3. Boardwalk Fries & Bonding

a/n: so here is chapter three, I would just like to thank two of my amazing friends, the first of which is IcePrincess013, and I would like to thank her for actually letting me type the first chapter, and the first draft of the second chapter at her house, and Lollipop Pirate for staying up until one in the morning talking to me while I was writing the previous chapter. Lolz. I would also like to thank ZealousZoe, and ShelbyMarxTehSpot, for giving me the most amazing start to the morning with their amazing reviews. :) And on that note I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed, added this story to their favorites or alerts, thank you all so much! I would also like to say, that as long as you are logged in when you review this, I will respond to your review, so make sure you're logged in. Thanks again, and enjoy this chapter everyone. :)

Lottie's Point Of View:

"Logan, what the hell are you doing here?" I repeated. He had never responded the first time.

"Getting some ice cream?" He asked me as he shrugged his shoulders. He then paid for his ice cream and started to eat it.

"Yeah sure. Because people just randomly arrive at the ice cream places as their potential rivals all the time." I replied with an eye roll as I took a bit of my ice cream. Chocolate ice cream with gummi bears and caramel sauce is just the most amazing combination on the face of the planet.

"Yep. I was just craving some ice cream after you're little stint in there."

"Oh so that's what this about, you want to tell me thank you for making it so that you and your friends can fight over my friends, and not have to worry about us all being rivals."

"No."

"Then why the hell are you here Kendall?" I asked him shaking my head.

"Because I wanted to talk to you." Kendall replied as he took a large bite out of his ice cream. It took me a moment to realize that his large bite was exactly the same size as mine. This just proved once again, that I do eat just as much if not more as a teenage boy.

"Oh yeah sure, why in your right mind would you want to talk to me?" I asked as I looked down at my ice cream, it was already half gone, which was really depressing.

"Well I wanted to ask you about your song actually. But before that I just want to clarify that if you want me to leave and not talk to you because of the whole rivalry thing, I will."

"No, I'm willing to call a momentary truce, for at least the rest of the day." I said with a small smile.

"Well that is awfully nice of you." He replied with his own smile.

"Yeah it's the ice cream." I began with a smile. "So, what did you want to talk about in regards to the song?" I asked him, as I ate one of the three bites that were left in my cup of ice cream.

"Well I mean all of the verses that you, Callie, and Robbie sang were different from each other yet they all fit, kind of like you guys. How did you figure that all out?" He asked.

"We wrote it together, and we each wrote our verse. I sing the just a small town girl one because even though all of us went to the same school, we were from different towns. Three different towns feed into West Lake High School. I'm from the smallest of which, which is a small town and is about thirty minutes outside of West Lake. Seriously, Clarks Gap is so small that the elementary school only has one class of about fifteen kids for grade. Callie is originally from Saint Claire Michigan, but when she moved to Virginia in sixth grade her family moved to West Lake. And Robbie just lives in South Lake which is right outside of West Lake." I replied.

It actually felt good to tell someone else about myself, and my friends, not to mention our song. When Callie, Robbie, and I were writing it, we had taken special care to make sure that each of our opening verses was customized to whoever was singing it, and it was a good feeling to know that someone had noticed.

"That's really cool. But that doesn't explain why Robbie sings something about a pool." Kendall said as I finished my ice cream.

"That would be because Robbie is a swimmer." I said with a laugh.

I couldn't help but to remember when we had first written the song. It had been after one of Robbie's swim meets, and she had just kept complaining about how cold the pool was, so just as a joke Callie and I had started singing 'A swimmer in a cold pool, the smell of chlorine and H2O', and it had ended up being the actually line, it just fit so well.

"Wait, if she's a swimmer, than how was she so good at the dances and stuff?"

"That's because both Robbie and I do fall color guard, so in the winter, spring, and summer Robbie does swim, while Callie and do winter guard together, and Callie is busy doing cheer in the fall." I replied. I had finished my ice cream so I hopped off of the chair and threw the cup away.

"Wow, and Logan, Carlos, James, and I do is play hockey." Kendall replied as he threw his on ice cream away and followed me out of the ice cream shop.

"Hockey, oh Buddha, don't tell Callie that, she'll love you all forever. She is one of the biggest hockey fans I have ever met, we tell her that it's a Michigan thing all the time." I said with a laugh.

"Yeah! A fellow hockey fan!" Kendall said and he did the stereotypical 'woot' guy gesture. "Wait, did you just say oh Buddha?" He asked me with a now inquisitive look on his face.

"Yes I did. Because I am a Buddist, so instead of saying Oh my God, I say oh my Buddha." I said. I was of course completely joking, but I was acting like I was serious, and Kendall seemed to believe it.

"Wait, if you're a Buddist, than why don't you say oh my cow?" He asked me completely seriously.

"That would be a hindu. No, as a Buddist, I follow many things such as... oh crap what are they all called again?" I asked him. I couldn't keep the smile off of my face for any longer.

"Wait a minute why are you smiling like that?" Kendall asked me. Then realization dawned on his face. He finally realized that I was just joking. "You weren't being serious, you were kidding. God damn it, how did I not realize that?" He asked me rhetorically with a laugh.

"I honestly don't know. I mean even if I was a Buddist I wouldn't say oh my Buddha, because Buddism technically doesn't have a main god, or I don't think it does. I've never really been good with history." I said with a laugh. Kendall was not nearly as bad as I thought he was. I was starting to even wonder why I had thought he was bad in the first place...

Callie's Point Of View:

"What the hell just happened?" Robbie whispered into my ear.

Lottie had just ran out of Rocque Records, and two minutes after her Kendall had run out of the recording studio as well. Gustavo was practically having a seizure, and Griffin was on the phone with someone. After Kendall had ran out of the recording studio, the other members of Big Time Rush had joined us in the little mini-stage room.

"Lottie, was being Lottie, and defending us when we didn't need to be defended." I replied to one of my best friends.

"I really wish she would stop doing that. I mean I was going to say something about not changing how I dress but of course she beat me to the punch, like always. Hey Carlos, James, Logan, do you all know why Kendall ran after her?" Robbie asked the three boys.

"Because Kendall is just that type of person, whenever he sees that someone is upset, he finds them and asks them what is wrong." Logan replied.

"Lottie is just like that." Robbie and I both said at the same time without even thinking.

"You know I've been thinking, and I think I've figured out why they don't like each other." James said.

"Why?" Robbie, Carlos, Logan, and I all asked James.

"They're basically the same person."

"You're right." I replied as I looked inadvertently into James's eyes. He had light and pale blue eyes that were just wonderful.

"That's really creepy." Logan said.

"It totally explains the stubbornness of the both of them though." Robbie began. "And I mean, Cal, how many times has Lottie ran after us when we've been having problems and stuff like that, and I'm talking about the ones that are excluding PMS-ing." Robbie finished.

I love Robbie to death, but she sometimes just needs to shut up. I mean who guys around talking about things such as PMS, when they're around boys they barely know? It just makes no sense to me.

"This true." I replied with a small smile.

"CATS! Well, the remaining cats anyway." Gustavo began as he entered the mini-stage room with Kelly. "We need you two to call Lottie and see if you can get a hold of her and figure out where she is. DOGS! You need to do the same thing with Kendall. Griffin is seriously rethinking his position to change you all, and when he makes the decision to keep you the same, which he will most likely do, it would be wonderful to have you all together again." He finished.

We all nodded and pulled out our cell phones. Logan was the first to start calling Kendall, and I was the first to start calling Lottie. I pulled out my pearberry and dialed my best friends number. Then we all heard the music start playing. It was of course a Hannah Montana song. Lottie has a very unhealthy obsession. The particular song that was set as my ring tone was 'True Friend' this was also the ring tone for when Robbie called.

"Okay then, Lottie left her phone here then." I said.

"Which is really weird, because she always, always, always, always has her phone with her" Robbie added.

"Any luck with Kendall?" I asked Logan.

He just shook his head and then said: "Camille picked it up, apparently he left it in the lobby, and Camille found it and was going to give it to him, when we got back."

"So where do we go from here?" Robbie asked all of us.

"Oh my God, thank goodness Lottie isn't here, if she was then she would be bursting into that song from that musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I said at the same time that James said: "Oh thank god Kendall isn't here, if he was then he would be bursting into that song from that musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

"This is really way too creepy." Robbie and I said at the same time.

It was seeming more and more like Kendall and Lottie were the same person. All of us had no idea what we were supposed to do now, I could only hope that Kendall and Lottie were at least together, because I had an overweening feeling that if they actually got over their stubbornness and actually talked that they would end up being great friends.

Kendall's Point Of View:

"So you are seriously telling me that you have been in LA for a month, and you still haven't gone to the beach?" Lottie asked me as the two of us walked down one of LA's many boardwalks.

"Yes. I haven't had a chance to, I mean, it's just been work, and swim, and work, and swim, and besides, I've never been to beach anyway." I replied.

I grew up in Minnesota, there aren't any beaches in Minnesota, and let's face it, it would be a tad bit difficult for my mom to bring me and Katie to the closest beach which was at least three states away.

"So you mean that you have never actually seen the ocean, and more importantly, you have never had boardwalk fries?" Lottie asked me curiously. She had a look of pure shock on her face.

"Yes and yes. What is so good about Boardwalk fries anyway? Aren't they just like normal fries?" I asked completely honestly.

"Oh my Buddha Kendall, you are such a poor deprived child." Lottie said. She then grabbed my wrist and dragged me over to one of the boardwalk's stand. "Okay, you are going to try some Boardwalk Fries, and then we are going to go on the beach, I am not going to allow you to be a poor deprived child any longer." She added. She then turned to the server behind the small order window of the Boardwalk Fries stand. "Can I please get a large Boardwalk Fry? And do ask you to add the Old Bay and Vinegar or do I get it somewhere else?" She asked with a smile.

"There's a little counter just over there with all of those things. It'll be five bucks for the fries, they'll be ready in a few seconds, so I need the money now, and then if you go to the pick up window, just so them your receipt and they'll give you your fries." The server said.

"Coolio. Here you go." Lottie said as she handed the girl a five dollar bill. The girl then handed her a receipt and the both of us moved over to the next window.

"So what should I be expecting?" I asked her curiously as we waited for the fries.

"The most amazing taste sensation that you will ever have in your life." Lottie replied with a large smile.

"Here you go." The server said.

"Thanks." Lottie said with a smile as she took the large bucket of fries. "Now don't be afraid to tell me if you don't like them, because then I will just eat the rest of the bucket myself." Lottie added as she sprinkled a bunch of Old Bay seasoning onto the fries, and sprayed a bunch of vinegar on them as well. "Now, try." She said and handed me the bucket.

"Well here goes nothing." I said.

I then put my hand into the bucket of fries and grabbed a handful of them. I took one out of my hand and put it in the mouth. Lottie had been right, they were the most amazing fries on the face of the planet. I couldn't help but to keep taking more and more and more.

"Hey! It's great that you like them and all, but these fries are mine." Lottie said and brought them closer to her. We both couldn't help but to laugh.

After Lottie and I finished the Boardwalk Fries we threw away the trash and I walked onto the beach for the first time. I must admit I was defiantly liking the sand in between my toes. Even the somewhat cold water was nice. Lottie and I were both recounting all of the funny stories in our lives that had to do with our friends. I of course was trying to only use the ones that painted me in a good life, which meant trying to not mention my guyliner incident a few weeks back.

"You guys actually did that?" I asked Lottie.

She was recounting a story of how her, Callie, and Robbie, had put the hottest pepper's extract on this kid they hated sandwich, the kid of course also happened to be Lottie's ex-boyfriend.

"Yep. Oh, how I love my brother for helping us with that. It was so great. Needless to say, Jared never hit on me again. Wow, he was such an ass." Lottie said with a laugh.

"I would hope so I mean who would want to attempt to kill a guy that was nice." I replied with a laugh.

I had noticed as Lottie and I were talking how similar we were to each other. We were both incredibly loyal to our friends (Lottie had done the same pepper extract thing with one of Callie's exes), we both hated to see depressed people being all depressed, we loved comforting people, and we both came up with the perfect solutions when everyone else was stressing out.

"Well there was this one time... No just kidding." She said with a laugh. "So I must ask you, you are now living in LA, what is up with the jeans, jacket, and hat, especially the hat." She asked with another laugh.

"Yeah, see here's the thing, it's cold in Minnesota, like really cold. So when we came to LA, I just never switched into different clothes, same with the rest of the guys, and besides, I was always more of a jeans person than a shorts person." I replied with a slight laugh.

"That still doesn't explain the hat." She said with a smile. "Hey, do you know what time it is?" Lottie asked me curiously. "I always have my phone with me, but I think I left it at the studio."

"Um let me check." I replied.

I then reached into my right side pocket, which is the pocket where I always keep my phone, only to find that my phone wasn't there. I checked all of my other pockets just to be safe, but my phone was nowhere to be found.

"This isn't good."

"What isn't good?" Lottie asked me curiously.

"Um... I don't have my phone with me either, I must've left it somewhere... We should probably head back to the studio, you know, just to be safe, don't want Gustavo killing us both too much."

"Yeah, even if I still want to kill Griffin. Oh well, this'll be the moment I guess, the moment where I find out whether or not I crushed my friends dream."

"Oh my God, Lottie, you are brave for standing up to Griffin, I didn't even get to stand up until Gustavo for awhile, I mean, he just now has enough respect for us to almost trust our opinions, if I would've stood up to him more in the beginning then the whole course of the past month could've been different." I replied.

"Wait, didn't you say that you were able to convince Gustavo to take Logan, James, and Carlos in addition to yourself?"

"Yeah."

"And that wasn't brave?"

"Not in the same way. You stood up to someone because they were trying to change you, and you actually told them, which is a helluva lot braver than what we did. We just got everyone to quit." I replied.

I'll admit it, even though Lottie and I seemed to be very similar she was much more outspoken than me, and I wished I was that brave, to actually be able to stand up to someone and actually tell them what you mean instead of coming up with a random scheme.

"Oh, I don't always tell people who I feel to their faces, I do schemes too, did you not hear the hot sauce story?" She asked me rhetorically with a laugh.

"So, what are we going to tell everyone when we get back to the studio?"

"Hmm... What about, you decided to become a stalker and stalk me to the ice cream place and you then proceeded to follow me everywhere including back to the studio?" She asked me with another laugh. Lottie is just one of those people who is so immeasurably happy all the time, she also had one of those incredibly natural laughs, that you didn't even notice that she was laughing until you started laughing with her.

"Or we could tell them that I ran in as the hero and saved you from crazy rapists who were drinking in a shinny volvo and then told you that I can read everyone's mind but yours?" I asked her with my own laugh.

"Yuck, I hate Twilight." Lottie replied as she stuck her tongue out.

"I know right, I mean come on..." I began.

"Buffy is so much better." Lottie and I both said at the same time.

"No way, you like Buffy? But you're a boy! A teenage, hockey playing boy." Lottie replied.

"Yeah I got a teensy bit addicted to the 90's channel, which introduced me to Buffy. I was hocked from the first episode." I replied with a small laugh. It is so rare to find anyone that likes Buffy, none of my friends do, even though I have tried to get them into it so many times.

"Ha ha ha ha. No way. That is amazing. I haven't been able to get any of my friend's into it. And I totally just stumbled onto it completely accidentally when I was sick one day and they were having an all day marathon on the 90's channel."

"You gotta love the 90's channel." I replied with a smile.

The two of us just continued walking in silence for a little while. Sometimes silence is really awkward, but with Lottie it wasn't, which didn't make any sense because we were supposed to hate each other. But I didn't feel hate for this girl at all, I wanted to be friends with her, I don't know how Lottie felt but I really wanted to be friends with her, it would be great to have a best friend that's a girl for a change instead of just having the guys. She could probably even help me get Jo if I asked her really nicely.

"Kendall can we talk really quickly before we you know, go back in their, for my death and all." Lottie asked me as we arrived outside of Rocque Records.

"Yeah, sure shoot." I replied. I'm not gonna lie, I was bit nervous. I mean what could we possibly talk about?

"I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I think things got totally misrepresented after you hit me with the ball in the pool. I say we both say 'screw it' to this whole rivalry thing and become friends."

"Um, Lottie, we already are friends, but to the rivalry thing, I will most defiantly say screw it, I might even say the worse version of screw it. And I swear, I didn't mean to hit you with that ball."

"Sure you didn't Kendall, sure you didn't." Lottie began with a laugh. "Well then, let's go in, here goes nothing..." She said as she opened the door to Rocque Records.

Waiting in the lobby were Robbie, Callie, James, Logan, Carlos, Griffin, Gustavo, Kelly, and Griffin's entourage. They all gave us one of those 'where the hell have you been looks', which either ends well or badly. I was praying for well...

Robbie's Point Of View:

"Oh thank God you're back!" I said.

I ran up to Lottie and gave her a huge hug. I didn't care that I was the first to break the silence, I wasn't going to let one of my best friends go un-hugged.

"Of course I'm back Robbie. What else would I do?" She asked me rhetorically.

Lottie is sometimes a huge fan of rhetorical questions, some of them are good, but some of them are just bad, very bad, and not in the least bit funny.

"Oh I don't know Lot, catch a plane back to VA, and go back to your farm." Callie asked Lottie with a smile as she gave her a hug.

"Nope, I just got ice cream, Boardwalk Fries, introduced Kendall to the beach, and formed a truce with Big Time Rush, nothing big." Lottie said with a huge smile.

She had situated herself so she was now standing in the middle of Callie and me, she had also grabbed my right hand and Callie's left hand. She knew that a storm was coming, or what she thought we be a storm.

"So Griffin, what's the verdict, do you want to keep us as we are, or are you going to throw Borrowed Love away?" Lottie asked.

As she asked this she clutched my hand even tighter. I could only assume that she had grabbed Callie's hand just as tight. I knew that Callie and I would both probably have bruises tomorrow from Lottie's hands.

"Well I discussed it with my colleagues, and I would just like to say thank you. So very few people fight to keep what their dream truly is these days, they are all just so willing to change, and be perfect instead of being who they are. So Borrowed Love is most defiantly in, and I would like to apologize for telling you all that you needed to change because, you all are perfect the way you are." Griffin said.

"Really?" Lottie asked.

"Really." Griffin replied.

"Oh my Buddha!" Lottie began and gave Callie and me both hugs, again. "I am so sorry for leaving guys I totally handled the situation wrong."

"Don't worry about it Lot, we wouldn't expect anything else from you." I said with a laugh.

The three of us continued our little mini pow wow, but as Lottie told us about what had happened with Kendall and their bonding experience, I couldn't help but to snatch glances at Carlos, and the best part is? Carlos was snatching glances at me.

a/n: so apparently I do my best work late at night, because I have been writing this chapter all day, and then when I went up to bed with my lap top at 11, I got this chapter done in an hour. Which is just ridiculous. I'm sorry, but I just could not resist having Kendall like Buffy, he has lots of layers okay! I didn't just put it in because I like to randomly rant about one of my favorite tv shows that has been off the air for at least eight years. I also thought that it would be cool to put in the board walk fries bit, because they are the most amazing things on the planet, oh and hte icrecream place will have signficance. Well, I hope you all enjoyed it, and remember to review!

xoxo,

LexidaLou