Logan paced around the apartment.
"I don't get it. I just don't get it. Why would Camille break up with me?"
James pressed the send button on his phone, having just sent Kendall a text saying that they had the rest of the day off (Gustavo had replaced Kendall's phone last week).
"I don't know. But you know Camille; she's…weird," said Carlos.
"Yeah. She's not like other girls," added James.
"Yeah, but I thought things were going great. I thought…" Logan kept muttering to himself while he shut himself in his room. James sighed.
"This is not going how I expected it to."
"Tell me about it. I'm beginning to wish that we weren't making a movie," said Carlos.
James looked at his friend. "Are you crazy? This movie will make us more famous than before."
"Yeah, IF the movie ever gets finished. I'm not the one that wants to be famous, James, you are."
James just stared at Carlos, a rebuttal on the tip of his tongue, but instead he sighed, not wanting a fight. Things were bad enough as they were.
"Allie's taking it pretty hard," said James.
"Yeah, I know. I'm going to go over and talk to her. You coming?" asked Carlos.
"Nah. I'm going to see if I can talk to Logan."
"Ok. See you later."
Carlos knocked on Allie's door.
"Come in."
Carlos obeyed the command. "Hey," he said.
"Hey, Carlos," said Allie, looking up from the picture she was painting.
"What are you painting?" asked Carlos.
"A picture of you guys. I started it last week, back when everybody was, you know, happy."
Carlos looked at the painting. It was good. It was really good. It looked like…it looked like somebody had taken a picture of Big Time Rush, with a camera, put it on Photoshop and added a "paint" effect.
"Wow," he said, "That's really good."
"Thanks." Allie put down her brush and pallet. "Anything you want to talk about?" she asked.
And that's how Carlos found himself pouring out all his troubles to Allie, instead of the other way around. Carlos had forgotten about Allie's hidden talents as a therapist, how she was so easy to talk to, how she gave great advice. He talked about how he was worried about Kendall and Logan, how he wanted to get together with Stephanie, how he missed his family, how he wanted a kitten. And Allie offered advice; maybe after they were done with the movie he could ask Stephanie out, how maybe he could get a kitten someday, how everything would work out in the end.
Back in the Big Time Rush apartment, James knocked on Logan's door. No answer.
"Logan?" said James softly, pushing open the door. Logan was huddled in the corner of his room, hugging his knees. He lifted a tear stained face to James.
James felt a pang in his chest. How dare Camille make Logan feel this way! Suddenly the memory of James helping Logan ask Camille out the first time came into his head. He remembered how happy Logan had been when she said yes. He knelt down next to Logan.
"What am I going to do?" asked Logan.
"I don't know," said James, "I think that right now we have to focus on the movie. After the movie is finished, then we'll have the time to get her back."
"But James, how am I going to finish the movie like this? I can't act in the first place, and now with this…"
"It's ok. Everything will work out in the end."
The next day Carlos and James tried to make breakfast. Toast should be easy, right? Well, whatever they did, they set the toaster on fire.
After the firemen left, Bitters stormed in, ready to chew them out. But after seeing their faces, well, Bitters, surprisingly, had had girl trouble in his life. Ok, it was just with one girl. He remembered it like it was yesterday…
Bitters snapped back to reality and said to the boys, "Don't set anything else on fire or else you'll have to find a new place to stay."
That was it. James looked at Carlos, a bit surprised that Kelly hadn't needed to be called to write a check to cover all the damages, and that they hadn't had to explain anything. Allie came running through the door.
"What happened? Is everybody ok? The fire alarm went off but Bitters wouldn't let me through…"
"We're fine, Allie. Carlos and I accidently set the toaster on fire."
Allie shook her head at her cousin. "Why am I not surprised? From now on I'm making breakfast for you guys."
Carlos and James nodded, not wanting another fire.
"Now. Will you guys be ok if I go back to my room, or do I have to babysit you?"
"We'll be fine," Carlos assured her. And she left.
Rehearsal that day was no different than any other day (except for maybe yesterday). Logan's and Kendall's acting weren't up to par, but Marcos and Gustavo (who had appointed himself 'co-director') didn't seem to notice. This was how it went for the next week or so. They'd hardly gotten a day off. But then…
Today they were filming the kissing scene. The kissing scene was the scene where Allie's character and Kendall's character professed their love for each other and then, finally, kissed. Allie was nervous. True, she'd had a small crush on Kendall ever since she was little, but that didn't mean that she wanted to kiss him. And now, with Jo…it just felt wrong.
But Kendall didn't say anything about it, so neither did Allie. They hadn't actually kissed during rehearsals; somebody had always just said "and you two kiss…" and they kept on going. But now it was the real deal.
Right before they started filming, Kendall whispered something into Allie's ear that made her grin ear to ear. She nodded.
"And…ACTION!"
"Amy…I-I love you. Come with me. I can give you anything your heart desires."
"I don't know, Kevin. Being married to a hockey star…I don't know if I could deal with it. Always wondering if you would come back from a game still in one piece…"
"But Amy, I don't get injured that often. And even if I do get injured, if you were by my side…"
"Oh, Kevin."
"Oh, Amy."
Here it was. The big kissing scene. Everybody in the room leaned forward in anticipation.
And…they hugged.
"CUT!" yelled Gustavo. "WHAT WAS THAT!? DIDN'T YOU READ YOUR SCRIPT?!"
Kendall walked over to Gustavo, leaning so he was just inches from his face. Kendall wasn't scared; he'd learned a long time ago that Gustavo needed Big Time Rush. Without them, he'd be out of a job.
"Yeah, I read the script. And I decided to make a little change to it. I've decided that there won't be any kissing in this movie. I don't kiss girls that I don't love. In fact, I don't kiss anybody besides Jo. Now, it doesn't look like I'll do any kissing for a while now, considering Jo broke up with me because of YOU. And until you decide to give us enough time off so that we can actually have lives, I quit." Kendall started walking towards the door. His eyes grew wide as he saw Jo standing right next to the door, but he kept walking.
"Yeah. You know what, I quit too. Because of you, my girlfriend also broke up with me. I don't have any time to myself anymore!" Kendall had stopped and watched Logan yell at Gustavo, nodding in approval. Logan began to follow Kendall out of the studio, but once more they turned around.
"Yeah. What they said. I need time to…to do crazy things and…I don't have any time to do that anymore. So I quit too." Carlos followed the others out. The three boys looked expectantly at James, who was combing his hair, looking at himself in his mirror.
"James? Aren't you coming?" asked Kendall.
"Um, no. I happen to want to have an acting career." James went back to fixing his hair.
Kendall shrugged and left the studio, followed by Logan, Carlos, and Jo.
Last night, Jo had finally gotten her mail for the first time in a little over a month. She had a ton of mail, but what had stuck out the most was a large brown envelope. She opened it and found a script, along with a note.
Dear Jo,
Gustavo decided that we're going to make a movie. In this movie I have a girlfriend. She is played by James' cousin, Allie, who I've known almost as long as I've known James. So she's like a sister to me. There's a bunch of lovey-dovey stuff that goes on between us, but it doesn't mean anything. I promise. But I made a copy of the script for you. Read through it and if there's anything you would rather us not do then I won't do it. I don't care what Gustavo says or anything; I just won't do it. And I'm sure Allie won't mind.
Love,
Kendall
Tears had come to Jo's eyes when she read that note. How could I have been such an idiot? she thought to herself. So she decided that she had to make this right.
The next day she called in sick so that she could go to the studio that Big Time Rush was shooting their movie at and apologize and beg Kendall to take her back. He didn't deserve a girl as stupid as her. But hopefully he wouldn't realize that.
Jo had listened to the scene with shining eyes. Now she was positive that Kendall didn't deserve her, but she would try to get him back anyway.
When Kendall told Gustavo off, she followed him outside. But unbeknownst to the guys, Gustavo wasn't done getting yelled at.
Allie went up close to Gustavo. "I agree with them. You haven't been letting anybody here have a life! You work us from dawn 'til dusk, until we're so tired that it takes all our remaining energy to find our beds at night! Just because you don't have a life doesn't mean that we don't, and just because nobody's ever loved you doesn't mean that nobody's ever going to love them! You've written enough love songs to know what a relationship needs; how about you let us have a chance to be happy!" Allie turned and followed everybody else outside. James looked at her in shock; it took a lot for his cousin to lose her temper.
Allie found the sight outside both heartwarming and heart wrenching. Kendall was standing off to the side with Jo, undoubtedly getting their relationship back in order. Logan was looking on, most likely wishing that it was him and Camille over there. And Carlos was about to do something totally crazy and Carlos-like. Allie took out her camera and took a picture, wanting to remember this moment. She walked over towards Logan, ready to say some words of comfort, when James stormed out of the studio almost in tears.
"James, what's wrong?" asked Carlos.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?! Well, thanks to you guys, there isn't going to be a movie. Did you know how much I actually wanted to make that movie? I wanted to start my acting career; this is something that I didn't even need to audition for. But thanks for, once again, crushing my hopes and dreams." With that, James stormed away.
Everybody else just stared after him; Kendall was the only one who had the presence of mind to ask a question.
"What do you mean that there's not going to be any movie?" he called to James' back.
James turned around. "Well, thanks to you, Mr. 'I care more about my relationship than my best friends,' Gustavo decided that he isn't going to make a movie. He said that, because there are no actors left, there can't be any movie." James turned and continued on.
"James, wait, where are you going?" called Allie anxiously.
"I don't care!" James called back without even turning around.
Everybody stared after James, not knowing what to do. Carlos looked as if he were about to cry, but then he got a determined look on his face as if some idea had come into his head and he marched into the studio.
"Gustavo, I take back all the stuff I said. You can work me so hard that I don't have a life and do whatever you want with me, only let James be in this movie."
Gustavo Rocque looked up at the childish, helmet-wearing boy in front of him.
"Why should I?"
Carlos was not expecting this question. "B-because James really wants it and—"
"Carlos, I never wanted to make the movie. And if you dogs are going to give me a hard time about it, I'm just not going to make it. End of story."
"But the record company—"
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE RECORD COMPANY AT THIS POINT!" yelled Gustavo.
Carlos quickly ran outside before Gustavo could further damage his hearing. He found everybody looking at him.
"Gustavo isn't going to change his mind any time soon, guys," he said.
Logan said, "He probably will. He's probably just bluffing so we'll back down."
"I don't know…" said Carlos.
"Everything's going to be ok," said Kendall confidently.
Carlos didn't look convinced, but he didn't protest. Suddenly a limo pulled up alongside them. The window rolled down, revealing Kelly.
"Hop in guys."
They did as they were told, Jo included.
"Kelly, do you think that Gustavo was bluffing?" asked Carlos. Kendall rolled his eyes.
"To tell you the truth, I have no idea."
