Juliette:

"Just the way you are…" Nicole and Juliette crooned out the final lyric of the Bruno Mar's song before collapsing in a tired pile on the bed.

"We sung to music in forever, Lee." Nicole whispered, using her special nickname for Juliette. Juliette just "mhm'd" and closed her eyes, trying to catch her breath. Her thoughts drifted to Carlos's smile as he escorted her to the limo earlier when they were leaving the studio. It was warm and told her that he would always be comfortable around her.

"Lee, are you even listening to me?" Nicole asked, shaking Juliette's shoulders violently.

"Whoa, what yeah, I'm here. Car..." She sat up frantically, grabbing at the bed. She smacked her forehead realizing she'd started to say Carlos's name. In less than a nano second, Cole's eyes would be going huge in surprise.

"I knew it!" Nicole cried, jumping around doing a stupid victory shuffle that included her flapping her arms like in the chicken dance, and flailing her legs around wildly. Juliette rolled her eyes and threw one of the many black throw pillows that were arranged on her bed at her best friend. She hit her square in the face, and that's when they both glanced at each other and fell over. Cracking up at each other.

This is why the two girls had been best friends since kindergarten, because no matter the circumstances, they could make each other fall over laughing. Juliette finally got over the laughter anecdote and sat up straight, running her hands through her long blonde hair which was down by her waist.

"You know, James has the hots for you, right?" Juliette giggled, as her friend sat up, her eyes resembling a common expression known as "deer in the headlights" and it looked quite funny on Nicole's tiny porcelain and perfect features.

"He does? What about Logan? I think he likes you." She admitted the last part a bit glumly. "But you have it out for Carlos, don't you?" Her eyes brows waggled and her lips formed a very mischievous grin.

Juliette groaned and fell back on the plush bed once more, burying her face in her hands out of pure embarrassment. "Maybe." She finally murmured after a few long moments.

Suddenly there was a tiny girl sitting upon Juliette's chest, making her gasp loudly, and almost jump out of her skin. She opened one eye to see Nicole sitting on top of her, her eyes bugging out.

"He totally loves you, Lee. It so obvi." She was abbreviating words again, which drove Juliette absolutely insane. "He stares at you with these mushy gushy eyes, and when you laugh, he smiles wide, and leans in as if to hear it better, and then when you left the booth earlier to go to the bathroom, he asked me ten times where you'd gone."

"Wow…" Juliette replied after a moment of though. She was secretly rejoicing in her head that Carlos liked her, she really liked him too. She loved his goofy personality. She needed some silliness in her life; it was too serious for a 17 year old girl to handle on her own. She smiled as she pictures him lying in the large pile of corndogs, holding one up for her with that innocent smile.

"You're thinking about him again, aren't you?" Nicole said flatly, not surprised at all.

"No…" Juliette lied, and it was obvious within a moment, because the pink flush arose in her cheeks, and she bit her lip nervously. Nicole laughed at her and rolled off to lay beside her.

There was a tiny Boop which meant one of them had gotten a text. Both of the girls scrambled to the side table where their phones were. It was Juliette's phone, which Nicole had accidently snatched. She opened the message, and read aloud.

"Hey Sweetie, I was wondering if you and Nicole would be cool with meeting up with the band tomorrow morning for breakfast at the Polo Lounge in the hotel. Ask your brothers and sister if they'd like to come. They don't have to and neither do you guys, you can if you want. Dad."

"Well?" Juliette asked, twirling a long piece of her hair with her finger.

"Okay," Nicole simply nodded, "Should we ask your brothers and sisters?"

Juliette was the eldest daughter of eight kids, including her. Four girls and four boys. Her father named the girls from his French background, while his mother chose the boys names, not all of them from her Latino roots.

She had one older brother, who was off at Oxford, and three younger brothers, the second oldest child being her brother Seth, who was fifteen.

She sighed and padded to her door, she opened it and screamed at the top of her lungs, "LINE UP!"

Within five seconds all of the remaining six children lined up in height order in front of her door. It was something they'd practice for when their father got mad. He'd ask for all of the kids to line up so he could scold each of them from tallest to smallest.

She nodded in approval.

"Seth?" She asked, well knowing he was there, but she was doing roll call.

"Here."

"Laura?"

"Present, ma'am."

Juliette raised a brow, crossing her arms in her disapproval of her thirteen year old sisters sarcasm. The girl held her hands up in surrender.

"Santiago?"

"Aloha, Mamacita." The twelve year old boy grinned, trying to annoy her.

She didn't let it get to her, instead she flicked his forehead.

"Lacey?"

"Yah." Nine year old sister, check.

"Luke?"

Her adorable six year old brother flashed her a thumbs up, she nodded and laughed.

"And, Jacqueline?"

Her little four year old sister who was wearing one of Santiago's over sized t-shirts, which were even big on his skinny twelve year old body, dragging at her feet, smiled a wide toothy grin. She was clutching her tiny little teddy bear that she wouldn't go anywhere without.

"Alright, troops. Dad invited us all to breakfast tomorrow with BTR at the Polo lounge. Who's game?" Juliette asked, clasping her hands together in front of her.

Jacqueline raised her skinny little arm, and so did Santiago.

"Only you two? Fine by me. Nicole is going too." Juliette threw a suggestive wink at Seth, who automatically raised his hand once hearing this. She laughed and nodded, "Alright. That's all. Be on stand by though."

Everyone walked in their own directions, but Laura stayed back, biting her lip in a nervous manner. More like almost chewing it off.

"Whats up, Laura?" Juliette asked, leaning against her bedroom door frame, crossing her arms.

"Can I come in?" She asked and pointed towards Juliette's room. Juliette glanced back at the room, and then nodded, motioning for her sister to step in behind her.

"What's eating at ya, Sis?" Juliette asked one she, Nicole, and Laura were sitting in a circle on the large queen sized bed in the middle of the room.

"Well, my friend , you see, has a crush on this guy, and she's pretty sure he likes her too, but she doesn't know If she should ask him out, or wait to see if he'll ever ask her out. And she would rather he ask her out." Laura told the two teenagers, still gnawing at her lower lip.

"Alright, Kid. Cut the crap, we know the 'friend' is you." Nicole said, adding the quotation marks around the word friend. Laura glared at Nicole, until Juliette gave her a look as if saying "Yo, not cool." To Laura.

Laura softened her expression and swallowed.

"Yeah. It is me." She admitted with a ton of reluctance in her tone, "I really, really, really like Mickey, but he has so many friends, it's overwhelming, and he's so hot, and popular and gah!" She threw only one of her arms into the air, due to the fact the other one was in a blue cast from her knuckled to elbow from when she broke her arm at school playing soccer at recess.

"Okay, first, you need to relax. Why do you think he likes you?" Juliette said, stopping her thoughts from drifting to Carlos, and wondering if he really did like her.

"Well, according to Chris, his best friend, that he thinks I'm really cool, and pretty," She rolled her eyes at the pretty comment, because no matter how much people told her she was gorgeous, which she was, Laura was convinced otherwise. "And he really likes me. But I can't tell." She pouted, obviously in need of her sister's wisdom about guys.

"How does he act around you?" Nicole piped in, because in reality, Nicole was the guy expert, while Juliette was far from it. "Does he try to make you laugh, and if you're with a group of people, after he cracks a joke, does he automatically look at you to see if you laughed?"

Juliette was mentally jotting all of this down, to test it on Carlos the next morning.

"Is he exceptionally nice to you, and not all the other girls. Does he always fix his hair, or smile when he talks to you?

Does he always ignore is friends when talking to you, and when he thinks your not looking, stare at you with a fond smile? Does he look straight into your eyes when you talk? And when you say something stupid, does he laugh? Because he probably thought it was adorable? When you broke your arm," She motioned to the dark blue cast on Laura's right arm, "Was he very concerned, more so than others were? Does he always find a reason to talk to you each day? Does his face light up when you talk to him? He plays football right? Have you ever gone to one of his games? If you have, does he ever talk to you from the sidelines, or smile at you, or wink, or flash a thumbs up, right to you?"

She took an air of breath, and waited for Laura's reply. Laura was staring at her amazed, and so was Juliette.

"Wow! How did you know all of that? Because he does! For like all of them!" She was gaping in amazement, as Nicole just smiled smugly.

"He's totally in love with you. But there is the ultimate test, go get your phone young one, and meet us back here." Laura nodded at the request and scurried off to find her IPhone.

"Nicole, does Carlos do those things to me, I mean not the sports things, but the rest of them?" Juliette wondered aloud, in a small voice though.

Nicole laughed and nodded informatively, and that's when Laura sprinted back into the room, holding her phone up like a prize.

"Okay, what now?"

"Do you have his number?"

"Duh." Laura rolled her eyes jokingly.

"Text him and ask him what he's doing." Nicole instructed.

Laura did so.

"He says he's playing Black Ops on live with Nick." She said, getting the respone almost immediately.

"He's in love with you." Nicole said as a matter of factly.

Laura stared at her, her jaw dropping to the floor. Juliette's expression matched Laura's.

"Boys will only text you back while they're playing Black Ops if they're madly in love with you." Nicole said in a "Duhh" tone.

Juliette giggled at this theory, and Laura thanked Nicole relentlessly before running off to call her friend to tell her friend to tell Chris to tell Mickey to ask her out.

Was this what middle school was like? Juliette thought to herself in amazement, she didn't remember this kind of drama. She shook it off and glanced at the clock, it was half past 11. She yawned and stretched her back, out, and so did Nicole.

"Night?" Juliette yawned again.

"Night." Nicole nodded, as Juliette set the alarm for seven o'clock so that they could wake up and get all primped and pretty for the boys.

Next Morning:

Juliette tip toed past the bathroom where Nicole was trying to straighten her luscious locks, which Juliette protested, thinking that Nicole's natural waves were prettier. She slipped into the black skinny jeans and gray sweater with the white camisole underneath.

"Juliette! You gotta see this!" Laura called from her room, and worriedly, Juliette scurried to Laura's room, to find her in bed with her pajama's still on. She had her silver macbook on her lap, and she pointed to the screen.

Juliette squinted, not having put her contacts in yet. Laura was on Perez Hilton's gossip site, and the third story was a picture of Carlos's arm wrapped around Juliette's shoulders last night as they walked to the limo, the title was, "Carlos's Girl?" The caption read, "Joseph Lenore's daughter was spotted getting cozy with Big Time Rush last night as they left from their concert. Did little Juliette capture Carlos's heart?"

Juliette groaned. Loudly. The last thing she needed was to have the paparazzi on her back. And she didn't want to be an embarrassment to the band. She frowned, and silently left the room, padding back to her own room. She was about to text her dad to tell him that she wasn't coming, not wanting to attract more attention, when Seth, Santiago, and Jacqueline strode into her room, all of the dressed. Jacqueline was wearing a little white dress with a poofy skirt and a red bow around the middle. Her blonde hair was wavy and cute with her bangs in her eyes. She smiled sleepily at Juliette, and Seth nodded in hello. He was carrying Juliette in his arms.

Both the boys were only wearing t-shirts and jeans with jackets. Nicole walked into the room at that moment, her hair being perfectly flat ironed. Seth was about drooling his face off. Juliette rolled her eyes, and took Jacqueline from his arms, cradling her in her own arms. They headed out and were met by the chauffer at the door. He opened the door for them into one of their fathers many cars. All of the kids slid in obediently, none of them amused at all by the fact that they were driving in Rolls Royce, one of the nicest possible cars.

They arrived at The Polo Lounge within fifteen minutes, Jacqueline was fast asleep in Juliette's arms, sucking on her thumb. They walked through the lobby of the busy hotel towards the Lounge, and found their father and mother sitting at a large table, near them sat the whale of a man, Gustavo, and his assistant Kelly, who was typing away on her phone. All of them sat and waited for the boys to arrive. One by one the boys shuffled down, each of them looking drowsy with sleep, Juliette nudged Nicole when James came in, a sleepy expression on his face, but when he spotted Nicole, his face lit up and he happily took the seat next to her.

Juliette rolled her eyes playfully, not noticing that Carlos has sat down across from her, wearing that helmet again. She wondered why he wore that helmet all the time. He was smiling at her kindly, "You look pretty." He blurted, and she felt herself blushing again.

"Thanks." She smiled, "You look….tired." She laughed and he shrugged.

The waiter came by for their orders, and everyone ordered eggs, pancakes, or French toast.

But Jacqueline wasn't okay with that.

"I want pasketti!" She screamed, and Juliette gave her a look saying "lower-that-voice-immediately-missy."

Jacqueline looked at her scared, but still whined about getting spaghetti as the poor waiter tried to explain that they didn't serve spaghetti until it was time for lunch.

"Jacqueline, you can't have spaghetti now, but you and your brothers and sisters can come up to the hotel room after breakfast, I'm sure we can get some spaghetti by then." Carlos smiled, taking Jacquelines attention for a few moments.

She beamed and nodded excitedly. "Can we, Mommy?" Jacqueline begged with her big green eyes.

"I don't know," Her mom said, her words being a bit hard to understand with her strong Latino accent.

"Please, Mommy." Carlos asked, folding his hands under her chin like a beggar, and making big eyes with pouty lips.

Mrs. Lenore cracked up, and nodded, "As long as it's okay with Joseph," She looked at her husband who nodded. "I think I can trust these guys." He chuckled.

Juliette mouthed 'Thank you.' To Carlos, who just smiled and shrugged adorably again, making her heart almost melt. She smiled back, and turned at her brother Santiago, whose gaze was affixed upon Kendall's little sister. His jaw was pretty much on the table, his eyes bugging out. Katie was pretty cute, she had really long brown hair with bangs that fell just over her big brown eyes.

She looked at her brother again; and then back at Katie. Carlos looked at her weirdly and followed his gaze, he laughed. "Wow," He commented as the waiter started to hand out the food.

"FOOD!" All of the boys shouted at one, digging into their plates, shoveling food into their mouths.

"DOGS!" Gustavo scolded at them, "MANNERS!"

They all sat up at once, trying to pass it off with innocent smiles. Juliette looked at Carlos, who had a smudge of syrup in his cheek. She rolled her eyes and wiped the same part of her cheek, so he noticed that he had something on his cheek as well. He looked at her confused again, and she rolled her eyes again, before leaning over the table, and wiping the syrup off with her napkin.

"Thanks," He smiled politely, and she shrugged, copying his earlier move, and she winked at him, making him laugh again.

After the long breakfast, all of the kids made their way to the boy's room. Carlos, Juliette, and Jacqueline walked behind the others, taking their time down the never ending hallway to the room.

"I'm gowna mawwee, Cawlos." Jacqueline sang, and Carlos blushed, glancing at Juliette, who was giggling at her young sister. Carlos ducked his head in a nervous manner, he knew Jacqueline wasn't serious, but of course he was going to blush around the subject of marriage when he's near maybe the most beautiful girl ever.

"You are, Jackie?" Juliette grinned, "A big white wedding, where you gonna have it?"

"The beach," Jacqueline replied, wrinkling her nose and grabbing for Carlos from Juliette's arms. She handed the small girl to Carlos, who stopped, and set the little girl down.

"Want a piggy back ride, Miss Jacqueline?" Carlos grinned, and she nodded excitedly. Juliette picked her up again, and placed her on Carlos's back. She clung her tiny arms around his neck as they finally rounded the corner towards the boys room. Juliette knocked on the door, and Seth opened it, nodding to them and letting them in.

"Down!" Jacqueline commanded, and Carlos set her down on the sofa. She jumped off and jumped on Santiago's lap. Santiago was sitting next to Katie on the couch, they were talking quietly, and she was laughing at something he'd said.

Juliette quickly made her way over to where Nicole was flirting with Logan, and nudged her, nodding her head in the direction of the two. Nicole laughed and then went back to flirting with the boy. Now it seemed as though he didn't mind as much.

Juliette sat down on another couch, looking around the hotel room. She heard someone ravaging through the refrigerator, and saw Carlos come up with leftover pasta from maybe the night before. He grinned to himself and went to heat it up in the microwave. Before long, he presented it to Jacqueline, who almost jumped at him out of happiness.

She caught Carlos's eye for a moment, and he winked at her, as if saying, 'I got this.'