.:Chapter Twenty – Big Time Sibling Rivalry:.

"Syd, what candy do you want?" Rhuben asked as she pulled her wallet out of her front pocket. She sighed loudly as Sydney pressed his face up against the glass to see what kind of candy he wanted. "It's not that hard to choose, just pick something!" she snapped after a few seconds of his steam fogging the glass.

"A little testy there, huh?" Logan asked with a teasing smile from beside her as he waited for the cashier to give him his popcorn.

"Yeah, well, you'd be in a cranky mood too if you had to watch these little terrors every day." Rhuben replied sarcastically as she motioned over to Sydney and his brothers. "When we got back home, Patrick and Noah were arguing over something and they wouldn't stop until it was time for us to come here." She paused. "Thanks for inviting us, by the way."

"I would say you're welcome," Logan stated as he took his bag of popcorn from the cashier and waited for Rhuben to finish getting hers and Sydney's food. "But we didn't actually invite you." He smiled when Rhuben shot him a confused look. "James was asking Riley out on a date, and she thought that he was asking if all of you wanted to come."

"Oh," Rhuben handed Sydney his candy and turned to Rhuben. "Well, that's an obvious sign that she doesn't feel the same way. She only does that when she doesn't like someone." She smirked a bit. "But I'm assuming that James isn't going to give up?"

"Never." Logan laughed in reply as the two walked over to the rest of their friends. "James hates it when a girl says that she won't date him. It'll just make him try harder."

"Good to know."

"Ok, so does everybody have everything?" Kendall asked when everybody was back together, holding onto their bags of candy and popcorn and cups of soda. He looked over at Katie and couldn't help but feel a little bad for her. She had been quiet ever since she figured out that Julius couldn't go, because he was hanging out with some friends. "You're not going to get anything to eat?"

"No, I'm not that hungry." She replied and shoved her hands into her pockets, looking around.

"Well, if you do get hungry, you can share some of my popcorn." Patrick offered his large tub of popcorn that was nearly the size of his head.

"What size is that?" Riley asked, crinkling her eyebrows.

"The large." Patrick replied with a bright smile and motioned towards Carlos. "Carlos and I are going to see who eats the most by the time the movie ends."

"What movie are we seeing?" Sydney questioned.

"Well, it had to be a movie that you were able to see," Kendall replied, looking sheepish. "So I thought that it would be a good idea if we saw the movie The Karate Kid." He smiled when everybody else showed that they were fine watching that movie.

"Hey, Riley, do you want to sit next to me?" James asked as they all walked towards the theatre. Riley paused, trying to find an excuse not to, but didn't want to seem rude, so she simply nodded in reply.

"Ten bucks Katie sits next to me." Patrick whispered to Noah. Noah raised his eyebrows but didn't rise to the bait. As soon as they had gotten back home after recording in the studio, he and Patrick had been arguing over Katie.

It started out with Patrick's simple comment of saying that he wanted to ask her out, and then Noah admitted that he liked her and the two of them started to fight over it. It escalated to the point that they were beating each other with pillows until he got on their siblings' nerves. Especially Julius' he has a short fuse when it comes to fights.

"Well, this is definitely going to be interesting." Rhuben muttered to Logan, who nodded in reply. As they all started to file into a row, Noah noticed that Patrick was moving to get a seat next to Katie. He moved forward and tapped his brother on the shoulder and ducked out of the way.

When Patrick turned around, Noah moved ahead of him and took the empty seat between Sydney and Katie, as Kendall took Katie's other side.

"Jerk." Patrick grumbled as he sat down in his seat. Noah smiled from where he was sitting.

Throughout the movie Patrick was seething about what Noah had done, Sydney, Noah, and Katie were enjoying the movie and re-enacting their favorite parts quietly. Rhuben and Logan were commenting on the writing of the movie and how cheesy some of the lines were. Kendall and Carlos were making sound effects along with the movie, and James was trying to have a non-awkward conversation with Riley. Either way most of them were having a good time, and others weren't.

"We'll see you guys at your concert tomorrow," Logan said as he gave Riley and Rhuben a hug goodbye.

"See ya!" Sydney waved and grabbed onto Riley's and Rhuben's hands as they started to walk away from Big Time Rush. He paused and stopped walking after a second. "Wait a minute; don't we live in the Palm Woods with them?"

"Don't you remember?" Rhuben asked, looking down at him. "Earlier today Ronan said that we could stay at his house tonight." She rolled her eyes. "To make sure that we actually sleep."

"Oh yeah."

"So, Riles, you don't like James do you?" Rhuben asked as she turned to her older twin. Riley shook her head, heaving a heavy sigh.

"Not at all." She replied.

"So why don't you just tell him that you don't like him instead of leading him on?" Rhuben replied. Riley stopped and looked at her with raised eyebrows. "And don't say that you're not. You let him pay for your food."

"Because I felt bad!" Riley snapped in reply. "And you can't say that you haven't felt that way before. Remember Kyle? That kid that was, like, infatuated with you?"

"That was different!" Rhuben replied.

"How?"

"He was in a wheelchair!"

"So?"

Behind them, Patrick and Noah were walking slower than their siblings. Patrick let out a sigh through his nose, his jaw clenched. Beside him, Noah was smirking with happiness. He looked over at his brother when he heard the sigh.

"Something wrong, bro?" he asked sweetly.

Patrick forced a smile that was so wide it looked scary. "Not at all."

"If you say so!"

They were all silent, minus Sydney's happy humming, until they got back to Ronan's house. As soon as he had closed the front door and they all went off to their separate rooms. As soon as Sydney closed the bedroom door, Patrick grabbed a pillow off of the bed and threw it at Noah.

"Thank a lot, traitor!" he shouted as it hit Noah in the face.

"How am I a traitor?" Noah shouted as he whipped the pillow back at him. Patrick caught it against his chest and glared.

"Because you knew that I liked Katie and tricked me out of sitting next to her at the movie theatre!" Patrick replied and held the pillow high above his head. "The way I see it, it's like this. L is for the way you're a loser. O is for the way I'm over you. V is that I mean it very much. And E is that it's exceptionally true!" Patrick hit Noah in the legs with his pillow.

"I'm surprised that he knows what exceptionally means." Sydney noticed to himself.

"Oh, well," Noah forced a laugh. "If we're going to do song puns, here's one." He raised a pillow over his head. "You're so vain you probably think this pillow is about you!" He whacked Patrick in the face with a pillow.

The two continued to hit each other with pillows as Sydney calmly got ready for bed. When he was finished, he calmly climbed onto one of the beds and grabbed the pillows that his brothers were holding on the upswing. He took a deep breath when he got their attention.

"BOTH OF YOU JUST SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP!" He shouted. "WE HAVE A CONCERT TOMORROW AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I DON'T WANT IT TO BE A DISASTER!"

"Fine." Patrick and Noah replied quietly.

"Hey Logane?" (Like Rogaine, but making a pun out of Logan)

"No, Carlos, I'm not going to help you make a human-sized catapult to launch yourself across the Palm Woods lobby." Logan replied as he looked up from the newspaper the next day.

"Aww, but it'll be so much fun!" Carlos replied with a whine.

"No! Carlos!" Logan replied and then looked over towards the front door, which was sitting wide open. He looked around and saw that Mrs. Knight was in her room, Katie was sitting at the kitchen table, and James and Kendall were watching TV. "Carlos? Why is the door to our apartment open?"

"Oh, I opened it." Carlos replied as he squeezed himself onto the couch next to Kendall and James.

"Why?" Logan continued annoyed with how slow the conversation was going.

"Because I got hot." Carlos replied as if it was obvious. Logan sighed and ran a hand over his face before looking at Carlos sternly.

"Then why didn't you open a window?" he asked quietly.

"Because who knows what kind of people could come through the window. Duh!" Carlos replied as he rolled his eyes. Logan rubbed his forehead as he felt a part of a headache starting to come on. Something that he only got whenever he was dealing with Carlos.

"Logan ol' buddy ol' pal!"

Logan looked up as Riley and Rhuben stormed into the room. "What's up?" he asked as he set aside the newspaper. "Shouldn't you be getting ready for your concert?"

"Yes, but that's not important!" Riley replied and pointed at her sister. "Tell Rhuben that she's wrong!"

"No, tell Riley's that she's wrong!" Rhuben replied.

"Hey, I'm trying to watch the Minnesota Wild here!" Kendall shouted over their voices.

"Ok," Logan shrugged. "Whoever was wrong last time is right this time."

"Yes!" Rhuben punched the air with her fist. She turned to Riley. "I'm right, now you have to tell James-"

"Tell me what?" Carlos could have sworn that he had seen James' ears perk up at the mention of his name.

"That," Riley crossed her arms over her chest and bit her lower lip. "That I don't like you the same way you like me."

"Yeah, I knew that." James replied with a nod.

"What?" Riley, Rhuben, and Logan stated in unison.

"Well, then why have you been chasing after her?" Logan demanded, not sure what his friend meant.

"You know me," James replied with a grin and a shrug. "I'm always after pretty girls, even if they don't want me."

"Why do I have the feeling that he just insulted me?" Rhuben asked with a confused look as she turned towards Logan. He patted her on the shoulder.

"In James-speak, you just did." He whispered in reply. "Don't feel bad, we always get that." He frowned when Rhuben sighed. "What's wrong?"

"Patrick and Noah are fighting, what else is new." She replied before turning. "We'll see you guys later at the concert."

As the Jacksons were getting ready for their concert, Patrick and Noah weren't speaking to each other. They got dressed and got stage makeup put on to in silence. Riley, Rhuben, and Sydney were annoyed, trying to get them to talk to each other, but it didn't work.

Finally, Patrick decided to have a change of heart and turned to face his brother.

"This is stupid," he stated, causing Noah to look over at him with a raised eyebrow. Patrick rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I know. It's something coming from me. I don't like fighting with you."

"I don't like fighting with you either." Noah replied quietly, scuffing his shoe on the floor.

"In that case…I'm going to step back," Patrick replied and continued to explain when Noah looked at him funny. "You can have Katie." He rolled his eyes. "Not that she's a prize to be won, according to Sydney."

"The little bugger." Noah added with a half smile. "Are you sure?"

"Do you really like her?" Patrick asked simply.

"Yeah." Noah nodded.

"Then I'm sure." Patrick grinned and mussed Noah's hair until it was messed up. "C'mon little bro, we have a concert to do."

Noah beamed back in reply.

A/N: Not the best chapter because it was a filler. Ok, so I had the idea of this chapter when I realized to make them even more realistic the Jacksons needed to fight over something. Anyway, the next chapter is going to be really funny because it will be called 'Big Time Court Room'. There are a lot of things that can come up with that. But you're just going to have to wait. Just so you know, the only reason these past two chapters have been about the Jacksons is because I'm trying to show how they can be realistic. How am I doing? The next chapter is going to be about Big Time Rush again. Hope you guys are enjoying this story!

PS – Did you watch the 7 Secrets with Big Time Rush?