A/N: I am so sorry that I haven't been updating throughout the summer but a lot has happened since my last update. This summer has just been a bit much for me. I'll explain more at the ending notes. Enjoy this chapter of Bodyguard. :)

When I woke up, I sat up to see James wasn't in the bed anymore. I got up and headed into the front of the bus to see James on his laptop sitting across from his mother. "It's going to be awesome."

"It's going to be something." Lucy replied to James' comments.

"What's going to be awesome?" I asked and James smiled when he turned to me.

"We have to do something to foreshadow the headlines or what will become headlines." James told me and I gave him a confused look. "Us kissing. I made a few phone calls after I woke up and I'm going to do a special performance."

"And that will change the headlines?" I asked him and he nodded.

"If everything goes as planned, it'll be what everyone is talking about."

"What are you going to do?" I asked, sitting down next to him. "Well, this is my stage at the O2, and I'm talking with some people about costumes. I'm going to do a little tribute to Janet Jackson."

"Why?"

"Because she's going to be at the show."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I've known her since the beginning of my career and she's been a huge supporter of me."

"How come I didn't know about this?"

"Guess you aren't as much of a fan boy as you think you are."

"Ha. Ha. Now, what song are you doing?"

"This one." James said before he switched over to YouTube. It was Janet Jackson's Trust a Try performance in Hawaii. As I watched the performance, I could slowly see James doing this on stage.

"This means that you have to teach new choreography and all that." I told him and he nodded.

"We're going to try and learn this exact choreography. I know I'm going to be testing my dancers but it's going to be fun. I also texted my guitarist to learn the solo and he texted me that he's on it now."

"Well, look at you taking control of things." I said and his eyes widened before he looked over at his mother who was on her phone.

"We're almost in London and I'm so excited to learn this choreography. This whole performance is going to be so different from my normal show and it might scare my fans."

"It'll also take away from the media worrying about that picture." Kelly said and James nodded.

"Wait!" James yelled, effectively scaring most of us. "My background dancers need to have face masks and we need wardrobe!"

"James, calm down. I've made a few calls and I got it all handled. You just need to remember the words and the choreography." I couldn't agree more with what Kelly was saying and I just watched in admiration as James starting reading through the lyrics and singing them over and over.

When we finally arrived in London, fans were lined up, waiting outside of James' tour bus. James went over to the window and waved to them.

"James the windows are tinted." Kelly told him.

"They can still see me." James said and sure enough their screams went up the closer he got to the window. I heard someone clear their throat and turned to see that it was James' mother.

"Aren't you going to make us a path?" I sighed and got up from where I was sitting and headed to the door of the bus.

Luckily, we dropped Camille and Julian off already so I didn't have to deal with them for the rest of the tour. James seemed pretty excited ever since she left. The atmosphere seemed to get brighter now that she was gone. The bus driver opened the door and I stepped out smiling as the girls screamed and looked at each other in excitement.

"Hi, Kendall." A few of them said and I waved to them before gesturing for Mrs. Diamond to come out. I would be surprised at how the fans reacted to me but, honestly, I knew how investigative James' fans are. When Mrs. Diamond stepped out the fans didn't really react to her. There were also barriers already set up in anticipation for James' arrival.

Mrs. Diamond walked into the hotel and the fans continued looking my way. The next person to come out was Kelly and some of the fans shouted her name. James stood at the top of the steps and I gestured to his hat and he smiled. I shook my head at him and when I turned around, I felt his hands on my shoulders.

Next thing I knew, he was on my back. I quickly adjusted and held the back of his thighs, shaking my head. The fans yelled in excitement as I walked into the hotel with James on my back. James was telling the fans how much he loved them and they told him the same thing before a hotel employee held the door open for us. Once the door was closed, I let James go and he climbed down.

"Have you lost your mind?" Mrs. Diamond asked him.

"What? I'm just having fun, come on. Stop worrying." He said, adjusting his hat.

"Why do you have on that hat?"

"My new haircut has to be hidden until the show tonight."

"Uh, hello. We don't have time to talk about stuff. You have that special thing you're supposed to be doing." Kelly said, looking at the people as they passed by, looking at them all. James nodded and I stood back while they headed for the elevators.

"Kendall, come on."

"I have to get the bags."

"The bellhops will get them."

"They need to know what to grab." I told him before the elevator showed up. "I'll be right up."

"James, let him do his job." Mrs. Diamond said before they stepped on the elevator. James rolled his eyes at her before the doors closed. I turned back around and three bellhops stood behind me with carts in their hands. I walked back towards the entrance and headed out to the tour bus.

The fans outside started screaming and it took me a moment to realize that they were screaming for me. I tried to ignore it while I got the bus driver to open the part of the bus where our luggage was located. We all started loading the bags on before I stepped on the tour bus to grab the small bags we had on there. Once I had everything, I thanked the bus driver and he nodded my way before I got off. The three bellhops had went back into the hotel and the fans were still screaming for me.

"Kendall, can I have a picture with you?"

"I don't know if I can do that."

"Please it'll be really quick." She said and I shrugged and got into the frame of the picture with her and she smiled, taking it. A few more fans asked for my picture and I took a few selfies before I headed into the building.

James was right about them wanting more and more pictures. I had to get out of there before they swarmed me or something. I shook my head when I stepped on the elevator that two people just came out of. Listen to me, sounding like I'm famous or something. I stood there when I realized that I didn't know the floor number. I pulled out my phone and dialed James' number.

"6th floor." He said when he picked up.

"How did you know I-"

"I know you."

"Right." I said hanging up. I pressed the button and when the doors opened again, James was standing there with a smile on his face.

"Where are the bags?" I asked, stepping out of the elevator.

"The bellhops are putting them in the room right now. I just didn't want you to get lost."

"Lost? This hotel is not that big to get lost in." I said and he just looked at me before he started walking.

As he turned the corner, I heard rapid footsteps and I knew he started running. I started running after him and as I turned the corner, he was all the way towards the end of the hallway. As I ran one of the doors opened and a cleaning lady, pushed a cart out. I quickly dodged the cart before continuing to chase after him. When I turned the corner again, I almost ran into someone and they jumped and screamed.

"I-If you're Kendall, then that was James."

"Where did he go?"

"He ran that way." She said, pointing down the hall. That part was obvious. "I think he ran in the vending machine area."

"Thanks." I said before running down the hall. I ran inside the vending machine area and I could hear him breathing before it stopped. I knew he was covering his mouth by one of these machines. As I walked pass the snack machine, I could hear him. When I turned, he jumped at me, scaring me before he ran to the door.

"Not so fast." I said, grabbing him by the hem of his pants as he reached for the door. I pulled him close to me and wrapped my arms around him as he laughed.

"Okay, you caught me."

"That I did."

"So are you going to punish me?"

"Not here." I said and he opened the door so fast that he walked out and gasped when he walked straight into someone.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. I was just wondering if-"

"Picture right?" James asked her and she smiled.

"Can you be in it too?" She asked me and I nodded before stepping behind her. She snapped the picture and smiled at us.

"Thank you so much."

"No problem."

"I like the new haircuts too."

"Thank you." We both said at the same time before she walked away.

"Do you think-"

"No, she couldn't have heard."

"Okay, if you say so." James said before he walked towards the hotel room. The second we got into the room, Kelly was standing there.

"Where the hell- Never mind, come on, we have to get you to choreography."

"Oh shit, right, hold on let me change." James said running back into the bed room of the hotel. I grabbed his luggage off of the cart and handed it to him when he turned around.

"Thanks." He said, kissing me on the cheek before he continued getting dressed.

"Why do you make him late?" Kelly asked me and I gasped.

"I do no such thing. He's the one who ran from me and since I'm his bodyguard, I have to catch him."

"Well, next time make sure he doesn't run away."

"I can try." I told Kelly and she nodded before James opened the door in his sweatpants and loose tank top.

"Kelly, were you scolding my Kendall?" James asked her and she rolled her eyes before heading for the door.

"Have a great time." I told him, intending on staying in the hotel room until he got back.

"Oh, no, you're coming with me." James said, grabbing my hand before I could walk away from him. I sighed and let him pull me out the door. Kelly handed James and me the keys to the hotel room before pressing the elevator button.

"Your Kendall, huh?" I asked him as the elevator arrived and he blushed without a word, making me laugh. When the elevator reached the ground floor, I walked out and before I could head for the front door, I felt a tug on my arm. I turned to see that Kelly was headed in a different direction.

"Back way." James told me and I nodded. We walked down the hallway of the first floor and this hotel seemed pretty nice from what I can see. We went through an emergency exit and climbed into a black truck.

"No limo?" I asked James and he gave me a look.

"We're trying to be incognito."

"Yeah a big black truck with severely tinted windows screams incognito." I said, sarcastically and he pushed me a little.

"It's better than a limo." He said before he pouted.

"That is true." Kelly said before we pulled up outside of the venue.

"The O2 Arena." James said with a smile.

"Have you played here before?"

"Only once before."

"Really?"

"Yeah, my first tour wasn't that big. It was just to get my name out there and it worked." He said, smiling at me. The truck pulled to a stop and we all climbed out of the truck.

We followed Kelly inside the venue and when James heard the sound of Janet Jackson music, he looked at me in shock. He looked like a kid on Christmas and it was so adorable. We walked into a room that they sort of converted into a mini dance studio and there was a woman standing in front of all of the dancers. Everyone cheered when James came through the door. It honestly was the exact opposite reaction that I was expecting. I seriously thought that his dancers would be pissed about having to learn a new dance.

"Do you want to see a run through of how much we've gotten so far?" The choreographer asked James and he nodded while me and Kelly sat against the wall.

James moved in front where the choreographer was and the music started. Some of James' dancers were leaning up against the wall and I figured that they weren't going to be in the performance because it only calls for eight dancers and James has at least twelve. The choreographer took James' spot and as they moved through the dance, I could tell that they've been practicing for a while. Their moves were sharp and they were mimicking the performance perfectly from what I remembered. When they got to the second verse they stopped and the music was cut.

"That was freaking amazing." James told them while Kelly and I clapped. The door opened and Kelly jumped up.

"There you are!"

"Am I late?" The man asked and Kelly shook her head.

"James, this is Eddie. He's going to be working with me and Lucy on costumes for this performance." Kelly said as James and Eddie shook hands.

"Don't worry, Mr. Diamond, we're going to have you and your dancers look amazing on stage tonight."

"Oh, I appreciate that but we aren't going to be performing this until the second night. I wouldn't want to overkill my dancers. Especially since I have still have to learn the choreography." James told him and all of the dancers seemed to let out a sigh of relief. James looked at them a little confused.

"I thought that you wanted to go on stage tonight and perform this." The choreographer told James and he shook his head.

"That's a little too crazy. I was thinking about doing it like that but that seems almost impossible. Plus, I want this performance to be perfect since Janet's going to be in the audience."

"She is?!" One of the background dancers asked in shock.

"Yeah, this isn't just something random I wanted to do for the end of the tour." James told them before the door opened again. This time it was Mrs. Diamond who walked in.

"James, I want to talk to you about something. Can this wait for just a moment?"

"Sure." James said, heading in her direction. "Great job guys. I think you all should rest until the show tonight and we can finish the choreo later." All of the dancers seemed pretty excited when James dismissed them and they were talking about how awesome it was going to be performing, knowing that Janet's in the audience.

"Kendall, are you fine here? Eddie and I need to go find Lucy." Kelly told me.

"Oh, I'm good. You two go ahead." I told them before I pulled out my phone. I knew I had a few notifications that I needed to get through. Most of them were from Facebook and everyone wanting me to contribute to their game addictions by sending them lives. I ignored all of those before seeing that I had text messages from both Logan and Carlos. I was about to respond to Carlos when my phone started ringing.

"Hey, Carlos." I said, smiling.

"Don't 'Hey, Carlos' me." He said, trying to sound like me.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong? Oh, I don't know. The fact that you've been hanging out with James fucking Diamond and never thought, hey, I should tell Carlos about this. C'mon man, I thought we were closer than that."

"Carlos, I literally haven't had time to tell you about it."

"Yeah, because you've been living it up."

"No, because of time zones. Every time I had free time, it was some odd hour of the night…or morning." I told him and there was a silence on his end of the phone.

"Well, what about now?"

"I got time."

"Okay, then, spill it. I want to know how in the hell this happened."

"I mean, you remember that body guarding job?"

"It was that easy?"

"I don't know about easy. I mean it was kind of luck and timing, really."

"Does Katie know?"

"Of course, you know how his fans are."

"Is she mad?"

"No, I mean, I got her to meet him and she loved me for that."

"Really?" He asked and his voice squeaked at that, which made me laugh.

"She got to meet him?"

"Yes."

"But you didn't think of me."

"Carlos, since when were you a big fan of his?"

"Since, forever! I've only told Logan about it so…"

"Well, there you go."

"When are you guys coming back to the States?"

"In about a week or so." I told him before there was another silence on his end.

"Can I meet him?" He asked in almost a whisper.

"I'll see what I can do." I said, trying not to laugh.

"Awesome! So, like, what are you doing now?"

"Waiting for him to come back from talking to his manager."

"You mean his Mom?"

"Same thing."

"Is he cool in real life?"

"Yeah, he's pretty cool."

"So then why is he dating that bitch Camille?" I couldn't help but burst into laughter at that. I honestly wasn't expecting it and I could tell I scared a few background dancers. I covered my mouth to suppress my laughter before James walked back in with a smile on his face.

"Carlos, I'll have to call me back later when I'm not working."

"Okay." He said and I could tell he was smiling.

"Bye." I said and he returned it before I hung up the phone.

"Who was that?" James asked, sitting down next to me.

"My best friend since High School."

"Aww."

"Yeah, he just flipped on me because I didn't tell him I knew you."

"I'm guessing he's a fan."

"Really?" I said sarcastically and he laughed, nudging me playfully.

"I have some good news." He whispered to me.

"And what is that?"

"Well, my mom had a conversation with me about this performance."

"And…" I said, gesturing for him to continue.

"We're going to make it into a little concert film."

"Really?"

"It'll be a short film that I'll probably just put on YouTube."

"Why?"

"Because I'm doing this performance once and it wouldn't be fair if all of my fans didn't see it, or at least watch it on YouTube in HD."

"Wait. What if instead, you just stream it?"

"The performance?"

"No, the whole show."

"The whole show?"

"Yeah, think about it. Beyonce and Jay-Z did the whole HBO Special as well as Gaga but not many has done a stream, well, a successful one."

"But what about technical problems? What about time zones?" He asked and I nodded.

"True. I didn't think of that."

"Okay, well what about just an HBO Special then?"

"Kendall, the show is tomorrow."

"I'm sure if you can make some calls, we can get it recorded and then the fans will wonder what the cameras are for and then you release little things on YouTube to build the hype. Then see if HBO will pick it up later."

"Where is all of this coming from?"

"Just doing some brainstorming and thinking about what I would like to see."

"Brainstorming hmm?" He asked and I nodded, smiling as he side-eyed me.

"What?"

"How long have you been planning this?" He asked me under his breath.

"Oh, shut up." I said, rolling my eyes and nudging him.

"Do you honestly think that'll work?" He asked me after a small silence.

"I mean, you would like to look back on this performance and watch it right?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, go tell your Mom, this could be some good DVD exclusive content since you haven't learned the choreography yet."

"You're right. Come on."

"Wait, what?"

"Come on, let's go tell her." He said, grabbing my hand.

"James, I don't know if I should be the one to-"

"Nonsense, get up." He said, tugging. I sighed and stood up and let him pull me out of the room and down the hallway and into another room. His mother was sitting there on her laptop and she looked up at us through her glasses.

"Mom, Kendall, here, just came up with the best idea I've heard in…well forever."

"Well, I don't know about that." I mumbled under my breath.

"Well, what is it?"

"Tell her, Kendall."

"James, I don't think-"

"What is it?" Mrs. Diamond snapped.

"Well, you remember how you came up with the idea of filming the performance for YouTube?"

"Yes, that happened a few minutes ago."

"Well, me and Kendall did a little brainstorming and Kendall suggested that we film everything and make it into an HBO Special."

"James, the show is-"

"Tomorrow, I know but what if we just got it all filmed and did some promo for it and make some deal with HBO."

"So, this was his idea?" Mrs. Diamond said and I swear me and her had what felt like an old western movie as she stared at me. I knew right then and there that she was not happy with me putting my input in anything that James was doing but I had to stand my ground.

Yeah, this doesn't seem like it's going to go well.

A/N: I hope you guys liked this chapter. I want to apologize again for the late update but I lost my Grandfather around Father's Day and then like a month later I lost my God-Mother's Mother, who was basically like my Grandmother (not in a relationship with the Grandfather I lost earlier). So, long story short I had some emotional problems and couldn't bring myself to typing really. Then I had some money problems with college but luckily I got it all figured out and I'm back! I am also posting two new stories just because. So I hope you guys check them out after this. Thank you for reading and reviews are much appreciated! :)