Okay so here is the next chapter. i hope you all like it and i tried my best to stay in character. sorry if i didn't.
Logan's New Step-mom
Part Two
Amelia finished hugging her step-son and turned to the others at the table with a huge smile. "Your school is so big; I've been wandering around looking for you for over an hour." She said in amazement. "I couldn't imagine having to find my way around everyday." The group laughed at her innocent comment.
"You get used to it after awhile." Zoey spoke up. Amelia smiled.
"Well I'm sure it gets easier being here everyday and all." There was a long pause in which Logan had gone back to eating his breakfast completely ignoring Amelia's presence.
"Logan aren't you going to introduce us to your step-mom?" Chase asked. Logan sighed set his fork back down and looked around the table.
"Amelia, guys; guys, Amelia." Amelia rolled her eyes and looked at them more carefully.
"Alright let me guess then." She said. Starting from the left she began to guess their names. She was correct each time. "Okay you're Chase, Michael, Lola, Zoey and…" She paused at Nicole. "I'm sorry I don't know your name."
"It's Nicole."
"Well it's nice to meet you, all of you." She said addressing all of them. "But don't call me Amelia just Mia is fine."
"We'll its nice to meet you too Mia." Michael said and the others nodded in agreement. There was once again an awkward silence in which Mia looked around at the scenery and Logan continued to eat his food. The rest of the gang looked between them waiting for some kind of interaction. There was none. Mia finished taking in the surroundings and then got a look of shock on her face.
"Oh I almost forgot I brought stuff back from France for you guys. That's where Malcolm and I were for our honeymoon. Let me just see here." She slid an extra large designer bag off her shoulder and began to dig through it. Logan took his turn to roll his eyes at her perky behavior. "Okay so I brought something back for everyone because I knew I'd be coming down here to see Logan. For the boys, I'm afraid you're going to have to share but I brought you some sweet treats. I figure with boys the best gift is always food so here." She took out a few boxes all labeled in French. Chase and Michael thanked her before tearing into the boxes.
"Hey what's in these?" Michael asked as he picked up some kind of French cookie.
"Oh I have no idea, I don't speak a lick of French but it's such a beautiful language I wish I did." Michael and Chase didn't seem to care about the contents of the cookies and continued to eat them.
"For…" She looked among the girls and pointed at Lola. "You, when I was in France we went to a play and brought back a copy of the script. It's also in French but I'm sure you can listen to it translated online."
"Wow thanks." Lola said taking the script and flipping through its pages.
"And for Zoey, I hear that you like fashion so I picked up this magazine at one of the news stands." Mia handed her the Magazine which she took with a million thanks.
"And Nicole I didn't know about you of course so I didn't get anything for you." Mia said sounding truly sorry about something she had no control over.
"Oh that's okay really."
"Oh wait, here." Mia reached up and took the stylish sunglasses from the top of her head. "They're not from France; I got them at the airport because I sat on my old ones on the plane, but they're very cute." Nicole took the sunglasses graciously. She put them on and turned to the girls showing them off.
"This is really nice of you buying us all gifts seeing as how you've never even met us before." Zoey said.
"Oh it's no big deal really." Mia said shrugging it off. She heard Logan mutter something while the others admired the gifts, or ate them.
"What did you say dear?" She asked him unaware that she wasn't supposed to have heard anything at all. Logan sighed and it was obvious that he was frustrated.
"I said it wasn't a big deal because it's not like your spending your own money." Amelia looked a bit surprised by what he had said and was unsure how to respond. Logan took the shocked look in her eyes as a cue to continue he stood up angrily. "You are just like all of my other step-moms. You act all sweet to my dad and try to get to know me so it seems like you really care. Then you spend all the money you want to, do stupid things, my dad finds out and does stupid things, then you separate and I hear from you once every six months. So why don't you just leave now and I'll see you at Christmas if the divorce papers haven't already been filed." After finishing his angry rant he stormed off away from the table, his very confused friends and his upset stepmother. Amelia looked near tears and went off in the opposite direction. Chase and Michael jumped up to follow Logan.
"Okay tell me if this sounds any better." Lola said. She lifted the French script up in front of her and read off one of the monologs in a very convincing French accent. Lola, Zoey and Nicole were all sitting in their dorm. Well Zoey and Nicole were sitting as Lola moved dramatically across the room as the italicized words indicated. After Logan yelled at Amelia and Chase and Michael went off after him they had come back to the room and listened to the play in both French and English on the internet. They had heard it quite a few times and now Lola was determined to copy the accent exactly.
"Lola you sound perfect, like you were born and raised in France." Zoey reassured her for the tenth time. Zoey had heard the monolog enough times to recite it herself and probably with a pretty convincible accent as well. "Can we please do something else?"
"Yeah I've heard this so many times I'm beginning to think with an accent." Nicole said.
"Let me just go through it one more time." Lola begged still keeping up the accent. Her friends sighed but complied. As Lola was about to begin reading there was a slight knock at the door and Chase and Michael walked in.
"Oh hey." Zoey jumped up thankful that Lola had been interrupted. "Did you guys talk to Logan?"
"We tried." Chase answered. "He wouldn't talk to either of us or James."
"Where is he now?" Lola asked, still not breaking the accent. The two boys barely took notice.
"Back at are dorm. We didn't think it would a smart idea to stay there when he was in such a bad mood." Michael explained. "We were actually hoping Quinn was here. Figured she could talk to him better then we could."
"Talk to who about what?" Quinn was standing in the doorway looking around at all of them.
"Logan."
"What'd he do now?" She asked as she came in and dropped her bag on the floor next to her bed.
"He freaked out and yelled at his step-mom earlier, then stomped off and now he won't come out of the dorm." Michael told her. Quinn closed her eyes and thought for a moment.
"Alright I'll go talk to him." She said.
"Well I hope everything works out, so I'll just start over then." Lola said as if there had been no interruption at all. Zoey jumped up to block the boys exit. If she and Nicole were going to have to sit through the play again then so would they.
Quinn listened to the unanswered ringing and then to Logan's voice mail picking up her call for the fourth time. She clicked her phone off and glared at it without leaving a message. She had gone to talk to him at his dorm but he hadn't been there and so she started calling him as she wandered around the campus looking for him. She dialed his number once more and in her distraction bumped into someone walking in the other direction. The two fell to the ground, the persons belongs crashed and scattered. Quinn quickly helped gather the things and handed them back to a young lady she didn't recognize.
"Sorry about that, just a little distracted." The women picked up the last few things in her reach, dumped them into her large person and finally looked directly at Quinn.
"Hey it's you." Quinn was confused when the women hugged her.
"Umm….not to sound rude but have I met you before?" She laughed at her.
"I'm sorry that was probably really awkward for you. I'm Mia, Logan's step-mom."
"OH!"
"And sorry about running into you too I was just as distracted." Quinn took notice to Mia's upset expression and remembered what she had previously been doing.
"My friends told me about what Logan said to you earlier. I was just looking for him."
"I was looking for him too actually but I just wanted to tell him I was leaving."
"Oh." She said again.
"Do you think maybe you could tell him for me, I don't think he really wants to see me right now?" She asked and Quinn felt bad for her. She was now determined to get Logan to come talk to his step-mom.
"Of course but don't be in such a hurry to leave." Mia nodded and took her bag back off her shoulder. She reached in and pulled out a book.
"I brought some things back from France for everyone. I remember Logan mentioning that you were really into science and thought you might like this." Quinn took the book and read over the cover. It was written by a French scientist that she recalled reading about a while back.
"Thanks." She was wondering what could have mad Logan so mad at Mia; she seemed like a very nice person.
"Well it was nice meeting you. Over the summer when I tried to get Logan to talk to me about his school life he looked really annoyed with me but it seemed like he didn't mind so much when it came to talking about you." Quinn smiled, she couldn't help herself.
"I'm going to talk to him and see if I can get him to talk to you, so try not to leave in such a hurry."
"I wish you luck, I'm staying at the hotel right near by, just across the street if you can get through to him."
"I'll do my best."
Okay so the next chapter you will have your Quogan moment. Sorry i'm making you wait again. I hoped you liked this chapter and i'll do my best to update the next one.
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