Chapter 20: Not Without A Fight

Me: Hey peoplez! It's currently 3:20 on a Friday Morning. I got my first FOOTBALL GAME AND BAND PERFORMACE TONIGHT! I'm so PUMPED!

James: Well, good luck.

Carlos: *still tied up, muffled* Yea! Go band!

Kendall: What's so important about band?

Logan: *whispers to Kendall* You shouldn't have said that.

Me: *holds Kendall by his collar* Band is music and music is my LIFE! Got that Knight?

Kendall: *nods* Sorry!

Me: *Let's him go* This chapter took me forever to type. I kept changing a bunch of things. So, I hope you enjoy it because I'm rocking LED ZEPPELIN TONIGHT!

Kendall: One more thing. *Unties Carlos*

Me: Yea?

Big Time Rush: HAPPY EARLY 16TH BIRTHDAY!

Me: *blushes*

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except my plot and my OC's. Also, I own my new band shirt, which is freakin BEAWESOME!

2 days later...
Downtown LA
Empty & dirty alleyway

Jazzmine's POV

I shivered slightly and pulled my coat closer to my body. A few drips of blood stained the sleeves of the yellow-plated hoodie.

It's been 2 days since I walked out on my family...and for some reason, I don't regret it.

Maybe it's the fact that my friends will finally be safe.

Even if they have to live their lives without me.

My stomach growled, begging for food. I took $25 out of my pocket and headed to a nearby convience store.

I looked through the aisles of the small store and picked out a simple bag of sour gummi worms and a bottle of blond hair dye.

"Can I buy these, please?" I asked, hiding my hair and eyes through my hoodie.

"Of course. That'll be $21.25." The cashier told me.

I gave him the $25, grabbed my things and told him to keep the change.

"Breaking News! Jazzmine Mitchell, youngest singer in "The Four Elements" band has gone missing!" I looked at the tv, which also caught the cashier's attention.

"I'm Steven Berry, and this is the 9am news. We have no whereabouts of the young singer's location, but the two bands of Big Time Rush and The Four Elements are offering a $1000 award for any information on her. We also have Sabrina Shay at the Palm Woods. Sabrina?"

The cameras switched to the Palm Woods Park, where I saw my brother and Carlos.

"Well Steven, I am at the local Palm Woods Park, a small park across from the Palm Woods Hotel; which is home to the BTR and TFE bands. And here come Logan Mitchell and Carlos Garcia."

When the camera turned to Logan and Carlos, they were walking with their backs turned to the camera.

I smiled a bit, seeing as they were trying to avoid the reporter. Sabrina and the cameraman stood in front of the two boys.

"Will you please go away! We have to find my sister and I don't want any repoters or stupid paparizzi." Logan growled, trying to get away.

Sabrina ignored my brother. "I can tell that you boys are troubled, being the closest to Jazzy's heart. Is there anything you want to say to your fans? To help find her?"

Carlos grabbed the microphone from Sabrina. "Jazz, I have a feeling that you're watching this. If you are, we still care about you. I don't know what made you think we would never want to be your friends. We're gonna find you because we all love you. I really do love you, Jazzmine. Don't you dare forget that!"

Logan dragged Carlos out of the Palm Woods Park and Sabrina began to speak.

"You heard it here first. This is Sabrina Shay, LA Top News at 9. Steven?"

I ran out the store, back to the alleyway I called home. A lump formed in my throat as I actually started to tear up. I clutched my dog tag.

Why am I so stupid! I can't believe that Carlos is in love with me! Why didn't I see it before.

Because he's lying to the press...to you. He's saying it for publicity

Well, I love him back! Say something now, I dare you! Stupid voice!

You can't face him...I know you can't.

I smirked, looking at the bottle of hair dye. "Maybe I don't have to face him."

Normal POV
5pm
With Carlos, Logan, Sam and Hailey

"I've never liked downtown LA. It's so dangerous to even live here." Hailey sighed as Logan drove through downtown LA.

Downtown LA was completely different from uptown. Houses were either falling apart or burned down. Some homes had broken windows.

"Well, Jazz might be here and I won't sleep until we find her." Logan tried to stay awake.

"Dude, you haven't slept for two days. You need to sleep, Logan." Logan jerked the car to a stop and looked at the Latino. "Do you want to find Jazzy or NOT?"

Carlos growled. "You're acting as if I don't want to! I'm the one who told the WORLD how we FEEL ABOUT HER!"

Sam seperated the two boys. "Come on, guys. This is no time to be fighting! Logan, just let me drive. Carlos is right that you need to sleep, but we all want to find Jazzy. Please Logie. You need a nap."

Logan sighed and switched seats with Sam. As soon as the brunette started driving, Logan had fallen asleep in the back seat.

About 30 minutes later

"Hey, can you stop right here?" Carlos asked. Sam pulled the car to a spot in front of a convience store.

Sam looked at the Latino. "What's up, Carlos?"

"There's a girl in the alleyway over there. I'm gonna see if she knows anything." Carlos unbuckled his seatbelt and strapped his helmet on.

"Be careful, kay?" Hailey patted Carlos' helmet.

Carlos nodded. "I'll be fine. I'll call if I need some help." The Latino climbed out of the car and closed the door.

Another car door shut, and Carlos looked to see Logan.

"I am so helping you right now. Got that, bro?" Logan said, completely determined.

Carlos smiled. "Well then, come on!"

Logan directly approached the blond girl while Carlos took another way into the alleyway.

"Hi, I'm Logan. I'm just curious if you've seen a girl that looks similar to me." The blond looked at up at him.

Logan had absolutely no idea that the blond girl was Jazzmine.

"N-no. I haven't. Sorry." Jazzmine lied, stuffing a dog tag into her t-shirt.

"Maybe we can help you. You look pretty injured." Logan offered his hand. "What's your name?"

Jazzmine stood up quickly and backed away. "Name's...Melody. Don't want any help. Bye!" She ran away from Logan.

Jazzmine hid behind the corner of an alley, hoping they wouldn't see her.

"Look, I know she's here!" Logan's voice yelled, sounding determined.

Not paying attention, she ran straight into Carlos.

"Hi, I'm Carlos! And you are?" Carlos asked, holding out his hand.

I really do love you, Jazzmine. Don't you dare forget that. Jazzy's good mind reminded her.

Should I tell him the truth?

No! It was a lie!

"I'm Melody and I really really need to leave." Jazzy lied.

Rain started to pour down, washing the blond dye out of her hair.

The Latino looked in shock as he saw the blond turn brunette. "J-Jazzy?"

"No, I'm Melody. I don't know anyone named Jazzy. You must have me confused with someone else."

Carlos pinned Jazzy to the alleyway wall and pulled the dog tag out of her shirt. It glittered with the name "Logan Mitchell."

"Jazzy. It is you. You're ok." Carlos hugged the brunette.

She pushed herself out of Carlos' grip. "You did not see me, got it?"

Carlos was confused. "But, we're trying to help."

Jazzmine pulled out a pocket knife, scaring the Latino.

"Go home and forget you ever saw me." Jazzmine growled, venom dripping from every word.

Carlos pinned Jazzy back to the wall. "What's wrong? Ever since your argument with Logan, you've changed! You seem completely different."

The Latino's eyes grew wider when he saw blood dripping from her arm. "Are you...cutting?"

Jazzy growled and swiped her pocket knife, cutting Carlos' upper right arm.

Guilt washed over the brunette. What...did...I...just...do? She dropped the knife as her eyes grew wide.

"I h-hurt you. I knew this was going to happen!" Jazzmine screamed at Carlos.

Jazzmine feels a hand on her wrist and turns around to see Logan.

"Jazzy, we should be taking you home. Please. You're only hurting yourself and us by doing crazy stuff like this." Jazzy looked from Carlos and Logan.

Don't do it! You'll end up killing them!

Jazzmine sighed, tired of running. "Ok. I'll come back."

One hour later
Apartment 2J

The band members walked into the BTR apartment to see Mrs. Knight, Katie and Jordan on the couch.

Mrs. Knight dropped the tissue that was in her hand and hugged Jazzmine. "Thank goodness, you're alright."

Jazzy sat quietly as her friends stared at her arms. The sweater's sleeves were dotted with dried blood from this morning.

"Jazzy, we're not going to hurt you. But, you have to take the gauze off your arms. We want to see how much damage's already been done." James said calmely, looking at the younger girl.

Jazzy shook her head. "There's nothing there. I just got in a bad fight, that's all."

"Jazz, the gauze that was here was used by you. Plus, Hailey's razor is gone, too. We promise, we just want to help." Autumn reassured the brunette.

Sighing, Jazzmine slowly peeled the gauze off her right arm. The gang gasped. She had at least 10 or more cuts on her arm.

Logan looked at his sister. "How many cuts do you have? Do you know?"

Jazzmine shook her head. "I k-kinda lost count after...17." She looked to see Kendall counting the cuts on her arm.

"Twenty. What about the other arm?" Jazzy took the gauze off her other arm, revealing more cuts.

Jordan continued the counting. "Twenty more...so that's about...40. Jazz, 40 cuts?"

"I didn't really know how many I had. I just knew that it felt really good." Jazzy muttered.

Logan walked into the bathroom, then came back out with a first-aid kit. "I'm gonna clean your cuts, kay? But, one of us has to change the gauze every day not just to avoid an infection; but to make sure that you're not cutting anymore."

Jazzy nodded. "Ok."

Once Logan cleaned the cut and put replaced the gauze, Sam jumped up in his place. "This may seem kinda wrong Jazz, and believe me, you know I care about your feelings. But, we kinda need to leave because we have a little surprise for you back in our apartment. Is that ok with you?"

Jazzy just nodded, got up and left quietly with her bandmates.

"Really, Autumn. A dressy place?" The three girls looked at Autumn.

Autumn raised her hands in defense. "I didn't pick the place. The guys did. I was just told to tell you to dress up and I quote "girly"."

"But I hate dresses! Do I have to dress up?" Jazzmine looked at her friends.

"Yea, apparently, it's a classical place. We have to be dressy to get in." Sam explained, finshing her hair.

"Believe me, if we didn't need to, we wouldn't either. Well, maybe Autumn would." Hailey smirked.

Autumn walked out of her room. "Oh, ha-ha. That was so funny, I forgot to laugh."

Jazzy started to giggle. "Fine. Since I'm being forced to, I'll wear a *shivers* dress."

About one hour later

"Damn it, James. Come on! If you're looking for your lucky comb again, it's out here." Carlos yelled.

"I'll be out in five minutes!" The pretty boy yelled from the bathroom.

"Didn't he say that about half an hour ago?" Kendall nodded, answering Logan's question.

Carlos picked up James' lucky comb, turned the stove on and hid the comb in his tuxedo jacket. "Oh, Jamie. Your lucky comb is on the stove I think I left on. Does it smell like rubber to you guys?"

Logan snickered, trying not to blow the prank. "Yea. Carlos, what did you do?"

There was a knock on the door. Kendall opened the door and his jaw dropped. Logan quickly got up from the couch and straightened his tuxedo (ties, not bowties).

Autumn's wearing a light purple dress that brought out her strange-colored eyes. Her black hair was straightened and glowed with green glitter to match her highlights. (I'm sticking with black hair because I kept forgetting if it was black or red.)

Hailey is wearing a pearl white dress with a light blue rim around the end of the dress. Her blond hair was put into a simple light green headband to seperate her white highlights and bring out her green eyes.

Samantha's wearing a dark blue dress with light blue water tracings that bring out her highlights. Her brunette hair was completely straight and in a dark blue headband.

"Jazzy, come on!" Sam yelled behind her.

"No! I feel...girly. Are you sure I can't wear jeans?" Jazzy voice called out from the hallway.

"We're pretty sure, Jazzy. Besides, you look amazing!" Autumn called in a sing-song voice.

"Fine! Be there in a sec." Jazzy yelled.

"WHERE'S MY COMB, CARLOS?" James yelled, still in the bathroom.

"Burning over the stove, Jamie. Come and get it!" Carlos laughed.

"Kay, I'm here. But, I'm probably gonna hide this after today and "accidentally" forget about it." Carlos turned around at the sound of Jazzy's voice, and his jaw dropped.

Jazzzmine is wearing a dark blood red dress with a dark black rim around the end of her dress. Her hair was taken out of her usual ponytail, curled to make it wavy and glittered (thanks to Autumn). A red hairbow headband sat in her hair.

"CARLOS! YOU'RE SLEEVE'S ON FIRE!" Carlos woke up, saw the fire and patted it out his sleeve.

Carlos smiled his heartwarming smile when he saw the girls laughing.

James walked out the bathroom and stopped when he saw the girls. For once, his lucky comb was the last thing on his mind.

"You look amazing guys." Hailey blushed while Jazzy muttered something about burning her dress.

"Thanks James, since we left the other guys kinda speechless." Sam laughed.

"Well, Kelly just texted me saying that him, Gustavo, Mrs. Knight and Katie are downstairs. Ready to go?" Kendall asked.

"Yea. Let's go." Autumn took Kendall's hand.

That Evening
7pm; The Sky's Heart Restaurant

The band members, Gustavo, Kelly, Ms. Knight and Katie were at LA's newest restaurant, celebrating Jazzy's safe return.

Logan stood up, gaining everyone's attention. "Hey. Umm...I just wanted to tell Jazzy that we all really care about her. Jazz, you're my other half, and the past eight years and two days were terrible without you. I think we all agree when I say that we love you Jazzmine and none of us want to lose you."

A smile on her face, Jazzy stood up and hugged Logan. "I missed you too." Then, 6 more pairs of arms hugged the twins, causing a loud "awwww" from the other restaurant eaters.

Once the food came, Jazzmine looked at her friends. Carlos and James were playing with their food. Sam and Hailey were in a heated debate about if tomatoes are a fruit or vegetable. Kendall, Logan and Autumn were thinking of new songs by keeping a beat on the table and rapping. Katie was recording all of this on her new Flip Recorder.

"I have to go to the bathroom. Excuse me." Jazzmine got up from the table and walked outside the doors.

James looked up from his food "argument" to see Jazzy walking away. "Didn't Jazzy said she's going to the bathroom? 'Cause the bathroom's in the other direction."

"She knows that, so where is she going?" Kendall asked, concerned.

Carlos got up from the table and followed the brunette's path.

The Latino walked outside the restaurant to see Jazzy sitting at a bus stop patiently.

You don't deserve this dinner. You're just killing everyone on the inside.

Oh My Pickles! GO AWAY! Stupid voice!

Jazzy jumped, scared, when Carlos grabbed her wrist. "Oh, hey Carlos. I was just thinking."

Carlos raised an eyebrow. "About?"

Jazzy sighed. "Everything that's been happening. I still think I'm hurting all of you. This stupid evil voice won't stop telling me that Logan hates me or you lied to me probably until I commit freakin suicide! But, I am curious if I really deserve this dinner."

The Latino sat next to his girlfriend. "Tell that voice in your head that it's stupid." Jazzy giggled. "And, you do deserve this dinner. We could have found you dead."

The brunette looked at the stars for a minute. "But...I lied to you to try and protect you. All of you."

Carlos locked Jazzy's eyes with his. "You lying was only telling us that you needed help. It was helping us find you. I know you were trying to protect us, but we're trying to protect you. Especially Logan and myself."

Jazzy smiled, blushing and avoiding her boyfriend's gaze. "Hey, I saw the newscast with you and Logan earlier. Were you lying?"

Carlos pulled Jazzy closer to him. "Of course not. I really do love you."

Jazzy sighed in relief. "Good...cause I'm actually in love with you too. It just took me this long to figure it out."

Carlos pulled a box out of his jacket and took a deep breath. (OMG, IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!)

"Come on, we should go back inside." Jazzy smiled, the sparkle back in her brown eyes.

Once inside, Jazzy sat next to Logan, who hugged his twin sister. But, Carlos didn't sit down.

"You ok, Carlitos?" Carlos pulled out the medium-sized box. Sam, Autumn and Hailey actually squealed, surprising Jazzy.

"Ok? What's up?" Logan shook his head, causing Jazzy's curiousity to grow.

Carlos pulled Jazzy out of her seat by her hand. "Jazzmine, you're a big part of my life. Well...you actually always have been. Even when you were in Florida with no memory of us."

The restaurant got strangely quiet. Everyone's attention (even zhe babies!) was on Carlos and Jazzy.

"So, I bought you this. It may be from me, but it has a little piece of the band." Jazzy's heart almost stopped when she saw the bracelet. It was a sliver charm bracelet with 9 charms. Each meaning a different band member.

A comb (James)
A hockey puck (Kendall)
A book (Logan)
A water droplet (Samantha)
A leaf (Autumn)
A ballon (Hailey)
A wad of money (Katie)
A hockey helmet (Carlos)
A heart that said C+J on the back side.

Carlos clipped the bracelet onto Jazzmine's wrist. Jazzmine hugged all her friends, thanking them. Then, Jazzmine kissed Carlos without a care in the world. She pulled away, opening her eyes and smiling. "Thank you, Carlos. For not giving up on me."

Me: I know, it was kinda a sappy ending. But, it's not over yet. I've decided to add 3 (Chapter) events leading up to a 2 chapter Christmas special!

Logan: Wow. Good idea.

Me: Yes. I've also decided once I finish, I will not post the sequal unti December 26, 2011.

Kendall: *raises eyebrow* Why?

Me: I started this story on Dec 26, 2010. I thought it would be kinda cool to have a story's sequal posted an exact year after the original. Plsu, I have to work on my BTR/Glee story.

James: WE'RE GONNA MEET GLEE?

Kendall/Logan/Carlos: O_O

Me: And I thought I was the Gleek here. Well, please read, review and look for Chapter 21: Who's Deke and Why Should We Care?

Kendall: Oh, and little Miss Flameheart2013's birthday is on Labor Day this year.

Logan: September 5th, she's turning 16!

Me: *blushing* Why would you tell them that? Fine, just don't put this on youtube or something.

James/Carlos: *each holding a video camera* Umm...oops!

Me: Ok! Ok! If you wanna wish me a happy Sweet 16 in a review, I don't mind.

BTR/Me: Byez!

*Flameheart2013 Approved*

P.s. This chapter is 3,893 words! My longest one yet! Yay!