A/N Okay so believe it or not I am on a roll. So here is the next chapter. Please review and tell me your thoughts.
Disclaimer: I, as unfortunate it as it is, I do not own anything other than Lily and her grandmother.
Chapter 20: Big Time Rush is Born
Later on, as in evening around 8ish, the five of them were sitting around on this couch-bench-cushioned sitting thing that is by an outdoor fire pit. Which was kind of isolated, since it is in the corner. By then all of them have dried off, somewhat.
And now, after having an amazing water fight in the pool, the five are back to being depressed. Thinking about having to return to Minnesota.
James who desperately wants to be famous and willing to practically do anything says, getting all of the others attention, "I could stay here and be a model. I'm still great looking."
In an attempt to lighten the mood Lily says "Who told you that? Surely someone would have pointed out that you are far from great looking. More on the spectrum of okay looking."
"Haha very funny Baby Girl. But seriously with my looks I could be a model….or the star of a reality show."
"Which one? Project Idiot?" Carlos puts in. A little harshly since he remembered he's mad at James from when he pushed him when all he was trying to do was make peace. Plus he called his helmet stupid. Never dis the helmet.
Lily noticing that Carlos was still mad at James and not wanting her friends to start fighting, she grabs Carlos' hand, who she is sitting next to, and gives it a squeeze and then leans her head against his shoulder. She does this to try and calm him down.
James knew he deserved that, especially after how he treated Carlos, but his pride and ego just wouldn't let him take it. And so in retaliation he says "That's just your jealousy talking."
Kendall who has been lost in his own thoughts voices what's been on his mind, unknowingly preventing a fight between Carlos and James. He says "You know what's funny. We didn't even get a chance to sing together."
The tension that was building melted away after Kendall finished talking. Which made both Lily and Logan feel better and put Carlos' smile back on his face.
Hoping to further diminish the tension, since James still had a scowl on his face, Lily lifts her head off of Carlos' shoulder and starts to sing 'The Turd Song.' She is immediately joined by both Kendall and Carlos.
The three sing the 30 second song once, but with out pause continue on to sing it a second time. As they begin it a second time Kendall stands up as well as Logan. The three are also joined by James during this time around. Except he harmonized instead of singing the melody, which Lily thought sounded awesome. And before the second time around ended both James and Carlos were standing. Lily was the only one who was sitting. But not for long, because Logan noticing that she was the only one sitting goes over to her and pulls her up. By now they were singing it a third time.
During the third time around Logan was beat boxing, Kendall and Carlos were clapping, keeping a steady beat and both James and Lily harmonized. Lily went up and James went down, musically of course. And at the end of the third time, James jumped up on the couch-bench-cushy sitting thing and took the end as a solo.
James solo was like giving their singing a finality, so once they were done, more like once James finished his solo, Lily laughed just out of pure happiness and joy, as well as the guys. In 'celebration' of their awesome singing Kendall and Carlos did the man shake, Lily and Logan high-fived, and Lily hugged James, after he got down.
At the same time, once they finished, some people, who were at the poolside and heard began clapping. Since the applause started off rather on the quiet side the five didn't hear. And so after they 'celebrated' they went to sit. But as they went to sit, the clapping got louder and so they noticed it. Only thing it took them a few moments to realize they were clapping for them.
Now since they realized who the applause were for, Lily who isn't used to singing in public, tries to hide by burying her face in Logan's shoulder. And as she is trying to hide, she is laughing in disbelief. Even so, Lily has to admit she enjoyed that. She enjoyed singing with her boys. But of course she tells herself differently, denying it and saying that what she feels has nothing to do with singing with them. That stubborn girl.
Anyway, Logan, the person Lily is burying her head in, is too in awe (as were Kendall, Carlos, and James. Also note that when James shock wore off, him being the bighead he is he gave a bow) to notice what Lily is trying to do. But when he did notice, what she was doing he laughed at her and without saying a word moved over so she couldn't hide. Therefore, she was forced to look out at their 'audience.'
What she saw amazed her. Just like it was for the boys, she was stunned. And as she was looking at them she saw one person in particular. Her Grandmother. She saw her grandmother, who was standing by Mama Knight near the VIP room entrance, clapping, proud of her Granddaughter. And right there Lily knew they had to do something to get another chance. And so she raced off towards her Grandmother, struck with an idea. But not before Kendall says "We should do this?"
Lily's actions confused the boys a little but they didn't think too much on it.
Anyway, once Lily was right in front of her Grams she asks "You didn't by any chance bring my staff paper and songbook did you?" You see my lovely reader, when Lily was younger she would make up songs, mostly insulting songs like 'The Turd Song,' and would write them down and would leave them at her grandmothers. Why? Because most of the songs were about her parents and she didn't want them to know. But that is besides the point. Lily had two books that she would write her songs in; one would be a notebook specifically for her lyrics and the other would have the musical melody. Hence staff paper notebook was used. And Lily, who hasn't used those books in like forever was hoping against hope that maybe her Grams thought to bring them.
In reply to her granddaughters question Mrs. Sandford went to say "I had a feeling you were going to need it. It's in one of the suitcases." But all that she got to say before Lily ran off was "I had a feel…."
Now before her grandmother said anything, Lily saw her smile and just knew she brought her things so without waiting for her grandmother to finish she her reply she raced off to apartment 2J. She was in such a hurry that she didn't even bother using the elevator, instead she used the stairs, actually getting to the apartment faster than had she used the elevator.
Once in the apartment, she searched through two suitcases before she found what she was looking for. And her music things were in a suitcase filled with her Grandmothers personal things like pictures and knitting needles. She also spotted a mini portable electric piano but she only looked at it for like two seconds before she sped back down to rejoin her friends.
BREAKBREAKBREAK
After Kendall recovered from Lily's abrupt departure, he stood up and faced his other friends saying "You guys were right. I really think we can do this." But Logan had to be the voice of reason and say "How? We got fired, remember?"
"We didn't get fired." Which was responded with a look from Logan saying you-know-we-did, so Kendall then continued on saying "I mean we got fired. But the problem is, we didn't try our best." To which James says "I tried my best."
"We know James, we know." and to Guitar Dude, who was sitting close by, Kendall says "Guitar dude, I need some music, something inspirational." And in response to Kendall's request/demand Guitar Dude begins to play.
Now as Guitar Dude is playing, Kendall goes ahead and says "We are hockey players brothers, and sister (pointing to the spot Lily previously occupied) of the ice and we do not quit. Now are we going to dump the puck and scramble back to the bench or are we gonna grab that puck, pull the goalie and rush the net big time."
"You really think we can make it as a boy band?" questions Carlos.
"Pop group and no." Answers Kendall but he continues on with "But I've realized three things since we got here. One, I love singing. Two, I love singing with you guys and Lily, plus opportunities like this come once in a lifetime." Since it didn't seem like Kendall was going to continue, Logan prompt him by asking "What's the third thing?" And in response Kendall says while turning to face the pool, "It's minus eight minutes right now and I'm in love with this pool." Turning back around to face his friends he continues with, "So what's the play; dump the puck or big time rush?" Going down the line, all three of them answer Kendall with "Big time rush" as well as Kendall, who answers himself.
Lily returns just in time to hear the boys say 'big time rush.' And she couldn't help but exclaim "That's it." And hearing Lily's voice all of their attention was on her, but the books in her arms didn't go unnoticed. Anyway Kendall not quite understanding what Lily was talking about asks "What's it?"
"Big Time Rush."
Even after giving her three worded explanation, all she got was blanks looks from her friends. And so, sitting down, in between Logan and Carlos, she further explains "For our name. Come on its better than what those bimbos came up with. I mean think about it. It's who we are, since when have you known us to not go big time with anything."
Once she finishes her little speech, she remains quiet. Letting what she said sink in. And after a minute or two, Kendall is the first to say anything, which is "You know that could work. And I like it." Both James and Carlos follow-up Kendall's comment with their own consent. Logan was the only one who remained quiet. But finally, the ever wet blanket that he is, he says (without looking at any of them mind you) "I like it but we were fired. So how do you expect him to take us back? I want to believe we may get another chance and I want to make a big time rush play but like Kendall said it was a once in a lifetime opportunity." Which just brings down all of the guys' hope. But Lily wasn't going to let them get crushed so easily and thinking back to when Gustavo 'fired' them she says "Well technically he didn't actually fire us."
The reply she got was once again blank looks from the four of them and so she elaborates by explaining "Look he said he'd rather quit and then tore us apart. But did he ever once say that we were fired?"
In answer to her question Carlos hesitantly says "Well, no…"
"Exactly, in this business you have to grab on and not let go for anything. What we have to do is go back tomorrow, bright and early I might add, and demand a second chance promising that we will be better."
Now James who is willing to try anything to achieve his goal is the first to say "I'm in." Followed by both Kendall and Carlos, since Kendall was thinking along the same lines as Lily. By now Lily, James, Kendall, and Carlos were standing up with their hands in and noticing that Logan hasn't joined they all looked at him expectantly.
Logan looking back at them thinking about it puts a smile on his face and tells them "I said it before and I'll say it again 'Big Time Rush.'" And he puts his hand in and after Kendall counts down from three to one they yell "BIG TIME RUSH."
Since they were all on the same page, Lily goes off and says "Now that we have a name, we need our first single that does not have the word 'girl' in the title or song."
Kendall, who noticed the books in her hands when she first got there as well as the look that she has on her face right now asks "And what exactly are you planning? And what are with the books?"
"Well, right now we are not on Gustavo's good side. So maybe if we were to…you know…come up with part of a melody or something for our song he may like us better?" Ending her answer more as a question.
Logan siding with her puts in "It's worth a shot."
Kendall then takes over as leader and says "One problem; none of us know how to write a song. So, then how are we suppose to do something we don't know." It's not that he was trying to be pessimistic or mean or anything. Actually normally he would be all for it but he didn't want Gustavo getting mad at them, again and not giving them another shot all because they couldn't write a song properly. But what he wasn't expecting was for Lily to come back with "We may not know how to write a song but I bet Guitar Dude would help us."
The five of them, then turn to Guitar Dude. Thinking that with the help of Guitar Dude, a 'songwriter' as Tyler had said before Kendall says "Alright." And so the teens then walk up to Guitar Dude and with a nudge from the guys, Lily asks "Hey, Guitar Dude…could you like help us write a song?"
"Sure dudette and dudes, no problem. Do you have anything in mind."
Looking at her friends and seeing that they have no idea she goes on and proposes, "Well, actually we were thinking of writing a song based on our band name 'Big Time Rush.' Basically about five hockey players taking a chance at becoming famous and making it big."
Throughout her explanation for a song, Guitar Dude was nodding his head. Showing he understood, while the guys who were behind her stood confused. Not about what she was saying but more of where the heck did this Lily come from because they had no idea about her past, except Logan, but even he was speechless.
Kendall felt like Lily was hiding something, something that Logan knew and was connected with her not wanting to come originally. But at the same time he was amazed.
James was too happy to be bothered with his confusion. Not caring where all of this came from, just thankful to have a friend like Lily, who seemed to know what she was doing.
And Carlos. Well Carlos was Carlos. He was confused within the first few words of her explanation but let it blow over and just go with the flow. So he didn't bother questioning her.
Once Lily finished giving her pitch of a song idea Guitar Dude was all like "Nice idea." And so for the next two hours the five teens sat with Guitar Dude trying to come up with something.
Guitar Dude was helping coming up with the instrumental part, which Lily kept track of in her staff book while everyone else was trying to come up with lyrics that could be used. Which was, again, written down by Lily in her notebook whether they all agreed to use it or not, because you never know. When she wrote the boys wanted to see but never once did she give them a chance to get a good look at her books.
Sad, thing is, even after two hours, all they had was; What you want, what you feel, never quit and make it real. When you roll big time. And; Go and make the luck with the life you choose. If you want it all lay it on the line. It's the only life you got, so you gotta live Big Time.
Even though that was all that the five of them could agree upon, Lily had written down more lyrics that were said but not used. The reason was because it seemed anything that anyone said was always denied by the others. James and Carlos were the worse. Those two bickered incessantly and it was only because of the others that those two didn't get into a fight. Honestly, those two act like five year olds.
Anyway with discouraged hearts they all went up 2J to get some sleep, because, like Lily had said, they would be going to Rocque Records nice and early to show that they are dedicated.
Okay so whatcha think? Please review and tell me your opinions. Okay so I asked in the last chapter and I will ask again; who would you like Lily to end up with if she was to get into a romantic relationship with one of the boys-Logan, Carlos, Kendall, or James. Please review.