Wow! Hello, long time no update. Thank you for the review I got to my phone a few days ago asking me to update. I've forgotten about my FanFiction, and I deeply apologize.
Throughout the summer I had a relative I was close to pass away, so I kind of didn't feel like writing after that. A few weeks later, my summer sports team started practicing, after that school started, then my grandfather passed away, and now I'm on Christmas break! And during a long part of that my computer was being fixed, so I didn't even have anything to write with! So hopefully I'll get to posting a few chapters here and there until January. :)
I hope everyone is able to understand that I've been going through a few rough patches here and there so please, bear with me. I don't know if I'll be able to update consistently, but I'm going to try to get to maybe 7 or 8 by January.
Again, thank you to the review that made me get off my butt and write this, although it's shorter than the rest, it felt good to write again.
Disclaimer: I don't own Big Time Rush or any of their songs.
Kendall turns around and stares at the man and the man stares back. "Kendall, I don't think that's a good idea," I whisper to him.
"It's fine," he whispers back. "What is he going to do, come and talk to us?"
"He might!" I whisper.
"No he won't," he answers and turns to face me again.
"Are you sure?" I ask.
"Positive," he says and smiles while taking another spoonful of ice cream.
"Looks like you were wrong," I say as the man stands up. He walks towards us and Kendall turns around.
"Stay here," Kendall says and stands. He walks towards the man and meets him halfway through the small ice cream shop. From my point of view I can see the back of Kendall's head and the man's face. The man seems to be explaining something to Kendall, and I can see Kendall nodding. When Kendall turns around, he's smiling, which just confuses me. Both of the men walk back towards me and I swear every step that Kendall takes, his smile grows bigger. When they reach in front of me, the stranger holds out his hand for me to shake.
"You look so much older," he says as we're shaking hands.
"Excuse me?" I say.
"Allie, this is Freddie Carger of Carger Records," Kendall says.
"Well it's nice to meet you, Mr. Carger," I say and smile.
"I'd like to talk to you in private, if that's alright," he says to me, and my eyes go wide.
"Uh, I think I'd rather have Kendall here for that, I'd feel a lot better about it," I say and grab Kendall's hand. The thoughts through my mind aren't good ones, and Dylan pops into my mind. I don't want that to happen again.
"Alright then," Mr. Carger says sort of awkwardly, "I wanted to talk to you about singing for me, maybe making an album, and then I wanted to talk to you about your parents."
"Excuse me?" I say for the second time.
"You might remember me better as Willie," he says. I rack my brain for any memories of a Willie that I might know, and the only one I can think of was my uncle, who I haven't seen since I was little.
My face goes blank. "Uncle Willie?" I ask in confusion. He takes out his wallet and shows me the picture I drew for him when I was 7. "Oh my god!" I say and I cover my mouth. "You kept that for all of these years?" I ask.
"Of course, how could I throw away a picture that my favorite niece drew for me?" he says and smiles.
"How did you find me?!" I ask.
"I can answer that," Kendall says. "Big Time Rush has been moved to another company. And that company is Carger Records. Since we got moved and since you've been going to the company with us, your uncle has asked me a few times about you but never specified why he's been asking until today. When he was following us I just kind of figured that he was checking to see if everything here was alright with me and James in Hawaii, but I was wrong. He wasn't here for me at all."
"He tweets all the time and you look exactly the same as you did when you were little too," Uncle Willie adds.
"Lily's going to be psyched!" I say excitedly.
"Lily is here too?" Uncle Willie asks.
"Yeah, she's here with James. You've got to come back to the house for dinner tonight," I say and look at Kendall to see if that's alright. He nods and Uncle Willie does the same.
"Kendall, you'll have to text me the directions to where you're staying. I'll be there around 7," he says and smiles. "But I've got to go, I have a meeting," he says and walks off.
"Well that was a pleasant surprise," I smile and look at Kendall, noticing our hands are still intertwined.
"How come you've never told me that your uncle was my boss?" Kendall asks.
"I haven't seen him since I was 7 and made that picture. He didn't even come to my parent's funeral. I figured that he didn't want me in his life anymore," I say and shrugged.
"Why would anyone not want this amazing girl in their life?" Kendall asks and gives me a hug. I can't help but smile as we pull apart. "Come on, we can go to the market to get some things to cook for tonight," Kendall says.
As we drive to the market, I can't help but sing along with the radio. Everything today just went well, I was happy, and I felt like singing. Kendall sang along with me, but not as loud as I was singing. He was smiling the whole time. When we got to the market, Kendall even opened my door for me. I kiss his cheek as I got out and thanked him, then asked him why he was smiling still.
"I love your singing," he simply said and took my hand. We walk to the vendors and buy all the things we need, taking up about an hour. When we drive back to the house, I end up eating parts of the food that we've gotten, and Kendall laughs.
"You know we have to cook, right?" he asks as we pull into the driveway.
"Looks like we'll just have a little less than we wanted," I say and open my door. As I walk inside, Kendall takes the grocery bags from me and I go into our bedroom to change into something more comfortable. I walk out in jean shorts with one of Kendall's signature flannel shirts. Walking out of the room, Kendall stands in the doorway and doesn't even try to hide the fact that he's checking me out.
"Way to be subtle," I say, walking past him.
"What? All I'm doing is looking at my own shirt!" he says.
"Sure you were," I say, turning around and sticking my tongue out at him. He chuckles and goes into the bedroom while I make my way to the kitchen, starting to prepare the food we bought earlier.
Later that night, I hear a knock on the door. I open it, coming face to face with my uncle.
"I hope you don't mind that I'm a little early," he says and smiles.
"Lily! Come here!" I squeal. She walks over to me and her face lights up.
"Uncle Willie!" she practically yells and runs up to him.
"Aw, Lil," he says and pulls her into a hug. I walk back into the kitchen to where Kendall and I were cooking together, putting the finishing touches on dinner.
"It's a good thing that you're early or else the food would have been cold by the time you would've gotten here," I say and smile, bringing the food to the table that everyone was already sitting around. I set it down, sit in my chair next to Kendall, and everyone starts to eat. During the meal we talk about how the boys got moved to the new label, when Lily and I were little, and about our parents.
"So you both have boyfriends now?" Uncle Willie asks. Lily and I look at each other, giving small smiles and nodding.
"Well, I like Kendall," he says and I sigh from relief. Kendall gets a big smile on his face and looks at me.
"But I don't know about James," he adds. James's face gets a look of pure terror and Uncle Willie winks at me. Lily is looking down at her plate and she doesn't look too happy.
"Just kidding babygirl," he says. Lily looks up at him and smiles. She laughs nervously and I smile. "I have to go," he says and looks at his watch. "Here's my card. If you call the Los Angeles number they'll know where I am," he adds and hands me a small business card from across the table. He stands up and is out of the house in less than 45 seconds.
"At least we got a card this time," I say and shrug.
"I still can't believe he didn't come to the funeral," Lily says and looks down. I look at the small card. "Well I can see why," I say. The card has 4 different numbers and all with different names, none of them Willie. Lily and I laugh.
"Goodnight," she says and gets up.
"Night," I say and see that the sun is starting to set.
"I'll help you clean up," James says to me and smiles.
"Thanks James," I say and stand, stacking some plates up.
"No problem. I don't really mind doing the dishes. My parents always used to make me do them with my siblings," he says and starts to fill up the sink with soapy water.
"Really?" I ask. "I didn't know you had siblings."
"Well technically sibling," he says. "I have a sister named Jessie, and a stepbrother named Frankie. I don't really talk to Frankie that much, but Jessie is coming to our show down here."
"What show?" I ask.
"What?" James says quickly and starts washing some dishes.
"What show are you talking about?" I ask James.
"I don't remember saying anything about a show," James says and doesn't answer any more of my questions throughout the night. When we're done doing the dishes I walk into mine and Kendall's bedroom. Thinking Kendall's asleep; I take my shirt off and walk to the dresser, humming.
"Well hello," he says and I jump.
"I thought you were sleeping," I say and put on a shirt from my dresser. I can feel myself blushing.
"Sorry," he says as I grab some pajama shorts from my drawer and walk into the bathroom. When I walk out of the bathroom after getting ready for bed, he really is sleeping. I lie down and fall asleep a few moments later, thinking about everything that happened during the day.
A few days later as I'm sitting on the deck reading, Kendall walks out eating a sandwich.
"Hey," he says.
"Hey," I smile and look up at him.
"Tired?" he asks and I nod.
"At least you're sleeping through the night now," he comments.
"Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do when you're on tour," I say softly and look back down at my book. He sits down and we stay silent for a few minutes.
"You might want to wear that purple dress tonight," he says in effort the cheer me up.
"Where are we going?" I ask without taking my eyes off of the book.
"Nowhere, I just want to see you wear it," he says and winks at me when I look up.
"Sure," I laugh.
We sit and talk for a few more minutes before I stand and walk back inside. I go into our room and shower. I can't help but sing in the shower. This whole experience in Hawaii has been amazing. It's made me realize that my sister and I are growing closer, Kendall and I are growing closer, and that they're some of the most important people that I need in my life. When I'm done showering, I blow dry my hair and go into the closet. I throw on a pair of shorts and a shirt. When I turn around to get out of the closer, I see a note taped to the door.
Scavenger hunt?
I laugh and take it off. I turn it over to see if there is any writing on the back.
You're not going to get your next clue until you curl your hair!
I go into the bathroom and see that there's a note taped to my curling iron. How I didn't see that when I was showering or blow drying my hair, well that beats me.
Go see Lily when you're done.
I walk out and see Lily reading on the couch.
"Can I have my next hint?" I ask.
She looks up. "Nope," she simply says.
"Why not?" I ask.
"You didn't listen to the no-ote," she says in a sing-song voice and smiles, then goes back to reading.
I sigh and go back into my bathroom. It takes me almost an hour to curl my hair and style it how I like it. I decide to put on makeup because I felt weird with my hair done and not makeup. When I open the vanity I see another note.
You look beautiful.
I smile and put on my makeup. I walk into the living room a little while later, expecting her to be reading, but she's not. I go on the deck and notice she's tanning down on the beach. I walk down towards her and she must have heard me coming because she looks up at me.
"Good girl, wow. You even skipped the next step. It was to go put on makeup, but I guess you can have the next one," she says and lies back down.
I wait for her to say the next clue.
She looks at me.
"Well?" I ask.
"Oh! Go put on your dress," she says smiling. I walk all the way back to my room and into the closet. I see a note taped to my dress.
Wear me!
I smile and put it on. I go to put on my heels that I brought to wear with the dress and see that they aren't there. There's another note in the place where they used to be.
We ran away, come find us!
I walk out of my closet, confused on where to look for them and see paper footprints taped to the floor. I follow them and they take me through the house, onto the deck, then they are laid down on the sand. I see my heels on a towel underneath a palm tree with a rose next to them. I put on my heels and pick up the rose. Of course, there's another note on it.
Turn around.
I look around until I see Kendall walking towards me wearing a fancy tux and his hair gelled back.
"Aw," I say and smile.