Part II: Pedo-Bear

"James, are you ok?" Logan asked when he, Kendall, and Carlos walked inside of the locker room.

"James isn't here." James said from inside his stall. His voice was husky as a result of holding in his sobs.

"Yeah you are." Carlos said. He was in the stall next to him, standing on the toilet inside of it and looking down at James.

"Leave me alone." James said.

"C'mon dude, tell us what's wrong." Kendall said.

"There's nothing wrong, just leave me alone!" James said and then sighed, running his fingers through his hair and burying his face in his hands.

Logan looked up at Carlos. "Prognosis?" he asked. Carlos stared at him for a few moments until Logan just rolled his eyes and said, "What's James doing in there?"

"Oh." Carlos peeked at him once more. "He's covering his face right now." he announced. "And earlier I think he was crying."

"I wasn't!" James snapped.

"James, what's the big deal about what Jackass called you anyway?" Kendall asked.

James sighed. "Kendall, do you even know what a Pedo-Bear is?"

"No." Kendall said and looked at Logan, who just shrugged.

"It sounds cute." Carlos commented.

"Pedo-Bears aren't cute." James said. "They're the worst thing ever."

"What's so bad about them?" Kendall asked.

"Just forget about it, I don't wanna talk about it." James said and stood up. He opened his stall and went to leave the locker room, but Logan and Kendall stopped him. "Let me go." James said, his eyes downcast but still carried an angry look in them.

"Where are you going?" Carlos asked, walking out of his stall and going over to stand next to James.

"I don't know, New Jersey? Wherever my mom decides to move us next." James replied.

Carlos's eyes widened slightly. "Why are you moving?"

"Because I can't stay here anymore! Not now, not anymore." James said and ran his fingers through his hair again.

"James, we're you're friends. Just talk to us." Logan said.

"You won't want to be my friends after I tell you." James said softly and went to push past Kendall and Logan once more. Kendall grabbed his shoulders and forced him back. "Kendall just let me go."

"No." Kendall said stubbornly.

"Kendall-"

"Just tell us James."

"Or at least answer my question." Carlos cut in. "What the hell's a Pedo-Bear?"

James let out a sigh of frustration. "Brian Diamond is a Pedo-Bear!" he cried, throwing his arms up in the air, causing Kendall to let go of his shoulders. The three other boys looked at each other, confused.

"What does Brian Diamond have to do with any of this?" Logan asked.

James bit his lip, feeling the tears stinging at his eyes again. Shaking his head 'no', he said "Forget about it." and ran out of the locker room before he could be stopped again.

Logan sighed. "Looks like we're heading to my domain." he said, cracking his knuckles. Kendall raised an eyebrow and looked at Carlos, who just shrugged, looking confused again.

"The li-bra-ry." Logan said slowly, enunciating the word 'library'.

"Ooooooh." Kendall and Carlos said together.

Logan rolled his eyes and grabbed Carlos and Kendall's arms, pulling them out of the locker room.

James kept on running. He didn't stop, despite his lungs practically screaming at him, begging him to stop and take a much needed breath. But James just pushed himself forward. He was thankful he memorized the way to get to his house from the hockey rink because his eyes were clouded with tears and he couldn't see so clearly. When he finally reached his house, he threw open the front door and slammed it shut, pressing his back against it, openly crying.

He realized that he was alone when nobody had come up to him, asking why he was so upset. Usually, he didn't like being alone but right now, he welcomed the idea.

His body shaking with sobs and he was getting a headache the more and more he sobbed. He didn't want this to happened. He wanted his second chance, he deserved it. He didn't do anything to deserve to feel this way.

Moving his hands away from his tear-streaked face, he looked around his new house. His mom and Bud pretty much had everything set up and it looked nice… except for one thing.

The picture hanging on the wall above the couch. It was a picture of him, his mom, and his dad three years ago before everything had went downhill. James had no idea why his mom kept it; whenever he looked at it he was filled with an undeniable rage.

Still crying and breathing heavily, he walked over to the couch, climbing on top of it to grab the picture. He stared at it for a moment, letting his tears fall onto the glass covering the picture and then he realized his hands were trembling.

Letting out an angered cry he threw the picture as hard as he could. It broke against the opposite wall and hit the floor in a shattered mess.

Just like his heart was. (A/N: sorry if that was incredibly cheesy :p)

"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon." Logan muttered, restlessly tapping the table as he waited for his webpage to load. Along with Carlos and Kendall, he was at the local library researching Brian Diamond… or he would be if this computer didn't have a slower processor than his cell phone.

"Yes!" he hissed under his breath when the Google page loaded.

"Finally." Carlos sighed and leaned in close to the screen. He was on one side of Logan while Kendall was on the other.

"So what exactly are we looking for?" Kendall asked.

"Something about Brian Diamond so we can get some insight on what's wrong with James." Logan replied, waiting on the page he clicked on to load. When it finally did, Logan's eyes widened in shock.

"What's wrong Logie?" Carlos asked.

"Brian Diamond Accused To The Rape of Mackenzie Ryan." Logan read softly. Kendall's eyes went as wide as hockey pucks and Carlos's jaw dropped. Logan swallowed silently before reading softly.

"In the town of La Jolla in San Diego, California, Brian Diamond was accused of sexually abusing one of the girls on his soccer team.

"Mackenzie Ryan, age ten, claimed that her coach had brought her to his mini-van, placed her in the truck, and proceeded to treat her injured leg from practice. He left her moments later to call her mother, asking why she was late to practice and then a blindfold was tied around her head. The girl called for help but she was told to shut up and she was hit in the head. Ryan said 'it sounded exactly like coach Diamond's voice'. Moments later, she found herself laying down on the ground and her clothes had been removed. Her attacker proceed to rape her and after her blindfold was removed she saw Diamond standing above her."

"Jesus Christ." Kendall breathed.

"There's more." Logan whispered, and then went to read another article, entitled, "Diamond Denies."

"Diamond countered saying that the ordeal had never happened. From his account, Ryan had hurt her leg during practice and he brought her to his van to get a first aid kit to fix her up. Her mother was late picking her up and Diamond left to call her. He was gone for about forty-five minutes and when he returned to his van, Ryan was missing. He spent an hour looking for the girl before he found her laying in the foods- naked, bleeding, and crying. When he brought her back to the parking lot of the field, she ran to her mother and claimed that he had brought her to the woods and raped her. Ryan's mother called the police immediately."

Logan clicked on the next link related to the story.

"Talk about Diamond being accused of raping Mackenzie has yet to die down. The whole town is in an uproar about it. Many back Diamond up saying that he is an 'honest guy who would never hurt a fly' but others just claim that Diamond would say anything to get out of the court case brought on by the Ryan family. One person said, 'a ten-year-old knows better than to lie about being raped so her accusation must be true'. The court case of Diamond vs. Ryan will occur exactly one week from now."

Logan took a shaky breath and Kendall continued to stare awe-struck at the screen.

"You guys." Carlos breathed. "I figured out what James was talking about."

"What do you mean?" Kendall asked, tearing his eyes away from the screen to look at Carlos. The Latino boy read from his computer screen where he had his own web page up.

"Pedo-bear is an internet meme which became popular through the image board 4chan. As its name suggests- 'pedo' being short for 'pedophile'- it is a pedophile bear that is used to create humorous image macros about topics such as pedophiles, child pornography, or lolicon."

"But that still doesn't make sense why Jackass would call James a Pedo-bear." Kendall said, confused.

"Yeah it does." Logan said slowly looking at another article. "Look: Diamond's Son Target of Bullying."

"Read." Kendall instructed and he and Carlos looked at Logan's computer.

"Brian's life wasn't the only one being affected by the Diamond/Ryan case. His eleven-year-old son James has been the subject of bullying at his school ever since the accusation. Coming from Dr. Kay, the principal at James's school, 'everyday James is being tormented by the children in his grade and no amount of punishment seems to stop them. It isn't always physical abuse- most of it's verbal. The most common name that James is called is a Pedo-Bear'."

"Poor James." Carlos whispered. Logan and Kendall nodded, speechless. "Look at that one." Carlos said pointing to another link. Logan didn't hesitate to click on it.

"Trial Completed- Diamond Determined Not Guilty. After a two day long trial, Brian Diamond was claimed to be not guilty by the court. As it turns out, Mackenzie's attacker was actually the assistant coach for one of the teams in Mackenzie's league, George Lee. Lee had blindfolded Mackenzie and taken her to the woods where a friend of his proceeded to videotape the rape. A video of the rape was dropped off by someone anonymous and Diamond was cleared of all charges."

"That's crazy." Kendall said, shaking his head. "I cant believe this all happened to James."

"At least his dad didn't do it." Carlos pointed out.

"Yeah, but James's life was still affected because of it." Logan said. "Look at this article, it's pretty recent. An Interview With Diamond: The Aftermath of The Life-Changing Events.

Has your life returned to normal at all since the incident happened?
'It's been almost three years since I was accused of raping Mackenzie Ryan and at first, my life was total hell. There were constant remarks made about me whenever I entered a room, threats were made to me, people would verbally attack me in public. It wasn't any better for my family. My life Lillian and my son James had to put up with so much and all because of me. Slowly, as time passed, people started to forgive and forget. Sometimes I still think that people will talk about it but it's not as bad as it's been before'

And how do you feel about yourself due to all of this?
'Everyday I beat myself up for letting myself get into a situation like this. But what's worse is that I ruined my son's life. Everyday he comes home from school, bruises all over him because some kids at school were beating on him. And when they weren't beating him, they were calling him all sorts of names- Pedo-Bear being the most common. If there was anything I could do to change that, believe me I would'

"Oh…my…God." the three boys said together.

"I can't read this anymore." Logan said and clicked the tiny x in the corner of the page, shutting down the internet.

"So that's why James was freaking out before." Kendall said as he ran his fingers through his blonde locks.

"But why did he say that we weren't going to want to be his friends?" Carlos asked, confused. "I still wanna be friends with him."

"He's probably used to everyone of his old friends turning on him because they found out what happened." Logan explained. "And he probably expected us to do the same."

"We should talk to him. He needs to know that we're here for him." Kendall declared.

"But what if he doesn't want to talk about it?" Logan pointed out.

"Then we'll make him." Kendall said.

"I don't know Kendall." Carlos said slowly. "James has a wicked temper… kind of like you."

"I don't have a temper!" Kendall cried, and Carlos stared at him with a look of 'you've go to be kidding me'. "Nobody asked you helmet head!" Kendall said, smacking him on the shoulder.

"Ok, ok, calm down you two." Logan said, putting his hands up, blocking Kendall and Carlos from hitting each other. "So what are we going to do?" he asked them.

The boys were silent, thinking.

"I think we should talk to him." Kendall said finally.

"Yeah we should at least try." Carlos added.

Logan nodded. "Ok, lead the way Kendall."

A/N: ok, so immediately after I posted chapter one, I started working on this on until about 2am and then I finished it when I got home from work(: it's shorter than the first chapter but it still had important info. I hope you all like it :D and omg I've gotten so much good feedback for this story! My inbox was full of reviews, alerts, and faves just for this story alone and I'm so happy :D I'm glad you all like it :D and special thanks to:

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