2. Welcome To The Palm Woods
a/n: so here is chapter two, the song in this chapter is the same as the first chapter, and is Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. Now as you've noticed there are about three main characters of this story, so the perspective will shift a little bit between the three of them. Now this chapter is when things will start to pick up a little bit. Some of you may have also noticed that this is the second time that the second chapter has been uploaded, I decided to rewrite everything of this chapter after the beginning, it will still have some of the same parts, but I just was not happy with it. So if it sounds familiar at all that would be why, just try and bear with me here, you'll be able to tell when it changes from the original chapter. So yeah, enjoy and please remember to review and not flame at the end. J
xoxo,
LexidaLou
Callie's Point Of View:
"So this is the Palm Woods?" I asked Kelly as we entered the hotel about a week later.
My parents, Lottie's parents, and Robin's parents had all insisted that we finish the first semester of school back home before we went to LA to begin our singing careers, so we had left the day after finals. It was easiest for my dad to transfer to LA, so he could still have a job, and for my mom to move because she works from home. My little brother is homeschooled so it really did matter if we moved or not to him. Because of this, my mom and dad got appointed guardian of Lottie, Robin, and myself while the three of us chased our dream. Upon learning this, the three of us couldn't help but to thank God (and in Lottie's case Buddha) that we are all so close, because otherwise someone or some people would be dead by now.
"Yes, it is where you will be staying for the next two months while we prepare your demo and such. And then if your demo gets approved after that time then you will be staying here for awhile longer, and if your band is successful, which we pray it is, then you will be able to get your own house, or a much nicer hotel to stay at." Kelly said with her usual smile.
That girl is so unbelievably put together, I don't know how she does it, I wouldn't be able to do it, and as long as I'm not around Lottie and Robin, when they are both hyper, I am the calm and put together one, yet whenever we are in a crisis, Lottie freaks out and panics, and tells me to figure out what we are going to do, but in the end she always comes up with a beast solution.
"Wait a minute, we only get two months to record six demo tracks, and make a music video, and learn all of the dance numbers for our songs?" Lottie asked.
"Yeah, we know that that's a short amount of time, but our boy band is getting reviewed at that time, and that's when Griffin has decided to review all of the demos at one time."
"Oh…" Lottie, Robin, and I all said together.
"Now, this is the Palm Woods, your room is actually two adjoining suites. One with two bedrooms which Callie, is for your parents and your brother, and the other one has a bedroom with three beds, there are two bunk beds so please try not to kill each other over that. Now there is also a pool."
"THERE'S A POOL!" The three of us shouted loudly.
I have a pool at my house (which my Aunt and Uncle are now living in), but it is only open during the summer. Here, in LA it's basically summer year round, which means a pool year round. So, it is easy to imagine how excited three sixteen year old girls get about that.
"Callie, there is a pool at our house in West Lake, Lottie, Robbie, you two are always over during the summer, this isn't a new concept." Dad said.
"Yes but this is LA." Robin began.
"Which means that we have a pool all year long instead of all summer long." I added.
"Which is freakin' amazing!" Lottie shouted excitedly.
"Okay…. I still don't get it. Sarah, do you get it?" My dad asked my mom curiously.
"It's a teenage girl thing Peter." She replied with a smile.
"So Kelly, could we maybe have the keys so we can run up and change into our bathing suites and such and go swim?" I asked Kelly very nicely with my seemingly innocent smile.
"Yeah sure, here you go." Kelly said and handed me the keys.
The three of us then ran up the stairs of the hotel until we reached the third floor. We then entered our room, where we dropped our bags down on the floor grabbed our bathing suites and started changing. After about five minutes we were all in our bathing suites and in our cover ups, and ready to go. We all grabbed our tote bags and ran back down the stairs.
"So I totally snuck a sneak peak of the pool and it looks beast!" Lottie shouted excitedly. I do love that girl to death, but she does not know how to do quiet at all.
"Nice!" Robbie and I shouted together happily.
"Well then let's go already!" Lottie shouted excitedly. She then grabbed both of our arms and dragged us down to the pool. The three of us have really never been able to resist a good pool.
Big Time Rush's Point Of View:
"Another day, another swim. Life is good here at the palm woods." Logan Mitchell said to his three best friends, Kendall Knight, Carlos Garcia, and James Diamond.
The four sixteen year old boys were lounging on lounge chairs right next to the pool at the Palm Woods Hotel.
"Yes it is. There's the sun, the pool, and those cute new girls." Kendall said with a smile on his face.
"CUTE NEW GIRLS?" Logan, Carlos, and James asked their best friend curiously.
"Yeah, there's three of them, getting ready to jump into the pool."
As Kendall said this the other three boys turned their heads to the three girls preparing to jump into the pool. One had black brown hair and was wearing a paisley print halter top bikini, another had chestnut brown hair and was wearing a yellow and polka-dotted bikini, and the third had wavy chocolate brown hair with dark blonde highlights, that was wearing a purple bikini with blank and pink chevrons. All three girls gave each other smirks, grabbed hands and ran to jump into the pool. They all did cannon balls.
"I think I'm in love." Carlos said with a goofy smile.
"Really guys, we were just fighting over Jo, and that other new girl yesterday, is it really worth it to fight over three girls when there are four of us?" Kendall asked. Even though he hadn't told his friends anything about the fact that Jo had a boyfriend had left him quite disheartened.
"Who says we would be fighting over them?" James began. "We all know that Camille will kill Logan if he ever attempts to go out with anyone else, so that just leaves the three of us. How is that fighting over?"
"Because we'll all end up wanting the same girl." Kendall added. "Why don't we just try and be friends with them?" Kendall asked.
"That could work." Logan said.
"Then let's jump in!" Kendall said. He then got up and did a cannon ball into the pool.
Robbie's Point Of View:
"Oh naturally heated pool, I have missed you dearly." I said happily as I swam around in the pool.
In addition to doing fall color guard, I am also a competitive swimmer, so when I have swim, which is in the winter and the spring mainly, it is all in a heated indoor pool, so I have missed the naturally heated water very much.
"Oh how I love you Robbie." Lottie said with a laugh as she gave me a hug.
"I love you too Lottie." I said with an equally loud and happy laugh.
"Thanks guys I feel unloved." Callie said with a fake frown.
"Oh you know we love you Callie." Lottie and I both said and gave our friend a hug.
The three of us then continued to tread water and talk about random things, which of course included us randomly singing 'Don't Stop Believin' ' what can I say? We all love that song.
"Ow!" Lottie shouted during one of her verses of the song.
She looked up and saw that a ball was laying right next to her in the water. It had obviously hit her in the head. Lottie does not like getting hit by balls, it goes back to when he parents made her play basketball when she was like seven, and she kept getting hit by the basketball in the head. I could tell by the look on my best friends face that she was pissed.
"I am so sorry!" A masculine voice said as four boys swam over to us.
"I should hope that you are sorry, I mean people don't normally go around hitting people in the head with balls, and you know, some people have very sensitive heads!" Lottie shouted at him. She really does get touchy at times, but that is one of the reasons that we love her.
"I seriously am I didn't mean too. I'm Kendall by the way." The boy that was apologizing said. He had dirty blonde hair that was almost brown, but parts of which were an almost golden blonde, his hair was also a medium length, well for a guy. Kendall also had hazel eyes that were basically a golden brown with small green flecks.
"Lottie. And these are my friends Callie and Robin." Lottie said with a fake smile. This boy reminded me of someone but I couldn't figure out who.
"These are my friends, James, Carlos, and Logan. We're Big Time Rush." Kendall said.
"Oh." Callie, Lottie, and I all said together.
Kelly and Gustavo had told us about Big Time Rush, they were the boy band that Gustavo had brought to Rocque Records about a month earlier. They were supposed to be our competition.
"Well, we're Bor-" Lottie began to say.
But before she could get to saying that we were Borrowed Love, Callie and I clapped our hands over her mouth and stopped her from saying anything. I could tell by the look on Callie's face that she wanted to be friends with these boys too. I on the other hand was defiantly thinking that the one wearing the helmet was adorable, I think he is name was Carlos.
"Boarding here, because we are trying to find commercial work." Callie said.
"Yep, and Lottie was just about to tell you what commercial we were auditioning for, but we couldn't let that happen. Because for all we know you guys could be trying out for the commercial too, and we all know that middle aged women are more likely to buy something if cute teenage boys indorse it." I said with a smile. I couldn't help but to keep smiling at the boy wearing the helmet he was just too cute and adorable.
"Oh. The makes perfect sense." The boy wearing the helmet said. I couldn't believe that he was actually buying it. He seemed a little bit on the slow side, but he was adorable, and I had a feeling that he was funny so it didn't matter to me one bit.
"So why the helmet? You're in a pool?" I asked him with a smile.
"Oh Carlos always wears his helmet." Kendall (the boy who had hit Lottie accidentally with the ball) said.
"So you're Carlos." I said with an even bigger smile. "I got kinda confused on who was who." I said with a slight laugh.
"Well I'm James." The pretty boy said. Well he was a pretty boy in my opinion, he had longish brown hair and blue eyes, I could tell without even looking that Callie was eating him up.
"And I'm Logan." A boy with pale skin, jet black hair and dark brown eyes said. He had a cute smile.
"I'm Carlos. Which one are you? I know that sounds really rude and all, but I got kinda confused too..." The cute boy said. I was really liking him.
"Robin, well I go by Robbie." I said with a smile.
"That's a cute name."
"You're helmets cute." I replied.
"So you're Callie then?" James asked Callie.
"Yeah." She replied with a smile.
I was defiantly liking the Palm Woods more and more already. I mean cute boys, who are musicians, who are nice, and who like to swim, this day was looking up.
"Callie, Robbie, Lottie, we need to get going, you can keep your swim suits on just put something on over top. Mom's going crazy Cal." Jackson, Callie's little brother said.
"Damn." Lottie, Callie, and I all said together.
"We'll see you guys later then." I said with a smile, as the three of us got out of the pool.
"Yeah, that sounds good." Carlos replied.
"Callie, Lottie, Robin-" Gustavo began.
"You can call me Robbie." I said interrupting Gustavo.
"Okay then, Callie, Lottie, and Robbie, this is your choreographer, he will be teaching you your dance, you are going to have to learn it fast. Griffin, who is my boss is coming tomorrow to either approve you all for demos, or to send you back to West Lake." Gustavo said.
"Um, I'm from Clarks Gap thank you very much." Lottie butted in.
"Okay, whatever, DOGS! Get in here, you all have to learn a dance to, might as well do it at the same time." Gustavo shouted.
As he shouted this, the boys from the pool walked in. I could see that they were all shocked by both their faces and their dropping jaws.
"So you guys are Borrowed Love?" Kendall asked the three of us.
"Yes." Lottie replied.
"And you didn't mention this before because?" He asked again, but he looked directly at Lottie when he asked.
"Well I tried to, but for some reason Robbie and Callie covered my mouth, don't ask me why, I don't know." Lottie replied.
"We stopped Lottie from telling you guys because we wanted to become friends with you, and that would be kind of hard if you all knew from the get go that we are basically your rivals in Rocque Records." Callie said jumping in.
Callie has always been the smart one out of all of us. Lottie may always come up with the solution when it comes down to it, but Callie always comes up with something good after the fact, which really comes in handy in situations like these.
"Yeah, and we really wanted to be friends with you." I added in. I then gave Carlos one of my cute little flirty smiles. He responded with an equally flirty and cute smile.
"Oh. That makes sense." Carlos said completely seriously. Ever time I saw him I just kept thinking that he was more and more adorable.
"Well I know that Callie and Robbie wanted to be friends with you all, but I personally don't want to be friends with guys that hit people in the head with balls, and who are the competition. I mean why would you want to be friends with someone that you are going to end up being rivals with? It just doesn't make any sense to me." Lottie said as she flicked her black brown pony tail over her shoulder.
"Lottie! What the hell are you doing?" I asked one of my best friends.
"I'm being honest, okay? I don't want to be friends with a bunch of guys right now, okay?" Lottie replied.
"Lottie." Callie and I both said together.
"Don't Lottie me." She replied.
"No seriously it's okay, I don't really wanna be friends with you guys either." Kendall said.
"Kendall, what are you talking about? You're the one who told us that we should try and become friends with the three of them." James said, he was obviously more than a little bit confused.
"Well that was before we found out that they are Borrowed Love, I mean Lottie does have a point here, what is the point with becoming friends with the next batch of perfect little clones that will make the perfect girl band for Gustavo." Kendall added.
"Um excuse me, but we are not clones, and we actually right our own songs, and word on the street is, you all don't even do that." Lottie replied with her hands on her hips.
"So wait, let me get this straight, you two are saying that you aren't going to become friends with each other because you are from rival bands? Does anyone else think that this is ridiculous?" Logan asked all of us.
Everyone except for Kendall and Lottie raised their hands. Then it hit me, literally like a ton of bricks, Kendall reminded me of Lottie. They were both incredibly stubborn, and based on how they were both acting, they had very similar personalities. Which is really hard to believe because I never thought that I would ever meet another person that was even remotely like Lottie.
"DOGS! CATS! Stop fighting now. You all need to learn your dances now!" Gustavo shouted.
We all tried to ignore the drama that had just happened. I gave Carlos another cute smile and he returned it, Callie was stealthily mingling with Logan and James. Kendall and Lottie however were both ignoring each other. This was going to be a long dance practice, and I love to dance, so I don't say that very much.
Kendall's Point Of View:
"They're good." Logan, one of my best friends said the next day.
Logan, James, Carlos, and I were all sitting in the booth in front of the indoor stage of Rocque Records watching, Callie Davis, Lottie Herald, and Robbie Jones (aka Borrowed Love) were practicing for their song one last time before they preformed in front of Griffin.
"They're robots Logan, there's a difference." I replied to my friend.
The other day, when both of our bands were practicing our dances together, I couldn't help but to notice that all three of them had copied the moves exactly and perfectly. When the choreographer had asked them to make a completely unnecessary change to their dance they had done it without a second thought, even though it made the dance look bad. It just didn't make any sense to me at all, so I am came to the obvious conclusion that they are basically robots, who don't know how to think for themselves and only listen to and do what other people tell them.
"Kendall, they aren't robots, they are just good at taking direction." Logan replied.
"Sure Logan, that's just what they want you to think."
"You do know that if you and Lottie had just said, let's be nice to each other and be friends, that being at Rocque Records would be a lot better right?" Logan asked me.
As Logan said Lottie's name I couldn't help but to look at her rehearsing with her friends and band mates. She was wearing a floral tress with a salmon pink outline and a pair of matching salmon pink heels. She had a bracelet around her wrist that had a single daisy charm on it, and she was wearing two rings. Her hair was tied in a loose bun. Lottie was cute, all of the girls were cute, but she had a point, what's the point of becoming friends with people that you are just going to end up being rivals with? I mean it really doesn't make any sense.
"What's the point of becoming friends with someone that will end up being your rival Logan?"
"I don't know. I was just saying." Logan said. "I mean look at all of them, they are all different and yet they work well together, just like all of us. We really aren't that different." He finished.
My eye drifted from Lottie to Callie. Callie was wearing a high waisted ruffled cream skirt and a floral print (rose print technically) top. She was wearing a pair of black heels, the same bracelet as Lottie, a ring, and a pair of intricate, earrings. The look was completely different than Lottie's, but it looked good with it. My eye then drifted to Robbie. She was wearing a denim jumper-thing, with a pair of floral print tights on underneath of it. She was wearing a pair of high heeled boots that went just over her ankle, the same bracelet as Lottie and Callie, and a ring of her own. These girls were big into matching bracelets and wearing rings. Once again, Robbie's outfit and look was completely different than Callie and Lottie's but yet they all worked, oh and these girls really liked floral prints.
"Yeah, so what, there's a similarity, that was bound to happy. You can find something in common with so many people if you just look for it." I replied. I can be stubborn at times, and this was one of those times.
"Hey Dogs, please be quiet, Griffin is entering in five seconds, and then the girls are going to start to sing." Gustavo said to us. He was actually being quite nice and personable for him, which never happens. He must've been in a really good mood today.
Sure enough, literally five seconds later Griffin entered the booth. He sat down and gave Gustavo the nod to tell the girls to begin singing, which resulted in Gustavo giving the girls a nod, the prerecorded music began to play and Robbie began to play her electric guitar.
"Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world. She took the midnight train goin' anywhere." Lottie sang.
"Just a city girl, born and raised in South Saint Claire. She took the midnight train goin' anywhere." Callie sang.
"A swimmer in a cold pool, a smell of chlorine and H2O. For a smile they can share the night." Robbie sang.
Then the three came and sang together, "It goes on and on and on, strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard, their shadows searching in the night. Streetlight people, living just to find emotion, hiding somewhere in the night."
Even though Callie, Lottie, and Robbie were totally robots, who couldn't think for themselves and only worked to please, they could sing. I also realized as I watched them preform that they weren't even completely following the choreography, they defiantly weren't as big of robots as I thought they were. Don't get me wrong though, they are still defiantly robots.
Robbie played her electric guitar amazingly well and then Callie began to sing again: "Working hard to get my fill."
"Everybody wants a thrill." Lottie belted out.
"Payin' anything to roll the dice, just one more time." Robbie sang as she rocked out to the music that her guitar was producing.
"Some will win, some will loose." Callie sang. You could tell that all of them loved preforming, all the while, the three of them were smiling like crazy.
"Some were born to sing the blues." Lottie's voice had so much power to it, it was kind of amazing, especially coming from such a small person.
"Oh the movie never ends." Robbie sang.
"It goes on and on and on, strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard, their shadows searching in the night. Streetlight people, living just to find emotion, hiding somewhere in the night." They all sang together. I was actually really liking this song. It had a very good message, and all of these girls could sing. I found myself having to remind myself that they were robots, and there was no point in even liking their music, but they were just going to go all corporate and then not even sing that song ever again.
"Don't stop believin', hold on to that feelin'." Callie sang.
"Streetlight, people." Lottie sang powerfully.
"Don't stop believin', hold on to that feelin'." Robbie sang and then started to play her guitar in an underlying solo.
"Streetlight, people." Callie sang with a huge smile on her face as she clutched her diaphragm. Even though they all had amazing voices, Callie obviously had the best voice out of all of them.
"Don't stop believin', hold on to that feelin'." Lottie sang.
"Streetlight." Robbie sang holding the note.
"People." All three of them sang the last not together and held it for an unbelievably long amount of time.
"That was great. Borrowed Love is in, on one condition." Griffin began.
"And what is this condition?" All three girls asked him at once. You could tell just by that alone that they all know each other way too well.
"Well, we would like to change all of your looks, especially Robin's so that they are more of our key demographic, parents are going to want their children to be listening to music that is sung by people wearing more appropriate and modest clothing if you see my point."
"One question, well more then question, so first question, did you like the song?" Lottie asked him.
I could tell by the looks on both Callie and Robbie's faces that some serious shit was about to go down, and that made me actually fear for Griffin. I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this was going to be way worse than the whole bad boy thing a few weeks back.
"Yes. It had a very good message."
"Okay that's what I thought. Second, you basically want us to change who we are, and what we look like to fit your demographic?" Lottie asked Griffin again.
"Yes."
"Yeah okay. I'm done. See here's the thing, by asking us to change what we wear, and who we are, that changes our sound. Our songs will be little bubbly pieces of shit, that everyone will love but then we won't be Borrowed Love anymore, we'll be a commercialized girl band instead of ourselves, and I am not going to do that." Lottie said.
"Lottie." Callie and Robbie both said trying to calm their friend down.
"Don't Lottie me. You know what Griffin, this is my dream, no this is our dream. But here's the thing, we can always be discovered by another person, someone who will let us be who we want to be, so you can either do that, or we can find someone else, let me know when you figure that out, until then, I'm done." Lottie said, she then ran out of the mini-stage. She had to go through the booth and as she passed me she said: "There you go, no rivalry, go be friends." she then continued to run. Without even thinking, about two minutes later, I grabbed my jacket and ran after her.
Lottie's Point Of View:
I knew that everything I had just said to Griffin was total B.S. There had been such a small chance of us being discovered in the first place, so there was little to no way that we would be discovered again. This was one of those times when I really ought to have just kept my mouth shut. I have a very bad habit of not thinking before I speak sometimes and just saying what I feel which is exactly what had just happened.
"Large chocolate in a cup, with caramel sauce, and gummi bears?" The main server at the ice cream place I was at asked.
I walked up, gave the guy the three fifty for the ice cream, took it and sat down at the bar. I then started eating it. I always eat chocolate ice cream, with caramel sauce, and gummi bears whenever I feel like I have done something wrong. It is one of those things that always makes me feel better, like German gummi bears.
I still couldn't believe that I had done that. I mean I had basically just ruined, not only my chance at my dream but my two best friends chances at achieving their dreams.
"Hi, can I please get a large vanilla in a cup, with rainbow sprinkles, caramel and chocolate sauce, m&ms, and gummi bears?" A voice that I immediately recognized as Kendall's asked the server.
"Yeah sure, I'll call you when it's ready."The server replied.
"Thanks." Kendall said. I heard a slight thump in the chair next to me, I looked over and saw that Kendall was now sitting next to me. "So, do you come here often?" He asked me with a smile.
"Kendall, what the hell are you doing here?"
a/n: okay so I decided to basically rewrite everything except for the beginning of this chapter, I was just not liking what I had written before, and I wanted to change it, so, I just decided to rewrite most of it. Now, I would just like to clarify for one reader that in this fic their will be Logan/Camille. They seemed very concerned about it and I just wanted to reassure them. I do not have any pictures for this fic yet, but I am defiantly working on it. :) Alright, please remember to review, and no flaming please if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. :)
