sorry it's taken so long to get this chappie up. my CPU got messed up and it's been out of the house for a week.

WELL, this is the 2nd-to-last chapter. next chapter is the last one :'(.

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POV: Carlos Garcia

I walked into 2J only to see my girlfriend being kissed by her cousin. Gross.

"Kendall." She pushed him away. "Please, stop."

"Destinee…"

"No!"

"Uh, Dest?" I stood in the doorway.

She opened her bright blue eyes wide, tried to stand up, and fell off of Kendall's lap. "Ow…"

"I can't believe you, Kendall." I shook my head and ran back out the door.

"Carlos!" Kendall ran after me. "Carlos, please! Stop running!"

I stopped, turned around, and just glared at him. My expression was hard and filled with anger.

Kendall jumped back a little when he saw the look on my face. "Carlos, I'm sorry! It's not her fault, I swear!"

I raised my eyebrow. "What do you mean 'it's not her fault'? She could've just gotten away from you!"

He flinched at my words. "I'm sorry."

"I don't believe you, because if you were sorry, you wouldn't have done this again!"

He jumped back again, and I had surprised myself, too. I didn't usually yell like this.

"Carlos!" Destinee came up to me, took my hands in hers, and looked me in the eyes. "I-"

"You what, Destinee?"

She shook her head, looked down, and stuttered a little.

"Carlos." Kendall looked at me. "Can I talk to you?"

"No." I let go of Destinee's hand and walked away. I walked up some stairs, sitting on the top step. I hid my face in my hands.

POV: Destinee Knight

Carlos, come back, I thought.

I hated Kendall, now. I hated him.

"Kendall!" I whipped around and faced him.

"What?" He put his hands in front of himself defensively.

"This is all your fault! Why are you ruining my life?"

"Am I really ruining your life?" He came closer to me and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"Yes." I pulled away.

"What do you want me to do?"

"I want you to get back together with Jo!"

"Why would you want that? She cheated on me, and you expect me to date her again?"

"That's exactly what I expect! You love her!"

"I thought I loved her. It's you that I love."

"Kendall, stop it. I don't love you, I love Carlos, and you can never change that!" I pushed him away as hard as I could and ran out the door Carlos had disappeared through.

I noticed him sitting on the top step. "Hi." I waved awkwardly.

"I heard what you said." He looked up at me with tears in his eyes.

"Shit. I guess my voice travels." I sat next to him and wiped a tear from his cheek. "You were crying?"

"I couldn't help it." He shook his head and sniffed. "I love you and I don't want to lose you. Ever. I… I can't believe I snapped like that. I'm sorry for the way I spoke to you."

"Carlos, don't be sorry. I'm the one who should be sorry."

He smiled and kissed my forehead. "I love you."

"I love you, too. Well, we need to write a song. Gustavo wants the two of us to sing a duet at our first concert! But I need to convince him that Kendall and I don't need one…"

"Awesome! What'll it be about?"

"I don't know… love? The day we met?"

"Not bad." He tapped his foot on the metal step. "You came into my life, late on a Friday night," he sang beautifully.

"Hmm… that could work. We should get writing." I got up, Carlos following my example.

We ran up the stairs to 5H. Marc was gonna have to help us put this together.

POV: Kendall Knight

I screwed it up.

All of it.

She even told me that she didn't love me.

I punched the wall hard, purely out of frustration. It hurt immensely, and I shook my hand as if it'd take the pain away.

"You okay?"

I turned around, and Jo was there. Great.

"I'm fine," I replied emotionlessly.

"Kendall, I just wanted to apologize. For… you know…"

Yeah."

"I don't know why I did it." She had tears in her eyes now. "I don't know why, it was wrong, but I just…"

"Here, I have an idea."

"Shoot."

"Let's just pretend that none of this ever happened, just start all over," I suggested.

"Sounds good." She smiled brightly. "I'm Jo."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Kendall."

"You, too."

"Do you want to see a movie sometime?"

"I'd like that."

I took her hand. "So… do you like hockey?"

"No, Kendall, I don't."

POV: Logan Mitchell

I'm beyond nervous.

Melanie refuses to answer her phone.

I know she has it; because I hear her open it, and then close it immediately.

"What is with that?" I plopped onto the neon blue couch in 5H next to Carlos.

"I dunno." Destinee shrugged. "Melanie never acts like that, something has to be wrong." She tossed me bottled water from the kitchen.

"Something's definitely up," Stacie said. "Melanie would've answered in a heartbeat if she were okay."

"What could be wrong?" I shrugged. "She told me she loves me."

"Please tell me that James didn't tell her to," Destinee said.

"I hope not." Marc came in from the bedroom to the right.

"James screwed up Kendall and Jo's relationship, and Carlos and Destinee's."

"James is so bad with advice." Carlos jumped off the couch and walked over to Destinee.

"If she didn't sing that Honor Society song, I wouldn't have known how she felt."

"Yeah, what's the next verse to that?" I asked.

"What happened to the days when I knew all the ways to make your body move," Destinee and Stacie sang. "Tried to get it back, but the distance grows; I know you feel it, too."

"Nice," Marc laughed harder than any of us.

"You think James knows where Melanie is?" Stacie looked at Destinee and Carlos.

"Maybe." Carlos shrugged. "But how would I know?"

"We won't know unless we ask him." Destinee smiled deviously.

"I don't like that smile," I said.

"To 2J!" Destinee pointed to the door dramatically and ran.

"Hey!" Lee came out into the 2nd floor hallway. "Can you be any louder on the stairs?"

"Sorry." Destinee smiled weakly. "We just need to find my sister, Melanie."

"Cute redhead, green eyes, your height, could possibly your twin?"

"She is, and yes!"

"She's in Palmwoods Park."

"Thank you so much!" She hugged him before running to the elevators.

We found her in the park sitting under a tree with a notebook and a pen.

"Where have you been?" Destinee asked.

"I had to write a song," Melanie replied sweetly.

"Why didn't you answer my calls?" I asked.

"I just wanted to concentrate on the song…"

"Oh. Well, I'll help you," I said, sitting next to her.

POV: Destinee Knight

Carlos and I walked back to 2J alone. It was about time we got some time to ourselves.

He opened the door and let me enter first. I did, and saw my aunt in the kitchen and Katie was playing video games in the TV.

"Hey, you two." Aunt Kay waved.

"Hi Aunt Kay, Katie."

"Here, I want you to see the picture." She came to us and handed me a photo.

It as of me and Kendall on the couch.

"Ugh!" I growled in frustration and ripped the picture to pieces.

"You don't like it?" She raised an eyebrow.

"I hate it," I said in a calmer tone than my expression.

"Why? You two look so cute!" She smiled and teased me.

"Because I'm dating Carlos, and Kendall has more than cousin love for me," I hinted.

"Oh." She nodded understandingly.

James came down the swirly-slide. "Aww… and the relationship ends."

"It never started," I pointed out. I sat on the neon orange couch, which I loved, and strummed a few chords on my guitar that I had left there. "Time to get writing and singing."

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