A/N: I am so sorry for completely going off schedule and just plain not even updating. After studying for my finals and taking them I had to wait a while to take my last final and then after that I had to pack all of my stuff and move it so I didn't have time. Then when I did have time, my mom threw a party so I wasn't able to get on my computer and then I was supposed to update but up until about two hours ago, I thought it was Sunday. Anyways, here's the chapter. Enjoy :D
Packing up and moving into a tour bus was not what I thought would be our new setting. James seemed pretty happy that he didn't have to worry about keeping track of the things he bought. He just brought in different bags, sitting them all over the tour bus before he flopped on the couch.
"Are you sure there isn't something else you want to get?" I asked him and he shook his head.
"Oh shit, wait!" He said, getting up again. I rolled my eyes at him as his mother stepped onto the bus.
"James, slow down before you hurt someone." The woman said before she took James' place on the couch. The bus driver was still on his break so he was walking around the front of the bus as he smoked his cigar. It was weird seeing someone just smoke a cigar randomly. They seem like more of a celebration type of thing. When Camille walked on the bus with Julian, I wanted to immediately push both of them off and slam the door. I couldn't do that, so I just sat up and tried to roll my eyes discreetly.
"I saw that."
"So." I said to Camille and she huffed, walking pass me and going into the back.
"Aren't you supposed to be guarding James?" Julian asked me.
"Aren't you supposed to be minding your business?" I asked him and Mrs. Diamond glared at me. I groaned as I stood up and exited the bus. I walked through the back doors of the hotel before I saw James running towards me.
"I can't believe I almost forgot this." He said, once he reached me, holding up the orchid.
"I can always get you another one."
"I like this one, it's special to me." He said before he walked pass me. I followed him onto the bus and the bus driver, who was now in his seat, closed the door behind me.
"James, why do you have that flower?"
"It's my favorite flower." James said before he went into the back. I decided not to follow him because I was unsure if he told his mother about us or not. I know he probably doesn't care and wants to defy her every word but I still wanted to be cautious. Mrs. Diamond gasped at her phone before she looked at me. I looked around waiting for her to say something and when she didn't, I was about to speak up but James came back.
"Did someone just gasp?" He asked, looking at me. I just pointed to his mother and he did the same thing, waiting for her to say something. Her shocked stare changed into a glare before she started typing out on her phone. James looked at me in confusion and I just shrugged my shoulders.
"HOW could you two be this stupid?" Mrs. Diamond yelled, scaring me and James before her phone rang. "James, call Kelly, now."
"Why?"
"JUST CALL HER AND TELL HER TO GET OVER HERE." James put his hands up in defense before he grabbed his phone out of his pocket.
"And tell her to bring all of her supplies." Mrs. Diamond added before she went back to typing on her phone. She ended up dialing a number and was on the phone with someone. She seemed really stressed out about something and it was making me more stressed because what did it have to do with Kelly. Was she going to be fired? Wait, no, then why would she tell James to tell her to bring all of her things? She might be getting fired but I couldn't figure out why that would happen.
"She's on her way now." James said, hanging up and sitting at the little table in the corner. He was on his phone before there was a knock on the tour bus door. Mrs. Diamond got up and answered the door.
"James called for me-"
"Get in here." Mrs. Diamond said, pulling Kelly in. "Do you have any dyes?"
"I have a little."
"Hair bleach?"
"Yeah."
"Good." Mrs. Diamond said before gesturing for Kelly to sit next to me. She gestured for James to come over and sit on the other side of me before she started pacing.
"Mom, what is all of this about?"
"Don't say anything you little trouble maker."
"James isn't-"
"You shut up too before I have you sent back to the States." Mrs. Diamond said to me and I was a little shocked by her sudden anger towards me. "Explain this." The woman said, throwing her phone at me. My eyes widened in shock at the picture of me and James at the Eiffel Tower, kissing.
"Dammit." Kelly said, sighing. I looked over at James and he didn't have an expression on his face. It was just a blank stare at the picture before he stood up.
"You aren't going anywhere until we find a way to fix this." James sat back down and stared away from the direction of his mother.
"And I-" She stopped talking because her phone started ringing. She yelled at whoever was on the other line that the price didn't matter before she hung up and let out a sigh.
"You two owe me three million dollars." She said, sitting down on the other couch.
"What?" James asked in shock and she shook her head.
"I needed something to motivate someone to remove those images from the internet. Now, you two are going to deny those pictures and Kelly is going to give you two different looks in order to keep the lie going." Kelly nodded and I turned to see how James was feeling and he just sighed and got up, walking through the curtain that led to the back.
"GET OUT!" He yelled at who I guessed was Camille and Julian because a moment later, the two were coming out of the back room. It was obvious that they were making out and it wasn't making the situation any better.
"Well, what do you want different?" Kelly asked me and I shrugged. "Well, your hair is getting pretty long. I can style it like James' back when he-"
"No." I quickly said, knowing she was talking about the hairstyle James had when he first started. I still liked him then but that hairstyle was not attractive at all.
"Okay, how about I just shave off the sides and keep the bang."
"Can you make the bang into a quiff?"
"Sure." Kelly said before she opened up the bag she brought with her. Camille and Julian both went into the bathroom and I seemed to be the only one to see them. Mrs. Diamond was having a conversation with the bus driver while Kelly began cutting my hair. My hair was getting pretty long and having it just cut was the style I always had since high school. This will be a new change for me, hopefully James will like it. As I had my hair cut, I pulled out my phone and texted Katie.
"Don't tell anyone about-" I rolled my eyes when Katie was calling me now as I was texting her.
"Hello?"
"Kendall, I'm glad you picked up, I need to ask you something."
"Katie, I-"
"Did you and James kiss?"
"What? How did you figure that?"
"Well, I helped you find James and then there's this blurry picture of two guys kissing and someone said that one of the boys is James."
"No, James was back in the hotel by the time I found him."
"But that can mean that it could still be him."
"Katie, if you must know, he was having sex with Camille."
"EW! Never mind, bye." Katie said, hanging up. I sat my phone down and sighed.
"I just lied to my little sister about me and James."
"I'm sure she would understand if you could tell her." Kelly told me as she cut off more of my hair.
"Yeah but it'll make it that much more awkward if I tell her the truth."
"I want to say something along the lines of I told you so but I don't think this is an appropriate time."
"Gee, thanks." I said as Mrs. Diamond walked pass me and Kelly. She looked at the work Kelly was doing before she turned and called out Julian's name.
"Uh…yeah?" Julian called out from the bathroom.
"What are you- oh never mind." Mrs. Diamond said, going back to her seat, going over things in her phone.
"You would think she would be smart enough to know that they were both in there together." Kelly whispered and I tried to hide my laughter and slight shock that Kelly saw them go into the bathroom too. "I doubt you will want a quiff for a five hour drive to London."
"Five hours?" I asked, turning to her and she nodded.
"Five hour drive and when we get there, we have to go an airport nearby so that Camille and Julian can fly back to the States. Then you and James can do whatever you want for the three nights he's performing at the O2 arena."
"Wait, isn't London always the last place for celebs to perform."
"I asked the same thing when we were going over the tour schedule but it was the only convenient way for Camille to be with James."
"Oh, conveniently in Paris."
"Yeah." Kelly said, chuckling.
"So what then?"
"After London, he's flying to Spain."
"That's so backwards."
"Shh, I know."
"And then?"
"And then the tour is done, for now."
"That's so weird."
"I know but James wanted to stop the tour for something but he didn't say why. I'm sure you'll find out though." I couldn't help but smile at that, knowing that Kelly was slightly jealous that James tells me things before her. "And done." She said, smiling.
"Thank you."
"You can thank me by getting James in here." I nodded and walked to the back of the bus. I could hear Mrs. Diamond rushing Kelly about our haircuts and Kelly explaining where I was going. I can't wait until we get on the road so that woman can go to sleep or something. I opened the door to the back room and was slightly shocked to see that there was a bed back here. James was laying on it, face down in a pillow.
"James."
"Go away."
"I can't." I said, getting close to his face.
"Kendall, please."
"Come on, James, you have to get your hair styled."
"I like it how it is now."
"You know change can be good."
"I doubt it."
"Well, I think I look pretty damn good." I told him and he looked up at me and gasped. I smiled at him as he sat up and ran his fingers through my hair.
"Kelly said that she didn't want to put it in a quiff since we have the long drive."
"It looks so good."
"Well, you should go and have your hair look this good."
"My hair does look good."
"That's not what I meant." I said, pulling on his arm to get him to stand up. He groaned and shifted his weight so that it was harder to pull him.
"Don't make me pick you up." I threatened and he sighed dramatically before standing and walked out of the room. I laid out on the bed and sighed, looking around the room. This is actually a pretty nice set up. There's a Tv in here and…that's a PlayStation 3. I definitely have to play it at some point during this five hour drive but for right now I just want to sleep.
When I woke up, I looked over and saw James sleep with a blanket over his head. I lifted it up to see that he got his hair cut into a mini mohawk and it looked so adorable. I kissed his forehead before I sat up and looked out of the window that was on the back wall. I don't know what I expected to see but it should've been nothing but road because that's all I saw. There were a few cars but other than that it was just the road. I walked through the bunks where Julian was sleeping and out to the sitting area.
Kelly was laying down, holding her phone above her face. Mrs. Diamond was typing away at her laptop while Camille looked bored out of her mind as she scrolled on her phone. I sighed and headed to the bathroom. Once I was done, I headed back into the bedroom, stumbling a little to the bus swaying. I looked through the entertainment system to see that there wasn't much but a few games and two movies. I smiled when I saw that he had Resident Evil 6.
I turned on the Tv and the PS3 before I put the game in. I turned the volume down before I sat back down on the bed. It had been a while since the last time I played this game but I know it won't take me that long to get into the swing of things.
It had been about two hours since I first put the game in and in that time span, I've beat the first couple and their set of missions and was on the second couple. James had woken up about halfway through the first couple and I managed to convince him to join the game.
"Kendall, I haven't played this game in years."
"It's okay, just stay close to me and I'll protect you."
"Aww." He said, and I kissed him on the cheek before the game started. I talked him through the basics of the game before we started to advance. He wasn't the best player but he was a fast learner and that's the best I could ask for.
All of our screaming and reactions to things got Kelly to come see what we were doing and now she's here watching us. As we played things got progressively more difficult and we both died several times. It was cute every time James died because he would make this cute frustrating grunt. I don't know how many times we died before we finally finished the second set of missions. James looked so happy when I told him that we were done with the second part.
"Does that mean we beat the game?" He asked and I couldn't help but laugh.
"No, not at all." I told him and his jaw dropped. It was the cutest thing to see him so shocked, especially when I told him that the things we were doing weren't even the hardest part.
When we started the third part, Kelly got up and headed back into the living room area because her phone was dying and she needed to charge it. James was seriously getting frustrated with all of the times I had to save him that he purposely ran ahead of me to defeat the zombies before me. It was adorable to see him so passionate about being better than me or at least not being dependent on me. The only thing is, I knew what was going to happen since I've played this before. He was going to rush and get overwhelmed by the enemies that end up surrounding him. Luckily, I saved the bullets for one of my special weapons and killed the other enemies before he realized what was going on.
"James! Don't-" I was cut off by my guy screaming his character's partner's name as she laid there dead.
"What happened?"
"You shot the tank and you were standing too close."
"I hate this game." He said, getting up and storming out of the room. Almost as soon as he left, Camille came in. "I don't get it." She said as I reached for my phone. "What's not to get?" I asked her.
"What is your deal?" I tried to hide my laughter at her question but that failed miserably. "What's so funny?"
"You."
"How am I funny?"
"Well, for one, you're asking what my deal is almost out of nowhere."
"It's not- okay maybe it is but answer the question."
"I don't get the question."
"What is your deal, what do you want?" I rolled my eyes at that.
"Did James' mom put you up to this?"
"Wha-No. I seriously want to know."
"Okay well, I am James' bodyguard. As in, I protect his body from crazed fans. There, happy." I said as I played a game on my phone.
"You're so funny, really. I see why James keeps you around." Camille said with a straight face.
"You know, I have a question for you." She raised her eyebrows at that and I continued.
"Why do you and James' mother seem to think I have some ulterior motive or I'm just with James for his money?"
"Because that's how the real world works. You do things for a reason and we're just trying to figure out what your reason is."
"Funny, I could ask you the same thing but I already know what you want." I said, taking my eyes off my game to look at her.
"I-"
"Am with James because you want fame and fortune but don't want to actually do the work it takes you to get there."
"Excuse you."
"Was I wrong?" I asked her and she went silent. I put my phone down and looked at her. "See, the thing is, you don't want to know why I'm here, you could care less, but the one thing that's keeping you standing there is the fact that my presence scares the hell out of you. Me being here seems to be the only threat to this lifestyle you want so bad and you're terrified. Terrified that the whole world will see through all of your lies. But I'll give you a little heads up. Nothing stays the same and things are forever changing. After a while, you won't be able to control things. I just hope you make the right decisions in life, otherwise, you'll be back to where you started." The look on her face was utterly priceless and she looked like she wanted to cry but instead she got mad.
"You think I'm scared of you, Kendall. You think I'm going to let some unknown bodyguard stand in my way of becoming the number one actress in the world. I'll have you know that I have never been scared of anyone in this entire world. Ever. And I'm certainly not going to start with some blonde haired bitch." Camille said and right after she was finish, I laughed a little.
"I didn't say you were scared of me. I said, you're scared of my presence. Me being here is something you should be scared of and something you shouldn't take lightly. Who convinced James to go shopping with you after he was one hundred percent sure he wasn't going?" I told her and she glared at me.
"Who holds the key to the destruction of James' career? Huh? Me. I hold the key. I can out James in seconds and his career will fall right beneath his feet." I knew she was going to go there. Luckily, I thought about this in my head before, many times.
"Camille, you keep playing this, I'm going to out him, card but I know you won't do it. James thinks you will but I don't. See, James is so blinded by his fear of being outted that he can't see the bigger picture. If you out him, you'll be committing career suicide and you and I both know that you would never do that."
"Don't test me, bodyguard."
"You don't get it do you? I can see pass your little attitude you put out there for James but let's just pretend for a second that you tell the world that James is gay. I'll convince him to come out, which means that you've outted him. That's strike one. James calls his close friends in the business and they call their people and you no longer have any acting jobs. That's strike two. James does a tell all interview and tell the world about how you and his mother came up with this entire plan to basically held him hostage until you become as famous as you want to be. The press will eat that up and you'll be publicly shamed. Strike number three and Camille Roberts is out." I held up three fingers and wiggled them for her to see.
"Sorry, I was talking to Kelly about London." James said, walking back in the room. He looked between me and Camille before Camille groaned and pushed pass him.
"It was nice talking to you Camille." I said as she left the room.
"Kendall, what did you two talk about?"
"It was nothing James." I said, grabbing the controller.
"I don't believe you."
"James, just grab the controller and try not to die this time." I said, pressing continue.
"Try not to die this time." James said, mocking me as he grabbed the controller.
A few minutes later, the room was filled with the sound of my character screaming his character's name again and James groaning afterwards.
A/N: Again sorry for the long wait. Oh and don't you just love how Kendall just told Camille off. It was soo long overdue. Anyways, reviews are much appreciated. Thanks for reading! :D
