Two years ago about six months before Logan left for college he and Louise had put aside their differences and become great friends, one night though they took their trouble making ways a bit too far. They didn't bond over normal teenage things like music or sports they bonded over violence and mayhem, alcohol and vandalism, all the things that matter to a couple of teenage delinquents that felt like they were misunderstood by everyone but each other.
That Halloween Logan and Louise had been friends for about a year and were surprised that they were getting along as well as they were. It seemed like it was every night they were sneaking out to hang out and talk, drink, or just generally fuck things up. Louise was happy with their friendship but she was even more pleased with the fact that she had a friend that was freshly 21 who could supply her with all the alcohol she wanted instead of them having to steal it from their parents or pay Mickey to buy it.
"God there's nothing to do in this boring ass town." Louise slurred after downing a fifth of vodka.
Logan shrugged looking off into the distance. "I don't know Lou, there's always something to do if you look hard enough." He stood up unsteadily on his feet taking his bottle of whiskey with him.
He heard Louise laughing and stumbling towards him as he face-planted into the sand, asphalt was one thing but getting drunk on the beach never went well for him. He looked up to see Louise holding out her hand to him he grabbed it and attempted to get up but since they were both unstable from the alcohol and he was so much bigger than her she just ended up falling on top of him. They both laid there laughing as she scooted off of him and laid her head on his chest with his arm wrapped around her, they were silent for a bit before finally looking at each other. He couldn't get over how beautiful she looked, her hat had slipped off her head letting her long black hair shine in the moonlight and she always had a glint in her green eyes that made his knees weak. He frequently had to remind himself that she was only 17, it always made him feel bad that he had feelings for her. He shook his head and worked to sit them both up, he slowly got to his feet and then helped her up, with his arm around her shoulders and hers wrapped tightly around his waist they stumbled towards town each with a bottle in their hand to look for something or someone to fuck up.
"Oh shit!" Yelled Louise as she grabbed Logan's hand and pulled him to hide behind a car.
The sudden movement caused him to trip and drop his whiskey. "Damn it four-ears!" he yelled only for Louise to quickly cover his mouth.
"Oh shut up LoganBerry we have more at your place, look." She pointed off into the distance as she literally hopped up and down with excitement but Logan's vision was too blurry to make out more than a person standing at a vehicle and he was too distracted by how cute Louise looked so excited.
"What is it?" It had been a while since she had been this pumped over something and it had him genuinely curious.
"It's Jimmy Pesto he's putting some shit in that van he stole from me." Louise took another swig of her vodka remembering those days on Family Fracas, she tried so hard to win that van and she hated losing.
She also started flashing in and out of all the hell Jimmy had put Bob through, her dad was a good guy he worked hard and didn't deserve that shit. She could make all of this right though. She started laughing as she stared at Pesto's van, he had gone inside and Logan noticed that she was starting to get that crazy look in her eye. This was one of his favorite sides of Louise, she could get completely uninhabited and wild and it was like pure poetry once she decided that someone was going to pay, he was always in awe of her once she put her mind to it that she was going to take someone down. He smiled at her as he took her vodka and gulped it down.
"Alright LouLou, you say he's a bad guy and he stole some shit from you, let's fuck this shit up." With that Logan took off out from behind the car and smashed the now empty bottle into Jimmy's windshield, Louise was surprised at first then she was overtaken with excitement, she ran out laughing as she helped her once arch enemy destroy Jimmy Pesto's van.
After an hour or two had passed they stood there staring at their handiwork, both of them were starting to sober up. For normal people sobering up to realize that they had just totaled someone's vehicle would be a nightmare, it just made them appreciate their vandalism even more. No window or mirror was left unbroken, almost every inch of the body including the hood and roof were dented in, the tires slashed, the entire thing keyed and covered in graffiti, Pesto wouldn't have been able to pick the thing out of a line up. All of a sudden they saw blue lights coming down the road, they started to run but quickly realized that it was pointless. They had already been seen plus Jimmy had cameras, they looked at each other and smirked slightly before Louise finally spoke. "You ready for this shit Bush?"
They both chuckled as the officers walked up to them and they composed themselves embracing the severity of the situation. They decided to immediately confess not wanting to make things worse than they already wore and they were quickly handcuffed and taken to the jail.
The night had started simple enough; steal some kid's candy, drink some alcohol, hit a couple of parties. Now all they could do was sit there and look at the shit they were in. Louise looked around the holding cell and out the bars trying to figure out how she was going to get out of this mess, she was being charged with public intoxication and misdemeanor vandalism. Logan had it worse though, she had overheard the deputies and he was getting endangerment of a minor and supplying alcohol for a minor on top of the misdemeanors. All of a sudden a commotion at the door grabbed her attention.
"Where is she? Where's my baby? Where's my little Louise?" Louise's first reaction was to scoff and laugh at her mother for the reaction but when the door opened she saw Linda standing there stone cold, silent, and pissed with her arms crossed over her chest. Seriously, was it Bob making all that commotion? At that thought Bob came running into the holding cell, scooped up Louise and started screaming at her for her actions, crying that she was behind bars, and laughing at the look he had seen on Pesto's stupid gorgeous face.
"What's going on in there?" Logan said tapping Louise on the forehead.
She jumped as he startled her out of her memories, she seemed to be doing that a lot that day. She laughed as she swatted away his hand. "I was just remembering that night."
Logan started laughing as well, that had been one crazy night and plus if it hadn't been for Bob and Linda he didn't know what would have happened to him. Logan was never sure what specifically had happened that night, it was all lost in a haze of liquor, he did remember what had happened in that holding cell though. He had called his parent's and they refused to get him out of jail, they had been putting up with enough of his shit and they were sick of him being involved with Louise, even as a friend, and they were done with him. Sitting there now two years later and grown up he couldn't blame them, while he would never have turned his back on his child like that he still understood that they were beyond pissed, Bob was to but he just understood it better than they did. He started remembering that night as well.
"Logan." The one word drug Logan out of his stupor and he wasn't sure exactly what to do. He was stuck behind bars facing felony charges and he had no way of making bail.
As he looked up and locked eyes with Bob he immediately went cold, the Belcher's weren't exactly on good terms with him they just tolerated him since Louise liked him. He didn't blame them for not being his biggest fans, he had put them through hell for years and then all of a sudden things changed. Not only was it hard to believe but they were anxious of him not only because of his past but because they knew that he and Louise were bound to cause too much trouble together should the friendship last and they were certainly concerned about the age difference and the potential of romance.
"Sir." Logan responded as he walked up to the bars, he wanted to be as respectful as possible seeing as he had just gotten Louise put in jail drunk.
"Alright Logan, tell me what happened and you better make it good." Logan had never seen Bob as intense as he looked at that moment and it was the one time he had ever been truly scared of him.
"I'm not even going to lie, I bought some alcohol and Louise and I were hanging out, we were walking around town and she saw Jimmy Pesto and just got pissed – excuse the language – she told me about how he's been to all of you and I got mad to and after that it's a blur." Logan took a deep breath as he waited for Bob's response.
The last thing he expected though was what happened. Bob just started laughing and laughing, he could barely breath he was laughing so hard. "Well Logan don't get me wrong, I'm beyond pissed you've gotten my seventeen year old daughter drunk and in jail, but honestly it happens and I was pretty much the same when I was yall's age." Bob held out his hand and Logan shook it. "Alright Julia," Bob yelled "push the bail through." With that a buzzer sounded and Logan was free from the cell.
The rest of the time was a blur, Logan stayed in the Belcher's basement while his parent's cooled down, Bob used some leverage he had on Jimmy to get the charges dropped and somehow talked the judge into letting Logan simply pay fines instead of serving time, he didn't even get probation. When Logan finally went home his parent's had his things packed and told him he left for college, got his shit together, and they continued to help him or he left in general and never contacted them again. He thought the choice was obvious at the time he wished now though that he had told them to fuck off and went to stay with the Belcher's working in the restaurant. In the few months he stayed with the Belcher's they were the closest thing to family that he had ever had, and he owed them everything for that.
"Well," Logan said standing up with his plate "I'm gonna go take care of this." He grabbed Louise's empty plate and started towards the back.
Louise ran after him, "hey what the hell are you doing? Employees only bitch, read the sign." Logan laughed as she tried to block the door from him, he simply brushed passed her and walked to the dishwasher and started loading it up, she knew he had been back here a thousand times. After all this was where Linda kept the alcohol stashed.
"Accept some help Louise." Logan was calm as he reassured her, "You don't even have to pay me." He winked as he finished up loading they both looked up as they heard the bell ring that someone had walked in and Louise started walking to the door. "I got this if you'll let me," Logan said as he grabbed her shoulder, "You can stay back here for prep and cooking…" Logan sounded hopeful and while she wasn't sure why that was she was pretty sure that she could use a bit of a break, doing everything was exhausting.
"Sure Logan, thanks I uhm, I really appreciate it." Logan squeezed her arm as he walked away to the customer at the counter. Louise was firing up the grill as she listened to the order: Burger of the day, fries, and a beer, simple enough. As Logan was walking to the window to give Louise the order though they both heard the customer start screaming.