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Jessie sighed from her seat at the edge of the Palm Woods pool, her feet lightly splashing in the water. She could not believe that he had just fired her like that, and she didn't even do anything this time! Okay she'd admit that she was a bit of a smartass at times, and maybe she did give him a hard time when he would be exceptionally mean or unreasonable. But she couldn't help it! Jessie Rocque without her sarcasm was like Gustavo Rocque without his anger issues, or James without his lucky comb, Logan without his brains, Carlos without his helmet, hell! Kendall without his eyebrows! If you took one away from the other the world would most likely implode within itself.

"Hey Jessie."

Upon hearing her name, Jessie turned her head toward the person who just called it. Her internal moping completely went out the window when she caught sight of Camille Roberts taking a seat next to her. Camille had been gone out of town the last two weeks for a big movie audition.

"Camille! I'm glad you're back! How was the movie audition? Did you get the part?" Jessie asked in a rush as she hugged the brunette.

"It went great! They said they would give me a call within a month to let me know if I got the part or not." She stated as she slipped her sandals off and dipped her feet into the pool herself.

"What is it this time?" Jessie asked, referring to the role.

"Sarah Millings, dorky daughter of a rich oil tycoon that falls in love with the new poor bad boy in town." Camille said dramatically.

"Nice. I hope you get it." Jessie said as she leaned back onto her hands.

The girls sat, talked, and laughed together for about a good hour. Then Camille totally killed the lighthearted mood that Jessie finally got back in.

"So how have you been in the last two weeks?" She asked after a short silence.

Jessie covered her face and groaned.

"That bad huh?" Camille asked patting the dirty blonde on her back.

"You have no idea, we found my dads new group. Four boys from Minnesota, they're epic dudes I swear, but they're a total handful. Dads probably shackling them up by their toes right now." Jessie said as she removed her hands from her face.

"Really? Hmm, why aren't you at Rocque Records helping them aggravate your dad?"

"Because I guess we pushed him too far and he fired me. He's the last person I want to see today." Jessie began moping again, she got up from the pool side and flopped face down into a lounge chair.

"What do you mean he fired you!" Camille exclaimed as she sat down at the right of the seat Jessie was planking on.

"Uh mun eh ot piffthed an thurmnatd I onrac!" Jessie muffled before she let out another groan.

"Huh?"

"Jessie!" Said an all too familiar male voice.

She slowly lifted her head up out of the cushioning and turned toward the person who called her name. The images of Kendall, James, Logan, and Carlos met her sight. They were feather free and James was clearly upset, he did a pathetic job of trying to hide it. Kendall, Logan, and Carlos all dropped down into the loungers next to hers. James laid down next to her left, opposite of Camille and propped himself up on his elbow.

"Jessie are you okay?" James asked her, concern on his face as he peered into her eyes for any sign of tears.

"Im fine James..." She insisted.

"What happened to your feathers?" He asked, noticing that they were gone.

"Oh, I went to 2J and bummed a shower off of Kendalls mommy." She shrugged.

"Who's the chick?" Carlos asked, nodding toward Camille.

"Guys, this is Camille Roberts. Camille these are the guys, Kendall Knight, Carlos Garcia, Logan Mitchell, and this one is James Diamond." Jessie introduced them, pointing at each one as she named them off.

They all waved and mumbled a quiet 'Hey' to eachother, then it got really.

"Camille is the Palm Woods method actress queen." Jessie stated tying to get rid of the deafening silence.

"Queen?" Kendall asked with a brow raised. Questioning Camille's acting skills.

"Yes queen! She's the best actress ive ever seen, she could give Cameron Diaz a run for her money." Jessie said with wide eyes.

"She can't be THAT good, no offence." Kendall said the last part to Camille.

Camille and Jessie gasped together. She watched as Camille leaped up from the lounger and slapped Kendall across the face.

"OW!"

"How dare you! I bust my butt day after day going to audition after audition trying to live my dream and all you can say is NO OFFENCE! I don't know you Mr. Knight, and quite frankly, I DON'T WANT TO!" Camille yelled.

She shot Kendall with a nasty glare before she stomped off angrily, shoving Guitar Dude into the wall as she passed him on her way back into the Palm Woods. Kendall and the others stared after her in shock. Then Jessie started laughing.

"Oh Camille, I love her." She sighed as she flipped over onto her back.

"She's good…" Kendall said as he rubbed his pink cheek.

"Sooo, whats up?" Jessie asked after a moment.

"I am so depressed." Carlos pouted, staring up at the clouds.

"Your dad is really mean…" Logan said thoughtfully.

"What happened?" Jessie asked, sitting up and looking at each boy with brows furrowed.

"To make a long story short…we got fired." Logan sighed.

"Uh! Not you guys too!" Jessie groaned as she put her face back into her hands.

No wonder James seemed so upset, his life dream, right there in his hands. Only to be snatched away from him because of a stupid pillow fight. If Jessie ever seen her father again, she would kill him for being this cruel.

"Its kind of James' fault…" Kendall said looking at the brunette, who had just groaned and threw his face into the cushioning like Jessie had been doing a moment ago before they showed up.

"Wait what? What do you mean James' fault?"

James was the one who wanted to be a pop star, how could he, of all people, be the reason they all might be packing up and going back to Minnesota tonight? She removed her face from her hands and looked down at James, who still remained face down in the pillow.

"Well it all started after you walked out…" Kendall began.

XOXOXO (About two hours earlier) XOXOXO

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James watched the tears well up in her eyes as Gustavo screamed in her face that he was terminating her contract. He could see the pain in her eyes as one of the few things Jessie Rocque held close to her heart had been snatched away, just like that. How James knew her band was close to her heart? He had seen Rocquet Gurlz live when he went to one of their concerts back home in Minnesota, he seen and heard the passion Jessie and all the other girls had as they sang and danced that night nearly seven months ago. He barely listened to Gustavo and his daughter argue back and forth, he just kept his eyes firmly on Jessie. Everything got silent and she began to walk away…

"Whatever." She mumbled sounding slightly choked.

"Jessie…" He said, gabbing hold of her arm.

Her glassy slate blue eyes looked up into his hazel ones for about half a second before she turned her head and yanked her arm free, just as she turned her head a lone tear fell from the corner of her eye. He watched as she walked out and slammed the door behind her. She was probably running off to cry somewhere private, and if there was anything! Anything at all that could piss off James Diamond, it was seeing somebody make a girl cry.

"Okay dogs, now that that problem child is gone…I want you all back into the studio, Girl Time from the top!" Gustavo shouted as his face went back to its normal shade, he turned and began walking back to the sound studio.

Kendall, Carlos, and Logan very reluctantly began following behind him.

"No."

The guys stopped and looked at James like he had gone crazy, Gustavo slowly turned and glared at James who remained standing in his spot from the lineup.

"What was that?" Gustavo asked dangerously.

"You heard me." James shot back, crossing his arms and scowling at the man.

"I am Gustavo Rocque and NOBODY TELLS ME NO!"

"Yeah well, you're also a heartless bastard. I mean come on! You just sent your own daughter out the door crying! WHAT PERSON DOES THAT!" James shouted right back, his anger starting to fire up.

Everyone in the room seemed to hold their breaths as they looked between James and Gustavo, waiting for what was to come next.

"That girl has been a pain in my ass and playing her childish games for way too long now!" Gustavo yelled.

"SO! She's still your daughter! Being a pain and acting childish is in our programming! It's all in the teenage handbook!" James shouted.

"He's right Gustavo." Kelly spoke up, the rest of the guys nod their heads from behind her.

"You see! Even Kelly knows this and she doesn't even have kids! You don't have kids right?" James asked the last part to Kelly.

"No I don't, but I have known the Rocquet Gurlz since they were old enough to talk back… and break things." Kelly admitted.

"You're supposed to be on my side Kelly! Not his!" Gustavo shouted.

"Excuse me, im on nobody's side. But maybe firing Jessie was a bit harsh, don't you think?" Kelly asked trying to be reasonable.

"Nope, she had it coming. Im running a business here, and if she can't be professional then good riddance. Now James, stop acting like Jessie, pull that stick out of your ass and GET. IN. THE. STUDIO!" Gustavo bellowed.

James ignored him and began walking toward the exit door.

"Where do you think you're going!"

James stopped at the door, turning around, he glared at Gustavo.

"Im going to go find my unofficial celeb wifey, ya see im gonna be the better person here and walk away. No use in wasting my breath having a yelling match with you when I can use it on something much more important like comforting the girl YOU made cry. YOU'RE the one that should be ashamed, not Jessie." James spat.

"Celeb wifey! That's my daughter you're talking about there pal!" Gustavo shouted in anger.

"Now you wanna be her father." James mumbled as he opened the door

"If you walk out that door now don't bother ever walking back in it!"

James didn't even glance backwards as he walked out of Rocque Records, anger seeping from his pores at the man he just left back there. He began walking down the sidewalk a sticky and fuzzy mess, for once not caring what people thought about his appearance. Each step he took away from the building, the less angry he became.

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As James walked, he thought about what he had just done. One minute he's in boy band boot camp training to become a great pop star, the next hes walking down the sidewalk covered in feathers and possibly going back home to Minnesota. But James couldn't help it! Seeing Gustavo scream at Jessie like that, watching her leave from the room in tears. It reminded him of when he was younger and how his mom would lock herself in the bathroom and cry when his father would scream and shout at her over stupid petty things like his business suits not being perfect and wrinkle free, or his steak at dinner not being made the right way. James HATED that!

"JAMES!"

James stopped walking and turned his head to see his three best friends run from around a corner and make their way over to him.

"I cannot believe you just walked out like that man." Kendall said breathlessly, thumping him on the back.

"Yeah well, he was being a jerk." James said and continued walking.

The other guys fell into step with him as they continued their walk to the Palm Woods, they were almost there, about another five minutes. James had been walking a good fifteen minutes prior to the guys' arrival.

"Soo, what happened after I left?" James asked.

"Well Gustavo started cursing and breaking things…" Logan started.

"Yeah then him and Kelly started arguing about celeb wifeys…" Carlos continued.

"Then we just sort of walked out while they weren't paying attention." Kendall finished.

James sighed sadly as they all continued to walk.

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XOXOXOXOXOXO

"Then we went back to 2J to wash that gunk off of us, that's when Gustavo called and yelled some more before screaming 'You dogs are officially DEAD! Gahhh reeeeehh Bllehhh." Kendall said while imitating Gustavo.

Jessie laughed, then laid down next to James. Looking over when he groaned again.

"Awe don't cry James, you're still great looking. Hey! You could stay out here and become a model!" Jessie said trying to be cheerful, she patted James on his back.

"True…and maybe I could star on a reality show…" James stated thoughtfully as he turned his head up out of the cushion, then grinned half-heartedly over at Jessie.

They all sat in silence for a bit, with the sun beating down on them. Jessie began to nod off, letting her eyes slide shut as the tiring events from that day finally slammed down onto her… in a matter of seconds she was out of it.

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"Guys, I think she's asleep…" James said, poking Jessie in the cheek.

"Should we throw her into the pool?" Carlos asked, looking over at the sleeping forum of Jessie, a smirk on his face.

The guys stared at Carlos.

"What! Open opportunity!" He stated with a shrug.

Jessie smacked her lips lightly in her sleep and began rolling over, her head found its way onto James' chest and her leg threw itself across his legs.

"Nope she's fine right here." James grinned, placing his arms around her. He grinned a little wider when she snuggled in closer to him.

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"D'awwww isn't that precious." A feminine voice cooed, some forty-five minutes later.

Kendall looked up from his hockey magazine and spotted a girl that looked about his age smiling down at Jessie and James' snuggly sleeping forums. James had decided to take a nap around half an hour ago, he now lay on his side fast asleep with his face snuggled into Jessie's soft dirty blonde hair, his arms wrapped around her possessively, and she was snuggled up with her face in his neck, her legs tangled with his.

"Umm… who are you?" Kendall asked her as she dug through Jessie's bag and pulled out her camera, she snapped a picture before placing it back and turning towards Kendall.

"Lauren Rocque" She said then pulled an air horn from the inside of the backpack she was carrying.

She looked like Jessie but completely different at the same time, she had mid length hair that was just a shade lighter than Jessie's that was pulled up into a messy pony tail. Looked around the same height as her too. She was wearing denim shorts with a black and white Los Angeles Kings jersey.

Kendall watched as she smirked evilly and placed the air horn between James and Jessie's faces.

"!"

"AHHH!"

"WHAT THE FU-"

Jessie and James jerked awake instantly with wide eyes. Jessie fell off of the lounger she jumped so badly. The two of them turned their heads to glare at the now laughing Lauren.

"Oh God, that was priceless!" She laughed as she grabbed her stomach.

"Dude im ringing, are you ringing?" Jessie asked James, rubbing her ears from her spot on the ground.

"What?" James asked as he too tried to make his ears stop ringing.

"Im ringing!" Jessie said a little louder.

"What!"

"IM RINGING!" She yelled.

"Jeez Jessie, no need to yell." James joked while rubbing his eyes.

Lauren offered her hand to Jessie, she grabbed it and Lauren pulled her off of the ground, smiling innocently at her.

"Bitch…" Jessie mumbled as she yawned and stretched.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, sitting back down next to James, who still laid on the lounger with his arms resting behind his head.

"Scootch ya bootch blondie." Lauren said to Kendall.

Kendall raised a brow at her.

"Please?" She tried.

Kendall lowered that brow and put the other one up.

Lauren giggled.

Kendall grinned then scooted over for her.

"Nice eyebrow control there uhhh..."

"Kendall." He said giving a dimpled smile.

"Kendall." Lauren repeated with a nod, she smiled back at him.

"A-hem!" Jessie coughed as the two continued to smile at eachother.

"I think they're having a moment." James whispered, smirking over at the two.

Jessie leaned over and clapped her hands in front of Laurens face.

"Yoo-hoo! Earth to Lauren!"

"What!" Lauren shouted, whipping around and glaring at Jessie, a light blush covering her cheeks.

"You never answered my question, what are you doing here?" Jessie questioned.

"Oh! I heard you finally got fired and me being the good big sister/cousin/best friend person thing that I am came to see if you were alright. Are you alright?" Lauren asked as she turned toward Jessie.

"Im fine, slightly depressed, madder than hell…a little hungry, but other than that im good." Jessie said.

"Are you sure? You're not going to burst into tears and formulate a plan to get your job back with me are you?" Lauren smirked.

"Tears no, plan yes."

"Excellent, I was thin-"

"Whoa guys, who's the pretty lady!" Carlos exclaimed as he ran across the pool side and sat down next to Lauren at the side of Kendalls lounger.

Logan and Carlos were away from the pool going to go pick up some smoothies for everyone so they missed Laurens arrival.

"Oh! Lauren these are the guys Kendall, Carlos, Logan, and James. Guys this is my sister Lauren." Jessie introduced the bunch.

"Hello Miss. Rocque. Im Logan." He said grabbing her hand and placing a kiss onto her knuckles.

Lauren smiled up at Logan.

"I'm Carlos, you're pretty, would you like a pink smoothie?" He said cutely, holding a pink smoothie out to her.

"No, thank you Carlos. But im allergic to strawberries." She declined with a kind smile to the goofy Latino boy.

"Thaaank you." Kendall stated with a smirk as he grabbed the smoothie out of Carlos' hand and then used his foot to shove the poor boy off of the lounger and away from Lauren.

"So Lauren do you like blue smoothies? I'll go get you a blue smoothie…"

"Carlos, really, im fi-" Lauren began, but Carlos didn't seem to hear her.

"Hold that thought im gonna go get you a blue smoothie!" Carlos shouted as he ran back into the Palm Woods and out of sight on a quest to get Lauren a blue smoothie.

"Is he always like that?" Lauren asked as she looked in the direction Carlos ran in.

"Only around girls, or when he's on extreme sugar highs..." Kendall stated, slurping at his smoothie.

"Wait, your sister? I thought Gustavo Rocque only had one daughter." James said with a confused look.

"I'm actually her cousin, but ive lived with dad, Mama Kelly, and Jessie since I was seven. So she pretty much is my sister… They sort of adopted me in a way." Lauren said as she looked at James.

"Hey do I know you from somewhere? I swear that ive seen you before." She said when she actually looked at James.

He seemed very familiar to her for some strange reason. She didn't know where and she didn't know when, but she could swear she had seen his face somewhere before.

"I don't think so…" James said with a shake of his head.

"Lauren! I got your blue smoothie!"

Carlos came running out of the Palm Woods towards Lauren with a blue smoothie in his hand. He handed it to her, sort of breathless and grinning like crazy.

"You really didn't have to, but thank you Carlos." She smiled at him, sipping the blueberry smoothie.

"Anywhos back to project 'get-Jessie-her-job-back'… I was thinking." Lauren began.

"Hold up, we need to get the guys hired back again too. I didn't bust my ass that hard just to have them sent back home on the first day." Jessie insisted.

"Darn it, I didn't think it through that much! Okay so new new plan…" Lauren said with furrowed brows.

Everybody looked at her, waiting for her to continue with her plan. She glanced around and noticed everyone looking at her.

"Don't look at me, I got nothing! My plan involved Carmen, Jayde, and I going on strike and rigging up a watermelon cannon aimed at dads office window until he let Jessie back into the band. I don't think that will work on him with the guys too though." She said thoughtfully as she chewed at the end of her straw.

Jessie groaned for what seemed the trillionth time that day.

"Cheer up Jess! Hey I know just what we can do as a pick me up." Lauren smirked as she reached down for her backpack.

"And what might that be?" Kendall asked as he watched her curiously.

Lauren lifted back up with a small cooler in her hands, she smiled at the group as they all looked at the slightly smoking cooler in curiosity.

"I don't know what that is, but im in!" Carlos said eagerly, placing his helmet on his head and giving it a smack.

"What other weird things do you carry around with you?" Kendall asked in amusement.

"Just the necessities." Lauren replied glancing from left to right.

"Air horns and mysterious smoking coolers?" He smirked.

Lauren just grinned at him.

"Why are you carrying around a cooler of dry ice?" Logan asked as he examined the cooler.

"Lauren! That was for Jayde's science project, oh just wait till she gets back, she is going to KILL you." Jessie said with a huge grin once Logan identified what was in the smoking box.

"Relax, we're just gonna have a little fun. And its not like she cant go out and buy some more." Lauren reasoned.

Lauren handed the cooler to Kendall and began digging through her bag again, this time pulling out a tin of eye black.

"More weird things out of Lauren Rocque's backpack..." Kendall mumbled as she smudged some lines under her eyes.

"What! Gotta have the war paint on." Lauren grinned, turning toward Kendall she smudged some eye black under his eyes too.

"What exactly are we going to do with a cooler full of dry ice?" James asked as he sat up next to Jessie.

"We my friends, are going to bomb the Palm Woods." Lauren stated, standing up with a grin.


So theres Chappie 6! Reviews are greatly appreciated, no flames though please, constructive criticism is welcome!... I would like to thank my lovely reader mandamichelle for putting the idea of James standing up to Gustavo for firing Jessie into my head, for without her it would have been Gustavo just firing the boys right after he fired her (not very interesting right? lol). So THANK YOU MANDAMICHELLE! :)...AND I would also like to thank LinaRush for reminding me to include Camille. I admit that i wasnt going to include her in this story, or she was just going to be mentioned here and there. But Lina had me going back over my BTR fanfic notes and BAM i knew exactly what i was going to do with her for this story, so another big THANK YOU LINARUSH! :)