Chapter 1

"Has anyone seen my hairspray?" asked James coming out of the bedroom that he shared with Kendall, his brown hair a tossled mess on the top of his head.

Kendall, who was seated at the breakfast table eating a bowl of cherrios, looked up at James and asked, "Did you check the bathroom shelves?"

"Yes," said James exasperated. "I've checked everywhere."

"You can use my hairspray," offered Kendall.

"No thanks Kendall," said James. "It won't do the job."

With a sigh, James sat down at the table and stared down at it in defeat. Before Kendall could say anything else, his cell phone vibrated on the table. Finishing off the spoonful of cherrios in his mouth, Kendall reached down and looked at the text message on his phone.

"Oh, Gustavo wants us at the studio for rehersal," said Kendall wiping his mouth with the back of his hand and rising from the table.

"Go on ahead Kendall," said James. "I'll be there in a bit."

"James," said Kendall turning to look at James. "You look fine. Let's go."

Kendall turned his back on James and was just starting to walk toward the door when he heard James say from behind him at the table, "Easy for you to say."

"What's that suppose to mean?" asked Kendall whipping back around to face James.

"Do I have to explain?" asked James.

"I will have you know that I look amazing just the way I am," said Kendall. "I don't need some fifty dollar hair care product to make me confident in my appearance!"

James rose from the table and pointing an accusing finger at Kendall yelled out, "You've crossed the LINE!"

"What line?" asked Kendall.

With that, James walked around the table and stood face to face with Kendall before saying, "The best-friend's-who-will-never-bad-talk-their-friend 's-wardrobe-practices line!"

"When was that line invented?" asked Kendall.

Before the argument could escalate even more, Carlos and Logan walked into the room. They saw James and Kendall almost nose-to-nose in anger before asking at the same time, "What's going on here?"

"He's going on!" yelled Kendall and James at the same time.

Logan, with his smart rational, inserted himself between Kendall and James and split them apart with his hands, saying, "Alright, the only way to solve this problem, like any problem, is to hear both sides of the story and then decide what happened and what to do to fix it."

"No, that's not the way to solve it," stated Carlos.

Logan looked at Carlos and asked, "How would you solve it then?"

Carlos stood there in thought for a moment before saying, "In order to solve this problem we first need to hire lawyers for each side."

Logan let out a small laugh before saying, "Carlos, this is just a petty argument, not some judicial case!"

"So?" said Carlos looking at Logan. "Each side still needs representation. It's the only fair way to solve it."

"Carlos," said Logan with a sigh. "I'm the brains of the four of us, so let me handle things."

"You're the brains?" asked Carlos. "What are you implying about the rest of us?"

"If you're so smart Carlos, do you really need to ask?" asked Logan.

Carlos grew angry and stormed up to Logan.

"I will happily let you know that I am smart!" stated Carlos.

"Oh yes. If the answer to every question was corn dogs, you would be an Einstein!" commented Logan laughing.

While Logan and Carlos were bickering, James turned back to look at Kendall and started to get into an argument with him again. As the arguments intensified, they all yelled out at the same time to the person they were fighting with, "You wouldn't last one day in my shoes!"

Suddenly, the arguments ceased. Kendall turned to look at them all with a grin on his face as he said, "I have an idea on how to solve all these arguments!"

Logan, Carlos, and James looked at him and demanded, "How?"

With a sly grin, Kendall prepared to tell his friends his brilliant idea.