Well, I tried to make it long but then I got stuck at the ending, so... yup. I hope this makes up for falling off the face of the earth for a month!

Logan's POV

I've never really liked Minnesota. I mean, who would? It's always too fucking cold and the snow always makes everyone sick with colds. Everyone except me, of course. I knew how to properly prevent sickness. But that didn't make it any more enjoyable. It just meant that all during the winters, my friends were sick and I had no one to hang out with, which is why I begged my parents to let me go with the guys to LA so we could record some demos.

Even if it meant leaving my other two best girl friends behind.

Now, don't get me wrong. I love Taylor and Georgia just as much as I love those other three doofuses I call my friends. Having those girls around made for hours of fun! But I hate the cold.

So I left…

And then I came back.

Not on purpose, though! I would've loved to stay in LA with the guys, Katie and Mama Knight. But Griffin sent us back. So that meant I had to return to the frozen hell they call Shakopee. But I got to see G and T again, so I was okay.

Plus, Kendall's airport speech was pretty damn convincing.

But anyways, sometimes I think I love my friends a little too much. I mean, I know I love them. I've know them since we were in the 3rd grade, of course I love them! But I sometimes think I'm too... relenting.

Which brought me to where I was now.

"Hold still for a second, would you?" someone snapped.

"I'm trying!"

"You're getting heavy, guys!"

"Hee hee! This is fun!"

"I know, right!"

Someone else groaned.

"Everyone shut the fuck up already!" I snapped. "If you want me to do this right, I need complete silence." I leaned forwards, grabbing the lock hanging in front of me. "Bobby pin," I ordered. Carlos' hand came up, handing me the tiny item. I thanked him before turning back to the lock and pushing the hair accessory in.

"Can you hurry up?" James begged. "You guys are starting to get heavy!"

I ignored him. "Taylor, status report," I demanded.

"Uh..," she hesitated before declaring, "the oast-cay is ear-clay!" in an official tone. I continued twisting the pin in the lock, being very careful not to get it stuck.

"Eww!" Georgia exclaimed, disgusted. "Ear clay? That's just wrong." I turned slightly at the waist to see her and Taylor standing by the door to the Knight's library, keeping a look out for either of the Knight women. Then I looked down. I was currently sitting on Carlos' shoulders, who stood on James' back. James was on his hands and knees.

"I think she means the coast is clear," Kendall told Georgia. He was standing beside me and the guys, making sure we didn't fall. I continued watching my hands as I twisted the pin again.

"Oh… that makes more sense."

"Are you almost done, Logie?" Carlos asked from under me.

"Almost…" Click! "I got it!" I announced before yanking the door open. I heard Carlos cheering.

"Oh shit!" Taylor whispered to us, panicked. Georgia had the same expression on her face as the two girls chorused "Mama bear is coming to the honeypot! Abort! Abort!"

"Everyone hide!" I whisper-yelled. We all scrambled to hide behind the various pieces of furniture in the room quickly. I could hear Mama Knight's footsteps getting closer as Kendall and I hid behind the loveseat. Kendall and I were looking at each-other, hoping she wouldn't hear us. I could tell he was holding his breath, and I would've told him to breathe if I hadn't been doing the same. Just then, I heard the footsteps stop right in front of the doorway. I closed my eyes, wishing myself to be invisible. 5 seconds passed, and I still hadn't heard anything… until:

"Logan, sweetie. You left the cabinet doors open."

"Damn…" I muttered. Everyone stood up and Kendall turned from me to Mrs. Knight with a sheepish smile.

"Hey, mom…" he greeted, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly, a nervous habit he's always had.

"What have I told you about trying to get my cookie recipe from the cabinet?"

"Uhm… usually you just laugh evilly and say 'YOU CHILDREN WILL NEVER GET YOUR HANDS ON THAT RECIPE!' and it's kinda creepy," Carlos answered.

"It reminds me of Gustavo," Kendall chirped. I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, especially that whole "MUAHAHAHAHAHA' cackle you both have," James said.

"Nah, Kendall's the only one who cackles," I said with an innocent smile. Kendall stuck his tongue out at me.

"Okay, okay," Mama Knight said, getting our attention. "Whose bright idea was it to try to steal my recipe again?" The guys and I immediately pointed to Georgia and Taylor, who were pointing at each-other.

"It was her idea!" the two girls chorused. When Mama Knight gave them a pointed look, they both sighed before again chorusing together "It was our idea…"

"How many times do I have to tell you that you will only get the recipe when you come of legal age?" Mama K scolded.

"A lot," we all mumbled.

"Okay then. I want you all to march upstairs and think about what you've done," she ordered. We all filed by her, except when I went to pass her, she held her hand out. I sighed, knowing what she wanted, before dropping the bobby pin into her palm. When we got back to Kendall's room, everyone dropped to the floor. There was a collective sigh of defeat as I closed my eyes. As we laid sprawled across the floor, there was a loud banging sound coming from behind the wall followed by a muffled "Dangit!" and I immediately identified the voice as Katie's.

"What do you think she's doing?" Georgia asked. Kendall shrugged.

"Maybe trying to dig a tunnel back to LA."

"That's stupid," I countered. "She'd have to start in the basement in order to do that."

"True," my blonde friend answered.

"Instead of being sad about that recipe," Taylor said, sitting up "why don't you guys tell us more about LA?" I shrugged.

"Okay," the guys and I said.

"Well first, everyone was always busy there," Carlos said. We nodded in agreement.

"And it wasn't so fucking cold, either," I added.

"Oh, and the pool was EPIC!" Kendall said.

"But there was this girl, Camille, who always slapped us," James commented.

"Yeah, that girl was bat shit crazy," Kendall said.

"Wait, this girl slapped you?" Taylor asked, shocked.

"Why?" Georgia asked.

"She was a method actress," Kendall answered. "She slapped pretty much everyone."

"Weird…" Taylor commented.

"But she was nice!" I added. The guys nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, she was the first one to talk to us… sorta," James said.

"In other words, she came up to me and slapped me," Kendall said, making me chuckle at the memory.

"What was meeting the 'amazing' Gustavo Rocque like?" Georgia asked. We all looked at each-other.

"Scarring," I said.

"Horrifying," James spoke.

"Mean," Carlos added.

"Loud," Kendall said.

"Yup," James said in agreement with Kendall.

"That about summed it up," I concurred.

"Are you for real?" Taylor asked.

"Was he really that bad?" Georgia inquired.

"Yeah, pretty much," I answered.

"Oh, and then there was Griffin!" James exclaimed. "He was such a douche! He didn't even give us a fucking chance. He was all 'Yeah, you didn't make it. Now I have to go teach my pet liger Sign Language.' " James vented, deepening his voice to mimic Griffin's.

"What the hell is a liger?" Taylor asked.

"It's a hybrid of a the Panthera leoand Panthera tigris, although they've been known to grow longer than either parent species unlike tiglons, who tend to be about as long as their parent species," I said, earning some confused looks from my friends. "It's a boy lion and girl tiger's baby," I dumbed it down.

"Ohh…" they chorused. Then James let out another depressed sigh.

"I just wish they had given us more of a chance to prove ourselves. I mean, three days isn't a whole lot of time to become a boy band," he said, sighing again. I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, and we didn't really train a lot, since most of the time they were stuffing our asses into pants ten sizes too small," Kendall added.

"I thought we looked good," James replied. I slapped the back of his head.

"I dunno," Carlos said. "I'm pretty sure Griffin was staring at our nether regions when we were wearing those outfits. It made me feel pretty uncomfortable… Like he was eye-fucking us or something,"

"If he was eye-fucking anyone, it was probably me," James said smugly.

"Oh, so you want to be Griffin's bitch?" I asked sarcastically.

"Eww..! No way, dude! That's fucking disgusting! I'm just saying, if he were gay for anyone, it would be me."

I rolled my eyes at my friends behavior. "Fine, it would be your ass that's burning," I retorted. Kendall snorted and I couldn't keep the smirk off my face.

"Anyways, moving on from this awkward convo," Carlos began "being at Rocque Records wasn't all bad!"

"True," James said. "I mean, I did get to meet my future wife."

"You met Nicole Scherzinger?" Taylor asked, surprised.

"Yes, and he made a fool of himself in front of her," Kendall teased.

"Ahh... I'm not surprised. James is pretty foolish."

"Hey!" Taylors comment led to an insulted James, which led to them both bickering, which led to everyone bickering, including me.

I chuckled the events that had taken place in a few short moments. Yeah, maybe I hated the cold and snow and Minnesota in general, but it was nice being back with my friends. They always had a way of making me forget my miserable life in this horrid state.

So, yeah. I know it doesn't seem like a lot happened in this chapter, but there was a lot of foreshadowing here. And plus, you got to see inside of Logan's head for a little while! Next up, Kendall's little diseased imagination :P

Signing off,
HJ