-1Can't Be Tamed

Chapter 10:

Mission Impossible?

After getting ready strictly five minutes ahead of schedule so she would beat the boys by ten minutes (five for extra time, and the five minutes that James will hold them up getting ready). She met Jo down in the parking lot and go in right as Logan was running down into the lobby to catch her.

"Man!" he exclaimed.

"She's going to rehearsal at the same place you are." Bitters said, coming up behind Logan, "Then, she's going shopping with Jo."

"That I'm aware of! It's part of the plan. I was hoping I could divert the elaborate plan by just asking her down here, but I didn't get here quick enough." Logan replied.

"Oh, well, TOO BAD!" he replied loudly.

Logan sighed in defeat and sat down in one of the lobby chair.

"Did I hear that you're making an elaborate plan to ask a girl out?" Camille said hopefully, running up to him.

Logan's face fell, "No!"

"Well, wait no longer!" she said, "Of course I'll go out with you!"

With that, she ran up to Logan and kissed him smack on the lips.

"CAMILLE!" he shouted.

"What?"

"I'm sorry, but it's not you." he said, "We're just friends. I'm really, really sorry."

Camille looked at him long enough to let her eyes well up with tears and then stormed off dramatically.

"Secret Life?" Logan heard Kendall ask.

POP!

"Ow! Guess…"

SMACK!

"WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" Kendall gasped, walking quicker, trying to avoid Camille.

"That girl is eight different kinds of crazy." James said.

Carlos nodded, rubbing the side of his own face.

"Do you have any idea what happened?" Kendall asked.

"No…but the princess left the castle and second stepsister found out about the white-horse." he said slowly to Kendall.

"What?" James said.

"Are you guys talking about Cinderella?" Carlos asked.

"Oh…" Kendall said, "OH! Never mind. Yes, Carlos we're talking about Cinderella."

"Cool, we should have watched that last night." he replied.

"I liked last night the way it was." Logan sighed contently.

"I didn't." James mumbled.

"What?" Kendall asked.

"Nothing."

When the boys got to Rocque Records, they all were taken to the dance studio where Piper was already working on choreography to the song "Can't Be Tamed".

When they walked in, the music was cut off and Piper looked at the boys, not daring to let her eyes fall on Logan.

"Hey Piper!" James smiled.

"What's up?" Carlos said.

"Finishing my choreography for the talk show I was telling you guys about. Now, I have to go give my record to Griffin and his daughter."

"Oh no." Carlos said in a deep voice.

"What?"

"His daughter's a psycho!"

"She can't be that bad." she said, "Well, I've got to go."

When she got out of sight, Logan turned to Kendall.

"Oh, and by the way, the ugly stepsister is in the dungeon, code red."

"That's what I was thinking."

"Will you guys stop talking like that!" James said, "Come on, let's work on this tour stuff."

"Okay." he said.

After rehearsal was over, Piper changed her clothes and re-fixed her hair and met Jo outside of the building.

"Hey, you ready to go?" Jo said.

"Of course," she said, getting in, "You will never believe what I heard today!"

"What?" Jo said, putting on her sunglasses, beginning to back out of her space.

"When I was handing my demo off to Griffin, his daughter, the music expert was asking Gustavo where the boys were and all that. Then, she asked if she could see 'her Logie'."

Jo gasped, slamming on breaks, "What?"

"Yeah, that's what I said. She said they were dating." she said, shaking her head.

"Are you kidding me?" Jo said as she began to drive off.

"No, I'm serious." Piper replied, "She was all like, 'I wanna see Logie', 'Where's Logan, I haven't seen him in forever', all that junk."

"I didn't know about this, I swear." Jo said.

Jo reached down into the cup holder and grabbed her phone, tossing it to Piper.

"Call Kendall and ask him, better yet, text him and ask. He'll think it's me, so it won't be a big deal." she said.

"Okay." Piper replied.

She pulled up a new text message and sent a text to Kendall.

Hey, Piper told me that Griffin's daughter said she was dating Logan? What's up with that?

Within seconds, a reply came back.

"Okay," Piper said, "He said 'She's not dating Logan. She's crazy. Logan isn't into her like that. Logan had to fake date her to get our demo passed. I swear. Piper didn't freak did she?'"

"Wait, does he know?" Piper gasped.

"No." Jo said convincingly, shaking her head, "Of course not. I didn't tell him."

"Oh, okay."

"If anything, Logan might have told him. That's Kendall's best friend." she replied.

"True." Piper said as they pulled up into the mall parking lot.

Piper pulled her hair down out of it's messy bun and tied it into two low ponytails.

"Do you have a hat in here by any chance?" Piper asked.

"Really, a disguise?"

"Do you want to get mobbed?"

"No."

"Trust me, mobbed, not fun."

"Kendall left a beanie in here a week or so ago. It's in the middle console."

"Thanks."

Piper reached in and grabbed the black and white striped beanie out of the console and slid it on her head.

"Check these out." Piper grinned, pulling a pair of black "nerd glasses" out of her purse.

"Kendall says Gustavo has a white pair of those."

"He does, but these are black." Piper grinned.

"You look like an artsy person, like a film maker or a painter." Jo laughed.

"But not a popstar trying to remake her horrid image?"

"Definitely not."

"Good."

The girls shopped until Piper found herself in Forever 21, in a dressing room, trying on numerous dresses. She had a blue denim halter dress, a blue tiered sequin dress, a gray strapless dress with a belt, and a one strapped black and white polka dotted dress.

"So we're getting new dresses, and for two of these I'll have to get shoes, just to go eat?" Piper asked.

"Look, I thought it would be fun. We could take them on tour too." Jo said, leaning against the dressing room door, "Come out when you try the first one on."

"Why?"

Jo had to think fast. She did the first thing that came to mind…quoted a movie.

"You wouldn't buy a dress without asking your friend first if it looks good on you." she smiled.

"Uh, okay."

Jo grabbed her phone and checked the time.

6:30.

Perfect. Two hours exactly until the mission was complete.

Her phone then buzzed with a text from Kendall.

Everything working right?- K.K.

She's trying on dresses now. I found one, tried it on, liked it…for moral support. It's all working.- Jo.

Awesome.- K.K.

How's Logan? Lol.- Jo.

Uh, sweating it…to say the least. - K.K.

I can imagine.- Jo.

She came out first with the polka dotted one on.

"I hate this one." Piper frowned.

"Me too, back to the drawing board." Jo said, closing the door behind her friend.

She then tried on the gray one.

"It's too big!" she exclaimed.

"The strapless one?" Jo asked.

"It's falling down, Jo." Piper said, sounding highly annoyed.

"Well, do one of the blue ones."

Piper pulled up the blue sparkly one, "Oh my God."

"Are we good?"

"Not for going out tonight, but I know what I'm wearing on tour…oops…uh…to the thing where BTR will be there…singing a duet." she said.

"The sparkly one?" Jo asked, "I thought it was too flashy for tonight, but I like your idea."

Piper came out and did a spin for Jo.

"Pair it with either some boss heels or Converse with the same color sparkles and you'll be set." she said, "Logan's jaw would hit that stage."

"Shut up!" she giggled.

"Okay now the last one just has to be perfect because I didn't like any of the other ones out there." Jo said.

Piper tried on the blue one and looked in the mirror. It hit right in all the places it should and the color went well with her lightly tanned skin.

"And the result?" Jo said.

Piper came out and spun yet again.

"Gorgeous, now you need heels." she said.

"What, why?"

"That dress just doesn't scream 'Rainbows will cut it'."

"What is the big deal anyway? We're going to eat. You've got a boyfriend, and I'm interested in someone….wait, are you up to something?"

Jo started getting really nervous, "No, not at all."

"Really?"

"Yes, now come on."

After shopping, and pairing Piper's dress with a pair of hot pink heels, changing, then going out to eat, Jo rolled into the Palmwoods parking lot, her stomach turning as she put the car in park. She checked her phone. Kendall hadn't text her. She quickly pulled up a message.

Princess is in the castle. Bring in the knight…or the white horse…whatever Logan was.

White horse…and everything's in place. Do whatever girls do to get ready for this sort of thing and bring her in.

I don't like the "White Horse" thing. "White Horse" is a song about failing romance. It's not good luck.

When have we ever been good luck, Jo?

True.

"Alright then," Jo began, turning to Piper, "Lose the glasses, and the beanie."

She took the glasses off of her friend and handed it back to her. She took Kendall's beanie off of her and tossed it in the back.

"The hair!" Jo exclaimed, grabbing Piper's wrist as she was getting out.

"Why are you freaking?" she asked.

"Pull your hair down and put on some lipgloss! Pink lipgloss, Piper!" she exclaimed.

"Dang, okay. Now I know something's going on."

"No it's not!" she said.

After they got out, Jo locked the car and lead Piper to the pool, thanking God this whole fiasco was almost over. It was stressing her out. Kendall better have one hell of a good payment for her. Sure, she wanted to see her new friend get with Logan, someone who deserved love, but all the same, it was tiring.

When they got to the pool area, Piper was greeted by Carlos, dressed in jeans, a button down shirt, tie, and a jacket, who lead her to a table in front of a balcony with a single red rose on it.

"Woah." she said, "and Jo told me nothing was going on."

"She lied." Carlos smiled.

"Duh." she said.

"Look at the note!" Kendall's voice whisper-yelled from near one of the cabanas.

Piper looked down to see a note card folded in half right beside the rose.

"Look up." she read out loud.

"Perfect." Carlos grinned.

"Huh?"

Piper looked up and saw Logan standing on the balcony of 2J, in all black, except for his bright red tie. He looked down at her and smiled before singing.

You seem so hard to know

Say goodbye, say hello

Then you say that it's time to go

Changing my point of view

Everyday something new

Anything to get next to you

Gotta keep on believing

That everything takes time

I'll make up any reason

To make you mine

If you're staying or leaving

I'll follow your lead

So why keep pretending

Open your eyes

I can be what you need

Any kind of guy you want, girl

That's the guy I'll be

Turn myself upside down

Any kind of guy you want girl,

You know I'll agree

Turn your whole world around

Any kind, any kind

Any kind of guy you want

You decide

Change your mind

I will be there

Won't you try

One more try

Be my any kind of girl

You decide

It's alright

I will be there

"Piper, you're an amazing person. You're beautiful and talented. Last night was single handedly the best night of my life, and I could never think that you're anything like what we all see on TV. You're so much better than that. Now I'm rambling because I'm dying of anticipation and nerves so I'm going to shut up."

A large smile was plastered on Piper's face. She stared at Logan, speechless.

"Say something!" Kendall exclaimed again.

"Shut up Kendall! You're ruining it! How's that for saying something!" Piper said.

"Sorry." he hung his head, scooting over to where Jo was standing.

"I'm dying her, Piper." Logan begged, yet, still smiling, "Say something."

"You are amazing Logan Mitchell." she said, "Your voice is gorgeous and you look very cute."

"Thanks." he breathed, "So will you?"

"Will I what?"

"Oh, we are not doing the back and forth thing again are we?" he sighed.

"Come down here." she said, standing up, putting her hands on her hips with a smile, "Ask me down here."

"Why are women so demanding?" Carlos asked.

"Because…" Kendall began.

"If either of you want to go swimming, continue that conversation. I dare you." Jo said.

"Sorry, babe." Kendall replied.

"Hey, where's Logan…and James?" Carlos said.

"Yeah, where is James?" Jo asked.

"The same place you found Fabio, Carlos."

"The bathroom!"

"You locked James in the bathroom?" Piper exclaimed.

"I didn't want him to run in like one of those guys in the movies during weddings and be like 'I object!' and ruin it all! We worked too hard on this!" he replied.

"True." she said.

"So," Logan said breathlessly, "Will you be my any kind of girl?"

"That was so cheesy, Logan." Piper laughed, walking up to him, "But, you're cute and so sweet and this was amazing."

"I try." he replied with a nod.

She put her arms around his neck and then kissed him shortly on the lips, "Of course."

"Yes!" Carlos said, jumping in the air, putting his helmet on.

"Mission accomplished." Kendall smiled.