Logan's POV
Oh. My. God.
I thought Kendall was smarter than that. The boy invited his best friend's ex.
Maybe he was being smart. If James was spending his whole night running away from Lacie, there'd be no time to go after Piper.
What a shame that none of us had counted on her laying low, then popping up at just about the worst possible time to do the worst possible thing. Lacie stopped him with a kiss, knowing full-well that his infatuation of the moment was still clinging to his hand.
When I saw it happen, all I felt was regret. If I'd never come up with the plan to sing, James and Piper would still be hidden in the corner. If James and Piper were still hidden in the corner, Lacie would've never found them. If Lacie would've never found them, Piper wouldn't have run out crying on her freaking eighteenth birthday.
But she did.
Unsurprisingly, Kendall told us to go through a song or two while he chased after his sister, which we did.
We were mid song when Piper came running up to the stage, barefoot with a shredded shirt to match the cuts on her face, saying that we needed to come get Kendall off of James. DJ Mom Jeans over heard us and put on some new concoction of sounds he had mixed. Everyone forgot all about us and started to dance.
We ran out the door, leaving Piper in the bathroom to wash off her face and cry.
Kendall's POV
I ran up and tackled James, not even looking at Piper, who was crying on the ground.
I started bashing that bastard's face in, and let me tell you, it felt good.
For a good five minutes, there it was near silent except for the smack of skin on skin and the occasional grunt from me and the soon-to-be road kill.
My mind barely registered the pair of footsteps pounding towards us until they magically turned into Carlos and Logan's hands yanking me off James.
I couldn't understand them not letting me finish him off. They saw what he did to Piper. They must have hated him for it as much as I did.
Carlos kept a hold on me while Logan lunged to keep James still.
This battle was over…
But the war? That was just getting started.