Carlos strolled down the hall to room 2j, humming a few bars of 'Any Kind of Guy' to himself, preparing for their next rehearsal. He just came up to the apartment door when he heard a door slam from the inside. Carlos pressed his ear against the door carefully and listened

"What you gunna tell Carlos?" Carlos' eyes widened at the sound of his name but he continued to listen quietly as he heard what sounded like James speaking

"... i really don't know, any idea's?"

"Well the truth might be a start"

"He's going to kill me" A confused look plastered itself on his face as he continued to listen intently to the conversation

"Well yeah, I would if I was him, but I can't see him killing you, he'd be upset but he'd be even worse if he finds out from Kendall"

Carlos took a step away from the door, not wanting to hear the rest of the conversation. He didn't want to know what was going on. He shook his head and headed back down the corridor. He stopped when he heard the sound of a door opening and spun around to see James walking out

"Oh hey Carlos!" James jogged over to Carlos and pulled him into a gentle kiss.

"Hey" Carlos replied

"you okay? You look a bit... drained?" He looked up at James as he felt tears fill his eyes

"What were you and Logan talking about?" James bit his lip

"how'd you..."

"I over heard the conversation after I heard the door slam" James hit his head with his hand

"Carlos... babe I..." Carlos shook his head

"what's going on?"

"Me and Logan... We kissed... I SWEAR I DIDN'T MEAN TO!" Carlos' heart felt like it was smashed into a gazillion pieces in his chest

"That's not the point James" The pain overtook his voice as the tears began to fall. James tried to pull Carlos into a hug but he just pulled away

"Baby, please..." James' own tears began to fall

"I... I have to go... I'll t-text you or s-something" James stood unable to move as Carlos walked down the hallway, tears flowing. His knees buckled and he fell to the floor. He moved so he was sitting against the wall and brought his knees up to his chest, and leant his head against them, crying silently to himself, letting out the occasional sob.

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"You promise me it won't happen again?" Kendall asked, his voice wavering from the tears. Logan was sitting on Kendall's lap, his head on his shoulder. He was shivering from the cold but that was at the back of his mind, he didn't want to lose Kendall. He couldn't live without him and it had taken this to teach him that. Logan nodded closed his eyes, trying to stop the tears that just kept flowing. Kendall pulled him into a tighter hug

"You promise?" Logan swallowed

"I promise" Kendall kissed Logan's cheek gently

"you should rest Logie..." Logan smiled at his little pet name and nodded, finally giving in to his heavy eyelids and aching limbs. Kendall picked him up like they do in the movies and carried him over to his bed. He laid Logan out on the bed carefully and took his own blanket and placed it over him so he didn't disturb Logan who was slowly drifting off to sleep.

Kendall smiled and kissed Logan gently on the forehead and crept out of the room. He sighed to himself until something came to his attention. He could hear sobs coming from somewhere but he couldn't work out where from. He headed to James and Carlos' room but there was no sign of either of them, he walked around the apartment and couldn't find anyone so he finally decided to look out into the hallway. He spotted James sitting on the floor against the wall shaking from sobbing. He walked over to him and sat in front of him

"James, dude? Are you okay?" James didn't move

"Like you care" Kendall sighed in frustration

"Surprisingly James, yes I do, now are you going to tell me what's wrong or not?" James looked up, his hair was a mess, his eyes were red and his cheeks were drenched in tears.

"Carlos found out about what I did to Logan" Kendall looked at the floor

"oh"

"yeah"

"He didn't take it well then?"

"Yeah, of course he did, because finding out your boyfriend kissed another guy is going to put you in the best of moods" Kendall rolled his eyes

"sorry I asked"

"no its me that should be sorry" James said, laying his legs out "I should never have done it in the first place"

"you can't help who you like James. Its almost impossible to control"

"I know, but I still shouldn't have done that to any of you, and now Logan's suffering because of it too"

"Logan's sleeping at the moment"

"Yeah, at the moment, but you know Carlos, he'll blame Logan as well as me"

"Well we simply tell him its not Logan's fault"

"and you think he'll listen?"

"After you apologise PROPERLY"

"how the hell am I supposed to do that?"

"You've dated more than any of us" James sighed in frustration

"Fine. He stormed off... get him to come and talk to me?" Kendall nodded

"okay, ill do that for you if you promise not to flirt with or kiss Logan" James nodded in agreement

"I promise" Kendall nodded and smiled standing up

"good, now where would he go?" James thought for a second, standing up too

"Probably palm woods park, or the pool" Kendall patted James on the shoulder

"Let's just put this behind us yeah? Just pass it off as... I don't know a mix up or something" James nodded and half smiled at Kendall jogged down the hall and off to Palm Woods Park.

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Kendall walked into Palm Woods Park and looked around

"Carlos where are you?" He called, he received no answer so went to look around, he checked all of Carlos' usual places, the bench by the hedge, the bench by the mini pond and even the little patch of grass he and James always sat on but there was no sign of him. Kendall was about to leave when he heard sobbing.

"Carlos?" The sobbing continued

"dude?"

"Up here" Kendall looked up into the tree above him to see Carlos sitting on a branch

"how the hell did you get up there?"

"Climbed, how else?" Kendall shook his head and half smiled.

"Are you okay?" Carlos shook his head and stared at the branch in front of him, fresh tears beginning to fall.

"You should talk to him you know"

"do you even know what he did?"

"Yes, I do, and trust me, I'm no more happy about it than you are, but your both pretty cut up about it, and I know for a fact that he just wants things to be okay for you two"

"Yeah, because kissing your boyfriend shows that he loves me, eh" Kendall sighed

"Please Carlos?" Carlos rolled his eyes

"Fine, but he owes me one HELL of an apology" Kendall smiled

"so you coming down?"

"Uh, well that could be a problem"

"Huh?"

"Getting up, easy, getting down? Not so much" Kendall hit his head with his hand

"CARLOS! Give me a sec, I'll phone James, he can bring something over to help you" Carlos bit his lip

"uh... okay"

Kendall dialled the number into his phone and held it to his ear

"hello?"

"Hey, James, we need you over here, Carlos is stuck in a tree and I need you to help me get him down"

"Carlos is stuck? IM ON MY WAY OVER!"

"BRING A LADDER OR SOMETHING"

"Sure, whatever, ill bring the rope ladder"

"Cool, see you in a minute"

Kendall pressed the end call button and looked up at Carlos

"James is on his way over dude, he's bringing over the rope ladder" Carlos nodded "wait... we have a rope ladder?"

"Apparently so" Kendall chuckled to himself and shook his head, waiting for James to get his butt over to the park.