.:Chapter Four – When You're Nervous:.

"But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage" ~ Etta James

"So," Mrs. Knight picked up her fork and placed a piece of her baked potato in her mouth as she glanced around her companions at the dinner table. "Are you boys excited to be meeting the band that you're going to be working with tomorrow?" She blinked when she got groans, moans, and noises of that sort in reply. "I'm sorry, did I miss something?"

"They're nervous as heck, mom." Katie supplied with as mug smile. "They think that they're going to do something stupid when they meet the band tomorrow." She laughed a little as she turned her attention back to her plate. "And knowing these guys, they will do something stupid!"

"Katie!" Kendall and Mrs. Knight snapped in unison, but with different inflections to their tones. Mrs. Knight's held one of scolding, while Kendall's held one of annoyance and irritation.

"Sorry," Katie merely shrugged, although there was a gleeful look in her eye. "I'm just telling the truth."

"Way to be supportive," Logan dead-panned. He then turned to Mrs. Knight. "Hopefully you can see our dilemma. The fact that we're going to be working with a band that's SUPER famous in another country…well, you can't help but worry that you might possibly offend them. I mean, what if we say something that's normal over here, but is an insult over there?"

"Like belching?" Carlos asked a second before emitting an incredibly loud burp. James laughed and the two exchanged a high-five. "That has to be my best one yet!"

"I'll say," Katie remarked, grabbing her napkin and waving it in the air beside her face.

"No, Carlos that's a compliment." Kendall reminded his friend. "In some places, loud burping is a-"

"Don't tell him that!" Logan interrupted, making a face. "You don't want him to go around burping into everyone's face all the time, do you?"

"I don't know," Kendall snickered as he reached out and lightly shoved Carlos on the arm. "It could be funny."

Boys will be boys. Mrs. Knight mused as she shook her head, watching them interact with each other.

She could see how nervous they were, even in the midst of making jokes. It was a big step for them and she had to applaud them on that. So far, they only have a few demos put out, and Griffin had only just recently given them the news that they were going to make a CD, their lives changed drastically. Not that I didn't already, due to the fact that they were still getting used to their move to LA, but now things were more real. At first it only seemed like a silly dream, and although she wouldn't admit it, Mrs. Knight had been planning on the dream going south and moving back to Minnesota. But now she had to find a job out here in LA, as well as find a way to make sure that the boys stayed grounded while they were out there as well. She didn't have to worry about Katie staying grounded as much; the only thing that she had to worry about with her daughter was how many times she would come home and find random people in her apartment that had to do with some sort of crazy money scheme.

"Ok," Mrs. Knight placed her fork down onto her plate. "Do you really want my advice?"

"Yes, please," James nodded quickly. "If there's anything that I can do to make sure that I can quickly rise with my fame, I'll do it. So if you have any advice to impress this other band, then that would be great."

"Well, to be able to help you impress them, I would have to know what band you're working with." Mrs. Knight replied slowly.

"We don't even know," Logan said as he shook his head. "All we know is that they're a band from Australia, and there are TONS of bands there. Plus," he snorted and rolled his eyes. "I don't think that anything you say to James will help him anyway." James reached over and smacked him on the back of the head. "Ow!" Kendall, James, Katie, and Carlos burst out laughing as Logan shot James a dirty look, bringing and arm up and rubbing the back of his head. "Anyway, what were you saying, Mrs. Knight?"

"What I was saying was, if you want things to go smoothly, just be yourselves." Mrs. Knight replied calmly. She held her hands up defensively at the faces that the boys and Katie made as she continued. "I know that seems like very lame advice, but it always works. The best way that you can get a lot out of working with this other band is to get along with them. That way, if the situation arises and you're asked to work with someone else-"

"Like Katy Perry?" James jumped in, his eyes wide.

"Like… Katy Perry, then you'll be able to get a good recommendation out of them." Mrs. Knight continued. "And, if you managed to get over your nervousness with Griffin, Kelly, and Gustavo, then some band members around your age, shouldn't be a problem."

"You're forgetting one thing though, mom." Katie piped up.

"What's that, sweetie?" Mrs. Knight asked with a slightly wary sigh, turning to her daughter.

"They have to bring Carlos with them," with that, Katie pointed her fork at Carlos, who at that point, was shoveling food into his mouth, making sounds of delight as he did so. One his plate was clean; he licked all of his fingers and leaned back in his seat, before letting out another loud burp.

Mrs. Knight tried, and failed, to hold in her look of disgust. "Yeah…" she sucked her lips into her mouth for a second. "Is there any way that you could leave him at home?"

A/N: Sorry for the VERY short chapter, I'm getting back into the swing of updating this one, since I put it on hold for a while. Anyway, I hope that you guys like it, I want to show a bit more about music and stuff and how things progress with BTR's music, which is why I did a chapter that was focused solely on them meeting the other band (DE) and how Mrs. Knight helps them through it. I also thought that it would be cute if she did it over dinner.

Uh, what else, oh, my new story Elevate will be up soon, and then I also have one other one that I'm going to put up as well, but that probably won't be until after my SLOD story is finished. (It almost is as it only has 7 chapters left). Other than that, I don't really have much to say. I'm thankful for those that are still reading this story and once again, sorry for the long wait and then the short chapter. But they will get longer.

I hope you guys liked it and I'll update again soon.

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-Riles