"Long time no see," James greeted Carlos. Carlos had been out with his new friends but as it started raining they dispersed. He had just walked through the front door and into the living room not expecting to see his pretty boy best friend.

"Is that a book?" Carlos scrunched his brow trying to make out the title. "Is that the Bible?"

"Maybe." James went back to the book. "Sh, I'm reading."

"I didn't know you could read."

James sarcastically laughed and made to swipe Carlos's head but ended up hitting his hand on the helmet instead. Carlos stuck his tongue out at him.

"Gonna play video games. Wanna join me?"

James looked at the Bible then at Carlos.

"You're on."

After fifteen minutes of James battling Carlos for snowboarding glory on the Wii Logan joined them.

"Class finished early today," he announced.

"Let's start over and compete with Logan," Carlos said.

"You don't have to. I'll just watch."

"No, it's more fun when we all play." Carlos restarted the machine. "Hey, is anyone hungry? I'm going to see if we have any corn dogs left."

"I think you ate the last one for breakfast," Logan called out but Carlos was too far up the stairs to hear him.

"I don't like him hanging out with those boys," James commented.

"You're just jealous he's found different friends."

"It's not that. He comes home he's all different. He's not…" James stopped talking when Carlos reappeared munching out of an O'Chippigan's potato chip bag.

"No corn dogs?" Logan asked.

"We had some; I just didn't feel like waiting for them to cook." He offered the bag to Logan and James. "Chip?"

"No thanks," James said as Logan reached into the bag and took a chip out.

"Hey, John and Tom are having a party tomorrow night and said you could come." Carlos had stuffed a handful of chips in his mouth and now the crumbs were flying out as he spoke.

"I don't know." James dramatically wiped his face with the back of his hand.

"Maybe we should get to know them," Logan said. "Get to know the people Carlos is hanging out with."

"I'm glad you guys came," Carlos bounced out of the SUV as Logan parked it in the already crowded street in front of a very nice sized cabin. "Come on. I'll introduce you to everybody."

"You go on ahead." Logan suggested.

"'K." Carlos bounced up the walkway to the door. Instead of ringing the bell he just walked right on in.

"I wish Lucy was here." James straightened his collar and followed the path Carlos made.

"Is she more of a people person than you?" Logan joked.

"I don't feel right about this." James opened the front door to a loud cacophony of music and people. He recognized some of the party-goers as some of the elite upper class, a few movie and music stars in there, but most of the people he had never seen before.

"Hey, you're friends of Carlos?" a dark haired man hugging a blonde scantily clad woman asked. "Steve."

"James."

"Logan."

"Big Time Rush," The girl whispered loud enough for James and Logan to hear. "Nice to meet you."

"Yeah, thanks."

"Would you like to dance?" The girl ran her hand up James's arm.

"I have a girlfriend."

"So? What she doesn't know won't hurt her."

"But, it'll hurt me." James released himself from her grip.

"I'm impressed," Logan said when the two walked away from the girl. "You turned down a girl for Lucy all on your own. James Diamond is growing up."

"Hey, I've done that before."

"When?"

"Uh… Well, it doesn't matter because I'm doing it now. I love Lucy."

"You're a changed man."

An hour later James found himself on the couch talking to two professional snowboarders while drinking a beer someone handed to him. He knew he was underage but he didn't want to come off as a dork by refusing. He thought it tasted like piss, to be honest, but most everyone else was drinking something he went along and finished off the can.

"Hey, there's my James!" Carlos shouted entering from the balcony connected by a sliding glass door. "Jamie, come join us outside!"

"Yeah, go on, Jamie!" One of the snowboarders said. He pulled out a cigarette. "You want one?"

"No, thanks, man. Can't let anything ruin my voice."

"Whatever." The guy lit his cigarette with a red lighter and puffed his smoke into James's face.

"Hey, Buddy," James said loudly to Carlos who was still standing in the sliding glass doorway.

"C'mon! Join us outside. Logan's out here."

James jumped up eager to get away from the rude smoking snowboarder. Hopefully, there were friendlier people outside. Well, at least Logan and Carlos were out there.

Logan was lounging in a reclining beach chair drinking something out of a plastic cup and laughing loudly.

"Are you drunk?" James asked him quiet enough that hopefully no one else heard.

"What? Me? No!" Logan answered a little loudly. "You should try some of this." He handed his drink to James.

"Oh god, this tastes awful," James said after a rather large gulp. "Get me one!" He exclaimed. Five seconds later a clear plastic cup was pushed into his hand by who he did not know.

"I wish Kendall was here," Logan said. "He loves Jo more than he does us."

"Jo is his girlfriend. We're just his best friends." James sat down in the beach chair next to Logan.

"Best friends are more important than girlfriends."

"Don't let Camille hear you say that."

"Oh Camille," Logan drawled out. "I do love that crazy girl."

"Haha, she is crazy."

"Don't tell her I said this, but I love it when she slaps me."

"You get off on it, don't you?"

Logan blushed a deep scarlet red.

"Aw man. I'm out." He stared into the bottom of his cup. "More please!"

"You know, his girlfriend slaps him," James said to the guy sitting on the other side of Logan whom Logan had been laughing with earlier.

"She does?" The guy asked.

"Yeah, like this." Logan reached his hand back and slapped James on the cheek.

"Logan!"

"James!" Carlos chose that moment to bounce onto his best friend, hitting him in the mouth with his helmet causing James to drop his beverage.

"Carlos!" James ripped the helmet off his friend's head and threw it in the pool.

"James!" Carlos shouted this time angrily. He leapt off James's lap and jumped into the pool. Once he retrieved his helmet he threw it at James hitting him squarely in the chest.

"Hey!" James jumped up from the chair and tackled Carlos who had just climbed out of the pool. The two began rolling around the balcony grabbing shirt and hair in fight.

"Oh, this is good," Logan said sarcastically.

"Ooooh," James moaned the next morning. He opened his eyes and quickly closed them. His mouth hurt, his chest hurt, and his arms hurt. What happened last night? "Stop it!" He shouted softly as his phone began to ring. He didn't want to answer it, but he saw the number was Lucy so he picked it up anyway. "'Erro?"

"James?"

"Lucy?" James sat up too quickly, immediately regretting his decision. Nausea rose in his stomach.

"James?" She repeated. "Is something wrong?"

"No, nothing's wrong," he laughed nervously.

"You were supposed to call me last night. Now, I'm not the nagging girlfriend who has to know where her boyfriend is every second of the day, but it's not like you to not call when you say you will."

Anything that could make his headache worse that was it.

"Carlos's friends had a party."

"And you went to it?"

"Yes."

"Great! How was it?"

"I—" James paused. He couldn't remember. He remembered walking into the house and that was it.

"James, did you get drunk? Are you hungover?"

"Are you mad?"

"No, I'm not mad. Just don't do anything stupid, okay? Wait, who am I talking to? You guys don't need to be drunk to do stupid things."

"Hey! I take offense to that."

"You know you. It's the truth."

"Fine. Good thing you're not my mom. If she found out I got drunk at a party she'd be here in a flash snatching my butt up and taking me back to Minnesota with her, doesn't matter that I'm an adult and my own legal guardian."

"Your mom sounds like a witch."

"Oh, she's not. She's a nice woman, just very…controlling and she hates the word 'no.'"

"Oh, well, I'll let you go recover from your hangover."

"Thanks. Y'know, I'd recover better if you were here."

"I'm sure you would. Love you, James."

"Love you, too, Lucy." After hanging up the phone he dropped it on the floor and then moaned. During the conversation his headache had gotten worse. It went from a single solitary drummer to the marching of an entire band in his head.

"Logan!" He whined holding his aching head in his hands as he stumbled his way from his bedroom to across the hall where Logan's bedroom was. The door was closed but James felt nothing like knocking so he just barged in.

"The dreaded effects of the hangover," Logan announced. He was sitting on his bed not reading the book lying next to him.

"What happened last night?" James fell onto Logan's bed almost hitting his head on Logan's legs. Logan curled his legs up to give James more room.

"You don't remember?"

"No, do you?"

"Yeah, I wasn't as drunk as you. You know the saying 'beer before liquor, never sicker.'"

"Is that true?"

"Well, it depends on the person so probably not, but you did drink an awful lot. You don't remember anything from last night?"

"Not a thing."

"You came onto the balcony to talk to me and got in a fight with Carlos. It's so bad he didn't come home last night."

The only indication of ages we've been given (or that I can remember): Logan is at least 15 in the pilot because he has his learner's. In Big Time Mansion Kendall says he is 16. In a season 3 episode Katie says she is in the 7th grade. For some reason I want to say she says she is 10 in a season 1 episode but I can't recall which one or if I made that up (and I didn't as I saw it's in Big Time Hollywood Fever. Buddha Bob asks her some economics question and she responds that she's only 10 so how would she know?). In season 4 Katie is studying George Washington and since the boys aren't studying anything this leads me to believe it is not summer and they are no longer in school (I think in Big Time Tour Bus they are taking a two week radio tour during the spring). While one can quit school at the age of 16 in the US, I doubt Nick would want to portray that so it leads me to believe they are at least 18 here. Is there anything else that leads us to more definite or different answers? I just want to make sure I get the ages right.