"Thanks for staying with me…I know I'm a pain in the ass." I smirked setting my hand on his head and put my head back, resting it on the wall behind me. I closed my eyes and sighed out crossing one leg over the other, making his head move around a little.
"Carlos your only a pain in the ass when you whine about something that isn't important. You were beat up buddy…you have every right to make me your personal slave." He only chuckled snuggling deeper into my body. My body screamed at me and made me groan quietly, but I knew the only reason I was sore was because I laid half on James's hard body, and half on the hard floor. "When are you guys gonna get a bed? Or….a TV…or anything?" There was a soft sigh underneath me making me open my eyes and look down at him. His cut at the corner of his eye was bleeding again, but I was already too comfortable and any ne movement would probably make my back break. "What…is everything going okay? Because I will literally kill Kendall if I need to." Carlos pushed up fast, taking his head off my lap and sitting up straight, sitting right beside me, pulling his legs up to his chest. "Los…"
"We haven't really been…physical." I frowned and stayed quiet until he turned to me. "Look…Ever since we found out about his heart…things have been awkward for obvious reasons. I mean…I saw him the first day he fell to the ground unconscious because of the condition and it scared the shit out of me. And then it went away but only because he hid it from me and tried to cover it up until he was into deep and thought he was going to die…so ya know out of pity he told me but…" He put his head in both his hands and shook it softly. "We haven't not been having sex because we don't want to…I'm just afraid once we really get into it…he's gonna have a heart attack or something and croak while he's inside me." I couldn't help all the laughter that spilled out of my mouth. It pissed him off. He pushed me and called me an asshole and a jerk and got up, stomping away. I hurried quick, containing my laughter walked into the kitchen with him. He pulled the fridge open and grabbed a can of soda. Before he closed the door, I also reached in and grabbed myself one. "Listen jackass…just because I don't have a perfect love life with a really good looking guy, doesn't mean you have to shove it in my face."
"Okay first of all, I'm telling Kendall you think James is better looking…" He glared back at me as he jumped up on the counter opening his soda. "Second of all we do not have a perfect love life. There are sometimes when I imagine grabbing around his neck and shaking him until he turns blue." He raised his eyebrows setting the can on the counter top next to him. I smirked and walked around their huge kitchen looking at everything shinny and fancy. "Third…I find it completely ridiculous that you reason you won't make love to your boyfriend…"
"Whoa back it up for a minute…we don't make love. No…Kendall pounds the living hell out of me." I rolled my eyes groaning at the nasty image forming in my head and waved him off.
"My point is, while you sit around and worry about a condition he has that is taken care of as long as he takes his medication…you could be loving him, and cherishing every single day he is given." I stopped walking leaning against the sink and looked at him smiling small. "Kendall did the things he did…like lying to you, hiding things form you, only because he knows how worried you get. Do you know what he would do if he found out about you stressing about having sex with him? Trust me buddy…I know the kid, and since you guys have gotten into town, I've seen how he is around you. He's a walking horn dog. You need to take care of that hot mess before he explodes all over the place." He sighed out hard and looked down swinging his legs, like a little kid does. Actually he looked exactly like a little kid. Because of their height difference, like with em and James, Kendall's clothes always looked two sizes too big on Carlos. The black hoodie and the grey sweat pants Carlo was wearing were baggy on him and made him look cute. Not my type, cause he's so short, but he's defiantly a really cute guy. I don't know how Kendall controls himself sometimes, to be honest.
"Yeah…that's something else I wanted to talk to you about. I think Kendall has been taking care of himself since we got into town, He's been acting weird…so weird lately, and I can only assume he's cheating and last night my suspicion was proved right because he left at like 5 yesterday to go do something in secrecy and wouldn't tell me who he was with, where we was going…"
"Wait…" He looked up and I swallowed hard clenching my left hand. "They didn't tell you?" He frowned sitting back and I slowly made my way over to him while raising my left hand. "James proposed to me last night." I set my left hand in front of him and smiled small. His mouth dropped open, he grabbed my hand pulling it forward. After a minute he dropped my hand crossed his arms over his chest and pouted.
"Why am I always the last to know big things like this?" I laughed leaning into him and hugged around his torso laying my head on his shoulder.
"Because you don't know how to keep a secret. You're a blabber mouth buddy." He softly tickled my sides making me dig into him and laugh, closing my eyes. There was a soft, nice kiss to my temple before he hugged around me softly.
"Congratulations Logan. I'm so happy for you…I always knew you and James would end up together, forever." I pushed away fast, grabbed his face and shook my head.
"And you and Kendall will too. You just need to talk to him. Share your fears, and your secrets. You can't expect him to be a mind reader Carlos. He won't know he's doing something wrong, unless you tell him. How do you think I have James trained so well?" He laughed looking down and played with his hand sin his lap. "The only way a relationship can work, is if you communicate. Otherwise it's just sex, and cooking for each other." He laughed again rubbing his nose and nodding. He looked up and opened his mouth but was stopped, when my phone started ringing in my front pocket of my work pants, I haven't been able to take off yet. I grabbed it quick, looked at the number, surprised to see Louis's direct lien form work and wondered how he got my number already. I hadn't even given it to my mom yet. I leaned against the counter next to Carlos and set my arm on his leg answering the phone. "Hello?"
"Logan, it's Louis." I smirked and looked down.
"Hi Mr. Stevens. Is everything alright?"
"Oh yeah of course…well not entirely." I stood up a little straighter and swallowed hard, knowing I was about to get called into work, on my first paid day off. "I had to fire Henry." My mouth parted slightly in shock but he continued not giving me a chance to say anything. "I caught him stealing. Money, form my wallet, and my safe in my office. I also found your old phone in his bag. I guess he's been stealing form us since the first day. I let him go, and he took it easily so hopefully we won't have any other problems with him, but now we are faced with a bigger problem. We need a receptionist at the front. I can't have you dealing with calls for the whole office, while doing things for me, so tomorrow when we get into work, I'm going to need you to put up an ad." For some reason, I looked to Carlos at that. I didn't know the whole situation with Carlos and Kendall, but I knew Carlos didn't work, mostly because Kendall likes being the provider and showering him with everything he wants. But I knew Carlos loves dealing with people, and loves to organize things, which would be exactly what he would do. Technically he would be like my assistant, as well as Louis's and the whole office.
"Actually…Louis, I think I already have one for you." Carlos stared at me weird, while I smiled big at him. "I can vouch for him, but I don't want you to give him the job because he's my best friend. He's a hard worker, has a degree in English from the University of Minnesota, has great people skills, and knows any and everything about computers." It went quiet on the other end, except for a door being closed and a jingle of keys.
"Is he the one dating the hockey player? Because at the party on Saturday, people in the office fell in love with him and if he's willing, I'll need him to fill out an application, and I'll need to run a background check, and..." He paused and I smiled even bigger at Carlos, knowing those two things would not be any problem at all. "If he could start tomorrow, so we could train him, Carlos is hired." I stood up straight and gently slapped Carlos's thigh nodding. "Bring him in 45 minutes early tomorrow so the two of us can talk and we can get him acquainted with everything. See you tomorrow Logan…I am also taking a personal day so if you for some reason get anything from the office, let me know."
"Thanks Louis." I hung up quick putting my phone by Carlos's leg and squealed out loud. "I just got you a job Carlos!" His mouth dropped open fast but he was smiling. "You'd literally be working right next to me, it's great benefits, we could car pool together…oh my God we could go to lunch together and bitch about all the people we hate at the office! Please tell me you'll take it!"
"Sure! I don't know what the job is, but I trust you! Yes we get to work together!" I wasn't expecting him to be so excited. I knew he would love the idea of us working together, but I didn't know it would make him leap into my arms and hug me tight. I wasn't expecting him to be so heavy either, which made both of us fall to the floor in a tangled mess laughing at how ridiculous we were being. I guess in both of our yelling fits of excitement, we didn't hear the front door or the hurried footsteps come into the kitchen. When I pushed Carlos off me and rolled onto my back I saw in the corner of my eye both James and Kendall looking down at us, looking confused, holding a lot of grocery bags. "Baby!" Carlos jumped up, and leaped into Kendall's arms, but Kendall is strong than me, and probably would die if Carlos dropped like I just let him. "I got a job!" I smiled pushing myself up and looked at James as he walked in laughing setting the bags down. I walked to him wrapping my arms around his back and kissed his chin.
"Did you have something to do with this?" I nodded biting along his chin and heard Carlos tell Kendall, who managed to put the bag son the counter, while holding Carlos up still, about how he would get to work with me. As soon as Louis's name came out of Carlos's mouth Kendall looked over at us, looking eyes with James. I glared between them, hoping neither of them said anything stupid to upset Carlos but Kendall beat me to the punch.
"Wait…you're going to be working with Louis?" Carlos nodded slowly, running his fingers through Kendall's hair, but Kendall gently set Carlos down. "Like…doing what?" Carlos started to say something but stopped and turned to me. I smiled and leaned into James lying my head on his chest.
"You're the receptionist Los…apparently Henry, the old one, that younger looking kid has been stealing since he started working there. He's the one who had my phone. Louis found it on him. Anyway, he called me to tell me about it and I told him about Carlos, who is well over qualified to work with us and Louis gave him the job. He starts tomorrow. Isn't that exciting?" I looked pleadingly at Kendall who looked form me, to James and then down to Carlos who was literally bouncing on his toes.
"I mean…I am sure you will do great but I mean…isn't that a little more advanced for you? I mean what they do? With the numbers and the different countries?" I turned away quick and looked up at James who was shaking his head clenching his teeth together. We both knew that was absolutely not the right thing to say. Especially to Carlos.
"What…you don't think I'm smart enough to work with Logan?" Kendall quickly realized what he said and started to back track. He even reached out and tried to pull Carlos into him, but Carlos shoved him off and walked to get out of the kitchen. "You're such an asshole Kendall Knight! You are so inconsiderate!" Carlos walked out of the kitchen completely and none of us said anything until we heard a door slam. James pulled me in roughly, squeezing onto my ass hard.
"Smooth move douche bag. Real nice. Tell me…have you written a book on how to offend your boyfriend in less than one minute?" Kendall flipped him off and went onto emptying the grocery bags.
"Yeah well from what I've heard…working for Louis is the last thing I want for Carlos. I don't want him getting fucked on his desk." I pushed James away fast and pointed a finger at him.
"Stop feeding horrible lies into his head! Both of you listen to me. Carlos will do great there, and if you don't trust both Carlos and I not to fall for some corny line, then that son you. Now if you wouldn't mind, again I'm going to comfort my best friend because you are…you are…" I stopped and threw my hand sup shoving out past both Kendall and James. I walked out, but when I heard Kendall's angry fast voice, I stopped to snoop.
"What do you think they'd do if we told them who sent out those guys to hurt me and Carlos? Huh? DO you think they'd' work for the guy if they found out he's fucking obsessed with Logan and had some guys beat the shit out of his best friend? If you don't tell Logan what you found out about Louis than I will just to make sure my boyfriend doesn't get hurt by this fucking wack job."