.:Chapter Four – Big Time Dinner Disaster:.

"I'm telling you, this is a very bad idea," Logan stated as he, James, Kendall, Carlos, Kelly, Gustavo, Mrs. Knight, and Katie walked to the restaurant that Robert and his kids were going to meet them at. "I predict a 100% chance that this is going to go all wrong. Big Time."

"You're just being pessimistic," James stated as he rolled his eyes. "Besides, we're getting a free dinner in an expensive, Hollywood restaurant."

"That's right!" Gustavo practically shouted as he shoved his fist into the air. "So that means that you should order anything you want, no matter how expensive it is. The other guy is going to pay for it."

"Wow, you weren't kidding when you said that Gustavo was rivals with that guy," Katie commented to her brother. She walked walking behind the boys, holding onto her mother's hand. "I bet Gustavo hates him even more than he hates you."

"That wouldn't surprise me," Kendall replied as he shook his head. But a smile was on his face. "But as long as his wrath is pointed towards someone else, we can actually have a bit of fun while we're here."

"Let's go sightseeing, tomorrow," Carlos suggested. "Ever since we got here, we haven't really been able to see what goes on in Hollywood." He grinned. "Maybe we can go and see the walk of fame."

"You're going to have to take Katie with you," Mrs. Knight stated, causing the four boys to stop and look at her with expressions of disbelief.

"What?" Kendall cried. "Why?"

"Because I'm going job hunting tomorrow and she can't stay by herself." Mrs. Knight replied with a raised eyebrow as she looked at the four of them. "And I'm pretty sure that all of you are going to take good care of her."

"Yeah, I guess." Kendall muttered as he rubbed the back of his neck. Mrs. Knight looked at him sternly and he threw his arms into the air. "But mom, we're in LA, why do I still have to let her follow me around! I mean, I'm sixteen for god's sake, don't I get to hang around without her all the time?"

"Mom, I don't want to be babysat by them," Katie replied and wrinkled her nose. "They're just going to do something extremely stupid and get me in trouble!"

"You two are going to have to deal with it." Mrs. Knight said finally.

"We're here!" Gustavo shouted, causing everyone to jump. He turned around and smiled an evil glint in his eye…well, from what they could see as Gustavo is still wearing sunglasses. "Now, remember what I said, order anything expensive."

"I'm so going to love this," Carlos declared as he rubbed his hands together, following everybody inside. "What should I get? Lobster or just a bunch of little things."

"Carlos, buddy," James put his arm around Carlo's shoulder. "You're going to have a lot of chances to order expensive things from restaurants, we're in Hollywood now, and eventually, we're going to live it right."

"Hey, over here!"

Gustavo made a grunting sound and waved a hand to the others, letting them know to follow him. A sneer appeared on his face for a half a second, and then it changed into a forced smile as he walked over to Robert.

"It was nice for you to let all of us come," Mrs. Knight smiled as she sat down in her chair. Frowning a little, she nudged Katie, who blinked and then gave a smile.

"Yeah, it's the first time that I've ever eaten in a place like this!" she agreed.

"The novelty will wear off," Patrick spoke up as he rolled his eyes a little bit. He leaned forward and placed a hand by his mouth. "Celebrities come here all the time, and we pretend that we don't know who they are so they don't bug us." He added in a stage whisper, causing his siblings to laugh. "I'm Patrick." He pointed to the guy next to him. "That's my twin, Noah."

"I'm Sydney." The small boy on the other side replied. He pointed across from him. "And that's Riley and Rhuben."

"I'm Katie. Nice to meet you." Katie replied with a nod. "Do celebrities come here all the time? Like, Johnny Depp for example?"

"Depends on what time of year it is," Noah replied in his soft voice. "But this is usually a restaurant for Musicians. I mean Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers were here a couple of weeks ago."

"Cool."

As the younger kids were having a light-hearted conversation at their part of the table, and the adults were having a semi-awkward conversation at their part, the teenagers were stuck in silence, not sure what to say to each other, as they were, technically, supposed to be rivals to each other.

"So, uh, do you guys do anything besides music?" James asked, trying to break the silence. "Like, what do you do for fun?"

"We got the beach a lot," Riley spoke up, messing around with a fork, flipping it through her fingers. She set it down and looked over at him. "Surf, make sandcastles, eat, but then again, we don't really get a lot of free time as there's always something for us to do."

"Don't get her wrong, being in a band is fun," Rhuben cut into the conversation, quickly shooting a look towards her older twin sister. "But there's always a time where you just want to stop working and be a teenager, ya know?"

"But don't worry, I'm sure the great Gustavo Rocque wouldn't push you that hard," Riley sympathized with a bit of sarcasm. "I mean, what are your schedules like?"

"When we're not in school, we're working." Kendall replied. "It's not that bad, really." He smiled. "I mean, I don't think that I'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life, but if I'm with my friends now, why not?"

Logan, Carlos, and James smiled at him, and gave each other high-fives. Riley looked towards her sister, who slightly widened her eyes in reply, and then smirked. Riley smirked back and then turned to the guys.

"So, what were you guys doing before you came out to LA?" she asked innocently.

"I wanted to be a doctor," Logan replied sounding wistful. "But I got to admit that this is really cool too."

"We were just a bunch of hockey players in Minnesota," James replied, sounding sheepish. "But this has always been my dream so I'm glad that it's coming true."

"Hockey players, huh?" Rhuben raised an eyebrow. "Is that what you wanted to do before?"

"That's Kendall's dream, actually," Carlos replied as he lightly nudged his friend. "Every day he would go around saying- ICE CREAM!" he shouted the word as he noticed a waiter walking by with a large bowl filled with an ice cream sundae.

"Ignore him," Kendall rolled his eyes. "We think he was dropped on his head when he was a child."

"That would explain the helmet." Riley replied simply. "Anyway, you wanted to be a hockey player? Like, professional?"

"Yeah." Kendall nodded.

"So you wanted to be someone who probably would have bad knees for the rest of his life and missing all his teeth?" she asked the questioned slowly, as if she was purposely trying to get a reaction out of him. Kendall opened his mouth to reply, but Robert cut him off.

"Be nice to our guests," he warned. "You don't want them to think that you're a rude person."

"Why not?" Patrick cracked. "It's true." Riley glared at him and he smiled sweetly in reply. "She has a bad temper." He replied.

"So, we told you about us," Logan changed the subject quickly. Being smart, he felt the tension in the air and wanted to change the subject to a more lighthearted one. "What about you? How did you get started?"

"To be technical, it was from our older brother, Julius." Rhuben replied and looked up as a waiter walked over with a few platters of appetizers. Seeing the annoyed look on Gustavo's face, Robert spoke up with a grin.

"I thought that it would be nice to order some appetizers," he explained. "You know, just so we can make our new friends," he looked over at Katie, Kendall, Logan, Carlos, and James before his eyes rested on Mrs. Knight. "Feel welcome."

"That's nice of you," Kelly replied with a smile. She turned to Gustavo and nudged him. "Wasn't that nice?" Gustavo looked over at her with raised eyebrows and she narrowed her eyes in reply. Silently telling him to get along.

Gustavo cleared his throat and mumbled something before speaking up. "Yeah, that was…nice…if you like that sort of thing."

"I don't think I've ever seen Gustavo so annoyed." Katie laughed.

"Just wait," Patrick rolled his eyes. "If this dinner goes on for much longer, we're probably going to have to call the police."

"As I was saying," Rhuben turned back to Big Time Rush. "Our oldest brother, Julius, who is in college right now, was the one that got us into being a band." She looked sad about something. "He used to play the guitar and drums lot and Riley and I always watched." She chuckled. "It must have annoyed him because he ended up teaching us how to play. Eventually, Patrick and Noah wanted to play too so Riley taught him how to play the guitar, before he picked up the bass, and then Noah learned how to play the drums too."

Riley jumped in to continue the story. "So for a while it was the five of us that played in a band for a while, and dad noticed how much we liked music so he went around trying to get us record deals. At first we did a bunch of kids' songs, and then we moved into our own genre of music. But as we got older, Julius decided that he didn't want to be in the band anymore, and we put Sydney into it and that's pretty much where we are now."

"We moved from our home in Australia to LA about two years ago and have been here ever since." Rhuben concluded. "Unfortunately, until this year we haven't really had much luck with our music. But, it's starting to go well. We're opening for a small festival tomorrow."

"That's cool." James nodded in reply.

"You said you were from Australia, right?" Logan questioned and the girls nodded. "That explains your accent then. But if you moved only two years ago, then wouldn't your accent still be strong?"

"It depends on our mood," Riley replied. "There are times where I want to sound American," she said the last sentence in an almost complete American accent. "And sometimes we get homesick and speak like we used to." She finished in a thick Australian accent.

"What annoys me, though, is when people think I'm British, because they can't tell the difference between the two." She turned to James, who looked sheepish about something. "You were just thinking that, weren't you?"

"Me?" he looked shocked. "No! No, no, I can tell the difference."

"I'm sure you can."

Kendall frowned, not liking the tone that the two girls were using with his friends. It was as if they were silently putting them down, as if they didn't think that they were even worthy of being there. He opened his mouth to say something, but was once again cut off as the waiter appeared to take their orders.

"Is it just me or are your brother and my sisters not getting along?" Noah asked as he looked down the table at the group of older teenagers.

"You're the smart one," Patrick replied with a shrug. "You're probably right."

"But that doesn't make sense," Katie wrinkled her nose in thought. "Kendall makes friends with practically everybody he meets."

"Yeah, betcha he hasn't made friends with anyone like Ri-Ri and Rhu-Rhu before." Sydney replied as he reached across the table and grabbed a large shrimp before Patrick could get it. "They don't make friends easily and can actually make people hate them at first."

"Then I can see how that could be a problem." Katie replied and then smiled smugly. "But don't worry, I bet we can find a way to make them friends."

"We?" Noah raised his eyebrows.

"Of course," Katie replied. "I definitely can't do this on my own if you know your sisters really well." She explained. "Besides, I heard the guys talking and they said that they don't actually want to be rivals with you guys." She nodded over to Gustavo and Robert. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was just them that were making everything happen."

"I wouldn't disagree." Patrick replied. "But what's it going to do if they all become friends. It's not going to help if our managers are still arguing."

"We'll worry about that then," Katie replied confidently. "Trust me; I know what I'm doing."

"So, I'm assuming that you're the one that always playing pranks on people?" Sydney asked and then turned to the waiter as he walked beside him. "I'd like the….lobster tails with a side of mashed potatoes and a large chocolate-banana milkshake." He smiled so wide that dimples appeared in his cheeks. "Thank you!" he handed his menu to the waiter.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that." Katie replied with a smug smile, a glint of pride in her eyes.

"Well, that's what we do best," Noah replied with a smirk. "We'll think of something to force them together.

After ordering, there was another round of uncomfortable silence, and Robert spoke up. His children could see a mischievous glint in his eye and knew that something was about to happen.

"So what were your record sales last year?" Robert asked as he took a sip of his red wine. "I mean, I haven't really heard a hit from a band that you've managed in a while."

"For your information, I have had a hit in the past few years!" Gustavo replied loudly as he pointed at Robert in-between the eyes. "Girl to My Heart! That's my recent one!"

"I thought it was a really good one, too." Mrs. Knight smiled, trying to keep the peace between the two managers. They ignored her and continued with the conversation.

"From what?" Robert snorted. "Nine years ago? My daughters were seven when that song was a hit." Kelly rolled her eyes and rubbed her forehead, knowing that nothing that was going to be said could stop the two of them.

"Oh and how old were you?" Gustavo clenched his hands into fists, his face slowly turning beet red. "Forty-One?"

"I'm Thirty-Two actually," Robert smirked and tilted his head to the side. "Two years younger than you are." At this point, everybody was staring as they shot insults back and forth to each other.

"What are you saying?" he demanded through clenched teeth.

Robert leaned forward and smiled. "You're old." Gustavo grabbed the platter of shrimp and started to toss them at Robert's face. Robert flinched and glared before grabbing the platter of meat balls and throwing them back.

"Oh no" Riley covered her face with her hands and rubbed her eyes.

"Not again." Rhuben added.

"What, you mean they've done this before?" Kendall asked as he used his plate to block his face from a flying meatball. Carlos grabbed it out of midair and shoved it into his mouth.

"Guess no one's mentioned," Riley replied. "They used to be partners, but then Dad decided to become our manager and that split his duties, blah, blah, blah, and here we are."

"This is probably the fifth restaurant that we've been, or are going to be, kicked out of." Rhuben replied with a sigh. "Just you wait."

"Stop it!" Kelly cried loudly to the two grown men. "You two are acting like children!"

Customers ducked out of the way as meatballs and shrimp went flying all over the restaurant. One hit a lady square in the forehead, and another hit their waiter in the face, causing him to stumble and drop their food all over Big Time Rush, the DarkElements, Katie, and the adults that were with them.

"This is embarrassing." Rhuben sighed.

"Big Time." Riley added.

"Our first fancy dinner in LA and it ends like this?" James questioned as he wiped food off of his clothes.

"I know, isn't it awesome!?" Carlos replied excitedly.

Ok, as you can already tell with this story that the Jacksons get abused. Don't worry, that's not the basis of the whole story, it's going to, eventually, turn towards a more humorous side. I've already got the whole story planned out and I'm already thinking of a sequel that I know you're going to love. I'm glad that you like the story so far, though. Thanks for reading.

Also, be sure to read my sister's BTR fic, Welcome to the Big Time.