~[BTR, AU] 3rd Person's POV
"J-James…?" Logan's cheeks immediately flared red, James breaking the kiss with a goofy smile, his own cheeks a bit red. "See? I mean you no harm, Logie," James smiled warmly, gently ruffling Logan's, enjoying his soft black locks which fell flat over his forehead afterwards.
"T-This… T-This i-isn't a prank… r-right?" Logan asks, his eyes watering up, feeling like he's in a very lucid dream… Though he knew it wasn't a dream.
"What? No! Logan, I meant that kiss," James gasps. What asshole drilled that idea into Logan's head…?
Logan looked down, fresh tears trailing down his face. He couldn't decide whether they were tears of joy, or sadness. Joy-filled that his first kiss was stolen by James Diamond of all peoples. Sadness that it might all be a prank.
"Can you like… Take off your towel so I could hug you better?" James tugs at Logan's towel, the other boy blushing furiously as he pulled it tighter towards his body. With a small devilish grin, James grabbed the other end of the towel and spun it around Logan, effectively ripping it off of his body.
"James!" Logan squeals in embarrassment, covering his body with his hands.
"Wow…" James gasps. The way Logan huggs his body tightly in embarrassment made his biceps pop up… Though they did fail to hide his perfectly sculpted pecs, inviting right nipple, his washboard abs and his side-abs.
"Logan," James gently held the boy's hand, slowly pulling it towards him, Logan's hands slightly shaking in embarrassment.
He's never been shirtless around anyone, let alone his brother!
"Tell me, please. Why… Why were you so scared of me? Of Kendall, and Carlos?" he asks in a gentle voice, Logan's fear slowly being washed away by James' gentle gaze and voice.
"I-I uh…" Logan looks away in embarrassment, taking a deep breath after. "R-Remember that day I shared my lunch with you?" Logan asks, James' mind immediately wondered back to that perfect day.
Literally the best day in his life.
Well, it would've been if it hadn't ended so abruptly.
"I uh… W-When I w-walked home," Logan's hand began quivering, immediately James knew something horrible happened to him. James holds both of Logan's hands tightly, tangling their fingers.
"D-Dustin a-and his g-gang came up on me a-and bullied me," Logan began talking after a short pause. At that very moment, anger burned up in James, his teeth began gritting. "They fucking what?" James' voice turned from a gentle one to an animalistic one.
"T-They hit me and t-threatened me to stay away f-from you guys…" Logan gulped, remembering how hard he had been hit near his right kidney. "They told me how I was worthless… Ugly, pointless, stupid, skinny," Logan began, his eyes slowly trailing down to the bruised area here he was hit, hard.
James sat on the floor in front of Logan in silence. As soon as he spotted the bruise near Logan's left side, he immediately let go of Logan's arms. He was scared that if he held on, he'd break the poor boy's hand in anger.
"They… They did that?" James asks, trying to control the volcano that's erupting and spewing anger-lava in him right now.
"Yeah… W-Well, I didn't care about their comments because well… I'm used to it. That's what I was told since birth…" Logan smiles sadly, remembering the physical, mental, lingual and emotional abuse he had to go through as a child.
Even though his brother's got custody of him and both of his parents are in jail now… It still haunts him every night.
Bullying coming from home and school.
"They're not true!" James suddenly shouted angrily, Logan's eyes shot up to meet two flaming, angered eyes. "Logan, they're not true! You… You're not all that!" James practically yelled, his mind hazy with anger.
"They're not true, Logan…" James felt tears escaping his eyes, angered at himself for not finding Logan sooner.