Here's chapter nineteen! There's not a whole lot of plot in this one. It's just something I would pay money to see happen on the show. Plus, it's always super fun to embarrass Logan Mitchell. Seriously though, if this was a mini-TV series, one of those things that's only like 20-30 episodes, this would totally be the fanservice episode.

Enjoy!

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The truest expression of a
people is in its dance and in its
music. Bodies never lie.
-Agnes de Mille
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"I think my head is going to explode if I read one more textbook!" James cries, closing the book he'd looking through.

"We've been doing this for days," Carlos adds, "I don't think the answer is in here.

Logan sighs, shutting his book as well. "I think you might be right. I've read every book in the library that might have been able to help us. But there was nothing that could explain what is making this happen."

"Have you tried focusing on the why?" Kendall asks softly.

Logan flushes red, refusing to meet the blonde's gaze. "W-why would I need to focus on that?" He asks nervously. "Clearly something is causing our subconscious to sing…"

"Songs we don't even know?" Kendall asks, sounding skeptical. "At the same time?" He reaches forward to try and grab the genius' hand. "Listen Logan…"

"You know what we should do!" Logan announces, standing up and moving away from Kendall, attempting -and failing- to make the whole thing seem natural. "We should go to the pool. We haven't done that in ages!"

"We were just down there yesterday." Carlos says, sounding confused, clearly not realizing that Logan is trying to get as far away from the topic that Kendall is about to bring up as possible. "And besides, Kendall was-"

"No, Logan's right." Kendall cuts off the Latino with a shake of his head. "We should just go to the pool."

James and Carlos shrug, shooting him questioning looks as they move towards their room to get ready. Kendall just nods and leaves to his own room, Logan following, to change. He sighs internally, not wanting to draw Logan's attention to him. He doesn't want to force Logan into listening to him, although he's not above doing it if he has too. He just wants his best friend to want to listen to him. So if Logan isn't comfortable having this conversation in front of James and Carlos, Kendall will respect that.

They change in complete silence, Logan hell bent on ignoring Kendall and Kendall musing in silence about what his next move should be. He throws his shirt on his bed and frowns as he looks over at it. He woken up that morning feeling odd, like there was something he was missing, but he couldn't remember for the life of him what that something was.

Figuring it's best not to dwell on it, Kendall shrugs it off and follows Logan as he makes his way towards the pool. He's got enough to worry about right now, he doesn't need to be distracted by something that's probably just a dream he can't remember. He looks up and realizes that Logan, James, and Carlos have already made it halfway down the hall while he'd been lost in thought.

"Guys! Wait up!" He races to catch up with them, throwing an arm around Logan's shoulders. "You guys don't want to go without me? Do you?" He gives the genius a charming smile.

Logan tenses at his actions, pulling away slightly so there's a noticeable distance between himself and the blonde. But he doesn't throw the other boy's arm off his shoulders.

Kendall's smile widens and he takes this as a good sign.

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"Oh," James pulls his shirt over his head and tosses it onto an empty pool chair, "Gustavo called this morning. He says we only have two more days and then you guys need to stop being "sick" or 'very bad things will happen'." James tells the other boys.

Kendall laughs. "What's he going to do? Yell at us?"

Carlos shrugs, his shirt joining James' on the chair. "Who knows? CANNON BALL!" He races into the pool, soaking several of the unlucky people who were sitting at the pool's edge and clearly not worried about what their large producer might do to them.

"Honestly," the blonde admits as James makes his way into the pool, "I'm shocked we even got the time off that we did."

Logan nods, settling down on the pool chair with a book. "Me too. He must be feeling especially generous this week."

"Hey guys!" James calls from the pool, "Come play water volleyball with us."

Kendall eyes where Logan is cracking open his latest book and grins. "No thanks," he calls to his friends, not taking his eyes off the brunette in front of him, "I think I'm going to…dance."

His eyebrows shoot up as the word leaves his mouth. That had definitely not been what he'd been planning on saying. Logan looks up from his book, eyes going wide. "Oh no…"

"Clock strikes upon the hour…" He finds himself moving towards his friend as he speaks, unable to control his movements.

Logan has just enough time to mutter another quick "oh no" before he's singing too. "And when the night falls, loneliness calls."

Kendall grabs Logan's hands, pulling the shorter boy up off the chair as they continue to sing. "Oh I wanna dance with somebody!"

"I wanna feel the heat with somebody!" The blonde sings, grabbing Logan by the hips and thrusting their pelvis together.

Logan's eyes widen even further at the action, but he can't say anything about it because they're singing again. "With somebody who loves me."

The blonde, still completely unable to control his actions, spins Logan, dipping him as he sings. "I need a man who'll take a chance on a love the burns hot enough to last."

The genius blinks up at Kendall. "So when the night falls…" Kendall brings him back up, spinning him again as they sing, "My lonely heart calls."

"Oh I wanna dance with somebody! I wanna feel the heat with somebody!" They sing together, the blonde behind the brunette and both of their bodies swaying to the beat of the nonexistent music. "Oh I wanna dance with somebody!"

They break apart, and Logan takes a few steps forward before turning back to face Kendall and looking up shyly at the blonde. "With somebody who loves me…" They sing quietly together, trailing off into silence afterwards.

Logan takes a few more steps backwards and both boys are painfully aware of the fact that everyone at the pool is watching them. Kendall knows he'd just promised himself he'd wait until Logan was ready to talk, but he reaches for the brunette anyways, because this is getting more complicated by the second. And they need to talk about it.

"Logan…" He starts, desperate to tell the other boy to stop running away, to stop fighting what he's feeling, what Kendall knows he's got to be feeling because he's not singing -and now dancing- alone. He wants to explain to Logan that he knows how he feels. That he understands that the whole thing is new and scary, because liking your best friend is hard enough when they're a member of the opposite sex, let alone when they're both boys.

But before he can say any of that, Logan turns an intense shade of red and runs back into the hotel lobby, leaving Kendall behind.

The blonde sighs, running his hand through his hair as James, Lucy, and Camille walk up to him.

"That…did not go well." James observes.

"Thank you Captain Obvious." Kendall glares at the other tall boy.

"Poor Logan," Lucy comments, surprising everyone. "What?" She asks at their incredulous looks. "Listen, I like Kendall and all, but it's really not the end of the world. I'm completely fine, honestly." She smiles. "Truth be told, I think the biggest reason I liked you is because you remind me of my ex-girlfriend."

"Well…" James grins, "that explains why you didn't want to go out with me. I'm just too manly for you."

Lucy rolls her eyes. "Yeah…let's go with that."

"Wait," Camille looks at the rocker confused. "Why poor Logan? Isn't it poor Kendall?"

"Well, yeah. I mean it sucks that he ran off like that," Lucy admits, "but Logan looked like a frightened little bunny rabbit. Clearly he's having a harder time accepting this than Kendall is."

"So," Carlos asks, turning from Lucy to Kendall, "what are you going to do now?"

Kendall shrugs. "I guess I'll do what I always do when I'm going after something I want." He smirks. "Go harder until I get it."

Because something like this, like Logan, is far too important to give up on.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody is by Whitney Huston