(A/N): So, I've locked myself in my dorm room and I'm working on this mostly (when I'm not studying for exams). Why you might ask? Cause there are zombies out there…. Seriously. My class is doing a project where we track how fast a 'zombie virus' will travel. I'm still human and I intend to stay that way until Tuesday when this is all over. Good news for you though! It means you get an update! As always, thank you to Milkamoo97 (I really liked how that last chapter went too. Hopefully, this one is just as good), Dreamer1992 (Believe me, Katrina would prefer to have said Logan over James, but she's using the Hollywood rumors to her own advantage. With Logan, it would be kind of hard since he's dating Camille…) and oOo KitKat oOo (Loopholes abound! They only use one or two in this chapter, but be prepared for more later. As for Cody, he's going to be a bit of a problem for everyone…) for your reviews! I don't own Big Time Rush or the episode Big Time Fever which is used in this chapter. Enjoy!
Chapter 49: Fighting The Fever
"Random animal check!" Katrina announced as she burst through the door to Griffin's office. He quickly stood up as he threw his raccoon hat across the office.
"What are you talking about?" Griffin responded as Katrina began searching the office.
"I have decided to do random searches for animals in case any have escaped," Katrina answered from underneath Griffin's desk. She stood up and looked at Griffin with a serious expression on her face, "Like your liger."
"MY LIGER ESCAPED!" Griffin exclaimed in fear, jumping onto his coffee table as though it would save him from a liger attack.
Katrina began laughing, "No! I'm just kidding! He didn't escape!" Griffin relaxed. Katrina got serious again. "I let him out."
Griffin stiffened, "You did WHAT?"
"Yeah," Katrina replied, "That liger seemed to want to get out. Not really my best move there." Suddenly, they heard a roar coming from outside the office, followed by some screams. "So, THAT'S where he is! See you later!" With that, Katrina left the frightened Griffin so she could head out into the main office. She shut the door behind her and looked out at the calm office.
Katie popped out of the plant next to the door and smiled at her cousin, "Did it work?" She was holding a radio which was playing the roaring and screaming noises.
"Like a charm," Katrina replied. They fist bumped. "Griffin shouldn't have given me access to ALL of his animals."
"Did you let the monkeys go in the power room?" Katie asked.
Suddenly, the power went out around them. Katrina smiled at Katie, "There's your answer." The two girls started laughing as they ran off.
Katrina and Katie got back to the apartment to see Kendall, Logan and Carlos all decked out in swimwear. They were gathering up supplies to go by the pool.
"Hey girls," they called out.
Katie turned to Katrina, "If you'll excuse me, I have a business opportunity to get to." She left for her room.
Katrina raised her eyebrows, but decided to talk to the guys instead, "Going to the pool?"
"Yep," Carlos answered.
"Are you going to join us?" Logan asked.
Katrina shrugged, "Sure, I just have to go get ready. Go down without me." They nodded as they continued to gather the pool supplies and Katrina went towards the room she shared with Katie.
After grabbing her bathing suit and going into the bathroom to change, she walked out and quickly put her sunglasses on. She was wearing an orange bikini with a sheer white wrap around her bottom. She smirked to herself before she headed for the front door.
Suddenly, the door to the bedrooms opened up and James came out. Katrina's smirk disappeared as soon as she saw him. His skin was orange.
"James," Katrina spoke carefully. "Is there something wrong?" She raised the sunglasses to the top of her head as she stared at the orange boy.
James shook his head, "Nope. Are you going to the pool too? Come on. It's going to be a great day!" Katrina just stared. James smiled at her before he left the apartment. Katrina continued to be stunned speechless.
Her phone buzzed and she snapped out if it long enough to read the text that Brandon had sent her, "'Just heard that Cody is on his way over. James better be ready to impress.'"
Katrina looked at the door for a second before she mumbled, "Uh oh." She raced out the door. Seeing James heading for the elevator, she called out, "James!" He turned around, "Wait up!"
As soon as she reached him they continued down the hallway, reaching the elevator. James pushed the button and the doors opened for them.
Going inside, Katrina began talking, "So, it seems like Cody's on his way here."
"Don't worry," James insisted, "I'll make him wish he'd never talked to my girl." He wrapped his arm around Katrina. She looked uncomfortable.
"Yeah," Katrina replied as she removed his arm. It left an orange spot where his hand had been on her waist. "Save the 'my girl' stuff for when he's here." The elevator doors opened revealing the lobby. The two teens quickly walked through it to reach the pool.
They found Carlos, Kendall, Logan and Camille standing in a line, observing the pool filled with kids and Mr. Bitters. James went forward and patted Logan's shoulder, getting their attention, "Hey guys!" He walked through them, heading for a lounge chair. Katrina took his spot as they all stared at James in disbelief. James didn't seem to notice the shock in their faces as he went on, "Another tantastic day in Hollywood." The group looked at each other before looking back at James, trying to figure out what had happened.
Realizing that James still wasn't picking up that he was weird-looking, the group scurried out of his earshot.
"Does he know he looks like a yam?" Logan whispered to the group.
"Apparently not," Katrina noted, crossing her arms.
Camille sighed, "Looks like I spoke too soon. James has Hollywood Fever."
The boys looked at Camille and then back at James in concern while Katrina mentioned, "Ah. That explains it."
"Oh no!" Carlos exclaimed, "I told him not to buy those clams from the guy on the freeway."
Kendall, Logan and Katrina rolled their eyes while Camille explained, "No. This town is starting to change him. And the heat is clearly making it worse."
"Not possible," Kendall insisted, "Look, we made a pact when we got here to stay true to ourselves." Logan and Carlos nodded their heads in agreement.
"Yeah, yeah," Camille responded, "Look at him." They all looked at James and he gave them a smile. "You have to shut this down before it snowballs like it did with Guitar Dude."
The group looked over at Guitar Dude and he waved at them, "What's up?"
"When he first moved here," Camille began, "He was a concert cellist. Oh, yeah, and when the Jennifers moved here, they walked in normal motion." As the Jennifers walked past, Carlos tried to talk to them, but one of them put their hand up, denying him. He grunted in aggravation.
"Hollywood Fever," Logan spoke with realization. He turned to Camille, "So that explains all your weird behavior."
"What weird behavior?" Camille asked. Suddenly, she went into actress mode. She slapped Logan, kissed him and smacked him again before skipping off. Katrina watched her friend leave with an eyebrow raised. She seemed a little tense after Camille had kissed Logan.
"Ouch," Logan commented, rubbing his face.
"What about you, Katrina?" Carlos asked the girl. "Have you ever been through Hollywood Fever?"
Katrina shook her head, "Nope. None of us Wolffs have. Maybe we're immune to it or something, I don't know. But I have seen people with it. My old crush, Cody, used to act a lot like, well, Logan." Logan seemed to be happy about this. "But after one summer, he came back and had tons of muscles, was quarterback of the football team, suddenly very stupid and was dating the head cheerleader and one of my closest friends, Tamara. To say I was pissed would be an understatement."
"Hollywood Fever," Kendall started. "I'll cure his Hollywood Fever." The group made their way over to orange James. "James," Kendall got the boy's attention, "You're orange and you look like a freak."
"Nice job with the subtlety," Katrina noted under her breath.
"It needs to be said," Kendall insisted.
"Actually," James began, putting down the magazine he was reading. He pulled out two spray bottles. "I'm mangerine."
"And the difference is?" Katrina asked.
James ignored her as he got to his feet, "As in Mangerine Action Tan by 'Cuda." James sprayed the air with his spray tan and then stepped through it. The group backed up a bit, trying to keep away from the possible orangeness. James flipped one of the cans, "In Hollywood, if you can't tan with the big boys," He chuckled, then suddenly got serious, "Don't even bother showing up at all." He started spraying himself.
"I don't even know how to respond to that," Logan mentioned.
"He's gone mental," Katrina noted.
"Yeah, James," Kendall began, "We all agreed that we wouldn't let this town change us."
"Hey I'm still me," James insisted, still spraying himself, "Just better."
"Yep, he's gone crazy," Katrina commented.
"James," Carlos spoke carefully, "Give us the spray." He, Kendall, Logan and Katrina leaned forward to try and take the spray cans from James's hands. He stepped back a bit. "NOW!"
"ACTION TAN ACTIVATE!" James yelled as he spun around, spraying everything. The normal group stepped back to avoid becoming orange. As they covered themselves with their towels, James escaped.
The group turned around to watch him run. Kendall instructed them, "Get him." They ran into the lobby, chasing after James. He had disappeared.
"Where did he go?" Carlos asked.
"Probably up to the apartment or something," Logan decided.
"Katrina!" Someone called out to her.
Katrina went wide-eyed. "Aw crap. I know that voice." She turned around to see Cody running up to her. The boys looked at each other as they saw Katrina fake a smile. She spoke to the boy through her teeth, "What are you doing here, Cody?"
"I told you I'd be coming for a visit," Cody reminded her. He had to do a double take as he saw Kendall, "Man, you look a lot like Kat's brother."
"I thought I told you never to call me Kat," Katrina seemed really angry, but Cody didn't seem to notice.
"I look like Evan because I'm Katrina's cousin," Kendall explained, "And I'm just as protective, so back off."
"Really?" Cody didn't back down, "You must not know that I wouldn't do anything anyways cause Katrina already has a boyfriend named James. Where is he anyways?"
"Uh," Katrina stammered for a response, "He's out… uh… modeling. Yeah, modeling. We've got a gig and I'm supposed to meet him there. So, see ya!" Before anyone could say anything, she ran off.
Cody turned to Logan and Carlos, "Who are you two anyways? More of Katrina's relatives?"
"NO!" Logan exclaimed. Carlos, Kendall and Cody looked at him strangely. "I mean, we're just her friends."
"Right," Cody responded, "I think I'll just hang out around that pool and wait for Katrina and James to come back from their 'gig'." He headed for the pool area.
On a hunch, Kendall called out, "He's gone!" Katrina came back into the lobby, dragging James into the room by his ear. He had covered her in his orange spray.
"I found him hiding in a closet," Katrina explained. "As soon as he saw me he sprayed me ALL OVER!" She glared at him.
"Hey!" James replied, "Now, we match for that guy! No one can deny we're a couple now!" Katrina continued to glare.
"Maybe I should have told him I was dating someone else," Katrina mentioned, shaking her head at her own incompetence.
Suddenly, Carlos's phone buzzed. He looked at it and told the group, "Gustavo wants us at the studio."
"Go ahead," Katrina insisted, letting go of James's ear. "I have to go back upstairs so I can look NORMAL again." She groaned as she headed towards the elevator. As she stormed through the lobby, people stopped and stared at the orange colored girl.
"Come on," Kendall told the others, "Let's go."
Katrina burst through the door to the apartment causing Mrs. Knight to drop the laundry she was folding in shock. She looked at the orange teen and her jaw dropped.
"Aunt Jenn," Katrina started, "Can you help me?"
"What did the boys do?" Mrs. Knight assumed.
"Actually, this time it was ALL James," Katrina mentioned. "And his stupid orange tanning spray."
Mrs. Knight sighed, "Come on, let's get you cleaned up." She made the motion to put her arm around Katrina's shoulder, but seemed to think better about it since Katrina was orange. Instead, she smiled at the teen before leading the way towards the bedrooms.
Logan, Carlos and Kendall burst into the apartment, searching for James. They quickly split up to search. Carlos began climbing up the swirly slide, Logan went into the bedroom area and Kendall headed through the kitchen, to the bathroom. He noticed right away that the door was shut.
"James!" Kendall banged on the door. "I know you're in there! Come out or I'm coming in!" He heard a click and the door opened, but it wasn't James standing there. It was Katrina. Her hair was wet because she had just finished taking a shower to get rid of the orange. She was wearing a pink and green robe that ended just above her knees. Glaring at Kendall, she crossed her arms, waiting for an explanation.
"Well," Kendall began. "This is awkward. James isn't in there, is he?"
"No," Katrina replied.
"He's not in the bathroom!" Kendall called out into the apartment.
Suddenly, Carlos slid back down the swirly slide and added, "He's not in the swirly slide!"
Logan came back into the room, holding a can of James's orange tanning spray, "But look, I found a bottle of Mangarine Action Tan." Kendall, Carlos and Katrina gathered around him. "According to the label, this stuff dissolves-" He flipped the can as though he was making a point, "-with water."
"I could have told you that," Katrina mentioned. That's when Logan and Carlos saw what Katrina was wearing.
"Uh," they stammered as they stared at the model.
Katrina noticed this, "I'm gonna change." She headed for the bedrooms while Carlos and Logan stared at her. Kendall shook his head. As soon as Katrina was gone, Logan and Carlos turned back to Kendall.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Carlos asked his friends. Kendall and Logan looked at each other and nodded.
Carlos, Kendall, Logan and Katrina were standing in the apartment, sunglasses on their faces and water-guns in their hands. Katrina had her hair up in a ponytail and had a black bandanna around her head to match the guys.
"I was thinking that we'd get snowcones to beat the heat," Carlos told the group. He got his water-gun ready. "But this works too."
"It should break the FEVER quite nicely," Logan added.
"I'm just looking for revenge for him painting me orange," Katrina mentioned.
"Carlitos," Kendall began the instructions, "You scope the pool for orange James. Loginator, you hit the Palm Woods Park. Katerina, check out Rocque Records. He might still be hiding there." Katrina groaned, but nodded, taking the task. "And I'll stake out the lobby. Move out!" They loaded their water-guns from the water pack on their backs before they rushed from the apartment.
Katrina stepped off the elevator for Rocque Records. She looked back and forth, searching for James. When she didn't see him, she continued on, keeping the water-gun close to her as though she expected James to appear out of nowhere. She turned the corner only to run straight into Kelly.
"Oh, good, Katrina," Kelly started. "Gustavo wanted me to find you."
"Animal problem?" Katrina assumed.
"Actually, it's a singing thing," Kelly replied.
"Then, I'm busy," Katrina insisted, walking away as she continued to look for James.
Kelly sighed and followed her, "Okay, listen. I know you're a little mad about the Jamina thing."
"A little?" Katrina responded, "It practically ruined any chance I had with Logan! Besides the whole 'he also likes Camille' thing, but I would probably have won that!"
"Anyways," Kelly went on, "Gustavo's thinking of firing James if he's not fixed."
"Yeah, I heard."
"So, he was thinking of replacing him with you."
"WHAT?" Katrina dropped the water-gun in shock. "But I'm not a boy!"
"Gustavo would rewrite the songs to have a girl's voice mingled in!" Kelly explained, "And it would make BTR more popular since mixed groups have always worked well." When Katrina still looked unconvinced, Kelly went on, "It would give you more time to spend with Logan without it looking suspicious."
"Let's cross this road if James gets fired," Katrina replied.
"Just go talk to Gustavo," Kelly insisted.
"Fine," Katrina agreed, "But I'm not singing." Katrina picked up the water-gun and headed towards Gustavo's office while Kelly walked into another room.
Gustavo was sitting behind his desk, waiting for them. He gestured to a chair in front of his desk, "Sit." Katrina sat, putting the water-gun at the side of her chair.
"I don't want to sing," Katrina spoke right away.
"WHY NOT?" Gustavo yelled. Katrina crossed her arms, not backing down. He took a deep breath and seemed to calm down. "Why won't you sing?"
"Because I'm a model," Katrina responded, "Not a singer. Why don't we concentrate on getting James back to normal before you replace him?"
"So, you two are still going strong," Gustavo seemed proud of himself. "I knew this would work."
"Actually, we're technically broken up," Katrina corrected. Gustavo got angry at this and crumpled up a paper in his hands. "But, don't tell the media that. I still need the cover. Just like I need him back to normal!"
"Huh?" Gustavo seemed confused.
"It's a long story," Katrina mentioned. "But it looks like we're on the same side now." When Gustavo still looked confused, Katrina went on, "You can still tell the media that I'm dating James. As long as we get him back to normal!"
"Then, let's check in with Kendall and make sure that everything went smoothly," Gustavo replied as he got up out of his chair. He pulled out his cell phone and began calling Kendall as he walked out of his office. Katrina followed him. As soon as Kendall picked up the phone, Gustavo started talking, "Kendall, I trust you've solved our little problem. Now, get back to the studio. We've got work to do."
Katrina heard Kendall's response over the phone, "Oh, you have no idea." Gustavo hung up, thinking nothing of it.
However, Katrina spoke up, "I've got a bad feeling about this."
"Probably just something you ate," Gustavo brushed it off, "Happens to me all the time." Katrina wrinkled her nose at the thought before she and Gustavo headed into the control room.
A couple seconds later, Katrina walked out, grumbling to herself, "Stupid Gustavo. Making me fetch those boys. I'm not a dog!" She stomped over to the elevator and stood there waiting for them to show up.
It took a few minutes, but eventually the elevator dinged, opened and the guys walked out.
Carlos came out first, pushing the others away, "Me first." He walked straight past Katrina with two of the Jennifers following him. Katrina's jaw dropped when she noticed he wasn't wearing his usual helmet and he was dressed in an outfit that James would have approved of.
James came next, carrying two new bottles of the tanning spray. Katrina shook her head and then stared at him. He was an even darker orange than before. Waving at Katrina, he continued on towards the recording room.
Katrina almost burst into tears the minute she saw Logan. Hollywood Fever had obviously taken over him too. He was wearing yellow-tinted sunglasses, a purple bandanna around his head and a flowing stripped shirt that looked like it was crudely sewn together. In his hands were bongos that he kept playing as he hummed to himself. He smiled and nodded at Katrina, "'Sup?" Before she could respond, he followed the others. She turned to stare at him as he walked away.
Kendall stepped out and walked over to stand next to Katrina, "Think Gustavo will notice?" Katrina turned to look at him with her eyebrows raised. "Yeah, I know."
"How'd you escape it?" Katrina asked. Kendall shrugged before the cousins followed the others into the next room.
As soon as they got there, they realized that neither Gustavo nor Kelly were there. The others were already in the recording booth, warming up.
"Where's Gustavo and Kelly?" Kendall looked to Katrina.
Katrina rolled her eyes, "Get in the booth, I'll find them." She stormed out of the room, heading for Gustavo's office, mumbling, "Since when did I turn into Gustavo's assistant?" Bursting into Gustavo's office, she found him and Kelly there and informed them, "The guys are here."
"Does James look better?" Gustavo asked. Katrina sucked in a breath as she shook her head. Gustavo and Kelly looked at each other before they rushed out of the office. Katrina followed them at a slower rate. She ran into them again as she entered the control room. They were staring at the boys in the recording booth.
"Let's get started!" Kendall stated with a fake smile plastered on his face.
Gustavo and Kelly looked at each other again as they sat down at the control board, hesitantly. Katrina watched from behind them, thinking that whatever was going to happen would be good for a laugh. Gustavo pressed a button to address the boys, "From the top."
They began singing Stuck, Carlos taking every solo and lead in the song. Logan was playing the bongos to match the music. The Jennifers were swaying in the background. James was dancing along too, entirely too happy. Kendall looked like he'd rather be anywhere else than in the recording booth with his friends. Gustavo and Kelly looked at each other in shock. Katrina had her face in her hand as she shook her head at their incompetence.
Finally, Gustavo had enough, "Kendall." The group stopped and listened to Gustavo. "Can I talk to you for a minute? Just a quick minute." Kendall took off his headphones and headed out of the recording booth. Gustavo looked at Kelly, "Watch them." He turned to Katrina. "I need to talk to you too." Kendall and Katrina looked at each other before they followed Gustavo out of the control room and into his office.
Gustavo sat down on his desk for a second before he asked the teens, "WHAT IS GOING ON?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" Kendall yelled back. "Carlos, Logan, Katrina and I were trying to wash off orange James and then things just kinda snowballed."
"Oh, it more than snowballed," Katrina mentioned. "It sent a blizzard."
"Well, you are kind of the leader of this band," Gustavo told Kendall. "SO KIND OF FIX IT!"
Suddenly, the door opened up and Carlos, Logan and the Jennifers came walking in. Kelly was standing at the door.
"Sorry, I couldn't stop them," Kelly admitted.
"Yo, Gustav," Carlos started, "I want a solo on the next album we record."
"And," the Jennifers added, "His new name is Jennifer." Gustavo seemed taken aback by this. Katrina furrowed her eyebrows in confusion.
"Okay, maybe not that," Carlos commented, "But the band's new name is Carlos and the Rush." One of the Jennifers handed him a poster with a picture of the band on it, but Carlos's picture had been blown up to emphasize him.
Gustavo took it and threw it behind him, "Well you and your princess posse can take it and-" He was cut off by the sound of bongos. Everyone looked over to see Logan standing on a couch.
"Everybody chill it out," Logan told the group, "And hop aboard the Logan train. Woowoo! To mellowville." He poked Gustavo's nose and then taped his fingers on his bongos. Gustavo stood up from his desk and knocked the bongos out of Logan's hands.
"Are we sure he's not just on drugs or something?" Katrina whispered to Kendall.
"Nah," Kendall responded, "He'd never take drugs." He took another look at Logan. "I think."
"Great," Katrina seemed upset. "So it's definitely Hollywood Fever."
Suddenly, there was a voice at the door, "Knock knock!"
Everyone turned and looked at the door, "Who's there?"
"Orange," came the reply.
"Orange who?" the people in the office went on with the joke.
The door opened and James came walking in with four cans of his tanning spray, "Orange you glad I brought enough mangerine spray for everybody?" The group screamed as James began spraying everyone and everything in the room. Kendall, Katrina, Gustavo and Kelly escaped the room, ran through the hall until they made it to a supply closet where they shut themselves in.
"They've got the Fever and it's bad," Kelly told the group.
"And this heat is only making their symptoms worse," Gustavo added.
"Wa-wa-wa-wa-wait," Kendall got their attention, "You guys know about Hollywood Fever?"
"I thought that adults didn't know about the Fever," Katrina noted.
"It's broken up nearly every one of my bands," Gustavo responded. "It starts with tanning or bongos and before you know it, they quit to start movie careers or they move to Canada to live among the moose! Boyquake."
"Or they go to a solo career," Katrina went on. Gustavo nodded and pointed at her, indicating that it's happened before too.
"We have got to snap them out of this before it is permanent," Kelly insisted.
"We must divide and conquer," Gustavo told them. "Kendall, you take bongo boy and drum some sense into him. Kelly, you find Carlos and remind him that he's NOT A JENNIFER! And I am getting a shrink for James." Gustavo pulled out his cell phone.
"What about me?" Katrina asked.
"You," Gustavo pointed at her, "Are on call. If something goes south, you come in to help."
"Got it," Katrina nodded.
"Move out!" Gustavo commanded. The group rushed from the room and Kendall and Kelly headed for the elevator.
Katrina turned to Gustavo, "What do I do until I'm needed?"
"Stay here," Gustavo insisted as he brought his phone up to his ear. "I have a feeling James is going to mess this up."
Katrina and Gustavo were standing with a shrink while they looked on at James, lying in Gustavo's office, spraying himself with the tanning spray.
The shrink turned to Katrina and Gustavo, "James's need to cover himself with tanning spray is an attempt to counter his feelings of estrangement brought on by his new and intense Hollywood environment."
"Wait a second," Katrina piped up, "You mean like homesickness?" The shrink nodded.
"Yeah, uh, no," Gustavo replied. "He's nuts and orange."
"Don't worry," the shrink told him, "I've cured many stars of Hollywood Fever. Before he came to me, Taylor Lautner refused to leave his house without his sock monkey." She went into the office and closed the door after her.
"Aw crap," Katrina noted, "Now I'll never be able to look at Taylor Lautner without laughing." She giggled at the thought while Gustavo looked at her strangely.
Suddenly, the door to Gustavo's office opened up and the shrink walked out. Any exposed skin was covered in James's orange spray. She turned to Katrina and Gustavo, "I feel like I've been kissed by the sun!" She smiled in happiness as she skipped off.
"Work it, Doc," James called out, "You look tantastic!"
"STOP BEING ORANGE!" Gustavo yelled as he ran into his office, closing the door behind him. Katrina heard screams and spraying coming from inside.
She placed her hand on the door, debating on if she wanted to go inside. "Gustavo might kill James," Katrina talked herself into it as she opened the door. She found Gustavo holding James up in the air, shaking him while James sprayed Gustavo all over with the orange spray.
"Cat!" Gustavo noticed her, "Things went south. Your turn." He threw James on the couch and ran out of the room. Before Katrina could follow him, he shut and locked the door.
Katrina turned hesitantly to James. He waved at her, smiling. She looked to the ceiling as she mumbled, "Gustavo, you owe me for this." She looked back to James and headed up to him. He held up his tanning spray cans, but Katrina didn't slow down.
"If you come any closer, I'll spray," James threatened.
Katrina stopped and held her arms open wide, "Then spray me." James tilted his head, trying to find the reason Katrina would willingly become orange. Then, he shrugged, got off the couch and sprayed her all over, including her clothes.
As soon as he finished, he stepped back to look at his work, smiling, "Now, how does that feel?"
"Like you have no threat over me anymore," Katrina replied. James yelped and tried to spray her again, but she just smirked at him. "I'm already orange. Any more spray won't work. Now," She looked around the office. "Is there anything in here that has water?" James yelped again and ran for the door. "The doors locked." James pressed his back against the door as though it would help him get away from Katrina. "Dang it! There's no water in here!"
"So, we're locked in a room, by ourselves, and both of us are mangarine?" James mentioned.
"Looks like it," Katrina answered. She stared at him for a second before she got an idea. She began walking slowly towards James, "You know, you look kind of hot with that mangarine tan."
"Well, you look tanificent," James responded, stepping away from the door to head towards Katrina.
Katrina shivered, "Ooh, I love it when you make puns like that."
"Wanna make-out?" James got straight to the point.
Katrina grabbed his shirt, "Hell yes." She pushed him down onto a couch and sat down on his lap before she practically attacked his lips. He seemed shocked at first by the intensity, but then got into it quickly. Slowly, Katrina pulled her lips away to trail down his neck. James was so into it, that he didn't notice her lick him.
Suddenly, Katrina yelled, "YES!" James jumped in shock causing Katrina to fall off his lap.
"What?" James asked.
"This orange crap comes off with saliva," Katrina smirked. James quickly pulled out a mirror so he could check his neck. Sure enough, where Katrina had been kissing and licking there was a pale spot.
James yelped and pulled down the mirror to look at Katrina, "You tricked me!"
"Yes," Katrina nodded as she put herself back on his lap, "Now, hold still while I get the rest of you."
"Just so you know," James told her, smirking, "I've sprayed myself everywhere. Even places that are clothed."
Katrina tilted her head in confusion and then suddenly her eyes snapped wide open as she got what he was telling her. She practically fell off James's lap again as she raced for the door, banging on it, yelling, "THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH! LET ME OUT!"
Suddenly, the door opened and Katrina fell through. James took this opportunity to leap off the couch, jump over Katrina and run off, spraying himself so he was completely orange again.
Katrina groaned in pain as she pushed herself up to her knees. She looked up, expecting Gustavo to be there holding the door open. Instead, it turned out to be Kendall. He was wearing his hockey playing outfit and he was staring down at Katrina.
"Was there a pale spot on James's neck?" Kendall observed.
"Yeah," Katrina looked ashamed. "I found out that the orangeness comes off with saliva too." Kendall went wide-eyed at this. "What? I had no choice! There wasn't anything with water in there!" Kendall sighed as he held out his hand. Katrina took it and Kendall helped her to her feet before letting go. "I'm guessing things didn't go well with Logan either."
"I think he's still in the park if you wanna make-out with him too," Kendall responded.
"Funny," Katrina replied sarcastically, "Come on. Let's find Gustavo and Kelly."
(A/N): Uh-oh. Things aren't looking too good, are they? Katrina and Katie have started their fight against Griffin. What mischievous thing will they come up with next to make Griffin reconsider Katrina's contract? Will James become normal enough to scare off Cody or will someone else have to come into play? Will Katrina start getting modeling jobs again now that her arm isn't broken anymore? And if she does, will they be more photo shoots with James? Will this cause something to happen to change their fake relationship back into a real one? Katrina still has feelings for Logan, but he's dating Camille. Will something change to give Lorina a chance? And one of the big questions of the story, where the heck is Evan? Are the boys going to find him? Is that going to be the special surprise I have for chapter 50? If not, what is that special surprise? You'll just have to wait to find out! Until then, review and happy reading!