I am aware that I ran late on this chapter. But to make up for it, this chapter is over 4 times as long as the first chapter. Sadly, it doesn't answer the only question I got very well, though it does sort of answer it a little bit.
This chapter brought to you by: Tonight by Enrique Iglesias, S&M by Rihanna, and various Iso-Tones (But don't listen to Iso-Tones if you're under 18)
This chapter hindered by: Facebook, The Spartz Network, and my cellphone.
Disclaimer: I don't own Big Time Rush or Bad Influence by Pink. If I did...-proceeds to laugh manically-
That night at dinner, James was still in a funk over not finding out the new girls' name.
"James? What's wrong? You've hardly touched your dinosaur shaped chicken." Mrs. Knight asked her worry etched across her face.
"He's depressed because he didn't find out the name of the new girl that moved in today." Kendall supplied.
"Yeah. He's in LOOOOOVE with her." Carlos said which earned him pain in the form of a sharp kick underneath the table from James.
"Well, I'm sure you'll find out her name tomorrow." Mrs. Knight nodded as she finished talking as if that would make it happen.
James was skeptical. "Yeah, if she doesn't run away from me." He mumbled.
"She ran away from you?" Katie exclaimed and then dissolved into laughter. James just glared at her, seeing as how that was all he could do because Kendall would kill him if he hurt his baby sister.
"Katie, leave James alone or go to your room." Mrs. Knight told her daughter sternly.
"But mom!" Katie took one look at her mom and saw that she wasn't getting away with it. "Fine. You win this round, Diamond." She said before she stalked off to her room.
The next morning, Kelly came earlier than normal to get the boys. They were at the table eating breakfast, still in their pajamas, when she came into the apartment.
"Boys, hurry up and get ready. There's someone at the studio that Gustavo wants you to meet." She said as soon as she saw the boys at the table.
Carlos immediately jumped up and ran over to stand in front of her. "Is it someone famous?"
"I'm not allowed to tell you anything about the person. Now go get dressed so Gustavo doesn't yell because you're late." Carlos ran off to get dressed while the other guys got out of their chairs and went to their rooms to do the same.
As soon as they got to the studio, they heard Gustavo yelling at someone, as was normal seeing as how Gustavo didn't have a volume below yelling.
"You are NOT to flirt with the dogs!"
"Not even a little?" They heard a female voice ask, so muffled that they wouldn't have been able to make out who it was even if they had known the person their whole life.
"No."
"I hope you know that making them off limits makes them that much more attractive to me." Now the boys were closer to where the conversation was taking place, but nobody recognized the owner of the second voice as belonging to anyone that they know.
"Fine. Go do whatever it is that you want to do with the dogs."
"Really? Thank you for your permission." The girl's voice sounded perkier than before. Even though they had yet to see Gustavo, the boys could picture his face turning red as he struggled to figure out what to say to the girl and they started to laugh.
They turned the corner to the hallway that Gustavo's office was off from. In the middle of the hallway were Gustavo and the new girl. Gustavo noticed them as soon as they got around the corner.
"Dogs!" He yelled. "You're," He glanced at a clock on the wall. "Early?"
"They were eating when I came to get them." Kelly said.
"Good. Dogs, meet Celeste Warren. She's going to be your opening act on your next tour." Gustavo's voice was now a little closer to a normal level, but still loud.
Celeste politely shook hands with all the boys smiling all the while. "Hello guys. Strange how we're meeting again in this way, huh James?" As she looked at him her smile shifted as if there was something going on her mind that nobody else in the room wanted to know a thing about.
"You guys know each other?" Kelly asked.
"We met yesterday when I was moving in." Celeste said while her smile turned into a smirk.
"So, Gustavo, why is she here already when we don't even know when our next tour is going to be yet?" Kendall asked.
"Good question. Griffin green lighted me to find female talent and skip straight to recording an album."
"But why is she meeting us outside of the Palm Woods?" Logan asked.
Gustavo started to answer but Celeste started talking before he could. "Because I'm too 'mature' for my target audience and Gustavo would like for you guys to help me be more 'girl next door' and less 'train wreck about to happen'."
"Exactly. I want you to rub off on her." Gustavo said.
"But she doesn't seem that bad." James said.
"I am. Would you like to find out how?" Celeste smirked and looked at James in a way that had 'suggestive themes' written all over it. James had a 'deer in the headlights' look which caused her to laugh. "Man, I love screwing with younger guys."
"Younger guys? How old are you?" Carlos asked.
"19. Can you guys actually tell me your names because I would like to call you guys something mentally other than Hispanic dude, Eyebrow dude, Short dude and James?"
"I'm Kendall Knight."
"I'm Carlos Garcia."
"And I'm Logan Mitchell. You've already met James Diamond, our resident narcissist."
"I am not a narciss- whatever word you just said!"
"A narcissist is a person who's in love with themselves." Celeste defined.
"Oh. Then I am a narcissist."
"Un-freaking-believable. You just admitted to being a narcissist." Celeste was stunned.
"So?"
"I'm tired of hearing your pointless and boring conversation. Go back to the Palm Woods and be boring there!" Gustavo yelled. The boys and Celeste had pretty much forgotten they were in the studio.
They followed Kelly out to her car, where they realized they had too many people to fit into the car normally.
"I say we squeeze the guys in the back." Celeste said.
"I'm not being squished on the way back to the Palm Woods. It might mess up my hair." James said.
"Okay then, someone's going to have to sit on someone's lap." Kelly said.
"I call shotgun!" Carlos said as he scrambled into the front passenger seat. Everyone gave him a weird look before they returned to trying to figure out the seating mess.
"Celeste, you'll sit on one of the guys' laps because you're the smallest." Kelly designated.
"Okay." She turned to face the remaining guys who were inexplicably standing in a line. "Whose lap am I going to sit in?"
Kendall and Logan simultaneously stepped backward leaving James out in front.
"Really guys? That's not cool." James said.
"It'll be over soon enough." Celeste said as she rolled her eyes.
"Just don't touch the hair."
"Trust me, your hair is the last thing you should be worried about me touching."
"Anyway," Kelly cut in before things could get anymore awkward for her, "We should get going."
James sat right behind Kelly and Logan sat in the middle while Kendall sat right behind Carlos. Celeste sat on James' lap on an angle so she wouldn't have her head directly in James' face.
For a few minutes into the ride, there was nothing but the sound of the radio. Carlos and Kendall were staring out their windows, James and Logan were just blankly staring forward and Celeste was rather intently studying James.
"You know James, up close it's really easy to see why you're so narcissistic. You're a very fine example of male beauty." Celeste said while kind of blushing.
"Thank you."
"But don't think that it means that I'll start dating you or anything because while your initials may be JD, to me you're JB."
"JB?"
"Jail bait." Celeste, Kelly and Logan all said at the same time.
"Not that I'm saying I'm any level of supportive or anything but, it's only illegal if guys start doing certain things." Kelly very awkwardly said.
"I think you're making this car ride a million times more awkward than it needs to be. I'm pretty sure the guys are with me on wanting to make a fake gun out my hand and pretend to shoot myself with it."
"Okay. I was just saying."
"Besides, I wouldn't trust myself to keep my hands off of James for two years until he turns 18 anyway. I'm just being completely honest here. I'm a relatively average girl and I think that James is totally do-able. Yes I know this is slightly awkward that I'm saying this while sitting in his lap and in a car with his best friends."
A very awkward silence filled the car. Luckily for the passengers, they pulled up to the Palm Woods what felt like a few hours later. Celeste practically jumped from the car almost before it even stopped and rushed up to her apartment without saying another word to the boys or Kelly.
"Was the rest of the car ride really awkward enough for that?" Kelly asked after all the guys got out of the car.
"Yes." They chimed.
"At least you know the girl you like likes you." Kendall told James as Kelly drove off and they walked into the lobby.
"She said that I'm do-able, not that she likes me. Also, she said that she wouldn't date me because I'm jail bait." James said as they all sat on the couches.
"She kinda did get at that she likes you." Logan said.
"She hinted that the only reason she won't date you is the age difference." Kendall said.
"You hooligans are talking about the new girl, right?" Bitters asked.
"Yes." Kendall answered cautiously.
"I'll tell you her apartment number if it'll get you out of my lobby."
This is pretty much hot off the presses, so if you spot errors, point them out to me. Mrs. Knight may be a bit OOC at her part, but I think I got everyone else pretty good...maybe possibly. Review!