With that comment Logan stands up and moves outside of the shelter.
"Well if your little outburst is over James, I am returning back to Knife Party" he then slips his ear buds back into, leans back and closes his eyes.
Carlos gets up and follows Logan outside, muttering "We need more wood"
James snorts, Carlos turns to him, glaring "For the fire James! Get you mind out of the gutter"
"Hey, I didn't say anything. That's all you Garcia" James answers him back smartly.
Carlos turns on his heel and makes his way outside to his brunette friend.
"James" Katie says quietly.
"Yes, Katie"
"How about that conversation now"
"What now? Here?" James responses his voice in a slightly higher pitch.
"Why not? Kendall is in his own world" she says nodding to her brother "Carlos and Logan have gone off to get 'wood', so as I say why not?"
"Ok" he responses nervously licking his lips "What do you want to talk about?"
"You said you loved me and" Katie shrugs struggling to find the words.
James noticing the younger girls struggle continues "And you want to know how, why, when, where and so on"
"Yeah" she nods biting her lip "that would be good"
"Well, not sure if I will be able to answer you properly cause honestly not sure myself" he raises his hand to the back of his neck, rubbing it "every since I can remember you've been in my life, you're Kendall's little sister" he pauses glancing at his friend "you're the best schemer and prankster I know, yet I've always felt protective of you. As for loving you, always have, but romantically?" he sighs, exhaling loudly "I miss you more than anything when we are away, I find myself thinking Katie would like this or hate that, I get jealous when you talk about other guys and how hot they are, I have to stop myself for shouting at you to notice me"
"I always noticed you" Katie tells him sincerely "but I'm me and you, you are James Diamond, you could have the world, what would you want with Kendall's annoying little sister"
"Don't you know how incredibly amazing you are?" James says looking directly at her "you are this amazing beautiful young woman"
"You said amazing twice" Katie tells him smiling.
"You bet I did" he replies "and I'll say it a million more time if I need too to make you believe it"
"Oh, Ok but love?"
"That's harder to explain, I've never been in love before so don't understand it but when the plane started to drop, everything hit me and I knew that if it only one of us was to survive I wanted it to be you as I couldn't live without you" he looks down at his hands "so I told you how I felt, how I feel. I love you Katie"
"That's good"
"That's good, that's all you can say after I'm, after I'm"
"Breathe James" Katie takes his hands in hers "it's an awful lot of information you have given, I need time to process but"
"But?" James quickly asks.
"But as I said it's good and when we go out to dinner, say on a date I might have had enough time to process it all" she says winking at him.
"Oh" James smiles widely "Dinner you say?"
"Yes James"
"Katie what are you doing on Friday night?"
"Mmmm not sure, was kinda waiting on this cute boy I know to ask me out" she smirks at him.
"Katie would you like to have dinner with me on Friday?"
"Love to James"
"That's good" James says raising Katie's hand to his lips.
Just then Kendall's eyes spring open "What's going on here?" he asks looking from his sister to his oldest friend.
"Just planning our date for Friday" Katie grins and pokes her tongue out at her brother.
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Logan stepping away from the group and into the daylight. His eyes take a minute to adjust to the sun still strong in the sky. He brings his hand up to shield them and glances around towards the sky, hoping to see a helicopter or something anything to signify someone is looking for them.
"Oh God" he gasps.
"What Logie?"
Logan turns to Carlos, who must have followed him out.
"That" he points to a large low dust cloud in the distance.
"What is that?" Carlos says glazing at the horizon.
"It's a sand storm and probably the reason we haven't been found"
"How long do they last?"
"A few hours" Logan still studying the cloud "it doesn't seem to be travelling this way. We should let the others know" he starts back to the shelter.
"In a few minutes" Carlos grabs his hand pulling him the other direction "you need to come with me"
"Why?"
"Well if we are going be stuck here for another few hours we need more wood and I think we need to talk"