Here's the sixth chapter! It's another take on the aftermath of prom. I still cannot believe Dan left us with so little closure. The writer in me really can't forgive him for that.
Anyways, enjoy!
The first time Logan realizes that he's in love with Quinn is when he's shouting it to Stacey Dilson at junior prom. The words slip out before Logan even has a chance to think about what he's doing. All he knows is that Stacey's (apparently moist) lips are on his, and this is wrong, so wrong (it should be Quinn, it should always only be Quinn and Logan). He pushes her off of him and when she asks him what's wrong he just breaks.
"I don't want to kiss you!" He shouts. There are little warning sirens in the back of his head, but he ignores them.
"Why wouldn't you want to kisch me. My lipsch are moischt."
"Because I love Quinn!" The words are out of him mouth before he realizes it and he knows immediately that it's too late to take them back (not that he really wants to take them back anyways.)
Everything stops. The students stop dancing. The band stops playing. And Logan's heart stops beating. (the music thing kind of kills him. Like, really? Is it that big a deal?) Eddie Jackson looks over at him. "You love Quinn?" (his tone sort of reminds him why they were secret in the first place. The disbelief is completely evident and it pisses Logan off.)
So instead of back pedaling and making some lame excuse (which is probably what he should have done) he confirms it. It then occurs to him that Quinn is probably listening to all of this and he turns around to search for her. He finds her sitting at a table with Dustin and when their eyes lock she stands up, her face showing both horror and hope (at least Logan hopes that it's hope he's seeing).
He silently apologizes to her with his eyes, ("I know it's supposed to be a secret, but it slipped out. And I have to see this through.") Because Quinn was right (as usual), they should have just come to prom together. All the fun of hiding their relationship is gone (the secrecy just sucks now) and before he can stop himself he's yelling across the dance floor for everyone (but mostly her) to hear that he loves her.
There are about ten terrifying seconds (ohgodohgodohgod) when Quinn doesn't say or do anything. But then, her face blossoms into a beautiful smile (if pure happiness has a facial expression, Logan is pretty sure that's it) and she yells across the dance floor for everyone to hear (but mostly him) that she loves him too.
Logan's almost positive that he's never felt more relieved in his entire life (of course he's never had anything so important on the line before either) and he's pretty sure he almost knocks at least one person over in his rush to get to Quinn. He barely even registers that Casey Thompson has her phone out and is probably taking pictures, because he's pulling Quinn close and kissing her with everything he's got.
Logan likes to think that every kiss before this was just practice so that when the time came (this time, this moment of letting everyone know that she is his and that he loves her) he could make sure it was just right.
This may be the greatest moment of Logan's life.
Quinn wakes up the next morning to a knock on her door. She blinks, trying to shake off the grogginess of sleep and looks at her clock. She is surprised to find that it's nearly noon, but she and Logan had spent a large part of the early morning after prom sitting on "their" (they've dubbed it that and she doesn't care what anyone else says, it is, and always will be, theirs) bench, talking, laughing, kissing, and generally enjoying that they didn't have to hide anymore. She hadn't made it back to her dorm until nearly three a.m., and both Zoey and Lola had been asleep when she'd snuck in.
Yawning, Quinn realizes that both of her roommates are absent and that she's going to have to answer the door, because the knocking has yet to cease. As she gets closer she can hear the muffled sounds of arguing and can clearly hear Logan's voice.
"Dude, she's probably still sleeping! We didn't get in until like three this morning!"
She opens the door to find Zoey, Chase, Lola, Vince, Michael, Lisa, and Logan standing at her door. Logan looks seriously annoyed, but he brightens when he sees her, waving at her and seemingly oblivious to the incredulous looks their friends (minus Lisa) are giving him.
"Hey guys." She yawns and almost misses the "see! I told you!" look that Logan shoots everyone. "What's up?"
"This!" Lola squeals, and she holds up her phone so Quinn can see a (pretty nice) picture of her and Logan kissing at prom. "What's up with this!"
Quinn shoots Logan a confused look. He sighs in annoyance (she can tells it's directed at their friends though). "Apparently everyone at PCA was at prom for our confession except our friends." Lisa coughs loudly. "Except for Lisa." Logan amends.
Her eyebrows shoot up in disbelief. "Seriously?"
Logan nods. "I woke up from a pillow to the head and Chase and Michael shoving their phones in my face."
"How did they even get-"
"Casey Thompson." Lola cuts her off. "She sent the picture to everyone this morning."
Quinn kind of wants to be mad at Casey, but she's clearly got more pressing matters at hand. Instead she sighs and shakes her head, stepping back so everyone can come into the room. "I guess we'd better just start at the beginning."
It takes them nearly an hour to explain everything to everyone. This is mostly because Zoey, Lola, and Michael keep interrupting them with "Oh my god"s and "how can could we not have realized"s. When they finally finish the story everyone (including Lisa) is giving them amazed looks.
"What?" Logan barks, very annoyed that he's had to defend his relationship to such a degree.
"You weren't kidding!" Michael finally says.
"Duh!" Logan rolls his eyes in annoyance.
Chase blinks, clearly still digesting all the major changes that have occurred since he last left. "So…you two not only get along, but are dating?"
"Yep." Quinn nods and Logan smiles and proudly puts his arm around her waist.
"Wow."
"I can't believe you kept this from us!" Lola cries. And then she turns to Vince. "And I can't believe we missed it because of Pete and Sam's!"
Vince opens his mouth, probably to apologize when Chase cuts him off. "How did you manage to keep all this a secret? I can't believe no one noticed."
Quinn and Logan share a look. "Well, actually…"
"James knows." Logan finishes for her.
"He does?" Zoey asks. "When did he find out?"
"After that disaster of a dinner at Vaccaro." Quinn explains. "He'd been giving us odd looks since we started dating and after Vaccaro, well, we talked to him."
"I can't believe he didn't tell me!" Zoey cries, sounding upset. (Chase doesn't seem phased by the mention of James, so Quinn figures Zoey must have mentioned him sometime last night).
"I can." Logan gives her a pointed look. "We asked him not to. And it wasn't his secret to tell."
No one seems to have a response to this so, after several minutes of silence, Quinn grabs her shower caddy and towels. "Well, if this discussion is over, I'm going to go get ready."
She's out the door before anyone can tell her to stay.
"Well," Michael says, sounding indignant, "what's she in such a hurry for."
Logan grins, "We have a lunch date."
He starts to leave but stops at the door and turns to face his friends. "Oh, would one of you mind sending my that picture. Casey "conveniently" forgot to send it us."
"We have to go find James." Zoey says as she and everyone else leaves dorm 101.
"I know! We have to find out when he figured it out!" Lola rounds to her boyfriend. "Can you believe he figured it out and didn't say anything?"
Vince looks slightly guilty. "Well…"
"What?" Lola's eyes narrow. "What do you know?"
"I sort of suspected that something was up."
"What?" Lola, Zoey, and Michael stop walking and turn to stare it him.
"What?" Vince shrugs while Lisa rolls her eyes and she and Chase try not to laugh. "It's not like they were exactly being subtle about it."
There's chapter six! We're almost half way there! I've got this story pretty much written and it's going to be about 16 chapters so, look forward to those!
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