It seemed like an eternity before he reached the door of the apartment he and his friends called home, he unlocked the door and walked in.
"Kendall? You here?"
"Yeah, I'm in my room!"
Logan walked into Kendall and James' room, and Kendall was fixing a hockey stick that Carlos had broken during their most recent game of floor hockey in their living room. He looked up at Logan and could tell his friend was upset, he wasn't his usual cheerful self,
"You look like someone who just heard their puppy got run over! What's wrong man?"
"A lot of things…"
"Like what?"
"I don't really know how to say this, but…"
"But, what?"
"Well, I'm, um, I'm…" Logan took a deep breath.
"Spit it out Logan, you know you can tell me anything, whatever it is, I just wanna help you out dude."
"Okay, here goes, Kendall, I'm gay."
"Is that it?" Kendall replied nonchalantly, and returned to tinkering with his hockey equipment.
"What do you mean is that it?" Logan shouted.
"Well, I kinda already knew that…"
"HOW?"
"I've seen the way you look at Carlos when you think nobody's watching you, and the way you flirt with him all the time, like today in the pool, it was pretty obvious."
"Wow, really? I thought I hid it pretty, well, I even dated Camille!"
"Yeah, you're like a little brother to me, of course I knew. Plus no guy would ever wanna date Camille, she's like class A crazy."
"Yeah I guess so, Hey, wait, little brother? I'm 6 months older than you Kendall!"
"Eh, whatever, I'm taller than you so I feel older," Kendall shrugged. "Anyway, was that it?"
Logan sat down on James' bed. "Well, I do like Carlos…"
"So, what are you gonna do about it?"
"I don't know, I mean, he's my best-friend, and he's not even gay, so what can I do?" he said hopelessly.
"How do you know he's not into guys?"
"Well, the fact that he's on a date with a GIRL right now is one clue."
"That just means he likes girls, it doesn't mean he doesn't like guys…"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, Logan, there are people who are bi…"
"Yeah, but he's not, at least he's never said anything about it."
"You never said anything about being gay either."
"True, so how would I figure out if he is bi, then?"
"Has he ever done anything to show he likes guys?"
Just then they heard the front door open, "Hey anybody home?" It was Carlos returning from his date.
"Well here comes Prince Charming himself," Kendall joked.
"Shut up dude!" Logan snapped Back.
"We're in here!" Logan yelled to Carlos.
"So uh, how was your date?" Logan asked not knowing what to say. Carlos sat down, rather closely, next to Logan, who's stomach flipped at being so close to Carlos.
"Short and lame." Carlos replied to Logan's question.
"Aww, why?" Kendall asked.
"Well, she was hot, but she was really annoying. She didn't wanna go mattress surfing or have a water balloon fight so I just kinda left her in the lobby, She was really pissed."
"Usually girls don't like that kinda stuff," Logan said, secretly happy that things didn't work out between them.
Carlos smiled at Logan, "Yeah, so how was your night, Logan?"
"Kinda boring after you left…" Logan said faintly blushing at Carlos's smile.
"Aww sorry dude, I guess I kinda ditched you, you're not mad are you?" he asked as he put his arm around his friend.
"N-n-n-no, I'm not mad…" replied Logan, distracted by Carlos' beautiful brown eyes.
"Are you cold? You sound like you're shivering"
"Yeah, a little." Logan replied to cover himself.
"Here take my hoodie, I'll go turn down the air conditioning." Carlos laughed as he got up. Logan loved how warm and soft Carlos' hoodie was, and how it smelled like his cologne.
"Dude, that's a sign he likes you." Kendall whispered.
"You think so?"
"Yeah, he just gave you his jacket, I do that all the time with girls, I think it's definitely a good sign."
Logan smiled and pulled the hoodie in tighter to his body and breathed in the scent of Carlos's cologne again.
"And you're totally in love with him aren't you, Logan?" said Kendall, getting up to put his hockey stuff away.
"Yeah, I think so." Logan sighed.
Kendall just sort of laughed to himself and Logan couldn't help but do the same.
"So, what did I miss?" Carlos said as he sat back down even closer to Logan, so close their shoulders were touching. "what's so funny?" he said noticing their quiet laughter.
"We were just talking about what could be taking James so long at his hair stylist's." Kendall replied making up a cover story for Logan. Carlos laughed.
"That's what we were talking about before! Maybe she really is doing his make up! He's such a DIVA." Carlos and Logan both laughed.
James had walked in while they were talking, but they hadn't heard him.
"That is not funny, I only use concealer, and sometimes foundation if I brake out." Now everyone was laughing except James.
"My face is very important to this band! So stop laughing! ALRIGHT! OUT YOU TWO! I NEED MY BEAUTY SLEEP!"
"Alright, alright, don't have a cow bro!" Carlos yelled back at James as he was pushing the two of them out of the door.
"We should probably get to bed anyway, it's getting kinda late…" Logan said
"Aww come on, stay up and watch some TV with me! I mean we didn't really get to hang today because of my lame date." Carlos looked exactly like an excited puppy, Logan just couldn't say no to that face.
"Alright, sounds like fun, you're just lucky Mrs. Knight and Katie are away visiting Kendall's Grandma, she'd never let us stay up this late…" Logan smiled at him and they turned on the TV. After a few hours of mindless cartoon mayhem, they fell asleep on the couch.