Hey guys, Aren't you glad I updated a little sooner? Kinda? Well anyways, I wanna give a shout out to my best bud, UmOk. She's so awesome and last friday, January 7th, was her birthday. Way to go Shelbs your older than me now! WOOT! So I'm updating this sooner for her because she loves this story.
The students of the Palm Woods school were currently in there small, crowded classroom taking their final exams for the end of the school year. They had about less than 30 seconds to finish. Tick Tock...
"Ok everyone pencils down," Miss Collins instructed. "Pass your finals forward and I'll see all of you at tonight's end of the year Palm Woods school party!" she said enthusiastically followed by groans from all of the students except for Carlos, Charloette, James, Kendall, and Logan.
"Wow," Logan said in response to the groans. "Everyone seems really not excited."
"No it's great," Camille started. "we get cupcakes, punch, and entertainment...by Bitters."
Last Year's Party
The students were in the classroom, all wearing balloon hats, while Bitters was up front making many attempts to blow up some balloons failing each time until he finally passed out.
The group made a disgusted face toward the image that was just placed in their heads. Kendall raised his hand.
"Miss Collins! Don't you think we could do something remotely...cool for our end of the school year party?"
"Like! A dance." James suggested followed by cheers of pleasure.
"With slow dances." Logan added.
"And dates to slow dance with!" Carlos added to Logan's two cents. At this point they got to whole class cheering for a dance.
"Well we've never had a school dance before, cause we're really just one small classroom. But if a certain band wants to be the school dance committee, sounds great!" The class started to cheer almost immediately.
"Yeah, so you need to find a theme, snacks, decorations, chaperones, and we have no money or place to have it and because today is the last day of school we need to have it tonight." The boys smiles dropped and turned into ones of shock.
'Oh, Oh, Oh-Oh, Oh' Charloette mentally thought.
Big Time Rush ran out of their classroom and slid to the front entrance, Charloette merely just walking next to them.
"Ok! The theme of our dance is..." Kendall trailed off, the rest of his friends finishing for him.
"Mover our butts cause we gotta do this fast."
"Creative." Charlie commented.
The group then walked over to where the girls, Jo, Camille, and Stephanie were sitting in the lobby.
"Jo, hey I need to ask you something." Kendall asked. Char automatically thought he was going to ask her out to the dance. Her assumption was crushed when instead he asked if she could,
"Go to the convenience store and ask them to donate some snackage for the dance?" It was obvious that the blonde girl was thinking the same thing as Charlie when her facial expression dropped
"Oh, sure Kendall." She looked back at the girls and they simply just shrugged, as did Charloette. "Is that the only thing you wanted to ask me?" It took Kendall a minute to think about, but then he remembered something, which they all thought he was going to ask in the first place.
Unfortunately, that still wasn't it.
"Oh, no, um. Can you get some sodies too?" Her expression dropped again.
"Oh sure." She got up from the couch, and left to go do the job she was just assigned. Charloette just shook her head slowly and the thick headedness that was Kendall's boy mind.
"Now we need a dance Location!" James said as he steered the rest of them to Mr. Bitters office. He was about to knock when the door opened suddenly and Bitters popped out, causing James to scream in fright. He was dressed in a suit with a light blue cape and a top hat with a stereo in his hands.
"Of course I'll be the entertainment at your school party." he said immediately. "Behold my new extreme magic act." he set the stereo down and turned the anticipating music. Once the music started he started waving his hands around, which they noticed had handcuffs on them.
"Watch as I escape the handcuffs...of death." He pulled on his hands and grunted in pain as they only pressed against his wrists. "Ow!"
Carlos leaned over to the stereo and turned it off.
"Actually we're gonna have a dance this year. Can we have it here?" he asked excitedly.
"No." he said bluntly. "There's a handsome Doctor's convention in the conference room. And I was never asked to a dance therefore I despise them...and you." he added before leaving to his office and try and get himself un-cuffed.
"I don't think he likes us." Charloette commented. Everyone just turned to her with a 'Duh!' face. They turned around and James, putting his arms around Kendall's and Charloette's shoulders said,
"Where else can we have the dance?" Logan's phone beeped.
"Got it! There's a warehouse we can rent out for 28 bucks! Now where's L.A.'s murder district?" The rest of them hung their heads.
"If we're having the dance there we might as well change the theme to 'Move our butt cause we don't wanna die'!" Charloette said walking out of James' arms and in front of the band.
"You do know that only leaves us one option."
"Gustavo..." Kendall trailed. The group had come all the way to Gustavo's office to ask him about their dance location. "we were just wondering.."
"Can we have a school dance here tonight?" They said together immediately covering their ears and shutting their eyes, getting ready for the yells that they were expecting to come at them. Charlie had prepared for this and brought special earphones that block out any noise.
"Sure." he simply said. They boys broke free from their state and started to argue with him until they realized what he had said.
"Did you say yes?" they said in unison once again. That is except for Charlie who had no idea what was going on due to her earphones.
"DID HE SAY YES!" she asked yelling, standing next to Logan. He jumped at her yelling in his ear and took off her earphones so she could hear the rest of the conversation, also so he could hear the rest of the conversation.
"You can have you dance at my studio, on one condition. You must sing tonight. On stage. In front of everyone."
"We need to start getting you guys some stage practice." Kelly stated.
"Since you will be terrible tonight, at least the audience won't boo and throw bottles at you. So we gotta deal?"
"Deal." They said.
"Great, let's hit the studio and rehearse the dance." Kelly said gathering her stuff.
"We need to find dates, got it!" James said before him and the rest of the boys darted out of the mans office, leaving Charloette alone with them.
"So much for dancing."
"You." Gustavo said pointing to her.
"What? Your not gonna make me do the moves are you? Cause I don't think that's gonna help them."
"No, you need to be at the dance."
"Oh darn, I was thinking of just completely skipping the awesome dance that the guys were gonna throw, and just stay in my room watching Spanish soap operas and eating ice cream." Kelly chuckled at the girls sarcasm but stopped when Gustavo glared at her.
"Enough of your sarcasm, remember you work for me." she rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, ok so why do I need to be there?"
"I need you to record the dogs performance tonight."
"M'kay."
"I don't want any sas-did you just say yes?" She nodded. "Oh, ok." she smiled.
"I think you mistake me too much for the boys Gustavo. I'm not gonna just do the opposite of everything you say." he eyed her suspiciously.
"I like you dog."
"Can I be a cat instead?"
"Out."
"Okay, okay." She headed for the door and went to go find the boys who were waiting for her outside of Rocque Records.
"Ok dance committee," Kendall said as they walked through the Palm Woods doors into the lobby. "All we need now are some chaperones." The other three seemed to have completely ignore what their leader said, when they said in unison,
"Dates. Got it." They put their Hollywood glasses on and left to the pool area.
"I suggest you ask your mom." Char advised. "I'm sure she'd be more than happy to."
"Great Idea. Thanks Charloette. You gonna go find a date now?"
"I can't."
"Uh Why?" Kendall was confused. She sighed.
"I am trying to get over you know who."
"Oh you mean Wa-"
"Do not say his name! The moment you say that name is the moment this entire day is ruined for me. Say it and I will just be an empty hole wondering around the Palm Woods all alone. And I'll be really not happy." she warned. Kendall raised an eyebrow in question.
"In order to get over him I have to wait the same amount that we dated and since we only broke up last week, that means I still have another week to go."
"Okay?"
"I know it sounds weird, but...it's just too soon." she said looking ath the ground. He put his arm around her shoulders and gave her a one sided hug.
"Nah, it's not weird, it's just you." She smiled.
"I'm gonna go check on the others, don't forget to ask your mom!" she called as she headed toward the pool. The Jennifers walked by her with their hand sticking out. She saw James and Logan standing next to each other and Carlos a little ahead of them.
He quickly ran the short distance between them.
"I call all the girls currently in Palm Woods Park." he said before darting off.
"Same old desperate Carlos." she said walking up next to the two.
"What's your game plan mo-name?" James asked Logan.
"Uh, you know I was thinking about possibly asking um.." he stuttered out looking across the pool at Camille acting.
"Camille!" James finished for him.
"Awww, how sweet!" Charlie cooed.
"Yeah, she's cool. And totally not my type." James whispered. "I approve. Now go." he said pushing Logan. He resisted.
"I don't-"
"Go!"
"Stop it! Ok, I've never actually, I've never actually asked someone out before." he whispered.
"What?"
"Aww." They both glared at her. "Sorry, not helping."
"You've been on dozens of dates." James reasoned putting his arm on Logan's leading him closer.
"Yeah, double dates, that you organized or a girl has asked me out but I've never actually personally asked a girl out before and ya know I'm" he put his hand on his shoulder. "freaking out."
"Asking a girl out is easy." Charlie just scoffed which earned another glare from James.
"You just have to be confident and relaxed." he leaned over to a girl. "Hey do you would you go to the dance with me?"
"Sure." the girl replied. He leaned back over.
"See? Now go." he said pushing Logan to Camille. Char stepped closer to James.
"This isn't gonna work ya know?"
"What are you talking about? This is fullproof."
"All you did was tell him to act confident and relaxed." She gestured toward Logan who was spewing out random words to Camille. "That is neither."
He walked back to them.
"You are pathetic." James commented. Logan put his hand on his shoulder and led him out of the pool area.
"That's why your gonna helping me." Charloette turned around too to make her way to the lobby. Before they could take another step Mr. X popped out of no where.
"Stop! Right. There. And go like this." He did a little dance routine which they copied back. "Excellent!" he approved, then let them continue on.
Charloette was chilling in the lobby, trying to decide what to do to kill time until the dance. Kendall would've already gotten Mrs. Knight to chaperone, she was too lazy to wanna put up decorations, and finding a date was out of the question...or so she thought.
She noticed a small group of boys, possibly 4 or 5 were scrambling up to her, each with a rose in their hand. The boys were decent looking. Not gorgeous but not ugly.
"Can I help you?" She asked them. They all stuck their rose out to her and asked in unison.
"Will you go to the dance with me?" She was shocked to see all of them arguing over her.
"Guys! Calm down! I'm not taking a date with me to the dance!" When she said that the boys suddenly got closer shouting out reasons why they should take her. She was trying to inch away from all of them. She stood up on the couch and tried stepping over it. She lost her footing and was falling over it.
Expecting to fall flat on her back, she embraced for the impact. She was surprised when she found not the hard floor against her back, but strong arms. She opened her eyes that she had closed during the process of falling.
"Are you okay?" he asked. He had long short blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Uh yeah." she said staring into his eyes. He pulled the remainder of her body off the couch and gently placed her on the floor. "Thanks."
"Pleasures all mine." he said taking her hand and kissing the back of it. "Especially for such a pretty girl." she started to blush at this. The fanboys started to disperse, their chances already being foiled.
"I'm Charloette. A-Are you new here? I haven't seen you before." He nodded.
"Yes, my names Colby, I moved in her from Tennessee last week. I sit in the back of Miss Collins class. I missed today though. I also play guitar and I want to try out for a music career."
"That's pretty cool." he smiled.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well I was thinking about what to do to kill time, cause there's this dance tonight and so I'm just waiting aroun-"
"Actually, I meant what are you doing in Hollywood?"
"Oh, yeah, my best friends are in a singing group and they invited me to come live the life with them."
"That's cool. So about this dance..."
"Oh yeah, it's an end of the year school dance."
"You have a date?"
"Oh, no, I don't want one. I'm uh...still trying to get over my ex."
"If you want I can help." he said taking her hand once again.
"I-I don't know."
"I won't force you. If you don't wanna go as dates, that's okay. How about as friends."
"I guess that's okay."
"Sweet, I'll meet you there and we can dance together?"
"That sounds nice." he kissed the back of her hand once more and walked off to the elevators.
'Woah' she thought. 'No, it's just a friendly date...I think.'
She started to head back to the apartment wanting to just clear her mind. When she reached her door she found a pile of Handsome Doctors crowding the door. She crowded through them trying to get inside.
"Excuse me! I actually live here!" She shoved her way through and nearly fell over. When she appeared on the other side she saw Mrs. Knight pushing the handsome doctors back and Kendall and Katie standing behind her with smug looks. Finally Mrs. Knight got them out into the hallway and slammed the door. She looked back at her kids, Charlie watching from one of the stools next to the counter. She walked over to them.
"I love you both for caring," she started off. "But I am perfectly capable of getting my own date."
"No your not." they replied, earning a chuckle from Charloette who was enjoying the view.
"I'm fine!"
"Mom," Kendall started. "It's time to put down the romance novels, and find some romance!"
"Your not gettin any younger." Katie added. Mrs. Knight stared at her in awe, her mouth ajar.
"Fine, you wanna get me a date. Get me..." She reached for a book and brought it back up. "Him. But only him. This is the man of my dreams, the love of my life. Nobody else." She threw the book at them. "Good luck."
"Ok! Let's get him!"
"You got it!" They high fived. Charloette rolled her eyes.
"Persistence obviously runs in your family."
"Is there a reason why you cam up here?" Kendall asked.
"Oh yeah..." She thought back to what happened in the lobby. 'Maybe I shouldn't tell.' she thought. 'I already told him I didn't want a date. Besides it's not really a date.'
"I forgot." she got off the stool and headed towards the door. "Imma hang around a bit before the dance. Good Luck with Operation: Mom Date." she walked out the door and headed for the elevators.
She walked into the pool area, immediately seeing James and Logan hiding behind a bush. She saw James holding a flying disk and then throwing it. He got it back almost immediately. He threw it again and this time it came flying at her. She caught it and read "Will you go to the dance with me?" on it. She rolled her eyes and wrote on a sticky note, her reply. She threw it back at him.
James caught the flying disk and him and Logan read the note out loud.
"This is stupid. -3 C."
"Another tip," James said. "Always make sure you know who your throwing too." He saw Camille start to get up and walk alongside the pool. He tore off the rest of the responses and handed Logan the disk. "Quick! Aim at Camille and fire."
Logan did in fact aim at her and threw it as hard as he could. Unfortunately a little too hard, for when it hit Camille it caused her to be pushed into the pool with all of her belongings. They looked at across the pool to their friend who had a smug look of 'I told you so'.
"What else you got?" James grabbed Logan and took him somewhere else to strategize.
Charloette, having enough of the pool for one day moved back into the Lobby. She saw Carlos coming out of a hallway, then Stephanie King approaching him.
"Hey Carlos! Are you going to the Dance tonight?" she asked him. Charlie got giddy with excitement. Someone wanted Carlos to go to the dance with them.
"Stephanie, you have no idea!" he said then stormed off. Both girls had looks of confusion on their face.
Stephanie, deciding to ignore it, left. However, Charlie was not about to let it go. This was the first time someone had wanted to ask him out, and she wasn't going to let him ignore it.
She followed to where he was headed and peeked in Miss Collins room. She saw the Jennifers standing in front of a changing blind, when Carlos came out in a purple suit, blonde wig, and a cup and pitcher in his hands.
"Yah I'm Olaf, bringing the punch." he said in some weird accent.
"Oh Jennifer, he's darling." The black Jennifer commented. "But you simply must meet my date, Marchello." There was a pause as she was waiting on Carlos. "Marchello?" Carlos then realized what he had to do and went back behind the blind and came out 2 seconds later in a soccer uniform, dreadlocks, and holding a soccer ball.
"No, that's Ronaldonio, the Jamaican soccer star. I want Marchello." he went behind the blind one again and came out 2 seconds later. Only this time it seemed like it was a mix of all kinds of boys.
"Carlos!" the girls yelled in unison.
"I've never been three people before!"
"Hey! If you wanna date The Jennifers, that's what it takes." The blonde one said.
"Now," The brunette said handing him a list. "Here's a list of things to say at the dance, and show up prepared to Samba." They did their signature snap and walked out of the room, not even noticing Charloette by the door. Once they were out of sight she walked into the classroom, Carlos in his normal attire.
"Carlos!" she called, causing him to jump a little. "What are you doing? Why are you going to the dance with the Jennifers?"
"Because they're hot!" he reasoned, packing up the rest of his costumes.
"But all three of them?"
"All three of them are hot!" she shook her head.
"Carlos, don't go to the dance with them."
"And why not?"
"Cause, they're shallow, egotistical, snobs, who care about nothing except how you rank in this town."
"So?"
"Carlos, are you not listening to me? This is stupid!"
"No it's not!"
"But this is the wrong thing to do!"
"Why? Just cause you don't like them?"
"No, not just that."
"Why don't you try stop telling me what to do?" he said with a little harshness.
"Look I'm just trying to be a good friend."
"Yeah, well your not." he was about to walk out, when Charlie stopped him.
"C'mon Carlos, you gotta trust me! They're just using you. They don't want Carlos, they want a guy they can dress up."
"I know that! And I'm fine with it!"
"But Carlos that's not right!"
"I don't care! Besides, your one to talk. Your last boyfriend was just using you! He didn't care about you, just wanted a girl that he could use to mess with us. Wayne-Wayne was nothing but a jerk face who was heartless from the beginning, but you couldn't see that because you were too stupid! We told you to watch out for him but you didn't listen, so I really don't need advice from someone who went through this and ended up landing flat on their face! I'd rather play this my way and actually come out on top! So Butt Out while I go find out how to Samba!" he stormed out and left Charloette to mourn.
In less than 5 seconds after Carlos left, Mr. X popped out in a Samba shirt and Maracas.
"Did someone say Samba~?" he asked shaking his shoulders, then he noticed the not so happy look on her face. "Never mind." Then walked back out.
"I don't feel so good." she said after a long silence. She walked out of the classroom lifeless through the lobby, up the stairs and into the apartment. When she first walked in she noticed Fabio coming out. Too depressed to notice, she just walked back into her room, ignoring the gathering that was occurring in the bathroom.
She was laying on her bed on her side, staring across from her, tears threatening to spill. She layed there for what felt like hours but really was about 30 minutes. The door started to open slowly and she quickly pulled the comforters over her face. Her roommate, Katie was coming in.
"Hey Char." she said sitting on the edge of her own bed. She mumbled back a reply. "You okay?" She wiped her eye vigorously under the covers and pulled them off.
"Yeah, just a little exhausted." she said drearily. "I think I may skip the dance."
"I thought Gustavo was making you go, to ya know, record the performance?" Charloette's face lit up with realization and she instantly clasped her hands over her face.
"Oh that's right! Ugh, how much more time till the dance?" She asked her. Katie looked down at her watch.
"Uh, about an hour."
"Where is everyone?"
"Well James and Kendall went out to get a horse costume..." She looked at her strangely. "It's to help Logan ask out Camille. Logan went to go get a medieval outfit, also for asking out Camille. And Carlos is..."
"I know where Carlos is." she said solemnly, her face a little darkened. Katie stared at her.
"Are you sure your okay?" Charlie's face was brightened the moment she asked.
"Of course! Just a little tired from all this...dance...Well, I'm gonna go get started on my hair. Later Katie!" she got up from her bed and walked out the door all the way to the bathroom. 'That was too intense.' she thought. 'I don't want anyone knowing how I feel or what Carlos said.' She reached under the sink for the curling iron. 'Let's just get tonight over with.'
Charloette had arrived to the dance a little late. She was wearing a black dress that went to her calves with a tan bow tied around it, her hair curled short with a black rose headband in it, a clutter necklace, and flats. When she walked in, the hallway was void of kids except for Jo and Kendall, half of Kendall's body in a horse suit.
"You thought we were together?" Jo asked. "Like together, together."
"Yeah...is that okay?"
"It's, it's great." They enveloped each other in a hug.
"Ahem." Charlie coughed. They pulled away quickly.
"Hey, your late." Kendall started. "We're about to go on."
"Sorry, just got a little pre-occupied." she said with no enthusiasm.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes! I'm fine, why does everyone keep asking that? Now let's go, you have a show to perform." She blew up at him. She walked into the room, Kendall and Jo following. Kendall quickly walked on stage where his friends were. He was standing in front of his mic, looking out into the crowd. He shot a worried glance at Charlie, who was in the back by the snack table with his mom, her video camera in her hand and recording, her face emotionless.
Music started playing, at the boys readied themselves in front of their mics, James starting.
"There were so many things that I never ever get to say. Cause I'm always tongue-tied with my words gettin in the way." Carlos sang next.
"If you could read my mind, all your doubts would be left behind." James came in.
"And every little thing would be fallin in to place." The boys moved aside for Carlos.
"I would scream to the world," he pointed at Stephanie. "They would see your my girl. But I just..." all together.
"Keep gettin, stuck stuck. But I'm never givin, up up. In the middle of a perfect day, I'm trippen over words to say, Cause I don't wanna keep you guessin.." the song trailed on as Charloette turned her head to the side Mrs. Knight was on. Fabio was approaching her.
"Hi, I'm Fabio." Mrs. Knight turned noticing the foreign sexy man for the first time.
"Woah!"
She turned to Charloette, who pointed to Katie, who smile and pushed her mother forward.
"Would you like to dance?" he took her hand.
"Yes..?" There was a sudden ding, causing Fabio to reach into his pockets.
"Oh, would you like a pork chop?" she took it as they motioned for the dance floor.
"They grow up so fast." Katie said once her mother left.
As her mother danced with Fabio, she looked at Kendall on the stage mouthing a question and pointing at Fabio. He replied by giving her a thumbs up.
Charloette started focusing back to the performance and saw everyone with their hands up.
"Keep gettin, stuck stuck. But I'm never givin, up up. In the middle of a perfect day, I'm trippen over words to say, Cause I don't wanna keep you guessin but I always end up gettin, stuck stuck. But I'm never givin, up Up." they raised each hand on the last two words and brought their hands down slowly, signaling the song was over. The crowd started to cheer and the boys started jumping up and down in excitement, well...Carlos was.
Charloette turned the camera to her.
"You just saw Big Time Rush performing their new song 'Stuck' for the first time at their school dance. Hope you liked it." she said with enthusiasm as she shut the camera, the excitement going with it. She looked out into the crowd observing all the people. She saw Mama Knight dancing with the love of her life, Camille dancing crazy with Logan, Kendall, James, and Jo standing together, and Carlos...with Stephanie.
'Guess he ended up making the right choice after all.' She thought. She looked out into the crowd again noticing everyone's happy faces(except for the Jennifers of course) and wondered why she didn't feel the same. She thought of the one place she always go's to in times of depression, and withh that in mind she walked over to the entrance of the room and walked out before anyone could see her.
"He'll be fine." Carlos, Kendall, and Logan assured as James was being chased by girls out of the studio. Kendall noticed a blonde boy walking and looking around for someone. Knowing the boy, he decided to call out to him.
"Colby!" he called, the boy turning around and walking toward him. They gave each other a man hug(the one where they high five and then pat each other on the back) and stepped back.
"Hey guys this is Colby, the new kid in our class. Colby, this is Carlos, Logan, Jo, and James is currently being chased by angry girls." he introduced everyone.
"Was that where the girlish scream came from?" Colby asked.
"Yeah, that's James." Carlos said. Colby continued to look throughout the room.
"You looking for someone?" Logan asked.
"Yeah, I met this girl today and I was supposed to meet her at the dance, but I can't find her."
"What she look like?"
"She's about the same height as you friend." he said pointing to Carlos. "Brown hair that goes to her shoulders, tan skin. Her names Charloette."
"Charloette?" the boys asked in unison.
"Yeah, you know her?"
"She's our best friend." Logan explained.
"Oh, so you're the friends she's living with."
"That's us." Carlos said placing his arms around their shoulders.
"Have you seen her?"
"Yeah, she was in the back." Kendall started. "She told me she didn't want a date."
"Yeah, she said that too, that she was trying to get over her ex. But I just asked for one dance and she was okay with it."
"Wait, she's trying to get over her ex?" Carlos asked.
"Yeah," Kendall assured. "She wouldn't even let me say his name, her exact words were 'Do not say his name! The moment you say that name is the moment this entire day is ruined for me. Say it and I will just be an empty hole wondering around the Palm Woods all alone. And I'll be really not happy.'"
"Her ex sounds pretty nasty." Colby commented.
"Yeah, she doesn't like to be reminded, it really hurt her." Logan added.
Carlos' eyes widened in realization. He ran his hands over his face.
"Excuse us Colby, I need to talk to these guys in private real quick." He grabbed Logan and Kendall's arms and dragged them outside of the studio.
"What'd you need to talk to us about buddy?" Logan asked. He looked back and forth between them, opening and closing his mouth, not sure how to approach it.
"I messed up!" he finally blurted out.
"What do you mean?" Kendall asked.
"Well..." he explained to them, the earlier scene. The spying, the changing, the confrontation, the argument, the words, everything.
"WHAT?" Logan and Kendall yelled in unison, causing Carlos to flinch.
"How could you say that?" Logan asked harshly. "You knew how upset she was after the break up."
"I'm sorry! I was really mad and I didn't think she'd take me seriously!"
"Carlos you really messed up this time!"
"I know and I'm really really REALLY, sorry. I didn't mean any of it."
"We're not ones you should be telling." Logan said.
"But I don't know where she is."
"Well, let's try thinking like Charloette." Their leader suggested. They all closed their eyes visualizing. "If you were Charloette and you were depressed, where would you go?" When Kendall and Logan opened their eyes, realizing where Carlos was already sprinting down the hallway. They all knew the place she would go in situations like this.
The door burst open, as James was trying to escape from his angry mob. He thought the one place he could lose them was on his way up to the roof. He was wrong.
He was already on the roof and the girls were somewhere behind. He could hear the uproar as they got closer and closer. He darted his head around, looking for something that could help him. When he looked to the right of the door, he found Charloette sitting on the ground, her knees to her chest.
"Help! Girls! Ask! Dance! Angry!" he stuttered out words that would make sense to no one else, but she was able to put them together. She got up.
"Get up there." she said pointing to the top of the platform where the door was. He climbed up and layed flat. "Give me your phone." he threw it down and she started writing a text on his phone. She handed him back his phone. "Count to 10 and press send." she instructed.
2 seconds later a group of angry girls barged through the door.
"Where's James?" One asked angrily. Charlie shook her head.
"No one up here." her phone beeped a second later. "Oh, he just texted me saying 'He ditched the girls and is on his way back to the dance.'" One of the girls took the phone and read it.
"She's right, Back to the Dance!" they yelled and ran back down the stairs. 10 seconds later Charloette told him it was safe to come down.
"Thanks!" he said engulfing her in a hug.
"No prob." she broke away the hug and sat back down in her spot. James stood in his spot before something clicked in his head. He sat down next to her.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?" she said in her, 'I have no idea what your talking about' voice.
"Your on the roof." he simply stated.
"So?"
"Whenever your on any kind of roof, it means something happened and you need to clear your mind."
"No it doesn't."
"Yes it does, and it's always been like that." she was silent. "So what happened?"
"I don't wanna talk about it."
"Well I do." he said inching closer. "And I won't leave you alone until you do." she sighed, knowing how irritating James could get when he wants something.
"Okay, okay. Me and Carlos got in a fight."
"So? You guys always get into fights and it's never a problem."
"Yeah, well he said some things that just...made me feel bad."
"Like what?"
"He mentioned Wayne-Wayne, said I was stupid, I was being used, basically gave me a summary of my relationship. And I didn't like it. I'm was still trying to get over him, but with what he said it made me feel the same day I found out."
"Whoa, that doesn't sound like Carlos."
"It's kinda my fault."
"How?"
"Cause I was trying to convince him not to go out with the Jennifers." You'd have to do a lot to make the Latino boy mad. But there are just a few things you can do that will make him flare.
He doesn't like to be told what to do, or be called stupid by someone other than his friends, or stealing his helmet. Any of these things and he is not afraid to go at you.
"But you were just trying to be a good friend."
"He didn't think so...This is just God's way of getting back at me for calling four amazing friends, crappy." James laughed.
"Will you let that go? We already told you we forgived you, it wasn't that big a deal." there was a pause. "And I'm sure Carlos didn't mean what he said, you know how he gets when he's mad. He can't control himself."
"Yeah..." she trailed off. There was a loud bang as the roof door was slammed open. Carlos was holding onto the door handle, putting all his weight on it, panting loudly.
"I'll just leave you two alone." James said getting up and going down the stairs. Before he went down, he patted Carlos on the shoulder. "Good luck buddy." he whispered.
Carlos just kept panting, trying to catch his breath. Charlie, got up and walked over to him carefully.
"Carlos...are you okay?"
"Yeah...just...ran all the way...up here." he said in between breaths.
"That's like 5 flights of stairs."
"Exactly." he wheezed out. She rubbed circles on his back while he caught his breath. When he finally did, he straightened his back.
"You gonna be okay now?" she asked. He nodded, then took her hand, pulling her closer and hugged her.
"I am so sorry." she put her arms around him and hugged back. He pulled away. "I should have never said those things to you, they were heartless and cruel and just plain out mean."
"It's okay."
"No, it's not. I was really stupid."
"You weren't stupid...you were blind."
"I had no idea you were still trying to get over Wayne-Wayne." When he said his name, her heart dropped.
"Y-Yeah, I am." she sat back down by the door again. Carlos realized what he did and mentally slapped himself. He crouched down in front of her.
"Oh, I did it again. I'm sorry."
"Carlos, it's okay."
"But your hurt."
"Just a little bit. It's called heart brake. You'll experience it when you suffer from your first break up. You can have all the time in the world but it will never fully heal. Besides, I'm sorry too. I should have never told you what to do. Your smart enough to know what to do."
"I doubt that." she laughed.
"And in the end you picked the right choice."
"Yeah, after being pulled three ways. And I should've realized it sooner."
"Better late than never."
"Are you sure you're okay?"
"I think so."
"And Char, I don't think you should worry about your break up. Because in the end you made the right choice and you were strong enough to handle it maturely."
"We threw eggs at his apartment."
"You could've thrown bricks." She nodded her head in agreement. "The point is you won't need all the time in the world to get over it, because your Charloette. The girl who's always moving forward." she eyed him suspiciously.
"Okay, who are you and what have you done to Carlos?" they laughed.
"I have my moments." She got up and pulled him into a hug.
"Thanks Carlos, I feel better now."
"No prob." They pulled away a little, their arms still holding each other, paying attention to the slow music they could hear blaring out a window of the party downstairs.
"May I have this dance?" Carlos offered.
"Won't it seem weird?"
"Nah, just think of this as the time we took ballroom dancing class together."
"What about your date?"
"She'll understand." he put his hands on her waist and she put hers on his shoulders. "By the way, your date was looking for you tonight."
"Oh my gosh I totally forgot." she said in realization. "I'm gonna have to make it up to him, I just hope he won't be upset."
"I'll talk to him."
"Thanks." They continued to sway back and forth smoothly. That was until a certain someone stepped on the others shoe.
"Ow!" Carlos yelled in pain.
"Sorry!"
"Now it really feels like Ballroom class." They both laughed and continued to sway on the roof. To others it may have seemed like a couple, dancing romantically on the rooftop. But to them it was just two friends trying not to step on each others toes.
"Ow!"
"Sorry!"
Okay, so the end may seem romantic and stuff, but it's really meant to be a friend thing. So I hope that didn't lead you on or anything. Cause I have said this before, this is pure friendship fic. I hoped you liked this one. My friend's been pestering me about it and it was getting annoying. Happy B-day Shelbs! Aren't you happy I posted now? You better be!
