A/N Hi all! Here is the next chapter. I hope you like. Oh and I would like to thank bananafreak97 for being my ONLY review. So Thanks bananafreak97 for reviewing, it meant so much to me. Now onto business, I doubt I will be updating before this Friday because this week is going to be crazy for me as well as this coming up weekend. So updates maybe slow but I will try my hardest to get the next one up before the 14 of October. That is my goal. Okay so yeah. Also REVIEW, pleeeaaassseee. Okay now I'm done. Onto the story…
Disclaimer: As much as I want to, and as awesome as it would be, I do not own nor will I ever own anything that has to do with BTR. Thank you.
Chapter 13: From the Airport to LA
The week came and went and soon it was Monday. (I should just say that Kelly and Gustavo left shortly after giving the eight of them the flight information and getting a name from Mrs. Knight to use, which was just Knight) Their flight was at 4:35 in the afternoon. It seemed everyone but Lily was bursting with excitement. She on the other hand was still unsure and was not as into it as the others. Even her grandmother was more excited then her, but she tried her best to appear as enthusiastic as them.
Logan, and Carlos went with Lily and her grandmother and they were to meet Kendall and James along with Katie and Mama Knight at the airport. Lily, Grams, Carlos and Logan were there first and when the others got there they saw Katie, James, and Mrs. Knight but no Kendall. Lily was about to say something but Carlos beat her to it.
"Hey, where's Kendall?" asks Carlos. Just as he said this, Kendall or at least that's what Lily thought, came over with so much luggage that he was hidden behind them.
"Kendall is that you?" questions Lily.
"Yes"
"What's with all that?"
"Ask Katie" but before she could ask, Katie states "all of that is not mine," she then proceeds to walk over and grab the bag, second to the bottom, which made everything else fall from his hands and says "This is mine."
"So then who's are those?" asks Mrs. Knight. To answer her question James says "Oh the rest are mine." as if it was no big deal. Kendall getting angry says "You're telling me that I have been carrying your bags this entire time and you haven't even carried one" Pointing to the bag in his hand he replies "No I have been carrying the most important bag."
"Which would be…" Seeing where this is going Logan starts to say "Uh hey guys our plane leaves…" but was cut off. Carlos deciding he should put on his helmet did so as Lily just stood there watching, thinking this is going to be good.
"My hair care products." in a duh tone. That was it, Kendall then tries to choke James but Lily thinking she didn't want her friend dead or her other friend to be put in jail for murder steps in between the two and exclaims "Okay you two, we do not have time for this. We still need to check our bags in and get on the plane before it leaves without us. Oh and James why don't you carry all your bags and give Kendall here a break." James tries to argue his way out of carrying his bags but stops himself when he sees the face Lily gave him. Which he knew to mean do it or else. So as he was picking up his bags Lily then adds "And while your at it take care of Kendall's things as well." In defeat James did as he was told grumbling while everyone else laughs. Lily was the only one that could force James into doing what he desperately doesn't want to. That was how he even got on the hockey team. He never planned on trying out but some how Lily got him to.
The flight to LA was uneventful, which surprised both Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Sandford because they thought that something would happen knowing the gang but the only thing that happened was Carlos slept, James was looking at himself in a mirror, read magazines and slept as well. Logan decided to do some math problems to pass the time. Lily, Kendall and Katie were playing poker.
Finally they get to LA….
(Du duda duh the part we have all been waiting for…..)
At LAX airport, a man in a suit was holding up a sign that read KNIGHT. Kendall was the first to spot the man and than following Mrs. Knight they went up to the guy. After a bit of introductory the man leads the eight of them outside, where two limousines were waiting.
Seeing the limos the five teens (yes even Lily) and Katie became all excited with excitement. The man that lead them there begins saying, in a bored tone, "As you know my name is George and that over there (pointing to the dude over by the farther Limo) is Guy we are to be your chauffeurs to the Palmwoods were you will be staying." Again, cue exciting squeals from James and Carlos. They were given weird looks from the people passing by but the others were unfazed.
Lily and the boys shottied one limo. Which left Katie, Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Sandford to the other, along with the luggage as well.
During the ride to their new home all five of them were goofing off and just having a good time. They listened to the radio, tried to dance to the radio in the limo and opened the windows and sun roof to stick their heads out and scream like maniacs. They were just full of energy and excitement, even after their long flight. Unable to believe they were actually in LA to become famous. Well maybe the four boys were, Lily on the other hand just fed off of their joy and excitement so as to not bring them down with her negativity.
Despite their goofing off, they still noticed the sights around them and gazed in wonder. Mesmerizing all they could so as to not forget. But all good things must come to an end right? Right! And so the surealness ended and the dream began once the limos brought them to their destination.
Unloading the limo, every personal was responsible for their own bags. As they were getting sorted, trying to figure out what they should do next since the chauffeur guys left them to their own antics, out of nowhere Kelly pops out saying "Hi there, I'll show you to your room, whenever your ready." all with a smile.
After getting over the initial shock and scare, everyone was itching to see their new home and told Kelly to lead the way.
As they are walking towards the entrance of the Palmwoods, Ms. Wainwright begins saying "Welcome to the Palmwoods. Home of the future famous."
Mrs. Knight, feels like a kid again when she spots an actually palm tree and goes and touches it. Afterwards exclaiming "That's the first palm tree I ever touched."
Continuing on Ms. Wainwright says "Every year, kids and parents from all over the world come here looking for fame in TV, movies, and music." Kendall seeing the cute little boy from the juice box commercial points it out by saying "Oh, hey, there's that funny kid from the juice box commercials." As they were passing 'the funny kid from the juice box commercial' on the stairs being pulled by his mother he says to her(his mother) "I just want my town hut back." with his mother ignoring him, telling him to come on.
Seeing this kind of, not really, reminded Lily of her parents since they never listened to her and did what they wanted.
After they passed the mother and son the eight soon found themselves in the lobby. Kelly goes on explaining "You guys are going to love it here. The rooms are clean, your close to the studio and there is an amazing pool." The moment pool was mentioned, the five of them dropped there things, with Lily echoing 'pool,' and went to find said pool. Once they were gone Kelly looked over to both Mrs. Knight and Mrs. Sandford, who's only reply to her unasked question was a shrug. Kind of saying what-can-you-do.
BREAKBREAKBREAKBREAKBREAK
With the gang, once they found the pool, which wasn't very hard to find at all, they located four empty lounge chairs. Problem, four empty lounge chair for five teens. Yeah not gonna happen right. So the teens seeing that there was only four vacate chairs raced off to get one before the others. Unfortunately for Lily, James was stronger and picks her up off the chair she won fair and square and dumps her on the ground. To this, from the ground, she says "Thanks James, love ya too."
"Aww don't be mad Lily Frog. It's a good thing I'm so strong and your so little."
"I am NOT little."
Carlos agreeing with James says "Yeah you are." but the moment after he says that he puts on his helmet in fear. Instead of making a comeback she just sits at the side of the pool to dip her feet in while grumbling to herself that she is not little and that James was just extremely tall.
As she makes herself comfy, the others do as well.
A few minutes later James, who by then has his sleeves, from his tee, rolled up to the shoulders, states "We are soo not in Minnesota any more."
"Minne who now." says Logan. Kendall then jumps in on the conversation with "What can I say, you guys were right (to Logan, Carlos and James)" To defend herself Lily turns around so she was facing her boys and says to him "I never said there was anything wrong with California…." But before she could finish her thought Kendall was suddenly grabbed by the shoulder to face the crazed chick attached to the arm that grabbed him, and proceeds to slap him.
That girl then, out of nowhere, goes and screeches "How dare you, what we had was real but you throw it all away for TRISH. Trish my sworn enemy. I never want to see again Troy. Never!" She then walks out of there, fast, crying while slapping a ball in some random dudes hands out of his hands.
As confused and shocked as Lily was by the brunette's actions, she couldn't shake off the feeling that the girl was familiar. She was then snapped out of her thoughts when Kendall exclaims "What just happened?"
The question was rhetorical because he didn't think he was going to get an answer. But to his, and everyone else's surprise, a voice that came out of nowhere says "You new guys just meet Camille, the Palmwoods method actress queen."
By the end of the sentence, doubtfully, Kendall looks to the garbage can that is next to him, because it sounded like the voice was coming from there. As he lifts the cover of the garbage can off, the kid from the juice box commercial jumps up saying "The names Tyler, you may have seen me acting in various juice box commercials,.."
By this point Lily had made her way over to the others, sitting with Carlos on his lounge chair. "Only I don't want to be an actor, I want to be a kid." As Tyler was finishing up his introduction, there is a panic scream of "TYLER." Knowing exactly who it is, Tyler goes back down into the garbage can asking the others to hide him. In answer to his request Kendall puts the lid back on the garbage can moments before this large woman, who they assume is Tyler's mother, goes up to them asking "Have you seen my son. Red hair, adorable, born to be a star. We got an audition!" Not ratting out Tyler, the five teens point towards the lobby of the Palmwoods saying, altogether, "He went that way." The woman believes them and runs off, continuing her search for her son.
Once she is gone the five turn back to Tyler, who's in the garbage can, and say "She's gone." At which point, Tyler, pops out giving his thanks.
Logan, the ever curious one, asks "So is everyone here an actor?"
In answer to his question, Tyler gives a 'no.' Then to further prove it he points out some dude with long hair, glasses, playing guitar and explains "That's Guitar Dude, he's a 'songwriter.'"
Logan, Kendall, James, Lily, and Carlos all look over at Guitar Dude. Guitar Dude noticing that the five were looking at him says "What's up?" He then starts creating a song with the words 'what's up.'
Barking is then heard, to which Tyler introduces them to the source of the barking.
"Oh, that's Lightening, the TV wonder dog."
The gang then looks over at Lightening, who surprises them by waving back. Seeing the dog wave, Lily makes the comment "He's good."
And last but not least, Tyler continues with "Oh and then there's the Jennifers. Three girls of the same name, who sing, dance, and act." And just as he finishes saying that he then went over to this huge fan, turning it on. Lily was wondering why he would do that until she looked behind her and saw these three girls, who she guessed were the Jennifers. And they, to her surprise, were actually walking in slow motion. Which, the fan add the extra effect to complete the slow walk.
Lily wasn't the only one to notice the three girls. The boys saw them too. And they went crazy, wanting to make those girls their girlfriends, especially Carlos who has never had a girlfriend before (well neither has Logan but Carlos said he did when he "dated" Lily for the short time they went out).
As the girls pass by Carlos knocks Lily off the chair while James speaks up saying to them "Hey." Once he had their attention he went on with "We're in a band."
Excitedly the Jennifers respond with "Really, Oh my gosh." But Lily, from the ground, again, saw right through their fake excitement act and knew they were going to blow her guys off. To prove her right the Jennifer with straight brunette hair says "And we're actresses who don't care."
Even though she knew, that her boys were going to be turned down, she couldn't help but find the situation funny because James, and the others, thought all that they needed to say was that they were in a band to get girls. So she was laughing whole heartedly and thanking god right now that Carlos pushed her off the chair because otherwise, considering how much she was laughing she would have fallen off.
Carlos not getting it through his thick head that they were rejected asks "Want to go to the movies tonight?"
The blond Jennifer than answers his question with a question "Are you guys staring in the movie?"
"No" answers Carlos.
Then to answer his early question the girls give a no.
As if to testify for their reason behind rejecting them brunette Jennifer says "If that seems harsh that's because it is and so is this town so..." Then the other two joined in with "Later" and walked off but not before curly haired Jennifer gives Tyler five bucks.
Lily finally getting off the ground (Putting the anger that she had when she saw just how mean those girls were to her boys, to the back of her mind as a mental note) and remembers what Carlos did and becomes 'mad' at him. When I say mad, she isn't really mad, just the playful mad, where she will get back at him. So after she gets up, she pushes Carlos off the chair and then she lays down on the chair. She was expecting him to do anything other then what he did next.
Lifting his upper half off the ground he states, with a goofy grin plastered on his face, "I am so in love."
Hearing him say that makes Lily's fears and uncertainties resurface. But instead of getting mad and stomping off, which she has been doing a lot lately, she says "Listen, reality check. We can not let this town, this singing thing or anyone change us."
Taking over Kendall continues "We need to promise ourselves right now that we are not going to change."
"Remember we are five hockey players from Minnesota and we can never forget that."
"Do we all agree." Logan, Carlos, and James gave a yes and not the half-hearted kind but a strong yes as in they will do it. Lily couldn't be happier when they said that because it made her believe what Logan said to be true.
Okay well that is the end of chapter 13. They are all in LA waiting to be made famous. Lily though still needs some convincing it sounds like don't you think. So what'd you think? Boring? Bad? Horrible? Amazing? Good? Needs improvement? Well let me know. Please, please please REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW, and REVIEW!
Also I have one more thing to ask; you see I pretty much had the rest of this story planned out and was thinking about how my next story should go. But I have a dilemma, I was originally going to do a set of one-shots/two-shots that take place during seasons one and maybe after leading up to the next full story. But then I was thinking maybe I should just go straight to the next full story, putting those one-shot ideas of season one in as flashbacks. So I'm not so sure. So it would help me a lot if I could have your input, since you guys are the readers. So please tell me what your thoughts. It would be greatly appreciated. =)
