AN: Want to apologize for any spelling errors in advance because I really wanted to update so I didn't check over it much. Enjoy!
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Since Mama Knight and Katie had been back, things were getting harder and harder for Logan. His last bottle had run out shorted than the month that was expected due to the other one being spilled because of the incident. He found himself needing the drugs more than ever. Suddenly it seemed as if everyone had something to ask of him. Whether it was Mama Knight with chores, Katie with homework, Gustavo with new music, or Griffin with publicity. Everybody bothered him...except for maybe Kendall. But Kendall was doing something worse. Kendall wouldn't stop observing him and he didn't know why. It didn't freak Logan out though it somewhat, felt natural for them to share stares at each other just...observing.
Logan was more than halfway to Guitar Dude's place. For a sunny Saturday morning it was quiet except for the humming of the birds and the wind. You'd expect someone to be playing outside not going to buy drugs. But no one was outside, most were probably at the pool, Logan figured. The wind blew his blue sweat back and his white undershirt was briefly exposed. He was just about to approach Guitar Dude's door when he heard a rustle of leaves behind him.
He quickly turned around. Nothing but an area of bushes and trees next to the pathway he had just come down. He was skeptical but he turned back around and continued his strut down to the door. Once he approached it he knocked on the door. He heard a shuffle of movement on the other side.
"Look, no one's doing anything that isn't legal!" Guitar Dude called out.
"What? No it's me." Logan said rolling his eyes.
"Oh." Guitar Dude opened the door. "Sup buddy!"
"Hey." Logan spat out. He just wanted to get in there and get out, without all of Guitar dude's crap. He shifted the bag he had brought with him on his shoulders. Even if it was sunny outside, the place still gave Logan the creeps because it was so secluded and after all he was going to a drug dealer.
"Why the long face?" Guitar Dude taunted.
"If you had been through what I've been through in such a short amount of time, you'd be in a bad mood too."
"Oh. So...provolone still?"
"Yeah same old, same old."
Kendall watched the whole unfold from behind a crowd of bushes just a few feet away. The two voices weren't completely audible due to the wind but some things stood out. Provolone? Kendall thought. He thought back to the original hospital report. Not the one that Logan had showed them all, but the one Kendall had found under the brunette's pillow. But... No it can't be. But Kendall's worst thoughts appeared to be true when he saw Logan had Guitar Dude a twenty dollar bill and Guitar Dude handed him a bottle with blue liquid inside of it. Kendall watched as the door was closed and Logan turned to walk away. Kendall ducked down as far down as he could.
He sat there just thinking. But why would Logan take drugs? Kendall asked but the answer stood out like a sore thumb. Kendall immediately knew that it was probably from the pressure. He remembered how some guys on his hockey team back in Minnesota would take steroids to lower the athletic pressure. He also thought back to when he had walked in on Logan staring and smiling at the wall. That alone was basically screaming a cry for help. It was so obvious, yet all of them had been so oblivious.
Kendall slowly got up, making sure no one was around. He looked. No one. He stepped a bush in front of him onto the sidewalk. He had no idea how he'd explain to Logan how he knew. He didn't want to scare Logan but he wanted to get the brunette the help he need...with out telling Mama knight. He walked down the pathway. If only he had heard the camera flashes just a few feet away behind him.
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Logan came home and walked hastily to his room and shut the door, not wanting to be interrupted. Something didn't feel quite right so he decided not to inject the drugs right then and instead find a secure place to hide them. He looked at his desk. I'm not making that mistake again. Logan thought to himself. He looked around searching for a possible spot. Suddenly his face grew pale as he heard the sound of the door that lead into the apartment opening.
"Honey I'm home!" James shouted jokingly. Logan also heard the faint sound of Carlos' laugh and the shutting of the door. He began to panic as he heard footsteps coming closer and closer to his and Kendall's room. He shuffled towards his dresser and threw open the drawer in a frantic haste. He hid the container underneath the clothes in a way that it looked as if nothing was there and slammed it shut. Suddenly his door was swung open and he jumped.
"J-James!" Logan yelled, startled by the sudden burst but mainly because of what he could have been caught doing just seconds earlier.
"Sorry..." James said with guilt for scaring the smaller boy.
"I-It's fine. Just knock the next time." And with that Logan headed towards the door, squeezed past James and went into the hall. Logan knew it was a close call. He was just glad he had gotten past James without any questions about his strange behavior.
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Back at the apartment nothing was unusual. The boys were all four sitting on the orange couch watching TV. Well...trying to watch TV. Kendall sat beside Logan with James and Carlos on the outside of them. They were fighting over what to watch. Logan was barely paying attention while he tried to watch a little bit of whatever show was on before the remote would be grabbed and changed by the two boys. Carlos reached his arm past Logan and Kendall and tried to grabbed the remote from James. In return, James hit him on the head with it.
"Ouch!" Carlos yelled. "James this is boring!"
"Well too bad! Someone in this group has to dress nice and it's not going to be any of you guys! So we're watching the fashion channel!"
Wow. Kendall thought. Even I don't sound that gay. He smirked at his inside joke.
"Ok that's it!" Carlos said, jumping over Kendall and Logan and pouncing on James. James obviously didn't see in coming and fell to the floor with the smaller Latino falling on top of him. It was a normal thing. For the two to get at it over the stupidest things. At first Logan and Kendall weren't paying the two fighting boys any attention until the bodies shifting beneath them started to become annoying.
"Ok guys, cut it out!" Kendall said getting off the couch to grab Carlos. Logan also got up to pull James away. It didn't work because as soon as the Kendall and Logan got down there, they were sucked into the fight James and Carlos had created.
"SERIOUSLY GUYS CAN'T WE JUST WATCH ONE FUC-" Logan started but the guys stopped all movement as they turned towards the door as it opened slowly. Almost automatically. There stood Griffin with Gustavo and Kelly behind him. Griffin holding a giant sized remote with what seemed like a million buttons on it.
Carlos was the first one to break the awkward silence.
"How did you open the door...?"
"I call it my Universal Remote!" Griffin said holding out the remote in an advertising way. "Controls anything and everything."
"So, uh, not to be rude but...Why are you guys here?" James then asked.
"Good question." Kelly said. "But a better one would be: Why are Kendall and Logan on TMZ?"
All their eyes shifted towards the TV as Griffin pointed his remote towards it and changed the channel to TMZ. They watched the finishing bit of the previous article as their ears perked once they heard the familiar names. A small, round faced, Caucasian woman with a short brown bob did the report.
"Kendall Knight and Logan Mitchell. Members of one of the hottest boy bands in Hollywood, Big Time Rush, were caught doing a strange act earlier today and TMZ's undercover paparazzi were there to catch the scene!
Here is Logan offering talking with an unknown person before giving him a small amount of money, before leaving with a strange blue liquid in a container.
Think that's all? It gets weirder!
Once Logan leaves, member Kendall Knight is spotted coming out of a bush just a short while after!
What's going on? Think you know? Tweet us at TMZ on twitter!"
Griffin then used his remote to turn off the TV. The whole room stared at Kendall and Logan while they stared at each other. Neither boy knowing what to say.
"Care to explain?" Kelly said, placing her hands on her hips and they all waited for an explanation. When it was obvious that none was coming out of Logan by the way his mouth seemed sealed shut, Kendall started to say the first thing that came to mind.
"Uh, I-I was worried about Logan because he had been so quiet all week, so I followed him secretly to see where he was going..." He looked at Logan who gasped but quickly tried to hide it.
"I-I, um, was going to Guitar Dudes house to ask him about some guitar chords for a song Kendall was talking about and he offered me some of his home made punch for five dollars."Logan looked at them to see if they were believing it. It seemed to be working. "It was nasty so I poured it out later."
The room was quite for a little bit and them Griffin spoke.
"Well problem solved! Gustavo and Kelly, you two clear up the whole situation on the BTR Twitter and Facebook page and I will be off to control more things with my remote!" Griffin, Gustavo and Kelly turned back around and almost as quickly as they were in the apartment, they were out.
James turned on the TV and him and Carlos finally settled on something to watch and sat on the floor below the couch to watch it. Kendall and Logan just stared at each other for a long time.
"How did you..." Logan whispered softly and started to get up.
"Logan, wait..." Kendall said, not knowing how to start.
'I'm going to lay down." Logan announced and turned around before the blonde could even say anything to object. Kendall watched as Logan disappeared down the hall.
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It was darker now outside and Carlos and James were in the same position they had been a few hours ago, while Kendall was spread out on the couch. Mama Knight and Katie had come home and were in bed.
Bed... Kendall thought. Logan!
Kendall got up and started to make his way down the hall towards his and Logan's shared room. He leaned his head against the door and hear soft snoring. He smiled and went back into the living room and James and Carlos looked up at him.
"What's wrong?" Carlos asked with a worried voice.
"Ok I'm just going to tell you." Kendall said. "Everything that we told Griffin, was a lie. Here's the truth."
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Kendall told them everything. From the very beginning, when Logan first started acting weird. He told them about walking in on Logan being high and staring at the wall. He told them about his encounter with Guitar Dude on the elevator. And all about the switched reports. That seemed to trigger a memory in Carlos' head and the shorter by gasped because he realized that whole allergic reaction act that Logan had told them, never happened. He told them all that had happened up until today where he had followed Logan and what he heard when he had done that.
"Wow." James said shocked.
"But you know what doesn't add up?" Carlos said.
"What?" Kendall rose his eyebrow, he had explained everything the best he could.
"Why you broke up with Jo."
Except that.
"CARLOS!" James hit Carlos on the arm. "That has absolutely nothing to do with this!"
"It's an honest question!"
It was something they didn't talk about but since Kendall was telling them the truth... Why not?
"Jo broke up with me because... She realized I was in love with...Logan." Kendall said sheepishly as he hung his head down.
"Dude, it's ok." Carlos said and patted him on the shoulder. "We're still your best buds!"
"Yeah it's totally fine. Are you...um...gay?" James asked.
"I don't think so. I think I'm bisexual. I really did enjoy my time with Jo, so I know I'm not gay."
The other two boys just nodded in understanding.
"So about Logan," Carlos started. "We have to tell him we know."
Carlos started to get up and James followed. James reached a hand out to help Kendall up and Kendall took it. They quietly walked down the hall making sure not to awaken Mama Knight or Katie. They reached Kendall and Logan's room and slowly opened the door. Once they were all in, they closed it back and locked it.
"Where do you think he hid the container?" James whispered.
"Let's look." Kendall answered back in the same tone.
It took them a while. The fact that Logan was sleep and they were trying not to wake him up made it harder. They looked in the first place that Logan had hidden it and found nothing. Smart boy. Kendall thought. They rummaged through everything until finally Carlos found it underneath some clothes in Logan's drawer.
"Guys look!" Carlos whisper-yelled. And there it was. The contained with the blue liquid in it. Kendall and James shuffled to surround Carlos and Kendall accidently stepped on Carlos' foot.
"Ow!"
"Carlos shh!" James said. But it was too late. Logan started shifting in his bed until he finally sat all the way up. He stared to rub his eyes. He vision was hazy but he could sort of see.
"Guys what are you doing in-" Logan started in a tired voice but immediately stopped because as his vision started to adjust, he could make out something in Carlos' hand. It was the drugs in the container he had bought from Guitar Dude.
James started to edge towards the door so Logan now had no way to get out because by the looks of the brunette's face, that was probably his next move.
"Logan don't freak out." Kendall stepped closer towards Logan who was still sitting up. He placed a hand on his shoulder. "Just talk to us."
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I'm soooo sorry for no update in a while! I was just so busy and was trying to come up with ideas.
This may be my favorite chapter to write. It ties a lot of things together because I have a feeling that this story may end next chapter so I wanted to get some of the problems together. Can't wait for everything to work out!
Thanks for all of the reviews and please continue, they really inspire me! THANKS! :)