A/N: Hello everyone! Sorry if this chapter's not my greatest but I've just been so sick and I was given these pills that had me practically asleep for most of the weekend and my mind's still a bit clouded with sleep... Anyways, long story short, I've been very very sick, hence why this chapter may not be as good as they normally are. It's awfully short for one thing so...sorry about that too.

I'll omit the shout outs section today since I'm not really feeling so great at the moment...

DO know that if you reviewed, you were my main inspiration and motivation to write this in the middle of an earache, runny nose, fever, and headache...so you see? Reviews DO have healing powers...

Without further ado...

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Cheers *cough, cough*

Franshes

Ch.25: Ringing Bells in the Distance

(3 months later...)

"Urgh not again!" Logan groaned as his phone went off.

"What- what time is it?" Carlos asked, trying and failing to suppress a yawn.

"3 in the morning..." Logan grumbled as got up and answered his phone.

Carlos tried his hardest to ignore the sight of his boyfriend's naked ass, the bed sheets covering his own nakedness.

"What's wrong Camille?" Logan said a little bit irritably "What?! You want me to get you-what? Camille, do you have any idea what time it is? Where am I supposed to get you that? Seriously, you're being unreasonable! Well, guess what? I don't care! Good bye!" and he hung up again.

"Aren't you being a little bit rude to Camille?" Carlos asked hesitantly.

"Yes, but she's done this five times already!" Logan exclaimed .

" I know," Carlos said with a sigh "So what does she want this time?"

"She wants a hot dog and spicy chicken wings with bittersweet sauce, a lemonade and a diet milkshake..." Logan mumbled.

"So let's go get her her food then," Carlos said gently.

"Where?" Logan exclaimed "It's 3 AM!"

"I thought that Chili Cheese Fries place had spicy chicken wings and was open 24 hours..." Carlos said slowly "And there's an ice cream parlor right next to it that should be open as well...we can make the lemonade ourselves and there's a Hot Dog stand right outside Palm Woods whose owner...sleeps right next to his cart...so it's still there, we can get it..."

"Carlos you're a life-saver, let's go!" Logan said, grateful.

"Let's get dressed first, babe, it wouldn't do for Camille to find out what we've-ahem- been doing these last hours..." Carlos gently reminded Logan.

Logan laughed.

"I guess not," he said "I love you babe,"

"Love you too," Carlos said simply as Logan placed a gentle kiss on his lips...

(Later that day...With James...)

James sighed guiltily as he tanned by the pool and observed how Diego walked up to the smoothies' line, none of his cheerful sprint remaining in his walk.

The poor boy looked miserable and James hated to think he was the cause of all that misery.

Diego had lost everything when he'd come out to his family, and yet he'd thought he could pull through with Mark's love.

And now James had snatched that away from them.

James hated himself for it.

Honestly, James was beginning to hate his life, regardless. It seemed that all he ever did resulted in pain for others.

He'd hurt Kendall by cheating on him, had hurt him by forcing him to be the strong one through every hardship they'd had, and had hurt him when he'd left him hanging time and time again.

He'd hurt him when he'd refused to forgive him.

And he'd hurt him now when he finally had the chance to be happy with Jett again.

Sighing and gathering his courage he decided that he'd at least make something right today.

Walking up to Diego, James made up his mind that he was going to fix his and Mark's relationship, whatever it took.

Diego's eyes widened in fear as he saw James approach him.

"James," Diego said in a small voice "James I-"

"Don't worry, Diego," James said, guessing at what the young boy was going to do "It's in the past. It's forgotten. I shouldn't have encouraged it either...and other than apologize, I-I came here to help you win Mark back..."

"That's impossible," Diego said immediately and then added in an undertone "He hates me now..."

"No he doesn't," James said firmly "And anyway, he won't be able to resist you by the time I'm done with this plan..."

(With Kendall and Jett...)

"-And then he dropped the entire bucket of water on her!" Jett was saying.

Kendall laughed.

"No way! Poor Elena!" he said as he took a sip of his wine.

"Poor Philip!" Jett said "He was the last crew worker to leave the set that day, Elena made him clean up the remains of the food fight scene...said that would teach him to be careful and show more responsibility towards props..."

"Yeah, well, Elena is scarier than Gustavo when she gets mad so that's saying something!" Kendall said.

"Yeah, for sure..." Jett said.

"So, how's your movie coming along?" Kendall asked him casually as he twisted the spaghetti around his fork.

"It's going great...Dak's being kind of annoying though...his incessant flirting is driving me and the director nuts..."Jett said.

"I might want to talk to him one of these days," Kendall said possessively "Show him it's not right to hit on my boyfriend..."

"Not that I'd ever pay him any serious attention, though," Jett said "You're all I need, Kendall..."

"You've said that before," Kendall said with a smile.

"And I'll say that a million more times if I need to," Jett answered back sweetly "Dak is hot and he's sweet but...he's just not you,"

"Oh so I'm not hot and sweet then?" Kendall said jokingly.

"Well you're not hotter than ME obviously, I'm WAY better- looking than you," Jett said immediately with a laugh making Kendall groan good-naturedly.

"Let's not start that discussion again, shall we? Not two years after we've finally moved on from THAT stage..." he said.

They both laughed...

(That night...)

Carlos and Logan's jaws hit the floor as they arrived back at the Palm Woods and saw the scene before them.

Jett and Kendall who were just coming back from their date were equally stunned.

The whole of Palm Woods' pool area was covered in multi-colored party lights, soft, romantic music played on the background. A snacks and drinks table, complete with a chocolate fountain had been placed at a safe distance from the pool and teens all around them were either laughing or talking and some were even dancing. Multi-colored confetti was scattered on the ground.

"What...is this?" Logan asked amazed.

"Nobody told us there'd be a party scheduled for tonight," Jett said, grabbing Kendall's hand.

"That's because there wasn't any party planned for tonight, it was kind of short notice..." said a voice from behind them.

"James? You did all this?" Carlos asked amazed.

"Yep," James said smugly.

"Why?" Jett asked "You did an amazing job, by the way,"

"Thanks," James said brightly "And as for your question...because I'm going to help Diego win Mark back..and you three are going to help me..."

"WHAT?!" The three exclaimed in unison.

"James, how in the world is a party going to make Mark forgive Diego for...almost...cheating on him? And how will YOU singing at this party be any better?" Kendall asked.

"Because it's not just a party...it's an anniversary party... Mark and Diego would have been going out for a year today..." James said.

"If you hadn't interfered..." Logan pointed out.

"Doesn't matter...I'm fixing it now," James said "We're singing a love song to remind Mark why he and Diego are perfect for each other..."

"Which one, though? Almost ALL our songs are love songs..." Logan piped up.

James smiled when none of the others commented against doing the song anymore.

"I-I really like you guys in All Over Again..." Jett said timidly "A-and it really fits the situation too..."

"That's...actually not a bad idea...thank you baby," Kendall said, giving Jett a gentle kiss.

"Kendall..." Jett added "Have fun, tonight, okay?"

"Thanks, I will," Kendall said smiling as he followed the other three to the platform near the pool.

Tonight, more than ever, they had to rock!

A/N: Ta-da! So, who thinks James' plan will succeed? Who thinks it will fail? Also, Camille's cravings and mood swings are starting to kick in, who thinks that might put a strain in the Cargan relationship? Jett and Kendall seem to be back to normal...are they truly meant to last?

Let me know what you think!

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*please please I deserve some good reviews for working on this while I'm sick*

Cheers,

Franshes