Kendall reluctantly stood to follow James. When James turned on him Kendall successfully stopped James from speaking first. "James, I'm so sorry about everything. You know that I don't have anything against you! I told you last night I was just scared. I…" Kendall was cut off when James put his hand over his mouth making him shut up.

"I know…I heard what you said to Logan." James slowly dropped his hand making sure that Kendall wasn't going to speak before he continued. The look on his face was apologetic. "I'm sorry about what I did to you last night. I'm usually not like that but I guess all of the emotions I have felt over the last few months just built up inside of me and I couldn't control it anymore."

Kendall looked down at his feet and then finally spoke when he thought that James was done. "I know. You had every right, though. I shouldn't have ever acted like that." He knew that he kept repeating himself to James but he wanted to brunette to understand how guilty he truly was.

James nodded and said "Yeah, I understand. But we are both sorry and it's in the past so how about we just move on. Let's start from here." He paused and then smiled at Kendall before gently nudging him in the shoulder, "Friends?"

"Friends," Kendall said as he returned the smile. He felt himself blush at the look that James was giving him. He suddenly felt himself shaking his head trying to get his mind straight. Why was he blushing? Maybe it was just from the fact that he was still embarrassed about the way he had treated the boy.

They walked back to the table in silence. As they sat with Logan and Carlos again he could feel their eyes on them. Kendall looked up catching Logan's dark brown eyes and explained, "We are friends." He then looked at James with a smile and added, "No more fighting!"

The boys ate their breakfast in silence because they only had 10 minutes left until they had to be in formation for their morning run. The next day at their afternoon class they were to be learning CPR. Kendall remembered learning CPR when they had their health class back in 6th grade. He didn't really remember anything that he was supposed to learn from that class.

James leaned over and whispered in his ear as their teacher turned to write something on the board. "I hated CPR!" Kendall looked at him with a smile before he shook his head and scribbled notes that the teacher had just wrote on the board.

Soon enough they were set up to at their first aide tables with all the supply's spread out. They were instructed to have one person lay on the ground while the other practiced the different tourniquets on each other. Kendall went to tie it so that it was snug around James' neck and held his right arm in place. "Ow, ow, ow. Kendall. What the hell?" James said with a smile trying to get his arm loose from the sling. "Too tight!" he exclaimed when he couldn't get free.

"Ok, hold on!" Kendall said as he was trying to undo the not that he had in fact tied wrong. "I can't get it, James." Kendall started worry thinking that he was going to hurt him. James tried to lift it over his head but it was even too tight for that. He couldn't straighten his arm to pull it off either.

When their attempts were futile they both looked at Logan who was practicing on Carlos with ease. "Logan." Both boys said at the same time. When the Logan and Carlos looked up to see James tangled in the white fabric they both let out muffled laughs.

"Dude, what did you do to him?" Logan said as he inspected the knot that was against James neck. When he touched the skin on his neck James jumped back and said "Logan, your hands are freezing!" Logan looked down at him and said "Really, do you want to get out of this thing or not?" Logan said. This made James shut up. After a moment of Logan pulling on the fabric he said "Ok, we are gonna have to cut it off. Kendall whatever you did you tied it tight so tight that it won't come undone." Kendall groaned at the words not wanting to get off on the wrong foot with his teacher.

"Ok, thank you Logan." Kendall sighed and picked up the scissors that were in their kit as Logan turned his attention back to what he was doing with Carlos. "Ok James. Don't move I don't need to cut you." Kendall concentrated on cutting the fabric so that he didn't slip and hurt James. Kendall looked up when he noticed that James was staring at him. He didn't miss the blush that was on James' pale cheeks so he turned before James would see his confused look.

The fabric finally came loose and James sighed in relief. "Oh, thank God!" He rolled his shoulder and neck loosening the knot that had begun to form.

"Alright, I'm gonna go and get another piece from the teacher then you can try." As he turned to go to the teacher the look of the blush dancing across James' face was brought to his mind. He shook his head deciding that he was going to let it go. It probably meant nothing. As Kendall approached the teacher he looked up at him with a smile. "Sir, may I please have another sling? Ours ripped." He braced himself for what may or may not come next.

"Of course" the teacher said though before he handed Kendall the sling he added "Am I going to have any trouble with you over this course?" Kendall didn't know what to say so he just said "No sir. I am not going to be a problem sir."

"Good," the teacher said and handed him the sling. "Just remember Schmidt. You can't just come and get another one of these in the field." Kendall nodded and said "Yes, sir. I understand." And with that he headed back towards James.

James jumped off the table and allowed Kendall to take his spot. "Did we get into any trouble?" He asked with a concerned look on his face.

"No," Kendall said with a smile then added, "He seems pretty good."

"Cool," James said before he practiced on the other boy.

Later that night Kendall was lying in bed thinking. He couldn't fall asleep and he didn't know why so he turned to James who was on his left side facing Kendall though his eyes were closed. "James, are you awake?"

With a deep breath and his eyes still closed the boy answered "Yeah, Kendall."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, anything." James said in a tired voice though Kendall ignored it.

"Why did you choose to do this? I mean join the military?"

James opened his eyes for the first time and looked at Kendall, "Because my mom said that either I join the military or she was going to kick me out of the house." He really didn't have any emotion in his voice that Kendall could detect.

"Why would she do that?" Kendall asked as he brought the blanket farther up his body and clutched it to his chest waiting for James' answer.

"Well, she had caught me and my friends doing drugs in a back alley just down the road from my house. She had actually caught us a couple of times. I guess when her punishments weren't doing the trick she got sick of it and then threatened." Kendall could see the boy shake his head through the dark.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was a touchy subject." Kendall said with a small amount of guilt in his voice.

"It's fine." James said before adding "otherwise I wouldn't have met you."

With this James rolled onto his other side hiding the hurt look on his face as he missed his mother no matter how hard she had been on him at times. Kendall rolled onto his back and sighed. Soon after he closed his eyes he was asleep.

And that's it guys! Another chapter down! I know that this one was kind of boring but it was setting up Kendall and James' relationship! Tell me what you think in a review or a message please!