A/N: Welcome to part seven. I can barely believe people are still reading this!

Disclaimer: I don't own BTR.

Warnings: Mentions of cutting. Please don't let this trigger anybody.

"James, I think it would be best if we weren't friends anymore." Kendall said quickly. The entire room had just heard Stephanie dumping Carlos and now Kendall was destroying one of the best friendships he'd ever had. The wounded look on James face made Kendall feel extremely guilty and the chance of becoming more than friends with Carlos was the only thing holding him together right now.

"Wait… what?" James and Logan countered. Neither had any notion of why Kendall was doing this. What had changed in the past few minutes that would make him not want to be friends with James anymore? The only thing noteworthy was Stephanie breaking up with Carlos… Then Logan remembered that sometime last year Kendall had mentioned Carlos not liking James. It still made no sense though. Why would he want to stop being friends with him now? Logan glanced over at Carlos' table just in time to see Jett staring wide-eyed right at them.

"Kendall, what did Jett say to you?" Logan asked exasperatedly. Kendall turned to face him, looking surprised before asking, "How did you.." but Logan interrupted by saying, "He was looking over here a second ago with a look on his face that literally screamed 'What I've said is going to have major consequences'. So what did he say to you?"

Kendall looked down at his shoes. He'd never heard of a situation like this arising before and he wasn't really sure how his friends – if they were even still his friends now that he was after being an idiot and listening to Jett – would take it.

"He said Carlos wouldn't even consider going out with me as long as I was friends with James." Kendall murmured.

"And you actually listened to that douchebag?" James chimed in, glaring at his so called friend. "I'm not even going to comment on your idiocy here, Kendall, but did you really think sweet, innocent Carlos would be so spiteful that he'd make you dump one of your best friends just so you could be together?"

James didn't wait for a response. He stood up and walked off, closely followed by Logan. Kendall was left feeling confused and abandoned, despite having been the one actually meaning to do the abandoning.

Kendall glanced once more at Carlos before grabbing his bag and heading to his locker. He hadn't exactly planned on Carlos seeing him and thinking he wanted to be followed but that was indeed what happened.

Kendall entered the empty locker room, unaware of the boy trailing after him. He curled his fingers around the top edges of his locker and started hitting his head off it, repeating, "You stupid idiot!"

He jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder and a soothing voice saying, "Calm down, Kendall. You're not stupid and you're not an idiot. What's wrong?"

Kendall turned to face Carlos, having recognised the voice and just about managing to avoid flushing bright red. He tried telling the truth in the vaguest sense possible. "Somebody told me something and I stupidly listened to him and ended up hurting two of the people I'm closest to."

Carlos pulled him into a hug and after the initial surprise of it, Kendall hugged him back. "It'll be okay," Carlos promised, "They'll forgive you and everything will go back to normal."

Kendall hoped he was right. He pulled away from the hug and looked Carlos in the eyes, fighting the urge to kiss him because that would just make everything ten times worse. "I wish it was that easy" Kendall sighed.

"Everybody makes mistakes. I'm sure yours wasn't that unforgivable." Carlos consoled.

"I may have been attempting to abandon one of them because the person I like doesn't like him." Kendall murmured, scratching the back of his neck awkwardly.

A wave of confusion washed over Carlos' face. "Did you consider asking the person you like to get to know your friend before deciding they don't like him?" he questioned.

Kendall shook his head and tried to think of what James and Carlos could possibly have in common, other than the fact they both liked Stephanie. "It's probably too late now anyway." He concluded.

"It's never too late to try." Carlos said, grinning at Kendall before making his way back to his table.

Kendall smiled back weakly and spent the rest of lunch thinking. He groaned realising his next class was Accounting and he'd have to talk to Logan.

Logan glared up at him as he took his seat. Kendall figured it was best to wait for him to talk.

"Do you have any idea how close James came to starting again?" Logan spat.

Kendall's eyes widened as he realised what Logan meant. "But he hasn't done that for years. I thought he was better, like, less insecure."

"Well obviously being dumped by his girlfriend and now one of his best friends has made him a whole lot worse."

"I have to fix this" Kendall stated before getting up and leaving the classroom. His teacher hadn't come in yet and he figured Logan would cover for him. He crossed the hallway to get to James' Biology class and knocked on the door.

"Excuse me, Miss, may I borrow James Diamond for a minute please." He asked politely.

James rolled his eyes as the teacher nodded and he was forced to go over to Kendall. They sat on the bench outside the room. Nobody understood why the bench was there, seeing as there were no other benches in the entire school, but nobody ever questioned it.

"What do you want, Kendall?" James asked, annoyed.

"Logan told me you almost started cutting again." Kendall explained.

"So what?" James hissed, "You think you have to stop me because you'd feel guilty?"

"It's not like that, James. I don't know what came over me. I made a huge mistake and I'm really sorry. I don't want you to stop being my friend. Not for anything or anyone. How about I stop being foolish and we decide against throwing five years of amazing friendship down the drain?" Kendall said, desperately trying to fix his friendship.

"It'll take more than a stupid speech to fix this, Kendall" James stated, but he'd already started to forgive his friend.

"I'll buy you a tin of cherry flavoured lollipops." Kendall smirked, knowing his friend's weak spot.

"You can get them in tins?" James asked excitedly and Kendall smiled, knowing his friend had forgiven him.

"I have no idea. If you can't, I'll just buy a load of lollipops and put them in a tin" Kendall promised.

James hugged him and whispered, "I guess I can just about forgive you".

"Great," Kendall whispered back, "But now we really have to go back to our classes".

As soon as Kendall got back to Accounting, Logan looked up at him expectantly.

"He forgave me" Kendall told him.

"Thank God," Logan responded, "Do you have any idea how difficult it is to glare at someone for that long?"

Kendall shook his head, trying to refrain from laughing. Carlos had been right, he realised. It was never too late to try. Who knows? Maybe he still had a chance to have a relationship with the guy.

He was optimistic as he walked to his double Biology class. He didn't usually sit with Carlos so he was surprised when the other boy sat down next to him, a serious look on his face.

"Jett told me what happened".

A/N: I don't know why I'm being so cruel with these cliff-hangers. Sorry. Oh, and please review!