.:Chapter Twenty Five – Big Time Minnesota Pt.4:.

A/N: For you guys, this chapter has a lot of Lella in it (LoganxRhuben)

"Ugh, remind me to tell Carlos, to tell his mom to lay off the spices." Logan groaned as he grabbed onto his stomach, feeling a little nauseous. Rhuben snorted as she turned her camera away from the balcony of the hotel suite. He let out a gurgling groan this time and flopped down onto the couch.

"Is your stomach upsetting you still?" Rhuben asked as she quickly took a picture of Logan before setting her camera down onto the lamp table, closing the door and the curtain to the balcony as she did so. "Well, if Riley didn't go out with the guys, then she would have been able to figure out what is wrong, exactly."

Today Ronan wanted to be taken around St. Paul to see the sights, so Mrs. Knight offered to take them, before Kendall, James, Katie, and Carlos wanted to tag along. Logan would have gone too if his stomach wasn't really upset. Julius, Riley, Patrick, Noah, and Sydney went too, but Rhuben decided not to, saying that she wanted to take some pictures and it would take too long if they had to stop at every single little sight to see. She was getting ready to the leave the hotel suite when Logan appeared at the door, claiming that he was bored and heard that she was staying at the hotel.

"Yeah, yeah," Logan replied, smiling a little bit when he remembered when he and Riley used to share the dream of being doctors, and then co-owning their own doctor's office. But that was before they had moved away. He changed the subject. "Since when did you wear glasses?" he asked, noticing the frames on her face.

"Since I was twelve and I couldn't see a thing," Rhuben replied and disappeared into her bedroom. "But I hated them and got contacts, Riley too. We wear glasses only if we're not going anywhere." She came back out of the room holding a DVD box. "Patrick has the worst eyesight out of us, and he doesn't care whether or not he wears glasses or contacts as long as it makes him look stylish."

"Your brother is kind of acting like James." Logan admitted as Rhuben sat down at the other end of the couch. She lifted herself up to pull her wallet out of her back pocket before sitting down again. She rolled her eyes.

"Tell me about it," she replied and watched in amusement as Logan took her wallet and started to go through it. "What are you doing?"

"Going through your wallet, what does it look like?" Logan asked in reply as he briefly glanced over at her before starting to laugh. "Oh my gosh, you still have this picture?" he turned the small piece of paper around to show a picture of him, Rhuben, and Riley a few days before they had left Texas to go to California. All three of them were squeezed onto a swing, on their stomachs, smiling at the camera.

"Why wouldn't I still have it?" Rhuben snorted as she rolled her eyes and then smiled teasingly. "It reminds me of how we met."

"Geez, don't remind me." Logan groaned.

"Too late," Rhuben replied and looked towards the ceiling with a dreamy expression on her face. "I've already remembered."

"What are you doing?" Logan snorted at her.

"Shh!" she put a finger to her lips. "I'm acting like you guys while I'm trying to see my memory! Don't ruin it!"

8 year old Logan Mitchell was sitting on a swing, minding his own business and looking at his Pokémon cards when they were suddenly knocked out of his hand. Lower lip trembling, he looked up to see the playground bully, Eric Snyder, standing in front of him, holding onto a few of his Pokemon cards.

"Give them back!" Logan cried as he reached for them. "You're getting them all dirty!" Eric pulled the cards away and laughed tauntingly as Logan jumped up and down, trying to get it."Give it!" Eric reached out and shoved Logan against the chest, causing him to stumble back and fall onto the ground, his lips trembling harder.

"Aww, is wittle Wogan Mitchell gonna cry?" Eric started to laugh harder as a tear slid down Logan's cheek.

"What's going on?" Logan and Eric looked up to see two girls walking towards them. They both had shoulder length black hair and bright blue eyes. One was wearing purple overalls and a white t-shirt and the other one was wearing red overalls and a red t-shirt. The one in purple spoke up again. "What are you doing to this kid? Give him his cards back!"

"Oh yeah, why don't you make me!" Eric replied as he turned to face the two girls. "I'm not afraid to hit a couple of girls."

"I bet you're afraid to get kissed though." The girl in red overalls replied as she moved forward, pursing her lips.

"Ew! Cooties!" Eric cried and threw the cards to the ground before running away.

"Are you ok, kid?" the girl in purple asked as she helped Logan to his feet.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He replied as he brushed off his clothes. "My clothes are all dirty though."

"You're a kid, you're supposed to get dirty." The girl in red replied and picked the cards up off the ground. "No way! Rhu, he has the Shiny Charizard!" her gasp grew wider. "AND a holographic Eevee. I don't have one of those!"

"I'm Rhuben Jackson by the way, and this is my twin sister Riley." Rhuben greeted and the two gave small waves. "We're new here and slightly more normal than this." They both broke out into identical grins.

"I can tell," Logan replied and smiled. "You guys are from Australia, and if I had to guess, you're from Sydney. I can tell from the way that you guys have the inflection on your 'o's. Do people mistake your for being British a lot? Or is it that they just-"

"We were looking for your name, not our life story." Rhuben replied with a blank blink.

"I'm Logan Mitchell." Logan replied and gave a smile. "It's nice to meet both of you."

"Nice to meet you two," Riley agreed and walked over to Logan, giving him back his Pokémon cards. "we like Pokémon too, it's like, one of our favorite games."

"I didn't think girls like Pokémon." Logan stated as he looked at the two curiously. "But I'm assuming that you're not normal girls."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Rhuben demanded, sounding as if she was offended. Logan blinked as he shoved his Pokémon cards into his pockets and took a step back, slightly afraid.

"I didn't mean anything by it," he replied innocently. "Honest."

Riley shrugged and climbed up onto a swing, the only other one that was open and Rhuben squeezed on behind her and the two of them wildly kicked their legs back and forth to try and get moving. Logan laughed and moved behind them, grabbed the chains of the swing, took a step back, and pushed them forward. He noticed a strange circular burn mark on the back of their necks but didn't say anything.

"So, where did you move to?" he asked as he continued to push them until they were high enough to swing themselves before getting on his own swing. "I mean, what house did you move in?"

"This empty Victorian style one on Division Street." Riley replied.

"The one that has the purple shutters?" Logan questioned and then beamed when Rhuben made a sound of agreement. "Cool, I live next door!"

"Cool."

"And it was nice to meet you, until you pushed me off the swing!" Logan stated as he glared pointedly at Rhuben, who merely shrugged in reply. "Why were you thinking about that?" he added gently.

"Because it was probably only one of the few moments in my life where I didn't have to worry about my dad," Rhuben replied and made a face. "At least from what I can remember. I don't know, I kind of blocked out everything from being nine on back." She sat up and grabbed the DVD box and motioned it towards the TV. "Do you want to watch a movie?"

"It better not be a chick-flick, Bell-Bell." Logan warned.

"It's not, Logie-Bear." Rhuben replied as she raised an eyebrow. "Since when have you known me to watch a chick-flick? They bore me to death." She added as she made a fake gagging sound, along with pretending to stick her finger down her throat.

"Logie-Bear, Bell-Bell," Logan mused to himself. "What nickname was it that I gave Riley?" he asked as she got off the couch to put in the DVD.

"Landy, I think." Rhuben replied as she looked at the ceiling in through. "Obviously short for Rilandon." She turned around, holding onto the remote and stopped when she noticed Logan looking at her oddly. "What?" she asked as she went back to the couch.

"Hm?" Logan blinked and looked over at her, as if he didn't realize that she was sitting there. "What?"

"You were looking at me funny." Rhuben replied, tilting her head to the side. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I was just thinking." Logan replied.

"About what?"

"Nothing," Logan shoved his hand into his pocket when he felt his cell phone start to vibrate and pulled it out to see that James was calling him. No doubt it was because he was trying to settle some sort of argument that he and Carlos were having, usually about whether or not something was real or not. "I'll be right back." He announced before going into the guys' bedroom. "What?" he asked as he answered the phone. "What do you need me to prove is real now."

"Absolutely nothing," James replied and Logan could hear something suspicious in his voice. He could practically see the big grin on his face. "So, how are you and Rhuben getting along?"

"Ok, what are you getting at?" Logan asked, not really in the mood for his games.

"Dude, you two are in a hotel suite, alone." James replied, putting the emphasis on the word. Logan rolled his eyes, already knowing what his friend was getting at. "Oh come on, you can't tell me that you haven't done-"

"Bye, James." Logan interrupted and closed his cell phone, sliding it back into his pocket.

He left the bedroom and stopped as he looked at Rhuben from her profile. He studied her as she watched the movie, so engrossed in it that her bottom jaw had fallen open partly. It was hard to believe that she had gotten abused only six months before, as he didn't really see instances of her reverting back to the past in a while. There weren't any more bruises and the only scar that he could see was the first one that he had noticed when he met her. One in her eyebrow, he still wasn't sure where she had gotten it from. Logan couldn't help but smile when he saw Rhuben's lips curl into a smile at a funny part of the movie.

He suddenly blinked, running his hand over his face.

He let out a small curse, which is very unlike him, when he had realized what was going on.

He had fallen for his best friend.

"You guys should have gone sightseeing with us, it was really fun." Sydney stated as he peeled off his winter jacket, carelessly tossing it to the floor before jumping onto Rhuben's lap to give her a hug.

"Nah, I was too busy taking pictures." Rhuben replied and gave him a hug. "Logan here was sick from Carlos' mom's food." She tickled him in the ribs and Sydney burst out laughing, the dimples in his cheeks deepening.

"You sure it was the food?" Katie replied and laughed a little bit as Kendall rolled his eyes and shoved her away.

"Hey, don't knock my mom's cooking." Carlos warned as he dropped to the floor, stretching out on the soft carpet.

"Don't worry, Carlitos," Riley sat next to him on the ground, lying out on her stomach and resting her head on her arms. "It was really good." She opened her eyes and smiled at him. "Really, really, good. Best food I've ever had."

"That's because you're not counting your own." Patrick added as he sat down onto Riley's lower back, causing her to let out a grunt of pain. "Hey, do you guys want to play BS?" he asked as he grabbed a deck of cards.

"Yeah, I love that game!" James declared as he made room on the coffee table. "I'm awesome when it comes to making a poker face."

"Yeah, if you think grinning from ear to ear and practically jumping up and down is a poker face." Kendall replied with a raised eyebrow as he ignored Sydney's and Carlos' loud singing of Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Rhuben and Logan got off of the couch and everybody crowded around the table to play.

The game went on for about ten minutes without a problem until Noah put down five cards and said 'five fours' and then Katie put down her hand saying she had three fives.

"NO! DON'T!" Patrick shouted and then whimpered when he saw that he was too late. "There's no way that Noah have five fours." He stomped his foot. "I was going to BS him."

"Yeah, well, at least you don't have, like, the whole deck in your hands." Riley grumbled in reply as Kendall started to put down his hand. "Take it back" she stated before he could even say anything. Kendall let out a curse and took the cards back, knowing that Riley held them in her hands.

As they went around the circle more and more times, the shouts of frustration and triumph grew louder and louder until they were arguing about the rules of the game and whether or not they were cheating. Logan couldn't help but smile.

It just showed him that things weren't going to change anytime soon.

And he liked it that way.

'Especially since I don't know how Rhuben feels about me' Logan thought to himself as he looked over at his friend, who was laughing at Sydney for getting a huge handful of cards. 'She's never go for a math nerd. So there's not even a reason to try.' He frowned.

"Logie, you ok?" James asked as he looked over at him.

"Yeah, I was just wondering which card it was that I had to put down." Logan replied with a half smile. He looked over at Rhuben again and his smile grew wider. 'But I'm glad that she's at least my friend. Although, no one said that things had to stay the same'

A/N: So, here's the next chapter. I hope that you guys liked the little flashback that was in it. I liked it a lot. This story is going to end in five chapters, because I didn't want to draw it out longer than needed, but there is a sequel on the way and its going to be called 'Here and Now' or 'Don't Stop Believing' you can choose. I hope you guys are still liking it the next chapter will either be up later today or tomorrow night.

-Riley