Author's Notes: Hello friends! So this is my very first fanfic, a Kogan fanfic called "One Night in Bali"... And as a little gift for my beloved friends who are reading this, I made a post on my Tumblr showing the photos of the stuff being described from Chapters 1 to 4, to make visualizing stuff more fun :)
If you wanna check out the photos, the link is here: (just replace the dashes between btrandkittens and tumblr and com with a period)
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One Night in Bali
Chapter 1 - The Flight (Part 1)
Kendall opens his eyes, yawns and looks around. He sees soft brown and cream colours all around. He then hears a soft rumble all round him. He then feels the leather of the seat he woke up from, and remembers that he is aboard a Singapore Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to Singapore. He then looks at his right, and sees Logan looking at the window of another first class suite that is on the rightmost side of the cabin, absorbed in his thoughts as he stares blankly at one of the open windows.
"Hey, Logie!" Kendall groggily says and smiles as he straightens up his seat. Logan turns around and smiles at his best friend, "Oh hey, Kindle! You're awake already? You've only napped for like 15 minutes!"
Kendall and Logan decided to take a two-week vacation in Singapore and Bali, to celebrate Kendall's successful launch of his Heffron Drive album, Happy Mistakes. They took a Singapore Airlines flight so that they can have a feel for the upcoming Singapore experience. They both decided to take First Class seats, to make the experience as memorable as possible. It's both Kendall and Logan's first time to visit Singapore, and it's gonna be Logan's first time in Bali, since Kendall had a Bali Christmas vacation back in 2012.
The flight they booked had them departing at exactly 3:45pm in LA on a beautiful Monday afternoon, and it's expected to take 20 hrs and 15 mins for them to reach Singapore, with the plane having a quick stopover in Tokyo, Japan from 7:15pm to 8:50pm Japan time Tuesday, and with the rest of the flight enabling them to arrive in their first destination, Singapore by 3:00am Singapore time Wednesday.
"Yeah, I think 15 minutes napping is ok enough. I mean, we've been repeatedly napping and waking up for three hours already, and we're barely even halfway through the flight," Kendall replied.
"Haha yeah. I kinda got bored already of napping and then waking up to watch something on the IFE, or playing with my iPad and iPhone, so I decided to just look outside," Logan said.
While looking at Logan, Kendall then started to worry about his friend, "Logie, you look too deep in thought in whatever you're thinking. Are you okay?... Are you still thinking about the breakup?" Kendall remembers that Logan broke up with his girlfriend Makenzie a week before their flight, and it didn't turn out pretty.
"Wha...? No... I think I'm starting to recover from the breakup. I had valid reasons for breaking up with her. I never realized we had a lot of incompatibilities that I thought maybe breaking up is for the best. Although I never thought she would be that ballistic. I never even saw that side of her, so yeah maybe it's for the best," Logan said. But Kendall notices that Logan's eyes still show a bit of sadness.
"Logie, I know you're just trying to make me stop worrying about you since this is supposed to be a happy vacation. But you can always open up to me if you're feeling bummed out about your breakup. You can let it all out so you can feel better and really enjoy our vacation," Kendall said as he gently reaches out and squeezes Logan's left forearm with his right hand.
Logan looks down on Kendall's hand on his forearm, then smiles a bit as he slowly looks up to his friend, touched by the fact that Kendall is always doing his best to make him feel better. Logan's sad eyes started to become brighter. "Thanks, Kindle... You're really a very awesome friend. But, really, I am completely over Makenzie." Logan then uses his right hand to squeeze Kendall's hand on his left forearm to reassure his blond best friend and shows him a gentle smile.
What Logan doesn't know is that Kendall is secretly in love with him. The green-eyed blonde has been madly in love with the chocolate-eyed brunette from the time they started being best friends. Kendall was actually hurt when he found out Logan was dating a girl, and, to his shame, was sort of happy when Logan broke up with her. He was looking forward to admitting his feelings for Logan while they are on this vacation, when they have all the privacy they need. Carlos and James are still in LA, and couldn't join them because they were very busy with their tapings.
But Kendall is scared of what could happen if things go wrong. Logan just had an ex-girlfriend, so it means he could be straight, or bi at the very least, Kendall thought. If he opened up to Logan and he rejects him, aside from the pain of rejection that the blonde would feel, he also fears for their friendship, especially if Logan turned out to be straight and doesn't like gays. But Kendall is really tormented by hiding his true feelings for his best friend. Every time Logan's arm reaches over Kendall's shoulder, although with a little effort from the shorter brunette to reach the taller blonde, Kendall feels like the contact is electrifying and he feels something warm and ticklish deep inside his chest. Every time he sees Logan's smile and his beautiful innocent brown eyes, Kendall always fights the urge to try to kiss the adorable brunette. Each and every time only the two of them hang out, it makes the blonde feel totally happy and content with the entire universe. Heck, even when all four of them hang out, as long as Logan is there, Kendall feels very happy and content. But the pain of hiding his true feelings keeps getting worse and worse. He needs to let it all out someday, and he's hoping to have this chance on their vacation together.
"Kindle? Kindle. Hey, relax already, I'm really fine. Really. Stop worrying. I don't want to ruin our vacation." Kendall suddenly snaps out of his deep thought and his eyes refocus again on Logan, although his green eyes have been staring at Logan for the past 15 to 20 seconds. The brown-eyed brunette started looking worried about Kendall because he suddenly zoned out while they were talking.
"Oh, yeah, sorry about that Logie. I sorta zoned out because I suddenly thought about the pain you felt when you broke up with her." But deep inside, Kendall's thinking about the pain of the torment of hiding his true feelings for Logan, and the pain of possible rejection. Kendall then also notices that Logan's hand is still gently squeezing his right hand, which in turn is gently wrapped around Logan's left forearm when he comforted Logan. Kendall savoured the feeling of the warm and soft skin of Logan's hand over his own hand, and the feeling of the sleeve of Logan's leather jacket that his own hand is wrapped around.
And suddenly Kendall realizes that Logan might suspect something, and so he asked, "Hey, wanna have something to drink?"
"Hmm, yeah I'd love to," Logan answers.
"Lemme guess, gin and tonic again?"
"Hahahahaha! Well, okay, Kindle. What are you havin?"
"Maybe just some Coke..."
"What? No booze? No fair!" Logan pouted and then grinned.
Kendall laughed and decided to have rum and coke instead.
Logan then lifts his hand over Kendall's hand, so that the blonde can use his right hand to push the cabin crew call button.
Kendall tries to mask the confusion and worry in his mind as they continue with their flight to Singapore. Opening up or not, they should still be celebrating as best friends and enjoy the vacation, Kendall finally thought to himself, enabling him to finally smile and relax as he reached out for the call button.
