Welcome to the Palm Woods

[Dames]

((Show incorporation is a definite for me. It would pretty much just be the girls witnessing them do these things, but fun all the same. Plus, Anisa and James meet at the dance. We should make it towards the end of school, just to bring her closer to that point. Say, a week or so left leading to the dance?))
"Niiisaaaa!"
Anisa gurgled as she turned over to face her alarm clock. Sure enough, 6:02. She started at the Palm Woods school today and her mother was a bit too excited to get her out of the apartment for the day.
Mrs. Livingston danced into her room singing her name, "Anisa, my darling, it is a time for education. Now get up and pretty yourself!"
"Mrufh." Anisa grunted.
"It's Monday!" Her mother cheered exiting her room.
Anisa lay in the yellow light for a 40 seconds, eyes closed. It was a trick she used called "40 winks". She closed her eyes and...
37...38...39.......40 Her head reached the horrific number as she hauled her aching body out of bed to brush her teeth.
~~~
"Danielle Lemming?" The perky blonde teacher, who announced herself as Ms. Collins, was taking role. Anisa was next.
"And a new face," her voice was squeaky, like a cartoon mouse, she looked to Anisa and smiled. "Anisa Livingston, you'll be seated here." She pointed to an open desk next to the pale boy she'd seen before. "Right next to Logan." She winked, "No flirting you two!"
Logan's face turned beat red as the tall girl awkwardly slid into the chair next to his.
"I'm sorry." Anisa whispered. He smiled shyly.
"It's ok, she's like that." Logan quietly replied.
Not so bad.
The day lingered on and as it got out, Anisa was approached by a smiley strawberry blonde. She outstretched the only hand she was able to pull out from the text books she cradled in her arms.
"Lydia." She said professionally, shaking Anisa's skinny hand. "Lydia Moore."
"Anisa Livingston," she said with a smile.
"What brings you to the Palm Woods, Anisa Livingston?" Lydia asked, retrieving her own hand.
"Fame, fortune, and absolutely no respect from fellow performers." Anisa teased.
"You get used to it, really." Lydia shrugged. "What business are you in?" Lydia loved to hear the things kids came to Hollywood to do. They were usually actors, but sometimes the occupations could get wild.
"Music. I'm working on my first album over at Hawk Records."
"Hawk..." Lydia said the word slowly, her eyes slit slightly.
"Yeah he's... Different." It felt good to Anisa, for her to finally find someone who could understand her situation.
Lydia stared at her blue and white floral flats for a moment. "Is he trying to change you?" She looked up into Anisa's emerald eyes. Lydia's flashed in the light.
"Oh, sort of." Anisa tried to keep it personal, how she felt about that idiotic man. "I speak up as much as I can. You know, to let him know what I really want."
Liar, liar. Anisa guiltily thought.
Lydia nodded. "Just keep me posted. If that jerk tries to twist you up into a pop monster, don't let him. Kay?"
Anisa nodded and smiled.
"If you'll excuse me, I've got a harmony session over at Roque Records." Lydia put the emphasis on Roque. "See you around!" She called behind.
"Bye!" Anisa said with a grin.
Finally. A NICE person.

[Lotan]

((We can start on the dance as soon as we want, I wouldn't think that order is a big deal. Something's may have to come after or before something to make sense, but it doesn't have to directly beginning to...now))

[Dames]

((Well, the dance has to come after school ends. It's an end of the year dance!))

[Natalo]

Lydia searched around the Woods to find the rest of the newcomers. Down by the pool, she located the tiny, energetic girl and her gloomy sister. As soon as Juniper climbed out of the pool after doing a somersaulting cannonball (cannibal ) Lydia approached her.
"Hi, I'm Lydia. I heard you're new here, and I just wanted to introduce myself," she said, holding out her hand. The short, brown haired girl gave her a grin as she shook her hand.
"Juniper," she replied, "And that's my sister Violet, and my brother Dominic, and my other brother Ivan, and (fill in this hole, Gracey, I can't remember the other brother's name!!)," she said, pointing around the pool at her siblings. Lydia's eyes caught briefly on Dominic, who was about to leap off the diving board. She had to admit, he had some of the nicest muscles she'd ever seen on a guy in real life. Her attention turned back to Juniper.
"Wow, your whole family is here? Are you all trying to get jobs in Hollywood?"
"Yeah, we're all pretty talented. I'm hoping to get a job as an actress!" she exclaimed, "What about you?"
"I'm a singer. I've got a contract at Rocque Records."
" That's awesome! I hope we can all get hired," Juniper said wistfully. Lydia turned her gaze to Violet, who was slumped in her pool chair, listening to her iPod.
"Could you introduce me to your sister, Juniper?" Lydia asked.
"Sure!" Juniper bounced over to her sister, Lydia in tow.

(Eh, that was boring, but I wanted to just get the intros over with. For the most part. And, as you might have noticed, I took Gracey's advice into mind and decided Lydia and Dom will get together in the future)

[Lotan]

((Aloysius, and then there's Genevive too. Sokay, I really hate the very beginning of any of our boards because you always have to get the intros out of the way before anything makes sense and it can take forever. Haha, Lydia and Dom will be awesome together ))

"VIOLET! this is Lydia, she's a singer at Roque records and she wanted to meet you!" Juniper yelled at violet, poking her shoulder the whole time.

"Geez 'o' petes, I'm right here June! And Hi." She told lydia tightly, still annoyed with her sister.

"Sorry, it was really nice to meet you though. I really need to find some friends that aren't her" Violet cocked her head in the direction that Juniper had left.

"It's ok" Lydia said still laughing "I bet she's a huge hassle, but I think she'll end up to be a great actress" she told her with a sly grin and wink. Violet chuckled and they both went to find new spots by the pool together.

[Dames]

((I haven't been feeling good lately/been stressed. So that just explains why I'm on at 9 a.m. on a school day. But don't worry, I'm not just sitting around. My mom gave me a list of chores and now I'm working the washing machine for the first time... I hope it doesn't explode!))
The Jeniffers spied on Anisa from afar, speaking in harsh whispers and giggling to themselves.
"What's with that haircut?" The blonde Jennifer spat gesturing a finger to Anisa's newly styled locks.
"Looks like her bangs got caught in a paper shredder!" The dark brunette squealed.
"Hey girls," the blonde shot out, "watch this." She winked and slowly walked to Anisa, who sat in full attire on a pool chair, a book in hand.
Anisa felt the girl's shadow loom over her and looked up.
"Hi..." She said, timidly.
"Um, hi." Jennifer whined. "Gee, nice outfit." She pointed to Anisa's vintage style floral dress.
The pale girl smiled up at her, "Thank you."
Jennifer snorted. "That wasn't a compliment." She flipped her hair and walked to reunite with the others.
The three of them cackled in their circle.
"Good one, Jennifer!" the lighter brunette exclaimed.
"Thank you, Jennifer."
Anisa stared at them from her white plastic chair.
"Wow." she mumbled going back to her novel.

[Kennall]

((wait, what? i saw you this morning....?))

[Dames]

((I left after 1st hour, but I already told you that. ))
"Yeah, it's pretty cool." Anisa causally spoke, a wide grin spread across her face. She was on speaker phone with her close friends back in Ohio.
"Awwh! That's so great!" Kayla squealed from the other line.
"You're welcome!" Gretchen called. Anisa could tell she was farther away from the rest of the girls, probably making popcorn in the kitchen. The other girls always make her do it.
"Thank you Gretch, darling! You did get me this far." The pale girl laughed to herself. It was weird for her, not to see her friends. "I wish we had the computer hooked up, I could totally skype with you guys."
((Wow, that was short. I have to go get ready for a thing!))

[Natalo]

Lydia guzzled down the rest of her chai latte when she stopped at a red light on the way to Rocque Records. When she had signed the deal, they had offered her a driver, but she had declined. "I didn't get a driver's license for nothing," she had insisted. She pulled up to the front of the big building, and handed off her Benz to the valet. When the elevator slid open to take her up to the recording studio, Kendall and Logan were waiting inside.
"Morning, guys," Lydia said as she pressed the button for the 15th floor.
"Hey, have you talked to the new girls yet?" Kendall asked innocently. Lydia smiled and rolled her eyes.
"Yes, I have. The two sisters' names are Juniper and Violet, Juniper being the younger one, and the other girl is Anisa. She actually has a contract over at Hawk," she said with a frown, "I'm worried for her."
"Why don't you get her to come here?" Kendall asked.
"It's not that simple. We can't just break her contract. Not unless Hawk does something awful and she leaves. But I don't think she would. I think she might be too scared of Hawk to stand up to him." Logan had a mischievous smile growing on his face.
"Well, there isn't any harm in inviting her over for a couple recording sessions with BTR, is there?" Lydia thought it over for a minute. He was right, it's not like that would be breaking her contract.
"You're right, Logan. We just have to ask Gustavo." Lydia knew that would be the tricky part. Kendall winced and glanced at Logan, and she knew they were thinking the same thing.

[Lotan]

Juniper scanned that pool deck for possible victims, she closed in on a girl with long wavy brown hair, holding the script of the exact show she was auditioning for.

"Perfect" she purred mischievously. She glanced at her lines one last time to make sure she had them right Some shows are so stupid, whatever gets me a job is fine for now I guess she thought to herself with her nose scrunched up. Juniper composed herself quickly approached her target.

"I told you NOT to get blueberry! You MONSTER!" Juniper screeched in the girls face, and with a glint in her eyes, shoved the quite distraught girl right into the famous Palm woods pool. Juniper turned on her heel with a smirk, she could feel the water whack onto her back and hear the high pitch scream promptly turn into sputtering and splashing. The other residents continued to go on about their business, like it was normal for someone to have a fit over their muffins.

((that was shorter than I thought it was...))

[Dames]

Friday rolled by quickly. For everyone, and they all had things to do.

Juniper giddily rushed herself to her very first Hollywood audition. She was so excited for it, she nearly forgot her pants that morning.

Lydia was off to Roque Records for the day to do more work on her upcoming album.

Anisa was dragged off to Hawk Records for another day of terrible wardrobe and questionable choreography.

Lastly, Violet had an audition with an orchestra looking for band members to play the score for a movie in production.

The Palm Woods was nearly a ghost town as four boys, varied in appearance, stood in the empty lobby.

"What's the plan for today..?" A pale boy with dark hair asked wearily.

One boy raised a glorious charcoal eyebrow, slipping a black cap bursting with green branches over his messy blonde hair. He smiled.

"I'm going to watch the new girls." Kendall stated with much facial movement.

"Dude," the short Hispanic boy choked, "that's creepy..." He pulled a helmet from seemingly nowhere, also covered in faux leaves. "I totally wanna come!"

"You two are weird," the tallest, most handsome boy said, stepping out of the short line they had formed. "I am going to tan." He called over his shoulder as he head towards the direction of the Palm Woods pool, stretching each long, tan leg out as far as possible in front of himself.

Kendall and Carlos looked to Logan.

He shrugged.

"I've got some math homework I could work on..." He sputtered.
Carlos looked up at Kendall and grabbed him by the arm.

"Lets go stalk some babes!" He exclaimed sharply. "Woo!"

The few people who had silently entered the lobby as they had spoken looked to Carlos strangely.

He held out his arms and began to violently shake his head.
"It's not like that!" He quickly tried to correct himself.

"Nice one." Kendall whispered harshly. Heads slowly returned to their original position.

Carlos rolled his eyes.

[Lotan]

((that made me chuckle... ))

[Natalo]

Carlos and Kendall eagerly approached the front desk. Mr. Bitters rolled his eyes and let out a dramatic sigh.
"What do YOU want?" he whined.
"What's the room number of that big family that just moved in?" Kendall asked. He and Carlos grinned hopefully.
"Psh, why would I give you their room number?"
"Because we want to be friendly to the new residents of The Palm Woods?" Carlos said innocently, flashing another strained grin. Again, Bitters went through his eyeroll and sigh routine.
"Fine. But if I get any complaints, no pool for a week for Big Time Rush!"
"What?!" the boys exclaimed in unison.
"You heard me. They're in 3J, you little freaks," Bitters snapped, and with that, he rolled backwards in his chair and bit into a huge jelly filled donut, which spewed onto his shirt.
"AUGGGHH! Not my pink Armani!" he cried. Kendall and Carlos dashed off to 3J, laughing loudly.

~~~~~
The elevator dinged when they reached floor J. They creeped down the hall, searching for Apartment 3.
"Here it is!!" Carlos said gleefully. He reached for the doorbell. Kendall grabbed his arm.
"We shouldn't be doing this," he suddenly insisted.
"C'mon, you're starting to sound like Logan. Do you want to meet them?" Kendall guiltily nodded. "Okay, then, let's do this!"
Carlos pressed the button. After 3 minutes, no one had answered. He put his hand on the doorknob.
"What are you doing?!" Kendall demanded.
"I just want a little peek!" Carlos replied. He cracked the door open just enough to pop his head inside. After taking a look around, he swung the door open and stepped inside.
"No!" Kendall whispered angrily. Carlos just stuck out his tongue at him. The short boy tiptoed into the apartment, looking around at everything. The sound of a slamming door froze him in his tracks. A tall, muscular, blond guy entered the main room, and a look of surprise and anger changed his features when he saw Carlos.
"What are you doing in here?" he demanded, and approached him rapidly. Carlos remained frozen for a split second, then-
"AAAAAHHH!DON'T KILL ME!" he screamed, then sprinted into the hallway. The big dude came to the door, and Kendall backed away in fear, then ran after his cohort, yelling hysterically.

((I changed it to Aloysius, or however its spelled.))

[Lotan]

((Well obviously I thought it was Aloysius from my post, Ivan's the math nerd, Aloysius is the crazy buff model!))

Carlos and Kendall peeked around a potted plant in the hallway waiting for the big guy to come out so they could get a better look when Violet angrily shuffled past them without even noticing. They had just a moment to be confused when they heard the rush of tiny feet barreling down the hallway after the girl that had just passed. Juniper jumped her sister from behind, giggling wildly, her eyes wide with excitement.

"Soooo, Juniper how did your audition go? Violet asked with an un-ending pool of curiosity!" Juniper shouted dramatically, asking the question that she was prepared to beg her older sister to ask, just for the soul purpose of being able to tell her. Violet groaned, but turned and looked at her pushy younger sister, her eyes expectant.

"FABULOUSLY! That's how!" She shrieked with joy "There wasn't a soul that compete with me, especially that stupid brunette" Juniper muttered with distaste, there was something about that girl she didn't like "I mean come on, who wears a costume that lame to an audition?! Mine was so much better!" She stated matter-of-factly.

"I'm so happy for you." Violet responded flatly, she was more focused on her audition, which she was sure would come into the conversation soon enough. But just out of curiosity she glanced at her sister's outfit, she was the one to suggest she wear it, and although she was being sarcastic at the time, it gave Violet a smug little grin that someone like Juniper had actually taken advice at all. Violet rolled her eyes and hugged Juniper in her best attempt to congratulate her.

"And how did your audition go big sis?!" She continued just as enthusiastically as before. Violet was more leaning on horrible before, but her sister's extra chipper mood was starting to get to her.

"I guess it was ok, but I won't really know until the music director calls me back" Violet huffed, only half giving up on her completely bitter person show just for a moment. Juniper was about to respond when their second older brother Aloysius brother came stomping out of their apartment wearing a large hat and carrying a towel.

"Juniper! Violet! Why don't you keep your stupid friends out of our apartment?!" he emphasized the word "your" "They walked in right in the middle of my designated hair time, now it looks like this!" He ripped off his hat and pointed at his head. Both Violet and Juniper squinted at his head in confusion.

"It looks exactly the same you weirdo" Juniper pointed it straight out. Aloysius huffed in frustration while putting the hat back on but continued.

"I swear if they interrupt me like that again" he nearly growled at the thought "Something is going down at the palm woods!"

Kendall and Carlos turned to each other with wide frightened eyes and turned back to continue watching so they knew when to bolt from their hiding spot before the big guy found them.

"And now they've cut into my designated tan time, because I had to spend so much time trying to find a hat to cover up this mess!" He managed to strangle out, still aggravated and still stabbing a finger at the top of his had. "Now i'm going to model walk away" He stated.

"haha, just like James!" Carlos said and laughed just loudly enough for Kendall to throw a hand over his mouth and shush him harshly.

"What ever big bro" Violet and Juniper responded in unison with their arms crossed. Aloysius huffed again and left without another word. Kendall and Carlos jumped up from behind the plastic plant and flew in front of the two sisters before they could do anything else.

"Woah! He's" Kendall paused and looked off in the direction Aloysius had left "your brother!" He asked in an exasperated tone, he let his jaw drop on the last word.

"This is going to be way more fun than I thought!" Carlos shouted in excitement at their revelation. Kendall only stared at him in a mix of shock and horror.

"Why were in our apartment?!" Violet sneered accusingly.

"Nice hats! Why are you wearing them?" Juniper asked them in an elated tone. Both questions were answered with sheepish grins.

[Dames]

Lydia smiled to herself as the recording of the piano she made earlier slowly faded.
Finally done. She thought with an audible sigh.
"That was great!" Gustavo's voice cheered. Kelly smiled and gave an enthusiastic thumbs up.
"Thanks, guys." Lydia sang through her grin. She had just finished another song for her album. Slowly, she made her way out of the recording booth and into the sound room where Gustavo's thick fingers were stretched over his round stomach as he tapped away at red buttons and twisted various black knobs.
Gotta ask... Gotta ask...
"Hey... Gustavo?" She asked timidly.
"Yess?" He replied, still looking at the sound board in front of him.
Ready...
"Uhm... Thhhanks for another great day of recording." She chickened out.
Way to go.
"You're welcome." He smiled, still looking down at the blinking red lights.
"See you tomorrow."
I'll ask with the boys, they'll convince him. She reassured herself as she exited the room.