-1Can't Be Tamed
Chapter 4: Wild Child
The morning seemed to come fast for the boys of Big Time Rush. James was up way before ten o clock loudly going through his closet and hogging the bathroom.
Then, Kendall woke up to get ready, and began to bang on the bathroom door, which woke up Logan and Carlos.
"Hurry up James! This is ridiculous!" Kendall exclaimed, hitting the door with a fist.
"He's been in there for at least the last hour." Logan complained groggily, "He can't even date her, yet the stench of man spray is pouring through the door and it's not even open yet."
"I wondered what that awful smell was." Carlos said.
The bathroom door swung open and James walked out, steam and the odor of body spray filling the room.
"Do you guys know how long it takes to achieve," he pointed at his face, "this."
"Apparently an hour and six minutes." Logan replied sarcastically, "Now can we have the bathroom back, James?"
"Of course." He replied walking out.
After getting ready, the boys headed down outside of the Palmwoods entrance and stood in a line waiting patiently for Piper's car to pull up.
"Is anyone besides me nervous?" James said.
"A little." Carlos replied.
"I'm just curious if she's anything like they make her out to be on TV." Logan said.
"I don't honestly think she will be." Kendall said.
After waiting a few minutes, a large black Cadillac Escalade pulled up in front of the Palmwoods.
"Oh my gosh." James said breathlessly.
"Calm down, she's just a person." Logan replied.
"Just a person? She's Piper Holliday." James said.
The car stopped and the door opened. Piper stepped out of the car and pushed her black Armani sunglasses on top of her head. She looked up at the levels of the Palmwoods and then looked at the boys.
"Are you guys Big Time Rush?" She asked, putting a hand on her hip.
"Yes." James said quickly, "I'm James."
Piper walked up to him and shook his hand, "I'm Piper."
"I know! I'm a huge fan." he said.
Piper smiled awkwardly, "Thanks."
She walked over to where Kendall was standing, "Hey, I'm Piper."
"I'm Kendall. It's really nice to meet you. We're super excited for tour!" he smiled.
"You're really nice. I like you." she smiled.
Kendall nodded proudly while James stood with his mouth agape, slowly fuming.
She walked over to Carlos and extended her hand. Carlos grabbed his helmet, put it on his head, and then passed out.
"Oh my gosh!" Piper said, backing up.
"Great." Logan said, rolling his eyes.
"Is he always like this?" Piper asked.
"The whole randomly freaking out thing, yes. Passing out, not always." Logan began, "This idiot is Carlos. I'm Logan Mitchell."
Logan held his hand out and Piper took it. Logan felt his heart skip a beat a little bit. The hand shake lasted a little longer than usual as they locked eyes. Logan studied her appearance from her wavy brown hair to her off the shoulder top to the way her black shorts made her legs look like they could go on for days.
"I'm Piper." she smiled softly.
"Woah, wait, what happened?" Carlos said.
Piper dropped Logan's hand and looked over at Carlos with a wave.
"Hey Carlos! I'm Piper!" She said.
"Oh man! I'm sorry." he said, "Oh gosh, that was bad. That was really embarrassing."
Piper laughed, "It's okay. I felt a little lightheaded when I met Justin Timberlake, but I didn't fully pass out."
"Cool." Carlos laughed nervously.
"So what's there to do around here?" she asked.
"We could chill by the pool if you want. There's a hot tub over there too." Kendall said.
"Sounds good to me. I haven't gotten to chill with friends in a long time. My chill privileges kind of died off after the first time I got caught out in public drunk." she said.
The boys stayed silent, unsure of how to respond. Logan twitched a little at the memory of those TMZ videos playing across their TV screen.
"So yeah, do you want to meet my mom and sister? They're going on tour with us and my sister's a huge fan, but not creepy like James." Kendall laughed.
"Hey!" James replied.
Piper laughed, "That's fine. I get really nervous meeting new people but it's totally fine with me. We can change and head down to the pool from there."
"Sounds like a plan." Carlos said.
The guys hurried on leaving Piper checking on her luggage with her manager and her sister.
"Guys?" Logan called out as the boys got into the elevator.
"They'll realize it three floors up." he said, shaking his head as he walked over to where Piper was standing.
"So the other guys left in a mad rush for swim trunks and the layers of spray on sunscreen Mrs. Knight has waiting for us in the apartment." Logan said with a smile.
"My manager's all into that too." She laughed, "Except she puts outdoor tanning oil on me in layers."
"You know, you can still get skin cancer tanning outside." Logan blurted out smartly, then smacked himself in the forehead, "Oh man, I'm sorry. I tend to vomit facts when I get nervous and then I ramble on trying to explain myself and I think I'm doing it right now which is really, really embarrassing."
"Chill out, Logan." she smiled, "I might act a little crazy and stuff out in public, but I'm completely normal behind closed doors."
"Cool, that's very cool." Logan sighed.
"Oh wait, that sounded really conceited didn't it? Oh God, I'm so bad about that. You could just get nervous around new people too, like me. It's not because I'm famous, it's new people."
"Or girls in general." Logan muttered under his breath.
"I'm so sorry." She said.
"It's fine." he said, "Completely fine."
"You don't have to wait for me, you know. You can head on up with your boys if you want."
"No, I'll wait here. We were told to greet you with welcoming hearts and that's what I intend to do."
Piper laughed, "That's cool with me. Let me get my bathing suit out of one of these cases and we can head up."
"Alright." Logan replied.
After getting her bathing suit out of a small suitcase and making sure it was okay for her to go, Piper came back over to where Logan was standing.
"Okay," she sighed, "I'm ready now."
Logan laughed, "Okay."
They walked over to the elevator and got inside. Logan hit the two button and looked over.
"So are you excited to be here?" he asked.
Piper nodded, "I'm excited, but scared. I don't really want them to change me. I like who I am."
"You like being the drunk girl that's always on TV?" Logan asked, "I couldn't help but ask."
Piper tucked her head, playing with a loose brown curl, "I don't know. I feel like, if I change my fans won't like me anymore. They'll think I'm boring."
"They won't!" He replied as the elevator doors came open on the second floor.
"I don't know. I guess there's nothing really wrong with change."
"Why are you nervous meeting new people by the way?" Logan asked, "I meant to ask you, even thought it's really personal and you probably don't want to talk about it."
"Oh, it's fine." she laughed, "I probably looked like an idiot opening up to you when I haven't known your for an hour yet. No one really listens to me, you know."
"It's all good." Logan said, "I like to help."
"Anyway, a lot of people are mean to me when they meet me. They say rude things. They tell me I'm not a good person. All of that junk." she said.
"Ooh, I'm sorry." he said as they approached apartment 2J, "I promise you, Mrs. Knight is the sweetest person ever. She's like a mom to all of us."
Logan opened the door to see all the guys in swim trunks and t-shirts, waiting to go to the pool.
"Well aren't you all the greatest group of gentlemen that I've ever seen?" Logan said sarcastically.
"Dude, we thought you were right behind us." Carlos said.
"Yeah." Kendall added in, "It was our bad."
"Hello," Mrs. Knight said, stepping in front of all the boys, "You're obviously Piper Holliday."
"Yeah…I mean, Yes ma'am." Piper said, extending her hand, "I'm Piper."
"Piper Holliday?" Katie exclaimed, pushing James out of the way.
"Why does she hate me?" James asked, shaking his head.
"Hey Piper, I'm Katie. Your number one fan." Katie said.
"Really, because I was under the impression that James was my biggest fan." she giggled, looking over at James.
James locked eyes with her and smiled back nervously, "Woah."
"Well, are you all off to the pool?" Mrs. Knight asked.
"Yep, but Piper and Logan have to change first." Kendall said.
"Okay, that's cool." she said as Logan and Piper began to walk off.
She paused for a moment before yelling after them, "NOT IN THE SAME ROOM!"
"Mom!" Kendall gasped.
"I know that child. I have never met her until now, but I know her." she nodded, "I'll be nice to her, but she has some proving to do before I trust her."
"Something tells me this is gonna get rough before it gets easy." James said.
"I think you're right." Carlos agreed, putting on his helmet, but this time, snapping it under his chin, "Bring it on."