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Kendall's P.O.V

James stared at me for a few minutes. Then he motioned to his house and I followed stepping in and blinking at how big his house is. "My parents aren't really home." He said walking down the hall and sitting on the couch. A second later I joined him.

"What do you mean they're not really home?" James bit his lip then said

"They don't really I mean they're in business or whatever so I guess it's just me here until they get back." I looked around.

"So what they buy your love?" James nodded. "That's not love! It's false love!"

"I know." He sighed leaning back. I watched him for a second then asked the question again.

"Why do you hate Logan?"

"Hmm well I never used to."

"What?"

"I never used to hate him. We were well we were not close, but it was like we would go and spend the weekends with each other." I frowned.

"Ok what the hell happened then?!"

"My mom happened! She told me to stop hanging out with him, that I was better than him and he should know his place. I never meant for it to go this far! At first it was the insults and he knew something had happened to me because I never ever said that before. Today I don't know why I hit him."

"James you're telling me that your mom made you into a complete ass?"

"Pretty much yeah."

"But she doesn't even see you enough to turn you into anything!" James glanced around then lowered his voice.

"Listen you don't know my mom. She's not really a mom as much as a well ruler."

"Like you are with the school?"

"What? I don't control the school!"

"Uh yeah you do!" I said getting annoyed. "It's like an anarchy in there!" James turned to stare at me.

"Are you serious?"

"No I'm lying." I said sarcastically. "Yeah I'm serious! You think you're better than everyone!" James stood up and at first I thought he was going to hit me, but he pulled on his coat and I stood up. "Where are we going?" I asked.

"Somewhere I'm not getting spied on." He said and we left his house.

We didn't speak until we had ordered then James said. "God you must think I'm a prick don't you?"

"Yeah." He nodded then sighed sipping his coffee.

"God I don't know what's happening to me!" He said slapping his forehead in frustration.

"Look James you need to stop this! People hate you! And I'm starting to hate you!"

"I know. That's why Carlos won't go out with me isn't it?"

"Well not just that! You are totally murdering his best friend! What will he think when he sees you just beating on Logan! He probably thinks that you need to go to hell!"

"I should though! What the hell is wrong with me? My mom has turned me into a complete monster! When I was a kid I promised myself that I would never become that! And now here I am breaking that promise and more!" I waited for a second. James looked up from examining his cup to meet my eyes.

"Do you think I'm a monster?" I didn't answer which was probably answer enough. He sighed and looked back down.

"To be honest James I think you deserve this." I said standing up. "I'm not going to be friends with someone who thinks they're better than me." I turned to leave, but a hand closed on my wrist.

"Kendall please don't leave! You gotta help me!"

"Actually I think you should figure it out on your own." I left and James looked back down as he heard the door close.

Logan's P.O.V

I was sitting trying to watch TV when there was a knock on my door. I stood up to answer it and stared at Kendall. "Hey Logan!" He said grinning.

"Um hi."

"Listen Logan I want to be your friend."

"You-you do?"

"Yeah! I'd rather be your friend than deal with rich jerk!"

"Oh James right?" Kendall nodded and I sighed. "Um ok come in." I said hesitantly.

I led Kendall into my house. "It's not much." I said sitting on the couch.

"That's cool! Your house is like mine!" I smiled a little kind of feeling better. We sat in silence for a bit before I asked "So what made you change your mind?"

"Well James told me about your history."

"Oh yeah we used to be friends, but one day he just started hating me. I think it was because of his mom! God I hated that woman! She was like a ruler with an iron fist! She would scream at James if he wasn't doing something right! It was horrible and when she had left he would just start crying because she was so horrible!" I stood up, rummaged in a drawer, then pulled out a photo. I showed it to Kendall. "This is James and I when we were like seven or eight. Anyways after that he started insulting me and I knew something was going on because you could see the pain and apology in his eyes! After that he well changed. Sometimes I could still see the pain, but now I don't anymore." I fell silent and stared at the photo before an arm wrapped around my shoulders.

"I'm sorry Logan." Kendall whispered.

"It's not your fault. You just moved in you had nothing to do with this. I was mad at you because you chose James over me, but now…"

"You know I was in this kind of situation before."

"You were?" Kendall nodded.

"At my first school the popular kids wanted me to join them, but I didn't know if I wanted to. I met my friend there." I smiled slightly.

"It must suck to go through it again isn't it?" He nodded and I sighed.

"James made me out to be the enemy and I knew we were never ever going to be friends again." I watched Kendall as he stared at me for a second. I waited for him to say something like You don't know him or something like that instead he said

"I don't know about ever, but for now I'm here!" A smile graced my lips. And for once in years it wasn't forced or fake.

So what do you think? Is James lying about his mom or is it true?