Chapter 6

The next day, Logan woke up feeling something he hadn't felt in a long time. Stress. Worry. Things he felt when he had a load of homework that he couldn't finish on time. Like that time they came back from the tour... Logan shuddered at the thought. But now, Logan felt even more stressed than that time long ago. He felt like something big and heavy was weighing on his shoulders. It sounded childish, but that was exactly how Logan felt at the moment.

Logan felt stressed out when he saw that there was another day he had to live through with his three best friends. Logan was confused. Why was he suddenly annoyed of his best friends?

His throat felt strange, like it hadn't been quenched since last year. Logan quickly got up out of bed and poured himself a nice icy glass of water. He drank the whole thing in less than 5 seconds. Strangely, he was still thirsty as could be. Logan drank two more glasses of the liquid, but he was still thirsty. What was wrong with him? He surely wasn't suffering from dehydration, because he wasn't feeling any dizziness or anything symptoms like that. Logan was sure his continued thirst was a symptom of something. He just couldn't place his finger on it. He couldn't remember what the disease was.

There was definitely something wrong with him. But Logan didn't want to worry his friends. He couldn't let them worry about them. Kendall was busy with Jo, James was busy with his beauty, and Carlos was too busy... being innocent. Logan couldn't become a burden to their lives. He just couldn't.

"Logan! What's up, buddy?" James strolled into the room, staring at himself in a small, handheld mirror. Logan suddenly felt annoyed and hurt. James was still caring about his stupid face more than he cared about Logan. James was speaking directly at Logan, but he was yet still staring at that stupid mirror. Annoyance and anger sparked through Logan, and he walked calmly towards James. Logan reached out his hand and slapped James's mirror onto the ground, breaking it into pieces. James looked up at him, confused.

"Logan? What was that-" Logan glared at James.

"I'm so sick of you always staring into that mirror! Stop it! Your stupid face isn't getting any prettier! Why don't you pay more attention to you friends? You're just a self absorbed idiot! Stop it! Just stop it!" Logan shouted, running into his room and slamming the door. Logan didn't know why he was so angry. James really just had to stop being so self absorbent and pay more attention to things that were supposed to matter more.

James stood next to the kitchen counter, confused and hurt. More confused; Logan would never explode like that. Never. Logan didn't mean any of it. There was something wrong with Logan. Something completely... off with him.

James sighed and walked out of the apartment, searching for something to get his mind off of what had just happened. Those comments hurt him. But he kind of knew Logan didn't do it intentionally. So, then, why would he do it? James was so confused. James tried to shake it off for now. Maybe Logan was just having a bad day? James knew that wasn't the case at all.

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Carlos was startled out of his innocent and strange daydream when he heard a door slam. Carlos winced. He was sure it was Kendall and James having one of their fights. Carlos hated it when that happened; it made him feel scared, like Kendall and James were just big monsters waiting to eat him up.

Carlos got up from his seat, and walked into Logan and Kendall's room. He opened the unlocked door, expecting to see Kendall. Instead, he saw Logan's brunette hair, his face dug inside his pillow. Carlos sat down next to his friend and shook him. Logan turned around to face him, and sighed.

"What's wrong, Logie?" Carlos asked quietly, not wanting to upset Logan all over again. Logan sighed again, and glared down at the ground.

"I am so tired of James just... obsessing over his mirror and his hair and his face... it's just so ignorant of him, you know?" Logan inquired, hoping Carlos would agree, too. Carlos was just confused. When had Logan started thinking those thoughts? Logan was being unfair to James; but why?

"Logan, James can do whatever he wants to do. I mean, you love your math books and stuff, right? Everyone loves something different, so you shouldn't be mad at James for having a liking for his hair. It's just his personality, and it's nothing to get fed up over." Carlos told Logan gently.

Logan couldn't believe Carlos agreed with James. He couldn't believe Carlos disagreed with him. Logan stood up and grabbed Carlos's shirt, yanking him up with him. Carlos yelped in surprise, and grabbed his helmet.

"You agree with James? How could you? You betrayed me, Carlos. You idiot! You jerk!" Logan yelled at his shorter friend. Carlos felt so hurt. Why was Logan saying those things?

"James is too selfish for his own good, Carlos! Why can't you open up your dumb brain and notice that? Oh yeah, maybe because your stupid helmet is blocking out all of your brain cells!" Logan continued, running out of the room once again. Logan had no idea where he would go. Just out of this apartment. Out of this place where everyone disagreed with him.

Carlos could feel his eyes welling up with tears. Did Logan actually mean that? Logan wasn't like that. He wasn't at all. Carlos didn't know why Logan would be so mean. Saying those things about James and him weren't really what Logan would want to ever do.

Carlos thought that maybe he was the cause of it. Maybe Logan had felt annoyed of him. And that made Logan take his annoyance and anger out on all the rest of them. Carlos was confused. Hurt. So hurt. He whipped out his phone and dialed Kendall's number. Kendall picked up after one ring.

"Hey, Carlos." He mumbled indifferently.

"Kendall... c-can you come home?" Carlos asked timidly. Kendall probably sensed the fear and hurt in his voice, because he came home minutes later. Kendall found Carlos on his bed, looking sad and hurt and worried and confused all at the same time.

"Carlos, what's wrong?" Kendall had no clue what had happened. Logan and James were both out of the apartment. Carlos shrugged and told Kendall the whole story. Kendall listened through the whole thing, and didn't interrupt or rush Carlos when he stuttered. Carlos only stuttered when he was scared.

"Carlos, you know Logan didn't mean it, right?" Kendall asked. Carlos was extremely sensitive to stuff like that, and it hurt him really easily.

"Well, kind of, but Logan wouldn't say that, right? I mean, Logan is nice. He isn't a mean person." Carlos told Kendall, trying to get Kendall to help him out. Kendall always knew how to solve the problems. Always.

"There's something wrong with Logan." Kendall concluded, stating the fact none of them wanted to believe. Logan was... different. Real different.

"Should we tell him?" Carlos wondered out loud.

"Tell who?" Kendall replied.

"Logan. Of course we should tell James, right?" Kendall nodded, and texted James about the problem. James came home and told the other two what Logan had done to him. Broke his favorite mirror. Called him names. Just like he had done to Carlos. Kendall knew that was the last clue he needed to assure himself that Logan wasn't fine, no matter what he told them.

"Guys, there IS something wrong with Logan, and he's not telling us." Kendall told them. Why wouldn't Logan tell them? Did he not trust them at all after these years of friendship? Logan was the last to know the boys, but he had been best friends with them for at least 10 years. Probably more.

"Maybe he feels like he's a bother to us?" James guessed.

"Maybe he doesn't know what's wrong with him, either." Carlos stated, thinking hard. Kendall snapped his head up. His eyes glowed.

"Carlos! You just said something that could really help us!" Kendall cried, jumping up. "Logan doesn't know what's wrong with him! So we gotta help him."

James raised his eyebrow. "How?"

Kendall smirked. "Well, we could go on the Internet and find out what's wrong with Logan. Type in all the strange things he's done, and see what disease he may or may not have." He suggested.

James shrugged. "Worth a try." Carlos nodded, too.

"Okay then." Kendall clapped his hands together. "Let's go."

A/N- Well, well, well.. Look who updated rather quickly! Me!

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