Woot! Chapter 10! I feel quite accomplished that I have made it this far! I want to point out that even though I see all the guys as best friends I feel like Kendall and Logan are just a bit closer and the same goes for James and Carlos. It's not a shipping thing because like I already said there aren't going to be any pairings in this story. It's just how I interpret their friendships. Other than that, I really don't have much else to say except a quick thank you to those of you that are still reading and reviewing! I love you all so much!
Disclaimer: Still don't own them
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Kendall had intended to stay awake all night waiting for the phone call from Mrs. Mitchell saying whether he would spend the day looking for his best friend or not. However all the emotional and mental stress had taken its toll and somewhere around 4 in the morning he had dozed off only to be awakened two hours later to the sound of the phone ringing out from the kitchen. Within seconds he was up from the couch and running across the house to answer the phone.
Kendall was devastated. He had never wanted anything more in his life than to hear that his best friend was home safe instead Logan was still missing without a trace. Having received the phone call Kendall made his way to his mother's room to wake her up and share the information he had gotten from Mrs. Mitchell.
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At 7 o'clock James and his mother arrived at the Mitchell household to find what appeared to be half the school and their parents waiting outside for instructions on what was going to happen that day.
"Mom, I'm gonna go find Carlos and Kendall."
"Ok, meet back here when it comes time to split up and search." With that he took off into the crowd searching until he found who he was looking for.
"Do you guys think Logan's ok?" asked Carlos.
"I hope so," said Kendall even though he'd been fearing the worst since the phone call an hour earlier.
"Sure he is Carlos; Logan's a lot tougher than we give him credit for. He probably went to one of his favorite spots out in the woods to read and fell asleep. It's happened before," stated James.
"Yeah, but he's never been out all night," mumbled Carlos.
Carlos felt like crying. He'd seen situations like this on television and heard his father talking about them but never imagined that they could actually happen to him and his friends. He had spent the whole night praying that this was all a nightmare that he was going to wake up from but knew that it was really happening and no amount of wishing was going to change that.
"Can I get everyone's attention, please!" requested Liam. "Earlier this morning, as Joanna and I continued to search for clues to our son's whereabouts, we discovered that his suitcase and several other belongings of his were missing leading us to believe that Logan has quite possibly run away."
"Now, we need everyone to split up into groups and come get an assigned section to search. If you find anything you are to tell the officer in charge of your section and they'll radio the other parties. Hopefully we'll find Logan soon but if not we'll meet back here at dusk."
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When they returned to the Mitchell's, and still had no sign of Logan, Kendall felt like crying. It wasn't fair they had spent all day looking for Logan and had found nothing. He wanted his friend safe and sound back home. He also wanted to know why Logan would want to runaway, that's if he had runaway. Kendall was just so confused and had so many questions with no answers. Part of him wished that Logan had runaway so that Kendall knew he was more than likely safe but another part of him didn't want him to have been unhappy enough to have felt like he needed to escape. However, he realized that if Logan hadn't runaway that meant that something way worse had happened and he didn't want that either.
He made his way to the front steps of the house and sat down as he watched the search party volunteers slowly return back. He saw Mr. Garcia hugging his son as he cried. He saw James standing next to his mother but looking so lost and alone. Then he saw Mrs. Mitchell sobbing as her husband hold her as tears slowly fell from his eyes as well. Finally Kendall spotted his mom and ran to hug her and cry.
"Attention everyone! Thank you for coming, for those of you who can spare the time again, we will be meeting back here at the same time tomorrow morning. For those of you that can't we appreciate the time that you were able to give," said Mr. Garcia.
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"It's my fault you know," murmured Joanna as her and her husband sat down to try and eat dinner.
"What is?"
"Logan running away," she said through her tears.
"It's not your fault."
"It is though. I was too tough on him and I was so strict about his grades. He couldn't stand to be around me anymore so he ran away."
"You know that's not true…"
"If I had just been a better mother," interrupted Joanna.
"Now you listen here Jo," asserted Liam, "You are a wonderful mother. You only wanted the best for him and for him to be his best. That's why you had such high expectations from him."
"But I didn't have to give him ultimatums."
"No you didn't, but you are human and you made a mistake. And I can't fault you for that."
"So you're not mad at me?"
"How could I be when you've given me no reason to be."
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When Carlos had gotten home he had gone straight to his room claiming that he wasn't hungry and just wanted to go to bed, which was mostly true. He wasn't hungry but he knew he wouldn't be going to bed anytime soon. Instead he hid under his covers and thought back to the past few days events trying to think of anything that could have caused Logan to want to run away and all he could think of was how he had called Logan stupid. At the time Carlos thought he was doing the right thing but now as he laid in his room alone and curled up on his bed, wondering why his friend was gone, all he could do was regret the cruel way he had treated his friend. Before he knew what hit him Carlos was sobbing into his pillow wishing he could see Logan so he could apologize to him and beg him never to leave again.
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James wasn't sure how he felt about everything that had happened in the past 24 hours. So much had happened and it was all so frustrating. He didn't know if he was scared, angry, sad, or hurt by the fact that his friend was missing. So instead of trying to figure out how he felt he turned on the television and proceeded to flip through the channels waiting to see if anything would catch his attention.
He was on his third cycle through the channels when the news caught his eye.
"Before we end our segment for the night we would like to remind you all to please keep an eye out for fourteen year old Logan Mitchell," at this point a picture of Logan appeared on the screen. "He was last seen yesterday afternoon around 3:30 when he exited his school bus in front of his home. If you have seen him or know anything please contact the number at the bottom of the screen…" Whatever else the broadcaster had said was lost to James as every emotion he had fought to ignore bubbled to the surface and he broke down in to tears. And before he knew it his mother had wrapped him up in a hug and held onto him as he cried.
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So there's that. It turned out a lot sadder in this chapter than I had intended. Anyway next chapter has Logan and Kolby. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.