Chapter Four: And It's All Downhill From Here

James bursts back out the door in response to hearing what Logan just said.

"I am not a liar, Logan. I still love Hadley, but I never stopped loving Ellie. Ask Karlee. Or Shelby (Ellie's other best friend along with Karlee She has a crush on Logan and he thinks she's pretty). Hadley has been acting like a total bitch for a while now. I'm gonna go talk to Hadley later."

"You think she's gonna take it well, smartass," asks Logan, "she's gonna hate you!"

"Fine! Let her hate me! I told her I would love her forever. I never said I didn't. You're just pissed because Ellie loves me and not you. In fact, I have two girls in love with me. You have, uh, let's see," James counts on his fingers in a mockingly fashion, "one…two…oh. NONE."

"Shut up, douche," Logan laughs as he walks away.

Kendall looks at James. "What happened to you?"

They all leave him once again and James is left to ponder on everything that's happening. After a few minutes, James goes back up to the studio, ignoring eye contact with anyone, and grabs his keys. As he's walking out, he hears Logan call to him.

"James!"

"What is it, Logan? Care to yell at me some more?"

"No. I just wanted to apologize for the way I was acting. I'm sorry. We just want our James back. Ellie or Hadley, whoever you choose, we will support you."

James gives Logan a hug and thanks him. He smiles and walks out. He gets in his car and decides to head to Hadley's house. But, before going any further, he thinks it's best that he calls first.

She answers, "What."

"I was just checking to see if you are home."

"Oh. Okay. Well, I have to continue crying now," she hangs up. James punches to steering wheel and speeds on. When he got to her house, he opened the door and saw Hadley, obviously, crying.

"Hadley, it's me. Can I come in and sit?"

"Sure. Are you gonna break up with me? I know you're seeing another girl."

"I didn't come here to break up. I just came to talk."

"Talk about what? How you have this other girl you want? How you say you and her are just buds, but you end up loving her," she screams at his face.

"Hadley, calm the hell down. You are going way out of line here!" James says sternly.

"Then what the hell is it? I know everything, James."

James sits there for a moment.

"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" Hadley asks smartly.

"If it's a cheater you want," he hesitate but continues, "it's a cheater you'll get. No. Wait. You won't get cheated on because, in fact, we are done. I did nothing wrong! It's not like I went and slept with her or anything. All I did was fall in love with best friend and fall out of love with who I thought was my best friend."

"I trusted you!" she yells.

"What am I supposed to say to you? Sorry? I have nothing to apologize for. I have somewhere to be. I am not a cheater or a liar."

James starts to walk away, but stops before he goes out the door.

He turns around. "You know, I told you I would love you forever. Well, this must be forever because I am done loving you."

About an hour and a half later, Hadley finally realizes what just happened. She calls Logan crying.

"He broke up with me!"

"You don't know that for sure, Hadley. He could just be saying that because he's pissed off."

"No, he stormed away and—I can't live like this. He hurt me. Do you support suicide?"

"Oh, shut up, Hadley. Don't say that."

"Ha, why not? I have a knife in my hand right now!"

Suddenly, Ellie bursts through the door.

"You know, you really shouldn't leave your door unlocked like that. Look, I know you don't like me very mu—why do you have a knife in your hand?" Ellie stutters.

"As if you don't know. James broke up with me. He said he didn't love me anymore."

"Look, put the knife down. James is in the hospital. He came up to my apartment barely moving. There was blood everywhere, so I called an ambulance."

"WHAT? What happened?"

"He crashed his car," she hesitates, "on purpose."