A/N: I'm so glad that everyone liked the last chapter. I was afraid it would seem more like a filler, but I'm glad everyone enjoyed it. Here is the next chapter.

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Chapter 8

It was Monday, I had been out of Parkland for six days. Staying at Dak's was like having a little mini vacation. It was nice not having to worry about Kendall or pretending to be okay. I had cried in Dak's arms the last six days, but I knew that he didn't mind. Today was the day. Today Kendall would be released from his anger management courses and would be returning to the Palm Woods. I planned on staying in Dak's apartment.

My cell rang, I looked and it was Kelly. I groaned and answered. "Hello?"

-Logan, Gustavo wants you in the studio first thing tomorrow. Bright and early at six a.m. He is stressing because we have lost three weeks of recording and we need to work on the next single.-

"I'll be there." I hung up realizing that I would have to face Kendall tomorrow. I stood up and walked into the bathroom. I looked at my face. Most of the bruising had faded. My left eye was the only evidence of what had happened. It still was slightly green. I washed my face of with some cool water and walked back to the couch in the living room.

Dak was at the studio working on a new song that he was recording. But after my call with Kelly I just wished that he was home. I picked up the phone and texted him. When are you gonna be back? I pushed send. I sighed, the thought of being around Kendall so soon was nerve racking. I didn't know how I would react. In two weeks I had realized and seen a lot of things.

My phone vibrated. I'm heading there now, see you soon. I sighed in relief. I needed to talk to Dak, he was the only one who could help me make sense of things. I waited anxiously for him to walk through the door. Finally after ten minutes the tall, dark haired man was entering the apartment. "What happened, Logan? Are you okay?"

"I am. Why?" I asked.

"I ended my session because I was worried, you never ask when I'm coming home."

I slapped my forehead. I couldn't believe I had been so stupid. "I'm fine, I just needed to talk to you." I felt guilty for making him worry. "I'm sorry I worried you."

He sat down. I could tell that he was still shaken. "Logan…with Kendall coming home…I just thought."

"I know and I'm sorry." I sat down next to him and placed my hand on his shoulder to comfort him.

"What's going on then?" He asked intently. He sat up and gave me his undivided attention.

"I have to be at the studio tomorrow at six. That means that I am going to have to see Kendall, and I'm not sure I can handle that quite yet to be honest. I haven't seen him since I was in the hospital. I just am afraid he will try and convince me to take him back."

"Why are you so afraid of him trying to do that?" He asked.

"I don't know if I have the strength to say no. Dak, I still love him so much. I want nothing more than to be with him."

He was silent for a second. "It was the same way for me. I would break up with Tony and then avoid him for a few weeks, but when he finally did talk to me, I couldn't turn him down."

I looked at him. He said he knew how I felt, but he had never elaborated on what happened with Tony. "Dak…" He glanced at me to let me know he was listening. "What happened with Tony?" I asked.

He got a sad look on his face and the put his face in his hands for a second before he started speaking. "I met Anthony for the first time three years ago. He went to my school with me. I was in the popular crowd, my family had money so I meshed well with them. He was a running back for the high school football team.

"I knew then that I liked guys, I knew because whenever he would talk to me I got butterflies. I could have sworn he was constantly flirting with me. Well, finally one day he asked me to go see a movie with him and I said yes. I remember being so excited. We went out and he was perfect, he complimented me and told me things that lifted me up and made me feel like I was raised onto a pedestal."

He paused for a second. I could tell he was fighting back tears. "We had been dating for seven months the first time he hit me. It was our seven month anniversary and we were suppose to go see a movie, but he had gotten into it with his old man and said he couldn't go. I was pretty upset about it, but my friend Jared offered to take me so I could still have fun and take my mind off of it.

"An hour before I was suppose to go to the movies with Jared, Tony showed up at my house to surprise me. He had lied about not being able to go so that he could surprise me with an even bigger date." He smiled a little bit. "I told him I had to cancel with Jared before we went anywhere. He got angry when I mentioned Jared. He told me that I spent to much time with him, even though he knew he was my best friend. He accused me of cheating on him and when I told him I wasn't he got angry and hit me."

His frown became even bigger. "He didn't hit me again for a few months though, but when he would get super angry he would. I let him get away with it because I thought we were going to be together forever. He told me he didn't want me to hang out with Jared. I told him that and I lost Jared as my friend, even now he still won't talk to me.

"Things started getting out of hand then. He was hitting me everyday. He was mad about something with football and he stormed off, I had tried to call Jared to patch things up with him while he was gone. When he came back though he looked through my phone while I was sleeping. He got angry...he slammed my shoulder into the wall. He tore a ligament in it. I had to have three surgeries."

He pulled up his sleeve to reveal several nasty incision scars. "After that I tried to break up with him. He used to beat me until I agreed to stay with him." I remembered when Kendall did that. After a while, I couldn't take the pain and would give in.

"He hit me over thirty times when I finally did break up with him. He hit me and I stood back up and told him I wanted to leave him. After thirty hits he looked at me and told me he didn't care because I didn't mean shit to him anyways. He had only dated me as a bet and when he saw how easily I could be controlled he turned it into a game." He took a deep breath. "He tried to apologize, I accepted it and even took him back. Then I loved to L.A. When I moved here, I broke up with him and being away from him was hard in the beginning but being away was what I needed."

"Do you still think about him?" I asked.

"Yes. I think about how I loved him so dearly. But the perfect antidote for that is to think of all the pain I endured while I was with him." He said sweetly.

"So you are saying I shouldn't go back to Kendall?" I asked.

He was quiet. I had caught him off guard that much I could tell. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I'm not saying that at all. This was my love story. You need to decide how yours ends. If Kendall has changed then you can have him, but if he hasn't you need to stay away Logan."

I looked down. He had given me a lot of information. "I use to justify what he did to myself. I would tell myself I needed to be a better boyfriend. That if I could just keep him happy that none of this would happen." I said sadly.

"I did too, but eventually you have to stop making excuses and face what they did."

I nodded. When Dak told me he knew what I was going through, he really did. He had been through hell just like me. "If Tony had changed would you have stayed with him?"

"I don't know. I want to say no because of everything he did to me. But if he changed he would have been the Tony I loved very much and I may have."

I could tell that I was prying. I was willing to talk about Kendall, but I could tell that talking about Tony made Dak very uncomfortable. "So what do you wanna do for dinner?" I asked trying to change the subject.

"Hmmm, well I made dinner last night, how about some chinese. I know how much you love it!" He answered with a smile.

I grinned. "Yeah, do you mind if we have Carlos and James over? I wouldn't mind seeing them."

"Of course, what do they like?" He asked.

"Hmmm, James likes spring rolls and chow mein. Carlos loves pot stickers and orange chicken."

"I'll make sure I order those then."

Thirty minutes later Carlos and James we're in Dak's living room with us. "So wait, she completely shot you down?" I asked while laughing.

James nodded. He had been obsessing over the girl he met at the pool a few weeks ago only to find out that she didn't like him. "It's okay, she just couldn't handle this." He said while doing his famous jazz hands.

I laughed. A memory from Minnesota popping into my head. Everyone was looking at me. "Remember when the girls field hockey team beat us down?"

Carlos and James joined in on my laughter. Dak was giving us confused looks. "What happened."

"The janitor left the T handle in the sprinkler system so we soaked the girls field hockey team." Carlos said.

"Nice." Dak said.

"They chased us, and then proceeded to beat us to a pulp." James said.

"And I even told them that we would end up hurt because of it." I said.

"HAHA we had to give James my hockey helmet to protect the face." Carlos laughed. "Oh man and then when we all auditioned!"

Dak was giving us another weird look. I decided I would explain. "We all tried out to be the next pop star and Ken-" I stopped.

"What happened?" Dak asked.

James stepped in. "Kendall started yelling at Gustavo because he said I had no talent. So Kendall kicked cups at him and sang the Giant Turd song at him. Then security guards were grabbing him."

I had finally gotten myself back together. "Then Carlos decided to try and break him free after I told him since he was a juvenile and only had a prior for mooning he'd only get twenty hours community service tops," I laughed at the memory.

"Mooning?" Dak asked.

Carlos smiled. "Thats a different story for a different day." He said, his smile only getting bigger.

James continued the story. "At that point I put the mic down and jumped on a security guard." James said smuggly.

"And then that was the part where I told Ms. Majacowski I needed new friends and tried to help them." I said. I smiled remembering that day. Kendall was the guy I loved back then. Sure we hadn't been dating but I was still pretty much in love with him. I hesitated asking. "How is Kendall?" I blurted it out before I could stop myself.

I saw all them look at each other. Then James and Carlos silently argued over who was going to tell me what was going on. James finally stepped up and did it. "He is different. He went straight up to his room and wouldn't come out. Mama Knight said he didn't even talk to her on the way home."

"That's not like Kendall at all." I said softly. "I hope he's okay." I said aloud. However, the glares I got made me wish I didn't though.

It was half past five when Dak and I walked out of the apartment he had decided to go in and work so that I didn't have to ride with the others. He knew that I wasn't looking forward to seeing Kendall. The fifteen minute ride to the studio seemed like it only took a few seconds. I walked out and walked into Rocque Records.

He turned to me and smiled. "Listen, I will be just a few studios away, don't hesitate to come talk to me if you need to."

I nodded and sat down waiting for the others to arrive. A few minutes after Dak left they were walking in. I looked at Kendall. He was wearing sweat pants and a white tee shirt. I couldn't help but stare. Kendall had always been cuter when he wasn't dressed up. He looked like he had rolled out of bed two minutes before he came here.

Gustavo was walking out of his office. "Dogs, get in the booth."

We all walked in. I stood next to James. We were working on a new song about heartbreak. Well, I'm pretty sure I can nail this song.

We had been rehearsing our vocals for well over two hours before we had earned our first break. We all walked into the break room. I walked over and got some hot water and put a tea packet in it. Neither of us four had said a word to each other.

I grabbed my tea and then walked into the hallway. When I sat against the wall, I saw Kendall come out. He stood in front of me for a few seconds. I met his gaze and he had a pained expression on his face.

"Can we talk for a few minutes?" he asked softly. I didn't say anything. I just nodded. "Listen, I learned a lot while I was in treatment. I'm not saying I have changed because I haven't changed as much as I need to. I didn't talk to anyone last night because I had a lot to think over and I decided that I'm going to give you your space."

I looked at him with a surprised look on my face. "What made you decide that?" I asked.

"I learned that its not up to me to decide when we get back together. All I can do is show you that I have changed and hope that you will take me back. I will give you as much space as you want and when you are ready to see I've changed I will show you that I have. I will show you that I will treat you right."

I was quiet for a moment. "I don't know how long that will be Kendall. You hurt me so much, I need to forgive what you did before I can even think about being in a relationship with you again." I was finding it extremely hard to get the words out.

"I know. Just know that I am sorry and even if you don't take me back, I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you." I knew that the thought of us breaking up for good was tearing him apart. But I told myself that it was his own fault.

"I want to be with you Kendall, I just don't want to be hurt anymore. I won't be with you if you are going to hurt me."

"I know, Logie." He said softly. "I just have to work on a few things too. I need to learn how to control my emotions and until I do, I won't even reach out to you. When I feel that I have them under control, though I will let you know. Does that sound okay to you?"

"Yes. But until you show me you have changed I'm staying with Dak." I said stearnly.

"I know that I have no right to ask this of you, but please don't date him. Not until I get another chance." He was pleading with me. "He likes you, I have known that all along."

I sighed. "You were correct. You don't have the right to ask that of me."

He nodded and I saw tears welling in his eyes. With that he stood up and walked away. I watched sadly, as he walked away from me. I stood up and went and found Kelly. "I can't be here anymore. I have to leave." She nodded and told me she would deal with Gustavo.

I walked to where Dak was recording and knocked on the door. When I walked in he understood and walked with me to the limo that was waiting to take us back to the Palm Woods.

When we got in the limo I broke down and started crying. "That bad, huh?"

"It wasn't though. He told me that he was going to give me space and when he felt he had his emotions under control he would let me know so that maybe we could try again." I was still sobbing. "Watching him walk away was so hard though."

"I know." He pulled me into a hug and rubbed my back. "It does get easier though. I promise."

I pulled away from him, Dak was giving me his famous smile. His smile was letting me know that he was going to be here for me. That he cared.

Next, as if some unknown force had pulled me towards him, my lips were against his and I was kissing him.

End Chapter

A/N: Ah, a cliffhanger. I will update soon, until then...

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