A/N: 'Sup people? That's right. I'm back with yet another chapter of Big Time Decisions. I thank all those of you who reviewed/favd./alerted this profusely. You guys are the only ones that give me the strength to keep writing. Particularly after such a crappy week like this one. BUT enough about me.

ABOUT THE CHAPTER! (*Red this is important people!*)

Some of you guys might not be very happy with James (or myself for writing it) with his reaction in this chapter. I need you guys to keep in mind this as you're reading...

a) James DOES love Kendall, but he's scared of rejection and-just like he did on Big Time Single- he figures before Kendall breaks HIS heart...he might as well have someone he can trust. James has SERIOUS trust issues with himself in this story.

b) Sean IS NOT someone random whom James just took a liking to, he's in fact James' first boyfriend, his first in many things if you want to see it that way. Feelings ALREADY existed between them before- they'd just cooled off due to the long-distance.

c) James isn't a jerk (well, just a little bit) he's just scared and confused and doesn't know what he wants except he doesn't want to lose Kendall (but he's scared the blonde'll leave him anyways).

Well, with those points addressed I will leave you guys to read the chapter. One more thing...

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Ch. 26: I Don't Believe You

"What are we going to do?" Carlos moaned that night as he and Logan huddled together in Carlos' bed in Carlos' room.

Logan sighed and hugged his boyfriend closer to him.

"I don't know, Carlos, I really don't know," Logan said.

"What's the right thing to do?" Carlos asked "I mean, James is our best friend, and we can't betray him, but then again…" he couldn't continue, yet Logan did it for him.

"Kendall's our best friend too," Logan said "And James is cheating on him…"

"God, it sounds awful doesn't it?" Carlos said softly "I never thought James would do something like that…"

"I think we should confront him," Logan said finally "Tell him we know about what he's been doing and that he needs to either stop or else we'll tell Kendall…"

"Won't he be mad at us?" Carlos said quietly.

"Doesn't matter," Logan answered quickly "Kendall took a huge step by agreeing to date him; you know all the personal sacrifices he had to undergo in order to be a good boyfriend to James, it's not fair that James breaks his heart in the end…."

Carlos nodded.

"Logie," he said, biting his lip "You'd never do something like that- would you?"

"Never," Logan promised, looking at him directly in the eye before adding "You?"

"Never…" Carlos replied.

Later...

"Hey James!" Logan called as he spotted the brunette as he came out of the ice rink, hand in hand with Kendall "Can you come over here for a second? Carlos and I need to talk to you,"

"Sure," James said with a smile and a shrug.

He and Kendall both walked up to the other two guys.

"Hey guys," Kendall greeted them with a smile "I didn't see you after you went to the bathroom and you missed out on the food, it was great!"

"Yeah, well," Carlos said with a fake smile which he hoped was convincing enough "What I had for a snack with Logan in the boys' bathroom was, I'll bet, even better than those snacks you were saying…"

Kendall scrunched up his nose in disgust while James just laughed.

"Guys," Kendall moaned "I really don't need to know the specifics of your sex life! I don't tell you the specifics of mine!"

"That's because you hardly have any," Carlos said logically.

"Hey!" both Kendall and James protested.

"Anyways, we called you here because we needed to talk to you James- alone," Logan added quickly.

Kendall narrowed his eyes.

"What's going on?" he said "Logan, Carlos, what are you hiding from me? Why'd you need to speak to my boyfriend alone?"

"Just because," Carlos said "Now, Kendall, please…"

"Whatever," Kendall said with a roll of his eyes "Catch you later James!"

"Later!" James said, giving his boyfriend a brief goodbye kiss.

"So…" James said, turning to his best friends "Why'd you need to talk to me for?"

Once they were sure Kendall was well out of earshot, Carlos and Logan both pushed James' chest, slamming him into the wall, making him cry out in pain.

"Ow! What the hell guys?" James asked angrily.

"No James, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Logan hissed "Cheating on Kendall?"

James' face visibly paled when he heard this, particularly when Carlos nodded to confirm Logan's words.

"Who told you?" he asked quietly.

"We saw you," Carlos whispered furiously "Acting WAY too friendly with Sean on the snacks' line, if you know what I mean…"

"Guys, listen, it's not what it seems," James said weakly.

"Then explain," Logan said, arms crossed "'Cause you may be my best friend James, but so is Kendall and he's not about to get his heart broken because you're fooling around with your ex-boyfriend, not if I can help it!"

"HIS heart broken," James scoffed "Yeah right…Dude, if there's anyone's heart in line for a heartbreak it's mine…"

"Well, you put yourself in this situation," Carlos said "'Cause that kiss with Sean in line sure didn't seemed like he forced himself on you,"

"Yeah, well, so what?" James challenged "Kendall- he won't say he loves me back, heck, he keeps saying he doesn't know what the hell he feels for me! So, in the end, he might be playing with my emotions all along! Didn't you guys think about that? Don't you think that, since Kendall won't love me, I deserve a person to love me too? Huh? Why is that so unfair?"

"Because Kendall might love you all along," Logan said "Only he's too scared to admit it. However, when he finds out about what you've been doing…"

"And who's going to tell him?" James asked, suddenly glaring at both Carlos and Logan "You?" he challenged.

"We will if you don't stop whatever you have with Sean, right now," Carlos said, standing his ground even though feeling just a tiny bit intimidated by James.

"James, you have to stop this, right now, it's messed up!" Logan exclaimed, forgetting to keep his voice down "It's insane! You either stay with Kendall and forget about Sean altogether or…you end things with Kendall and pick things up again with Sean…Listen, James, you're my best friend too and I'm not forcing you to choose Kendall. Who you want to date is your call in the end, not mine, but I will tell you for Kendall's sake- and yours too- three's a crowd if it's about a relationship…"

"And who do you think you are to boss me around on what I should and shouldn't do, what I should say and shouldn't say?" James asked angrily "You guys aren't my parents, you can't force me to do anything!"

"We're your best friends, and Kendall's also, and we're warning you, stop this now or we'll be forced to tell Kendall what's going on…" Carlos said, a little hurt by James' overall attitude.

"Yeah right," James scoffed "Go ahead Carlos; tell him, I'd like to see you try! Besides, he wouldn't believe you…he has total faith in me…"

"Faith you don't deserve," Logan muttered, loud enough so James would hear yet low enough so no one else would.

"Listen here, you two," James said menacingly "I'm warning you now…stay out of my life. What I do, or don't do doesn't concern you in any way. Back off NOW before I get really upset and do something the three of us will regret later. And stop threatening me, I'm James Diamond and I don't do threats…"

"Very well," Logan replied coldly, glaring at James while he took Carlos' hand "Just remember- you made the call here James, not us…"

And the three friends parted, and not in friendly terms at all…

That afternoon…

"Kendall," Logan said softly over the phone that night, Carlos in his lap, listening intently to everything his boyfriend said.

"Yeah? Hey Logan!" Kendall said at the other end of the line.

"Listen, we need to talk okay? Alone…just you, me, and Carlos…think you could come over to my house tomorrow?"

"S-Sure…" Kendall said, a little uncomfortable with Logan's sudden mysterious mood "May I ask why though?"

"You'll find out tomorrow…" Logan said "Oh, and, Kendall- another thing…"

"What?" Kendall asked as he flipped through the channels in the T.V. anxious to end his talk with Logan so he could call James over at his house.

"Don't tell James you're meeting with us tomorrow…" Logan said.

"Why? Logan, what's going on? Why don't you want me to know that you told James today and what don't you want James to know that you'll tell me tomorrow?"

"Kendall, not now, not over the phone, we'll tell you tomorrow…promise," Logan said.

"Fine," said Kendall with a sigh "Goodnight Logan,"

"Goodnight Kendall," Logan replied before hanging up.

Carlos sighed before pressing his lips softly to Logan's.

"Why would James do something like this?" he asked his boyfriend quietly.

"I don't know, he's messed up…" Logan said "But we have to stop this Carlos, before it gets out of hand and they both end up hurt…"

"True," Carlos murmured before adding "Do you think they'll break up? I don't want to be the reason why they break up!"

"You're not," Logan replied, giving his boyfriend's hand a reassuring squeeze "James brought it on himself, not you or I, besides, under these circumstances maybe it IS best if they break up before things start affecting the band…"

The next morning…

"Guys, I'm here!" Kendall called, coming inside the García's house.

"They're in Carlos' room dear," Sylvia García said warmly to Kendall.

"Thank you Mrs. García," Kendall said with a polite smile before rushing to his friend's room.

He entered Carlos' room to find him and Logan sitting in Carlos' bed, looking at him with grim expressions.

"Hey guys," Kendall greeted them cheerfully "Spill, what's going on?"

Logan sighed.

"Kendall," he began "Have a seat,"

"O-Kay," Kendall said suspiciously, sitting down in a nearby couch "What's this all about Logan?"

Logan and Carlos both sighed before they began to tell Kendall the whole story, up until their confrontation with James. By the end, Kendall was paler than a ghost, his eyes wide, his hands clenched into fists.

"Kendall," Logan said softly after he and Carlos had finished talking "Kendall we're sorry, we really are, but we thought you deserved to know…"

"I don't believe you," Kendall said finally, yet very softly.

"What?" Carlos asked, dumbfound. He'd expected the blonde boy to cry, scream, curse, say anything...anything but that.

"I said I don't believe you," Kendall answered, a little bit louder this time "James loves me, he'd never do something like that, he'd never hurt me that way, he loves me!"

"Kendall," Logan said with a sigh "I know it's hard to believe, but listen-"

"No, YOU listen Logan," Kendall said, getting a bit agitated "I don't know why you and Carlos decided to come up with such great lies as what you've just told me. I hope it's your idea of a sick joke but enough is enough…I'm leaving,"

"Kendall!" Logan said "Kendall we're not lying, we saw him! Why would we lie to you? What reasons would Carlos or I have to want you guys to fight? But…"

"James is NOT a cheater," Kendall said fiercely.

"Well, he wasn't up until recently," Logan said, trying to reason with Kendall who was looking boiling mad by now.

"He ISN'T!" Kendall said, punching Logan and sending him flying through the room.

Carlos gasped and hurried to pick his boyfriend up, shielding him with his body from any possible further attacks.

Logan's nose was bleeding and it appeared to be broken.

"Dude," Carlos said angrily "We had no reason to lie to you and you just went overboard with us. We're not lying but if you won't believe us then go ahead…continue trusting James…you'll figure it out eventually. We just wanted to protect you from a heartbreak but, whatever, doesn't matter- if James is as perfect as you think he is…"

Needing to hear no more words from his friends, Kendall stormed out of Carlos' room and out of Carlos' house blinking back tears and his head full of doubts…

A/N: So...adding to my HUMONGOUS (I probably spelled that wrong, lol.) author's note at the beginning I now need to add this.

Kendall ISN'T a jerk either...he's just in denial. Wouldn't any of you be?

Okay so with those points made clear I hoped you enjoyed the chapter (or not) and if you want to kill me at least in a pain-free way (probably not).

Good news is, I'll have next chapter up before next Friday. Why? 'Cause I have a long weekend coming up. That's right. I'm not going to school this Friday, cheers for me, and homework hasn't been so bad lately.

So...that's why you guys got the early update. Want another one before the week's up?

REVIEW!

Cheers,

Franshes

PS. I wanted to include a dialogue with the four guys in here but...it would've been too long so, sorry, next chapter. REVIEW.