"Dude, I can't do this. I can't. It's nothing against you but it's not gonna happen. I can't." James was doing small circles in front of Kendall when their teacher finally came up to them. Kendall watched helplessly with a small smile on his face at his friend's discomfort.

"Is there a problem here boys?" their teacher asked when James finally stopped in front of him. They are supposed to have at least some composure in front of their teachers but James showed none. "Sir, I'm sorry but I can't do this. I can't do needles." He was practically hyperventilating. His chest rose rapidly as he talked.

Their teacher reached out and put his hand on James' shoulder trying, without success, to console the boy. "It's just a little bit of blood son."

James kept shaking his head. Kendall watched at their teacher got stern when the soft approach didn't work. "Diamond! Straighten up right now son! Either you let Kendall take you blood or you fail and go home to New York! Do you understand me?"

With this James calmed thinking about how he was being threatened to go home to a mother that didn't want him and a girlfriend that may not want him either. "Yes, sir," James said as he gained some of that composure.

"Very good," the teacher said before he turned to check on Logan and Carlos. When Kendall turned his attention to them he came to James' side and said "Look, Carlos is letting Logan draw his blood. You can do it too!" James eyed his cautiously.

"Come on!" Kendall grabbed him by the shoulders and sat him down in the chair and had him place his right arm on the table next to him anterior side up. Kendall thought back to what they were taught on the manikins. As he pulled out the tubing and the vials that the blood would flow into he looked up at James who was watching him with a terrified look.

"James, look at me!" Kendall heard Carlos say to the boy taking his attention off of Kendall.

"Good, James. Look at Carlos. I'm going to do this fast." When Kendall had felt for the spot that he found the best vein in the other boys arm he looked at him again placing his finger on the spot so he didn't lose it. "Carlos, talk to him!" Kendall said and smirked as Logan looked at Carlos as if he blinked the entire world would come crashing down upon them.

Kendall slowly moved the needle to the spot where his finger had been and he listened as James' breath quicken again. Kendall heard Carlos start to ask all the questions that first came to his mind such as "Did you dream last night? Tell me about it." Or "Can you believe we only have a month left here?" James was in the middle of a sentence when the needle slipped under the perfect flesh of the inside of his elbow. A high pitch moan came from his mouth as he bit down on his lip and tears filled his eyes his head falling back though Kendall didn't hesitate before a steady flow flooded from the vein.

Quickly he removed the needle from James' skin and he placed a small piece of tissue over the small dab of blood and applied pressure.

James looked into Kendall's emerald eyes and smiled with tears still threatening to spill. Kendall's hear broke into two and he pulled James into a hug. "You ok buddy?"

James held onto Kendall and nodded into his shoulder. "I'm fine. You did good, I barely felt it."

Kendall pulled back and smiled into those hazel eyes and said "Good! Are you sure you can stand?" thinking about the way the boy in front of him was visibly shaking. "Yeah, give me just a moment." James replied taking in a few deep breaths. Once Logan had finished on Carlos they both came over and Carlos rubbed James back saying "You survived!"

"Yeah, Kendall decided to spare me this time!" He played making the situation sound more dramatic that it really was. This pulled a laugh from them all. James jumped off the chair which was replaced by Kendall and he showed the belly of his arm. James quickly drew the red liquid on his second try and watched it flow into the vial. He felt like a child after watching Kendall sit there like nothing was even happening. He just shook his head as he applied the tissue to the spot where he had removed the needle and smiled at Kendall saying "All done, champ!"

Kendall hopped off the stool and patted James on the back. "Good job buddy, I didn't feel a thing!"

"Kendall! I don't know what to say!" James' voice was filled with frustration as he tried to come up with the words to put on the paper to his girlfriend whose name was Erin.

Kendall sat at the end of James' bed writing the letter to his family back in Michigan. Kendall met the irritated boys glare when he hadn't answered him right away. "I don't know, James." He paused before adding. "Make it sound innocent though. Like you don't suspect anything because you don't know what happened. Though, make sure you put in there somewhere that you haven't heard from her in a while." James nodded his agreement before scribbling quickly across the paper.

Once Kendall had finished his letter he climbed to his bed and put the letter into an envelope and licked it before sealing it. He looked over at Logan who had agreed to deliver all of their letters at the same time in the morning. "Here ya go!" Kendall said handing the smaller boy the envelope.

"Thanks, these are leaving first thing in the morning" the brunette said before sliding down in his bed and closing his eyes before lights were even turned out.

"Lame!" Carlos yelled at Logan who didn't respond and just like that the lights went out. Carlos sighed before sliding under his covers as well.

"James. Are you almost done?" Kendall asked.

"Yeah, hold on I'll be right back." With that James went to the bathroom.

Kendall rolled his eyes and settled into his bed as well. About five minutes later James came back with the sealed envelope.

"Logan, Logan put this with the rest so you don't lose it." Kendall opened his eyes and looked to his left and saw James leaning over Logan.

"Dude!" Logan groaned at him and took the envelope from his hands and put it in the pile under his bed. "Will you please to go sleep now?" Logan said to James while trying to get comfortable again.

"Yes," James said and added "Good night Logan."

"Good night James"

Kendall had his eyes closed when he felt James' hand brush harshly across his chest catching him off guard. "Really James? I was comfortable." Kendall complained his body now tense. "Why don't you go wake up Carlos while you're at it?"

"Don't touch me," They heard Carlos' deep voice rumble from his pillow.

James and Kendall suppressed a laugh as they settled back down and went to sleep.

I know it's kind of a weak chapter but please let me know what you think. If you have any suggestions and Please, Please tell me if it's worth me to keep working on. I'm debating whether or not I'm going to finish it so I need you guys to review or send me a message and tell me what you are thinking.