(A/N): And here's the second chapter! Thank you to SmileYouLiveLonger for your review! And I still don't own Big Time Rush, but I do own my OC, Katrina! This chapter and the next one follow the episode Big Time Mansion. I feel the need to say that I didn't write the episode so please don't sue me.
Chapter 2: The Dogs Need A Sitter
After agreeing to let Logan, Kendall, Carlos and James watch his mansion and making a mysterious phone call alone, Gustavo and Kelly stood in front of the boys as Gustavo gave the boys the rules of his mansion.
"There are SIX mansionsitting rules at Casa Gustavo," Gustavo began. He walked up to stand right up in front of James, "One, STAY OUT of my media room." James gave two thumbs up and Gustavo moved on to Carlos, "Two, do not open my living room fridge." Carlos gave Gustavo an okay sign with his hand and Gustavo moved to Kendall, "Three, keep the butts off my forty thousand dollar Federico Benini couch." Kendall snapped his fingers and pointed at Gustavo. Taking that as an agreement, Gustavo went on to Logan, "Four, do not touch my Peruvian hairless cat, Monty."
"Ooh," Logan responded, "I love cats!"
"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" Gustavo yelled at Logan.
"I don't even like cats," Logan replied, shaking his head and shrugging.
"Five," Gustavo backed away from the boys to address them all. "If anything, ANYTHING, is BROKEN in my MANSION, you are all FIRED!" The boys looked at each other, a little scared at the thought. Gustavo continued, "And six should be here right now." At that moment, there was a knock on the door of the studio. Gustavo yelled out, "COME IN!"
In walked the girl that was walking the dog earlier. She was holding a cat carrier in one hand and four leashes in the other. "Hello again, Mr. Rocque," She glanced over at the boys and her cheeks turned a little pink before she looked back at Gustavo. The boys watched her with curiosity and confusion. "You said on the phone that you wanted me to watch a few exotic animals, a cat and four dogs, right?" At this comment, all heads turned to stare at Gustavo.
"WHAT?" Gustavo yelled into the room.
"I can't believe you told her they were dogs!" Kelly scolded Gustavo.
"Wait," the girl spoke up, "So, there aren't any dogs?"
"No," Kelly told her, "By dogs, he meant these guys." She gestured to James, Carlos, Kendall and Logan who were still in a line, but staring at the girl now. They waved to her as she looked at them.
"There is no way I'm staying in a mansion with four boys that I don't know."
She turned to leave the room, but before she could, Gustavo spoke up, "I'll pay you double!" She froze for a second and then sighed, turning back around.
"Fine," she put the cat carrier and leashes on the ground before standing in the line with the boys, right next to James. He leaned down to catch her eye, giving her a dazzling smile. She scowled and took a step away from him. He shrugged and looked back at Gustavo.
"Now," Gustavo began as all eyes turned back to him, "Rule number six. This is Katrina Wolff. She has watched my pets before, so I somewhat trust her. She's in charge and will make sure that you FOLLOW MY RULES!" Katrina, not being used to Gustavo's outbursts, jumped back. Gustavo seemed to ignore her as he addressed the boys, "Are we clear?"
The boys looked at each other for a second, before jumping into the air, yelling, "YES!" Katrina watched the boys with an eyebrow raised as they babbled on about what they would do in the mansion, barely waving a goodbye to Gustavo and Kelly. The five teenagers walked out into the hall, Katrina grabbing her stuff along the way. She kept her distance from the boys so she wouldn't get hit by their waving arms as they mimed what they were going to do.
"So, Katrina," Kendall began as the boys settled down, "Did you need a ride to the mansion? Cause we could probably give you one."
"Um," Katrina wouldn't look at the boys still, she kept looking straight ahead as the group walked down the hall toward the elevators, "That would be nice. I just have to go home first and pick up my overnight bag."
"We can come with you," Logan offered, the other boys nodding in agreement.
"NO!" Katrina yelled out, looking over at the boys with her eyes wide and her hands out in a stop signal. The boys looked at her, each with an eyebrow raised. Realizing her outburst, she coughed and looked away from them, a blush starting to form on her cheeks. She stared straight ahead as she spoke, "No, it's fine. I can meet you guys at your place. Where do you live?"
"The Palm Woods," Carlos seemed to snap out of the shock first, "We're in 2J. We've got this awesome apartment with a swirly slide and anything that you could want!"
"That's cool," Katrina replied. Her posture seemed to worsen as Carlos ranted on about their apartment. Once they got outside, she waved goodbye to them and ran off. They shrugged at this before finding their ride back to the Palm Woods.
"I want hourly updates," Mrs. Knight finally agreed to let the boys mansionsit. They began cheering, Carlos standing up and knocking over James's cup onto the kitchen table.
"Dude!" James yelled over the cheering, "You knocked over my chocolate milk!" Carlos took a bite of his chicken, chewing loudly as he stood on his chair. James threw one of his chicken pieces at Carlos before wrestling the Latino to the floor with a war cry. While they were wrestling, Logan and Katie each took a piece of chicken from Carlos's plate right as there was a knock on the door.
"I'll be in charge," Kendall reassured his mother before heading over to answer the door. Opening the door, he found Katrina standing there, looking down at her feet. She had a backpack that had holes in some of the front pockets and one of the straps was broken. The cat carrier from earlier was in her hand. When she saw that the door had opened, she looked up at Kendall.
"Hi," she muttered, giving him a small, quick smile before her mouth settled back into an emotionless state.
"Hey Katrina," Kendall responded. He backed up so Katrina could walk in, shutting the door when she was inside. Her jaw dropped and her eyes went wide as she looked around the colorful apartment. As soon as the initial shock had settled in, Katrina looked over her shoulder at her worn out backpack, sadness and disappointment etched in her face. Kendall didn't seem to notice as he called out to the other five people in the apartment, "Katrina's here!"
James and Carlos looked up from their battle on the ground to smile at her before they continued their wrestling. Katrina's eyebrows went up into her bangs for a second before paying attention to the other three in the room. Logan smiled and waved at the girl before he went back to his eating. Mrs. Knight walked into the kitchen as Katie got up and walked over to Katrina.
"I'm Katie and why have I never seen you before?" Katie asked her.
"I don't live here," Katrina answered.
"Then where do you live?"
Katrina hesitated at this, but eventually told them, "Elsewhere." Katie narrowed her eyes at the suspicious girl, but didn't ask another question as she sat back down in her seat to continue eating. Mrs. Knight came out of the kitchen with another plate filled with food and smiled at Katrina.
"Did you want something to eat?" she asked kindly. "I always make extras, just in case."
Mrs. Knight's smile seemed to be contagious as Katrina gave a small smile again, "Sure, thanks." Mrs. Knight placed the plate on the counter by a stool as Katrina set her backpack and cat carrier on the floor. She walked over and sat down on the stool so she could eat. Kendall had joined Logan at the table to work on his plate of food. Carlos and James finally stopped their wrestle match and Carlos joined Logan, Kendall and Katie at the table, but James picked up his plate and cup and went over to join Katrina.
"Hello," James began sultrily, causing Katrina to stop eating, a piece of chicken halfway to her mouth. "We haven't had an official meeting, so I'm James Diamond. You're Katrina Wolff. Did you want to go on a date after this mansionsitting thing is over? Or we can just have the date at the mansion and kick out my friends."
"HEY! WE CAN HEAR YOU!" Logan, Kendall and Carlos called from the dining table.
"Ignore them," James insisted, "So, where did you want to go on our date?" He put his arm around her shoulder, completely ignoring how tense she got. The boys and Katie sucked in their breaths, waiting for Katrina to slap James across the face due to his bold move. Katrina, however, did something completely different. She shrugged off James's arm, pushed her plate to the side and moved to the third stool, away from James. He looked shocked for a second, but then quickly recovered, "You know what? I think we're better off as friends anyways. You're just too depressing."
James grabbed his plate and headed over to join the others at the dining table, but did manage to catch Katrina's whispered response, "I know." While he, his friends and Katie began talking in hushed voices, Mrs. Knight came up to Katrina with her worn out backpack in hand.
"I think it's time for you to ask your parents for a new backpack," Mrs. Knight noted to Katrina, placing the backpack on the stool right next to Katrina.
"I don't want to bother them," Katrina avoided eye contact with Mrs. Knight as she continued to eat.
"They probably wouldn't be bothered if it's something that you need," Mrs. Knight commented, but Katrina didn't answer this. She just continued to eat, staring straight ahead, until Mrs. Knight went over to talk to the group at the dining table. "What's going on with your new friend?"
"We don't know," Kendall responded, "She won't look at anyone unless she has to."
"She's way too serious for a teenager," Carlos observed. "She needs to be having more fun."
"She won't tell us where she lives," Katie looked over at the girl, narrowing her eyes as though she was trying to see Katrina's secrets.
"She wouldn't let us come with her to pick up her stuff either," Logan expanded Katie's comment. "And not only is her backpack worn out, but she had a dog leash earlier that was broken too."
"And," James seemed to stress his point, "She's not falling for any of my lines!" His friends and Katie all rolled their eyes. Mrs. Knight listened to all of the information given and then looked over at Katrina. Suddenly, Mrs. Knight's face lit up in understanding. She smiled down at the group at the dining table before leaving to grab her keys to her rental van.
"Is everyone ready to go?" Mrs. Knight called out to the group. Katrina looked up and nodded, grabbing her backpack as she joined Mrs. Knight by the door.
The boys, however, called out, "NO!" before knocking over chairs on their way to their rooms to grab their stuff.
(A/N): I really wanted to get the entire episode in one chapter, but it got too long. So, I've decided to split it in two. The next one will have the boys and Katrina in the mansion. We all know what's going to happen due to the episode being written in stone…er, film, but what is going to happen with Katrina? Find out in the next chapter! Reviews will get me to write it faster! Until then, happy reading!