James's POV

Woah.

Piper wouldn't look me in the eye. Not that it mattered, because I was too busy looking at her b-… erm, not her eyes.

I watched as Kendall led her upstairs to dump her bags in one of the guest rooms. There was a little bit of arguing, but they came back down no more than 15 minutes later, both smiling like nothing had happened.

I was staring at Piper's not-eyes again, not too happy to see that Carlos and Logan were too. I could tell tonight was going to be… interesting.

I cleared my throat, starting to get just a little too heated about the way they looked at her. She was sitting on Kendall's lap since the only open room on the couch was next to me.

Carlitos and Logie snapped their heads towards me, both red in the cheeks. I glared at them, hoping they'd give me the one thing I wanted most; a minute alone with Piper.

Seemingly getting the message, Carlos cleared his throat.

"I'm…um…hungry?"

I nodded.

"Yeah! Hungry… Logan. You should um… come make sure I don't get lost."

Logan hastily nodded and the two of them got up and left, looking over their shoulders every few steps as I mentally face-palmed.

Not wanting to be left alone with me and Piper, Kendall dumped her onto the couch next to him, running after the other two.

"Piper… All I need is for you to listen to me for a minute."

She looked down at her watch, holding up a finger that told me to wait.

"Your minute starts… now."

About five minutes, two confessions, 9 million explanations, and a make out session later…

"You're pretty lucky I'm bad at telling time" Piper giggled.

"I'm pretty…" I trailed off.

"What? You're pretty what?" she frowned.

"Nope. Nothing else. I'm just pretty." Piper giggled again.

"Can we come in yet?" Carlos screeched. "I wasn't even hungry!"

Wow, Carlos. Glad to be informed of such a critical development. I was scared you died of starvation or something.

"Yeah!" Piper yelled at the same time as me, making her giggle even louder.

"We're coming back on one condition. When I walk in, Piper isn't sitting on top of you!" Kendall yelled.

"Oh crap."

Piper untangled herself from me and crawled across the couch as fast as she could. When the guys came back in, she was hanging off the other side of the couch panting. Very smooth. Almost as smooth as what Kendall was trying to pull off.