One year later:
Kendall POV:
The boy I had fallen so madly in love with stood before me, and I couldn't seem to catch my breath. It had been nearly a year since I had managed to pull him back in, and promise him the world. Somehow, he still managed to be here with me. He grabbed my hand and pulled me through our secret spot, smiling the whole way.
"You know what day it is, don't you baby?" James said quietly as I chuckled and struggled to keep up with my excited boyfriend.
"Of course I do baby, it's been one year since you came back to me." I smiled at all the fond memories James and I had created over the last year, only a few fights, but Carlos and Logan had somehow been able to remind us of the love we shared and that we needed each other. I smiled at the thought of all four of us, the three other boys were the best friends I could have ever made, and they went to no end to show their love. So I tried to be like them, and share this immense amount of love I had kept stored in my heart for so long, after being terrified that the person who would get it would leave me broken.
But James.
James changed all of that for me. He made me become a better person, we helped each other. And even now as he was tugging me to our secret spot I couldn't help the wild butterflies in my stomach from the simple touch of James's hand, or the desire to stop running for a minute and pull him into my arms and give him a long kiss.
And so, that's what I did.
I stopped running and James turned around with a confused face, "What's wrong Kenny?"
"I just wanted to do this," I smiled, probably a little too hard and too crooked, but I knew James would love it anyways and pulled him into my chest and kissed his lips. I could feel him smile into the kiss, which of course made me smile harder. When we broke the kiss James didn't move, but he laid his head in the crook of neck and wrapped his arms around my waist, and I did the same.
"I love you Jamie." I whispered into his ear as I kissed the side of his head.
I heard a muffled, "I love you too Kenny." And I chuckled because James's breath tickled my neck. I leaned back and grabbed his hands again, placing a kiss to his cheek.
"Let's go have our picnic before all I do is stand here and kiss you.."
James smiles wetly at me, and intertwined our fingers before pulling me off again.
Logan POV:
Los was walking towards me and I felt nervous. Almost nervous as I had been when I saw him approaching me that day at school, the day that changed our lives forever. I raised my hand to wave nervously at him as I waited at our table in red lobster. I relaxed a little when I saw his face light up and he waved back
Carlos looked amazing, he was wearing dark blue skinny jeans and a red t shirt, he even looked like he had stolen some of Kendall's fashion choices as he was also dawning a pair of red vans. I watched the movement of his hips as he walked closer to me, and I could feel the heat rising up in my cheeks.
This was his make up dinner to me, yes there had been many dinners and movies and other dates over the last year, each of them going beyond perfectly, but Los had been saving this one, wanting it to be special. He refused to bring me back to red lobster until a year had passed since he had stood me up. He wanted us to be able to look at how far we had come in a year, and see how much we had grown together,
"Why are you blushing so hard boyfriend?" Carlos chuckled as he went to sit across from me in our booth, he looked around playfully, "is there some other sexy boy here trying to steal my logie?" I smiled at him and placed my hand in his as he stretched it across the table and shook my head.
I checked my watch on my other arm and looked at Los grinning madly, "Right on time ."
Carlos mocked me and pretended to be shocked, "Did you really think I'd ditch you here again?"
My face grew kind of serious and I tried to distract myself by looking at the menu. Yes Carlos and I had almost no issue in our relationship in the past year, but that didn't mean I didn't worry. I occasionally found myself worrying that Los would figure out that he didn't need me and that I wasn't good enough for him. But he was there for me, every day. He devoted our summer to building up my confidence in our relationship, and he had succeeded. But now, while we were both busy working and trying to find time for each other, and knowing that soon we would be off to college and we would have even less time, I found myself sinking back into that pit of depression and constant depression.
I could feel Carlos squeeze my hand as he watched me. His eyebrows were pushed together and I knew he knew what was going through my mind. "Logie we'll worry about the future as it comes...don't stress over it now babe. Please. Enjoy being here with me..."
Los looked at me with his sad puppy dog eyes and I immediately let the thoughts of the future go. There would be time to figure things out I realized. And we would figure them out together. I smiled at my boyfriend and squeezed his hand to show him I was calming down,
"You always know what to say to me to calm me down Los."
Carlos smiled at me, that sweet sweet smile that could end wars and poverty and all sorts of other terrible events and I did my best to give him that same smile. That smile that could melt away every fear we had, and every worry ran away. I knew I'd be lost thinking about the future, but Carlos was my future. He had always been my future and he would always be my future.
I took a deep breath and met eyes with my los, "Promise we'll always be good for each other, and to each other..." I closed my eyes for a second and opened them when Carlos uttered his response.
"I promise Logie, I promise."
sorry if you hate this ending :( I'm not too crazy about it myself, buuuut this way if I ever just want to come back to this and add a chapter about the future I can:) and I would just really hate it if I left all of you hanging for another year. But thank you so so much for everyone who stuck with this and saw it out through the end! I love you all, and if you want to, you can totally check out the other fic I'm in the process of writing, I'm going to try to be a lot better about updating it during the school year.
but anyways, thank you all so much:)
-Tayler