OMG YAY! My baby is fixed! :) yes, guys...I am in fact back on my laptop and its free of blue screens and all that other scary stuff!

Also...if you haven't already heard (well, I don't see why you wouldn't have LOL) BTR is going to be on the KCAs tomorrow! My friend, Sara, and I are watching them and totally rooting for the guys! I'm so excited...I've been voting like crazy for them and Carlos! I also think we're gonna win the "Fan Army Challenge" too! Also, as far as I know, the 4th season starts right after the KCAs too :D gonna be so much fun!

Here is an update :D

Logan felt weird coming back to school the next day; he has never gotten in trouble before...heck, sometimes he feared that people pitied him too much to ever punish him at his old school. At least he was being treated just like any other student here. He didn't feel like one, though. Everyone stared at him whenever he signed or had to write something down. Why couldn't they look past his deafness and muteness? Why couldn't they see who he truly was underneath that.

James snapped Logan out of his thoughts by running up to him cheerfully and pulling him into a big bear hug, "Hi! How are you?" James signed to Logan, remembering the "ASL Tutorial" he watched on YouTube the night before.

Logan beamed and instantly signed back, "I'm good...and you?"

James thought for a moment before taking his two fingers and brushing them against an open palm. Logan giggled and pulled out his notepad, "James, you just told me that you are dancing."

The pretty boy blushed and wrote back, "Oops...I guess I need to practice a bit more before we can actually have a conversation in sign-language."

Logan grinned, "It's fine. The fact that you're trying is amazing enough. This really means a lot to me."

James smiled back and responded, "I know...that's why the guys and I are doing it."

There was a silence for a moment. Logan played with the straps to his backpack anxiously while James looked back and forth from the right side of the hallways to the left side. He finally turned towards the smaller boy and took his hands into his.

"Kendall, Carlos, and me are going to make sure that Jason doesn't hurt you anymore." James spoke up. He said everything clearly and looked into the brunette's eyes to make sure that he could read exactly what he was saying.

Logan was confused as to why James was so serious about this. He didn't enjoy being harassed by the jocks, but it didn't bother him too much. All he wanted was for his friends to let him know if someone was coming since he couldn't hear them...after that he was perfectly fine handling everything else on his own.

"I'm fine, James." Logan wrote down and nodded with a reassuring smile, "But thanks."

"It's no problem. You see, my sister was bullied so much when she was in school and it really breaks a person a part...I don't know if I'd be able to live with myself if I knew that was happening to you too and I wasn't helping." James answered, though there was slight doubt in his eyes.

Logan sighed sympathetically, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay...it's done with now."

The bell rung for homeroom before Logan could reply to James.


"So, I see you've befriended the new student."

"Yep. He's in a few of our classes. We even hung out with him after school and everything!"

"That's nice."

"Well...are we still going to be held back? Did we make up all of our...point...demerit...things?"

"I mean we've been so nice...we should have by now!"

"Boys. You've had so many detentions, suspensions, etc. It's going to take more than a few days of being nice to the disabled boy before you can be let off for these punishments."

"I really don't want to be held back!"

"Yeah, either do I!"

"You know what I told you and your parents when we had that conference last week; if you boys are good for the rest of the year then I won't count those times you've been in trouble...but if not you're in risk of being held back."

"I...um...I kinda feel bad. I mean, he thinks were friends."

"Damn, we must be good actors!"

"That's not funny, guys. He actually thinks we...um...want to do this."

"Well...I don't want you boys using him, but...I'm sure he could use a friend...no one else seems to be interested in hanging out with him; but do you blame them? He can't hear or talk. Poor thing."

"I still feel bad about this."

"If you think it might hurt him in the end, I'd find a new thing to do. I wouldn't want him to have more problems than he already deals with."

"Deafness and muteness isn't a problem, it's just a little bump in the road!"

"Dude! Shut up! Do you want to be held back?"

"No..."

"Okay, good."

"Listen, Mr. Doyle. Logan's not going to know about this, we promise. Plus, we're doing something even better by like...volunteering to be his friend. We noticed how lonely he was and now we're fixing the problem."

"But if you don't like him, I don't want any of you letting him down. It'd be wrong to do that."

"We like him." He lied, "We really do...and even if we didn't, there is no way I'm being held back at this place for another year."

Mysterious...I know :) hmm...

xoxo

~EMMALEiGH