Chapter 6

"Kendall! Wake up!" Kendall woke and was met with an aching pain in his head. The pain wasn't as sharp as yesterday, but instead was dull and throbbing. It felt like a wound that was slowly but effectively healing.

But the loud voice, who Kendall knew was from Carlos, made his head hurt so bad that he almost cried out in pain. But instead, he just let out a soft whimper, hoping that Carlos wouldn't hear it. He felt someone sit down on his bed, bouncing it happily. But in a few seconds, the bouncing stopped.

"Kendall? What's wrong?" Kendall opened his eyes to see Carlos staring down at him with his big brown eyes. Kendall groaned inwardly. Did he really just have to whimper out loud? Now he was gonna have to come up with some lie to trick his friend. And Kendall Knight did not like lying. Not at all. But right now, he felt it was necessary. Wrong, but still necessary.

"Oh, hey, Carlos. How are you today, my little buddy?" Carlos grinned back and was about to say something, but then stopped himself.

"Kendall, I know something's wrong with you. You don't have to lie to us." Carlos said innocently. Kendall sighed. He knew from the tone of Carlos's voice that the younger boy was going to start crying soon if Kendall didn't answer him the way Carlos wanted him to.

"Carlos, listen to me." Kendall slowly sat up, trying to ignore the pain in his head, Ugh, why couldn't it just go away? "I'm fine. I just had a headache yesterday, and it got really bad. But today I'm fine. Really."

Carlos sniffled. "Y-you promise?"

Kendall smiled gently. "I promise." He felt like punching himself for telling such an innocent boy such a horrible lie. But it had to be done, right?

Carlos smiled happily and skipped out of the room. Kendall felt horrible for lying to him. Carlos had probably never told Kendall a lie his whole life, and here Kendal was, lying his face off to Carlos. And the worst part was that Kendall was taking advantage of Carlos's innocence and how gullible he was.

Kendall shook the thoughts out of his head and headed down for breakfast. The boys were sitting there, eating and talking to each other casually. Just like a typical day.

"Good morning, Mr. Knight. How are you feeling this morning?" James asked. Kendall rolled his eyes.

"I'm fine, thanks, Miss Diamond." James, pretending to look offended, stood up and whacked a piece of egg onto Kendall's face. Kendall pretended not to notice it as he sat down. The thing that pissed James off the most was when someone didn't react to his little pranks.

"You're just jealous of my hair," James finally muttered, sitting back down. Kendall smirked. That was his comeback for pretty much anything.

"You guys wanna head down to the pool today?" Logan asked after a few moments of unusual silence. Usually, it was Kendall who decided what they did every day. But today, Kendall was feeling too out of it to even notice Logan had spoken.

"Yay!" Carlos shouted happily, bouncing in his seat.

"Sure, my tanning session is way overdue." James agreed.

They all looked to Kendall to see what he thought. When Kendall didn't respond, Logan waved his hand in front of Kendall's face. "Yo, Kendall!"

Kendall jerked out of his pained daze, staring at Logan. "Oh, um, sure. That's sounds great." Logan looked at him weirdly. Was Kendall hiding something or was just not awake yet?

But before the genius could question it, James and Carlos were already urging them to hurry up. Logan and Kendall stood and went to get changed.

The pool was where it happened. Kendall's head started feeling worse and worse, and his stomach felt weird, too. He felt sick, like really sick. Like he did when he was 12, but 2 times worse. Kendall felt horrible.

He was so focused on making sure he didn't puke that he didn't notice the "Caution: Wet Floor" sign Buddha Bob had placed on the ground.

Everything happened so fast. Kendall suddenly slipped, and hit his head on the floor. Usually, Kendall would just get up, muttering about how stupid the floor was. But this time, he didn't.

"Kendall? Dude, are you okay?" James noticed first. Logan and Carlos turned, their faces scared and worried.

"Kendall, this isn't funny!" Logan added, his voice trembling.

James ran over to Kendall, being careful of the wet floor, and crouched down next to Kendall. Kendall wasn't conscious. And James didn't think he was breathing, either. "Guys! Kendall fainted! He's not awake!"

Logan and Carlos rushed over. Logan shoved James out of the way, checking Kendall's pulse. It was so low he barely felt it. Suddenly, Kendall jerked. His whole body started shaking, his eyes wide open and his eyeballs rolling up into his head.

Logan didn't hesitate. He shouted at Camille, who was standing nearby, to call 911. He looked down at Kendall, trying to see what could be wrong with his older friend.

Ironically, Logan never panicked much when someone was having a medical emergency. He was going to be a doctor, so he'd already trained himself to stay calm and focused in situations like these. But Logan could barely keep himself calm when it was his best friend suffering.

"I-I don't see what's wrong with him!" Logan muttered to himself, his breathing starting to quicken. Kendall didn't have any injuries anywhere he could see, so why was he having a seizure? Logan looked up at his two friends. James just shrugged helplessly, fear in his eyes, while he held a sobbing Carlos to his chest.

"Wh-what's wrong w-with Kendall, J-James?" Carlos whimpered. James rubbed his back comfortingly.

"I don't know, but he's gonna be alright, okay? Look, the paramedics are already here to help him." Logan looked towards the place James was pointing at, and sure enough, ambulances and fire trucks and police cars were speeding into the entrance of the Palm Woods.

Logan quickly told them what had happened. The paramedics attached something into Kendall's nose, putting him on a stretcher and holding him tight until the blonde boy stopped struggling completely. Carlos only cried harder, his sobs broken by whimpers. James was trying to keep his tears in, but Logan could see this was hurting him, too.

"We can take one person." One of the paramedics announced gruffly. James glanced at Logan, urging him to go with Kendall. Logan looked back at James.

"Take care of him. We'll meet you guys in the hospital." Logan said, looking at Carlos. The boy had never handled situations like these well. He'd surely take this the worst.

James nodded, whispering something into Carlos's ear. The boy ceased his crying a little, and Logan turned around, heading into the ambulance.

Kendall looked like he was… dead. Logan almost choked on his own spit at the thought. Kendall, his leader, his rock, his best friend, was lying in a gurney, having trouble breathing and suffering the aftershocks of a seizure.

Logan didn't know what happened. Kendall did seem to be acting a little weird lately… but Logan didn't know it was this bad. But Kendall had always been stubborn; Logan should have pressured Kendall more about what was bothering him. Logan should've taken Kendall to the hospital that day he fainted. He was supposed to be the doctor… but he had completely failed Kendall.

He was just so used to Kendall always being right about everything that he was pretty sure that Kendall was fine when he said he was fine. Maybe Kendall didn't want them to worry about him, maybe he was stubborn. But whatever it was, Kendall had lied to them. Big time. And now they were all paying the price.

If Kendall died… Logan wouldn't forgive himself. Heck, if Kendall lived, he still wouldn't forgive himself. He was the doctor; James and Carlos wouldn't know if something was wrong with Kendall. But he was supposed to know. He read hundreds of books about that kind of stuff. But yet, Kendall still ended up in the hospital, and Logan still didn't know what was wrong with this older friend.

"Do… do you know what's wrong with him?" Logan asked one of the nicer looking paramedics softly. The middle aged man looked at Logan with sympathy.

"We're not quite sure yet. We'll have to do some tests on him in the hospital. Have you noticed anything strange about Kendall's behavior lately?" Logan sighed. This was the time to spill the little he knew about Kendall.

"Well, he's been a little… I guess, tired, lately. Yesterday, he fainted from a headache or something. A migraine, really. But now that I think about it more… headaches can't cause people to faint, can they?" Now Logan was really worried. Kendall did hit his head hard when James checked him, but it wouldn't have caused him to faint, would it?

The paramedic looked thoughtful and sad. This poor boy and his two friends didn't deserve this. They were too young. "It's possible that someone could faint from a mere headache." He paused, looking straight into Logan's eyes.

"I'm sorry to tell you, sir, but don't be surprised if this is something worse than a headache."

A/N- Dun dun dun… now is where stuff gets serious. I think. I don't really even know yet. ;)

So do you think Kendall's gonna wake up? And a lesson to you all: TELL SOMEONE IF YOU'RE FEELING SICK OR DEPRESSED OR ANYTHING! You're gonna end up like Kendall if you don't. Just warning you guys. ;)

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