Juliette:
Nicole and Juliette shuffled through the swamp of people towards the backstage doors. Juliette sighed, and looked up at the security guard, showing him their I.D. badges, his eyes went wide with recognition of who the girls were and he let them back straight away.
"Now, keep it cool. Don't scream, or harm any of them in any way shape or form." She hissed lowly to Nicole, and she nodded obediently.
She nodded to a few security guards on our way back, and they nodded back with the utmost respect. She smiled to herself as the stage manager, Matt, led the two girls towards the back.
"WHOO!" Someone screamed, followed by a loud crash and a hissing sound of something being shot out of a can. She jumped at a little bit at the commotion as Nicole and she were ushered into the brightly lit room where the boys were messing around. She looked around and figured that the loud crashing sound was result of the smashed lamp on the floor, and the hissing sound was coming from the corner where James and Kendall where in a whipped cream fight.
Matt cleared his throat, and the boys all turned to see what was happening. She spotted Carlo's beautiful brown eyes go big at the site of her, and Logan's soft blue eyes did as well. She smiled and could feel Nicole shaking with excitement at her side.
"Hi." Kendall said, breaking the awkward silence. He approached them, licking the whipped cream off of his fingers. He didn't offer his hand, which Juliette was thankful for, not wanting to get whipped cream, or his spit on her hand.
"You….I….Ken….Jame…..Car….Bahh!" Nicole sputtered, and then passed out.
Juliette kneeled by her side quickly, a sudden rush of urgency coming over her. Carlos and Logan sprinted over towards them; Carlos was wearing a helmet with the straps undone.
"Maybe she should be wearing that, man." James chuckled, nodding towards the helmet. He received several glares from all of them, as they picked Nicole's tiny and limp body up, and placed it on the soft looking leather couch. James piled pillows under her head, and then they all sat down, like they were waiting.
"I'm Juliette." The girl said quietly to James and Kendall, knowing that Carlos and Logan already knew her name. They both hadn't said anything, their eyes still staring at her in shock. Kendall and James exchanged glances, and burst out laughing.
Do I have something on my face? Juliette wondered in worry, her lips frowning.
"Are you Mr. Lenore's daughter? You look like him." Carlos said, and Juliette found herself staring at his lips. She nodded slowly in response, and Logan chuckled.
"I take it your friend is a fan of us?" James asked, his eyes staring at Nicole in awe.
Oh god.
"Yeah," She nodded. "But she gets a little faint around the talent, as we say."
"The talent?" Carlos asked; a flash of insult in his kind brown eyes, she suddenly felt bad for using that name for him.
"Sorry, we don't mean it to insult you; it's just what we say because it's too hard to keep track of the names of all the bands." She smiled weakly, and he nodded in acceptance. We were all sitting about ten feet away from Nicole to give her breathing room, well, all of us save for James, who was glued to her side, unable to take his eyes off of Nicole's paled face.
"I think James likes the other girl," Kendall whispered jokingly in her ear, and she giggled. "Her name is Nicole, and I wouldn't be surprised, she is super pretty. But for the record she only fainted because she was nervous to meet you guys, and just as much excited." Juliette explained easily.
"Well, you don't seem to be. And it looks as though you already know Logan and Carlos. They've been talking nonstop about this beautiful girl named Juliette all week since they bumped into her on Monday. You wouldn't happen to know her, would you?" Kendall wagged his eyebrows playfully, and Juliette glanced at the other two boys who were looking away meekly. She laughed and felt Carlos's eyes on her.
"Hm, I think I do. Haha." Juliette smiled, trying to ease the tension in between all of them. She unzipped her North Face and let it fall to the ground. Carlos's eyes went wide when he was her shirt.
"AC/DC fan?" He grinned widely.
"Uhm, yes! I love AC/DC!" Juliette laughed again, and high fived Carlos.
Nicole started to stir, and James perked up, a smile growing on his face. She sat up slowly, rubbing her eyes. I darted to her side, pushing James out of my way.
"Nick! Are you okay? You passed out on us." Juliette told her in a light tone, so that hopefully the boys wouldn't hear her.
"Yeah. But I had this crazy dream that we met the boys from Big Time Ru…" She froze in mid-sentence as Carlos popped up behind Juliette's shoulder, checking to see if Nicole was okay. Soon enough, all of the boys had crowded around her, making sure she was alright. She screamed once more.
"I'm fine." She pushed off their constant questions of her condition with a shrug.
Matt popped his head in the door, "Gustavo wants you guys in the car now to get to the recording studio. Either the girls catch a ride with you guys, or they meet us there."
"They'll ride with us!" James announced, and Nicole looked t him weirdly, and then went back to ogling at Logan, who Juliette could tell she was now all for, instead of Carlos. She shrugged, and both girls accepted the invitation to ride with boys to the studio.
Carlos was grinning as the eight teenagers walked in a group towards the backdoor.
"Brace yourselves, there will be fans." Kendall warned the girls sternly, as they all stood in front of the large gray doors, as if stepping through the threshold of that door would be there final steps.
James swung the door open, and Juliette was overwhelmed with the flashing lights of people's camera's, and the hundreds of voices that were creating this loud droning buzz.
She felt a strong arm wrap around her shoulders, and hug her close to someone's side. There were sudden shouts of anger when people noticed the two girls being escorted out of the building with the boys. There was one loud threat that Juliette was very scared by. Someone shouted:
"GET AWAY FROM MY MAN, BLONDIE, I WILL FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE!"
The boys kept quiet, and the steps towards the stretch limo seemed to be a lot longer than they should have. Juliette remained silent as well, and spotted Nicole clinging onto Logan's arm, who had an obvious look of discomfort on his face.
There was a sudden crack of pain against Juliette's head, and she went down. She screamed loudly and clasped the back of her head gently. Carlos was by her side immediately, picking her up in his arms and carrying her to the limo. Oddly, she didn't protest. She enjoyed being pressed against his soft chest. She closed her eyes and rested her head on his shoulder, a light throbbing still in the back of her head where she was struck by something.
There were now security guards everywhere, and they were stopping the crowd of screaming teenagers and preteens from getting way out of control and starting a riot.
Juliette decided to fake being faint so she could remain closer to Carlos, she recognized that this was petty, but right now she just yearned for him to be near her. She felt herself being placed into the limo, and Carlos's strong arms still tight around her waist. She smiled faintly, but continued to play sick, leaning into Carlos's side.
She could hear the famous Gustavo shouting something about the boys taking too long, and then being polite to Nicole, and asking in a kind tone if she was alright. Kendall brushed it aside saying that it was just a bruise and that she was resting. Carlos remained silent by my side.
Soon, someone was gently shaking her awake, in fact, two people were. She jumped up, bumping her head on the roof of the limo, and rubbing the sore spot on the back of her head.
She fell back onto the leather interior of the very fancy limo which she now surveyed, having had her eyes closed since they got into the car.
"Are you alright?" Logan and Carlos asked in unison, and then looked at each other with a menacing glare.
"I'm fine, just a bit sore." She smiled weakly, her hand on the back of her head, the dull ache fading away slowly.
She looked into Carlos's brown eyes that made her melt, and Logan's eyes which gave her the butterfly feeling.
"We should go inside." She smiled, trying to break the glares that the two boys were sending each other. She smiled again softly to the both of them, and they shuffled out of the spacious and warm car, into the cold night, each of them placed a hand on her back, neither of them noticing that they were both doing so as they led her into the recording studio. They were showed where James, Kendall, and Nicole were, hanging out in the sound booth.
Nicole was laughing at something Kendall was doing, and when she spotted Logan entered the booth with Carlos and Juliette, her smile lit up brightly. Juliette laughed at this, and Carlos offered her a spinning chair in front of the mixing board. She took it, and placed the earphones on, having been through this process before from when she was younger and would her father would let her go to the recording studio for fun. She would sit at the mixing board and wear the massive earphones around her tiny little blonde head.
She smiled at the memories, and came back to reality to hear the boys running some harmonies to warm up. She noticed that they had recognized her smile, and both Logan and Carlos had intended it for them.
She smiled weakly as the boys started up with 'Til I Forget About You' she listened closely to Carlos's and Logan's singing, She couldn't help but smile.
After the band sang their Famous and Halfway There, they took a break. Juliette jumped out of the booth and started to look for a restroom, until a helpful assistant who was walking through the hall pointed her in the direction. As she exited the powder room, she stopped to take a look at all of the records that were hanging on the wall. She was amazed at all of the legends names that were plastered on this very wall.
Someone cleared their throat, and Juliette turned around, slightly alarming her. She spotted Logan who was standing behind her, his hands in his pockets, a small smirk on his lips. She nodded gently, and in her feather light voice she said, "Isn't it amazing how many legends have been here before? Back when they were just starting out? And now, we're here, remembering them."
Logan chuckled and nodded, "One day, maybe Big Time Rush will be up there, and some other band that's just getting on their feet in the real world will be looking at our platinum record, and thinking the same thing."
"Yeah, that'd be pretty cool."
"I know you're not a very big Big Time Rush fan, but we were all hoping tonight that you'd see the better side of us. We're not fake like other singers, we really do things our own. You know, we were just Hockey players back in Minnesota a little under a year ago. We didn't want to be singers. We wanted to be hockey players, well, Kendall and Carlos did, I wanted to be a doctor, and James wanted to be a model. He's obsessed with his looks." He rolled his eyes at that, making Juliette giggle.
"CORNDOGS!" A voice screamed, and there was a loud "BAM" coming from up the hall. The two seventeen year olds exchanged glances and sprinted to where the noise came from. They came across Carlos attacking a large pile of corn dogs in the middle of a break room. She looked at him like he was a madman, and at this point, she was pretty sure he was one. He smiled up at her gently and held a corndog he had not eaten yet, "Corndog?" He offered.
She laughed and bent down, taking the corndog from his grasp, and nibbling on it gently. Carlos laughed and continued his corndog ravaging.
Carlos:
Kendall was instructing the girls that there were going to be a lot of fans, and that they were to just keep quiet and make their way to limo without a word to the paparazzi or the fans. He snuck a glance at Juliette, and saw how she was listening carefully to each of Kendall's words. His heart thumped heavily.
What are the chances? Carlos thought to himself. What were the chances that the girl he had met randomly on a street in the very busy New York City would be the daughter of the CEO of the record company he was signed for? Maybe it is fate.
He slid his arm around Juliette's shoulders quickly, trying not to make anything too obvious. He recognized earlier that once the fans saw the girls walking with them, they would assume that they were girlfriends or something like that, and become jealous. A few profanities were screamed at the girls as they walked, and one was shouted right to Juliette, and then he heard the crack.
He saw the expression of terror and pain flicker on Juliette's face, and she went down. He quickly picked her up, carrying her bridal style towards the car, he felt her head rest on his shoulder, her breathing slowed, her eyes were closed. He placed her carefully into the limo, and then got in next to her, keeping an arm around her waist tightly. He looked up to see Logan shooting him daggers with his eyes. Juliette's friend Nicole was staring at Logan like he was a God of sorts. And James was staring at Nicole the same way.
Carlos chuckled and closed his eyes, trying to get rid of the headache he felt pounding its way into his head. He listened to the casual talk that was passing through the limo between Gustavo, Kelly, and everyone else. He only responded lightly to when people asked him something. Everyone in the car could feel the tension rolling off of Logan and Carlos. But you could even see the jealousy that was basically pouring out of Logan's eyes as he glared at Carlos for being so close to Juliette.
Once they were at the recording studio, Logan and Carlos stayed behind to wake up Juliette. She jumped, bumping her head on the limo's roof, as she fell back down onto the leather couch. The two boys escorted her inside, and gave her a chair at the mixing board. They then were forced to go into the booth and warm up.
Soon they started with Famous, and Carlos spotted Juliette bobbing along to the beat of his solo. He grinned at that, and kept singing, the best he had in a while.
No one could explain what Juliette's smile did to him. His heart went about in a hard thumping, his breath grew short, and he became nervous. He had never felt that way about a girl, yeah some girls were really pretty and all, but they didn't do that full effect to him like Juliette. And she was funny, and had good taste in music. And usually, no girls would pay attention to him in that way because they all thought he messed around too much. Surely Juliette felt the same way about him, she was always looking at him, and smiling brightly.
When he first saw her after she stepped on his foot, his eyes locked with hers after she'd taken her sunglasses off, he'd known that he had to have her. He wouldn't be able to live from that point if she wasn't his.
Then like fate was on his side for once, she was the daughter of the CEO. She was going to spend the night with them at the studio and what not. He got to see her more.
But Logan had to ruin it.
Logan had to meet her the same day. Logan had to want her too.
Logan had always been a good friend of Carlos, but Carlos never felt right around him and James and Kendall. All of the girls wanted them, all of the girls thought they were the cute ones. They only saw Carlos as the pathetic guy who they were friends with for pity. So, the one girl that shows the slightest bit of interest in him, Logan has to try and get her.
Can't he just get the girl? Just once, could he?