Chapter 25
"Logan! Answer me!" Kendall cried, slapping Logan back and forth on the cheeks, his eyes wild and worried. What was happening to Logan? He was perfectly fine, and then he just… collapsed. What could be wrong?
"Logan! Wake up, man!" James cried. His hands shook from fear and confusion, and he quickly pulled out his phone and called 911.
"Hello? What is you emergency?" James quickly explained the situation, sounding panicked and taking huge breaths to calm himself down. The dispatcher on the other side of the line told James that an ambulance would be there in a few minutes. James told them where he was, and the woman on the other side said she knew already. Stupid phone trackers.
"Oh my gosh! Look!" Kendall shrieked, gesturing to Logan's body. Logan was suddenly convulsing and jerking around. Foam was pouring from his mouth. The boys didn't know what was happening at first, but then James quickly turned Logan over on his stomach so he wouldn't choke on the foam.
"He's having a seizure!" Kendall cried suddenly, his voice rising. Carlos stared at Logan's body. He was frozen in shock and fear, and suddenly, he felt that Logan was dying. Logan couldn't die! He just couldn't! What would he do if Logan died?
"Logie!" Carlos started sobbing, and Kendall quickly pulled Carlos into his arms, telling him to calm down.
"Logan's gonna be fine, okay, Carlos?" Carlos shook his head quickly, not believing it. How could Logan be alright? He was choking on his own spit! How could he still be alright?
"I don't want L-logan t-t-to die!" Carlos sobbed into Kendall's shirt. Kendall shared a glance with James, telling him silently to bring Logan onto the ambulance and to ride with him. James nodded, spotting an ambulance in the distance.
In about 10 seconds, the ambulance arrived, and James quickly left with Logan. The paramedics quickly put oxygen masks on Logan, because it turned out that he couldn't breathe. James quickly waved goodbye to Kendall and Carlos as he fearfully rode away on the red and white vehicle, his best friend dying beside him.
Kendall got Carlos to get in the car, and he started to drive off. Carlos cried and cried in the passenger seat, babbling on and on about how he couldn't lose Logan.
"Carlos! Calm down, okay? Logan is going to be fine." Kendall said the words slowly so Carlos could comprehend them in his scared state. Carlos sniffled a few more times, and then he calmed down.
"Promise?" He said quietly. Kendall stared straight ahead at the road, not knowing how to answer that. He couldn't promise it, but he didn't want to tell Carlos that.
"Carlos, the doctors will take care of Logan, alright? I promise they'll do a good job." Kendall replied after thinking for a few minutes. Carlos nodded, not noticing that Kendall never said that Logan would be okay. The younger boy lay his head down on the dashboard, and quickly fell asleep. Kendall smiled softly at his friend. Carlos always fell asleep after he cried. It was a childish habit that Kendall loved about him.
When Kendall got to the hospital, he quickly woke Carlos up, and the two quickly followed a nurse into the waiting room, where James was sitting. Kendall didn't want to look at James. If he saw the expression on James's face, it could tell him whether Logan was dead or not.
But when Kendall finally forced himself to look at James's face, he was relieved to see no tears. James wasn't smiling either, but he wasn't crying. Kendall didn't know if that was a good thing or not. He prayed that it was.
"James? What's wrong with Logan?" Carlos asked quietly, rubbing his brown eyes. James looked at them with a sad expression. Kendall's heart dropped. Did Logan make it?
"I don't know, Carlos. He was pretty bad on the way to the hospital. But he was still breathing, but the doctors said that…" James trailed off wiping the tears away from his eyes. He didn't want to cry in front of his friends. He was the oldest, and he couldn't cry right now. Logan wasn't dead, and that's all that mattered right now.
"They said what, James?" Kendall asked gently. If James couldn't even say it, then it must be something bad.
"They said that Logan had... Kendall, they said that Logan had a 5percent chance of living, Kendall!" James cried, collapsing onto the ground in tears. As much as he didn't want to cry, he started sobbing. And he wasn't able to stop. Kendall knelt down on the ground beside James, shaking his head in disbelief.
"James, are you sure?" James nodded.
"Oh my gosh, Logan…" Kendall whispered, sinking into a chair. Everything on his body felt limp and lifeless. He felt like jello. He didn't believe it… Logan was dying. There was almost no chance that he would live. No… this couldn't be happening.
Carlos just stared at his two older friends. James and Kendall looked so weak and so vulnerable and so scared. Carlos had never seen them look like that before. Logan was very likely to die, and Carlos hated that. But he still had that 5 percent of a chance to live. Carlos held on to that hope. He knew Logan would make it through. He'd survived rabies, and he could survive this, too. Carlos knew Logan could live.
James quickly sat down next to Kendall, not knowing what to do or say. His friend was dying, and the last memory Logan had of him was him and Kendall hating him and kicking him out of the band. What kind of friend was he? A horrible one, obviously.
James suddenly found himself crying into Kendall's shoulder. Kendall drew back in surprise, but then he started crying, too. There was no other person in the room other than Carlos, so they weren't ashamed to be crying like a baby at the age of 17. After all, any grown person would cry if they practically caused one of the best friends to die.
Carlos watched Kendall and James cry into each other. He felt scared and intimidated. If the two strongest people he knew were a sobbing mess, then he knew that what was happening to Logan was really bad. Carlos was surprised that he wasn't crying. But as he watched the other guys cry, he decided that he would keep on believing. Even though Kendall and James thought that Logan was definitely going to die, he was going to keep on believing the opposite.
Carlos couldn't stand watching his two best friends cry anymore, so he left them sobbing and went up to the nice lady sitting at the front desk, shuffling through some papers.
"Um, excuse me?" Carlos asked quietly, not wanting to interrupt whatever she was doing. The woman looked up and smiled at the boy.
"Do you need something, sweetie?" Carlos nodded.
"Um… do you know wh-where Logan Mitchell is?" He asked hesitantly. What if the woman told him that he was dead, or that he couldn't see him? What if the woman ignored him? Carlos didn't know why he was thinking those things, but he was relieved when the woman told him to go to a room number.
"Room 135. Logan Mitchell suffered from a seizure, which is partly from rabies and mostly from stress and worry." The woman smiled gently at Carlos, who looked scared beyond belief.
"But I thought he was better from his rabies." Carlos protested weakly.
"I'm sorry, honey, but rabies don't really end until the patient dies. Sometimes, it just stays inside your body and does nothing to you. At other times, like this one, it causes seizures and other things. But if Logan survives from this, then he most likely won't ever be having another one."
Carlos tried to process the information in his small head. He nodded quickly and walked away, not wanting to hear any more about Logan's disease. The doctor kept on saying "if". But Carlos was almost sure the Logan would survive. He was strong and brave enough to fight it.
He wandered the hallways in search of Room 135, but he couldn't seem to find it. After a long time of walking, his legs started to ache. He sat down and stared at the door in front of him. 999. He still had alot of walking to do. But right now he decided to take a small break. Carlos sunk into the chair, curling himself into a ball and letting darkness surround him.
A/N- Oh Carlos… how could you get lost again? Well, he's not lost… is he?
Well, the next chapter will focus on Kendall and James, and then Logan, of course! You think Logan will survive? 5 percent chance, peoples.
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