Hello there! I recently got back into BTR like I was before and I started to reread some of my stories that I had written. I love I See Sparks Fly since it's one of the first stories I ever wrote. But it's not my best writing because I was young and hadn't experienced a lot of relationship stuff. So I got the urge to rewrite this story and here we are!

If you have read I See Sparks Fly, welcome back and I hope you will continue reading because I have added some new and greatly improved old stuff.

If you are new to this story, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy creating this story.

Chapter 1:

I lay back in the lounge chair and sigh in contentment. The past few hours had been spent traveling back from North Carolina where I was part of filming The Hunger Games for three months. While it had been fun, I was exhausted from that and the travel and was so happy to be relaxing out in the L.A. sun. As soon as I had arrived at the Palmwoods where I would be living for a few months, I threw my luggage in my room, changed into a swimsuit and immediately headed down to the pool.

The pool area is busy with other people taking in the unusually warm spring weather so I decide to listen to some music and maybe take a nap. I choose my uncle's band, Big Time Rush, and close my eyes as the sun warms me up. It's kind of funny that I ended up liking the band that my uncle Gustavo Rocque had created since my father insisted that they were terrible. Of course my dad was wrong, but that was just a result of the rivalry they've had since my dad became a successful film director and my uncle became a successful music producer. Even though they've been a band for a couple years now, I haven't had the chance to meet them because my filming schedule always conflicted with their touring schedule. But now that I'm at the Palmwoods, I should finally have my chance to meet the boys that have caused my uncle to have so many trips to the hospital.

I lay by the pool for a little while and begin to doze off before the sun hitting me is blocked. I start frowning and lay still, hoping whoever is in the way will move soon and I can warm up again. But after a couple minutes have passed and I'm still in the shade, I finally squint up at the person, or in this case, persons. I pull one ear back on my headphones as I look up at them and sigh. "Excuse me but is there any way you could move? You're blocking the sun and I'm trying to relax for a bit."

As my eyes begin to adjust to the sun, I look at the four guys standing in front of my chair. Two of them tower over me while the other two look to be closer to my height. One of the taller ones with long blond hair speaks up, "Sorry to disturb you, but we noticed you're new here and we just wanted to welcome you to the Palmwoods."

I sit up and smile at them now that I know they just wanted to welcome me and weren't trying to be rude by blocking my sun intentionally. He continues, "By the way, I'm Kendall. These are my buddies-"

"Oh I know who you are!" I interrupt him as my eyes have fully adjusted and I see exactly who the four guys are standing in front of me. "You're Big Time Rush!" I look over all of them now that I've made the connection of who they are. The two shorter ones of course are Carlos and Logan, both with short brown hair. Then there's Kendall with his blond hair side-swept like always. And the last guy, James, is standing there and smirks when he notices me checking him out. But with the tight tank top he had on with his muscular arms exposed, it would be hard not to stare. He looks even better than any pictures I've seen.

Logan chuckles at my outburst and sits down at the lounge chair next to mine. "Um, yeah, we are. Are you a fan?"

I nod my head at them and smile at them. I had not expected to meet them within an hour of arriving at the hotel and I'm thrilled to see them. I move over on my chair and pat the space next to me as an invitation for them. James is quick to take the spot right next to me and sits close to me. Logan and Carlos sit on the lounge chair next to mine and Kendall grabs a chair from nearby. "Yeah you could say I'm a fan. Just ask everyone I've worked with on set and they'll tell you all about how I listen to your music on repeat."

"Sweet, you're an actress?" Carlos replies cheerfully as he bounces in his seat. As I look at Carlos, I can see out of the corner of my eye that James is staring at me intently and I can feel my cheeks heating up and hope they think it's the sun causing the redness.

I quickly look at him and see him smirking. Yeah, he definitely noticed my blushing. I turn my attention back to the other guys before I embarrass myself. "Yeah I'm an actress but I'm actually about to start making a record with my uncle over at-" I pause as a thought dawns on me. "Oh I just realized I never introduced myself! I'm Lauren Rocque."

The guys all scream "What?!" and I jump in surprise. Logan starts choking on the drink that he had made the poor decision to be drinking at that time and Carlos slaps him on the back. Once he's recovered, they all start staring at me as if I'm about to grow horns or do something bizarre.

James is finally the one to say something and clears his throat awkwardly. "Rocque?" He questions with eyebrows raised. "Like Gustavo Rocque?"

I sigh as I nod my head. This was a fairly common reaction to my last name as my uncle had created quite the reputation for being crazy. I would have much rather preferred being connected to my father because he was the cool and collected one. "Yeah he's my uncle."

"But you're not evil like him!" Carlos shouts out and quickly covers his mouth before looking around in a panic like he expected my uncle to appear. Kendall slaps him on the arm and glares at him.

I can't help but laugh at his response because I've known for years how my uncle can act. "I totally know what you mean. But luckily I take after my mom's side of the family and they're a lot less crazy than the Rocque family."

"Are your parents staying here with you?" Logan asks curiously. "Because I don't know if I can handle another Gustavo."

"No, they're too busy working so it's just me…" I trail off as I notice all four of them get the same goofy look on their face as they glance at each other.

They all burst out at once, "You have your own place?"

"It's really not that exciting. In fact, it's a bit lonely," I say and stare down at the ground as I think about the empty apartment upstairs with all of the boxes that need to be unpacked. It hit me then that I would be living on my own and without really knowing anyone else here yet. The thought makes me sad and feel a little homesick.

I glance back up at them as they finish what looks to have been a silent exchange. James clears his throat and I look over at him. I get slightly caught up staring at his eyes that are the perfect hazel shade and catch myself before he can notice the staring as he starts talking. "So every Friday, we have a movie night where we watch two different films. And we've decided that we'd like for you to join us."

I start smiling at the invitation as they all stare at me expectantly for a few seconds. The invitation was completely unexpected and I can't help but be happy about not having to spend the evening by myself "It sounds great and I'd love to join you guys. What time? And should I bring anything?"

"You can come over at about 6:30 for dinner, I'm sure my mom won't mind," Kendall replies. "And all you need to bring is your favorite movie, a pillow, and a blanket."

"Sounds like a plan," I say as I stand up and start to gather my things. I pick up my phone and see it's already past five before looking at the guys. "I'm going to head up to my room and get ready. I'll see you guys in a little bit."

I turn towards the lobby and head towards the back where the elevator is. I get past the desk before realizing that I don't know what apartment is theirs. I turn around and start walking back towards the guys as I reach in my purse to find my key at the bottom. "Hey, I forgot to ask what room-" I stop as I glance up and see all of them fighting.

"She's mine!" Carlos yells as he tackles Logan. But then they notice me standing there and they freeze up. We just stare at each other for a few seconds, Carlos has Logan pinned down while James and Kendall are trying to knock the other down.

I eventually clear my throat as it starts to get awkward. The guys step away from each other and it's clear they're embarrassed. "Um, I don't know what apartment is yours," I say as they all sit back down and pretend that I hadn't seen that.

Kendall's face lights up and he lightly smacks himself as he realizes that he forgot to give me that important detail. "Oh it's 2J. Sorry about that," he says with a smile.

"Thanks. Bye guys, again," I say with a wave. As I turn around and start walking past the pool again, I can't help but smile as I hear them start bickering about me again. This is going to be an interesting night.

I take a deep breath as I stand in front of the door marked 2J before knocking. I immediately hear scuffling going on behind the door and several loud thuds. Finally, the door opens and James is standing there. He changed out of his pool clothes and into tight jeans and a well-fitting v-neck and once again I find myself staring at him. This boy seriously looks good in everything.

I look past him and see Kendall, Carlos, and Logan in a pile on the floor. "Not cool, man!" Carlos shouts at James.

James smirks at me before stepping to the side and sweeping his arm. "Lauren, do come in."

From that smirk, I know he was aware that I was checking him out again and I feel my cheeks heating up. I really need to stop blushing so much around him. I quickly walk past him before he notices and look around at their brightly decorated apartment. Then my eyes land on the slide taking up a good portion of the apartment. "You have a swirly slide!" I say in excitement before dropping my bag. I take off like a little kid and run up the stairs to the top of the slide. "How did you even manage to get this cool of an apartment?"

I go down the slide and walk back to where the guys are standing and chuckling at my reaction. Logan shrugs and responds, "We got lucky at convincing Gustavo to let us keep this after filming here."

Kendall then walks over and links his arm with mine before guiding me over to the kitchen where I notice the woman standing there. "Mom, this is Lauren. You might not believe this, but she's Gustavo's niece!"

"Hello, Mrs. Knight, it's very nice to meet you," I say as I shake her hand. "Thanks for having me over for dinner."

"It's no problem at all," she says and smiles at me. "The guys explained how you're by yourself. So you can join us for dinner any time you want."

I smile at her before hearing a young girl shouting and turn around. "OMG you're Lauren Rocque!" She runs over to me excitedly. "I'm Katie, Kendall's sister. Can I have your autograph?"

"Sure," I say and go to grab the paper she's holding out to me, but she won't let go. I eventually yank the paper from her and hold it above my head where she can't reach it. "What's this?" I say as I read it over and she tries jumping to grab it from me. "A contract saying that you're my manager, you get 60% of my pay, and I have to buy you your own mansion." I hand the contract back to her. "Nice try, but I actually look at things before I sign them."

She scowls at me and crosses her arms. "Darn it, I was so close," she says before stalking off to her room.

I turn around to look at everyone and see Mrs. Knight rolling her eyes. "Don't mind Katie. She does that to everyone she meets who is remotely famous. Now, let's eat!"

We all sit down at the table and the guys start attacking the plates of food and Mrs. Knight explains that it's Fish Stick Friday. The guys don't stop eating until there's one fish stick left and Carlos ends up tackling Logan over it. Mrs. Knight just shakes her head at them and stands up, taking some of the empty plates into the kitchen. Before she heads to her room, she stops and says, "Lauren, if you like you are more than welcome to stay the night. But if you don't, just make sure the guys walk you back to your apartment, okay?"

"Thank you so much, Mrs. Knight. I'll definitely keep that offer in mind." She smiles at me one more time before she enter her room.

I turn back towards the guys and see that Carlos and Logan have started to settle down on the couch and for once they're not fighting about spots. James is taking care of putting a movie in the DVD player and Kendall is in the kitchen putting bags of popcorn in the microwave. I head over and sit down next to Carlos. "So what movie are we watching?"

Kendall walks over to the couch and hands a bowl of popcorn to me and Carlos immediately grabs a handful and shoves it in his mouth. Kendall sits down right next to me, "Well, it was Logan's turn to pick a movie so he chose Alien. And then we can watch whatever movie you bought."

My heart drops when he says what movie we're watching because I absolutely cannot stand horror movies. "Do we have to watch that movie?" I say in a meek voice and it's quite obvious how terrified I am.

"What's the matter, Lauren?" Logan says tauntingly and when I look at him, he's smirking at me. "Can't handle a little scary movie?"

I cross my arms and pout at him. "Fine, but it'll be your fault when I can't sleep later and I come bothering you." I turn away from him and pull my blanket over myself. Then I start munching on my popcorn. "Let's just get this over with."

James chuckles before pressing play for the movie. As the opening title appears, I pull the blanket up to my chin and try not to get scared. The movie goes on for about an hour without anything terrifying happen and I think I'm going to be fine until the alien first appears. I scream and flail around, sending the bowl of popcorn flying. I pull the blanket over my head completely and can hear Logan laughing at my reaction. I stay like that for the rest of the movie, occasionally peeking out and immediately covering up my face again.

The movie finally ends but it takes Kendall saying something for me to move. I glance over at James and he's smirking at me as he stands up and stretches. "Well clearly Lauren liked that movie. So time to get pajamas on?"

The guys all stand up and start walking towards their rooms while I sit awkwardly on the couch since I didn't bring any pajamas with me. Kendall pauses and points to a door, "The bathroom is over there."

"Oh thanks, but I didn't bring any pajamas with me because I didn't know I was going to stay the night."

James walks back over to the couch and grabs my hand. "Come on, you can borrow a t-shirt and shorts from me," he says as he leads the way towards his room and I can feel my cheeks heating up. I stop in the doorway as he goes in and rummages through his dressers. The room is dressed exactly like I would expect from him; minimal decorations and everything is either gray or white. But the main feature in the room is the giant king sized bed in the middle of the room with dark gray satin sheets. I find my eyes lingering on the bed as James digs through his dresser and pulls out a shirt and shorts for me. When he turns around, he sees where I was looking and once again, he's smirking at me and I start blushing. I really need to stop doing that around him.

He walks over to me and stands right in front of me and looks down at me, that stupid smirk still on his face. "Like what you see?"

I clear my throat as I try to collect my thoughts. He's so close to him that I can feel the heat coming off of him and smell his 'Cuda man spray. His whole appearance is intoxicating and I know that's exactly what he intends when he spends hours getting ready. What was it he had asked again?

He has one eyebrow raised at me and he has definitely caught me staring at him. "Um, yeah your room is pretty cool."

He chuckles and holds the clothes up to me and I take them. "Well you can feel free to look any time you want. But here's the clothes so you can go get changed now."

I turn around before I can make a fool of myself and walk over to the bathroom. None of the other guys are out yet and I'm glad because I'm sure I am still blushing from being so close to James. Once I'm in the bathroom, I lean against the door and sigh. I don't know what it is about that boy that makes me get all flustered.

I quickly change into the clothes James gave me, slightly aware that they smell like him. I leave the bathroom and see that all of the guys are sitting on the couch and waiting for me. I grab my bag from the counter and pull out the movie as I sit down, now between Kendall and James. "Thanks again, James, for letting me borrow some clothes."

"It's no problem," he says and flashes me a smile. "So what movie are we watching next?"

I lose my train of thought temporarily because of his smile. "Oh, um, I brought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's one of my all-time favorite movies."

Kendall takes the movie from me and hops off of the couch and heads towards the TV. "Sounds like a much better choice than Logan's." Logan throws a pillow at him and we all laugh at them. As the movie gets started, I notice how James has put his arm on the back of the couch behind me. I glance at him briefly and notice him looking at me. Once again, I blush and decide to move closer to Kendall to avoid making any awkward moves towards James.

I try to watch the movie but the whole time I'm aware of James sitting next to me and any time we accidentally brush against each other. Eventually I fall asleep, happily surrounded by my new friends.