Author's note: okay, okay so I haven't updated this in a little while- but I did give you warning because I had those exams. I am very sorry about that… forgive me? Anyway thought I'd say thanks so much for ALL the reviews I got for the last chapter- you guys are pretty amazing.
Kendall woke up to find James and Carlos in their pajamas, eating cereal on their couch (he was seriously going to have to do something about that couch.)
There wasn't anything particularly odd about this (aside from the fact that Logan hadn't made anyone breakfast- and was nowhere in sight.) No the odd thing about the scenario was the colourful masks/bandanas they gad tied around their eyes.
"Oh, oh it's on" James cheered excitedly, sloshing milk onto Carlos' lap. "Dude!" Carlos wined but made no move to clean the mess, "shh" James glared "the theme song is starting."
"Sing-a-along?" Carlos asked with a grin and James smirked back "oh have too."
"Teenage mutant Ninja turtles, teenage mutant Ninja turtles, teenage mutant Ninja turtles- heroes in a half-shell! Turtle power!"
"Those aren't the words," Kendall told them with great amusement, both boys jumped in a totally gratifying way (for Kendall- probably not to his mum or the cleaning staff seeing as there were two bowels of cereal turfed on the carpet.)
"Yes they are!" Carlos argued and stood up, milk running off his shirt-making shudder. "Yeah" James agreed "We're purists there is no other ninja turtles like the eighties ninja turtles and anyway what would you know- I bet your like a samurai jack fan."
"Samurai Jack is awesome" Kendall responded immediately and Carlos nodded. "Yeah but we're not aloud to watch it anymore since we made ninja stars to break out of jail with."
James stared at him in a look of surprise "being associated with you is going to get me arrested one day isn't it." Carlos giggled and shrugged "probably- it's always the fun plans that get us in the most trouble."
Kendall skidded on the wet carpet and fell onto the couch (and James who had sat back down on said carpet.) the blonde righted himself with an air of dignity that no male teen should still have after falling face first into another male teen's crotch.
"The man is always trying to hold us down" he snickered. "So why are you such a sissy James? Who's holding you down?"
"Oh I know! I know!" Carlos jumped up and down "It's Logan right? Logan's your man? The one holding you down?"
After James was done glaring at Kendall for sniggering so hard he MUST have strained something. "I didn't have a man, I had a woMAN- my mum isn't the kind of person you want to piss off."
"Oh yeah" Kendall laughed "what can your mum do?"
"Terrifying things- at least that's what Nellie Kavoki says" Logan said gravely, he popped up behind the couch scaring the crap out of them. He narrowed his eyes as he followed the trail of milk on two of the boys that weaved on the couch to the ground. "What did you guys do?"
"Who's Nelly Kaviki?" Carlos asked ignoring Logan's question and Kendall rolled his eyes "she was some big shot fashion designer- you remember, she was on the news for using third world kids to made shoes or something. She went to jail for like a bizzilon years for a whole bunch of stuff."
"Ohhh what did your mum do to her?" Carlos asked sincerely and Kendall snorted- as if James' mum actually knew some big name criminal fashion designer.
"Nothing that can be proved in a court of law" James answered quickly and Logan shuddered "don't talk about it" he raised his hand and James nodded enthusiastically "she can sense when people talk about it."
James' phone chose that exact moment to ring and they all jumped, he stood up and answered the phone. A look of dread crossed his face "um hi mum- fancy you calling" he practically raced out of the room.
"Is James' mum a witch?" Carlos asked voice filled with concern, Logan shrugged "we're not sure- they're were rumours but no one could ever get any proof…"
"Speaking of things I don't want to see proof of-" he gave Carlos a poignant look and then his eyes went back to the floor, Carlos looked up at him blankly. Kendall elbowed him in the ribs, which only seemed to agitate the oblivious boy.
"Ow! Man, why did you do that?"
"It's official" Kendall sighed to Logan "he's been domesticated- he's too stupid to go back into the wild, he'll need to be trained." Carlos shot Kendall a disturbed look "dude! What the hell are you talking about?" Kendall slapped Carlos on the back "dude- your wife is pissed that mess you made" he pointed at the floor and comprehension finally dawned across the Latino's face.
"I'm going to turn my back now" Logan told Carlos "and when I turn back I'd better not see anything staining our carpet."
"I'd hurry" he gave Carlos a sharp look "before the milk sets" Carlos' eyes went wide and let out a distressed high pitched noise and bolted out of the room.
"Does milk really set in carpet?" Kendall laughed, watching Carlos franticly collect cleaning supplies from the kitchen. "No idea" Logan sniggered while he grabbed a chair from the dining room not soaked in milk.
"Have you ever seen me clean ever?" he picked up the half filled cereal bowl James had abandoned and started to eat. Kendall stared at him "well... no" he admitted "but you're so-"
"Anal?" Logan supplied "detail orientated? A perfectionist? Am I getting close?" the dark haired boy sniggered at the faces Kendall made at his suggestions "I was going to say responsible- but you know those other ones work too."
"Sometimes I think you forget we're the same age Ken" Logan snorted into his cereal "I'm not perfect."
"I know" Kendall said defensively, even though he knew subconsciously he had catalogued Logan as more of a cool adult than a cool guy who was also his own age. Mostly because Kendall couldn't stand people similar to him achieving more than him- and if Kendall acknowledged Logan was a sixteen-year-old boy Kendall might just end up hating the genius.
Kendall shoved an entire piece of toast into his mouth. It had long since gone cold because apparently banter and arguing was more fulfilling to him than actual food.
"I actually wanted to talk to you about something Logie" a smirk crossed his face, and the boy being smirked at physically recoiled. "No" he responded immediately and Kendall's face fell "what? You don't even know what I was gonna ask!"
"I don't care- the answer is still no."
Kendall crossed his arms moodily.
This was why Kendall had never thought of Logan as someone who was the same age as him. He was an unrepentant stick in the mud.
...Unfortunately he made Kendall's plans work better than the blonde had ever dreamed of. Not only had plan 'winter blitz' (still a stupid name) been a huge success- with their new non-psycho teacher Mrs. Bitterman (apparently of no relation to Mr. Bitters the easily aggravated hotel manager.) They ALSO now had lockers, a proper break between school and recording, a period for PE AND were provided with a hot lunch- that was served during an actual lunch period.
On top of that- and most impressively they had gotten away with messing with Gustavo for a whole week- without any kind of repercussions.
Kendall didn't know in what stage of the plan that he started turning to Logan to confirm but it had really helped to have someone who wasn't going to blindly agree with everything he said. Though he sometimes really, REALLY wished Logan would just agree blindly (he had shut down three perfectly good plans- and two questionable ones this week alone!)
"Ppppppppu-u-u-u-u-leeeaaasse Logie!" Kendall whined, setting his face to his most pathetic expression (the one he perfected in third grade… and stopped working on most of the population of Minnesota by freshman year- but hey Logan wasn't FROM Minnesota.)
Carlos rushed back in and began furiously scrubbing at the floor "don't look yet Logie!" he stretched and Logan smirked and turned his back to the boy franticly trying to scrub the already time beaten carpet.
"This place sucks- I just want to figure out a way that we can renovate or something!" He threw his hands in the air and then called out to the kitchen "bbbbbabbbbby sisssssister."
Katie's head popped out from the kitchen, "what is it Kendall?" She snapped and took a vicious bite out of her pop tart and then shot Logan a small smile "good morning Logan."
"Good morning Katie- is you excited for today?" He gave her a wide smile and she nodded enthusiastically, "what's today?" Kendall asked curiously, jumping up and down, it wasn't fair- HE had called Katie into the room and now she and Logan were ignoring her.
"She's starting up her business today- managing talent" Logan explained to Kendall with an eye roll, "she was talking about it for ages last night." Katie nodded "that's some great listening skills you've got their big bro" she snickered, he grinned at her a waggled his fingers "no more sniping Zaytsev- didn't mum tell you just last night tell you off for being too young for sarcasm."
"Yeah like she could stop me, and Zaytsev? Really? Try Lyudmila Pavlichenko bro- there's a women you can look up to" she raised her hands to make a pretend gun and aimed at him "and I'll snipe all I want." She cocked her hand and closed one of her eyes like she was going to shoot him.
"I'm going to pretend you didn't just say you looked up to a murder baby sister" Kendall narrowed his eyes and Katie stuck her tongue out at him.
Logan snorted and stood up, "oh you kids and your crazy games" he moved behind Katie and repositioned her hands. "There you go kid, you were never going to get a pretend direct hit the way you were aiming that."
Kendall threw a pillow at him, and Logan laughed taking his/James' bowl into the kitchen and Kendall turned back to Katie "anyway Katie I called you in here because I wanted to be on my side about something."
She raised her eyebrow "why? What did you want?" Logan walked back in the room and her eyes followed him. Her eyebrow rose even higher and she gestured to him "are you and Logan having a disagreement" she used finger quotes around the word 'disagreement' and Kendall frowned hard at her.
"He refuses to be part of my plan to remodel the apartment" he didn't bother pouting at Katie- she had NEVER been vulnerable to his sad faces. "You have a plan?" she asked curiously, Kendall rubbed the back of his head and shrugged "well I would if he helped me think of one!"
Logan walked back into the room and threw his hands in the air "Kendall I can hear you bitchen from the kitchen- I'll help you but you need to do me a favour first."
James walked back in the room; he looked dejected "so… that was mum." Logan patted him on the back "aw- don't be sad" Logan ran a hand through the back of James hair and James leaned in to him. "How can I not be- the woman just berated me for forty minuets."
"I know what would make you feel better," Logan said brightly, "what?" James said excitedly, "shopping."
James jumped up and down "we're going shopping?" Logan shook his head "I can't- I'm helping Carlos study. But I found you the perfect substitute."
Logan turned and James followed him until his eyes rested on Kendall.
"Oh hell no."
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"James" Kendall said unsurely, "I don't know how to tell you this… this isn't shopping…" Kendall looked around the museum with a critical eye. James raised his eyebrow at the blonde "Kendall… you don't honestly expect me to believe, you think I don't know what shopping is, do you?"
Kendall shrugged "yesterday you asked me why your calculator wouldn't give you an answer to what's twelve times zero- I'm just checking." James glared at him "math is hard okay? And yes I'm aware we are in a museum."
"Is that what this place is called?"
"Yes okay, shut up! Anyway we are shopping here- we're going to the souvenir shop, Logan wanted me to pick up a book" Kendall looked at one of the models and tapped it- the whole thing fell over.
"DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!" James screeched and ran to pick up the model "I can not afford to pay for anything you break!"
"It's quite alright young man" a woman popped up between them, startling both of them. "These models are SUPPOSED to be touched- learning is a HANDS ON activity" she gave them both wide smiles and then scowled "unlike those damn art galleries."
"Meg are you STILL scaring the customers with your rants about art and expression through touch?" A man in a similar uniform came up to them "well I was going to try…" the woman smiled and the man leant over and told them in a stage whisper "she used to be a tour guide at an art gallery- it did not end well for Meg… or the gallery… or those poor, poor tourists."
"ANYWAY" Meg cut over the top of the man "we were just about to start a tour- if you want to come past the foyer."
"Um actually we just-" James started but Meg grabbed him and pulled him along "yeah" Kendall said in concern "we really just want to-" The man grabbed him and pushed him along. "Don't worry young man- we know why you're here!"
"You do?" James asked in a strained voice trying to dig in his heels "cause this isn't the way to the souvenir-"
"YOU'RE HERE FOR THE JOY OF LEARNING!" Meg stretched "Oh Rick! Isn't it lovely when you see young people taking an interest?" Rick nodded enthusiastically "Oh ABSOLUTELY Meg! You know what I think these boys would enjoy?"
"I'd enjoy you letting me go" Kendall struggled and the man- Rick just held tighter.
"I think I have an idea Rick!" She smiled deranged and threw open a door shoving James in "the planetarium!" Kendall began struggling harder as Rick took one of his arms and Meg took the other, they poised him towards the room. "Let go of me you freaks!" Kendall screamed and the two museum workers looked at each other and shrugged "okay."
The chuck him face first into the planetarium and slammed the door.
The floor underneath Kendall groaned in pain- okay strike that 'JAMES' was groaning in pain after Kendall had been thrown on top of him.
"The planetarium exhibition doesn't start for another hour" Meg called through the door, "but I'm sure you buys can find something to do- see! A planetarium is a great place to take a date!"
Kendall sprung up and started pounding on the door, "LET US OUT OF HERE YOU FREAKS!"
On the other side of the door the two museum workers smiled, "they sound like they're learning something" Rick cheered. They high fived "oh yeah- we are GREAT at our jobs!"
A third museum worker strolled up to them, "what do you two think you're doing?" She glared at them, "you're supposed to be starting the tours- the planetarium exhibit doesn't start for another HOUR!"
The banging started again and Meg and Rick surreptitiously stepped in front of the planetarium doors. "What was that?" She narrows her eyes, "Rick's heart" Meg said quickly "he's madly in love with you- so his heart thumps like crazy."
"I do not have time for this- get back to work or I will have you fired" she went to leave and then paused and looked Rick up and down "oh and Rick?"
"Yes?" The man grinned at her widely; she made a face and shuddered. "Not even if you were the last man on earth."
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"Do I really have to study?" Carlos asked Logan in concern and Logan shook his head "nah- I just wanted Kendall and James to spend the day together. If I was there things would just get out of hand."
"As appose to them being by themselves? Logan are you trying to get away with murder?" Katie snickered and Logan ruffled her hair "nah- those two have more in common then they'd like to believe, I think they'll realise that after today."
"So they're off shopping then?" Carlos asked, he wiped his hands on his jeans- he had finally scrubbed the mark out of the carpet only to realise that the carpet had actually at one point been blue not grey. The stark blue spot looked even more noticeable than the milk stain (which had barely been a stain at all) so Carlos eventually just threw a rug over the area and called it a day.
"Well they're stopping at the science museum for me first" Logan admitted "I wanted this really specific book on astronomy and they have it in stock at the moment."
"You like stars Logie?" Carlos asked brightly and Logan nodded "yeah their really cool, James and I use to go star gazing all the time when he was younger… well okay, we'd camp outside if his parents were throwing things at one another." a fond smile cross his face and then he frowned "but I can't see them here- so I kind of wanted the book."
A thoughtful look crossed Carlos' face.
"Seeing stars in a book isn't like seeing them in real life wouldn't it be cool if you could see them up close-"
There was a loud knock on the door, and the three of them jumped and all stared at the door. The knock persisted until suddenly there was a loud thump from Mrs Knight's door, followed shortly by a noise that sounded a little like an angry tiger and then Mrs Knight's voice rang out.
"Can one of you kids PLEASE answer the door?"
Katie ran up to the door and heaved it open, to find Mr Bitters still trying to bang on the door, he promptly fell through the doorway. "Well this can't be good" Katie grinned and then turned to Logan "just remember I did nothing and even if I did there is no way he can prove it was me."
She then skipped past the man.
"You" he glared at Carlos "need to do something about your package."
Both Carlos and Logan shared an amused look and then Logan responded with "his- ah package sir?" Mr Bitters glared menacingly and yelled, "Yes his giant package is causing all sorts of problems."
Carlos couldn't contain his giggles "um- well Mr Bitters" he tried to control himself "there hasn't been any complains about my package before."
"Well there are now! I suggest you do something about it or I will open it for you" he barked and Carlos paled. "No" Logan sniggered "that's not necessary- um I'll I mean we'll handle it."
Logan grimaced at his poor choice of words, Carlos was gripping Logan's should tight and was slowly going purple from laughter. There was no way anyone could say anything to make this conversation sound worse.
"Well could you open it now? Since I had to drag it all the way up here I'm kind of curious to see what's inside."
It just got worse.
Carlos was now rolling in hysterics on the floor and Logan took the package swiftly out of Mr Bitters' hands and slammed the door in his face. "Thank you for delivering this to us Mr Bitters" he called as an after thought but could only hear strange mumblings about ungrateful kids and removing pool privileges through the door.
Logan put the package on the table and stared at it.
"Okay… now I kind of want to know what's in here."
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"Why are there no windows in here?" Kendall said in frustration as he tried to ram against the door again, he turned to glare at James who was sitting in one of the seats with his face in his hands. "Uh- because we're in a planetarium?"
"I don't even. Know what. That means" Kendall replied, punctuating every second word by slamming his body against the door. He stopped and made a violent gesture towards the door, "ah- do you maybe wanna HELP?"
"What's the point?" James moaned "this place is a converted bomb shelter- there is no way we are gonna be able to break that door down." Kendall stopped short of trying to smash the unimpressed door and slumped against it "how" he gritted out "could you POSSIBLY know that?"
James pointed to something shiny next to the door, which on closer inspection turned out to be a small plaque. Kendall whipped out his phone to use for light.
'James Polk's Planetarium was originally designed as a bomb shelter during the cold war as a safety precaution against possible Russian attack.'
"The Russians tried to attack us?" Kendall asked in outrage and James threw his hands up in the air, "oh my God! How do you even function as a person in society? You're dumber than a box of hair!"
"Hey!" Kendall glared "I am an upstanding member of society… and at least I know you can't divide a number by zero!"
"WHEN WILL I EVEN NEED MATH?"
"WHEN WILL I EVEN NEED HISTORY?"
James sighed and stood up, "looking fighting will get us nowhere- Carlos is always going on about how ah-MA-zing you are at plans and escapes at stuff. Could you just THINK of something?"
"You and Carlos talk about me?" Kendall brightened up and James smacked his face with his hand "wow- it's amazing how you can completely miss the point of something, isn't it Kendall?"
"Fine" Kendall grumbled and sat in the chair "but I have to warn you these things don't just come to me, I need time, peace and quiet and- AH! I got it!"
James jumped "really? Are you always that fast?" Kendall glared at him "when you're this intelligent you don't need time." James shrugged and leaned forward so what the plan?"
"Okay" Kendall pulled out a schematic from nowhere and laid it on the ground, "Kendall… where did that schematic come from?" James asked hesitantly "no time" Kendall told him pressing his finger to his lips, James swotted him away "I mean you didn't even know where we were half an hour ago- how could you have schematics?"
"I told you we don't have time!" Kendall told him slowly, drawing each word out to its fullest possible pronunciation. "In the time in took for you to explain that like the pompous asshole that you are, you could have just told me."
Kendall let out a very put upon sigh and through the schematic down "look James we're friends right?" James scratched his head "are we?" Kendall rolled his eyes "of course we are dumb bell" James points a finger at him a wags it at him "see that's the reason I didn't know we were supposed to be friends. What kind of person makes fun of their friends?"
"I do- look I get it, you've only seen me interact with Carlos who is my best friend and Logan who is… I guess my OTHER best friend- but I'm not sure exactly what you are… but I know, you're a friend… sorta anyway," Kendall rattled off refusing to make any kind of eye contact during this unmanly moment (and James being the kind of guy he was- would understand that wasn't meant to be a slight against him.)
"Anyway as my friend- this pertaining to our previous conversation, you have to understand that things just happen the way I want them to- it's best not to question the mysterious force."
James rose his eyebrow "are you saying you WANTED us to get stuck in a planetarium?"
"Ye- okay no… hum you got me there." Kendall flushed and gave James and awkward grin; James rolled his eyes "the mysterious force sucks!"
"Agreed, now give me a boost so we can climb up to the vents."
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"It's…" Logan said almost speechless, "beautiful" Carlos finished for him in complete awe.
"I was going to say an ice cream maker… but I guess your word works too" Logan laughed, he had finally set up the blasted thing and was taking a moment to admire his handy work. Carlos only gave him a moment though before his hands were flipping every switch and turning every knob. Logan was just glad he hadn't plugged it in yet or his band mate might be down a couple of fingers.
"Why did your parents think this was a good idea to send you this?" Logan wondered aloud and Carlos shrugged brightly "I think it's a test" Logan gave him a horrified look "to see if you can make ice cream without destroying everything?"
"What? No of course not. To see if YOU can stop me destroying everything," Carlos told him, so Logan slapped his friend's wondering hands and rolled up his sleeves. "Okay then Mr and Mrs Garcia- challenge accepted."
Logan pulled Carlos down behind the counter and a minuet later they sprung back up again decked out in chef hats and aprons.
Carlos pulled at his apron in surprise "cool! How'd you manage that?" Logan smirked at him "just a little trick Kendall showed me- now have you got the ingredients?"
Carlos nodded hesitantly "I don't understand why we need all this fruit though… I mean ice cream doesn't have fruit." He jangled the bag of bananas and stared at them as if they were suspect. "OUR ice cream will" Logan told him, "It'll taste great, trust me."
"Okay" Carlos said his voice still fairly hesitant, but he started peeling bananas anyway. "Remember just dice them- then mash them," Logan told him before turning to wash the strawberries.
Logan had printed off simple instructions off the Internet and it didn't actually seem hard- the machine would take care of most of the actual preparing and the freezer would ensure they had delicious frozen treats in no time.
He turned back to Carlos who seemed to have been involved in some kind of banana massacre.
"Oh God! Carlos what happened?" Logan cried and started wiping mushy banana off Carlos' face; "I just wanted get a banana peel so I could make Kendall slip like that cartoon dog on TV." Carlos wailed pathetically "but the banana got away from me!"
Logan sighed and grabbed the remote, flipping the channels until it landed on…
"The Ziggle Zaggles will help you mash the bananas," Logan told him "we'll do something about your hair later."
'Do you wants some bananas? Banana lama lama nama nanas?'
Logan got back to preparing the ice cream and Carlos followed the word of the Ziggle Zaggles and learned the correct way to create mushy bananas through the power of song, co-ordinated dance and colourful skivvies.
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"Okay just a little more" Kendall instructed, leaning in close to James face, James sent bad vibes towards the blonde, since he had to focus and couldn't glare at him. "I know, I know okay? Just let me do this!"
"You're taking forever!" Kendall complained and elbowed James "let me have a go!" James pulled back from the door and let the hairpin sit in the lock "no Kendall- since your brilliant vent escapade didn't work you will NOT be interfering with my brilliant hairpin key plan."
"How was I to know the vents would be just slightly too small to fit us in" Kendall whined "I'm sorry your shoulders got caught and I had to cut your jacket to get you out but that's so in the past! Aren't you over it by now?"
"Kendall it happened ten minuets ago and it was my FAVOURITE jacket" James gritted his teeth and went back to work on the door. "Yeah for like two more days" Kendall whined "then it would have gone out of style and you would have burnt it or given it to the homeless or whatever you do with your 'out of date' clothing."
"Like donate it to fashion challenged band mates?" James mumbled but Kendall wasn't paying attention, to caught up in his wild gesturing and ranting.
"I mean I did you a favour- you're fashion FORWARD now!"
"Ah ha!" James said and stepped back from the door, Kendall rushed forward "what? What? Did you open the door?" he asked excitedly peering over James shoulder, James shrugged him off "no- it broke in the door. I just have resigned myself to the fact I'll never get out of here and be stuck for all eternity here with you and the stars."
"Yeah the stars are kind of annoying" Kendall said and slid down the wall and buried his head in his hands "we should probably work out how to turn of the narrator's voice at least- there's only so much of Ewan McGregor talking about our solar system on loop I can take."
"I think his voice is soothing" James sighed and sat down next to Kendall in a similarly resigned manner. "And at least now I know why Loges likes Venus so much- it does sound like a bitchen' planet."
"Not as good as Pluto" Kendall shoots back, "Pluto's not even a planet" James counters, "It's just like a big ball of ice." He shoves Kendall lightly and Kendall shoves back "yeah better than stupid Venus- I mean what has Venus done for me lately?"
The fight actually started getting physical and the shoving escalated.
"It shares it's name with Micky mouses dog."
"Yeah well my planet is the planet of 'love'- oh I guess that's why you like Pluto then, the only action you get from a girl is the cold shoulder."
"Yeah well Venus is our SISTER planet- it would be just like you to be a little bit too into your sister right James? After all you do come from Wisconsin right?"
"Erg you take that back, you bastard!"
The door swung open and light shone on the boys. James was flat on his back and had a handful of blonde hair he was tugging and was kneeing Kendall who was on top of him trying to pummel him into the ground.
"Oh you guys are still here?" Meg said with a pout and Rick gave her a smug smile as she handed him twenty bucks. "What did I say Meg- teenagers couldn't find their way out of a paper bag."
"Well this social experiment was a complete failure" she sighed "how am I supposed to prove my thesis now?"
"We were a SCIENCE experiment to you?" Kendall roared jumping up off of James and restraining himself from actually hitting the woman. "Well duh" she rolled her eyes "you ARE in a science museum."
"And you got to see a planetarium show for free" Rick added "so really you should be thanking us."
"YOU LOCKED US IN THERE FOR HOURS!"
"Whoa, whoa guys" he grinned waving his hands "you were in their two hours tops- I swear. Man you really must hate each other."
James and Kendall shared a look and then glared at the two museum workers.
"Ergh whatever" James cried, "lets just get the stupid book and go!" Meg perked up at the mention of books "oh! What book did you want?" James pulled out a crumpled up piece of paper out of him jean pocket and shoved it into her hand.
"Space, Stars and their Mysteries- wow that's a great book" she beamed at him and just glared harder "so? Can I buy it or what?"
"Oh sorry, no. We're out of stock."
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Logan sighed and finally threw down the rag he had been using to clean the mess Carlos had made in the kitchen. It had taken a considerable time- especially since as soon as they were done 'cooking' Carlos had all but abandoned him yelling about running a very important errand.
The small Latino had run back into the apartment half an hour later but had locked himself in his room. No. Correction. Carlos had locked himself in LOGAN'S room and refused to open the door no matter how much Logan had banged on the door. Logan had eventually given up and ventured into Kendall and Carlos' room to steal Kendall's ipod so he could at least listen to some music while he cleaned.
The demo version of 'Big Time Rush' blared through the speakers as he admired his handy work. Well… that wasn't SO bad.
Something gooey hit Logan's face and his wiped his hand across his cheek… was that… banana? Logan looked up and to his horror to realise he hadn't actually cleaned up the mess- it had just migrated to the roof. Somehow.
Logan dragged a chair into the kitchen and stood on it, he raised his hands but still couldn't 'quite' reach the ceiling. He momentarily thought to break down his door to get Carlos to come out and clean the ceiling- but Carlos was even shorter than Logan (by actual inches- and not because Logan spikes his hair like James had rudely suggested.)
Also, he didn't want to have to replace a door.
Mr Bitters would probably count that as an alteration to the apartment… Logan REALLY needed to get his hands on the tenant agreement Mrs Knight signed. If there was anything Logan was good at, it was finding a loophole.
It complimented Kendall's talent for 'exploiting' loopholes.
Speaking of Kendall, he wondered how the shopping trip was going.
The front door slammed open and James slumped in, "James" Logan smiled at him brightly before jumping off the chair- he'd worry about the ceiling later.
He tackled the taller boy and James' face lit up "Loges" he hugged him fiercely. Logan had missed James; it had been ages since he had gone almost a whole day without seeing the boy (especially since they now shared a room together) "How was your day? Did you and Kendall bond today?" Logan asked brightly and James gave his a shifty look "…my day with Kendall?"
The blonde boy jumped into the apartment and fell onto the ground with his arms stretched wide. "APARTMENT!" he hugged the floor fondly "I thought I'd never see you again!"
"Um- James what happened?" Logan said with a lot of concern clear in his voice, Kendall's head shot up "LOGIE!" he sprung up and sprinted over to the small boy and picked him up, spinning him around. "It's SO good to see you!"
"JAMES?" Logan called out in distress as James just stood back in amusement "mmm yes Loges?"
"What the hell?"
"Oh right, so we went to go get your book" James explained "at the science museum?" Logan asked eagerly, looking around and realised for the first time neither boy had any shopping bags- something incredibly strange since it was JAMES they were talking about.
"Yeah- so there we were minding our own business" James continues but Kendall quickly cut him off "but then these crazy museum workers locked us the planetarium for two hours!"
"T-two hours?" Logan said thoughtful and Kendall smacked him behind the head "THAT'S what you got from that story? Did you not here the part where I was locked in a room with James?"
"Y-yes I heard… B-but guys… you've been gone all day" Logan stuttered in confusion and both James and Kendall halted and turned to each other is disbelief. "They LIED to us!" James said in pure indignation and Kendall looked equally furious.
"What did the cops say?" Logan asked "are they arrested now?" the boys shrugged "were we supposed to call the cops?"
"Well yes James, they kidnapped you and locked you in a dark room- I assumed you'd want to press charges."
"I mostly just want to sleep" James sighed massaging his temples, "good luck with that" Logan snorted "Carlos has locked himself in our room."
"Why?"
Logan shrugged "it's a mystery- so did you at least get my book?" He asked hopefully and James patted him on the head "sorry buddy- they were sold out."
"Those bastards!" Logan shook his fist "now I'll never see the stars!"
James slung his arm around Logan and Logan gave him a wane smile "well I guess it couldn't be helped… so anyway how did the kidnappers get your phones? I mean James you usually guard it with your life."
James mouth moved open and shut but no sound came out, he turned to Kendall but he was responding in a similar manner.
"You forgot about your phones didn't you?"
"HEY LOGIE" Carlos ran out and then spotted the other two band mates and grinned "hey guys how was shopping?"
He grabbed Logan roughly "I'm just going to borrow this" and he dragged Logan out of the room.
"Wait no!" James yelled, "You give that back Carlos Garcia!"
He ran into the room and was surprised to find James and Logan's beds pushed together and Logan and Carlos laid out across them. "Whatever… this is," James sighed "please don't do it on my bed."
"Oh just hush and lay down" Carlos scolded and then jumped up and pulled Kendall through the door and onto the beds with the other two.
"So I've been thinking," Carlos started and Kendall snorted, "oh this should be good."
"SHUT UP! Anyway- I wanted to say thanks Logie."
Logan sat up in surprise "for what Carlos?" Carlos grinned and kicked is feet awkwardly, "for you know- putting up with me, making me breakfast… and not being mad when I blew up those bananas."
'Blew up bananas?' Kendall mouthed to James and James shrugged.
"So" he said with a flourished and turned off the light. Logan let out a gasp and they all looked up to find millions of little glow in the dark stars covering the ceiling.
"So you can- see the stars whenever now."
Logan jumped off the bed and tackled hugged Carlos, "thank you" Logan mumbled into Carlos' shoulder. Logan could here the soft laugh "you don't have to thank me- just watch the stars with me?"
They all laid down on the bed. "So what did you guys do today?" Carlos asked the other two band mates, James and Kendall locked eyes and Kendall hesitantly replied "you know- went to the planetarium… learnt some stuff."
"What did you learn?" Logan snorted.
"That Kendall and I will fight about anything."
"That vents don't always accommodate the weight of two sixteen year old boys."
"Sounds interesting" Carlos snorted, "Logie and I made rainbow ice cream," Logan laughed, "it didn't come out some much rainbow and grey- Carlos didn't want to wait for them to set before mixing the colours."
"It still tastes delicious" Carlos promised "like a fruit smoothie."
"Hey" James laughed and pointed to the ceiling "it's so life like… you know- I think I can see Venus."
"Venus is the best planet" Logan grinned and Carlos scoffed "no way Pluto is."
"Pluto's not even a planet!"
"Yeah- well Venus is stupid!"
There was a sudden bang and Mrs Knight's voice screamed through the door. "OKAY- WHICH ONE OF YOU DID THAT TO MY CEILING?"
Author's note: I just wanted to put a quick note on what I'm currently doing at the moment. So I've almost finished my story 'The Four Humours' and am going to start a new multi-chap fic (yay!) It's a sort of kinda prequel to another story of mine called Ice cream Sunday. So if you liked that story… yay.
Also I'm co-writing a story called 'moments with James Diamond' with HalfJillHalfJack and it's under her name. But I just recently wrote the third chapter so you should check that out ^_^
Thank you so much for reading, and please continue to review.