Andi follows her mom out to the pool at Palm Woods where the boys are sitting. "Hey, guys." Kelly greets while Andi waves at them. "We just stopped by to drop off your tickets."

"Oh, hockey tickets?" Logan guessed.

James smiles. "Concert tickets?"

"No and no." Andi replies. She points at the plane tickets in her mom's hand. "Plane tickets."

"You guys do know that if you don't get picked by the record company tomorrow, you're going back to Minnesota." Kelly said to the boys and by their reactions Andi assumed they didn't know that.

The boys look at Andi and Kelly with a surprised and fearful expression. "What?!"

****

The boys had just finished the new song 'Want To Be Famous' written by Andi. They immediately rushed into the sound system room where Andi and Gustavo are at. "We don't want to go home," Kendall tells Gustavo. "We want to stay here..."

"And get famous." James added.

Kelly walks into the room, walking over to stand where Gustavo sat as Andi turns around in her chair to face the boys. "Yeah, about that...Too bad!" Gustavo yells. "It's been three months." Andi hands him the demo he reaches over for and Gustavo shows the boys the demo. "The demos are done." He does air quotations when he says the word 'deal'. "That was the 'deal'."

Andi couldn't believe it was already three months. It felt like yesterday they had just moved to LA. Time was moving by fast. Andi didn't want the boys to leave, especially not after she had been starting to have a crush on Kendall. Okay, yes, she admits it, she had a crush on Kendall Knight. It's hard not to. He's a great guy. And she really doesn't want him to go back to Minnesota. He's not the only one that is a great guy though. She had grown close to all the boys and they were her best friends. And she didn't want them to leave.

"Right..." Carlos nods and then furrows his eyebrows. "What are demos again?"

"They're the sample songs we've been recording that if the record company likes," Kelly responds. "Then you get to stay here, make a full album, go on tour, and then.."

"You become famous." Kelly sang.

Gustavo stands up. "But if they don't pick it, I take over my father's scooter business, and you go back to Minnesota and be nobodies again."

James lets out a small scream, looking at Gustavo with wide eyes along with the others. Kendall frowns. "But we've worked so hard. W-We're so close."

Gustavo shakes his head. "You're not so close."

Logan furrows his eyebrows. "We're almost there?"

Andi, Gustavo, and Kelly shake their heads. "Halfway there?" Carlos questioned.

Gustavo points at the boys. "You're almost halfway there. Now I'm going to go to my office. Please do not follow me."

The boys didn't listen to him. Instead they followed the three to Gustavo's office, opening the door just as Andi closed it. "How could Griffin not pick Big Time Rush?" James asks while Gustavo sits down at his desk. "He loves us."

"Griffin loves all the bands with demos, and there are six of them, but only one gets picked." Gustavo replied.

"Everyone is talking about Vampirah." Andi spoke, showing the boys Vampirah's demo she got off of Gustavo's desk. James took the demo from her and a panicked expression forms on his face.

"Vampire dudes with guitars." Logan read off the back of the demo. He frowns. "We're toast."

"Hey, hey, hey, we're not toast." Kendall reassures his friends. He looks at Carlos, James, and Logan. "What's the one thing we've learned since we've been in L.A?"

"That black is the new black." James replied.

"If you drink cold milk on a hot day, you die." Logan responded.

"That every time you leave your house, your toys come alive." Carlos answered. Andi looked at him with furrowed eyebrows, not knowing what he meant by that. Did his toys really come alive when he left his house? Or did he watch Toy Story too many times? She was thinking it was the latter.

Kendall shakes his head. "That if you don't wait for your dreams to happen. You make them happen." He looks at Gustavo. "Now, how does the winning band get picked?"

Gustavo stands up and angrily replies with, "That is a highly classified cooperate secret that no one will tell me, and it's killing me!"

"Guys," Kelly chimes in. "We want this as bad as you do, but all we know is that the winning band is picked by a top-secret advisor very close to Griffin."

Everyone looks over at the door when they hear laughter and are confused and surprised to see a blonde haired girl with expensive clothes on walk into the office. "Yeah, ew, I just entered this totally ugly office." The girl said to whoever she was talking to on the phone. "Hold on, I'm mini barfing."

Andi narrows her eyes at the girl as the blonde takes a seat in Gustavo's chair. "I'm here to pick up a CD from Big Time...Whatever."

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Gustavo exclaimed.

"Mercedes Griffin," Mercedes introduced herself and Andi's eyes grow wide. She wasn't expecting this girl to be Griffin's daughter. "As in your boss' daughter."

Mercedes raises her phone back to her ear. "I'll call you back, Jess. Livin' large here is about to start groveling." She hung up the call and Gustavo nervously laughed.

"Hey, ha ha, I am so, so sorry." Gustavo apologizes. Andi hands over the demo to Mercedes as Gustavo says, "Um, here is the demo."

"Uh, can I-can I get you a latte or a yacht?" Gustavo asked Mercedes.

Mercedes doesn't say anything as she takes the demo and stands up. She walks around the desk, standing in front of the boys when she notices them. "Is this the band? You guys are hot."

The boys smile at her. "Oh, and you're that secret someone whose close to Griffin who decides the winning demos." Carlos realized.

Mercedes nods. "That's right, I make the decisions, and I just decided that..." She waves her finger in front of the boys until she lands on Kendall. "You're my new boyfriend."

Andi's eyes grow wide at hearing that, the others having a shocked expression on their faces as well. Andi couldn't believe this. Did she say what she thought she did? This wasn't happening, was it? It had to be a joke. But she knew it wasn't as Mercedes pulled Kendall along with her.

"Let's go." Mercedes said to Kendall. Kendall looks at her with confusion and Mercedes grabs a fistful of his shirt, pulling him with her despite him struggling to stay.

"This is not right." James shakes his head with an upset look on his face. ""How could she pick Kendall over me?"

Andi, Carlos, and Logan looks at him with a glare. "That's what you're focusing on right now?" Andi asked him in an annoyed tone. She couldn't believe this was happening. It just had to be a dream or it was more like a nightmare. Any moment now she was going to wake up in her bed and none of this would have happened. Right?

****

Andi was wrong. It wasn't a nightmare, well, it felt like one, but she wasn't sleeping. She was now at the lobby of Palm Woods with the others, rushing over to Kendall who was carrying a lot of pool stuff for Mercedes and Andi honestly felt bad for him because all of that stuff looked heavy. She frowned, feeling bad for him. How could Mercedes treat him like that? It wasn't right. Mercedes didn't treat him like her boyfriend, she treated him more like a servant.

Andi and Logan help Kendall up after seeing that he fell on his knees. "Hey, big guy." Logan greets. "You're doing a great job."

"She's horrible." Kendall breathed out. He had a look of frustration and anger on his face and Andi couldn't blame him. She was frustrated and angry at Mercedes as well. No one should be treated like this, especially not Kendall.

"Yeah," Andi agrees. "We know." She looks at him sympathetically. "You're gonna get through this."

Carlos points at Kendall. "Exactly." He said, agreeing with Andi. "If she loves you then she'll pick our demos, and we get to stay in L.A. and we're almost halfway there."

James pulls out a hand mirror he brought with him, showing it in front of Kendall and then in front of himself a few times. "How could she pick you over me? Look at this."

Andi hits his shoulder, looking at him with a glare. "Dude, focus. We need to help him get through this. Stop being a diva." James pouted, rubbing his shoulder and he put the mirror away.

"Now, here's some subliminal imagery that will help her pick our demos." Logan put a hat on Kendall that read 'Pick Big Time Rush'.

"Ooh, and some breath spray just in case she wants to kiss you." Carlos said, spraying some breath spray in Kendall's mouth.

Kendall pulls away, his eyes widening as he looks at each of them. "Ack, I have to kiss her?!" He asked with a grimace look on his face. Andi hoped he didn't have to. Just the fact that he has to be Mercedes boyfriend made her feel a pang of jealousy and sadness.

"Wait!" Gustavo exclaimed.

"We can't let you do this." Kelly said to Kendall and he let out a sigh of relief.

"Not without the perfect mood music for your pool date with Mercedes." Gustavo raised up the stereo, placing the handle in Kendall's mouth. He pressed play on it and the first song the band recorded came on. Andi bit her lower lip, watching Kendall stumbles over to where Mercedes was at with worry. Words of encouragement were heard from the boys while Kendall walked over to Mercedes.

When Kendall was quiet, Mercedes sits up, looking at Kendall with wide eyes. "You hesitated." She turns off the music that was playing. "Maybe I'll hesitate to choose your demo as the winner. I heard Vampirah's amazing."

Andi and the others quickly rush over to them at hearing that. "You can't. Woah, woah, woah."

Carlos kneels beside where Mercedes sat. "Of course he loves you. I mean, who-who wouldn't love you...With your hair and your hands and that rat-dog thing?"

Mercedes smiles at him. "It's like you really know me." Mercedes looks at Kendall. "I'm breaking up with you." She looks back at Carlos. "You're my new boyfriend."

Standing up, Carlos looks at her with wide eyes. Mercedes stands up. "Now carry me out like they do in the movies." Carlos carries her bridal style as Mercedes looks back at Kendall. "Old boyfriend carry my stuff up later."

James groans. Carlos nervously laughed while carrying Mercedes inside.

****

The group was now hiding in the shower of the boys' apartment where Carlos was making cookies for Mercedes. The group, minus Carlos, we're hiding in the shower in the bathroom. Andi and Kendall we're in the back, Gustavo, Logan and James stood between Andi and Kendall and Kelly stood in the front of the others.

When the door to the bathroom opened and closed, Logan pushed the curtain of the shower open so he and the others could see that Carlos was covered in cookie dough. He also wore a chef hat and an apron that both read 'Pick Big Time Rush'.

From his place standing behind Andi, Kendall asked, "This looks weird, right?"

Carlos nods. Gustavo shrugs. "Who cares? Get back in there."

Carlos immediately shakes his head. "Okay, we're close to near to almost halfway there."

"Yeah, so get out there." Andi said, gesturing for Carlos to go back out.

Carlos shakes his head again. "I can't go back. She hurts me."

"Are you talking behind my back with people in the shower?" They hear Mercedes question.

"No...Apple blossom." Carlos nervously answered.

Everyone screams when the door is pushed open roughly and Carlos moves over to the shower the others stood in. Andi and Kendall had instinctively moved closer to each other and were now holding hands when the door was suddenly pushed open. Mercedes glares at Carlos. "You lied to me. We're finished. My new boyfriend is...Him." Mercedes pointed at Logan and smiled.

James looks at her with wide eyes. "Him? Do you not see this?" He asked her, gesturing to himself.

Mercedes ignores him and looks at Logan. "Let's go, new boyfriend." She holds the blue-green purse she had with her, looking at Logan with a smile. "We're gonna dye your hair to match my bag."

"No!" Logan cried out, putting a hand on his hair with a panicked expression on his face.

When Mercedes walks away, everyone looks at Logan. "So you gonna do the right thing?" Gustavo inquired.

"No..." Kendall answers. "I am." He hands Logan the loofa he had. "Hold my loofah."

It was then Andi and Kendall realized they were still holding hands and they quickly let go, their faces turning red as Andi stepped out of the way for Kendall to walk by. The group quickly rush out of the bathroom when they heard that Kendall said Logan is dumping Mercedes.

"What?!" Mercedes angrily exclaimed.

"What?!" The group exclaimed, looking at Kendall with wide eyes.

Kendall points at Mercedes. "Because you're spoiled, pushy, mean," As he speaks the others go over to stand behind him. Kendall points at Carlos and then himself. "He, me, and we would rather all go back to Minnesota than spend one more second pretending to be your boyfriend." He grins. "And, man, it felt so good to say that!" Andi couldn't help the small smile on her face as she looked at him. She was proud of him to stand up to Mercedes because she was so close to doing that herself. Plus it felt good to hear that he didn't like being Mercedes' boyfriend, meaning she could possibly have a chance. Wait, what? Why was she thinking about her liking Kendall? They were friends. Friends, Andi, get a grip.

"Well, let me tell you something." Mercedes angrily points at him. She then holds up their demo. "There is no way I'm picking your demos now. Big Time Rush is Big-Time done."

Everyone looks at her with shock and lets out a small scream when she throws the demo on the groan. They scream more when she broke it by stomping on it. Looking at them with one last glare Mercedes left the apartment.

Everyone groans and looks at Kendall who apologetically smiled. "So...What do we do now?" Carlos asked.

Kelly pulls out the stereo and Logan sighs, pressing play. Seconds later the beginning of the song Big Time Rush came on.

"Ah, ah, ah-ah, ohhh."

****

Andi, Gustavo, and Kelly are now in the boys' apartment, watching them pack their bags. Andi was really hoping that they wouldn't have to leave because they changed her life for the better. She wouldn't know what she would do without them. She didn't want them to leave.

"You guys can hold you head high." Kelly tries cheering the boys up. "Most bands don't even make it almost halfway there."

Gustavo walks over, carrying a tray of cookies while he ate one. "She's right. I am very, very proud of you guys."

"Appreciate that he said that." Looking at the boys, Andi points at Gustavo. "He doesn't say that to a lot of people."

"Ahhhh!" Gustavo suddenly yells, startling everyone. Gustavo looks at everyone with an apologetic expression. "I'm fine. Scooters!" Gustavo shouts. "No, I'm not." Kelly held the tray as he fell to the floor. Andi rolled her eyes at Gustavo's antics. Honestly, she had no idea why she worked for him. He was such a strange man, but she guessed that's what made things less boring. Plus the boys were fun to be around and it was never a dull moment when they were around.

"No," Mercedes shakes her head. "A chimp. And if he claps, you're in, but if he makes a fart noise, you're out." She starts crying again. "And sometimes I think that daddy loves Lo-Lo more than me."

This time Kendall is the one to comfort her. "There, there, Mercedes. It's okay. Don't cry." When Mercedes stops crying, Kendall asks her, "Now, do you have a security card to your dad's building?"

Kelly rolls her eyes. "Oh, please. What are you guys gonna do, chimpnap Lo-Lo and train him to to love Big Time Rush?"

****

"I was kidding!" Kelly exclaimed, looking at Lo-Lo with wide eyes. Carlos, Kendall, and Gustavo were wearing spy costumes while Andi and James were police officer costumes, and Logan had on an outfit some people in the Sahara desert wore.

Logan grins, gesturing to Lo-Lo who was on top of a table. "But the plan worked perfectly."

Once everyone got back in their original clothes, Andi, Gustavo, Kelly, and Mercedes got in the sound system room while the boys stayed in the recording studio with Lo-Lo. "Now, according to Pavlov, animals can be trained to associate positive feelings with certain stimuli." Logan states. "Such as sight, smells, and..."

"Big Time Rush demos." Kendall finished his sentence, holding up one of their demos.

Logan nods. "Exactly. We're gonna train Lo-Lo to pick the Big Time Rush demos through the positive reinforcement of..." He gestures to Carlos who gives him some bananas. "Bananas."

It worked at first, but then Lo-Lo picked up the bananas and started throwing them at the boys. Lo-Lo then ran out of the room. Mercedes nervously smiles. "Well, he either loved it or really hated it."

****

The group now sat in the hangout area outside of the recording studio. Andi sat on the arm of the couch beside where Kendall sat, Kelly sat on the arm of a chair where Gustavo is sitting, and Mercedes sat on a chair across from them. The boys were picking off the banana peels that were on them and Kelly was eating a banana.

Andi looks at Gustavo weirdly when he starts talking about scooters all of a sudden. "You know, the scooter is the sensible solution for today's high gas prices, and offers seniors increased mobility, and-Ahhh!" He let out a scream when he realized what he's doing.

Kendall stands up, facing the group with a determined expression. "You know, we are not giving up. We're almost halfway there, and another thing I've learned since coming to L.A. is that together, we can do anything."

Andi looks over with wide eyes with the others when Griffin walks over with his two assistants and Lo-Lo. "Look who I found hitchhiking on the Hollywood freeway."

Kendall sighs in defeat and sits back down. "Yeah, we're done."

"I am deeply disappointed in all of you, but I'm also curious. What happened?" Griffin inquired.

Everyone grew quiet, sharing nervous looks with each other. Mercedes is the one to stand up and confess. "It's my fault, daddy. I lied to them, and I made them be my boyfriends, and then I ate terrible cookies, and then I cried, and then I helped them chimpnap Lo-Lo, and...I love you."

Griffin looks at Gustavo with raised eyebrows. "Is that true? Because she lies...A lot."

Gustavo and Kelly then stand up. "It's all of our faults." Gustavo replied.

Kendall stands up, looking at Griffin. "We really want to stay here in L.A. and make an album..."

Carlos stands up. "And a tour."

"And be famous..." James added, standing up as well.

Logan stands up, looking at Griffin with an apologetic expression. "But we may have gone a little too far."

Andi nods in agreement and stands up while looking at Griffinn apologetically. "Way too far."

Kelly peeks out from standing behind Gustavo and apologizes. "Sorry."

"Those are a lot of sentences containing words, containing letters, and I admire your passion and dedication," Griffin tells them. "But it doesn't change the fact that Lo-Lo picks which demo wins."

Griffin looks at Lo-Lo. "So what's it's gonna be, Lo-Lo? Do you like Big Time Rush?"

Everyone looks at Lo-Lo with hopeful expressions and their hope is crushed when Lo-Lo makes a fart noise. "Ooh, the fart noise." Griffin said, looking back at the others. "Sorry, boys. Vampirah wins."

Mercedes quickly stands in front of her dad. "Lo-Lo's wrong, daddy. The Vampire fad has one, two years left, max." She gestures to Andi and the boys. "These guys' songs have infectious melodies, classic pop hooks, and Big Time Rush will crush the six to sixtern year old demographic which is your core music-buying base."

Griffin looks at her with surprise. "Wow." He looks at Lo-Lo. "Lo-Lo I'm transferring you to missile defense." He looks at Mercedes with a smile and wraps an arm around her. "Mercedes, you're my new hit-predicting adviser. This way we can spend more time together."

He looks at Andi, Gustavo, Kelly, and the boys with a smile. "Big Time Rush wins!"

Andi's eyes grow wide and she grins. She turns to the others and starts cheering with them. When the cheering dies down, Griffin looks at Mercedes. "Anything else for my princess?"

"Well," Mercedes looks at Logan with a smile. "I never really got a chance to date Logan."

Logan's eyes grow wide at hearing that. Griffin looks at Logan. "Logan, you're Mercedes' new boyfriend." Logan let out a small scream, moving to hide behind James.

Griffin looks at Andi, Gustavo, Kelly, and the boys. "Now get to work. We need some new songs for the Big Time Rush album."

Andi grins at hearing that and shares a grin with Gustavo. "We already got one." She admitted. They had already worked on writing a song throughout this process after getting inspired by what was going on.

Gustavo nods in agreement and gestures to the studio. "Move out!"

When the boys finished practicing Andi's song 'Halfway There' they were ready to perform it. Andi, Gustavo, Kelly, Mercedes, Griffin, and his two assistants are now in the sound system room, watching the boys preform the song.

After the boys were done performing, everyone cheered for them.

****

Andi sets down the check on Bitters' desk in the Palm Woods' lobby, standing next to her mom while the boys stand behind them. "We need to renew the lease for 2-J." Kelly said to Bitters.

Jennifer and Katie who were standing next to them looks at them with surprise. Carlos grins. "We're gonna make a full album."

Logan nods. "And probably a concert tour..."

"And be famous." James chimed in.

Andi then realized that Jennifer was wearing an assistant manager suit. Jennifer turns to Bitters, putting a plunger on the desk. "I quit, and I gave Buddha Bob the rest of the day off."

"What room?" Bitters asked with a disgusted expression on his face.

"3-B." Jennifer replies. "And it's bad."

When Bitters leave, Jennifer turns to the boys with a smile. "Well, I guess we're not going home."

"Actually, mom," Kendall glances around with a smile, his gaze lingering on Andi with a fond smile. "I think we are home."

Andi's heart flutters when he says that, and she can't help but smile back at him. She feels a warm feeling spreading through her chest, knowing that the boys consider the Palm Woods their home, and she's a part of that. It's a feeling of belonging that she cherishes deeply.

Everyone smiles at hearing that and Katie then points at the boys and Andi. "Race you to the pool."

Andi chuckled lightly and quickly ran to the pool along with the boys and Katie trying to get to the pool first.