Logan's POV
I saw Lin's arm without her being aware. Bruises covered the surface of it as she nervously hid between Adrianna and Jocelyn. Nice try Lin. Nice try. I thought as Carlos, James and I walked to out sisters. As we sat down next to them on the chairs of the island that sat in the middle of the kitchen, I leaned in to Lin and whispered "what happened to your arm?". Her eyes widened and she squirmed a bit. I think Carlos caught on and nudged James. Carlos helped me question Lin while James asked Adriah and his sister.
Adriah's POV
James asked Josie and I if we knew what was bugging Lin. My eyes widened and Josie began to squirm. We can't tell, we can't tell. I thought. "Well, on our way over here…" Josie started. She was as just as bad a liar as Lin. " Lin fell and it tripped us two too." I finished then mentally face-palmed myself. I glanced over as Carlitos. I couldn't hold in the secret any longer. And by the looks of it, Lin couldn't either. She caught sight of me and she was biting her lip. "Don't" I mouthed. She nodded. When the boys finally stopped questioning us and we returned to goofing about around the island, the boys knew something was wrong and that we had lied. And I could tell that they knew that it had been bothering all 3 of us. When Logan left he looked concerned. He had the right to be, anyway. The problem was eating me alive. If Carlitos was in my place, he'd be doing the same as me now: freaking out. It definitely ran in our family. The instinct of detection did as well. I knew one thing, if this kept up, we were screwed.
***the next morning***
I woke up to see Josie curled up into a ball with her laptop in front of her and she was crying. Lindsey was trying to comfort her. "What happened?" I whispered. Although I think I already knew. And, I did. Jocelyn just passed me the laptop and curled back into a ball with her hands covering her face. I stared at the screen and gasped at the first word I saw on Josie's facebook wall. Whore. More followed. And guess who they were from? Katie. Evil, Katie. At this moment I wanted to strangle her. Then I was cut out of my thought when suddenly Lin said "wait….before you get too many violent thoughts…..what about your facebook and my twitter?" heh, typical for her to read my mind. I thought and then typed into Josie's laptop. Sure enough, on my facebook wall were vicious attacks. I softened for about 10 seconds then looked over to Carlos and James through the hallway. Then I got sad. "I want to tell him…" I whispered, knowing I can't. When I turned back around Lindsey was lying on the floor, probably from fainting, with her phone next to her. Josie had snapped out of her crying when she saw me rush to Lin's side trying to wake our weakest friend up. Then I glanced at the clock. 6:30am it read. Great. We only had an hour until school. And the boys weren't up. I did the only thing I could do, ok, only 2 things I could do, pour a bucket of water on Lin so she wakes up, which Jocelyn covered, and panic. Which, I was really good at, really.
Carlos's POV
I woke up before James and I heard talking coming from Josie's room across the hall. So I looked at the clock. 6:32Am. Shoot! I thought and shook James waking him up. We quickly got dressed and went to Josie's room. What I saw, honestly shocked me. Lin had fainted, and Josie had red, puffy eyes as Adrianna tried to keep herself and Josie together. James ran into action. "Oh my goodness Jo what happened?" and I saw a flash of worry in my little sister's eyes. "Umm well you see we were getting ready for school when..." Adriah started. I could tell she was lying. "…I saw Lindsey slip and she fainted or something cause she won't get up!" Josie had ended. All of it was a big lie, but James fell for it. "I'm going to call Logan." I said and left with James. We heard chaos in the room with the two awake girls. I was extremely concerned now. And so was James. What was going on? While James called Logan and Kendall I stayed by the girl's door. I heard Katie mentioned in angry voices, and finally heard the sound of Lindsey's voice. It was 6:42 When Logan, Kendall, and Katie arrived. Kat was ready for school, and so were the guys. Logan was paler than usual and frantic " Where's Linny?" he asked nervously. James and I led them to the girl's room. When we entered all of the girls were ready, and Lin was lying on the bed, staring blankly at the wall, obviously hurt mentally. Logan was wide eyed and by her side in seconds. "Oh my gosh Lin are you okay?" he asked "yeah, I just slipped on a spill and fell. Minor concussion, nonetheless serious." She replied. "Okay good. C'mon we need to get to school. All of us are taking the van." He said silently with a bit of relief in his voice. All of us walked to the van and got in. I couldn't help but notice Katie smirk at the girls when we dropped them off at their wing of the school building. And Kendall noticed too. We gave each other a look of confusion, and entered our wing of the building with James and Logan.
Katie's POV
Man, I hated those girls. You may ask why, well, I'll tell you why. It's because in 3rd grade when I met Jocelyn and she introduced me to Adrianna. Adrianna was younger than us, and I got used to that. She was really nice. Then, I screwed it up, well, really they did for not backing me up. Later that year we were all gathered at the Minnesota Park and I saw this shy girl who was younger than all 3 of us. She was under a tree reading and I decided to mess with her, even if she was my brother's friend's sister. I walked up to her and called her names, and she had extreme fear in her eyes. Adriah and Josie defended Lindsey, and so I despise Lindsey most for ruining my friendships. For years now I have been bullying all 3 for betraying me, and to all 4 of our brothers, I'm an angel. Thank goodness they don't know the real me…
