Chapter 1 – An Opportunity

Mrs Knight was startled from her mid week sleep in by the piercing wail of the apartment telephone.

"Kendall, can you get that?" Mrs Knight covered her face with her pillow to shield herself from the incoming rays of sunlight. "Kendall?" Mrs Knight called again when her previous question was met with no answer.

"I've got it mum!" She heard Katie call from the living room, "The guys have that important band meeting this morning remember. Hello?"

Mrs Knight groaned and dragged herself out of bed, realising that there was no way she would be able to fall back to sleep.

"Umm mum, can you come here for a minute? It's Logan's grandmother on the phone, she says she needs to speak to you urgently," Katie shrugged and handed the phone to her confused mother. Mrs Knight rarely heard from Logan's family, as it was he was living with James when they were in Minnesota.

"Hello, Mrs Onlay?"

Katie watched bored from the couch as her mother spoke in hushed tones, stumbling into the kitchen for some privacy. Katie shrugged and turned to her homework but was interrupted by her mother tackling her into a hug.

"Mum? Mum, what's wrong?" Katie struggled to breath but she suddenly felt her mother's hot tears trail down the back of her neck. She didn't receive an answer, only a tug on her arm as her mum lead her out of the apartment and into a taxi.

"Well there isn't much more for me to say other than, I can't wait to see you boys on set and I'm sure the director will be thrilled to meet you when they manage to get over their bout of flu," James watched as Gustavo shook hands with the smiling producer, Gustavo himself appeared to be on cloud nine. James smiled over at his best friends who were busy being hugged by an excited Kelly. Gustavo turned to face the boys after the producer left the room.

"Now, the next few weeks are going to be tough, it will be like your tour training only 10 times more difficult, so..." he was cut off by a distraught Katie and Mrs Knight throwing the door open and dashing into the room. Katie launched herself into a bewildered Kendall's arms whilst Mrs Knight apologised to Gustavo for the interruption before searching the boys tearfully.

"Logan? I need to talk to you," he voice was barely a whisper.

"Um, ok Mrs K," Logan answered puzzled.

"Alone?"

"Um, sure, yeah," Logan followed the distraught woman out of the room whilst the remaining participants turned to Katie with questioning looks.

"I shouldn't tell you."

Kendall hugged his sister closer before kneeling down to face her. "What's wrong Katie?"

Katie glanced around nervously. "It's Logan's mum; she...she passed away this morning."

A door slamming startled the group out of the shocked states, they watched through the glass as a red and tearful Logan stormed out of the building.

~3 Months Later~

Logan sat staring out the back window of the Palm Woods shuttle bus, his iPod blasting in his ears. James, Carlos and Kendall stared at their depressed friend, studying the blank face they had grown used to. His brown eyes devoid of any emotion, his skin pale and shallow, his hair slicked back unnaturally. Yes the boys had grown use to this Logan but something seemed different today and they couldn't quite put their finger on it.

They remembered how painful the first month was for their eighteen year old friend and they themselves hadn't faired any better. It wasn't until Logan cut himself off from the rest of the group that they realised just how much they relied on the brainy friend; without him solving their problems for them, well the band had barely made it to their first day filming. It was a struggle to get them in the same shuttle bus together but in the end Logan just wandered to the back and shut himself off again. They worried about the band, they worried about their friendship but most importantly they worried about him. They thought if anyone could break Logan out of his depressive daze, Camille would be it but unfortunately for them and her, she only ended up in tears on the end of Logan's harsh words. That was within the first week and whilst the band tried to comfort Camille so that she could try again when things settled down, Logan wasn't having any of it and after their third try in two weeks ago, Camille too, was over it.

James was the only one who knew of Logan's troubled past with his family but even he didn't know a way to help his closest friend. James remembered the day Logan came asking for a place to stay, he knew how tough it was for him to ask for help, the only reason he came to James was because of the phone call James had overheard in the days previous. Logan had been on the phone to his mother when James overheard them arguing about her treatment options. James hadn't understood what Logan's mother needed treatment for so he asked Logan who, at first, tried to run from the question but eventually spilled his entire life story. James was the only one to know from then on what pain the boy held deep within. He was the first to understand that Logan was now without both parents as his father Mahil walked out on him at a young age.

The bus came to a stop outside the aluminium trailer the boys would be sharing for the next year.

"No!" The boys turned to the exclamation coming from the back of the bus, "I refuse to share that tin can with the rest of this douche bags for the next twelve months."

Carlos cringed, Kendall gasped and James sighed.

"Oh Logan you don't mean that," Kelly said gently moving to place her hand on his. Logan tore his hand away grabbing his bag. He turned back before getting off with a perfectly composed and blank face.

"Either I get my own trailer or I don't do the movie and you guys become a trio," he turned and stormed off leaving the occupants of the bus speechless.

A.N

Hey guys! So this kinda popped into my head a couple of months ago and I haven't been able to get rid of it so I thought I would try and give it to you guys. I know Logan may seem a little OC at the moment but this will be explained throughout my story, however I won't continue this unless you guys want me too because I am pretty busy but if I get some really nice and constructive reviews then I'll definitely make some time for it.