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Kendall packed his bag once the bell had rang. School was over and he was about to meet Logan in front of the school so they could work on chemistry at Logan's house. Kendall wondered how Logan lived, and what his parents are like. In fact, he didn't know much about him. Last night, Logan had told him that he was an only child, and he knows Logan's a smart guy, but that's it.
When Kendall finished packing his bag, he walked out of the classroom to go to his locker. Halfway there, he feels a hand on his shoulder, but before he could turn his head to see whose hand it was, he hears James speaking.
"Hey! Blegh! I'm so glad this day, finally, is over. Do they really need to torture us this much? It's not like I'm going to use all of this 'knowledge' once I finish high school." Kendall laughs.
"Aw, come on, it's not that bad, is it?"
"Speak for yourself. I've just been listening to Mr. Jenkins going on about World War II for like 1,5 hour. Why do I need to know what happened in the concentration camps? For example. It's bad enough what happened there, but why do I need to know what happened?" In the mean time, the two of them had arrived at their lockers, and took the stuff out of it which they would need that day. In Kendall's case, that meant he took out his chemistry book, as well as his biology book where he also had some homework for. In James' case, it meant he emptied his bag in his locker, without taking any of his books with him home. Kendall looked a bit shocked, and didn't quite know how to respond.
"I take it you just had history? Well, to answer your question: it's important to know what happened to the people who fought for their lives. People were seen as not worth living, and were sent to these camps which caused death for millions of people. And why? Just because they were Jewish, disabled, mentally ill, or homosexual. By knowing what happened to them, you'll get more respect. These people were sentenced to death just for living. By having respect for them, and thinking about them, you'll appreciate the freedom we're having nowadays."
'Where did this come from?' Kendall thought with a puzzled face. While taking notice of James' face, he saw probably the same expression on his friends face. "Ehm, sorry for the rambling, but well… it's important." Before James could respond to any of what Kendall just had said, they got accompanied by Carlos.
"Hey guys! What's going on?" Carlos asks once he see the expressions on both James' and Kendall's faces.
"Oh, it's nothing." James says while looking at Kendall before returning his focus back on Carlos. "You're ready for checking up on that new girl?"
"You bet I am!" Carlos says enthusiastically with a big grin on his face. "So Kendall are you coming with us? Or did you arrange with Logan after all?"
"I've texted Logan, and we've arranged to meet each other in front of the school, so he's probably waiting there already." Kendall closed his locker and started to walk towards the exit of the school, followed by Carlos and James.
"You're sure you wouldn't rather hang out with us and the new girl?" James asks.
"I'm sure, I really need Logan's help to pass chemistry and to keep playing for the team." Kendall responds. "But I guess you guys can handle it pretty well without me, right?"
"Of course we can!" Carlos says. "By the way, speaking of Logan. Did you hear he got in trouble with Mrs. Johnson?" Kendall stops walking and looks at Carlos.
"What? Where did you hear that?"
"Kyle just told me in last period. Apparently, he didn't finish his homework, and had to leave the room to finish it."
"That doesn't sound like Logan at all. I only hope it's not because of me that he didn't got to finish his homework." Kendall says and pushed the door open to get into the fresh air. Once outside he immediately took notice of Logan, who was leaning against a wall.
"You know the guy for, what is it, a week and you already have a bad influence on him. Great job!" James joked while following Kendall to Logan.
"Ah shut up!" Kendall gave James a light and playful push. "Hey Logan!" Logan looks up from the ground and smiles.
"Hey"
"I don't think you've officially met, right?" Kendall asks, but without waiting for an answer he continues: "Logan, these two are my best friends, Carlos and James, who are going to make complete morons out of themselves in just a couple of hours."
"What? We're not going to do that, we're just going to ask the girl if she needs any help with unpacking or moving some heavy stuff. How can that be a bad thing?" Carlos asks with a confused face. "Nice to meet you by the way, Logan. I think you've been all Kendall has talked about the last week." Kendall laughed.
"Okay, shut up. I didn't talk that much about him. And James mentioned that the girl was smoking hot. Knowing you guys, you two will start a flirting competition, and that's when you'll make complete morons out of yourselves." Logan followed the interraction between the three friends and has to laugh.
"Pff, like there will be a competition. Have you seen this face?" James says while making his jazz fingers movement infront of his face.
"You might have the face, but I'm sure I'll be the one that makes her laugh out loud." Carlos responds in defense. Before this turned out into a whole discussion, Kendall decided it was time for Logan and himself to go. He saw Logan laughing at Carlos and James.
"Okay guys, enough. I think you won't know which of you two she'll like the most, unless you find out. All I can say about it, is that you two should be happy that Logan and I have other plans for today, otherwise you two would have no chance at all. Are you ready, Logan?"
"As if," James started, but he got stopped by Logan.
"Well guys, ehm… have fun! And good luck?" Logan looked at Carlos and James. "Bye." He looks at Kendall and then the two of them walk away towards the parking lot, leaving the other two behind.
Once they reach Kendall's car Logan asks, "So how bad will Carlos and James be later on?" Kendall unlocked the car doors, and takes the driver seat.
"They'll fight each other for the girl's attention, without taking notice of the girl. At some point she'll probably walk away, and they'll not notice it until it's too late." Logan smiles.
"Poor girl. You've got to go right at the next traffic light."
"Yeah, she is." Kendall turned on the radio since he didn't quite know what to talk about. Once he hears what song is playing on the radio station, he has to laugh. "Is this a coincidence or what?" Logan knows exactly what Kendall is talking about.
"It's probably just a playlist they use every day. Not really a way to keep listeners." Kendall starts to sing along, while Logan only hums along.
"So young and full of running, all the way to the edge of desire. Steady my breathing, silently screaming. I have to have…"
"At the end of this street, you have to turn left and almost immediately right and then we're at my street." Logan says, interrupting Kendall's singing.
"Okay," Kendall says and he looks around to see if he recognizes anything in this neighborhood. It's at the other end of the town, and he only recognizes it vaguely. It seems to be a good neighborhood. The rest of the drive was silent, until they reached Logan's house.
"And here it is, you can park the car on the driveway since my parents won't be home soon." Kendall followed Logan's instructions and parked his car on the driveway, and followed Logan to the front door.
After Logan has taken two soda's from the kitchen, they went upstairs to Logan's room. When Kendall looked around, he sees it's nothing like his own room. The walls are painted in white and blue, but there are no posters covering them. It's very tidy, and everything in the room seem to have its own special place.
"Wow, your room is tidy. How do you keep it that way?" Kendall asks with a smile on his face. "Whenever my room is like that, it only last for 2 days before it's messy again."
"It keeps my head clear. Whenever your surroundings are tidy, it's much calmer in your head. At least, in my case." Logan responds. "Plus, my parents like to keep the house clean and tidy, including my room."
"Maybe I should try it as well then. I can use some calmness in my head." Kendall shakes his head and starts to talk in an attempt to change the topic. "So, what are we going to do? Work on the practicum or are we discussing this test I took for you?" Logan doesn't quite know how to respond. He looks confused at Kendall. 'What can I do to help him?´ It was clear to Logan that something is bothering Kendall, but Logan had no idea what it was. As Kendall had made pretty clear he doesn't want to talk about it by changing the topic back to chemistry, Logan decided to drop it for now.
"I was thinking we could first start with some basics you did wrong in the test. From there it would be easier to work on this practicum together." Logan says and bends over to take his folder out of his schoolbag. "Where is it." Logan mumbles when he flips through the pages in the folder before he comes to the pages he was looking for.
"Sounds like a plan to me," Kendall says while he pulls his notebook out of his bag and sits down on a chair in the room. Logan glanced at Kendall before he sat down on the other chair in front of his desk.
"Okay, so let me see." He took the test out of the folder and looked at it to see where he should start. He made a whole plan for it, but somehow he forgot where he wanted to start.
"Right. You seem to understand the basic terms, but when it goes further than that you start to mix things up, or forget some details." Logan looked up from the piece of paper, to see if Kendall was listening. "For example with this question." Logan pointed at one of the questions on the paper. "You know there are seven diatomic elements, but you forget which ones there are. There's a pretty simple mnemonic to remember these diatomic elements, which is HBrONClIF. I wrote it down for you, so it would spare us some time." Kendall turned the page a bit so he had a better look on it.
"HBrONClIF? How come Mr. Walker never mentioned these mnemonics in his lessons? It would make it all a bit easier to remember and understand." Logan laughs.
"Eh Kendall? I'm sorry to tell you this, but he did mention them."
"He did?" Kendall asks unbelievably. "I really should try to pay more attention in class then."
"Yes, he did. And you should."
"But you can't blame me though. I mean, have you heard the man talk? It's so boring, you can easily fall asleep if you want to." Logan shakes his head.
"But if you try to keep your attention, you can hear he's giving some good tips every now and then."
"That might be true, but I rather hear them from you. You're much more fun to listen to." Logan smiles.
"You know, I don't mind helping you, but I do think you should try to pay some more attention in class as well."
The two boys had gone through the test in two hours time, and both started to get hungry. When Logan hears Kendall's stomach growl, he notices that he's getting hungry himself as well.
"Do you want to join me for some dinner? Or is your mom expecting you?" Logan asks.
"I want too, but I have to call my mom first." Kendall says while he pulls his cell phone out of his pocket. He searches through his contact list until he founds the number he was looking for. The phone rings 3 times before Mrs. Knight picks up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi mom! I'm studying with Logan at his place, and I was wondering if I could stay for dinner? But only if you haven't cooked yet, though." Kendall blurts out, straight to the point, which causes Logan to laugh.
"Kendall? Two days in a row, that you're spending on your schoolwork? I think I like this Logan." Kendall was getting a light blush on his cheeks.
"Stop it mom!" Kendall says with a laugh. "But can I stay?"
"If it's okay with his parents then it's okay with me. I haven't started cooking yet, so it's no problem for me." Kendall looks at Logan.
"My mom thinks it's no problem as long as you're parents are okay with it."
"Well, they're not home, but I'm sure they won't have any problems with it. They won't be home for another couple of hours."
"Mom, Logan says his parents aren't home, but he's sure they won't have a problem with me being here."
"Okay, I guess I'll see you later then. Say hi to Logan from me. Bye."
"Bye mom." Kendall says and then he hung up.
"My mom says hi, and I can stay for dinner."
The next part will continue where I left it here. I hope I can update this story within the next 2 weeks.