Seee? I told you!
Oh and just random thought. I love how a bunch of people keep going "I like Robbie." I like Robbie too. He actually has been cool so far. So far as in pretty cool from what we know. From what we know as in for now. Okay. I'm done.
I do not blah blah blah blah blah...
Logan was a smart kid. He knew a lot of things. He wasn't exactly very street smart, but he knew how to get himself in and out of things. He didn't know, he realized, barely anything about Jo. What he did learn about Jo, is that they had very different approaches on love.
Take Jo, for instance, she assumes that if you love someone, it is crucial that you constantly bring them up, no matter how irrelevant they may be to the conversation.
"Maybe we should ask Kendall to ask his mom to drive us to wherever Camille's going, then we could stop them from whatever it is you plan on stopping them from." Was her 3rd idea that included Kendall. Which Logan declined.
"That would be all great and well but there's about 2 things wrong with that. For one thing, I really don't want Kendall knowing about my discovering that I like Camille as more then a friend, especially since I just discovered it like, 5 minutes ago, and we would have to be able to convince Kendall's mom that there's actually a legit reason for her to be using up all her gas on us, plus it would take much too long just to reach the apartment, and by the time we do Camille will be gone completely." Jo mumbled an offended 'okay' then sat down on her chair to think of a new plan.
Logan looked at Camille and Robbie as they reach James and some blond at the doorway, greeting each other meekly. Sickening. It disgusted him. It should be him.
"Maybe if we ask Kendall to-" Logan rolled his eyes and looked at Jo with a look questioning if she was serious.
"Really, Jo? Are you like, not hearing me? Am I on mute or something?" Jo looked at Logan with an offended expression and stood up so she would be face to face with him.
"Ugh! I was just trying to come up with a plan! But, excuse me for trying to be a good friend!" She said sarcastically, then crossed her arms and turned away from him, pouting. Logan rolled his eyes again, but this time at himself, and then he sighed.
"I know! I know. I'm sorry," Sigh. "You don't even have to help me, but you are. You really are a good friend Jo. You're not mad at me are you?" She side glanced at him, and he flashed her a big cheesy grin. She laughed and shook her head, then turned to him.
"Yeah yeah. So what's the plan?" She asked quietly.
That was just the thing. There was no time for plan making. It was now or never. There were no other options.
"We have to follow them," Logan murmured, but said it just loud enough for Jo to hear.
"You mean like ... walking?" She asked bemused by the idea. Logan nodded slowly, not turning his head away from the now empty doorway.
"You're really gonna do this, aren't you?" Jo asked after a short silence. Logan sighed, looked at his shoes, then looked up at Jo.
"I really am," He said, not half as confident as he sounded. Jo shrugged an Oh Well shrug, then gestured for him to follow her as they left the pool area.
To Jo and Logan's luck, James, Camille, Robbie and Tall, Blond, and Slutty all decided to walk to their destination, as apposed to driving which would have caused the two friends lots of trouble.
They made an effort to stay at least 2 or 3 yards away from the group, just in case they were to turn around. And they were walking down the streets where there was just store after store, lined up in a row, so they would be able act like window shoppers or slip into an alley somewhere.
"Oh my freakin'... This is so stupid!" Jo whispered, hiding behind a tree or a lamp post or pretending to look at a window display every once in a while.
"What do you mean it's 'stupid'?" Logan replied, walking with his head slightly down, his hoodie hiding almost his entire face, only looking up every few seconds. "I thought it was sweet?"
"Yeah. It was sweet at first. And now it's STUPID!" She whisper/yelled. Suddenly, her eyes got big and she pushed Logan into a store. When Logan looked behind him to see her running into the store too, she was breathing heavily.
"Camille ... Looked back ... Saw me ... Not good ..." She said in between breaths. Logan's eyes grew big also, and he considered the fact that now that Camille saw Jo, things were going to get more complicated.
"Are you sure she know's it's you? Like, she didn't smile at you or anything, did she?" He asked Jo hopefully.
"No, she just looked at me like this," Jo turned so her back was to Logan, then turned her head to him slightly and squinted her eyes. Then she turned back when her demonstration was through. "So she was either super angry, or she was trying to figure out if it was me. Or, the sun was in her eyes."
"Well it's 7:30 and dark outside, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't the sun," Logan stated sarcastically. "And that's sort of a trick question. Because she might be angry in general, or she might have been trying to recognize you, OR she might have recognized you and because she figured out you were following her, got angry." Logan looked at the counter they were standing in front of at what seemed to be a cheap children's clothing store, on a count of the Barny soundtrack that was skipping in the background and the wiggles episode playing on a TV in the back of the store.
"Well ... Let's just hope it isn't the third one..." Jo said cautiously. Logan looked at her and smiled a faint smile, then nodded.
"Yeah. Let's hope not."
It's only 3 minutes later when Camille walks into the store with Robbie. Logan, who was in the back of the store talking with an employee about the directions to the nearest, most expensive restaurant, didn't notice at first. But Jo, however, who is resting against the counter right next to the entrance, notices. She inhales loudly like you do when you're really exited and puts on a flabbergasted expression.
"Camille!" Only when she said it, it sounded like "Cah Meyal Ah!"
"What are you doing here you friend of mine you?" She said playfully poking her in the stomach, she then side glanced at Logan, who was still obliviously conversing with the stores employee.
"Um, actually, I saw someone walk in and I thought it was you and well, what do you know, it was," Camille said cautiously. Based on the words she was saying, it would sound like she was exited to see Jo. But her tone was giving off the impression of something way different then excitement.
"Wow. What a coincidence." Was what Robbie SAID. But again, based on his tone, it sounded more like he should have said, "What a coincidence?"
Jo looked at the two, back and forth, her face aching from smiling so big. How was she going to let Logan know to take cover?
"WHY YES CAMILLE'S FRIEND! IT CERTAINLY IS A COINCIDINK THAT THE THE THREE OF US, ME, YOU, CAMILLE, ALL WERE HERE AT THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME ... COINCIDINKALLY OF COURSE." Jo yelled obnoxiously, so that even the people in the store next door could hear. Camille and Logan's expressions turned FROM neutral to confused and they began to shush her.
"Whoa, whoa, hey! There's no need to yell!" Robbie said, very politely Jo noticed. Logan, who had looked in the direction of Jo to see what all the commotion was about, saw Camille and Robbie standing with her and quickly turned around so he was facing a wall full of little baby outfits and accessories, and put his hood on.
"Hey ... that guy has the same exact hoodie as Logan does ... " Camille said almost questioningly. She looked at Jo suspiciously, who looked from side to side nervously, then quickly changed the subject.
"You know I don't think we've met before, me and you, I'm Jo, Camille's friend," Jo reached out her hand to Robbie, who again, politely took it.
"And he's just about the same height as him too ..." Camille said, thus foiling Jo's plan of distraction. Jo pretended Camille didn't say anything.
"It's ... nice to meet you ... I'm Robbie," He said almost shyly, and looked at Camille, then at Jo, confused.
"And those ... aren't those Logan's swim trunks?"
"So are you just some guy? A guy friend? A guy friend? If you know what I mean? Ehh? Ehh?" Jo asked, poking him in the stomach with her elbow trying to give him subtle hints on what she was trying to get at.
"That wouldn't be him-"
"Actually, I'm not sure I'm in very good place to answer that question ... maybe you should ask Camille." He said, looking down at her as she stared at Logan's turned back.
"That couldn't be-"
"Maybe I should ask Camille. Hey Camille, who is this guy and why are you out with him instead of hanging out with me?" Jo said quickly, trying to avert Camille's mind from the guy standing in the back of the store.
"That can't be ..."
"Um, Camille? Are you saying there can't be anything going on between you and Robbie here?" Jo said with fake enthusiasm. Maybe she wasn't going to forget about Logan, but Jo might be able to use that to her advantage.
"No ..." Camille said, her voice full of unbelief.
"No?" Robbie asked, looking sort of confused and maybe hurt, but mostly confused.
"No ... as in 'no, you aren't trying to say there isn't anything going on between you and Robbie here' or 'no, there actually isn't anything going on between you and Robbie here?'" Jo said, catching Robbie's confused expression.
"Huh! It is ..."
"It is ... ?" Robbie asked, starting to get mildly irritated by this whole thing. All he wanted was to go on a regular date with a regular girl. It was definitely going much differently then he thought, and they hadn't even officially started the date yet.
"It is ... true? Or it is not true?" Jo said, inching closer to Camille as if she was anticipating the answer.
"It's true. It's him. It must be him. I mean, he's there, I can see him! It's him!" Camille rambled psychotically to both Robbie and Jo. Robbie looked even more confused then before, and Jo was still smiling as if her lips her sowed that way.
"Wait ... I'm confused," Oh that's a shocker. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Bad thing?" Jo suggested, shrugging at Robbie.
"That's a weird thing!" Camille yelled and threw her arms in the air. "Jo did you come with Logan?" Jo's eyes grew big and there was an intense silence. Then Jo broke out into fake laughter, but it sounded very convincing.
"AHAHAHAHA! Me? Come with Logan? I can't believe you would even think of such a thing!" She said, trying to stall the best she could. Camille looked at her strangely.
She wasn't buying it.
"I don't believe you. You're lying to me," She said to Jo suspiciously again, who shut up when she heard it. She then looked at Robbie with a bemused expression and gasped.
"Ugh! First you're accusing me of going somewhere with a boy I don't even really speak to, then you're accusing me of bearing false witness? Gosh Camille, I thought we were friends!" Jo exclaimed dramatically. As she heard herself in her head, she thought she sounded uber retarded.
"Yeah, so did I, Jo!" She replied. Jo stared at Camille. Camille stared at Jo. Robbie shook his head with confusion, his curly locks swaying back and forth.
"Wait, wait, wait. What is going on here, I am SO lost!" As all the commotion was happening at the front of the store, in the back of the store Logan quickly thought of a plan. He picked up some sunglasses from a rack and a bandanna from another. Finally, he saw a fake earring. When he quietly asked the employee what they had earrings in the baby store for. He told him they were meant to see if having their ears pierced will irritate your child. Sort of like a test drive. Not knowing what else to do, Logan put the earing in between his nostrils like a nose right, then tied the bandanna around his mouth so when he spoke, his words were muffled.
Suddenly, Camille started to walk to the back of the store. Logan started to tie quicker. Click click click went Camille's heels on the tile floor. Logan kept on fumbling with the two ends of the bandanna. He kept starting again and again. When he finally tied it and it was secure, he was just on time for Camille to spin him around by the shoulder.
"Hello Lo-ooohhh..." She said, realizing that it wasn't (or at least she thought it wasn't) the person she thought it was. Which left her feeling, as she did when she though Robbie was James at the Palm Woods, feeling stupid. Logan squared his shoulders and crinkled his eyebrows so it looked like he was angry.
"There a problem sweethaht?" He said with a fake Italian Mafia accent.
"Um, no ... sorry, I thought you were somebody else," Camille said, seemingly shrinking under the gaze of 'Logan.'
"Yeah well," He said, inching closer to her and raising his eyebrow creepily. "I can be whatevah a lady wants, you know what I mean?" Camille's eyes grew big and she nervously fake-smiled.
"Thanks ... but no thanks ... my um ... boyfriend ... is right over there," She said pointing at the entrance where Jo stood, trying to explain the previous conversation to Robbie.
"Well it looks like he a little busy at tha moment. Maybe you and me could uhh-" Before Logan could finish, Camille dashed to the opposite side of the store.
"Let's get out of here!" She said grabbing both Robbie and Jo's hand. Jo looked back at Logan with open arms and her mouth ajar, questioning him what had just happened. Logan looked back at her with raised arms and shook his head mouthing, "I don't know!"
And then, they were gone.
Logan, who was now left alone in the store being stared at by the employee he was once talking to, had no idea what he was going to do.
But he had to think of something.
And, once again, he had to do it fast.
YES YES ALRIGHT. The ending was gay but I just had to end it so the chapter would finally be over, you know what I'm saying? It was starting to sound a little like droning so I was like "Let me just cut the string right about here."
Please review, even if you hate my guts. Please don't take it out on my story.
Also, just a little thing you know, like a little notice. I'm going to camp on... Monday! So, yeah. It's gonna be hard to post when I'm in the woods, you know? But! I will try and post the next chapter by like, Sunday night. But keep in mind I won't be posting again until June 4th, and I might not even post then because I mean, come on! I just get back from camp, I'm not gonna rush to the computer. So PLEASE! Be patient. That means you Bubbles :)
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~Judy(B