.:Chapter Thirty – Big Time Beginnings:.

"Please?" Riley asked as she tilted her head to the side and looked at Ronan with big, wide, eyes. Ronan just looked back at her with a raised eyebrow before turning to face his laptop again.

"No" he replied simply and Riley made a face before backing up and pushing Rhuben forward.

"Please?" she questioned as she stuck out her lower lip.

"No." Ronan looked amused and Patrick and Noah moved up next to try their turn. Ronan raised an eyebrow as the two of them looked at each other, gave a slight nod, and then dropped to their knees dramatically.

"PLEASE?" They cried in unison, holding onto Ronan's legs tightly as they threw themselves to the ground. "Please, Ronan? Puh-lease?"

"No" Ronan looked like he was trying not to laugh at their antics. Patrick frowned as he let of Ronan's legs and rolled onto his back to look up at his sisters. Ronan's smile grew wider as he looked at the defeated look on his twin sons' faces.

"How could that have not worked?" Patrick asked, looking appalled as Noah sat up and shook his head back and forth, making sure his long hair fell into his face just so. "I mean, I thought I was a good actor, usually that gets people."

"Yeah, and blows out their eardrums by how loud you are," Rhuben added and grabbed their hands and pulled them to their feet in one swift pull. She smirked as she turned back to her father. "Well, we all know that no one can resist Sydney's puppy dog pout." She turned to her baby brother, who was watching, and motioned him over. "Do you thing Syd."

"Nah, I'm good." Sydney replied and leaned back in his chair, causing his brothers and sisters to look at each other in shock. Sydney was never one to back down from a chance for him to use his 'gift' on people to get them to do whatever he wanted. "What?" he questioned when they looked at him, eyes wide.

"Usually you're the one that's jumping up and down, wanting to make sure that things go your way just by widening your eyes." Noah pointed out as he brushed his hair out of his face. "What happened?"

Sydney shrugged. "I just figured that after a while our actions will serve counterproductive and that it will eventually result in a less than desired effect." He replied calmly as he went back to typing something on his laptop.

"In English, please?" Patrick replied as she raised an eyebrow.

Sydney had a pained expression on his face before he looked up again and stared pointedly at Patrick. "If you keep bugging him, he'll say no." he replied slowly, each word accompanied with a nod. Patrick made a face back.

"Oh," he scratched the back of his neck. "Then why didn't you just say so?" Sydney looked like he really wanted to say something, but closed his mouth, shook his head, and went back to doing whatever it was he was doing. "Please, Ronan?"

"No!" Ronan closed his own laptop and turned in his chair to face his kids. "I'm not going to call Jo's, Camille's, Stephanie's, or WayneWayne's parents to ask them if they minded that their kids came on tour with you guys for three, maybe four, months." He crossed his arms over his chest. "That's not fair to them or their family."

"It's not fair to us either," Rhuben pointed out and threw her hands into the air as she rolled her eyes, looking more emotional than Ronan had ever seen her. "I mean, we finally get our lives back on track and we make the best friends that we have ever had, and now we have to leave for four months without them!" she waved her arms around her head as she ranted.

"You did perfectly fine when you left before." Ronan pointed out.

Riley placed her hands on her hips and looked at her dad as if he was stupid. "That was before our dad went to jail and we were actually happy."

"Good point." Ronan replied and calmly pushed himself back and forth with his feet. "And I think you guys are getting a little too freaked out about this." He turned and looked at his daughters. "You two are upset because this is the first time that you actually have girlfriends and you don't want to leave them behind." The two nodded and turned to Patrick. "You're upset because I'm guessing that you think that at least one of them is hot and you want to be able to stare at her the whole time you're on tour," Patrick scoffed and crossed his arms over his chest, sputtering as he tried to deny the statement. Ronan then turned to Noah. "And you really aren't thinking of your friends, you're just covering up the fact that you're afraid you have to leave your girlfriend behind."

"Girlfriend?" Noah repeated s he raised an eyebrow as he started to blush. "I wouldn't say that she's my…I mean, I haven't even asked her…I don't even…" he looked out of the corner of his eye and saw his brothers and sisters staring at him. "Shut up!"

"I'm just teasing you, Noah." Ronan replied as he reached out and mussed his hair. "Ok, I can't take this anymore," he stood up and paced the room as his kids watched him, following with his eyes. "The only reason that I kept telling you 'no' all this time is because I already called and asked."

"You what?" Riley and Rhuben harmonized, looking suspicious.

"I already called and asked," Ronan replied and stopped as he smiled at them. "They can go, they're already packed and everything." He grinned as they started to freak out and jump up and down in excitement.

"Has we ever told you that you're the best dad ever?" Patrick asked once he finally calmed down enough, even though he was still bouncing on his toes.

"No," Ronan replied after a second of thought. "I don't think you have."

"Oh," Patrick shrugged. "Well, remind us to do that later." He smiled as Ronan looked annoyed. "This is going to be the best tour ever" he sang as he danced across the room. "Seriously," he paused and looked over at his brothers and sisters. "I don't think that life could get any better."

(The End) To Be Continued…

A/N: Ok, it's the end of this story, I'm so glad that you guys enjoyed it so much, and I decided to make the ending only about the Jacksons so I can show that they truly are happy now. All of the reviews and positive feedback made me so happy. The sequel is up now too, it's called With Friends Like These III: Here and Now and I'm sure that you guys will like it as much as the first two stories. It's going to focus more on Big Time Rush than the DarkElements.

Be on the looked out because after I publish WFLT Here and Now I'm going to update 'Two is better than one' and 'Live and Let Live' because those are the stories that everyone wants to see updated. I hope you guys really enjoyed this. Thanks for reading, enjoy the next one, and god bless! :)

-Riley