Katie's 15 and the boys are 21

"Stop moping about your grades! It's two B's Katie not a big deal!" James said

"It is a huge deal, James." Katie said said she sat at the kitchen counter on a bar stool on her laptop looking at her grades.

The three boys heard the commotion and walked down stairs from the studio.

"What's going on?" Kendall asked

"Katherine here, is upset cause she got two B's on her report card." James said

"Don't call me Katherine." Katie growled through gritted teeth as she typed away on her laptop.

"I could call you Abigail or Kathy or something else that annoys you." James said.

"Just shut up." She said the Knight temper building up in her system.

The other three boys gave warning glances at James.

"No, you will not tell me to shut up Katherine. I'll do what I want!" James yelled at her.

"Fine! You want to be like that?! Go right ahead!" Katie said closing her laptop then ran upstairs.

"Smooth James real smooth." Kendall said then turned around following the young girl with Carlos right on his heels.

Kendall knocked on the young girls door then walked in seeing her sitting on her window seat looking out over the back yard and the town.

Katie looked up then back out the window.

"I over reacted I know I did. I'm so stupid." She said

"You're not stupid Katie." Kendall said as he and Carlos sat on her bed.

"Then why did I get two B's?" Katie asked.

"Katie it's on grade lower from an A, really not that big of deal. We don't care about your grades we just want you to past." Kendall said

"Let me guess, Gladdin and Kenny?" Carlos asked Katie nodded as Kendall looked confused.

"She had these two teachers named Mrs. Gladdin and Ms. Kenny. Both these teachers have been giving her a hard time the whole year." Carlos explained.

"And she only told you this?" Kendall asked and Carlos nodded

"I feel left out." Kendall said

"If I told you,Logan or James you would get my classes changed I'm not changing classing in the middle of the year." Katie said quietly.

"That is true." Kendall said looking at the young girl.

Katie turned around looking at two of her big brothers.

"Why did James yell?" She asked

"He had a rough day at the studio Gustavo pushed him over the limit." Kendall said

"I thought so." Katie said

"Come here." The two boys said opening their arms, Katie got up and walked over to the sitting in between them, the two boys wrapped their arms around the young girl.

James walked into the room.

"Can I talk to her alone?" He asked stuffing his hands into his pockets.

The two boys released the young girl and stood up with their arms crossed.

"You yell at her you die." They said then left the room.

James sat down next to her.

"Look I'm sorry, work has been tough and I'm stressed." James said opening his arms for her, if Katie returned the hug it was a way of saying that James was forgiven something that she did with all four boys.

Katie looked up at James biting her bottom lip then hugged him.

James breathed out not even noticing he was holding his breath.

"I love you Katie." He said

"I love you too." She said

"Now will you stop worrying about those two little stupid B's?" He asked and the young girl nodded

He held Katie at arms length, but with his hands still firmly on her shoulders, not willing to let her go just yet. Katie looked up at him, with a small smile.

"Finally I got you to smile!" James exclaimed pulling her into a bone crushing hug.

"Okay, okay James, you made your point, now let me go!" Katie laughed.

James pretended to think about it, "Hmmm, so you're going to promise to stop moping around the house?"

"Yes," Katie laughed

"And you're going to admit I am the most brilliant caring brother in the world?"

"Yea, no." Katie laughed wiggling out of James grasp.

James grinned, "So you're alright now right?" he asked turning serious for a moment.

Katie nodded, "Thank James,"

"Don't mention it," James smirked, and poked Katie in the stomach causing the smaller girl to squirm and grin.

"See now you're smiling!" James laughed and poked her

again. Katie backed away as James advanced, poking her again.

"James stop it!" Katie said trying to sound annoyed but the smile contradicted her.

James smirked and Katie didn't like the look in her brother's eye so quickly tried to make a run for it, but James was to quick. Instantly she felt himself being lifted off the ground and thrown onto her bed. From there James quietly attacked her vulnerable sides, mercilessly tickling her.

"NO! S-STOP IT!" Katie laughed as she thrashed under her older brother trying desperately to escape.

"See I think you need to make-up for all the moping around you've done today by laughing," James smirked. He grinned evilly as he assaulted Katie's helpless ribs, the young girls worst spot.

It wasn't unknown that Katie was deadly ticklish almost everywhere. With her small frame and sometime shy personality she often became the victim of tickle fights when she was being too quiet for the guys liking.

"Okay, I'm good now! Just stop!" Katie pleaded while laughing hysterically.

James smirked and stopped his attack on the young girl, who gratefully welcomed the end of her torture.

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Katie skipped into the kitchen seeing the boys all playing on their DS's she skipped around the island a couple times twirling a piece of hair in her fingers, something she never does she just did it to see if the the boys noticed, they didn't.

She skipped around the island poking the boys in their sides as she skipped around one more time. The boys jump dropping their DS's on the counter and covered their sides.

Katie stopped skipping on the opposite side of the island grinning

The boys looked at her.

"So you are ticklish.." Katie said smirking her arms crossed.

"We are not." James said

"Uh huh sure." Katie said walking into the living room.

The boys looked at each other worried.

Katie leaned on the archway then attacked James, her first victim.

"What the fu- No! St-stop it Katie Stop!" He said laughing.

Katie stopped after 15 minutes.

Katie looked at Kendall who was making dinner.

"Hey Katie can you get me the sour cream?" Kendall asked Katie grinned and nodded, opening the fridge grabbing it and putting it on the counter then tickling Kendall as she left the room.

Carlos sat in the studio part of the house messing around with the sound board.

Katie skipped into coming up behind the chair wrapping her arms around his shoulders.

"Oh hey Kat." He said grinning and kissed her cheek.

"Whatcha working on?" Katie asked

"New song." He said Katie nodded and slip her arms down by his sides tickling him.

Making Carlos laugh.

"Well I got to go ask Logan something about math homework." Katie said skipping out of the room.

Logan typed away on his laptop scrolling through his medical book.

Katie skipped in making Logan look up.

"Yes?" He asked taking of his glasses.

Katie plopped a stack of homework on top of the textbook.

Logan looked through it.

"This will be easy." Logan said as he motioned her to sit on his lap since the three other studies had been put in the house a few weeks ago their was only one chair.

Logan start explained it all to her.

"OK thanks Logie." She said kissing his cheek and tickled his sides. Then grabbed the homework leaving.

"This is really good Ken." James said grinning as they sat at the dinner table 3 hours later.

"I found something useful today." Katie said smirking

"What's that?" Kendall asked

"All for of you are ticklish." She said

"How do you know?" They asked making her roll her eyes.

"You four tried to deny but I got all four of you within an hour." Katie said face palming

"Fine you got us." Carlos said throwing in the towel know the young girl would continued tickling the four until they confessed.

"You're right." The other three said.

Katie smirked and continued eating.