By the time the two had cleaned themselves, and Kendall had made sure that during their little escapade, all of Logan's stitches stayed in tact, their stomachs were protesting greatly about the lack of food. Their meeting with Gustavo was so urgent, they figured they could just eat when they got back to the apartment, only to find that none of them were in the mood to eat once they had returned. Now, that things had settled, and Kendall and Logan had physically exerted themselves, the sound of anything edible, and some things that weren't, were making their mouths water.
"Are you… ok to walk?" Kendall grimaced watching as Logan gingerly tried to get up off the bed, Kendall's whole body tensing with every hiss of pain from the boy. Logan merely nodded his head and waved, not trusting his voice not to break, and if it did, he knew he'd probably be confined to the bed by Kendall, who looked like he would have a panic attack if Logan so much as said 'ow'. It was slightly amusing to see that when Kendall was the reason he was hurting, somewhat, that he was more protective than ever. Logan could pinpoint a million times he had been hurt while playing hockey, seeing as the sport wasn't known for its delicacy, but Kendall had never fretted over him like he was now.
"Kendall, I'm fine, really," Logan said, standing up, a bit shakily, smiling as almost instantly Kendall was beside him, ready to grab him if he so much as teetered on his feet. To be honest, Logan was quite sore, but it wasn't a pins and needle feeling like he expected, more like a dull ache. Though he was overly grateful for the help Kendall was giving him in putting on some boxers and sweatpants.
"You might want a shirt, unless you want Carlos' nose in your stitches the whole time you're around him," Kendall teased, going through his own drawers before grabbing a shirt and handing it to Logan. Logan looked down at it curiously, before looking back at Kendall. Sure the two of them shared clothes quite often, but it wasn't ever something they really were consciously aware of. It most of the time just became that when Ms. Knight did laundry, she wasn't sure whose shirts always belonged to whom. The only one who really minded was James, and that was only because he had a certain style, and because he couldn't fit into Logan's or Carlos'. But usually they didn't just hand each other their shirts, in hopes the other would wear it.
"This is your shirt you know," Logan mused, looking up into the bright green eyes smiling down at him. He made no move to grab the shirt just yet, and to be honest, he wasn't exactly sure why he was making such a big deal about it. He had worn Kendall's clothes plenty of times, the line of whose was whose was seriously blurred when it came to their clothes.
"Ya I know, but it will complete the look," Kendall smirked, laughing slightly when Logan just looked at him confused. "Sex hair," he began ruffling his fingers through Logan's messy hair, not being able to help but reminisce how before they became the band, Logan's hair had always had this slightly shaggy look. "The limp, I'm sure you'll have, the beautiful smile your wearing because I am just that awesome," Kendall couldn't help but laugh as Logan rolled his eyes, pushing his shoulder gently, but just as Kendall said, he was smiling the entire time. "So I figure we'd complete the look with you wearing my shirt. And…" Kendall trailed off, a blush just barely tinting his own cheeks. "I like it when you wear my clothes, you look really… cute."
Logan blushed as he took the shirt from Kendall, sliding it over his head, not missing the way it smelled distinctly of Kendall, a smell he was never going to stop loving. The shirt was a little loose on him, as most of Kendall's clothes were, and suddenly Logan missed the snow of Minnesota, where he would have been able to curl up in an overly large Kendall sweatshirt. Kendall always liked wearing sweatshirts that were a little big for him, he said they kept him warmer, so when Logan would wear them, he imagined he looked like a petite girl, wearing her football player boyfriends jersey. Logan would have rolled his eyes at himself, and he wondered if his mind could have that up something a little more cliché. Though the thought was quickly washed away as he looked over at a beaming Kendall, once the shirt was over his head.
"Have I ever told you how adorable you are," Kendall asked, as he placed a kiss on Logan's lips, resting his palm against Logan's cheek, smiling widely when Logan's head instinctively leaned into it. Logan merely blushed, before his large smile fell from his face and as if in a rush, wrapped his arms around the taller boy, letting out a sob as he did. Kendall wasted no time wrapping his arms around Logan as he held him tightly, feeling as the boy shook against him, crying loudly. Kendall knew that Logan was the most emotional of the group, except when it came to James and his hair, or Carlos and his helmet, but he knew that Logan wouldn't have busted into loud sobs just from the small sentiment of giving him a shirt.
"Logie, what's wrong?" Logan shook his head, apparently trying to speak, but he could only gasp at the air he wasn't getting when he was crying, and couldn't quite get his breathing under control enough to speak.
"Are you guys ok in there?" Kendall heard James asking through the door, apparently too worried of what he may find if he just came into the room.
"You can come in James, we're clothed," Kendall said as he managed to maneuver Logan back to the bed that only a little bit ago had held a very drastic different Logan. When he had Logan sitting on the edge of the bed, he kneeled on the floor, trying to get a look at the boy, as he hid his face in his hands, Carlos taking a seat to his left, and James on his right, both looking at Kendall in a mixture of confusion, and what almost looked like anger. Had it not been for the crisis at hand, he may have been severely offended that they thought he would do anything to intentionally make Logan cry like he was now.
"What's wrong Logan? Are you…" Carlos faltered in his question, looking slightly awkward before continuing. "Are you hurt?" Logan merely shook his head, as the sobs were slowly starting to die down, his body just shaking ever now and again with a heavy breath or hiccup.
"I don't… w-want to pretend," Logan said quietly, looking directly at Kendall, as if pleading to the boy kneeling before him. Kendall shook his hand, grabbing one of Logan's hand and kissing the palm of it, looking up to speak, but finding James actually spoke up first.
"You don't have to." Everyone looked over at James, as he wrapped his arm around Logan's shoulder, and leaning his head sideways to place it against Logan's own. "This may be my dream, but if I have to hurt my friends to do it, then to hell with it." There was a collective gasp all around, but James merely smiled. "You guys have been my friends through everything, do you really think I'd let you guys get hurt just because I want to be famous?" The room was silent, and James frowned looking between all of his friends, who looked anywhere but him. "Oh come on!" He opened his mouth to get angry, but shut it once again when he felt Logan's arms wrap around him tightly.
"Thank you, James." James smiled, and hugged Logan tightly, only to feel Carlos hands brush his side as he saw the Latino boy wrap his arms around Logan's other side. Kendall merely smiled at the scene before him, resting his chin on Logan's legs, glad to see that the sobbing had stopped, and the only shaking was just Logan trying to get his breathing back to normal. It really was a touching moment, until Carlos decided to open his mouth.
"It kinda smells like sex in here," Carlos said, as the hugfest was coming to a close. Logan merely blushed looking down at his lap, which is of course was where Kendall was resting his head, practically leering up at him.
"I wonder why Carlos," James said sarcastically earning a glare from the helmeted boy. "It's not like we didn't hear Logan screaming from the other room." Kendall couldn't help but laugh, even as Logan seemed to be trying to curl in on himself from embarrassment, before giving up and falling backwards on the bed with a groan, his hands covering his face for an entirely different reason this time.
"Do you think if Bitters heard, we'd get a third strike?" Carlos completely ignored the mortified Logan who lay between him and James, trying to sink into the bed. Kendall smiled as he finally stood, stretching his arms high above his head before looking at the two boys not trying to be swallowed by a blanket.
"Go call for pizza," Kendall said, gesturing towards Carlos, who was all too eager to forget his earlier conversation and rush towards the kitchen phone. James merely smirked, giving Kendall a pat on the back as he went to follow Carlos at a more leisurely pace. Kendall watched him leave, before turning back to the small boy on the bed, still seemingly to hide behind his hands. Smirking, Kendall crawled over top of him, before leaning down to place kisses on the back of the hands blocking the lips he wanted a taste of.
"They're gone," Kendall whispered, as the hands slowly started to move away, allowing to place a few stray kisses on the boys cheeks, and nose. Finally when the hands were fully moved, he had access to those lusciously full lips, kissing them, and almost instantly noticing the change in the boys demeanor. He went from shy and embarrassed, to wrapping his arms around Kendall's still shirtless shoulders, and allowing the taller boy to let his tongue slip past his lips. Kendall could almost instantly feel his body trying to respond to the kisses, his teenage libido hoping to get a little more of the chocolate eyed boy below him. He ground his hips into the body below him, loving the way the lips parted, and he could feel the gasp from Logan trying to steal his breath away from him.
"Seriously? Again," James asked from the doorway, leaning against the frame as he stood smirking at his two friends. "Pizza will be here in a few minutes," He said with a wave as he left the room, not really wanting a first hand look at how the room had come to smell the way it did.
Logan smiled into the chaste kiss Kendall gave him them, letting the boy help pull him to his feet once more, both of them trying to calm themselves before joining their friends. It was when they heard a knock coming from the front door of their apartment that they finally decided to head out into the main room, watching as James headed back to the couch with the pizza, Carlos practically drooling at the sight.
As Logan looked around the room, he could see the blinds were drawn, all the lights were off besides one of the kitchen over head lights, there were soda's on the table, bowls of popcorn, and finally the pizza that James had just set down.
"I figured we could just have a movie day," James said as he took a seat next to Carlos, grabbing a piece of the cheese pizza as he looked over the back of the couch at the other two. "That way we don't have to deal with the paparazzi." Logan smiled, and wondered if he had sacrificed his life in a past life or something to have the greatest friends in the world in this life.
Carlos was the first one to pick a movie, having already chosen Toy Story, explaining that it was a classic, and they needed some comedy to start off with. No one argued, and even if they had wanted to, they all had their mouths full of pizza and their parents, or at least Mama Knight, had raised them well enough that one just did not talk with their mouths full. So they all sat quietly watching the movie, the only sound from them being laughing, and occasionally the quote being thrown from one of the four.
"I didn't mean to hurt them, you guys believe me right? I just wanted them to go to outer space," Carlos said sadly as his eyes stayed glued to the tv, watching as Sid went for the lighter. Logan looked over towards the other two boys for the first time since the movie had started, noticing the way Carlos leaned into James in much the same way Logan was leaning into Kendall, and he wondered just how long he had remained oblivious. He tried thinking back as far as he could, remembering every stolen glance, seemingly innocent touch, secret whispers, and he furrowed his brow angrily, that for being the smart one of the group, he seemed pretty dumb not to notice.
Movie day was doing a fantastic job of keeping their minds off anything unpleasant, that is until another knock on the door came. Ms. Knight wasn't going to be home until later today, and as far as the rest of the knew they hadn't invited anyone to come over. It was Logan who finally stood, heading toward the door, leaning forward to see through the peephole. He stepped back as he opened the door, the other three boys watching as Gustavo and Kelly came in, looking a little worse for wear. Kendall was on his feet in seconds, walking over to Logan, and stepping in front of him, seemingly trying to cause a barrier between Logan and Gustavo.
"It's like a jungle downstairs," Kelly said as he straightened her blouse, and attempted to fix her hair. Gustavo remained quiet, looking between the boys sitting on the couch, and an angry Kendall standing nearest him.
"What? Come to kick us out, tell us Griffin dropped us from the label, or do you want to tell us that we have to break up again, because if that's it you can just lea-" Kendall never got to finish his tirade as Kelly cut him short.
"Guys, your song sales are going through the roof. You guys are getting a whole lot of exposure because of all this, and though it may not be the best way, people are finding out who you are, and Big Time Rush seems to be everywhere you look, or hear about!" Kelly smiled happily, looking between all of them, watching the confusion pass their faces, before happiness, except for Kendall, who only seemed to get angrier.
"So this was some sort of marketing ploy? You guys release a picture, in hopes of getting us publicity?" Kendall was yelling by the time he finished his statement, and it was only Logan's hand on his arm that kept him from even angrier.
"No, Kendall, we still don't know who took the picture, but it wasn't us. We've called the paper a dozen times trying to get them to release their source, but they aren't budging, but I promise you that it wasn't our doing." Kelly rest her hand on Kendall's shoulder in hopes of showing her sincerity, and she was glad when she found that Kendall seemed to relax a bit. James and Carlos walked up behind the other two boys to stand before them, before Logan moved from behind Kendall looking slightly curious.
"So you guys had to rush over here just to tell us that we were getting a lot of publicity? Why not just call?" Kelly smiled again, and shook her head, nudging Gustavo, who still hadn't spoken the entire time, just standing there with his usual scowl.
"Griffin called," All three boys held their breath leaning towards Gustavo in anticipation. "You guys aren't being dropped from the label, together or not." All four of the boys cheered happily, Logan instantly grabbing for Kendall and wrapping his arms around him happily, holding him tightly as he felt the blonde place a kiss on his head. "BUT," Gustavo yelled trying to be heard over the happiness that enveloped the room. All four boys stopped instantly, looking over to Gustavo, slight fear on their faces, wondering what sort of strings were about to be attached. "Nothing with the band changes. Logan isn't suddenly going to look like he stepped out of Queer Eye, no ones going to grind on anyone, or try and," Gustavo faltered a bit, looking slightly uncomfortable, "thrust in anyone's face."
All four boys smiled, holding up their right hands, as if being sworn in for court. He gave them all a scrutinizing glare, even going so far as to check to see their other hands, making sure there were no fingers crossed, or in Kendall's case his eyes crossed, because Kendall had pulled that one on him once before. When he found that it appeared that all four of them agreed to the terms, and weren't going to have any qualms, he turned to leave, yelling something about his mansion and Monty. Followed shortly after by Kelly, who gave a small wave to the boys, before hurrying after Gustavo.
"That was a nice thing you did. I told you, you liked them." Gustavo stopped short, scowling at Kelly much the same way he had done to the boys moments before.
"I'm training them, that is all it is." Kelly shook her head, placing an arm on the large man's shoulder, smiling warmly at him.
"If you were just training them, you wouldn't have gone through the trouble of looking through tons of websites judging the publics reaction, and even arguing with Griffin." Gustavo merely ignored her, turning away from her to head back towards the elevator, grumbling loudly about something or other that Kelly was sure was just his way of trying to cover up that he really did care about those four boys.
Meanwhile the boys were busy having what seemed to be their own miniature celebration, complete with Carlos hopping up and down on the couch. That is until Ms. Knight walked into the apartment arms full of groceries, and Carlos fell to the couch with a thud, smiling innocently at her in hopes she hadn't seen the aforementioned jumping. He really didn't want to be grounded from Swirly again. He was the first to rush over to grab a bag from Ms. Knight, hoping that if she had seen, he was making it up for it now. The other boys followed suit, each taking a bag, Kendall choosing to take the bag Katie was carrying, watching as she sat herself down at the table as the grocery bags were being emptied.
"You guys seem happy for what was all over the papers," Katie said, grabbing the bag of chips from Logan before he could put them in the proper place. Grabbing only a small handful before her mother took the bag back, with a motherly glare that clearly read 'not until after dinner'.
"Well we had a meeting with Gustavo this morning, he told us that Logan and Kendall had to break up, or we were fired," Carlos exclaimed through a mouthful of turkey lunch meat, to also have the bag taken by Ms. Knight.
"Can it at least make it to it's spot before you guys eat it all," Ms. Knight questioned as she put the turkey into the refrigerator door. Turning away from the fridge and maneuvering out of the way of the four boys putting away groceries, she grabbed her tea cup from the cupboard. "Well you boys wouldn't look so happy if you were still fired, so what happened next?"
"Well at first, Kendall was really mad, he pretty much trashed Gustavo's hallway on his way out!" Kendall smacked his palm to his forehead, as his mother turned towards him obviously disapproving as her tea heated in the microwave behind her. It wasn't that he had forgotten that part, but he was really hoping it wouldn't make it into the retelling of the story to his mother.
"Kendall?" Kendall shook his head, holding his hand up towards his mother.
"I'm sorry, I won't ever do it again, I promise." Kendall's mother smiled with a nod, as the boys finally took a seat at the table alongside Katie. Dropping her teabag in her tea she looked between them, waiting for one of them to finish the story.
"Right before you came home Gustavo and Kelly came over, and at first we thought they were going to tell us to pack our stuff, but then they told us that we weren't fired!" Carlos could barely contain himself as he retold the story, using his hands during his story problem much more than needed. Though the story had ended on a positive note, Ms. Knight couldn't help but notice the way Logan wasn't smiling like the others, and had his head resting on his hand looking deep in thought.
"We still don't know who took the picture though. I mean I suppose since we get to keep our jobs it's not a big deal, but it's still unnerving to know that someone, somewhere is taking pictures of us in our own home." The happy mood of the room was suddenly a little deflated, slight frowns forming on all the faces around the table.
"So find out who did it, and teach them a lesson," Katie said, looking between all four boys as if they had forgotten simple addition. "I mean, think about it, no one knew besides the people that lived here before it came out in the paper, so it has to be someone here at the Palm Woods. So start narrowing it down, it wouldn't be too hard to figure out. Then you find out who did it, and BAM payback!"
"Katie, we don't exact revenge, two wrongs don't make a right," Ms. Knight said calmly, sipping at her tea, thankful the cup was hiding her slight smile. She knew Katie was just as protective of her brothers as they were her, and even if she wouldn't mind having a word with whoever was taking pictures of her boys, she knew that getting revenge on them, wouldn't solve anything. If anything, it could make things even worse for them, and that was the last thing anyone wanted. Of course she didn't miss it when Katie leaned towards the boys, away from her, to whisper to the boys, but she figured she'd let it go for now.
"Did you boys take Logan's bandage of like I reminded you?" Ms. Knight had seen the way the gears in her mastermind of a son's head were already starting to crank, so she quickly tried to change the subject, in hopes of at least putting his plans on hold. She was glad when Kendall's attention was averted, watching as Logan stood to lift his shirt, making sure that only the area that had his stitches could be seen, even if Ms. Knight had seen him practically naked before. She carefully inspected the area, her brow furrowing in much the way Kendall's did when it thought, before she smiled up at Logan, apparently happy with the inspection, before sitting back in her seat to nurse her tea.
"What you didn't trust me? I'm almost offended." Kendall smirked at his mother as Logan took his seat next to him. He decided to resist his urge to wrap an arm around Logan, figuring he could do more of that once they had continued their movie day. He knew that his mother, nor Katie had a problem with his overly affectionate attitude towards Logan, they never had, but he decided to do it more for himself as well. It seemed anymore even the slightest touches he gave Logan would cause the brunette to blush, or cause Kendall's mind reeling back to previous events. That was all he needed, would be for his mother, or worse, younger sister, to see him wanting to jump his boyfriend.
"Kendall honey, I haven't trusted you since were three, you're just lucky you met Logan when you were five, to keep you out of any serious trouble." Ms. Knight looked over to Logan, winking at him, ignoring the slightly offended 'hey' from her son. "All right boys, be good, I promised Katie if she helped me with groceries I'd take her to see a movie." Standing up to place her tea cup in the sink, she placed a kiss on all four of the boys forehead before ushering Katie out the door, arguing that she was not going to see 'Bloody Gorefest 2010'.
The boys sat quietly at the table for a moment, none of them not quite knowing what to do now. There was the option of going on a stake out and trying to find who the culprit was behind their picture being leaked to the press. Of course they could always just stay in the apartment, listening to Kendall's mother advice and just behave, knowing that if they were to start a man hunt, something bad was going to happen. Something always went awry when plans were made.
"All right guys, I think we know what we have to do," Kendall said standing from his seat, and looking over to the three boys, a smile already tugging at the corner of his lips. Logan knew what was about to happen, they were about to go downstairs to the pool, hide behind some bushes listening to Kendall's plan before some sort of ridiculous shenanigans went down, and someone ended up in trouble, hurt, or worse, arrested. He just didn't think he was up for it today.
"We have to stay in the apartment, watch some movies, eat some popcorn, and stay safe." Logan looked around noticing the slightly confused faces of his friends, and he was nowhere near as experienced as anyone in the Knight family, but he tried his best at the puppy dog face. Today was going pretty well, he was hoping to keeping the streak alive, and if they went downstairs now, he knew it was only going to be downhill from there. "Please?"
Logan watched as the other three looked back and forth between each other, no words were spoken, but it seemed as if they had all come to the same conclusion. They all nodded, and Logan couldn't have been happier when they all managed to meander their way back to the couch, falling back into the places they had found themselves in before the happy news came with Gustavo and Kelly. That is until Kendall decided that Logan was now too far from him that there wasn't the stress of possibly being fired hanging from their head. He remedied the situation easily enough as he pulled Logan as close as he could, his hand resting on Logan's hip, smiling at him when the boy looked at him slightly confused. It didn't take Logan long to understand what he meant giving a look over to James and Carlos before trying to be as inconspicuous as possible in slipping himself in-between Kendall's outstretched legs.
For now Logan was content to be held in the arms of Kendall as James and Carlos argued over what movie to watch next. He knew that tomorrow was going to be severely hectic, because he might have been able to hold off the man hunt for now, but he knew tomorrow there would be no stopping them. So instead of think of all the reasons he was going to have to keep all of them from getting into serious trouble, he just enjoyed the feel of Kendall's muscled chest and stomach against his back, and way his warm breath ruffled his hair with each breath.
This chapter… UGH! I may end up rewriting this at some point, but I am just so glad this chapter is over. I started writing this three days ago, then I had computer issues, then the guy came to fix the internet and it turned out that what he did didn't help. So today I had to go out and buy a new router, and then I watched the new BTR (which of course, I enjoyed, but I almost wonder if maybe the writers were tired of us all fangirling all over the Kogan-ness.. Because they seem to be splitting them up a lot lately, and this I dislike lol. Hopefully they'll quit it and I'll get some inspirational moments. lol)
The next few chapters may come slower as I actually may be a tad busy the month of October, but I will try and keep it on a 1-2 week update basis. So I'll see you all next chapter, and hopefully I don't disappoint you too bad with this chapter!
