Chapter 6: 004. OPERATION TEEN CRIB

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Chloe had went through her whole day of dancing, writing lyrics and working on harmonies and all she wanted to do was sit on her couch but just as she did, countless bangs came from her door "ugh, what do you want!" She yelled as she answered the door, seeing the boys there as Carlos and James coward behind Logan and Kendall "yes?" She questioned as they just stared at her "are room is garbage and we really wanted to know if we could hang out with you in your?" But when they all saw her room it wasn't like there's it was nice and very expensive.

It had carpet, paint, a nice couch, a big tv and many other better things then there's "I don't know guys, I kind of wanted a little break time.." and Carlos and James tried to walk in as she held her hand up "by myself. Sorry." She told them as she shut the door.

"Then there's the gracious interior of our very own apartment 2-J," and as the boys looked around it they remembered what Chloes looked like compared to there's "this place is horrible." Carlos and Logan told them at the same time as the couch broke "I bet Chloes couch doesn't do that!" James complained.

The boys were in the lobby as Kendall banged on the bell as Bitters came out "what I'm busy." He yelled at them as Carlos shook his head "he just gave us the same attitude Chloe did." And Kendall shook his head continuing with why they were there "we'd like a nicer apartment, please." As they all pointed to the room on the poster "how come everyone else gets one of those cool apartments? Like Chloe." James asked as Carlos continued "and ares is a big time dump."

"2-J, a dump?" Bitters asked "if by dump you mean really cool." as they all made there way back up to 2-J "as you know the palm woods is home of the future famous. Do you know how many showbiz legends have stayed in this very room?" Bitters asked them as Kendall looked at him "do you know how many stains and smells there are in this very room?" Kendall asked him.

"If you spill, it's a stain. When Lindsay Lohan throws up chocolate milk, it's history and this slight blemish, the result of a Shia labeouf indoor soccer game." The boys then looked excited as Bitters turned to them "No soccer in the rooms. And are you telling me that you're too good for the tv enjoyed by Kanye West when he was known around her as lil Kanye West?" And the boys just looked at him shook "can we at least paint the place?" Kendall asked as Bitters held up his clipboard.

"No, cause your lease specifically states that there will be no painting...no hanging of personal pictures." And then he saw the hole in the wall "I'll allow this one. No construction of any kind. And there is no way I am putting four hockey playing hooligans. Into one of my finer apartments like the one Chloe stays in."

"So, installing an indoor swirly slide is out of the question." Carlos asked him as Bitters was ready to close there door "this matter, like this door, is closed." And then when he shut the door the picture fell off the wall "I'm surprised the pipe didn't burst." Carlos mentioned as it did "the pipe just burst." James told them as Kendall agreed "yep, we need a new crib." As Logan laughed "yeah, like that's just gonna fall from the sky.

But the next day at Rocque records a crib fell into there laps as Chloe looked to the boys "we call it the ultimate teen crib, filled with amazing home, electronics, arcade games." The woman told them as Carlos yelled "a swirly slide!" making Chloe lean back "cool, right?" Griffin asked them as he turned to his assistance "put a swirly slide in my office." And one of the guys walked away as Gustavo leaned forward.

"Griffin, I don't know what this is, but I need to work with the dogs and the Chihuahua." Which made Chloe furrow her eyebrows knowing that was her "on harmonies today." The boys were to focused on the crib as Chloe moved closer to them "you guys want that to be your apartment don't you?" She asked seeing the wheels in there brains turning "aww, she's pretty and smart." Logan replied as Chloe and Kendall glared at him.

"But your boys are going to change his mind." Griffin broke through there conversation as Kendall pointed to the poster "and we get to live in there?" He asked as Griffin agreed "yes..for two hours, while you shoot a promotional video surrounded by RCM/CBT global next/Sanyoid products, which will show fujizaki that our future rockstars are perfect for selling his blenders, plasma TVs and missile defense systems. Oh and do some interviews. You know why they love to sing, where that helmet, and if Chloe hearts a real blonde!" And with that Chloe grabbed her head and stared at the man.

She still was freaked out that he didn't think she was a real blonde as he told them about all the products "and we could all wear bandanas." James called out as Chloe shook her head "yeah, that's a no." And he turned and glared at her "your not a real blonde!" He told her and she knew it was just to spite her "I am, you idiot!" But Kendall put his arm between them to stop them as he shook his head no at James.

"Griffin you can't keep coming into my studio every day and interrupting my training sessions." Gustavo yelled which made Chloe lean back into her seat "yes I can. And do the interviews by the water fujizaki thinks water is lucky. It's weird." Griffin told them as James began to try and touch Chloes hair as she pushed his hand away.

"Okay, well build the teenage crib here in studio A, I'll find a nice beach location for the interviews and put in some calls for a hot director." Kelly told Gustavo but he quickly jumped up "I'm a hot director and we're doing everything here," and with those words Chloe cringed "oh no." He sent her a glare as he walked away to show the woman where she was gonna build the teen crib.

Later that day the boys had invited Chloe to there apartment since Kendalls mom wanted the girl over for dinner but right now they were scheming on building the teen crib in there apartment.

"No. No way. It's impossible." Logan began to freak out as Chloe shook her head "oh come on, just like how you guys becoming a band was impossible?" And Kendall agreed with her "exactly, a week ago, we were a hockey team in Minnesota. And today we're a band in LA. Anything is possible." And as Chloe and Kendall stood in front of them Logan agreed "okay your right but how are we gonna get all this in here?" He questioned as James pulled out his bandanas as Chloe sighed "oh my god."

"We're not wearing bandanas in the video, okay?" Kendall told him as Chloe let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding in "you know what you guys never support my risky fashion choices. And I really thought my future wife would agree." He told everyone as he landed on Chloe "I am not your future wife?" She held her hands up in defense laughing.

"Now, the first step is getting the set designer to build the ultra teen crib here and not Rocque records." Kendall exclaimed as Chloe was thinking of all the people she knew who could do it "yeah, that's simple, and how are we gonna do that?" Logan exclaimed as Chloe walked up "I think, I know the perfect girl for the job."

They all ran down to the lobby as they waited for her to show up "you said she'd be here!" Logan complained to Chloe as she rolled her eyes "oh I'm sorry, I'm not her assistant!"  Then Kendall got slapped.

"Trevor, I trusted you with my heart, my soul, my money." Camille was going off as Chloe and Kendall looked at her "Camille." They seem to get her attention as she finally got out of character "what?"

"We need to borrow your acting." They all said at the same time as she agreed and soon Chloe, Kendall, James, Logan and Carlos were all hiding outside of where the crib was being built as Kendall's phone rang "Arthur Griffin's office. One moment, please." He then handed the phone over to Logan as the rest of them stood around him "Do your Griffin impression now." Kendall told him as he shook his head no as Carlos stepped on his foot "ow! Hello?" And the rest of them were doing a keep going hand motion as Camille arrived "uh huh. Yes. Move that set to the Palm Woods, Now. Okay, I need to touch my lama now. Bye."

He hung up as everyone cheered "I owned them in there." Camille said as her and Chloe high fived "I knew you had it in you." As Logan pointed at Chloe, Kendall and Camille "all you've done is set us up for big time trouble." As Chloe shook her head "oh, our little Logey, So pessimistic." Kendall told him as Carlos continued "So scared of everything."

"And so hot." Camille said which made everyone turn there heads towards her "okay. And I'm not scared. I'm realistic, as in what are you gonna tell your mom about the crew that will be invading your apartment tomorrow from eleven to three?"

And then later at dinner which Chloe was invited to Kendall's mom gave them good news "hey, I almost forgot. I'm gonna go look for a job tomorrow, so I'll be gone from about eleven to three." And with those words both Kendall and Chloe looked to Logan.

"Okay, that happened but what now?" Logan asked as nobody said anything "I have no idea. Frankly, I can't believe we got this far." And Chloe looked from Kendall to James as he put bandanas on his wrist "hey, look, wrist Dana's." And he was so proud of himself which confused Chloe "okay, what's next?" She then looked towards Kendall.

"Okay, our next worry is Gustavo. We need to find someone who can think like him, someone who can get inside his head. Where are we gonna find someone that devious?" Kendall asked as they all turned there heads towards Chloe who shook her head "but I'll need help."

Katie and Chloe were now standing in front of a white board that they had stolen from Bitters but didn't tell anyone about as they gave more steps to the plan "first, your gonna need more future stars from the palm woods. I would recommend Chloe as my first choice but since she's busy, we chose the Jennifer's for their lack of fear. Next, you'll need cordless power tools, sawdust, cool code phrases, and.." Katie was stopped mid sentence by Kendall as both girls looked at him.

"Wait, Katie, Chloe.  Where'd you get the whiteboard?" He asked as Chloe looked at him while Katie stared at her "not important." But he gave her this look as she sighed "lets just say we may have stolen it from the hotel lobby but anyway, we have to keep him in his cage all day."

"But the key to this whole ultra 2-J makeover is convincing Gustavo to shoot the interviews by the pool like that dog food commercial last night. Which is when Chloe comes in." Katie finished as the girls fist bumped.

"Right and once our teen dream remodeling is complete, he'll have no time and no choice but to shoot our rocking performance right here." Kendall told them as the boys all got excited.

"And I get the first turn on the swirly slide." Katie told them as Carlos leaned forward "I get first turn on the swirley slide." And then Katie pointed to herself "Chloe already said I do!" And then Carlos fired back "no she said I do!" And then Chloe realizing what Carlos said "I never said.." but Kendall stopped them all "you can go together!" And James again put on the bandanas taking them out for everyone.

"Oh my god, for the thousandth time, no!" Chloe told him as he glared at her "you know your supposed to be agreeing with me as my future wife!" As the girl threw her hands up "oh my god!" And then the others finally jumped in "were not wearing bandanas."

"Bandanas are cool." He told them and walked away.

When Chloe walked into Rocque Records the next day she was fully prepared to have a full on breakdown.

"And I say so!" Is the first thing they here walking in as Chloe carries the pictures that she took of the guys at the pool yesterday as Logan begins to freak out "he's in a bad mood. Abort mission." As Chloe sighed "just be cool if we fail we fail." And as they walked up Chloe saw the water they were filming by and her eyes went wide as he stopped them.

"Heel. Stay. Speak." Gustavo told them as Chloe looked to Kendall "We took some pictures of the pool at the Palm Woods. The greatest pool ever,  very lucky water. " and as Kelly took the pictures looking them over "it's a great location for the interviews." James told him as Carlos continued "hot directors shoot there all the time. Swirly slide!" And James then hit him in the back of the head.

"Oh the dogs are directing my video now. Well let me tell you how.." but before he could finish Chloe began to cry, as the boys got scared and so did Gustavo "What...what...Kelly! Why is she crying!" But before she could answer that "this pool, looks great. And it's close enough that we could be back here by 3:00 to shoot the performance at the ultra teen hang out place." Kelly told him as she watched Chloe cry "Kelly make her stop crying!" Gustavo yelled at Kelly "I can't! I don't know why she's crying." And then she pointed behind her "He said I was a fake Blonde." Chloe told Gustavo as she pointed to James who looked to the others "this wasn't a part of the plan."

"Why would you say that to her!" Kelly asked as she walked up to the girl comforting her as Gustavo began to freak out over everyone saying Chloe was a fake blonde "for the thousandth time, she is not a fake blonde!" He yelled and began to jump which shook the room and knocked over his fake beach set up.

As Chloe stopped crying and pushed her hair out of her face "hey let's do the interviews at the Palm Woods and Stop calling her a fake blonde." Gustavo suggested and before they knew it they were off to the Palm Woods as Chloe was wiping the tears from her eyes as they sat in chairs at the pool, Katie popped up "the bird is in the cage and the Jennifer's are in place."

"Okay, team remember your missions." Kendall told them as they all hopped out of there seats "James, you stall Gustavo. Carlos, Katie and Camille, you head to Rocque records and fake build the ultra teen crib while Logan, Chloe and I install the swirly slide and all those other electronic goodies."

"Okay, James your up first, I'll shoot the rest of you dogs later." Gustavo told them as Chloe and Kendall put eye black under there eyes "move out!" Kendall called out as they all ran off.

Soon her, Kendall and Logan were hiding behind some trees with tree hats on as they waited for the truck "was the eye black really necessary?" Logan asked as Chloe laughed "no. But the music really sets the tone. Don't you think?" Kendall told them as Chloe sighed "come on, let's go." And they did some cool spin moves as they ran into the hotel lobby.

"Jennifer, you're up." Kendall told her as they went to move again but she stopped them "just to be clear, we get to be in the video, which we'll be seen by a lot of people right?" Jennifer asked as Chloe and Logan looked to Kendall "are you kidding? It's gonna be seen in Japan." He told her as they sent her a thumbs up and ran off.

They were hiding in the bushes in the lobby as the workers went by "I still say this is a bad idea." Logan told them as Chloe hit him "you think everything's a bad idea!" As Kendall tried to give wisdom "hey, life without risk is a life unlived, my friend. Now off to apartment 2-J." And Chloe and Kendall ran off as Logan stayed behind making them go back "come on." Her and Kendall told him as they pushed him forward.

"So far, So good. Look I told you there was nothing to worry about." Kendall told Logan as they listened in through the door but soon the phone in Logan's pocket starts ringing as he picks it up "it's the set designer. I'm worried." Logan starts panicking as Chloe looks at him "just breathe!" She told him.

While Kendall answers the phone "uh, Griffin" he then moves it over to Logan to speak "no." But then Kendall steps on his foot which makes Chloe mouth "Sorry" as he talks to the lady "Ow!" But then he coughs "Hello?"

"Yeah, the rooms too small. So if you want that swirly slide to fit, we're gonna have to bust into the ceiling. Is that okay?" And hearing that Chloes eyes went wide as Logan covered the phone so the woman couldn't hear them "break through the ceiling? No. No. We'll be arrested." And when he said arrested Chloe furrowed her brows "arrested?"

"Uh, sir. Can we demolish the ceiling?" The woman asked as Kendall did a motion to say no "yes" Logan said into the phone which made Chloe and Kendall look at him in shock, "rip it up, boys." The woman yelled.

"You better be right about this taking risks thing." Logan told Kendall as someone from inside the apartment yelled "fire in the hole." Which caused the hotel to shake as Logan jumped in Kendall's arms "oh no." Chloe whispered.

The Jennifer's soon came running towards them "code red, code red, bitters is on his way." And when they stopped and heard the boom they looked at them "what is going on up here?"

"Please tell me you guys are good at teen scream horror flicks." Kendall asked as the blonde took off her sunglasses "there desperate. We want talking parts in your next three videos. You do all our ironing for the next month and we sing back up on your next track." And with all those demands Chloes eyes went wide "done." Logan told her as Chloe turned her neck around "what!"

"Where's the ketchup?" She asked as Kendall showed it to her as Chloe shook her head. In which  they hid in the supply closet, over hearing the stupid plot the girls came up with as they screamed running away, Chloe shook her head as the boys opened the door "they're good." And Chloe scuffed "oh please, I could do better."

They were now headed down the elevator but Chloe had this feeling that they were done for "okay, bitters is gone, and we just have to keep Gustavo occupied for one more hour." Kendall told them as Chloe looked down at her shoes and the boys were all smiles "I think we're actually gonna make it. I'm not even scared." And with those words Chloe looked up "were dead." And when both boys looked back at her ready to defend themselves the elevator door opened showing Bitters and Gustavo.

Kendall and Logan screamed as Chloe stood there "why are the Jennifer's dripping ketchup all over my Palm Woods?" Bitters asked as Gustavo stole his French fry "Dogs, Chloe, interviews now." And Chloe let out a breath liking that she was back to her own name.

But he did drag Kendall and Logan out of the elevator which made Kendall grab Chloes hand dragging her with them as they walked by James "all done with my long interview." He told them as Chloe grabbed onto his arm which shocked him "Bitters, code red, code red!" And then Kendall pulled on Chloe due to Gustavo pulling him and she was pulled away from James.

Interviews didn't take long as Chloe talked about the certain products she had in her room and mentioned that her hair was real multiple times and so did Logan but after Kendall did his Chloe walked over to him just as Gustavos phone rang.

"What?!" He yelled all the way up until they were in the boys apartment 2-J playing with all the stuff "yeah it came out really good, huh?" The woman who built it asked as Gustavo couldn't even let out words.

"It came out amazing." Kendall told her as Chloe looked around "for you guys maybe but I still enjoy my apartment." Kendall then slightly pushed her as she laughed "you know, you really pulled off crying it made all of us scared." He then laughed as she flipped her hair "what can I say."

"Light it and shoot it!" Was the next thing Gustavo yelled as he came towards Chloe and Kendall. And after they filmed it "cut! Print! And strike the set!" Is what Gustavo yelled as everything from the crib got taken down "where are they going with that?" Kendall asked as the woman answered him "back to the warehouse." Which made Chloe sad as she watched there whole plan fall apart "the whole couch." Kendall asked as James tried to stop it as well.

"Oh I'm sorry. Did you dogs think you were gonna get to keep this stuff?" Gustavo asked them as he started to laugh which made Chloe turn to him as she shook her head "oh that's really, really good. The little dogs thoughts they outsmarted the big dog." And then he barked at them.

And just like that there apartment was back to the way it was as Chloe stood next to the boys as they sat on there couch "but you have to admit, we did get some pretty great stuff today. Let's just hope Fujizaki thinks so tomorrow."

The next day was the meeting with Fujizaki and they all were watching the video they made but Chloe was confused cause Mr Fujizaki wasn't really paying attention.

And when it ended everybody turned to the screen where the man was "I like the boys but you all know Chloes my favorite." Everyone cheered.

"So we learned a lot here today, didn't we? You did some things. We did some things." Kendall tried to explain but then the yelling began which blew Chloes hair out of her face "ten hours of harmonies ! No breaks! Move out!" And then they all walked away sad but Chloe knew something the boys didn't know as she pretended to be sad all the way back to there apartment with them.

"Hey!" Katie yelled as she came down the swirly slide as the boys finally looked up "gosh finally!" Chloe squealed knowing she didn't have to be sad anymore "well I love what you've done with the place." Kendall's mom told them as all the boys went running in as Chloe laughed.

"Uh..good job today." Gustavo said as he walked in making all the boys turn there heads, while Kelly and Chloe were smiling "this is awesome." Kendall exclaimed as Gustavo continued "this is a bone." And the boys seemed confused as Chloe laughed "come again?" Logan asked "I realized today, sort of that if you really want to train dogs properly, you need to throw them a treat now and then. So enjoy your treat. Your not getting anymore." But when he said that Chloe thought back to all of hers.

"But I did, the first one I got was a giant teddy bear!" She smiled remembering it as Gustavo looked to the girl "yeah, but you were five, besides the point." And she knew she won as she turned around.

"And we lost a day of rehearsal because of the shoot, So it's at the studio, 7:30 am." Kelly told them as Chloe moved to stand next to her "we'll be there no problem." And Carlos smiled "we promise, no more surprises." Then a breaking sound came from behind them as Chloe, Gustavo and Kelly turned around to find Bitters falling out of the wall.

"You've altered this room. You've completely devastated this apartment." Bitters said as Chloe turned around to James "I didn't tell you to lock him in the supply closet!" And James pointed at the girl "you said code red, I don't know what you expected me to do, besides, bandana man did it." Which made Chloe throw her hands up.

"This is a total lease violation. Man, cool swirly slide. I want all of you out of here tomorrow." Chloe looked to Kelly as they shared a look as she began writing a check "what if I add another grand to your making it happen fee?" And then the man smiled "have a Palm Woods day everyone. Enjoy your stay." And he left as Kelly and Chloe fist bumped.

"You like them, there not like other bands you've produced, are they?" Kelly asked as Chloe smiled "they're dogs and I'm training them. I don't like them!" He yelled as he exited.

"Oh he so does!" Chloe told Kelly as they turned around to walk out "and, So, do you?"

Kelly questioned as Chloe shook her head "nope." And she began walking away from Kelly as she followed "yes you do!" And both of them were running and laughing.