7:30 o' clock AM
"We gotta go soon", Erykah shouted from her bathroom as the two men laid 'asleep' in her bed; knowing well enough that both of them are fully awake. There was a pause after; hoping Jack, and Cole start getting up.
"C'mon, we can't be late", she shouted again, peaking her head out the bathroom door once more, earning a few groans and moans from the guys. Erykah began straightening her hair with her black flat-iron: the bathroom consisted of black, white, lavender, and emerald green candles. White towels from the Palm Woods store, along with an Palm Woods robe; the guys having the same necessities in their bathrooms. Hex bath soaps, aqua blue bath sponge, and her Victorian decorated hand mirror.
"Guys-", Erykah extending the word 'guys', whining for them to get out of bed. "We gotta go", she shouted again, but with a sly smirk on her face, hearing Jack, and Cole getting out of her bed.
It was quiet in the apartment 2J. The sun shining brightly in the huge apartment complex that consisted of the top technology, a yellow swirly slide; with one floor and an half. The bottom first floor consisted of the kitchen, one bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor that was half of the complex consisted of four bedrooms - with the yellow swirly slide the only way down; and yet under such complete destruction.
Moaning and groaning of defeat is bouncing off the walls of the apartment. Four individuals slumped over on their couch that faced the kitchen, sunshine illuminating the living room. The same individuals who have been on an quest to scout the new girl in the Palm Woods.
"We'll never find her - never", Carlos sorrowfully spoke, as he laid with his helmet, the others humming in agreement. "Maybe - probably - she doesn't want to be found", and irritated voice spoke up, all four heads peeked up to see Katie with her arms crossed against her chest.
"Guys, just drop it. She isn't the only girl here", Katie continued, but that didn't satisfy their quench. Indeed there was plenty of fish in the sea here at the Palm Woods - but this is no ordinary fish; this fish is an great shark.
"Boys, what do you want for brea-", a chipper voice booming quickly downgrading to a face of shock. There stood Mama Knight, Kendall's and Katie's mother, sinking in the miserable sight of the four boys along their side of messy blueprints, tree hats, food crumbs, binoculars, and the stench of failure.
"What is going on?", Mama Knight asked desperately, making Katie turn her head sideways, "nothing mom, but this is what defeated desperation looks like", her insult towards the guys made Mama Knight huff.
9:30 o' clock AM
"Hurry the fuck up, Erykah", Cole's voice boomed through the bathroom door, for the trio are almost finished with getting ready to head out to Rocque Records to finish the editing on their demos. "Hold on!", Erykah shouted back.
Cole and Jack's muffled chuckling being heard, Erykah rolling her eyes. Both guys getting amusement from bothering Erykah; "HURRY THE FUCK UP", both in sync, emphasizing and harmonizing in the torment.
"Shut up!", Erykah shouted mixed insults of laughter, as she kept screaming at the guys to quiet down in vulgar forms, she was busying looking in the mirror dying her hair from jet black to fiery bloody red. The smell of intoxicating bleach filling her nostrils, and clouding the bathroom entirely; a evil grin crept on Erykah's face slowly as she looked at herself in the cabinet mirror.
11:15 o' clock AM
"Alright, guys. Let's just relax, eventually we will have to bump into the new girl", Kendall being the good pep-talker he is, as the guys re-freshened themselves from the stink of failure, all taking turns using the bathroom to take a shower. James being the first one in the bathroom, the rest outside agreed with Kendall, with James agreeing through the bathroom door.
As the remaining guys wait in line to use the bathroom, Katie began walking out her bedroom door, "hun, where are you going?", Mama Knight asked curiously. "Out for some air, probably go out to the arcade - I can't be in this apartment for much longer - it reeks of failure", Katie's insult hit the boys like a dagger, simultaneously, knowing she really didn't mean it, but they still let out an defensive 'hey'.
Katie left the apartment as the guys try to make new plans as they awaited for the bathroom to find the new girl. As Katie headed out of the apartment, walking down the hallway, she head some music playing in the next apartment to 2J.
Heavy, dirty, gritty rock music.
A kind of music not heard from for awhile since Lucy Stone moved out of the Palm Woods - Palm Wood's first rocker.
It took a minute for Katie to put the puzzle pieces together. It has to be the new girl who moved in; the music vibrated a bit harshly as the bass was heavy - it just has to be her.
Katie must admit. The mystery that has been lingering about the new girl was getting to her; the new girl is the definition of goth on two legs. Katie even felt intimidated by the short time Katie saw the new girl the first day she studded into the Palm Woods.
The music stopped, and shuffling can be heard. It sounded like more than one person in the apartment - that shocked Katie Knight even more. More than one rocker? The possibility of more than one goth rocker being in the Palm Woods was - Katie didn't even know the proper word for it.
The locks on the door began to unlock, and Katie dashed to a nearby corner of the hallway to hide, but peeked to see the new girl come out in full view. The door unlocked with a soft wave of sage, lavender filling up the hallway from the apartment - clogging Katie's nostrils, satisfying her senses.
The door now more opened, and could hear talking but the first thing to come out of the door was a Demonia Muerto lace-up knee high boot that featured spiked studding on the back of the ankle, and an side zipper. With a studded grim reaper on the bottom as well, and it shined stunningly like the night.
Katie's eyes widened, as she fully saw the new girl walk out the apartment with two guys. The new girl has soft luscious red hair, wearing black denim pants that was made with leather, studs, spikes and small chains. Her skin soft, and flawless with all her dark caramel richness.
Along with heavy black eye-shadow, deep bloody red lipstick, a tight leather choker, carrying a coffin purse, and lastly, a baby-pink short sleeved crop top that read, "Satanic Feminist".
Right behind her were two guys exiting the door, who were even more scarier looking: one with spiked green mohawk has an Slipknot tee, leather pants that had chains hanging from the pockets, and leather boots. The other one has slicked back blond hair, wearing a Cannibal Corpse tee, along with leather pants, and black converses.
The trio looked the goth clique who everybody wanted to be friends with; as they grabbed their packed instruments, locked the door - the trio began walking towards the elevator. Katie slowly followed them to the elevator, trying to stay in incognito, trying to hear what they're talking about. But, her instincts were impulsive - which isn't like Katie to do. Katie dashed to the trio before the elevator opened, and confronted them with an interrupting cough.
All three turned around to see Katie standing very innocently, "Hello", she said softly, and politely. "Hello", the trio said in sync. "You'e the new residents, right?", Katie asked a questions that she already knew the answer to. The new residents nodded, and smirking. "I just wanted to say welcome", Katie said, being around the bush. "Thank you", the new girl said, smiling back. The elevator dinged, "bye", the new girl said smiling; the trio going into the elevator, ad it closed.
Katie was shocked. She dashed down the stairs to meet up with the trio; running and most slipping down the stairs. As she finally got to the lobby, she saw the two guys heading out of the lobby, but the new girl was alone at the front desk.
Katie saw her chance to confront her personally, not wanting to warn her about the boys in-front of her band-mates; because Katie knew - her band-mates who were practically shielding the new girl back upstairs, could kick the guy's asses.
"Call a cab for my band", Katie heard the new girl say to Bitters, who quickly picked up the phone to dial an local cab company. As the new girl opened her coffin bag, she pulled out her Marlboros lights. Katie was waiting near the elevator that were laid out plainly in the lobby, the new girl lit her cigarette. Bitters hung up the phone,"Okay, Ms. Jones, your ride should be here shortly", and with that th new girl sat down on one of the couches.
"Uh - hi, Katie stammered walking more closer to the new girl. "Oh - hey", the new girl was a bit taken back, as she held her smoke between her fingers. "My name is Katie Knight, and I live in the apartment next to you, and -", 'Wait? You live in that animal house next door?", the new girl asked angrily. "What's going on next door? So much fucking noise at night". Katie sat across from the new girl, "Oh, that's my brother, and his friends, we all live in the same apartment, and they get a bit rowdy", Katie explained.
"I can see that", the new girl mumbled under her breath, as she laid back on the couch, Katie wanted to continue talking to the new girl, actually wanting to be friends. Katie was never one to socialize, only in business terms, but there's something about the new girl she likes. The rawness - the mystery.
"I see you're in a band", Katie came up boldly, the new girl shook her head yes, with a small smirk. "Well, let's talk business" Katie's confidence suddenly soared, as the old Katie came back, and her fear went away.
"Okay, guys. Let's face it. We just have to wait, or just give up", Kendall spoke to James, Carlos, and Logan in the elevator; all agreed. As the elevator dinged, and opened on the lobby floor, James spoke up, "Let's just relax at the pool, the rest all said, "agreed, happily in sync. As they continued to walk out more of the elevator, they all stopped dead in their tracks, shock over took Big Time Rush. Pure shock.
There at the front desk, stood the new girl. Her elbows on the counter, and her leather pants shining, and glimmering in the light - giving her ass an sparkly view. The side of her face was showing, as she was talking to Bitters, but he seems uneasy.
All the guys ran outside near the entrance of the pool, but peeked their heads out to see more. "My god, there she is", Logan whispered, as the rest just stared. "After all this time, just when we gave up, there she is", Carlos said as he practically drooled of lust.
"Um - Ms. Jones?", Bitters whispered to the new girl, Erykah. She raised her eyes to face him, "I think you're being stalked", he said quietly , as he pointed to the entrance of the poolside.
She raised her eyebrow, looked behind to see herself - there she saw four heads peaking out, but dashed away faster than the speed of light. Erykah scuffed, and turned back to Bitters - suddenly the front desk's phone rang, with Bitters quickly picking it up. "Ms. Jones, your cab is here", and with that she puffed her cigarette for the last time, and put it out on the desk.
With Erykah walking out, she met up with her bandmates who were waiting outside, all packed their guitar cases into the cab's trunk, and headed out.
As Erykah walked out the building, the four guys dashed into the lobby, and Bitters quickly shut it down, "NO! NO! NO! AND NO!", as the four guys desperately dashed to his front desk.
"C'mon Bitters, what's her name?", Logan begged, Bitters' mouth opened but was quickly interrupted without saying anything, by Katie, "Her name is Erykah Jones. You spell her name E-R-Y-K-A-H. Unique, huh?", Katie spoke behind the group.
Their heads slowly turned to Katie, and all with jaws dropped. Katie's face smug with cocky delight. "How did you know?", Bitters curiously asked, "Because I got to talk to her", Katie said, as she crossed her arms.