This chapter is kind of pathetic if you ask me, but I felt it needed to be done. Just some random fluff. Hopefully I can think of something better to write in my next chapter.

I feel as if I should have something really epic to say… but it's like 12am so I have nothing…

Enjoy?

Chapter Four

Kendall sat at the kitchen table, pushing his cheerios from side to side in there bowl. He'd been staring at the breakfast food for some time now, and they were getting soggy and mushy. Hardly edible anymore. He wasn't hungry and he couldn't focus on the tasteless cereal in front of him. Why wasn't any one up yet? Kendall had been sitting at the table for what seemed like hours now, and still nobody had rose from their beds yet.

Well that wasn't entirely true. His mother had been up hours before him heading for a morning workout, and Katie was down by the pool probably scamming some adults out of there money. But where were James, Logan and Carlos. Why were they not up yet?

He knew Carlos was still really sick, so he had a valid reason for not being up. So what was Logan and James excuses?

"Hey," A groggy voice said. James entered the kitchen, hair a mess and still in his sweat pants from last night. That was very un-like James. The pretty boy was usually dressed and ready for the day before he emerged from his room.

"Hey," Kendall said warily.

"I'm so tired," James complained as he sat next to Kendall pouring himself a bowl of cereal.

"How come?" Kendall frowned.

"Carlos," James said simply.

Automatically Kendall jumped to conclusions, "Did something happen? Is he okay? What happened?"

James grinned at the blonde, "Okay first chill,"

Kendall glared at him, he hated when James told him to chill. Out of all his friends James was the only one to ever tell him to chill. Logan and Carlos simply followed Kendall, they never questioned his actions, they trusted his every word. The blonde could do them no wrong and they put their lives in his hands. James however was always the one to question him. Not question his leadership as much, because James trusted him and on more than one occasion put his life in Kendall's hands. However unlike the smaller two, James was always the one to tell Kendall to take a step back and chill. He was the one that would give Kendall the annoying, teasing smirk or call him a stupid nick name like 'Kenny'. James wasn't afraid to taunt and tease their leader, he took extreme enjoyment out of annoying the blonde.

James had been friends with Kendall the longest. He knew everything about the boy. He knew his darkest fears, his deepest secrets and biggest insecurities. Kendall knew there was no one in the world he could trust more than James and he loved him for that. James would fight side by side Kendall any day and risk his life for him without hesitation. But being James came with its perks. Being one of the very few Kendall could completely trust, it meant he could be one of the few that could annoy and tease him.

"James," Kendall said sternly.

James just grinned cheekily causing Kendall to roll his eyes, "Carlos is fine you mother hen. He just had a rough night,"

"What do you mean rough night?"

"I wasn't up for most of it, poor Loges was. I got up around four to him having night terrors or something. He went back to sleep easily once it was over, but still. He's really sick," James sighed, all playfulness forgotten.

Kendall dropped his spoon in his cereal dramatically, "Damn it."

James shrugged, "I'm pretty sure Logan was up with him for a while,"

"Why didn't he come wake one of us?" Kendall asked.

"Because he's Logan," James said in a matter of fact tone, stuffing his face with cereal.

Kendall sighed annoyed. They loved Logan, of course they all loved Logan. He was their older, smaller, dorky brother that they looked out for. But Kendall just wished he wouldn't be so ridiculously stupid sometimes. Getting up in the middle of the night to attend to a sick boy alone was stupid. He shared a room with him for god's sake. Would it have been that difficult to wake him up to help? Or James?

Logan was going to get himself sick at this rate, and nobody wanted that.

Kendall knew they all hated it when he went like this. All 'mother-hen' as they called it. But could they blame him? It was hard not to worry for their safety and wellbeing when he had some of the stupidest friends in the world. Besides, he grew up with Mama Knight one of the world's most protective mothers. Was it so wrong that some of that had worn off on him?

"Morning guys," A tried Logan said as he took a seat next to James.

"Speak of the devil and the devil shall appear," James laughed.

Logan just looked at him strangely and made his breakfast, "How's it going?"

Kendall frowned crossing his arms and James smirked.

"What?" Logan asked confused.

Kendall rolled his eyes, "Would it have killed you to wake us up last night?"

Logan grinned sheepishly, of course Kendall would be annoyed at something like that, "You didn't need to be woken up. I could handle it,"

"Logan!" Kendall scolded.

James laughed. If there was one phrase Logan said that Kendall hated more, it was 'I could handle it'. They had both heard it countless times back home when revering to Logan's dad. Many times James had heard Logan tell them he could handle it and he came to school without breakfast or dirty clothes. James didn't like it much either, but you couldn't deny it was funny the way it riled up Kendall.

"What?" Logan said innocently, "Carlos was sick, I helped him,"

Kendall rolled his eyes, "You know that's not the point,"

Before Logan could reply, a coughing Carlos emerged from his room and collapsed on the couch. Logan quickly got up and went to the sick boy.

"This is not over Logan!" Kendall yelled annoyed.

James just laughed and playfully wacked Kendall on the head while getting up, "Move on Ken-doll,"

"How are you feeling?" Logan asked the Latino rubbing his back.

"Bad," Carlos sighed.

Kendall cringed forgetting his one sided argument with Logan, "Any better bud?"

"Worse," He replied.

James smiled sympathetically and sat with Carlos on the couch bringing him close. Carlos accepted James's arms and let himself be held by the bigger boy. Due to James being the tallest and broadest he could easily hold Carlos in his arms. He liked the feeling of being needed by the boy and when Carlos was feeling ill he would always seek out James for comfort. James had a presence that made others comfortable being around him. He had a kindness people were just drawn too and easily fell into its rhythm. While Carlos never had a problem seeking it out, Logan and Kendall were always a bit more hesitant. After all it didn't do well for their reputations. But at the end of the night if they were feeling like crap or having a bad day, somehow each boy would find themselves in the strong presence of James. Whether it was just a comforting hand on the shoulder or sturdy arms wrapped around them, James was always there.

James liked affection. He felt as if it was something that needed to be given in order to make sure people new love was there. James just liked to feel needed. Carlos could always make him feel like he was needed somewhere. Sure, when Logan woke up from a nightmare or Kendall just broke down from all the pressure he was under, he was always needed then. But Kendall and Logan were very independent people who rarely did that sort of thing.

Carlos was more open with everyone, and not afraid to need someone. In the end, James thought that's what made him stronger than the rest of them.

"Mom's just at the gym, but she'll be home soon. She said something about soup and lots of rest," Kendall said rubbing the Latinos back.

Carlos groaned, "I don't want to spend all day in bed, that's boring."

"Carlos your sick," Logan laughed, "You need to get better,"

"What about the band?" Carlos asked weakly.

"What about it?" Kendall asked.

"Gustavo's going to be mad," Carlos said.

Nobody had even thought about the recording and dance sessions Carlos was going to miss while being bed ridden.

"We'll deal with him when we have to okay? Just don't worry about it," Kendall said confidently, easily slipping into leader roll.

Carlos nodded slowly, "Why were you yelling at Logan before?" he asked.

Kendall smirked at the Latino and Logan looked like he wanted to face palm himself.

James chuckled, "Logan was being stupid is all," He pulled the Latino closer to him rubbing circles on his back.

Carlos pouted, "Logans not stupid,"

Logan grinned broadly and poked his tongue out at Kendall, "See, at least one of my friends appreciates me,"

Kendall rolled his eyes and swatted the boy upside the head, "Oh, be mature Logie,"

Logan frowned at the nickname, "My name is Logan. Say it with me Kendall, Lo-gan," he patronized.

"Logie," Kendall smirked.

Logan rolled his eyes, "I'll get you some water Carlos,"

"Thank you Logie," Carlos smirked. Sick or not, Carlos would still join in on annoying the brunette.

"Do you want water or not?" Logan challenged.

"Please Logie?" Carlos pouted with his best puppy dog eyes.

Logan groaned and went to the kitchen. Stupid friends.

I've got some pretty awesome projects coming up guys. Be excited. Also check out my other story 'Make Me Feel Like Someone Else' (shameless plug on own story) I'm kind of proud of it.

Fact: I wrote this while watching the Justin Bieber movie Never Say Never. I'm still undecided as to whether I actually like him or not… was a fair enough movie though. Make me feel all sorts of emotions, I can say I respect him more as an artist now though. But still don't know how I feel about him haha not that anyone actually cares.

By the way, SHORT STACK WERE EPIC! Like seriously go google them now, and then tell me how much you love them. If you don't, your completely missing out. THEY ARE AWESOME :P

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