Mkay, first off...

I AM SO UBER SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS IN FOREVER! I feel really bad about that...writer's block, school, y'know?

But I finally managed to make this...sorry. :[

Chapter Seven

Griffin smiled and opened up his arms. "Catelyn, is that you? It's so nice to see you!"

Destiny blushed. "Uh…it's Destiny."

Griffin didn't seem embarrassed. "Ah, Destiny. I remember when you were a baby. I was visiting your uncle while you and your family were staying with him."

Destiny started rubbing the back of her neck, obviously embarrassed. "That's…nice…"

"Your uncle called me and said that you and your friends were going to stay here in L.A, so I decided to let you girls stay here, at the Palm Woods! Good choice, trying to become famous, Dessy! I can call you Dessy, right? OK, good. Bye! I'll be back!"

"But I–" Destiny started, but stopped, knowing Griffin would call Destiny Dessy for basically the rest of her life. Griffin left in a flash.

"And you guys work with him?" questioned Sarah, turning to the boys.

"Yeah…he's a complicated guy," said James, shaking his head.

Just then, Miss Collins walked up to them. "Hi Katie!" she turned to the others. "Oh, are you the new kids here?" The kids immediately nodded their heads in reply. "Are you all siblings?" she questioned. They glanced at each other for a moment.

"Uh…they are…all siblings!" exclaimed Katie. "That's Sarah, Maxine, Destiny, Natalie…Keith, Justin…Cameron, and Luke…um…" she made up the boys' names, because she didn't want everyone to know that the four boys were actually BTR. She was desperately thinking of a last name.

"Jones!" Natalie exclaimed, saving Katie. "Our last name is Jones."

"Hehe…right…Jones," Katie said, laughing nervously.

Miss Collins smiled. "Well, nice to meet you, Sarah, Maxine, Destiny, Natalie, Keith, Justin, Cameron, and…Luke! Welcome to the Palm Woods." With that, she walked in the direction of the elevator. The boys sighed in relief.

"Man, I thought she was going to ask us if we were going to join the Palm Woods School!" Carlos said, laughing.

Kendall smiled. "Well, I was wondering if –" Before he could finish, Destiny's phone rang.

Destiny picked up her cell phone and put a finger up, mouthing one second. "Uh, hello? Yeah, OK. Be right there!" She quickly put her phone in her pocket and said, "Sorry, but we need to go over to Rocque Records. Griffin needs something." The girls sprinted off, giving a quick wave.

"–maybe you girls wanted to get smoothies," Kendall finished, sighing.

"Nice try, man," said Logan, also disappointed.

"Maybe next time…" said Carlos, honestly wanting a smoothie. "In the meantime, we have eight bucks all together and smoothies cost $2.50 each. And Logan, using his ninja math skills…"

"Including the girls, $2.50 times eight is…carry the four…twenty dollars, minus the eight that we have…twelve dollars!" Logan exclaimed.

James scratched his head. "How did you even…?"

Carlos laughed. "We don't even know James, it's just like how you change into Bandana Man."

Kendall spoke. "Anyways, how are we gonna get enough money…?"

Soon, all four of them ran off, looking for jobs that 11-year olds could do.

"Whaddya think Griffin needs us for?" wondered Max.

"I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not something like–" Natalie paused for a moment and cleared her throat. Then she continued, mocking Griffin, "'I need you four to work for me for the next couple of days, because all of my workers quit!'" All the girls laughed, and headed to Rocque Records.

"I need you four to work for me for the next couple of days, because all of my workers quit!" Griffin was sitting in his office, staring at the four girls who just entered.

"Whoa," said Destiny, almost laughing. "Never thought this would actually happen."

"I'll give you each ten dollars a day. Deal?"

"Sure, why not? I mean, nothing else is going on…"

"Good. Okay, now, I need you to wash my dishes, dust my office, stand by me holding a suitcase as I yell at Gustavo every day, fire some workers for me, dust my office, stand by me holding a suitcase whenever I threaten to shut down a company, and dust my office."

"You said we have to dust your office three times…" said Sarah.

"And hold a suitcase two times," stated Destiny.

"But other than that, it sounds fine," added Max.

"Especially the part about threatening Gustavo," said Natalie.

"When I saw him once, he stared at me and asked if I was a friend to the dogs. Then I said 'Nice to meet you, too' and walked away." Sarah laughed, remembering how Gustavo had seemed pretty mad.

Griffin smiled. "So now, you girls get to wash my dishes! Bye, and have fun!" He walked out, not even bothering to tell the girls that he didn't have a sink or dishwasher anywhere nearby.

The BTR boys were standing right outside of the Palmwoods. Carlos was holding a sign that said 'WILL WORK FOR CORNDOGS'. James had a sign that said 'CALL ME.' Kendall and Logan shook their heads when they saw the signs.

"Honestly, Carlos' sign is better. At least we'd have something to eat," commented Kendall.

"No, if someone called, they might live in a mansion. Then, if they invite us over, their parents might adopt us and we'd have a swimming pool and five horses," James shot back.

Logan put his hands up. "You know what, I'm not even gonna try and change your mind about that."

Kendall rolled his eyes. "Logan and I will see what the girls are up to. Later!" They quickly walked away.

"Fine. Be that way! When we stay in the mansion with the swimming pool and five horses, we won't invite you guys over!" James said, sticking out his tongue. After a short silence, Carlos spoke up.

"You know that's never going to happen, right?"

"Yeah. We should probably follow them."

"GUYS, WAIT UP!"

And well, happy late Valentine's Day and all that stuff!