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A lot of you have been putting forward a lot of Kendall/Echo scene ideas and I assure you that I will do most of them but it may take a while to get into the story.
This chapter was a little rushed so I'm sorry in advance!
But it is an important chapter. : )
"There's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
In her own creepy world there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
It's time to consider
That baby is a sinner
She'll wash away your sins (Wash away your sins)
She'll wash away your sins (Wash away your sins)"
Bubbles- Biffy Clyro
"I've been gone nearly 2 hours. Hardly something to miss." I quipped at her. Camille gave me a one sided sneaky grin to me as I made my way towards to ocean.
"He looks like a lost puppy it's so cute."
"Camille, I say this in the nicest way possible; shut the hell up, you're freaking delirious."
"You're the one who's delirious! Logan and I agree, you're so freaking stubborn it's untrue! You both have feelings for each other can't you see?"
"No. Because we don't have feelings for each other. I'm not one for 'feelings' and all that girly sentimental crap." I dead panned, slipping off the plain black flip flops and walking into the ocean's water until it covered my ankles, strolling in content along the line of the water.
"So you're saying that you do all that stuff you've done with Kendall normally?" Camille challenged, raising her eye brows expectedly grinning at how a light red decorated my cheeks. Regardless, is shook my head and pursed my lips slightly.
"It was an in the moment feeling..." I trailed off; blushing at the memory of the pleasurable moments I had had with Kendall.
"You cannot be freaking serious Echo! I swear, look at the way he looks at you. Look at how you freaking look at him, honestly it's a little sickening how he stares at you like your the sun and how you stare at him li-"
"I don't stare at him like anything."
"You even admitted you're attracted to him."
"Physically."
"Oh please, there is definitely something there."
"But we're opposites!"
"Opposites attract."
"Stop being so goddamn smart!"
"I want you to finally see how much you like him!"
"I like all the guys!"
"I don't see you humping James."
"Shut the hell up!"
"You're only saying that because you know I'm right!"
"Look, he has a load of fan girls that want him so why-"
"Ah, so it's jealously."
"What? No!"
"You think he'll go parading off with a fan girl and you think you'll get hurt. You don't want to love because you think you'll get hurt."
"Love? Love! No, no, no. I don't even know the concept of love we are not fucking in love!"
"Why won't you go out with him?"
"I've been out with him."
"You know what I mean! Become exclusive, you know boyfriend and girlfriend."
"Because he hasn't asked me."
"So you're saying you would if he asked you?"
"No, Camille we wouldn't last an hour without strangling each other. Well me trying to strangle him."
"Stop being so fucking stubborn! This is what I meant by you actually being stubborn."
"I'm not being stubborn I'm being truthful."
"But everyone can see the looks you give each other."
"Yeah, we look at each other in the eyes like normal people."
"STOP BEING SO FREAKING STUBBORN!"
"Truth hurts."
"Even Debra can see something going on."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. You spoke to Debra?"
"Maybe."
"You spoke about me to her?"
"Maybe."
"Bitch."
"Look, all I'm trying to point out is you and Kendall seem... comfy with each other-"
"Comfy? How the fuck are we-"
"Do you want me to recap your certain experiences with him?"
"..."
"That's what I thought. Look, you know there is potential there-"
"Yeah enough potential I have at becoming a fan of Big Time Rush."
"So you see where I'm coming from."
"First of all no. secondly, I am no fan of Big Time Rush."
"But you don't hate them."
"But I don't like them."
"No, you love them, love him."
"You better sleep with one eye open when I get back to the freaking Palm Woods."
"I'm sure Kendall will keep you occupied."
"Oh, that's it I'm gonna-" My sentence cut off completely when my iPhone screen went black, Camille's face disappearing from sight.
She hung up on me!
As soon as I get back to the Palm Woods that bitch is dead.
I groaned loudly, muttering curses to my phone as I slid it into my pocket and walked away from the ocean water, suddenly having no interest in it.
What the hell was she going on about?
Kendall and I would never work out as a couple. I still dislike his music and he -well all of the guys- seem so dedicated to it, I would hate to get in their way and become some dead weight in their lives.
Maybe Kendall and I have chemistry but that chemistry is all physical, I honestly can't last a day without strangling him, last time I checked that's not really relationship signs. I think it's just a sign you want to kill the douche.
Then again he does have an amazing body and even though he's got the same amount of facial hair as a hairless cat he does have a tattoo.
However, he's an absolute dick and has a massively perverted mind. And, he might not even be into me!
Oh my god, why am I acting so prissy over it?
I don't care what he thinks about me... right?
"Ah, Echo. Glad you're up here. I was just about to come and tell you dinners done." Griffin's voice brought me away from my pathetic thoughts, realisation dawned on my face and I nodded noticing the two square plates of lasagne on each plate that were allocated where we were both supposed to sit- opposite each other.
"Oh, uh, yeah." I mumbled making my way over to the chair that I was closest to and sitting on it, picking up a fork as my elbow lay and supported my body as I leaned onto the island.
It smelt damn good, even better now that it was in front of my eyes.
"Are you okay Echo? You seem distracted." Griffin spoke to me as I sat down; I looked up at him giving him the best smile I could muster.
"No, no. Everything is fine."
"You sure... you know you can always talk to me about whatever, I am your father." I do know that you're my dad Griffin, it's not like you dropped out of the sky an hour ago.
I was just being bitchy; his concern for me was quite touching.
Maybe I had completely judged him before I actually got to see him as a father... just like I had with Big Time Rush.
"No, Griffin really I'm fine. Just this house, it's gorgeous." I told him, dipping my fork into the lasagne and bringing it to my lips.
Damn this is good fucking food!
"Yes, it is. What's even better is that Russell Brand has his own beach house next door." Griffin smiled at me, the edge of his marine eyes crinkling as the smile reached his eyes.
"No way!"
"Yes Echo, 'way.'" I guess the wonder in my face was as funny as Griffin trying to be 'hip.'
Damn though, Russell Brand!
He is pretty amazing. I would kill to meet him one day.
"So, is there any way I can go in the right direction to get our father-daughter relationship back on track?" Shock flittered through my body as I swallowed more lasagne, scooping up more onto my fork.
Well that's a direct U-turn from Russell Brand.
"You want a father-daughter relationship with me?" I asked astonished, my eyes going wide.
"Of course I do! I am your father; you don't think I came back just for Asha do you?"
"Uh..."
"Echo." He shook his head disapprovingly as I looked sheepishly at him. "I came back because I hate the decisions I had made when raising both you and Asha. I love Asha." I nodded, looking down to my plate to lift some more food into my mouth. "Echo." I looked up to him when he said my name. "I love you too."
I nearly choked on my food.
To actually hear it from him, like this warmed my heart; made me feel protected, made me feel like for once this was normal and I was his daughter and he was my dad in the mental way, not just biological.
"Thank you, I do too but it's going to take me a long time to actually tell you." I told him, thanking him and letting him down gently. There was no way I was just going to come out and say it straight away, it was going to take time.
"I don't expect you to; I want you to know though that I am not just here for Asha. I'm here for you both and I'm not going to leave again whether you like it or not." He gave me a kind smile at the end to show he didn't mean what he had said in an offending way. "How can I begin to get our relationship back on track?"
"By letting me not come back to live with her." I said instantly, halfway through my portion of lasagne.
"Echo, we have mutually agreed. Three more days and that's it, if you haven't found anywhere by then you come and live with us. What other ways?"
"Give me space. Let me act how I have before you came back. Let me worry about my own problems and let me face those problems by myself."
"I will try my best but you're still a minor, remember that." Griffin reminded me as I chewed on the food, nodding to his seemingly mellow reaction.
"And I would like it if you acted like my dad, not just a stranger." I would prefer him to ground me and shout then stare at me blankly, least I know now that the shouting and stuff is just him caring about me. Something I didn't realise he did.
"Alright then. How are you doing at school?" Straight into the fatherly act; these were one of the few questions I really didn't want to answer.
"Okay."
"Failing anything?"
"...No."
"You're right, you really can't act." He joked! Griffin actually cracked a joke and then started chuckling afterwards! I smiled lying wasn't really one of my strong points.
"Told you."
"So what are you failing?"
"Math." I grumbled reluctantly, forking in the food after I had said it.
Seriously what was the point of math? I wasn't going to freaking use trig on a day to day basis and I certainly won't use fucking algebra either.
"We need to get you a tutor." Great, just fucking brilliant. Tutors are either geeks that have lisps and spit on you while you can't understand a word they are saying or they are geeks that are massively pervy and try to touch you up every time you get a question wrong.
"Well I need to move schools; my old school is too far away from where I am planning to stay."
"Where are you planning to stay?"
"You'll find out if I can get in, I promise and yeah, I'll get a tutor."
"Great. Now onto the next thing, as you know I'm the CEO. Do you like Big Time Rush?" Another question that was going to lead into a most likely awkward route, I chewed on my last mouthful of lasagne and then pushed the plate away.
"Define like."
"Well do you hate them?"
"No."
"So you must like them."
"...Not exactly."
"Why not?"
"Because I hate pop bands. Can't stand them. I still can't believe I've been thrown into the middle of this."
"What do you mean?"
"Did Asha not tell you how we got here?"
"No, she was too busy asking me about what I was doing here and when she was going to go home."
"Well, Big Time Rush was doing their signings and Asha wanted to go so I brought the tickets as soon as we saw the advert on the TV. Three weeks later we drove to the signing where there was a whole load of fan girls, the type that holds up banners and screams their love for their favorite band member. There were flocks of girls everywhere all wearing t-shirts to symbolise their love for each of the guys. I sat Asha at a table and got in the queue to buy her a drink checking if she was still there multiple times while I was in the queue. When I came back she was nowhere to be seen and I was having a heart attack. I spent 20 minutes running around the building to see if I could see her, I finally decided to run around the back where I saw her hand in hand with some randomer walking away from me. I thought he was a kidnapper so I ran up to him, shouting and as he turned around I kicked him where it hurts. It turned out to be Kendall..." As I continued to explain everything to him he collected the plates, smiling and letting out a low chuckle when I mentioned kicking Kendall where it hurts. I got up to help him clear up but he just shook his head and put the dishes in the washer and coming back to sit down opposite me again. I, of course left out the R rated scenes and the stuff he didn't need to know about.
"So what you're saying is that you became the VIP's after all of that? You never cease to surprise me Echo. Poor Kendall." He smiled sympathetically towards Kendall, shaking his head as he did.
"Yup, not my fault; I was only doing it to protect Asha."
"And Asha loves Kendall?"
"Last time I checked yes, she loves everything about him; she thinks she's going to marry him."
"Speaking in those terms have you been romantically involved with any of the members of Big Time Rush?" Oh god, I can't lie; I fail at it. What the fuck am I going to say?
"Why?"
"Because if you have been living with four single boys and you are single I can only imagine what might go down."
"Well who do you think I have been involved with then?"
"James."
James, really?
"I can honestly tell you Griffin I am not involved, nor will I ever be involved with James Diamond."
"What about Carlos and Logan?"
"What about Kendall?"
"Echo, you kicked him in his pride area, I doubt anything would go on between you two because of that." But how wrong you are Griffin, wrong you are.
"Well I'm not interested in Logan or Carlos, besides, I see Carlos and Logan like brothers and Logan has a girlfriend."
"Oh, I see. Well the time is... 9pm, you can go and do whatever you want."
"Thanks Griffin, this talk was nice." I smiled genuinely at him before sliding off of the stool and make my way outside to the sandy paradise I was beginning to get attached to. As my flip-flops clapped the deck steps I slipped my hand into my denim pocket, pulling out my mobile and immediately going to my contacts.
Camille's face popped up on the screen smiling evilly at my angry face.
"Dude, seriously. You hung up on me! We need to talk firstly I do-"
"Guys, Echo is on the phone!"
"Echo! Hey!" Carlos shoved Camille out of the way smiling goofily at me and waving enthusiastically at me. As much as I loved Carlos I wanted to strangle him right now just so I could strangle Camille.
"Hey Carlos."
"Camille and Logan said that you were at a beach house."
"Yeah, I am."
"Well can I se-"
"Are you talking to Echo?" A distant voice asked.
"Hold on a second Echo. Yes, I'm talking to Echo; she's at a beach house!" Carlos said, being his usual adorable self. Footsteps pounded on the floor on the other side of the phone and James' face appeared on the screen.
"Really? Any beach babes?" He asked eagerly, smiling perversely at me wanting to see some model miraculously walking down the beach.
"No James because it's a private beach."
"Damn! I can't wait till we go platinum; lemme see!"
"Hey, I was talking to Echo first!" Carlos exclaimed shoving James out of the view of Camille's phone. I heard a crash at the other end and Carlos started laughing.
"Oatmeal face again? Carlos you bastard!" James whined in the distance. Next thing I know the mobile is on the floor and all I can see is the guy's apartment ceiling as more tumbling could be heard along with shouting between James and Carlos.
"Guys?" I asked as I slipped out of the flip flops again, sitting down on the sand to stare at the serene ocean and the clear night sky though keeping my iPhone in front of me waiting for someone to come and pick up the electronical item hoping it would be Camille.
"No one puts oatmeal on James Diamond and gets away with it!"
"Too bad Gustavo did then."
"Oh, bring it on Carlos." The shouts and scrambling noises in the background continued as Camille's phone got left, abandoned in their apartment.
"Guys? Hello?" I asked, hoping I would just have someone to talk to. Wait, who eats oatmeal at this time on night..?
"Echo, hey."
"Camille, there you are!" I said over the ruckus and noise in the background as Camille's face appeared when she picked up the phone.
"Here I am."
"Walk into a place where Carlos and James aren't fighting!" I frowned at her as she gave me another one of her smiles, seeming to move as the sounds of the fighting teens got more distant until I heard a door click.
"Camille what are you doing in here?"
"Echo is on the phone." Camille said to someone, her smile widening into a grin as she skipped in whatever room she was in, sitting down as another face appeared next to hers.
"Kendall." I smiled at him, even though it had been about three hours I was missing his eyebrow invaded face, his shaggy hair that couldn't decide if it was blonde or brown and his smiles.
"Echo, you've been gone less than four hours and Kendall is already moping in his room alone."
"I am not." Kendall said to Camille defensively. She just rolled her eyes at him returning her attention back to me.
"So, Echo. What did you wanna talk about again?" Camille asked with a coy smile on her lips, referring to the earlier conversation we had mostly about Kendall where she hung up on me.
"I just wanted to tell you... it's great out here though I miss you lot already." I made up along the way.
"We miss you too." Camille said, deliberately looking at Kendall in the corner of her eye to suggest that he had missed me the most.
"We have to go to the studio tomorrow for the whole day." Kendall said.
"I'll get Griffin to drop me off there."
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Yeah, see you tomorrow Kendall, uh, Camille can I talk to you alone." I asked, drawing my attention to Camille. She sighed reluctantly and got up, walking out of Kendall's room and I think she went into Logan's.
"Hey Logan." Camille said.
"I said alone."
"Yeah but Logan is in on this anyway." I rolled my eyes, she made it sound like it was mission freaking impossible! She jumped on the bed as Logan's smiling face came into view.
"Oh Echo, do you know we have to be at the studio tomorrow at like 1pm?"
"Yeah I do Logan, Kendall just said."
"We have a new song called I Know You Know, I get to rap in it, wanna hear some?"
"Tomorrow." Camille cut out my answer, turning back to me. "So when are you going to stop being so damn stubborn?"
"I'm not stubborn."
"You denying it is being stubborn."
"Camille is right Echo, there is something going on between you and Kendall. You'd make the perfect couple."
"Couple? Please! I don't want to be his girlfriend."
"Your words say no, but your eyes are saying yes." Camille quipped. This was not fair; I was getting double teamed here.
"But-"
"No buts, it's painful to watch you two deny what is blatantly there."
"I barely know him."
"There's not much to know about him anyway-"
"What Logan meant was give it some time, just stop following your head and follow your heart." That's what Debra had advised me to do though Camille was telling me to.
I didn't even know what my heart was telling me to do; I had never been in one of these situations before.
"Look, I don't want to talk about it anymore, see you tomorrow." I said simply, hanging up and throwing my mobile on the sand next to me, groaning in frustration loudly. I rested my elbow on my knees and buried my hands in my hair trying to fix the mess in my head and the yearning in my heart.
/
I woke up naturally the next morning to the sunlight streaming through the fancy glass windows. I checked my mobile and groaned.
7am, really?
Well there was no way I was going to get back to sleep now, fucking great.
I dragged my reluctant body out of bed and slipping on my clothes for today; a simple black tank, white ripped denim shorts and black pumps.
The place was still foreign to me as I quickly fixed my hair into a messy, loose style and applied my usual make-up while putting everything back in the overnight bag, making the guest bed and going down the charcoal coloured metal swirling steps downstairs.
"Griffin?" I called out loudly multiple times as I walked into the kitchen though checking the many rooms on the way to see if he was in there-he wasn't.
A piece of white paper on the island of the kitchen caught my attention; I walked over to it and picked it up.
Echo, needed to go to Rocque Records sorry it was urgent. Need you to be ready by 8am.
I have a surprise for you.
Griffin.
P.S Pancake batter in the fridge
Great, so even when we spend the time that we've lost together he still manages to disappear off to his work, typical.
What annoyed me was that I hated surprises; I couldn't stand them just because I didn't know what was going on and I wasn't in control and the fact that I fail at cooking anything, how Asha ate some of my diabolical cooking I will never know.
Nevertheless my stomach groaned, signalling that it was hungry and I would have to us what was available, even if it would end up burnt to a crisp.
I pulled open the large, pristine white fridge and grabbed the bowl of batter in there, closing it behind me. The frying pan, spatula and oil was left out by the side of each other for me, obviously from Griffin. I turned the gas on and poured on a generous amount of oil, hoping for the best as it started to heat up.
I poured in the serving of batter, watching it for a while, poking at it often with the spatula.
I dropped the spatula on the counter as my phone went off.
"Yes Camille?" Her early awakened face came onto my screen. She seemed to be happy and joyous even though it was far to fucking early to be up.
"So what's it going to be, your head or your heart?"
"You're still on about that? Camille; Kendall and I don't suit. We never have and we never will."
"Oh god, not this again. Do you know Kendall hasn't even spared a girl a glance since you've made your entrance at the Palm Woods?"
"And?"
"He likes you, you like him simple!" She stated loudly, starting to get frustrated at my difficult self. I rolled my eyes as I walked back over to the fridge, pulling the door open and grabbing some orange juice, finding a glass and pouring it in.
"Yeah, we do like each other only as- shit! Camille, I'll call you later." I said hurriedly, throwing the orange juice blindly back into the refrigerator and abandoning my phone on the island as I ran towards the stove.
My fucking pancake was on fire!
"Oh, no, no, no! Shit, shit, shit! No pancake, noo!" I shouted at the inanimate object, trying to fan at the flames but then realising I was feeding it oxygen I groaned.
What the hell should I do?
As a last resort I grabbed the frying pan and threw it in the sink spinning the cold water tap on full blast. I sighed in relief as the fire hissed, signalling its defeat and dissolving away as the rivets of water crashed against the fiery hazard.
"Two years away and you can't even cook a pancake." A stern voice sniped behind me. I froze, my body going rigid as the hairs of my neck stood up and I gripped forcefully onto the frying pan before letting go and turning around.
Only one person had that tone of voice...
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