A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome to the third installment of this series, "Big Time Finale"! I hope you guys are excited, because I am...this will be one very rocky trip to the altar...yet who will marry who is yet to be decided.
Main pairings: Kames and Cargan, of course, but those aren'to the only ones because there'll be a lot of pairings bouncing around.
My goal for this story is to make chapters longer and therefore make this shorter since I'm beginning to struggle with time to write. However, if you feel one chapter has way too much going on, please, do let me know, I CAN slow down.
That said, please remember to review! I love reviews!
If you haven't read "Big Time Decisions" and "Big Time Reminiscence" the stories prior to this one, do so, they are amazing, you'll enjoy them (if I may say so myself) and you'll understand this a lot better.
Well, I'll let you read now...
Cheers,
Franshes
Ch.1: Home Sweet Home?
Kendall sighed as he finished moving the last of his boxes into Jett's apartment. He tried to fight off the tears that came to his eyes as he thought about 2J and his home, which led to him thinking about James, which was not a good topic to be thinking about.
The brunette hated him now.
"Wow, looks like we have a lot of unpacking to do," Jett commented, having noticed Kendall's pained expression and, guessing at what he was thinking, wishing to distract the blonde from the mess his friends had left him in.
Kendall wiped his eyes hastily and smiled weakly at Jett.
"Seems like it, doesn't it?" he said "But Jett...you don't have to do this, I'm serious, I can handle it on my own..."
"Nonsense, you'll never finish by yourself," Jett said "Now, c'mon, let's get started!"
Couple of hours later...
By lunchtime, they'd finished unpacking most of the essential stuff and had gone down to grab some lunch.
"So, what do you want to eat?" Jett asked him "I mean, I know an excellent burger place not that far from here but...you know, if you'd rather have a fancier lunch, there's Gourmet Palazzo- the Italian place-"
"No, not there!" Kendall exclaimed rather quickly and added quickly "I-I just don't like the food in that place, that's all" when Jett looked at him weirdly.
Truth be told (although he wasn't about to say this to Jett), he did NOT want to go on his first real date with Jett to the restaurant where he and James had had their first date.
"Or we could order pizza or Chinese or something," Jett said.
"No, no, the Burger place sounds awesome," Kendall said "Let's go," and without thinking much about it reached for Jett's hand and held it tightly in his own.
As Kendall and Jett made their way to the Palm Wood's parking lot where Jett kept his car Kendall heard a pained gasp.
He whipped his head in time to see James, who was tanning by the pool, glare at him.
It was then that Kendall realized his mistake as he still gripped Jett's hand tightly.
Turning his gaze away from his ex-boyfriend he followed Jett to his car.
Once he saw Jett's ride, however, Kendall stopped dead in his tracks.
"You're kidding me, right?" Kendall said "We're riding this?"
"Yep," Jett said smugly "My treat..."
"When did you get this?" Kendall asked, awed.
"About a week before we left for Europe," Jett said "It was a gift from my agent...for my 18th birthday...it's been here, basically unused ever since, it's high time somebody used it anyway..."
"Your agent got you an Audi r8 Spyder for your birthday? Nice." Kendall said, impressed as he stared at the bright red, convertible, sports car that totally beat the BTR Mobile.
"Wanna drive?" Jett asked him, tossing him the keys.
"You're kidding me, right?" Kendall exclaimed, smoothly catching them, delighted "You'd let me?"
"Sure," Jett said with a shrug.
"B-but...maybe some other time, I-I mean, you know where we're going..." Kendall stammered, cursing himself for blushing and seeming so nervous around Jett.
"Suit yourself..." Jett said with a smirk, while he opened the door for Kendall.
"Gallant," Kendall observed rolling his eyes but smiling nonetheless as he got in.
"Wanna see just how fast this baby can run?" Jett asked him as he got in, smirking smugly.
"Surprise me," Kendall said with a roll of his eyes while he fastened his seat belt.
"Hold on tight then," Jett said before pressing on the accelerator and heading off the Palm Woods into the main road.
"Impressive," Kendall said as the speedometer read 120mph in such a short time.
"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet, Knight," Jett said cockily, turning to look at him.
Then, not taking his eyes off the blonde, Jett pressed on the accelerator, sending the car to its full speed of 187mph in a matter of seconds, Jett keeping his eyes off the road as they drove forward.
Kendall grinned and raised his eyebrows at him for a few moments before Jett finally began to slow down and finally came to an abrupt halt and Jett turned back to look at the road.
"Show off," Kendall said, laughing "You're lucky we're on a relatively deserted highway...we could've crashed, you idiot!"
"Oh please," Jett said with a scoff "I'm the best driver ever,"
"Wow...your vanity knows no limits does it?" Kendall asked sarcastically.
"Depends, your modesty knows no limits does it?" Jett replied with a smile as he took a hold of Kendall's left hand with his right hand while he drove with the other one.
Kendall blushed and looked away from him, keeping his hand in Jett's.
In no time at all, or so it seemed to Kendall, they were pulling up in front of a Gourmet Burger restaurant.
Jett parked the car and then hurried to open the door for him.
"Why are you treating me like a girl?" Kendall asked him, puzzled, as he got out.
"I'm not, I'm just being a gentleman," Jett said, linking their arms together.
"Right, just don't get too carried away with that idea..." Kendall said while rolling his eyes.
"Why? You're loving it," Jett teased him.
Kendall groaned good-naturedly.
"Shut up," he said, although secretly, he had to agree.
Kendall did not have a lot of dating experience...at least not with guys...it had always been James and he'd always been the one pampering James and before him Lucy and before her Jo and so on...he'd never had anyone worry about him before and it felt...nice...in a weird way.
They entered the restaurant and sat at a booth near the window.
A waitress brought their menus.
"So, I think that I'll break my diet for once and order a meat and bacon burger and some fries..." Jett commented casually.
"What, the great Jett Stetson is ordering food to make him fat?"Kendall teased.
"Shut up, Knight," Jett said laughing alongside him "What will you eat then?"
"Same as you," Kendall said, gazing into Jett's dark blue eyes, which he hadn't noticed before now.
They were so...blue.
Kendall didn't know who had started it but before he knew it they were both leaning towards each other, kissing each other, their hands clasped tightly together.
They separated after a long moment, breathless, their eyes blown wide with an emotion that Kendall vaguely suspected could be lust.
He couldn't be sure, though, things were so confusing right now as images of James flooded his mind and almost made him choke on the tears he was holding back.
The waitress came in right then and asked them for their order which they gave to her.
"Drinks?" She asked them.
"Uh...sure," Kendall said "Chocolate milkshake?"
"No way, that's too many calories for me," Jett whined although Kendall silenced him with a kiss.
"Please? For me?" he asked him with puppy eyes and a pout worthy of Katie Knight's brother "We could share..."
"Alright, fine," Jett gave in "We'll have one chocolate milkshake...two straws..."
The waitress smiled at them before she left to place their orders.
Jett turned back and smiled at Kendall, caressing his face and hair.
Kendall closed his eyes and smiled at Jett's gentle touch.
He reached out and held Jett's other hand tightly with his own.
He realized that, although he was hurting, things might not be that bad for him after all...
With Logan...
"Make yourself at home, Logan," Camille told him brightly as the smart boy finished putting all his stuff in her living room.
"Thanks," he told her "For everything..."
"No worries," Camille said.
"Where's your dad?" he asked her.
"Oh he moved back with mom and my sisters when I turned 18," she told him "Said I was a grown woman now and that he'd done his duty protecting his little girl until she was old enough to take care of herself..."
"Nice, so you have the apartment to yourself?" Logan asked, impressed.
"Yep," Camille said.
"I'm sorry I let you go..." Logan said, his eyes shining with unshed tears "I-I was an idiot...I couldn't see what was, like, right in front of me, I-I had to go after something impossible I-"
"Shhh..." Camille said, placing her fingers to his lips, shushing him "I forgive you Logan, I forgave you a long time ago...you never would've been happy with me...not as happy as you were with Carlos..."
"You never would've hurt me," Logan said, as tears now ran down his cheeks.
"Of course not," Camille said sympathetically "Then again, I really don't think Carlos meant for you to get hurt this much either..."
"I wrecked Kendall and James' relationship," Logan said miserably "I'm a jerk...I deserve this..."
"You don't," Camille said firmly "Logan, you're right, you spilling out all of Kendall's secrets the way you did was not nice but...they were doomed anyways. Kendall did all those mistakes himself and he purposefully kept them from James. And James chose to be unforgiving...they wrecked their relationship for themselves, not you..."
"Do you have any beer?" Logan asked her suddenly "Or wine, whiskey, anything?"
"Aren't you supposed to be too young to be drinking so heavily?" Camille reprimanded him.
"Camille," he bemoaned "I'll be 18 in a month, c'mon, so much is going on with my life right now...I'm hurting so badly...I need something to forget about everything..."
Perhaps it was his tears which were now flowing freely down his cheeks again, perhaps it was his face which seemed so brokenhearted or the clear desperation in his eyes that made Camille relent.
"Fine," she said "I have a bottle of scotch left over from my birthday...c'mon,"
Logan smiled and followed her to her kitchen.
An hour later Logan and Camille were on her bed, making out heavily and completely naked, the bottle finished, both completely wasted...
With Carlos...
"Oh my God, Brad," Carlos moaned as Brad slammed into him, hitting his prostate dead -on.
"Carlos, fuck, why do you have to be so tight?" Brad gasped "So-damn-tight!" He said as he continued slamming into the other's willing body.
"AHHHH! So big," Carlos exclaimed, eyes shut tight in pleasure "Fuck Brad, so good!"
"Such a cute little slut, 'Litos," Brad whispered in his ear "I bet you're loving this aren't you?"
"Yes! Oh God, Brad, fuck me!" Carlos whimpered as he writhed underneath him...
(With James...)
"Hey James, what's up man?" Mark greeted him cheerfully, his smile falling as he saw the tear tracks James still had and his red eyes.
It was obvious he wasn't doing so well.
"Hey Mark," James said glumly, turning around so Mark wouldn't see his face, after all, despite the fact that he had no mirror in front of him he could tell that he wouldn't look pretty right now.
"You don't look so great, is something wrong?" Mark asked him, placing a comforting hand in James' bare shoulder.
"No, I'm doing great, hey, would you like to go out with me sometime?" James said bluntly "Like to the movies or something?"
"I-uh-I thought you and Knight were dating..." Mark said uncomfortably as he withdrew his hand from James' shoulder "I saw on the news that you two were getting married..."
"Yeah well, we're not," James said, his heart clenching in his chest "We broke up..."
"Oh," Mark said sympathetically "James, man, listen-"
"There you are, baby!" A cheerful, red haired boy with dimples and light brown eyes said as he wrapped his arms around Mark "I've been looking everywhere for you, silly, you said you'd meet me by the smoothies line!"
"Yeah, you're right babe, sorry, I lost track of time," Mark said apologetically while rubbing the other boy's hand affectionately.
James only stared wide-eyed at them.
"James, this is Diego Johanssen, my boyfriend. Diego, this is my friend James," Mark said awkwardly.
Diego, unaware that anything was wrong smiled widely and innocently at James.
"Hey man, nice to meet you, I'm a BIG, no, more like HUGE, BTR fan, I'm like having this big fanboy moment! I can't believe I'm finally meeting the James Diamond, oh God!" he said, looking flustered.
"Please don't faint!" James said immediately after Diego swayed on the spot, Diego immediately stood upright.
His smile, if possible, got even bigger.
James rolled his eyes. Fanboys. Fan-tastic. Just what he needed.
"Yeah, um, nice to meet you," he tried to say politely "Um, I gotta go now..."
"Oh don't go yet!" Diego said, pulling on his arm "Please, stay a while, tell me, what's it like to be, like, super famous like you? Someday, I want to be just like you!"
"Yeah, trust me, you don't want that kid-how old are you anyways?" James asked him.
"Fifteen," he said proudly.
James raised his eyebrows at Mark.
"I thought you were eighteen..." he said simply.
"Nineteen, actually, my birthday happened while you were away," Mark said "I know, I know we're a weird couple but...his dad doesn't like me anyways, so can we keep our relationship, you know, just between us three?"
"It'll be like our super special dirty little secret!" Diego said excitedly.
James fought the urge to roll his eyes again.
"Sure, whatever," he said "Good luck and congratulations you guys..."
"Where's Kendall? I SO want to meet him! Are you guys excited? I'll bet you're excited, I mean, how could you not be excited, I mean you're getting MARRIED! And then there's the movie, which I can't wait to see, by the way, I'll be first in line to buy the tickets and-" Diego rambled.
"Whoa slow down kid," James said "Yeah, the movie's fine I guess but...Kendall and I...we broke up..."
"What? No!" Diego exclaimed "No, you're lying!"
"Um, no, I'm not, we broke up..." James said bitterly.
"B-b-but why?" Diego blubbered, his eyes filling up with tears "You and Kendall were perfect for each other!"
James cringed.
"I thought so too, kid, I did," he said "But...sometimes, people aren't who they appear to be..."
"But you and Kendall had been best friends forever," Diego accused "If there's anyone in this world who knew Kendall Knight it was you...you can't say you didn't know him..."
"I thought I knew him kid," James said frustratedly "Until he cheated on me..."
Diego gasped, horrified.
Mark, however, looked unimpressed.
"Was he drunk? Was he high?" he asked.
James looked at him incredulously before answering him.
"Drunk, why'd you ask?" he said begrudgingly.
"Because, knowing Kendall, that'd be the only way he'd ever be with somebody else that isn't you, James, he adores you! Quite literally, there's this shine in his eyes that turns on only when you're around...and, man, that guy has been to hell and back only to ensure that you guys are still together. So if he had a drunken one night stand with another person in Europe, so what? Does it really matter that much James, when it's obvious to anyone else that he'd die for you?" Mark said.
"It is a big deal because he lied to me about it and the other guy is Jett!" James fumed, angry tears threatening to spill down his cheeks.
"So? Forgive me, James, but I still don't see the big deal in all this," Mark said "I mean sure, he lied, but that's 'cause the one night stand didn't matter to him and he surely didn't want it to mess up the one relationship that he did care about...besides, aren't you being a hypocrite here? You cheated on him as well...and he forgave you..."
"It's not the same thing," James said, avoiding Mark's eyes.
"You're right, it's not, yours was worse because you consciously cheated on him..." Mark said "And yet he was willing to take you back. So what are you running away from, James? What are you so afraid of? What's the real reason you broke up with Kendall?"
"I'm not good enough for him, okay!" James exploded "And I think he just proved it! I saw him, not fifteen minutes ago, walking hand in hand with Jett Stetson and, okay, I get it, he's hotter and richer than me, so...let him keep Kendall, he deserves him..."
"James, you idiot, Kendall doesn't want Jett..." Mark said "He wants you...if he's dating Jett, which I doubt, by the way, it's only to distract himself from the pain of losing you!"
"You weren't there in our last fight..." James said softly "You didn't hear the things we said...he hates me now..."
"Please, I'm sure he'll take you back, the second you show him you're interested again," Mark said while rolling his eyes.
Diego burst into tears right then.
"Dude, what's your problem?" James asked him, annoyed at the younger boy who was making such a big deal out of a little-oh. James mentally slapped himself and wondered whether Mark was right, was he indeed a hypocrite?
"You don't understand," the younger boy blubbered "All my life...I'd felt different from the rest of the guys, I knew I was different...and yet, even after I moved to this city I didn't have the courage to tell my parents that I- that I liked guys. But when you and Kendall came out and then I saw how supportive you were to each other and how not everyone around you hated you guys and how you guys were getting married...I thought...if they can be out of the closet and happy then why can't I? And so I came out to my parents. These last few months have been hell for me with my family! I'd basically be alone if it weren't for Mark and yet...I thought it would all be worth it if I got to be like you guys. If I found true love like you guys had and if I got my happily ever after like you guys were going to but now it turns out I-you- was it all really for nothing?"
James looked at the boy who had tears running down his cheeks and instantly felt guilty over all this.
God he'd been selfish! They'd all been selfish!
They'd been so immersed in their own miseries that they'd forgotten how others might feel. After all, these weren't just their lives to lead as they pleased anymore. They were public figures, and in a way, role models. People looked up to them on a daily basis now...
And they'd screwed up.
Badly.
" Hey now," he told Diego sympathetically "You should never compare yourself to any of us. You are you and I'm sure you did the right choice and it'll pay off eventually. I'm sure you'll be fine and you'll get your happily ever after...you're so brave and Mark is a great guy...how could it not work?"
"You think so?" Diego said while drying his eyes.
"Oh, I know it will," James said firmly, making Diego beam at him "Now, if you'll excuse me guys...I have somewhere I really need to go..."
Mark smiled at him knowingly as he stepped aside for James to pass.
James rushed up to the apartment and threw on some clothes before exiting the apartment in a rush. Hoping, against all hope that he could make things right...
A/N: Well well well, told you all this WOULDN'T be as angsty as Big Time Reminiscence.
James has a plan...anybody want to guess what it is? And anyways, will it work? Can it fix, if not their friendship and relationships then at least...the band? Or is Big Time Rush doomed?
Anybody hate/love Jett yet? How about Brad?
Well, let me know what you think!
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Cheers,
Franshes