Nick, Austin, Caroline and many of my other friends giving me thumbs up. And that's all I needed to get me to finally start.
Listen, to the song here in my heart
A melody I start but I can't complete
Oh, the time has come for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own, all 'cause you won't listen.
Listen!
I am alone at a crossroads
I'm not at home in my own home
And I've tried and tried
To say what's on my mind
You should have known.
I get out of my seat and start playing more with the feelings I've been bottling up and new ones that were coming out of nowhere as I kicked the seat back.
Oh, Now I'm done believin' you
You don't know what I'm feelin'
I'm more than what you've made of me
I've followed the voice, you gave to me
But now I've gotta find my own
You should have listened.
I signaled for my friend Caroline, the master pianist, to take charge of the piano as I grabbed the mike off the stand and went to the center of the stage and started singing the next verse.
There was someone here inside
Someone I thought had died, so long ago
Oh, I'm screaming out
For my dreams will be heard
They will not be pushed aside or turned
Into your own
All 'cause you won't listen.
Listen!
I am alone at a crossroads
I'm not at home in my own home
And I've tried and tried
To say what's on my mind
You should have known, oh.
Now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what you've made of me
I've followed the voice, you gave to me
But now I've gotta find my own.
I don't know where I belong
But I'll be moving on
If you don't, if you won't... listen!
To the song here in my heart
A melody I start, but I will complete, oh.
Now I'm done believin' you
You don't know not what I'm feelin'
I'm more than what you've made of me
I've followed the voice you think you gave to me.
Now I've gotta find my own, my own.
Before I even finished the last note, everyone was cheering over my singing and giving hoots and hollers that just raised my spirits. I stopped singing and held the mike up to the sky and I just stood there staring out at the audience in disbelief as they kept going. Before I could even prepare myself, my friends from the sidelines tackled me in hugs and were talking all at once and just overall supporting me. I was forever grateful to them.
"Thank you Amber!" Said an announcer I didn't even know existed as I handed him the mike so he could talk over the crowd. As he continued talking, my friends and I went off to the sides and we continued talking and I kept giving hugs to all my friends. But while that was going on, I saw that Nick and Tess were just standing there looking at me and grinning.
"What?" I asked. They still kept grinning. "Why are you grinning? I thought you guys would be mad because I missed your performance." I said confused and upset since I really wanted to see their dance.
"Let's give it up for Tess Rogers and Nick Braun!" the announcer on stage said directing his hand towards the side we were all standing at.
"Surprise!" They both cheered.
"You guys delayed your dance?" I asked completely shocked.
"Of course we did, we wanted you to see it!" Nick said over the roar of people from the audience.
"No go out in the audience and film us silly!" Tess said throwing my phone at me. I looked at them with a big goofy grin on my face as I nodded my head and then the rest of the gang and I went off to the front of the stage so that I could film their dance.
First it started out Tess and Nick pretend fighting each other, then each would do what they're best at. So Tess would do her hip-hop moves, then Nick would counter with his modern/contemporary style. Then all of sudden they freeze in spot and they combine both their talents and create a new style all their own.
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Then after they were on the ground, Nick is the first one to get up and does break dancing, which in my opinion I never could ever picture him do, but there he was, doing it like it was so natural for him. Then he fell to the floor and Tess got up and the tempo changed and she did a lyrical style with a mix of modern and it was so graceful and it was nice seeing this side of Tess.
Then she falls back down and they do the same mesh of modern/hip-hop as before but they switch spots periodically and it looks absolutely amazing and unbelievable at the same time. The music ends as the grab each other's hands and fall to the ground together but then slowly get up and shake hands and then walk off stage.
The crowd goes absolutely crazy over their dance and they come back out and do some bows but my friend and I, being the crazy proud supporters we were, crawled up onto the stage and tackled them in hugs and congratulations just like they did for me. The announcer and some backstage people had to escort us off as we were spending too much time on stage and they had to wrap things up.
Although it seemed only like a matter of minutes since we were all talking crazy fast and all at once, the votes were in from the judges and everyone who participated came out on stage and we all managed to squeeze together as we awaited for what was to happen next.
"Now this year, it was such a hard choice for the judges to only pick one performance tonight, but the results are in and one person tonight, will be taking over this huge trophy, over here."
The announcer directed our point of focus to the shining red and gold trophy that was at least a foot tall sitting in the corner. "And along with that trophy the winner will get a special prize, depending on what they performed here tonight. Now, are you ready?" Everyone cheered loudly, everyone who was up on stage to the audience below us.
"I can't hear you!" The announcer called out to everyone and we cheered even louder than before, so loud that some might say they felt the whole hotel tremble a bit.
"Alright, alright, I get it. Sheesh." There were some laughs as he opened up the envelope that said the name of the winner on the inside.
"And the winner, of this year's Festival of Stars, is…" He took out the letter that was inside the envelope and we all stomped our feet, as if we were the drums.
"Oh wait, I am misspoken. The winners of tonight's event are…" The silence was absolutely killing me, but when the announcer's booming voice said the names on the sheet, everyone was overjoyed. "Tess Rogers and Nick Braun!"
If you said Tess and Nick were shocked, that'd be an understatement. The two of them were in complete and utter shock that they didn't move, even when the spotlight fell on the two of them while my friends and I were totally opposite as we all were jumping up and down for them. I finally shoved the two of them forward and they woke up from their little shock and then started jumping along with us and they hugged each other and then ran over to the announcer and hugged him.
As that was happening, two guys in black came up from behind them and they were both holding the trophy that the two of them won.
"Now, because they both won, we had specially made another trophy so that we don't have to see the cat fight that would unfold for whoever would be the one to keep the one trophy. It was originally our backup since last year the trophy while being presented got knocked over. But thankfully we fired those guys and have better guys this year." The guys then ran back stage and brought out the other huge foot tall trophy.
"Now, now, we're not through here." The announcer said. Everyone stared at him and asked people next to them what was going on, not knowing that this was originally supposed to happen; sneaky judges keeping this a secret all this time.
The announcer continued. "Apparently, there was someone just as good who also deserved a prize this year. Now, this award is for someone who's improved overall, it's a new trophy that the judges this year decided to create. Now, the most improved trophy goes to…." There was a long pause, longer than before, until the announcer finally shouted.
"Amber Riordan!"
"OMG, THAT'S YOU!" My friends were screaming around me. I was stunned and was so overjoyed I started crying a bit, although I rarely ever cry in public. I went up to the announcer and gave him a hug as a guy wearing black from off stage handed the announcer a silver trophy with a bird on top that said "most improved" on it and he handed it to me. I took it in both my hands and turned to the audience and bowed and held to the trophy up and people started cheering all around.
I turned around and stood next to my two best friends who their trophies as we all got photos taken. Thankfully by this time I calmed down a bit and wiped the tears from my face. Once the pictures were through, I hugged my best friends. And almost as if it were planned, I feel my phone vibrate in my back pocket.
I pull away from my friends and click the button on my phone to see who could've texted me. It read,
Hey, it's Kendall. I thought I check in and see how everything went…the guys and I were stressing over the competition after you left.
I couldn't help but smile to myself and put in my pass code so that I could reply to Kendall's text.
Everything was great! I didn't win the prize, but I got the most improved trophy, which still rocks!
"Hey, who you texting?" I hear a voice from over my shoulder. I turn around and see Tess and Nick staring at me.
"Don't tell me it's someone from that band you met, is it?" Nick asks.
"Well…I'd be lying to you if I answered no…" I said sheepishly.
"No way! That's awesome, okay, now that the show's over and everyone's packing up, you need to tell me," Tess says.
"Eh-hem." Nick cuts in.
"I mean, tell us," Tess continues.
"Thank you." Nick comments.
"What went down when you were forced against your will?" Tess finishes.
"Oh come on you guys, how about we discuss everything tomorrow? I kind of just want to go out and celebrate our awesome wins!" I say trying to skip over my day. I really wasn't in the mood to reminisce.
"No! You told me you would spill everything!"
"Okay, fine! How about when we hit that new club we found out about yesterday I tell you two everything, sound good?"
"Deal." They say in unison.
"It's like you two are related or something…it's freaky." We all laugh at that.
"Okay, so let's all get ready for the night. We'll give ourselves an hour to invite more people and change outfits."
"Then we'll meet at the front desk and head out to Club Indigo!"
"Alright, I'll text Austin and inform him. See you guys later!" He says as he hugs Tess and I, which we obviously return and he jumps off the stage and runs out the door. He reminded me of a gazelle just running through the fields of Africa.
"You know, he's just like a gazelle, you know, just in the way he ran off just now." Tess says.
"I was just thinking that!" I say to her. We turn to look at each other.
"Weird…" We both say in unison as we burst in giggles as we link arms and head up to the room we both share.
Tess jumped straight into the shower, obviously since she was drenching in sweat from dancing so hard. Me, I was fine, the lights were hitting me as bad as they were hitting Nick and Tess both, and they were dancing to make things more extreme for them. So I just rummage through my stuff, looking for a new outfit to wear since I felt slightly uncomfortable being in the outfit that Natalie gave me. And speaking of her, I can't even imagine what she's feeling right now; all her plans gone up in smoke. Oh well, not my problem.
I hear my phone vibrate on my bed, currently under an outfit I was maybe choosing to wear tonight. But my phone didn't just vibrate once this time, it kept vibrating, meaning someone was calling me. There was number on the screen that I didn't recognize but I decided to answer it anyway.
"Hello?" I said casually.
"SO?" I hear four voices scream at the other end of the line, causing me to drop my phone on the ground from the sudden outburst. I pick up my phone and hold it to my ear again.
"Guys?"
"Yes?" They say yet again in unison.
"What happened?" James asked impatiently. They were so loud I had to put them on speakerphone since I couldn't stand holding my phone up to my ear. I wasn't in the mood to lose my hearing.
"Yeah and why didn't you win?" Logan asked.
"Well…" I start to say, thinking where to start explaining.
"Because I won!" Came a voice from behind me. I turn around and I see Tess standing in her shower robe with her hair tied up in a towel on top of her head.
"Please don't tell me that's Natalie?" Kendall's voice rings throughout the room.
"Gasp, don't you dare even compare me to that son of a-" Tess starts saying but I cut her off.
"Veronica's next door!"
"Oh, right, anyway, no, I'm not that little you-know-what, I'm Amber's #1 best friend." Tess says proudly putting her fists on her hips and puffing out her chest.
"So you're Tess?" James asks.
"You talked about me?" Tess addressed me.
"Well obviously when I emailed you." I explained.
"Good point, just wanted to make sure you didn't say anything bad about me, that's all."
"Now I'm the one who's insulted." I say pretending to be sad.
"I'm kidding! Goodness, thank God we're going out, you need to relax." Tess says playing along.
"Oo fun! Where are you guys going?" Carlos asked. I could just picture him jumping up and down at the thought.
"We're going to a new club that opened up last week called Club Indigo."
"Oh yeah I heard about that, sounds awesome." James says.
"Hey," I start to say as I look over at Tess, as usual she already knows what I'm about to say and nods her head in approval. "Wanna come with?"
"For real?" Carlos asks and this time I do actually hear him jumping up and down and even some high fives.
"Sure I'm sure! I'm sure no one else will mind a few more people."
"Are you kidding, you know Nick, he always says," Tess says.
"'The more the merrier and the merrier the boozier'." We both say at the same time in our best Nick impersonations that have us laughing to the point I fall off the bed.
"What was that?" Logan asks.
"Oh nothing, I just fell, no big," The boys laugh at the other end of the phone and Tess and I join in. "Anyway, meet us at the Double Tree Hotel in Santa Monica at, 10." I say pausing briefly to look at the clock and seeing it was almost nine.
"Alright, sounds good." Kendall says.
"See you guys then!" James and Carlos say together.
"Bye you guys!" Tess and I singsong say at the same time as we hang up the phone.
"Okay, now, I want to know about these boys, NOW."
"Well, where to begin?" I question myself. I think for a second then grab my phone and go on Safari and type in 'Big Time Rush' on Google. It loads as Tess sits down next to me.
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"Okay, well here's a picture of them." I say as I let Tess hold my phone. "On the far left, that's Carlos. He's the goofy one, and thankfully in this picture he's not wearing his hockey helmet."
"He wears a hockey helmet?" I nod. "Like, all the time?"
"Well I met him today he was. Don't ask me why because I don't even know, well, actually it might be because before these guys were a band they lived in Minnesota and played for their school hockey team."
"I guess why in this picture it looks like they're holding hockey sticks." Tess says pointing to the sticks that Logan and James were holding. "And aw, that's nice, they knew each other before they were a band."
"Yeah I found that a bit shocking too. Anyway, next to the bundle of joy that is Carlos is the smarty pants of the bunch who could possibly be a doctor when he's older, Logan."
"Yeah you're right, he looks like he's a smarty."
"Yeah, okay, so that's Kendall, he's sort of like the leader of the band and he's nice."
"Yummy." Tess says and I can't help but laugh as she nonchalantly licks her lips. "Tall, Blonde, and Eyebrows."
"Oh gosh, please stop, I don't want to hear that." I say as I cover my ears. I mean I would like to consider that we're friendly and I definitely don't want to hear that if I want to be their friends.
"Why? You know I'm right." Tess says teasingly as she scrunches her face up at me with a big grin on her face.
"…No comment." And of course Tess starts laughing, as I try my best to not. "Anyway, and last but not least, is James."
"Wow!" Tess exclaims.
"Yeah, he's the pretty boy of the group." I say as I see her whole face just light up along with her eyes sparkling almost as she stares at the picture.
"And I can see why!" Tess says holding my phone closer to her face. "Okay, I've decided, I want him!"
"Tess! Come on you haven't even met them yet." I say as I take my phone away from her. Why didn't I see this coming?
"Does that even matter?"
"Uh, yeah!" I say throwing my arms up in the air as I get off my bed.
"Well when I meet them later, I'll still choose him!" She says as she crosses her legs.
"Whatever you say." I say as I roll my eyes and we both start chuckling. "Now come on," I move towards her and hold out my hands for her to take and she stands up from sitting on my bed with my help. "Get dressed and you'll meet them soon enough."
"Yes ma'am!" She salutes me off clumsily and she heads off to her side of the room and starts rummaging around for an outfit to wear. Thankfully before the boys called I had my outfit picked out.
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And it took a while but Tess, along with my help and even Nick's help when we were really stumped between two outfits came to help us pick a nice get up for Tess to wear. Of course Nick was ready and bouncing to go so he made a quick choice, but it was the right choice, as usual.
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"Are you ladies done yet?" Called Nick from outside as he shoved him out the door a few minutes ago when we had to get changed.
"Don't be such a guy, we'll be ready soon." Tess calls out to him.
"Come on! We're all waiting out here." Another voice I recognize to be Austin's voice complains.
"Austin you're so impatient, keep your pants on and we'll be out in a minute!" I say a bit miffed. We're not taking that long. And does it hurt to want to look our best?
"My pants are on…" The both of us can hear Austin mumble from outside which gets us laughing. After I brushed my hair and put some gel in it so it wasn't frizzy, I slipped my top on and pushed my hair away from my face. I was finally ready.
"You ready Tess?" I ask as I turn around and see Tess putting on her last finishing touches on her makeup, although she rarely ever needs any.
"I'm ready and steady!" She says as she caps her mascara and stands up and does a little twirl in the mirror.
"Good, let's get this party started right!" I say loudly.
"Woo!" I hear cheering from outside along with Tess. We laugh as we step outside our room and hug our friends and thank them for their patience and we head into the elevator.
We get to the bottom floor and we can hear arguing from afar. Us being the curious teens that we were wanted to check out what was up. So from the elevators we round the corner and see four well dressed guys in a struggle, nothing too serious, besides the fact that two were on the other people's back and the two not on people's back were holding each other's shirts.
"Eh-hem." I said to the quartet. Gosh, these guys were just too much. They all stop tussling and pulling at each other to look in my direction and they stare at me, then look at each other and then back at me and give sheepish smiles.
"Hi…" They say in unison. Gosh I never noticed but whenever they say something at the same time it sounds almost like they're singing. Carlos and Logan get off of James and Kendall's backs. And they stand there, trying their best to make it look like nothing happened.
"Hi boys." I say as I walk up to them and we have a quick little group hug.
"Uh, Amber…?" I can hear Nick ask from behind me.
"Oh, I'm being rude. Boys, these are my friends. This is Tess, you sort of met, this is Nick, who also won along with Tess, and then there's Austin, Caroline, DJ, Matt, Sophie, and Lydia. Guys, meet Big Time Rush."
"Hi." They all say in unison.
"So you're the mystery boys that we've haven't heard enough about." Nick says. I give him a look.
"What's he mean by that?" Logan whispers behind me. I turn around to face them.
"I haven't had enough time between the competition and getting ready to explain the whole story about what happened today."
"Oh." Logan says.
"Now, let's move on out, shall we?" I say as I put my hands on my hips. Everyone nods in agreement and our group of thirteen goes through the entranceway of the Double Tree Hotel and I can hear everyone starting to get to know the boys and already I hear the cheerful noise of laughing. I was worried about my friends meeting the boys when I invited them to come, but now I'm happy they've got to meet one another.
Obviously with a big a group as us we couldn't take a car, so we just decided to take the bus and it only took one stop. So we all pilled out of the bus and headed across to the street where written in blue neon was the name "Club Indigo".
It's around 10:15 now and the club when we entered was pumping with music and people dancing and drinking; my kind of party.
"Whoa." Tess and I say as we enter.
"This place; is awesome!" I hear Carolos cheer loudly over the loud music.
"See? What'd I tell ya?" James says.
"Well what are we standing around here by the door for?" Tess says as she grabs my arm, "Let's make a move to a table and then we can dance!" We look to each other excitedly and just cruise our way through the dancing people and find ourselves a table with our friends not too far behind.
We manage to find a large booth in the corner of the club where it could sit at most ten people, so we lucky first ten slid down seats and took up all the room we could manage as the three stragglers grabbed some chairs and surrounded the open area of the table not occupied by the round couch. From the corner of my eye I can see two waiters staring in our direction, they seem to be fighting over who should serve us. After a bit the loser comes over and asks us what we want.
We all order some drinks after a few minutes since it took long for certain people to pick what they can handle. Finally after a few minutes more, three waiters came back to our table and handed everyone their beverages, we gave a round of thanks and drank up. Once the waiters' left, the music all of a sudden took on a new beat and I saw Tess jumping in her seat, she was at the end and so she got up with joy when the song came on.
"Oh my God I love this song!" She says as she starts dancing a bit in her place.
"Hey! We should do the dance we learned to this!" Nick suggests as he gets out of his seat, since he was a straggler, as Lydia also stands up with him and they all decide to go to the dance floor without another word said.
"Oh this I gotta see." I say as I get up from my seat. "Hey come on, you have to see them dance, they're off the hook!" I say as I pull up Kendall and thankfully with that notion I get the other guys and the rest of my friends to follow suit to the dance floor as we see a huge circle open up and Lydia, Nick, and Tess were standing in the center and they were already in sync as the music flowed and then the music kicked up and they broke loose.
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Everyone came together in an uproar when my friends were done with their dance. And to my surprise I saw three new bodies, which I couldn't see well with the lights flashing everywhere and messing up my vision, enter the center of the circle to show off their moves when the music picked back up again since it was a remix it started off with the beginning again, smart DJ to know when a dance battle was definitely in motion.
I look over to see if the guys were impressed or not with what was going on but to my shock Kendall was the only one standing next to me now. I tap his shoulder and mouth, 'where are the other guys?'. He points to the center of the circle and I see James in the middle, and Carlos and Logan to his sides slightly behind him.
"No way…" I say in disbelief and I can hear Kendall laughing from next to me.
"Way." He says.
"Wait, but why aren't you with them?" I ask confused.
"I'm not that much of a dancer, but my buds have really improved." He says sheepishly. I give him a sympathetic look. "No worries, I'm okay with being awkwardly coordinated." He shrugs off.
"Well, alright then, let's see what they got." I say as I cross my arms. At first, they all start independently doing their own things. But once the music skips through the intro the trio is in sync and I'm surprised by their moves. They're really good, wow, so, they're cute, they're a band, and they can dance, well minus Kendall, triple threat!
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The crowd goes crazy, and that includes Kendall and I as we join the center of the circle and congratulate the guys. Tess, Nick, and Lydia come and join our chat when all of a sudden the speakers stop playing music and everyone's attention, well besides ours, were directed at the DJ stand where the DJ starts talking into the mike.
"Alright, that was some sick dance moves. Now for those who don't know, that last dance was performed by the upcoming group; Big. Time. Rush!" We get shocked out of our conversation when the lights start focusing around where we were standing and the guys are looking around as people are cheering. They wave back at the audience and they cheer louder.
"Sing for us!" I could hear a group of girls say from somewhere in the mix of the people crowded around us. As soon as they said that, the whole audience was begging for the boys to sing.
"So, Big Time Rush," The DJ says as he shushes the crowd. "Do you want to disappoint this many people?" The boys look to me expectedly.
"Why are you all staring at me for? Do you need permission?" I say in disbelief although I can't help but chuckle a bit.
"You sure we can?"
"Oh come on guys, you're big boys, and besides, I don't want to get kicked out because of you guys." I say as I shove them forward towards the stage. "Now go on and do your thing!" I say as the crowd then starts cheering the boys on as they all make their way.
The DJ calls the guys up on stage as me and my friends cheer them off as they grab mikes that were hooked to the stands out front. They discuss something together, probably the song they were going to sing, and out of nowhere James pulls out a CD and the DJ pops it in and the music rolls out of the speakers. Kendall steps up and starts off the song.
[Verse 1]
Do you want to
Ride in a big limousine?
Tell me do you want to
Take a little bite of the fame machine?
If you wanna be discovered
And end up on the cover of every star-studded supermarket magazine
They start to sing in unison except for James, probably waiting to hit a huge note for when the chorus strikes in.
You can do it
Stick right to it.
It could happen tonight.
[Chorus]
You wanna be famous. (famous)
You wanna be the one who's living the life.
You wanna be famous. (famous)
You wanna be the one who's taking a free ride.
This time it's James' moment to shine as he takes over the next few versus.
[Verse 2]
Do you want to
Cut to the front of the line?
Baby, do you need to
See your name in lights just like the Hollywood sign?
Come on, we gotta work harder.
Fight the fight together.
Take you to the top.
We've got the winning team.
It's your moment.
You can own it.
It's the American dream.
Then once again the boys come together and harmonize beautifully for when the chorus kicks in and the club just seems to liven up a bit as me and my friends get up from our sets and get out on the dace floor and start dancing.
[Chorus]
You wanna be famous. (famous)
You wanna be the one who's living the life.
You wanna be famous. (famous)
You wanna be the one who's taking a free ride.
Then it's left to Carlos to come in with the bridge and boy did he surprise me with how he held the notes out flawlessly. I squeeze my way up to the front with Tess as we cheer the boys on and Carlos takes my hand and gives me a little twirl as he sings the lines.
[Bridge]
All day.
All night.
The camera's on and it never lies.
You're under
The spotlight.
Twenty-four seven til the end of time.
Whoa, oh.
You wanna be famous.
Whoa, oh.
You wanna be famous.
The music picks up yet again as the boys once again harmonize on the chorus.
[Chorus]
You wanna be famous. (famous)
You wanna be the one who's living the life.
You wanna be famous. (famous)
You wanna be the one who's taking a free ride.
You wanna be famous.
And just when I thought Logan was being left out of all the fun he is the one who gets the wrap up with a song, and it rocks!
Your song is on the radio.
high rotation video.
Bright lights, fan mail.
Paparazzi on your tail.
Tour bus, private jet.
Thinking big ain't failed you yet.
Just one thing you can't forget.
Takes more than one day.
Aim high, never rest.
Put your passion to the test.
Give your all, never less.
Famous means that you're the best.
They all strike a pose together and we all go wild at how amazing they all were. They look so adorable when they're being bashful about how good they were. They get off the stage and thank the DJ for hooking them up and James gets back the CD. Tess and I meet up with the guys before they could get back to our table congratulating them on an awesome performance with rounds of hugs.
"Wow! I didn't know you guys were THAT good!" Tess yells over the music that was blasting through the speakers, just as astonished as I was by their performance.
"What, you were expecting us to suck or something?" James asks jokingly.
"No, but from a couple of boys from a hockey team in a town in Minnesota you definitely have a bright future ahead of you." I compliment them.
"Maybe, if we keep working at it." Kendall says.
"Whatever you say Mr. Modesty." I reassure him by giving him a slight squeeze around the middle that he happily returns and we get back in our seats and spend the rest of the night talking and laughing and overall having a great time, well of course that didn't go without a couple more drinks.
The rest of the night flew by and before we knew it the clock struck 12:45. So, knowing that the leaders were going to flip on us for being out so late, we decided to head back to the Double Tree with the guys tagging along. We were all a little tipsy to say lightly and so the guys didn't feel like driving back so the guys split themselves up between our four guy friends. Although James did fight hard to stay in our room, aka Tess's room, for the night but we finally convinced him that wouldn't be a good idea.
We all pile into the elevator, and in pairs, we all get off on our respected floors until it's just Tess, Nick, Kendall, and me in the elevator. We get to Tess and my floor and we start to make our way out when I feel something pull me back into the elevator. I turn around to see Kendall was the one who pulled me back and then before I could even process what was happening I felt Kendall's lips land on mine.
I try to pull away, since the sensors in my head are screaming like crazy, reminding me that I have a boyfriend, but my body is so numb and getting over the buzz from the alcohol I consumed I couldn't pull away, but when we parted I couldn't help but ask,
"What was that for?" although I meant for it to come out like I was upset about it but it came out more curious than upset.
"Just, thanks, I guess, for giving us this time to just hang out, we haven't had that much down time in a while with becoming a band." Kendall replies.
"Uh, you're welcome…" I said shocked by his answer. It was rather sweet in a way. I never got thanked like that before, not even from Lukas.
"See you tomorrow." He says as I nod my head and start to make my way out of the elevator when I get this feeling in my stomach and I turn around and give Kendall a peck on the cheek. Literally I had no idea what was going through my head at the time but I left without saying another word as I saw Tess bug out next to me as we headed towards our room.
We close the door behind us and I head to my bed and I fall on top of it, my face landing on my pillow and I moan.
"Okay, what did you do?" Tess almost yells at me.
"Honestly," I said muffled into my pillow. I turn my head to the side and stare into space. "I have no idea, but I shouldn't have done it."
"Uh, ya think?" Tess said obviously as she threw her hands up in the air.
"I know it was wrong, but did you hear what he said? It was so nice and sweet. I mean, it was just a little thank you." I said as I tried reasoning with Tess, and also reason with my own brain that was too yelling at me.
"Yeah, but then you went back in and gave him a thank you of your own."
"Yeah…" I sigh.
"Oh, my, God! No way! You like him don't you?" She said as she paused from taking her shoes off to walk over to me and kneel next to me so we were on the same eye level, meaning I couldn't look away from her.
"How could I? I have a boyfriend." I say as I turn onto my back and look up at the ceiling. Tess
"Yeah, but in most relationships that doesn't mean it's not possible for you to, I don't know, be tired with your old boyfriend to fancy someone new."
"Yeah, but that's called cheating." I complain as I take the pillow from under my head and slap it over my face as I groan in annoyance. I feel Tess sit on my bed and she rubs my leg in hope to comfort me. "What am I supposed to do now?"
"What do you mean? It's over, it was just one kiss, you're both kind of drunk, and it's now a thing of the past."
"No, that's not it. I…" I try to say but stop myself short.
"You what?" Tess asks curiously.
"I can't stop thinking about it." I say.
"What? The fact you cheated…?" Tess bluntly asked.
"No," I groan as I lift the pillow off my face to look at her. She looks right back at me and then I can't find it in myself to say what I wanted to say and I look away."
"Then what Amber? What's up?" She asks as she turns her body towards me fully as she sits crossed legged on my bed. I get up and sit the same way but I'm still hugging my pillow.
"I can't stop thinking about those sparks." I say quietly as I hug my pillow tighter.
"What 'sparks'?" Tess asks quietly.
"The ones I felt when Kendall kissed me…" I say as I internally kick myself for one, sounding like a stupid love story, and two, for admitting that.
"You mean…like the sparks you're supposed to be feeling with Lukas?"
"…Yeah…" I say sadly.
"Oh girl, you got it bad." Tess says sympathetically.
"Please, don't tell." I beg.
"Don't tell anyone about your little kiss or don't tell Lukas?" Tess asks with some attitude I really didn't want to hear right now but I pushed those feelings aside and went for another approach.
"Both…?" I ask pleadingly as I look at her with big eyes and hold out my lower lip to look like I'm begging, which I was. She sighs a she runs her fingers through her crazy curly hair.
"Fine, I won't." Tess reluctantly says.
"Thank you!" I say as I hug her from the side.
"But you should tell Lukas, eventually I mean." She says pulling me away and giving me the look that meant she wasn't joking around.
"Yeah, I'll go with eventually." I say as I lean back against the back of my bed.
"Speaking of which, why haven't you talked to him or even brought him up throughout this whole trip?" Tess asks curiously and almost suspiciously too.
"Because he wasn't allowed to bring his cell phone to Lacrosse camp, so I haven't been able to reach him." I say honestly.
"Oh now that's bullshit." Tess scuffs.
"What gives you that idea?"
"I don't know, it just sounds stupid. Like an excuse almost." Tess ponders on the idea for a bit and was going to say more but then decided not to.
"What, you think he was…lying?" I ask almost like it was a foreign word to even relate back to Lukas, who's usually very honest with me, and usually to many other people, even bad ways.
"I don't know what to think…my brain is almost fried. Now we thankfully get to sleep in tomorrow, but even with that, it's 1:30 now and we should get some shut eye."
"Alright, you're right." I say as I get swing my legs over my bed along with Tess to get up off my bed as we both get changed and head to the bathroom to remove our makeup and brush out teeth.
"Tess?" I say after I spit into the sink after gargling some mouthwash.
"Hm?" Tess asks as she still brushing her teeth.
"Am I going to be okay?" I ask honestly but I also sounded more afraid than I wanted to let on. Tess stops brushing her teeth and quickly spits in the sink.
"Aw, Amby." Tess said using the little nickname that is just suitable enough to be my nickname as she pulls me into one of her famous hugs.
"I mean, you said it yourself, I got it bad." I said. She pulls me out of the hug and holds me at arms length.
"Look, just try to relax and not think about it, and when and if you see him tomorrow, depending how late it takes for him and the other boys to bail out of the hotel, just relax and treat everything the way it was before. And if you still get those little feelings in your tummy that remind you of, you know," Tess said not wanting to actually say 'when you kissed Kendall', but I got her drift. "Just try to push it down as long as you can and if it bothers you so much just confront Kendall about it if he tries something or if he suspects something changed, okay?"
"Wow, you seem like a pro at this, should I be concerned why?"
"Nah, I just watch way too much TV and not do enough homework." We both laugh at how true that statement was.
"So speaking of the other boys, what do you think of James…?" I tease as I poke her belly.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Tess says as she goes to rinse her toothbrush and put it in the cup she used to hold it.
"Oh come on! Before we left you were saying how much you wanted him. And I saw after they were done performing how you kept talking to him…Hmm…anything I should know?"
"Nope, well, at least not yet anyway…" She says winking at me as she leaves the bathroom and leaves me standing there, hanging there wanting to hear more.
"Oh come on! Is that seriously all you're going to tell me?"
"In reality, there's nothing much there, although the fact still remains that I want him."
"Oh you…" I say as she and I laugh together and then yawn in unison.
"Well time to get some beauty sleep, and I know I need it."
"Whatever you say, Tess." I sigh and nod my head. She was already super pretty, even without makeup; she definitely didn't need it. Although I don't know why she was always self-conscious whenever I brought it up. So to avoid a pointless disagreement, I left it alone and just said, "Good night."
"G'night Amber Riley." I heard Tess said as she snuggled up more in her sheets. I yawn once more as I get under the comfort of my own sheets and quickly head into a dreamless sleep.
okay, so that was long, -ish, please review and tell me what you thought, sorry it's sort of a filler, just thought it'd be nice to add something that isn't apart of the real order of things yet, and it won't happen for i think two more chapters, but the next chappie (god how i love that word) will be a good one, the program's over and Amber gets to spend more time with BTR, well since she still has to be in their music video! (spoiler) but don't worry, there will be plenty of other surprises thrown in there somewhere... :) well, GOOD NIGHT!
