Chapter 14

"Kendall? You alive over there?" James waved his hand in front of Kendall's face. He had called Kendall's name four times now, and Kendall seemed like he was off in space, or somewhere like that. Kendall snapped out of his daze, and looked up to see James staring at him in concern and a tiny bit of amusement.

"Oh... yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking." Kendall told him firmly. James raised an eyebrow. He was the only one who could do that. Kendall had always tried, but he could never do it.

"Is there something wrong, dude?" James asked. Kendall sighed, and decided to tell the truth.

"Yeah." Kendall paused for a moment, not sure of his decision. "Carlos told me today that... that Clyde said he would murder him." James widened his eyes, not sure how to respond to that.

"He came and broke my date with Jo. He knew what happened last time, and I knew for sure that he was scared of what would happen if that happened again. So I'm pretty sure Clyde wasn't kidding. If Carlos would mess up my date, then it must've been for something important." Kendall reasoned. He was sure that Carlos wasn't hiding anything from him.

"Then... what are we going to do about it?" James asked quietly, not wanting to believe this was true. Clyde had gone too far. He was coming to kill Carlos, and there was probably nothing they could do about it.

"What else can we do? Call the police." Kendall turned suddenly and saw Logan sitting right behind them. Where'd he come from? Logan seemed to read Kendall's mind, for he rolled his eyes and gave Kendall an "I was right here, you idiot" kind of look.

"But... what if Clyde finds out and then he tries to get Carlos before the police come?" James asked, worry and frustration evident in his eyes.

"How is that even possible?" Logan retorted. "We could just call the stupid police right now, and then he'd take Clyde to jail." He added.

"Well... we don't have proof yet, so we can't accuse him until he is proven guilty." James said thoughtfully.

"That's the polices' job, stupid!" Logan sighed, feeling frustrated.

"Why don't we go ask Carlos." Kendall suggested firmly, not wanting to hear his two friends bicker any longer. It got really annoying after a while. The other two boys nodded, forgetting about their arguing, and marched into Carlos's room. Carlos was sitting up in bed, tears rolling down his cheeks. He didn't even know why he was crying. He just was.

"Carlitos? You okay?" James asked quietly. Carlos nodded and smiled. He looked down and took a shaky breath.

"Y-yeah." He said finally. Logan wrinkled his eyebrows in concern. Carlos needed to take his mind off what he had experienced with Clyde. It was tragic and traumatizing. Logan shuddered at the thought of a bully threatening to kill him. He sure wouldn't want that to happen.

"Hey... Why don't we go to the park? We can go throw a football around." Logan started, giving Kendall and James a glance. They smiled knowingly, and quickly agreed. After a few moments of hesitation, Carlos nodded, too. The boys set off, with Carlos holding their football. This time, the guys didn't care at all when Carlos started bouncing the football on their backs. At least he was occupied, right?

When they got there, the boys started throwing the football around, telling each other strange things they had seen the past week or so. Logan talked about seeing this fat woman claiming she was related to Tyler's mom, Kendall talked about seeing this fat African American stealing a bag from an innocent woman, and how some old dude chased the thief and got the bag back. Somehow. James talked about how Cuda just came out with a new spray that turned you purple.

"Carlos? What about you?" Kendall asked conversationally. Carlos just shrugged, honestly not being able to think of anything.

"I can't think of anything... Sorry." He added quickly, afraid Kendall or James or even Logan would get mad at him or something. The other three saw this, and sighed guiltily. They had caused Carlos to be so cautious... he was even scared of them now. What had they done to him?

They had shattered Carlos's beautiful innocence. They made their youngest friend feel as if they were strangers, bullies, who would stop being his friend any second. But they weren't. Not anymore, at least. They could never shake off the fact that they were such jerks to Carlos before.

"No, no... It's okay, we're not mad at you." James said as firmly as he could, with no waver in his voice. Carlos just nodded casually and threw the ball at Kendall as hard as he could. Which wasn't really hard, but it was hard enough for Kendall to have to focus on only that.

None of them could forget what they had done to Carlos.

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Meanwhile back in Apartment 2J, Mrs. Knight and Katie Knight were heading out of the apartment. They were heading to the mall to buy clothes, food, purses, lip gloss... anything that girls and women usually enjoyed. Katie was in an especially good mood, since Carlos was all better and her other three brothers were not jerks anymore.

She swung the door open for her mom, who went out quickly and happily. Then, she swung the door wide open for herself, and skipped out of the apartment quickly, catching up with her mom in the elevator. But before the door closed, someone caught it, and slipped inside the foreign apartment of Apartment 2J.

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"What a workout that was!" Logan said, wiping the sweat off his forehead. The others agreed, feeling all their energy drained from their time spent at the park throwing a football around. The things such a small object could do to you.

Carlos ran into the apartment first, and caught sight of something that would give him more energy. An energy drink. It said "Energy Drink" on the bottle. The bottle looked strange to Carlos, but he assumed that it was just Katie putting some Gatorade into a plastic bottle. Carlos picked it up, and drank it all in a few seconds, before the others trudged in.

Carlos ran into his room, not knowing what to do. He had all his almost endless energy back again, and he didn't want to be there to mess up Logan's homework or Kendall and James's girls. He lay down in his bed, kicking his feet back and forth, back and forth.

Outside of the energetic Latino's room, Logan and James were arguing over something useless.

"It's obviously not an energy drink!" Logan shouted loudly. James shook his head. "No! It is! It's just in a different bottle. Maybe Katie did it or something." He argued confidently.

Logan sighed. "There are no nutrition facts on the bottle. And how do you know Katie did it? Maybe it's some kind of drug or medicine Mrs. Knight put in there to trick us into thinking it's an energy drink."

"But why the heck would she do that?" James retorted, getting frustrated.

"Who knows?" Logan said. Kendall groaned and stood up.

"Guys! Shut up! You're making me need Aspirin! Someone drank it already, so why do guys still care?" He shouted, sounding annoyed. James and Logan soon found this a good point, for they shut up about it and got back to playing video games again with Kendall. Soon, they walked out of the apartment, shouting to Carlos that they'd be back soon. They all went their separate ways.

Back in Carlos and James's room, Carlos was feeling a little bit dizzy. He barely heard his three friends call to him, but he heard it. Carlos felt like he was going to throw up, but he didn't. He quickly walked out of the room, trying to ignore the agonizing pain in his head.

He got a glass of water and tried to drink from it. But when he finished pouring water into it, black spots started dancing in his vision. Carlos fell to the floor, his water glass breaking into a bunch of different pieces.

A/N- This was hard to write... No clue why, but it was hard to write! :)

Sorry for the slow update again, I've been busy going to places these day... You know, the last few days of summer vacation... It's gone so fast. :( Wish school could be like that.

Well, LOVE THE REVIEWS! LOVE ALL OF YOU! Please review this chapter and tell me what you think happened... Because I kinda think it obvious by now, considering all the obvious clues I gave in the chapter!

I'll try and update soon! Peace out!