Chapter 20
Carlos had to admit that this was the worst day ever. After yesterday's events with Shane, he'd thought he'd never have to say those words again. But this day was a disaster.
First of all, Carlos didn't have any breakfast, which was not a good thing for a growing teen like him. And he had Shane to thank for that. Shane had completely dumped all the contents of his plate of pancakes and sausage right down the trash disposal. Shane would kill him if Carlos told, so Carlos just pretended that he'd eaten especially fast today.
And then, on the car, Shane kept on poking his chest the whole ride to Rocque Records. He made it sound as though he were playing a game of his, but Carlos's chest still hurt at this moment. Too bad no one else noticed, though.
And worst of all was what had happened a minute before. Shane was stuck singing Logan's parts in every one of their new songs. He sounded good; they all had to admit that. He had the highest voice out of all of them, and the lowest voice, too. Carlos didn't know how that was possible, but he didn't question it.
But whenever Carlos was singing his part, Shane would stare at him the whole time, his blue eyes digging into his soul. He'd make throat slitting motions with his hand, and would glare at him and threaten him silently. And those faces freaked Carlos out, and he'd cough or squeak or his voice would crack whenever he was singing. Now, he had to listen to Gustavo's horribly loud yelling and screaming.
"What is wrong with you, DOG? Get it right!" Gustavo exploded. Kelly quickly led Gustavo out of the room. The boys thought they heard something breaking…. Actually, make that four things. Or maybe even more.
Carlos glanced at Kendall and James, who both looked like they were trying to hide their annoyance. Carlos sighed when he saw Shane smirk at him. "Sorry, guys…" Carlos trailed off, not knowing what else to say.
Kendall sighed, biting his lip. "It's okay, just… try to try harder, okay?" Carlos nodded. As long as none of them (except Shane) were mad at him, he was good.
"I'm gonna go take a shower. Wanna come, Kendall?" James asked suddenly.
Kendall grinned. "Sure. What about you, Shane?"
"No thanks. I'm good."
Kendall nodded. "What about you, bud?"
Carlos saw Shane's glare and shook his head quickly. "N-no thanks." He answered as quickly as he could.
He could've sworn he saw a look of confusion on Kendall's face, but it was quickly gone when he turned around to leave with James.
Right after the door closed, Shane turned to Carlos and grinned. "Hungry?" He asked, raising his eyebrows, a mischievous look on his face.
Carlos glared back at him the best he could, not saying anything. In truth, he had never been hungrier, but he couldn't have Shane know that. But Shane probably knew already anyways.
"Why are you doing this?" Carlos asked quietly.
Shane laughed. It wasn't a pretty sound. "I already told you. You caused Logan to be in the hospital. This is all your fault."
Carlos gulped. "No, it's not. And anyways, you should be taking. You said you didn't like people who caused pain and suffer to others. But that's what you're doing right now." Carlos retorted. He didn't even know where the words came from. But he didn't want Shane to use him like a puppet on a string anymore.
Suddenly, he saw a flash of white. Hot, searing pain flashed throughout his head. He looked up, noticing just then that he'd fell. He felt something warm trickling down his face. He reached up and wiped it off. He found that it weren't tears that were falling off his face. It was blood.
Shane made a growling noise. "Never, never, talk to me like that again." He hissed. "Understand?" He said, tossing his hand-held mirror to Carlos. Carlos took it reluctantly and looked at his face.
What he saw made him want to cry. His eye was black and bruised up. And it was covered with blood. Carlos was surprised that he wasn't blind in that eye yet. His eye was already starting to swell up. It was purple and red and black all at the same time.
Carlos shuddered and put the mirror down. Shane smirked, and looked down at him. "Stand up." He commanded. Carlos did just as he said, his eye hurting him more than anything else ever had. Shane was stupid. Shane was an idiot.
Shane reached out his finger and poked Carlos's eye. Again, Carlos thought he saw white lightning flash through his mind. "Ow!" He cried, his hands shaking from the pain.
"Hurts?" Shane asked, smiling. Carlos nodded.
"Well, if you're gonna talk to me like that ever again, I'm punching you there. Got it?"
Carlos wanted to say no. He wanted to tell Shane that he was just an idiot who was too stupid to be classified as a human being. But Carlos didn't. He just nodded weakly. "Yeah."
"Good boy."
And then Shane just turned and walked out of the room. Carlos stood frozen in shock, pain, fear, and anger. He didn't know what to do. He didn't know what to say.
"Dude! What happened to your face?" James came in suddenly and his eyes widened.
Carlos was about to tell them everything, but his mind told him that he'd be in some big trouble if he did. "I don't really wanna talk about it." He said honestly. He was telling the truth, but in a way, telling a lie, too.
"You sure?" Kendall stared at him with that same confused and worried stare.
"Yeah… I just fell, that's all." Carlos told them, hoping that they would believe him.
James nodded sadly. "Okay. I'll take your word on that."
Carlos nodded. How could they just say "okay" and just leave it at that? The Kendall and James he knew before would've kept on pressing him and forcing it out of him. It wouldn't have been hard, but they didn't. Carlos didn't know it that was a good thing or a bad thing. They were either convinced that he was old enough to take care of himself, or they were ignoring him. They were tossing him aside, because Shane was taking over them.
Shane. Shane. Shane. Carlos could've come up with millions bad things to say about Shane, but he didn't. He wasn't mean person. Hewasn'tameanperson.
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Logan Mitchell sat up in his hospital bed, waiting, watching. For what or for who, he had no idea. Logan didn't know what he was waiting for. Or who he was waiting for.
Logan suddenly recalled a time where he'd called Kendall a bad leader. What was he thinking? Kendall was one of the best people he knew. He could control the whole world, and maybe even be president one day. He encouraged others, helped them, comforted them. What else did a leader need?
And he'd called James ugly. James was definitely the most handsome and pretty of their group. All the girls loved him, even though he was a bit self-centered at times. But James didn't only care about himself. He was charming and sweet, yes, but he also cared for his friends and family, and would risk his life for any of those people in a split second. So what had Logan been thinking then?
And Carlos. He'd blamed Carlos for all of this. Logan said he hated Carlos. Carlos was sensitive, and could never take something like that to his face. Especially when one of his best friends told it to him. Carlos was fun, nice, innocent, adorable, and everything that Logan wasn't.
Logan knew why he'd said those horrible things. The doctors had said it was because of his rabies. It was like a symptom that happened when you had it. They had given him medicine to hopefully cure him of all of that.
But Logan was disgusted with himself. What had he done to his friends? Sure, they'd replaced him with that Shane guy. But that was only temporarily. Or at least Logan hoped it would stay that way. You never know what'll happen. Who could've guessed that Logan would one to hurt his best friends?
But what he'd said had been permanent. Those hurtful words would be in Kendall, James, and Carlos's hearts forever.
Logan couldn't erase his mistakes anymore. And that hurt him more than anything.
A/N- So… this chapter was… interesting. I didn't plan for this stuff to happen, but I guess it just kinda… did. ;)
So, any predictions for what will happen next? I've got everything planned out, so… yeah, I guess you'll I'll get some clues and hints next chappie!
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Peace, Love, and Giraffes,
Anonymous Skrtle ;)