"It's just like when we were little with those space hoppers... do you remember?" Kendall asked Alex as they stood at the top of the stairs in school.

"Oh my God! Yes. That was hilarious. You did throw it right at my head though." Alex laughed at the memory. "They really hurt for big balls of air." She added.

Kendall smiled at his life long friend. "It's a shame things don't stay as fun when you get older huh." He said still smiling but his tone was edged with sadness.

Alex took Kendalls hand in hers as she stood opposite him. "I'm really sorry about your brother, Kendall... how are you coping without him?" She asked full of concern.

"Its been 10 months now." He replied about the brother who lost his life while fighting a battle that wasn't his in Afghanistan. "I still expect him to walk through the door, you know."

Alex nodded. "I feel bad because I don't think I was there enough for you when it happened... I should of been around more." She said emotionally.

"It's fine... I know you have your hands full with James." Kendall said rolling his eyes.

Alex smiled as the name of her boyfriend was spoken. "James is good to me." She replied.

"Well I think you're the only one he is good to 'Lex." Kendall said sarcastically.

"Kendall don't start... please. I know you guys have your differences but I can't stand it when you are all up in each other's faces." Alex replied

Kendall shrugged not wanting to start a disagreement between him and his oldest friend. He knew well enough that Alex was in love with James even if the brown haired hot shot boyfriend of hers did seem like a Jackass in Kendalls eyes."actually Alex... I was wondering, my birthdays next weekend and I'm thinking of having a house party... did you wanna come?" Kendall asked, the strong feelings he felt for Alex would never subside but he was happy with having her as a friend. After all it was better than nothing

" I would love to Kendall... is James also invited?" Alex asked, her eyebrows raised with hope. All she wanted was the two men that were important to her to get along.

" I dunno lex... all he is gonna do is start trouble." Kendall replied honestly. He believed that there had never been a time when James had acted like a normal human being in his company.

"KEN DOLL!" echoed the patronising shout from nowhere.

both Kendall and Alex looked to the bottom of the staircase they were stood near. On turning to the direction of the voice they had heard, they saw James bounding toward them, two steps at a time, his shaggy brown hair waving effortlessly as he moved and falling back in to perfect position.

James pulled on Alex's hand, forcing her to break the contact she had with Kendall after discussing the heartfelt topic of the loss of his brother.

"Why the fuck are you holding his hand lexi?" James demanded to know. He squared his tall masculine frame up to Kendalls, who was still tall but lacked any definement.

"J please dont start." Alex begged as she placed herself inbetween the two boys to deter a fight breaking out. Her palms placed on their chests as she tried to seperate them as much as possible.

She hated that they never got along. They couldn't be less alike though, James was in to sports and fitness, he played football, he spent hours in the gym and he looked very athletic, where as Kendall was happier spending his time with a guitar in his hand. His skinny body wasn't built for gym life or american football.

"What the fuck do you think you are doing touching my girlfriend!" James said as he moved Alex to the side of him, she was begging for him to not start a fight.

"She is my friend you retard!" Kendall bit back at James. Even though Kendall was the more sensible of the two, he lost all his cool when James got up in his face.

"What the fuck did you call me? you lanky streak of piss!" James retorted with a push of Kendalls shoulder.

"Oh you wanna go? Lets go, james!" Kendall replied giving the brown haired boyfriend of Alex's a hard shove back.

"James please!" Alex begged as she tried to make him see sense. James did look at his girlfriend, he did acknowledge the pain that was in her eyes as he prepared to maim her friend. he thought about the consequences, but then he thought about the sight he had seen with Kendall holding Alex's hand. With that thought making him see red, all calm left his system and without a seconds noticed he pulled back his fist as he balled it up tightly and smacked kendall square in the face with his knuckles.

"What are you doing!" Alex screamed at her boyfriend as she saw blood splatter from Kendalls nose.

Kendall looked up after gaining his composure, his eyes streaming from the hit he just took. Launching himself at James he got a lucky punch in but hit James hard on the ear. The retaliation took James by surprise, he lost his footing and stumbled over, leaving Kendall to tear him to shreds as he had the upper position.

James saw Kendall in his bloodied state for a second before he recieved a head butt.

with all the commotion of the brawl between the two boys who both felt they were doing the right thing in their own principal, the group of three didn't see the captain of the football team approach with his secret lover Carlos in tow.

Logan grabbed Kendall by the collar of his shirt and threw him off of James on to the floor.

"when you two faggots have finished rolling all over each other its time to get to class! the bell has just gone." Logan said as he helped James, his best friend to his feet.

Standing up james took Alex's hand and stared daggers at Kendall who was wiping under his nose at the blood that was dripping out.

Feeling upset over the homophobic term his boyfriend just used, Carlos felt a sting to his pride and walked away to class.

"you alright James?" Logan asked his friend.

"I will be once this piece of shit is lying dead in his grave!" James hissed as he still locked eyes with Kendall.

Feeling overwhelmed and angry, Alex had had enough, just like Carlos she left the scene, pulling her hand free from James' and walked towards her classroom.

"Lexi, wait up! I need to talk to you!" James called desperatly as he ran after her.

Now realising that he stood without Carlos by his side, Logan tried his best to fix the problems that James had created before attending to his own.

"Is it too much to ask that you dont tell the faculty how your nose ended up like that?" Logan said to Kendall who was now slouched against the wall.

Logan was all too aware of how desperatly the football team needed James this weekend. the last thing he wanted was for his team to lose one of its best players because of a fight.

"Whatever man... have a word with that psycho will you." Kendall said as he picked up his books and headed to the first aid room.

Logan stood on his own for a second as he collected his thoughts. Surely this day couldnt get any worse. First his mom walking in on him and Carlos, then James trying his best to get a weeks ban from the team and now Carlos had just upped and left.

With a sigh Logan made his way to class in the hope that he would be able to smooth things over with Carlos. He knew what he had done to piss him off, he knew it the second the words left his mouth but there was nothing he could of done about it at the time.

Logan hurried his way to class, the bell had rung quite some time ago now. Before his hand reached the handle of the classroom door, Logan noticed through the glass panel that Carlos wasn't in there. His usual seat remained empty, rubbing his hand over his face, Logan turned around.

"Where the fuck are you los!" He muttered to himself.

It was then he heard crying from the toilet opposite. His heart sank as he recognised the distraught sound to be that of his boyfriend. With a heavy heart Logan went in. The last thing he wanted was to lose Carlos.

As she walked away angrily from the fight between her best friend and her boyfriend, Alex ignored the call from James that she heard behind her, she couldn't though, ignore the hand that now wrapped itself in hers and pulled her away to privacy.

"James I dont want to talk to you right now, I've got nothing to say that you want to hear!" She snapped as James pulled her in to the empty auditorium.

"Trust me you will want to hear this Lexi" James said as he pulled her excitedly, he picked her up with little effort and sat her down on the edge of the stage.

Alex crossed her arms over her chest, she was in no mood to be buttered up by her neanderthal boyfriend.

"Why do you do it james? Every fucking time! Do you know how much it pisses me off that you and Kendall cant get along." She moaned.

James placed his finger over her lips to shush her."baby listen, I don't care about Kendall, I've got some exciting news... it's the best news ever Lex!" He beamed. His perfect smile making her forgive any wrong doings he had caused in the last few minutes.

"What news? Where have you been all lunch time? I was looking for you, I called your cell a bunch of times." Alex said as she got her feelings off her chest.

"I went home lex, my mom text saying I had a letter arrive." James replied to which Alex sat very still, she was almost too scared to move as she listened intently to the possible best news she was hoping to hear.

"A letter?" She whispered.

James nodded." A letter from Princeton baby!" He said with a wide smile.

Alex held her hands to her mouth, barely able to breath as she waited for the news she had wanted to hear for so long.

Already being accepted in to Princeton herself, Alex was over the moon, the only dark cloud that followed her was the fact that the likelyhood that James would also get in was highly unlikely, he wasn't unintelligent, on the contrary! he was very smart but James lacked a lot of social skills that would give him a lot of the lower grades he had achieved by answering back to both teachers and students alike.

The fear that they would end up being separated by hundreds of miles by attending different universaties had put a burden on their relationship.

Alex knew how much she loved James and James knew that the girl that looked at him right now with her hand shaking as she held it to her mouth in anticipation was the one girl he wanted to be with forever, she was his soul mate, the one and only person that understood him and accepted him as he was.

"Lexi... I got accepted!" He said, to which he heard his girlfriend scream in delight as she wrapped her entire body in to his...

Author note:

So we have james and alex in the auditorium, logan and los in the mens toilet and kendy is in first aid... all seperated and all about to get a very big shock!

Next chapter will see some smut, some violence and some heroic idols battling it out for survival.

Would like to take this chance to apologise for the third person style shitness of my writing, ive never really done it before, I prefer first person PoV so hopefully i will get the hang of it as we go along. Thanks for reading, please review, as updates always come quicker when i know ppl are enjoying the story.

Thanks, nat xx