A/N: Hello again everyone! I'm finally here with another chapter! I'm really sorry about the late update, but my wi-fi was down for a while and I've been working on another story that I'll be posting very soon! I'd like to give a huge thank annabellex2, winterschild11, EmeraldGrey57 for reviewing last chapter!

I hope you all enjoy the new chapter!

Chapter 5

I quickly made my way into school, not able to take my mind off what I saw yesterday. As stupid as it may sound, I was actually jealous of Dak.

I was upset that James was pushing me away while seemingly opening up to Dak. Not that Dak wasn't a great guy. He was one of the few jocks that wasn't a complete idiot or jerk. And while I guess I kinda deserved James freezing me out, it didn't make it hurt any less.

"Hey Kendall!" Carlos chirped as he made his way over to me with Logan trailing behind him.

"Hey." I said softly, my mind still trying to figure out how to get through to James.

"So have you figured out what you're going to do about James?" Logan asked as we started heading to class.

"No, and it's driving me crazy!" I exclaimed, feeling something within me snap. "I know that I messed up. I get that. But he won't even give me a chance! It's like he doesn't even want to try and fix things! And I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to get through to him but I just-"

"Kendall!" Logan yelled, effectively stopping my rant.

"I'm sorry." I whispered, taking deep breaths to try and calm my erratic breathing.

"It's okay. Just calm down." Logan said, putting a comforting hand on my back.

"Alright… I'm okay." I said after about a minute.

"Good. Now, you've gotta stop stressing yourself over James. I hate to break it to you, but you have to understand that if he's avoiding you this much, then you must have really hurt him." He said softly, giving me a sympathetic look.

And as much as I wanted to say something to object to that, I knew that he was right. I knew James well enough to know what this was really about. He was more hurt than angry, which was why he was freezing me out. He didn't want to get hurt again.

"Logan's right. I think you just need to give him a little time." Carlos spoke up, making both Logan and I give him curious looks at his profound advice. "What? I have my moments." He shrugged, looking quite proud of himself.

"Thanks you guys." I said before pulling them both into a hug, which they immediately returned.

XxX

I couldn't help but glance over at James as I walked into my music class. I immediately noticed him writing in his notebook that he always seemed to be writing in.

I shook myself out of my thoughts before taking a seat, Miss Harris walking in seconds later.

"Alright class. I have a little project for you." She said, as she took her position in the front of the class. "I'm going to partner you all up, and the two of you will have to come up with a song by the first of December. You'll perform the song in front of the class and it'll count for half of your semester grade." She added, resulting in a couple of groans from a few students.

As she started pairing people up, I closed my eyes, part of me hoping to be paired with James while the other part was silently praying to be paired with someone else.

"Kendall, you're going to be paired with James."

As soon as the words left her mouth, I looked over to James, noticing something that looked alot like annoyance or maybe anger flash across his face.

"I'd advise you all to exchange numbers, emails, addresses, whatever you have to do to get this project done since you'll be spending alot of time with your partner." Miss Harris added before moving on to the lesson for the day.

I spared one last look at James, a small smile forming on my face.

Maybe I did have a plan after all.

James P.O.V.

I let out a huff as I angrily threw my books into my locker.

Out of all the students in the class I just had to get paired with Kendall! I slammed my locker shut before leaning against it, letting out a sigh in the process.

I knew that I was probably overreacting, but to be honest, I was a little scared. Something inside me honestly did believe that Kendall was truly sorry. And while I did want to give him a chance and try to work things out, I was scared that I would just end up getting hurt again.

I glanced up, noticing Dak walking towards the cafeteria for lunch.

"Hey Dak! Wait up!" I called out before making my way over to the jock, knowing that I needed to apologize.

"Hey." He said softly once I had caught up.

"Hey. Look, I'm really sorry about yesterday. I didn't mean to make you feel like I was judging you or that I thought any less of you. Because I honestly don't." I said honestly.

"It's okay. I guess I kinda overreacted. It's just… you're not the first person I've told that to, so I guess I've kinda come to automatically expect that reaction." He admitted, as we walked into the cafeteria.

"Hey, no judging here." I said, giving a gentle nudge along with a small smile to let him know that it was okay,

"Thanks James. You know, you're a pretty cool guy." He said as we took a seat at our table.

"Thanks, I've been told-" I trailed off, noticing Kendall motioning me over to his empty table. "I'll be right back." I said to Dak before reluctantly making my way over to Kendall's table.

"What do you want?" I asked a little too harshly once I made it over to his table.

"Well I was thinking that we could exchange numbers and addresses so we could get started on our project." He said, not at all affected by my harsh tone.

"Fine." I said, grabbing a pen and piece of paper out of my notebook before writing down my number and address before sliding it over to him.

"Thanks. Here's my address." He said before tearing off the bottom half of the paper and writing his address. "And I'll text you so you'll have my number." He said as he handed me the paper.

"Okay." I said before walking away, my phone vibrating seconds later.

I pulled out my phone before unlocking it and reading the text, turning to glare at the blonde in the process.

See you soon partner! :D –K

Alright, so not my best chapter. But this was just to set up the next few chapters! And I know that alot of you are wondering about James. You got to see a little piece of his thoughts in this chapter, but you'll get to hear his side of the story in a few more chapters!

Next chapter will be up soon , but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this chapter!

-Rusher0994