Dislciamer: I don't own BTR, or any of these characters. The only characters I own will be the headmasters and the bad guys I create.
A/N: First read the chapter before reading my author's note at the bottom to read about my recent absence.
Erika sat in front of the mirror as the make-up lady finished up her make-up. She couldn't believe the change of events that were starting to happen. There in New York, a couple days since the whole voicemail fiasco. Lila and Kendall started dating a few days ago. Mel and James are basically a couple, because of the amount of they spent together they haven't come out and say it.
Don't even get her started on the whole Piper and Logan situation, there trying to avoid each other as much as possible. Sure, they joked and made bets about them getting together but get emotionally involved while trying to protect your guard and it has disaster written all over it. Now, she heard from Mel that she and James kissed and she really didn't know how to feel. She knows she should feel disgusted by how the girls were acting by getting involved with the boys even by just kissing them but she felt a sting of….jealousy.
She couldn't really think of why she was jealous. Okay, maybe she did know why she was jealous but she had no reason to be right.
I mean sure she was attracted to Carlos and he made her laugh and he even bought her favorite snack and shared it with her. Just talking to him was easy and sometimes she reverted to being her usual shy self when it came to being around others but Carlos's antics made her come more out of her shell.
She didn't know what to think about anything anymore. I mean of course, they were spies. Hard core spies! They were trained to kill, lie, and steal but they were still teenage girls with emotion and drama and they liked boys. Particularly four boys in question.
The point of protecting them is to get close, she knew that logically. But it went against everything they studied for. They were taught getting involved, any emotional connection will get you killed in this business. Which is why you have to be cold, show no emotion no matter what.
This assignment, it wasn't working.
"All done dear." Lisa, the make-up artist told her.
"Thanks." Erika said glumly.
"What's got goody two shoes, looking like she just lost her favorite shoes?" Erika closed her eyes when she heard that voice.
Piper sat in the chair next to Erika. When Erika opened her eyes she saw Piper dressed in her outfit for the night. Piper is wearing black skinny jeans, off the shoulder purple midriff top, black fingerless gloves, and black ankle boots. Her hair is braided on both sides and pulled into a messy bun.
"What's wrong?" Piper asked.
"Nothing." Erika shrugged.
"Okay, for a…spy," she whispered before bringing her volume back to normal, "you're a terribly liar."
"What do you want?" Erika snapped.
"Detract the claws. I'm just curious as to why you look like you're about to implode on yourself." Piper said sitting back in the chair.
"This is harder than I thought it'd be. In school, it's so easy but this is hard."
"How is it hard? Compared to all the training we've done in that place, this is a cake walk." Piper countered.
"Exactly, all that training never prepared us for this." Erika stated. Piper looked at her confused, so she continued. "It prepared us to be emotionless, and distant, not to actually be teenagers and interact in a normal way towards our peers. It didn't prepare us for lo…" She stopped herself from saying the word.
"I see your point." Piper stared at the mirror. "You better put your outfit on." She got up and headed towards the door. She stopped as she started to walk out. She turned towards Erika. "Nothing will prepare you for that. But you should ask yourself, is it worth the sacrifice?" She left Erika with that final question and disappeared.
Erika grabbed the silver and white lace cami top, grey mini skirt, white knee-high boots and quickly put them on. When she was finished she stared at herself in the mirror for a second. She looked like a totally different person.
"Time to go." Lila stuck her head in the room. Lila was wearing a sparkly dark purple dress, silver lining tights, and black high tops.
Erika nodded and followed her out of the room. Piper was leaning against the wall outside the room messing with her gloves.
"Where's Mel?" She asked Lila.
Before Lila could answer, Mel burst through the other make-up room. She was wearing a black jacket over a silver halter top, dark wash jeans and black converse.
"Sorry, had to redo my lip gloss." Mel said.
"Wonder why?" Piper smirked at her. Mel just grinned back and linked their arms and started down the hallway.
Erika and Lila followed after them. "This is not protocol." Erika whispered.
"I know." She responded.
"We could get into huge trouble." Erika told her.
"Yeah, I know that too." Lila nodded.
Erika didn't say anything. They made their way on stage and for the first time Erika just let the guy's music flow through her as she played getting more and more into the performance and letting the crowd fuel her. They were just finishing up "Halfway There" and she kept feeling Carlos's eyes on her during the song. It came to the last song of the night when the guys changed things up.
"Okay guys, we have a very special surprise for you tonight. We have a special guest going to help with the next song." Kendall said into the mic. "We wanted to end this night on a bang and with the help of our guest I know we can do that."
All four of us looked at each other confused. We didn't know anything about this.
"Will you give a giant applause for Jordin Sparks." The crowd went wild as Jordin walked out and four chairs were placed on stage. "Now, you all know what song this is for but we thought this would be a great surprise to four girls who are special to each of us." Logan told the crowd.
Four guys grabbed each of us and put us in each of the chairs while someone took over our instruments.
"If you don't know these amazing ladies. We have Lila." Kendall said standing behind her.
"Melissa." James introduced.
"Piper." Logan said into his mic. Piper stared at him in confusion. She couldn't understand what was going on but she was special to him and that was still hard to take in fully.
"And finally, Erika." Carlos finished. "All the fans as well as our beautiful band here are probably wondering what's going on. Well, ever since this tour began these four have changed our lives. We've had some great times together and we wanted to sing to them just how much they mean to us."
"This is "Count on You.". So, if you know the lyrics sing along." Logan
Let's hit it!" James shouted.
Jordin:
Now I'm about to give you my heart
But remember this one thing.
I've never been in love before
so you gotta go easy on me.
Kendall stepped to the side of Lila's chair, and so did the others follow suit. Kendall stared straight at Lila when he started the verse.
Kendall:
I heard love is dangerous
Once you fall you never get enough
But the thought of you leaving
Ain't so easy for me.
Chrous:
Don't hurt me, Desert me
Don't give up on me.
What would I want to do that for? Logan sang gazing at Piper when he said it.
Don't use me, Take advantage of me.
Make me sorry, I ever counted on you.
1,2,3,4 to the 5. Baby I'm counting on you (x4)
The girls where each handed a rose from the guys. The girls didn't know where it came from but took them.
Kendall:
Understand I've been here before
Thought I found someone I finally could adore
Carlos pulled out some red vines from his back pocket and handed them to Erika. She smiled because he remembered.
Carlos:
But you failed my test, Gotta know her better
So I wasn't the only one
James brushed back Mel's bang from her face as he sand the next lyrics.
James:
But I would later put my trust in you
Baby you can put your trust in me
Carlos grabbed Erika's hand and pulled her up from her chair.
Carlos:
Just like you count to 3, You can count on me
And you're never gonna see.
Logan stared straight into Piper's face as he pulled her straight to him, her arms wrapping around his waist
Logan:
No numbers in my pocket
Anything I'm doing girl I drop it for you
Kendall and James pulled Mel and Lila up as well as swayed in the other's arms as the song continued.
Jordin & James:
'Cause you're the one I'm giving my heart to but I gotta be the only one
Chrous:
Don't hurt me, Desert me
Don't give up on me.
What would I want to do that for? Logan sang gazing at Piper when he said it.
Don't use me, Take advantage of me.
Make me sorry, I ever counted on you.
1,2,3,4 to the 5. Baby I'm counting on you (x4)
The boys kneeled at bended knee and held out there hands.
All:
I really hope you understand
That if you wanna take my hand
The girls placed their hands in the boy's. James places Mel's hand over his heart and they stared at each other.
James:
Then you should put yours over my heart
I promise to be careful from the start.
The boys got up and pulled the girl's facing away from them with their back to the guys chest as they swayed again to the music.
All:
I'm trusting you with loving me
Very very carefully
Jordin:
Never been so vulnerable
All:
Baby I'll make you comfortable
1, 2, 3, 4 to the 5 (yeah), baby, I'm counting on you (oh)
1, 2, 3, 4 to the 5 (why would I want to do that, hey, yeah)
1, 2, 3, 4 to the 5, baby, I'm counting on you
1, 2, 3, 4 to the 5
Jordin:
Now I'm about to give you my heart
But remember this one thing.
I've never been in love before
so you gotta go easy on me.
Carlos turned Erika as the music started to fade out and kissed her in front of the crowd. The crowd went wild but all the noise drowned out because all her senses where focused on Carlos. She gripped his biceps, not wanting to lose this moment. It was her first kiss after all.
"Will you be my girlfriend?" Carlos asked her his microphone at his lips, his eyes never left hers.
And even though she felt every single on her, she didn't take her eyes of his. "I'd be honored." She responded.
The crowd went even crazier than before and they were being ushered off the stage. Gustavo and Kelly were waiting when we got backstage.
"What was that?" Kelly asked frantic.
"That was us taking control of our lives." Kendall told her.
"And staking our claim." Carlos added putting his arm around Erika's shoulder.
"Do you guys have any idea what you've just done?" Gustavo asked.
"We just wanted to take control of our lives and be in a relationship. Is that bad?" James asked.
"Yes, now dogs you need to get changed now. Freight Train will escort you. Girls, we need to have a chat." When no one moves she shouts, "Move!"
The guys reluctantly leave with Freight Train following behind them. Gustavo turned to throw his own icy glare at them. "Explain!" He yells.
"Look, don't get your granny panties in a twist." Piper said.
"They publicly said they loved you guys in a crowd full of fans with cell phones and cameras." Kelly informed them. "I'm just glad that you don't return their feelings because then we'd have a serious problem."
The girls looked anywhere but at the two adults in the room.
"You've got to be kidding me." Gustavo said. "I'm calling Griffin and demanding that he sends someone else."
"You can't do that." Mel told him.
"Oh, yeah? Watch me." Gustavo said pulling out his phone.
He brings it to his ear when it's flung from his hand and nailed to the wall with a knife in its screen. He eyes almost budge out his eye socket. He turns and sees Mel is the one that stepped forward.
"You don't understand. You really can't do that." Mel said her voice deadly. "We've proven that we can do our job without fail and even if we do have feelings for the guys what does it matter? It's our job to gain the guy's trust but along the way they earned ours as well."
"We're not going to just give up our position or throw away our feelings no matter how much you want us to. We can still protect them." Lila said fiercely. "This stopped just being a mission to us a while ago and we never quit or give up so deal with it."
"Now, we have to get changed and be back on the van in half an hour. We'll tell the guys the truth soon." Piper tells the adults.
"This conversation stays between us but we have to remember that we're all on the same side and we all want to keep the boys alive. We'd never risk the guys life if we thought we couldn't do our job effectively." Erika said and then they left but not before Mel dislodged her knife from the wall and handed Gustavo back his phone.
Once the girl's changed they quickly made their way to the van and into the guy's arms. Logan stopped Piper before she could get into the van.
"Did you understand?" He asked her and she knows he doesn't just mean the song but from his eyes.
"Yeah." Piper said.
"And?" he asked needing to hear her say it.
"And I'm yours as long as you promise not to break my heart." Piper said because those words sounded slight cryptic but held a lot of meaning.
"I promise as long as you don't break mine." Logan told her.
"Deal!" She grinned and then started to get into the van when she noticed her shoe is untied. She bent down to tie it and wished she kept her boots on. When she looked forward, she saw something dangling from underneath. She reached and saw a note. She grabbed it and then saw flashing red numbers. 15 seconds.
"Get out." She screamed. "Get out of the van! Now!" Everyone looked confused but saw the despair in her voice and quickly got out and ran away from the van with seconds to spare as it exploded. Everyone's propelled forward to the ground. Once there sure it's safe, they look up and see the disintegrated van. Some were coughing, panting or just plain confused.
Piper's hand gripped the note as she stood up and looked at the burning van. She felt someone come behind her.
"Piper, what does the note say?" Logan's voice reached her ears.
"We're still watching!" She said before turning it over and reading the back. "Wonder why they call them deadly sins? Because they kill the sinner's soul."
I've been in my last semester and have been trying to keep my grades up, and stay focused on my graduation showcase and graduation, my parents coming to town and me moving out of my dorm. I graduated a week ago and am starting to get some more statiblity in my life and returning to my regular schedule. Thanks to those who have stayed with me these last couple months and haven't given up on this story.
If you have any ideas of what you want to happen next on how the guys deal with the news, review or PM me if you want to keep it private.
I want to thank those for all the author alerts, story alerts and everyone who reviewed every chapter. They made me smile and I appreciated that. So tell me all the good, the bad and the ugly. I take all criticism and please people who send me alerts, review. I'd love to hear what you think about the story.
Next: Confession time.
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