Authors note: GAHH I'm so so so sorry I haven't updated sooner. I've been really busy with school and stuff, but I've already started writing the next chapter so I promise that will go up sooner
I'll shut up now..
Logan had been planning to go to this exhibit for months. It was on his list of "nerdy science visits" as James had nick named it, once he had found it in one of Logan's science books. Apparently he had been flicking through trying to learn 'smart things' to impress a hot nerdy girl. But that was a completely different story.
But this trip had been different. They were all here together. Katie said it would be educational and beneficial for all of them to attend. He tried to refuse the idea, knowing the guys would hate it. But to Logan's surprise they hadn't kicked up too much of a fuss. They were apparently trying to be more aware of their own separate dreams and interests.
It had been James' idea. Logan thought it was one of the nicest things they'd done in a while, but he probably wouldn't be standing here cowering like an idiot, if they hadn't though.
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"I can't believe we have the day off." Kendall said incredulously as he fell ungracefully to the brightly colored couch.
"So what are we doing?" Logan asked looking expectantly at Kendall as he sat down beside him, "the question is where we are going" James cut in motioning with his arms to all of them, "to… wait for it… the science museum!"
"WHAT!" Carlos half groaned and half yelled at the sufficiently nerdy notion. Logan raised his eyebrows and Kendall looked at James expectantly. "I just thought we could… um do something Logan finds interesting for once." He muttered looking away.
"Well… he does go through with a lot of our stupid plans…" Kendall said thoughtfully putting his hands behind his head and leaning into the couch further. Logan smiled brightly "So which science museum are we going to?" Logan asked excitedly.
"There's more than one?" Carlos asked bewildered. "Umm" James began in an unsure tone, "I left that up to Katie, and she very enthusiastically offered to help."
Katie appeared smiling into the room "It's a surprise."
They all hauled into mamma Knight's new rental car (The one that wasn't used in a high speed chase) and after twenty minutes of bickering and whining they ended up in front of a large square-ish building.
"Were here!" Carlos shouted clambering out of the car first, "wait where is here exactly?" he asked, staring at James who was pouting into his mirror and frowning at an out of place hair. "Umm the physics museum?" he guesses as they approach the building he looks up reading the sign with the hard sounding scientists name in front of it.
"What's that though?" Carlos asked again.
"It's gravity and stuff, right Logie?" James stated; feeling smug that his answer must be correct as Logan is nodding at him smiling.
Logan found it an impressive notion in itself that he was here with EVERYONE on a non-sanctioned school event… but yet again he was pretty sure the guys would manage to wag the excursion and pass the course by the skin of their teeth anyways. Thanks to extra credit that he would provide... Happy thoughts Logan, happy thoughts, he told himself; today was going to be the most awesomest nerdy day ever!
Logan watched amused as the guys played with all the flashing gizmos and laughed when James touched an orb that made his hair stick out in an array of directions. He would scream horrified, touch his hair as it went back to normal and then touch the orb again.
James then spent a long time being horrified on a set of scales and Logan had to explain to him that the scales were configured to show you how much you would weigh on different planets. James then spent a long time pouting swearing to Logan he would never become an astronaut if he was going to be fat in space. Logan said the chance of him becoming an astronaut were less to none (especially since NASA had finished all their space related projects.)
After about an hour, all of the cool science stuff had seemed to run out for the three boys.
Logan could feel his spidy senses tingling in that very telling way. They were telling him that they were moments away from planning a stupid escapade to prevent their boredom.
At that very moment Katie clasped her hands together, moving them in a circular motion. "Hey guys, wanna see something cool?" she asked as the three boys nodded eagerly. Logan looked up from the book he was reading and placed it back on the podium, better to make sure no one broke anything. He'd like to be able to come back here in the near distant future.
They all followed Katie as she led them down a beaten track a distance away from the museum. Logan smiled as he watched his friend's agitation. Carlos apparently couldn't hold himself together any longer. "What-are-we-doing? -What-are-we-seeing? -Is-it-a-rocket-ship!" Carlos asked hurriedly, grasping Katie by the shoulders and lifting her off the ground.
"Carlos, put my sister down," Kendall commanded. Katie threw him a grateful look, as Carlos did what he was told. "Don't be stupid, it's obviously a death ray…right Katie?" Kendall asked with as much intensity and scary eyes as Carlos had just done. Katie rolled her eyes, "It's a new science experiment their running for kids to be more interested in science or whatever." Katie started, adjusting her clothes after being man handled by Carlos.
Katie grabbed Logan's hand as they were slowing down, "it's going to be a really good surprise, but I need your help." Logan nodded thrilled that Katie was taking an interest in science. She produced four bandanas, she handed Logan a purple one, "put it over your eyes."
Carlos snatched up the orange one, "Oh! Oh! I get to be Michelangelo!" he cheered, Kendall and James wrestled and Kendall won, smugly putting the blue one over his eyes. James tripped him up and then begrudgingly took the red one, "Leonardo is the lamest ninja turtle anyway!" They all joined hands and Katie led them through a revolving door, "stairs!" she hollered.
And they started moving upwards. They were the kind on stairs that spiraled upwards and Logan began counting steps, "ah Katie" he said nervously. "Hey Kendall!" Katie said loudly ignoring Logan "I bet you're so winded you can't sing and climb at the same time!" Logan could practically hear Kendall smirk, "is that a challenge baby sister?"
"Oh absolutely" Kendall squeezed Logan's hand and then began to belt out 'the city is ours' and Logan lost count. "Sing with me Logie" he asked when he finished the song- and hadn't they been climbing for a while? "You huff should ask huff James" he told him, Kendall whined almost immediately "no way! James is a stupid face, you have to do it!"
Two shaky verses into 'any kind of guy' and Katie halted, they had reached even ground. "we're here!" she said excitedly and Logan pushed up his mask.
"We're on a tower Katie!" Carlos exclaimed swiveling on his heels. "Yeah! They built it for their new experiment that why the museum is out in the middle of nowhere- you can't be near anywhere people are." Carlos peered over the edge, there was a marked off area around the tower.
"You throw water balloons off the edge and watch as they leave craters in the sand because were so high up from the ground. Thirty something stories actually… Wow that's really high, now that I think about it…" Logan was starting to sweat but Katie continued to babble "It hasn't been made very long either; they added it on for the experiment. Pretty cool huh? ...Logan are you alright your looking a little green?" Katie asked feigning concern.
All three grins turned into frowns as Kendall, James and Carlos turned to see Logan looking like he was about to throw up. Kendall seemed to realize first. "Were too high aren't we?" he asked grasping Logan's shoulders. Logan closed his eyes and nodded, he was beginning to sway. "Time to leave." Kendall stated aloud.
Logan shook his head. "Its fine, you guys go throw your watermelon's or whatever off the building okay?" Logan said trying to maintain his balance.
"But Logan, look how scared you are." James said softly grasping one of his arms, helping his vertigo slightly. "I'd rather not look at anything at the moment actually." Logan said quickly shutting his eyes tighter, hoping the dizziness would cease.
The three boys shared a look and picked Logan up clean off his feet. This seemed to make it worse as Logan screamed shouting that he was falling. The three boys carried him hurriedly to the stairs. "Katie, open the gate!" Kendall shouted. "Okay, okay sheesh." Katie fumbled with the keys shortly.
"Why isn't it opening?" James yelled at her. "It's an old key, I've got to signal they worker at the bottom- he'll open it." She said through gritted teeth, she grabbed the walkie talkie attached to the gate.
She was sick of being yelled at, although the scene was proving to be rather amusing to her, as all three boys rocked back and forth on their feet holding Logan (rather haphazardly) with intense worry. They were trying to calm Logan down but becoming increasingly more worked up with themselves instead. The worker appeared at the steps and opened the gate easily and Katie almost didn't make it in alive. She stifled a laugh as she noticed that they hadn't quit holding Logan and muttering to themselves about how everything would be fine.
"What was wrong with the gate?" the museum worker asked in concern, watching the four boys fly down the steps. "In fact why was it locked at all?" Katie shrugged smiling, "One of my brother's stupid friends did it by accident… you know how teenagers are." The museum worker sighed heavily, indicating he knew exactly how teenagers were.
Katie skipped down the steps and back to the museum in time to catch an incredibly amusing sight.
"Mum, were leaving!" Kendall shouts at their mother as the boys rush past her still carrying Logan. "Guys its fine now, put me down!" Logan shouts as they begin to rush for the exit. He was beginning to feel unsafe by the way they were carrying him.
"Oh right." James says as they all place him on the ground steadying him.
"What's going on?" Mamma Knight asks in concern rushing up to them Katie followed.
"WHAT DID YOU BOYS DO TO LOGAN!" she shouts grasping him and checking him over for any damage. He appeared to be okay, a little paler than usually but nothing looked broken.
"Im fineee mamma Knight, no worries." Logan says with a shaky smile. She sighs with relief.
"Geezzz Mum, it's like you don't trust us or something?" Kendall said rolling his eyes. "I trust you boys," she says grabbing hold of Kendall's cheek. "As long as Logan's in charge."
"But that's my job isn't it?" Kendall says confused "sure" She told him insincerely smiling. "Lets get going then, who feels like lunch?"
"OHH OH OHH MEEEEEE!" Carlos says raising his hand in the air jumping up and down.
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"Soooo how'd it go?" Stephanie said eagerly as Katie approached her, holding a blue smoothie. She had been waiting for Katie and the guys to get back by the pool, trying in vain to learn her lines for a new audition.
"Everything went exactly like it was supposed to." Katie said flopping down in the vacant pool chair next to her. "So Logan's scared of heights then?" Stephanie asked smiling. Katie took a sip from her smoothie. "Yep." Stephanie frowned. "That's good though right? I mean now we know they're all real for sure right?"
"Trust me, the guys have never been one to keep secrets. They probably all know what they're all scared of anyway." She said leaning back in the pool chair in smug satisfaction.
Everything was right on schedule.
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Carlos frowned. He swiveled in his chair beside his desk in continuous circles in the room James and him shared. He never really sat there much. It was probably because it was next to the desk that was currently collecting dust and holding a numerous amount of James' hair products that wouldn't fit in the bathroom cupboard.
He sighed, how did he not know Logan was afraid of heights? That was something he should have known right? He suddenly remembered when Logan rescued him from a tree when they were younger and first started hanging out more. He started to feel guilty and then realized that they've been in things like air ducts loads of times at the Palmwoods… so it's just BIG heights, like the one from today… Man that was high.
He kicked one of the empty cans of barracuda hair spray that was rolling across the ground, he was sort of impressed with Logan for reacting so cool in the face of one of his greatest fears. He'd hate to think what would happen if he was confronted with his biggest fear… he's probably cry like a little girl.
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So there it is. Logan's fear is pretty normal from what I have planned with the others. But I figured he's a pretty logical guy so he'd have a pretty logical fear.
Anyways pleaseeee review:3