A/N: :) Well, even though I didn't recieve a lot of reviews, I noticed that I am gaining a few followers, and that makes me happy :) Hopefully you like this chapter! It's focused a lot from Carlos's point of view.
Disclaimer: I don't own the BTR boys... but I wish I did ^_^
When lunch came around Carlos was surprised that he hadn't blind-folded his best friend and sister. They continued to give each other looks of mischief that just made Carlos want to lock them away somewhere. Whatever they were scheming, could not end up well. He knew that deep down inside his sister and Logan would never truly try to steal the two popular boys away from their girlfriends, but that doesn't mean that they aren't going to make a small attempt to lour them away.
He sighed as he sat down at their usual lunch table, wondering where the hell the two deviants had gone. As he looked around the cafeteria he saw Logan smiling while Kendall was telling him something as they waited in line. Carlos smiled at the look that was on Logan's face. Normally, Logan was a bitter, sarcastic kind of guy. You had to really know him to actually get him. He seemed to be upset about a lot of things, and honestly Carlos wish he knew how to change that. Logan was always upset about something with his education, his parents, or the students around him. He got angry easily and had made many attempts to run away from everything, but ever since Logan had met Kendall that seemed to change. Logan's attitude would shift to happy when he was around the tall blonde that it shocked Carlos a little bit. He smiled and searched the room for his sister.
He found her walking into the cafeteria with James and Camille, a fake smile on her face. She was trying to have a conversation with James, but every time James would try to answer Camille would interrupt right away. Carlos chuckled at the annoyed look that flashed quickly on his sister's face. She attempted to say something else when James turned to her, ruffled her hair and walked away. She glared at his back and stormed towards the table that Carlos was at.
"I swear! Ever since you guys stopped hanging out James treats me like I'm some kind of kid!" She seethed as she sat down across from her brother. "I mean, we are the same age, why the hell does he treat me like a freshmen or even worse…"
"A little—"
"Don't even say it!" she snapped at her brother.
"Say what?" Logan asked as him and Kendall sat down at the table.
Carlos was about to say 'little sister' when he noticed Kendall at the table. "Nothing, it doesn't matter. Whatcha doing over here, Kendall? Shouldn't you be with Jo?"
"Well, she has a cheerleading meeting right now, so I decided I wanted to eat lunch with you guys," he smiled softly and Carlos could tell that Logan melted inside.
The Latino rolled his eyes and took a bite of this quesadilla. "Okie dokie, whatever floats your boat."
Logan and Kendall started to strike up a conversation on how their summer went, what they did, who they met, and so on. It really didn't interest Carlos one bit. As he was eating his lunch he scanned the cafeteria for Stephanie. He hadn't seen her all day and he was hoping that he would have a class with her. He was just about to give up hope when he locked eyes with a familiar set of deep brown eyes. He smiled and waved at the beautiful girl who had just walked into the cafeteria.
Stephanie smiled at him and walked over to the table, taking a seat right next to him. "Hi, Carlos. Hey, Katrina."
Katrina looked over from where she was pouting and smiled. "Hey, Steph! I haven't seen you all day!"
Stephanie giggled and started to unpack her lunch. "Well I probably don't have any classes with you in the morning because I'm only a Junior."
Carlos mentally slapped himself. He completely forgot that the object of his desires was a year younger than him. "So you won't have any classes with us at all?"
"Well, I don't think so…" she reached into her book bag and pulled out her schedule. "Are you guys in Honors Theatre? I think that's a 12th grade class, and I got into that…"
"Yeah!" Katrina smiled and looked over Stephanie's schedule. "Carlos, Logan and I are all taking that class."
"Logan…?" Stephanie looked over at the shorter of the brunette boys in question. "Oh! He's the one you told me about right, Kat?"
"Yeah, that's our little Logie."
Logan looked over from his conversation with Kendall and blinked. He didn't realize that there was another girl at the table. "Hi," he extended his hand to shake Stephanie's.
She smiled and took his hand, giving him a firm, yet gentle hand shake. "Nice to meet you, I'm Stephanie."
"Logan," he said with a smile. "And this is Kendall. He's an old friend of ours from Junior High."
"Nice to meet you too," Stephanie shook hands with Kendall, who gave her his signature 'Welcome to MPA smile.' Guess you have to have one for being student body president and all.
"Like wise," Kendall said and took a bite of his sandwich. After he finished chewing he asked, "did I over hear you guys saying that you guys are in Honors Theatre?"
"Yup," Katrina took a sip of her brother's water, earning a glare from him. "Why?"
"Well, James, Jo, Camille, and I are all in that class as well. Camille really wanted to take a class with all of us and we agreed to make her happy by taking theatre with her."
Carlos noticed how his sister and Logan lit up at the information. He chuckled and turned his attention over at Stephanie. "Wanna walk to class together after lunch?"
She smiled and nodded. "That would be awesome! I'm still having a tough time trying to figure out where all the class rooms are," she laughed and rubbed the back of her head in a sheepish way.
Carlos smiled gently, loving the way how Stephanie could just act normal, something that he wasn't used to seeing at this school. "Don't worry about it, I had a hell of a time trying to figure my way around her in the beginning too."
"What are you talking about? You still have a hard time," Katrina smirked as she stole another sip from her brother's water bottle.
"That's not me, that's Logan, and stop stealing my drink! Didn't you bring anything with you?" he asked as he looked around the table, finally noticing that his sister didn't have anything with her.
Katrina looked away. "I forgot…"
"Kat…" her brother gave her a warning tone and a worry look.
"Shush! I said I forgot!"
Logan looked over at the girl and gave her a questioning look. "Really now?"
"Urg, leave me alone you two! I'm going to get my stuff. The bell is going to ring soon." As she got up, took one more look at James and Camille, and left. Carlos and Logan gave each other worried looks.
"Is she okay?" Stephanie asked as she packed up her stuff, the bell finally ringing.
"Yeah, she'll be fine…" Logan said as he stood up, still watching his best friend.
Carlos sighed and threw his stuff away. As he headed to class with his friends he couldn't help think about his sister. Hopefully she wasn't… Nah, she promised she would stop. But then again, she did seem to lose a lot of weight over summer… No, she's fine. At least, Carlos hoped so.
When everyone walked into the performing arts center, or commonly known as PAC, Carlos pulled Logan away from Kendall before Jo came over. Logan gave him a questioning look that didn't stay on his face long as he was pulled to the middle of the third row where he, Carlos, Stephanie, and Katrina were going to sit. Logan sat the furthest in, Carlos next to him, and Stephanie next to Carlos. Carlos looked around for his sister, finding it a little odd that she left the cafeteria early and wasn't even here yet.
Finally Katrina walked in, looking a little pale, and sat down next to Stephanie, completely ignoring Carlos's and Logan's worried looks. Her eyes landed on Camille and James, and watched as they argued about something and the quickly made up. She glared at them and decided that the floor was much easier to watch.
Their teacher, Gustavo Roque, walked into the room and yelled for everyone to shut up. He walked towards the stage and took a seat on it. After he scanned the room he groaned in frustration. "Mitchell, Knight, Diamond, and Garcia in the same class? Please just shoot me now."
The class laughed and the four boys couldn't help but smirk. Gustavo had been their choir teacher back in Junior High, and was surprisingly asked to become the theatre teacher at MPA the same year that the boys had become freshmen at MPA. Since then, they have always had a class with Gustavo, whether it was performing arts, or history of theatre.
"Aw, come on Gustavo, you know you love us," James eyes glinted playfully as he put his arm around Camille's chair.
"That's Mr. Roque to you! And no, I don't love you Dogs!" The class laughed again and Carlos shook his head at the nickname. He made a mental note that after graduation the four of them would have to get one of those graduation signing dogs and give it to Gustavo. "Anyway, I'm sick of hearing you talk, so let me talk. This class is based on performance on stage, but there will be some background on the history of whatever genre I decide to talk about that month. You will have a permanent partner for the year. This partner will be the one you will be performing with in any small act or scene, no matter if both rolls are female, or male. Got that?"
The class remained silent, a couple groans here and there, but basically that class already knew what was up. The popular kids would be paired with the popular kids, and the losers and normals with their kind. It was the same thing with other teachers, so why would it be any different with Gustavo?
"Okay, guess I will start," he looked down at his list on his clipboard, no doubt the one that Kelly, his assistant/fiancé, had made for him. "Diamond, you will be paired with Garcia… Kelly what were you thinking? That's a terrible match!" he sighed and grumbled to himself. "Oh well, whatever. You two go move over there," he point off to a couple of seats in the front row. James and Carlos walked over to the seats, smiling at each other as they sat down.
"Okay, even though that was the worst match I have ever seen, I'll deal with it," he looked down at the next names on his list. "Kendall, you and the other Garcia," he snapped as he checked off the name, "go sit over there. He pointed to the two seats behind Carlos and James.
Katrina glanced over at Logan and winked. Logan smiled. Even if he wasn't paired with Kendall, he knew that Katrina would put a good word in for him.
"Okay, next new girl, um Stephanie, since you are new you will be paired with the most experienced person in the class. Camille, don't scare her too much, okay?" he smiled at the future actress who only laughed.
"Oh come on, Mr. Roque, I'm not that intimating!" She looked over at Stephanie and beckoned her to go over to sit next to her.
Gustavo shook his head and looked back down at his list. He name off more pairings, Guitar Dude (who Gustavo could never pronounce his name) with Mercedes, Dak with curly haired Jennifer (who was still upset that her best friends had both moved away to California without her) and so on. Finally Gustavo got to Logan. "Mitchell… and Taylor."
Carlos and his sister looked at each other and bit their lips. Jo hated Logan for always taking Kendall away from her, Logan hated her cause she was a bitch. Fantastic.
Before the bell rang, Gustavo assigned the first scene the students were supposed to perform. Unfortunately it was something from Shakespeare, which made all the students groan with disgust.
"Oh shut up and get to the assignment! It's due next Friday," he said as he walked out of the classroom. It was a rule, Gustavo left class first, no matter what the circumstances where.
Carlos and his sister walked over to Logan who was hitting his head on his book. "Um... Logie?"
"Please, just kill me!" Logan groaned as he hit himself one more time before Katrina stole the book away.
"This might play out into your advantage, Logan," she said as she put the book into his back pack. "I mean you could always tape her acting like a bitch and use to get what you want." She smirked and winked at her friend.
Logan laughed and stood up, swinging his back pack over his shoulder. "Yeah, maybe I could…"
Carlos rolled his eyes and walked over to Stephanie. "You'll like Camille, she's a riot."
Stephanie's eyes widened and she blushed at the chuckle that escaped Carlos. "Really? Oh boy, I don't know if I can handle that…"
Carlos laughed again and walked out of PAC with her. "Don't worry, you'll do fine," he said with utmost sincerity.
She smiled up at him and then looked down at her schedule. "Do you know where room 240B is?"
Carlos looked at her schedule and nodded. "Yeah, you know I have a free period, I'll walk you there."
As they headed down the hall way, he could tell that this year was actually going to go pretty well. Well, if he just paid attention to his double SS's (studies and Stephanie) then he would be fine.
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