Big Time Rush:
Unbelievable
Quick question: What do you do when you wake up one morning and you find yourself stuck in a world that makes no sense?
Quick answer: Don't panic.
Jo Taylor had absolutely no idea what was going on. The last thing she could remember was going to bed on her very first day at the Palm Woods and now everything seemed so wrong. She had woken up but her apartment was completely different. Everything was wrong. She didn't wake up in the same room she had fallen asleep in. She didn't wake up in the same clothes she fell asleep in. Her bed didn't look the same. The things in her room didn't look right. There were no boxes cluttering the floor. Everything seemed to be put away as though they had been there for a while but she had been sure there were boxes when she fell asleep. She also couldn't remember ever buying any Big Time Rush posters which were posted right over her bed.
The strangest thing of all was when she looked in the mirror she looked different, almost like she had aged a few years over the course of the night. She wished she was dreaming because this was just too intense and made no sense whatsoever. Everything seemed wrong. Nothing was recognizable. She recognized some of the things in her room or what she hoped was her room. Her guitar was the same as ever, sitting on its stand by the window. There was no balcony to this room and by looking out the window she realized she was higher up now.
She was afraid to look around the room so she didn't even bother instead she slipped out of the bedroom and did her best not to get lost on the way to the living room. Her father was sitting at the island with a cup of coffee in one hand and a paper in the other.
"Dad?" Jo asked nervously.
"Hello, sweetie," he sipped his coffee. It was like he didn't even notice everything was completely messed up. "Want some breakfast? Or are you going to hang out with your friends today?"
Jo walked up to him slowly to peek over his shoulder at the newspaper in his hand, she wanted to see the date but he wasn't holding the front cover. She noticed it was sitting on the island beside his hand holding the coffee. She grabbed at the paper suddenly startling her father. She looked at the date in a panic. There was no way.
"It's 2012?" Jo asked taking a deep breath. "That's not possible."
Her father dropped his paper on the table without a word to turn and look at his daughter in a very concerned fashion. He carefully placed his hand on her forehead to check her temperature. Jo looked up at her father with a panic in her eyes. She looked downright terrified.
"Honey, are you alright?" He asked gently touching his daughter's shoulder. "Maybe you should go back to bed."
"Bed," Jo said in a dazed voice. "Sounds good, sleep may help me."
Her father carefully tucked her back into bed. She fell asleep never feeling so confused in her entire life. Her father wondered what could possibly be wrong with his daughter but she shut her eyes tightly pulling her blanket up to her neck. Jo closed her eyes tightly praying this was just a dream and the next time she opened her eyes everything would be back the way it should be.
When Jo opened her eyes again everything was still so screwed up. She found her phone sitting on the desk, she found she had two missed messages on her voicemail. One of them was from her father so she listened to that one first.
"Hi, honey, I hope you're feeling better. I left pancakes in the fridge if you want to heat them up. Sorry, I couldn't be there when you woke up, I got called into work. I hope you understand. I love you and I'll talk to you later." Well, at least one thing still seemed normal, her father.
She checked the other message and was confused by the caller. It was Kendall. She wondered if it was the Kendall she had met what should have been yesterday. She pulled up the voicemail. "Hey, you're dad told me you weren't feeling well this morning. Everything okay? You can call me if you don't feel well, I don't mind taking care of you especially since your dad is at work. Just give me a call."
Jo hung the message before it went any further. She didn't even know Kendall that well why would he volunteer to take care of her? Jo dropped the phone back on the desk without looking at anything else on her phone aside from the time. It was well past noon and the year was still glaring at her tauntingly. This was completely crazy. She should be back in February 2010. Now it seems as though she's more than two years into the future. That wasn't possible right?
Jo sat down on the bed and took another look around the room. Things were so odd here. There were things in the room that made no sense to her. She hadn't seen them before ever before and she figured that if it was two years into her future but there were some more outstanding than others. Such as the light blue script sitting on her laptop with a highlighter on top of it, she had never even heard of this show before as she read the title. New Town High, she thought. Her eyes widened when she saw she was one of the leading characters in the show. She had a TV show. She had a steady job, it wasn't music but it was something, and it was a foot in the door.
She placed the script back down on her laptop before riffling through some of the other things in her room. She saw the first script for New Town High on her desk. Along with a Big Time Rush CD she didn't recognize. She noted it went well with the posters above her bed though. That still made no sense to her. She recognized the guys though; they were the four crazy guys who had been competing over her, Kendall, James, Carlos, and Logan. She put the CD back where she found it.
Next she moved onto her dresser where something was glinting on top of it that caught her eye almost immediately. She moved closer cocking her head to the side, with her eyebrows scrunched up together in confusion, and carefully reached out to touch it. She picked up gently as though at any moment it may suddenly disappear. It was a gold bracelet. She ran her fingers over the band carefully. She wondered where this had come from or who had given it to her. Maybe it was something her father or mother passed down to her. She wasn't sure as she placed it back on top of her dresser. As she began to move away something else caught her eye. It was a picture frame. It said 'baby's first birthday' on it making Jo confused. If it was a baby frame she would've remembered it but she didn't. Upon closer inspection she saw a picture of her and Kendall together.
Blinking rapidly trying to clear her eyes to make sure she was seeing what she thought she was seeing in the picture frame. It was a picture of her and Kendall. They were hugging each other and maybe that wouldn't so strange if Kendall wasn't kissing her forehead with his eyes closed while she grinned like an idiot. What happened to the whole not having a boyfriend thing?!
She turned around quickly with the whole out of sight of mind attempt but it didn't work because now she was starting to notice a trend. There was a picture of Kendall on her night table as well. Coupled with the Big Time Rush posters, the CD, and from the looks of it another CD. It was starting to become more and more apparent to her that she was involved with him not to mention the message on her phone. She picked up her phone again and this time she saw her picture up as her screen. Another picture of her and Kendall but this time they were kissing. Jo dropped the phone to the bed and stepped back.
Okay, so if this was really two years into the future for her. What on Earth happened to make her change her mind about not dating? She had come here with the thought of focusing completely on her career. What did Kendall do that changed her mind?
From the looks of her room she couldn't say the relationship was one sided. She must be seriously in love with him. Jo shook her head sitting herself in her desk chair with her face in her hands as she tried to process this. How was this possible? She had gone to bed last night, it wasn't like she had done anything insane. How could she have ended up over two years into the future? It wasn't possible.
"Hey," someone said.
Jo jumped up from her seat not recognizing the voice right away. For a moment she thought someone had broken into her home but when she looked at the person she recognized Kendall. He looked startled by her sudden reaction and moved slightly from leaning against the door to hold his hands up innocently. He looked so much different than the last time she had seen him. It was like he had not only aged physically but mentally too and it was reflected in his green eyes. Those eyes still held the same glint of mischievousness to them. His hair was shorter now it wasn't as shaggy as it had been. Although his clothing style seemed to remain the same as it had been with a very relaxed look to it. He was wearing a light blue flannel shirt with faded jeans. He was smiling softly at her with a teasing edge to it.
"You didn't answer my message in the last few hours." He explained. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay. How are you feeling? Any better after your nap?"
Jo shook her head before she could stop herself. For some reason she felt like she could trust him and tell him exactly how she felt without having to worry. Kendall moved further into the room and took her into his arms. He tucked her head underneath his jaw with his hand on the back of her head with his other arm wrapped around her waist. Jo let him tug her closer to him. She felt safe tucked in his arms though it was very odd since for her she had only met him 24 hours ago. After the crazy morning she was experiencing it was nice to have a moment to escape from her major problem.
After all how are you supposed to explain this to anyone? Say, I'm from 2010 could you please help me figure out how to get back? With that she'll probably get to meet some very nice men dressed all in white with a very large needle and a soft padded room where they put all the people who aren't in the right time.
Kendall slipped away from the embrace just a little to look at her face. Jo looked up at him hoping there wasn't a weird look on her face. Something that said; I know we're probably dating but I know absolutely nothing about you. That probably would be hard to explain to him why his girlfriend isn't in love with him. Although, she could just say she's never actually been his girlfriend. There are those guys dressed in white again either that or a broken hearted Kendall who wonders why his girlfriend suddenly claims she isn't.
"What's wrong? Cold or a stomach bug? Something not sitting right with you?" Kendall asked.
"Just a little out of it," she answered carefully.
"So, you're not sick?" Kendall inquired. "Like if I stay here I'll catch it like last time and end up upsetting Gustavo again?"
"I don't think so," Jo said softly.
"Okay, so do you have anything you need to do today? Because I am free and I was wondering if my girlfriend could spend an entire Saturday alone with me?" Kendall chuckled. "I was thinking it might be a nice change of pace."
Jo nodded because she honestly had no idea if she was doing anything today and she didn't know what to say to him. Turning him down probably wouldn't be the best idea in the world. Until she could figure out what on Earth was going on she decided she would have to live in this life.
After a week slipped by Jo found she was beginning to enjoy herself. The shock of what happened was finally wearing off. She found working at New Town High was so much fun. Though she had reservations about her costar Jett Stetson and found Kendall didn't like him much more either.
Kendall was a whole other story. She found herself falling in love with him for herself. She wasn't pretending to be attracted to him or her want to kiss him or spend time with him. She found herself looking forward to seeing him and being disappointed if she didn't. It was amazing to be with him. She had been in other relationships prior to moving to LA but nothing like this. Kendall was sweet and he seemed to be very serious about this relationship. He did whatever he could to find a moment to spend with her whenever he possibly could. No matter how short the time was together he seemed to be happy to have it to spend with her. It was almost like he wasn't taking her for granted.
Her biggest problem though was trying to find out information without letting anyone know she had no clue what's happened in the last two years. The thing she wanted to know the most about was something she had found in her room tucked away. It was a script for Chancy Jackson and the Magic Gallows one of her favorite book. It was old though, she could tell that much from the tattered corners and the old highlights on the script.
Instead of asking anyone around the Palm Woods about the movie she decided to google it to find out more about the movie. Jo found out the movie bombed so badly the test audience set the theater on fire and the squeals were canceled. What she found the most odd was that it was filmed in New Zealand and based on the timeline she figured she should've returned at the end September 2012.
The most prominent question in her mind was what happened between her and Kendall during that time. Were they still together while she was gone? From the looks of it she should've been gone for an entire year or just a little over a year. She quickly opened a new tab on her internet. She googled herself and Kendall finding about a million different listings but a picture caught her eye. It was her with Kendall at an airport looking upset.
After sifting through a few different articles she found a Big Time Interview with the guys where they said they were all single. She deduced the pictures of them together at the airport must have been the two of them saying goodbye to each other. Suddenly understanding dawned on her though; Kendall was acting like he didn't take her for granted because he didn't. She found it rather sweet.
With a small smile Jo shut her laptop carefully and placed it on her night table before turning out the light to go to sleep.
Jo opened her eyes slowly and saw her laptop wasn't on the night table anymore. In fact the night table looked nothing like her night table. The entire room didn't look right. Jo sat up in bed quickly panicking as she did so. The entire room looked wrong. Nothing in it looked familiar aside from her guitar sitting in the corner or the corner. Jo felt the comforter move and she turned to look down beside her. She saw Kendall fast asleep without a shirt on, one arm under the pillow, and the other on top of the blanket. His mouth was open slightly as he slept.
Jo's eyes widened as she nearly fell out of bed. Okay, things were not getting better. They're getting so much farther than where she should be right now. Jo turned around to look into the pedestal mirror behind her. She was wearing pajamas and looked a few years older than she had before. She took a deep breath as she sat down on the end of the bed. Okay, so things were not getting any better. It seemed she was going further and further into the future. Oh, god, what the heck is going on? She wondered.
Sitting on the end of the bed she felt something odd on her left hand. She looked down to see a silver band on her left hand ring finger. Her eyes widened as she felt someone took her shoulder gently. She recognized the touch immediately as Kendall. He gently brushed her hair aside to kiss her neck gently. His arms slipped around her waist to hug her to him tightly. The hug settled her nerves keeping her from having a total meltdown right there. She leaned back into his chest hoping to keep herself from further freaking out. She touched his hands gently and felt his ring on his left hand as well. Jo looked down at their hands as she ran her fingers over the smooth cool band.
"Something wrong?" Kendall whispered into her ear.
"No," Jo said softly truthfully. Being with him was perfect. Whatever was going on with her was completely insane, it was crazy, and still didn't seem completely possible but being with Kendall took the edge off. The whole world seemed to just melt away until it just left the two of them together.
"Want breakfast?" Kendall asked softly. "I can make pancakes."
Jo nodded numbly as Kendall rolled out of the bed and left the room. She noted he didn't even bother to put a shirt on as he did so. Jo took a look around the room. She could see another guitar in the other corner of the room she didn't recognize. It must be Kendall's, she thought. She found their wedding picture and two closets one for each of them. When she looked down at her pajamas again she noted they went with most of the clothes in his closet rather than her own.
After inspecting the room she went downstairs to the kitchen where Kendall was mixing the batter for the pancakes. He was standing by the stove. She watched as his face lit up when he saw her. She smiled back happy not to be alone after her crazy morning. She sat down at the island in the middle of the room to watch him cook while she thought about all the craziness happening to her. It made no sense whatsoever to her. Why did she keep ending up further and further into the future? Why was she here? What's the point?
"Are you sure you're alright?" Kendall asked dropping a pancake onto the plate in front of her. She hadn't even noticed he had put a plate there. "I thought I lost you there for a minute. You were staring off so deeply into space I thought you might actually get stuck there."
"Sorry," Jo said. "I was just thinking."
"About what?" Kendall asked.
"It's not important," she said quickly. She quickly stuffed a bit of her cut up pancake in her mouth. "Don't worry about it."
Kendall chuckled as he leaned down on the island to look her in the eyes. "That's not possible for me not to worry about you. Besides if you're lost that deeply in your thoughts it must be important to you and you can tell me anything."
"I just feel like I'm out of place this morning," Jo said. It wasn't technically a lie. She was out of place.
"Okay," Kendall said softly. "As in out of place about us?"
Jo shook her head quickly. "No, it's just weird. It's not you. I think you're the only good thing about this weird feeling." Jo stood up and wrapped her arms tightly around Kendall. She shut her eyes as she let herself melt into his embrace. She didn't need to wonder anymore about what had changed her mind when it came to the whole no boyfriend thing. Kendall had wormed his way into her heart in no time at all. He wasn't the sort of guy she usually went out with but he was everything she had really wanted but never thought to ask for when it came to a guy.
Just a few days later Jo woke up again but this time she was in the same house she had been in before with Kendall but this time she wasn't woken up by an alarm clock or Kendall or even just waking up herself. This time she was woken up by someone else.
"Mommy!" A little girl shouted in her ear. The little girl kept nudging her back and forth trying to wake her up. Jo's eyes slid open as she looked at the little girl in front of her. The little girl looked just like her except her eyes were bright green just like Kendall's. "Mommy, get up! I'm hungry."
"Oh, no not again," Jo was pretty her shock level was getting better because this time she didn't even begin to panic. She realized it probably wasn't going to help the situation. The little girl's eyes lit up at her mother's eyes opened and she stopped nudging her mother to wake her up.
"Breakfast!" She shouted.
Jo nodded numbly trying not to let herself begin to panic before she sat up in bed. Without realizing it an arm slipped off her. She turned around and saw Kendall sleeping looking completely wiped as he was sprawled out on the bed. Jo smiled softly at the sight and felt herself let out a sigh of relief. He was still here. That was good. It would keep her sane.
"Daddy is tired." The little stated. "He was up all night with the baby."
"He was?" Jo asked shocked. The little girl nodded and Jo figured she couldn't be more than four years old or so. Jo scooped up the little girl in her arms before she pulled the blankets over Kendall to keep him warm. Jo instructed the little girl to wait for her in the kitchen because she'll be down in a minute or two. With the small amount of time she had she took a walk around the upstairs. She had a general idea where she was going because she had thankfully been here before.
She found what she was sure was her daughter's room. She smiled when she saw the Big Time Rush posters next to the New Town High poster with others of her movies she didn't recognize up as well. The room was purple and there were a wide range of toys in her room. Musical toys, sound system, TV, hockey sticks, and stacks of books though most of the books looked like ones she swore had were hers from what she could tell. She wondered if she read them to her daughter before she went to bed every night. She also saw an older guitar of hers sitting in the corner. It was the one she learned to play on. Jo shut the door to her room carefully before moving to the next room.
This was one was blue, floor to ceiling blue. There was a crib placed over by the window. Jo took a deep breath before walking over to the crib. She looked down inside it. There was a baby boy fast asleep who couldn't have been even a year old yet. He looked so small and sweet. From the looks of it though he looked just like Kendall. He was wearing a one piece with hockey sticks on it. They were definitely Kendall's, she thought.
"You were supposed to be allowed to sleep in this morning," Kendall said softly.
Jo turned her head just a little to look at Kendall leaning against the door jamb with his arms folded across his chest. She almost hated to look away from the darling boy who managed to wrap himself around her heart faster than Kendall and her own daughter had.
"Sorry," she said. "I didn't mean to mess up your plans."
"It's okay." Kendall moved from his place against the door further into the room. Jo turned back to look at the little boy in his crib. She was almost shocked to find his eyes wide open looking at her. The minute his eyes set on her, he began grinning and giggling. His little hands reached up towards her face clenching and unclenching his hands trying to grab her. Without a thought Jo leaned over the side of the crib and pulled the little boy into her arms.
"Mommy!" Jo had heard the small footsteps before she heard her daughter scream for her. She came running in to tug on her mother's shirt or rather her father's shirt from the looks of it. "Are we going to have breakfast?"
Kendall nodded grabbing his daughter. He picked her up into his arms and kissed her sloppily on the cheek making her giggle as she tried to push him away.
"Yes, I'll make breakfast." Kendall wrapped his free arm around his wife. "Let's go."
Kendall leaned in to give Jo a proper good morning kiss making his daughter say 'ew' and as they pulled back Kendall tickled his daughter. She wiggled in his arms until he let her get on the ground. She ran off with Kendall hot on her heels. Jo laughed softly as she followed them down to the kitchen.
She found herself not even minding this so much anymore. Kendall was so sweet with the two little kids. He had stayed up all night just to take care of one of them. Then after what she didn't think was a lot of sleep he still had enough energy to chase after his daughter and make breakfast for the four of them. Jo knew her daughter had probably been up for a while when she saw the TV on and multiple toys covering the floor. She found herself wanting this life more than anything. She wanted it to become a reality. She wanted this. She didn't care about her career. She'd be happy as long as she could spend the rest of her life like this.
As Jo blinked trying to clear away the fog in her head she looked around the room. She felt like she was in some sort of haze. It was weird. She felt like she had just woken up from a really nice dream but she couldn't remember any of the details just the feelings of it. She felt panic, terror, acceptance and then pure happiness. She didn't know what it was exactly but it was the weirdest thing. Something told her not to shake the feelings off but to keep them with her. Something told her she may need them.
She found herself remembering those feelings when she spoke to Kendall despite her better judgment she decided to hang out with him for an entire day. Her mind told her she would put him first if she fell in love with him but her heart was telling her something different. It was almost as if her heart already knew what it wanted. It was like it wanted Kendall and there was nothing she could think about that could change her heart. It wanted Kendall so she ended up spending the entire day with him finding her reasoning behind not wanting a boyfriend slowly ebbing away each moment she spent with him. Until finally she took her reasoning and threw it away with both hands because she wanted to go out with him.
Her feelings about that odd dream she couldn't remember came back again when they were at the party together. Something kept telling her to keep digging. They did have things in common she knew that in her heart and it kept telling her to keep looking. They would find them eventually. They just needed to get to know each other. She supposed she should have been terrified by the fact that she felt like she was already in love with a guy she had only known for a couple of mouths or that her gut kept telling her it was right even when she didn't think they fit together. Even though they fit together better than anyone she had ever met.
She thought about those feelings again when she decided to stay instead of taking the role in New Zealand. They didn't surface in her heart until she was on the plane. For some reason she kept thinking that this wasn't it. They would see each other again. They would be a couple again, this wasn't the end of their story, and it was just a minor bump in the road together. Jo found it scary when she found out the movies had been canceled and she could return to the Palm Woods sooner.
Even when she was faced with the thought of losing him she still wanted him back, something told her to put herself out there. To at least say she wanted him back. Though it was made harder by the fact that he wouldn't speak to her but she hoped Camille could get the message through and she did. She had doubted those feelings once and she was wrong to. They could pick up right where they left off because no amount of time or distance could actually change their feelings for one another. She did however have a difficult time getting rid of the image of him in someone else's arms.
Despite it all though she decided it was better to try and make it work with him almost as though she was striving for something. Almost as though she knew there was something to look forward to. Like they could fix it and move on but they just had to figure out the right way to do so. Once they did, it was even better than their first relationship, Jo decided. Everything would be fine as long as they tried, it would never be easy, but then again nothing worth it ever is.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -Søren Kierkegaard
A.N. Not a request story. Just something rattling around in my head making way too much noise so I decided to let it out. Hope you all enjoyed it!
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