Kendall awoke when he heard alarms go off throughout the room. He opened his eyes and saw Logan slowly standing. "What time is it, buddy?" Kendall asked the shorter boy.

"It's 11:40. I've gotta hurry so I can get to the hospital on time." He whispered back to the blonde.

"OK. Have a good night. You can tell me all about it tomorrow." With that, Kendall rolled back onto his side and faced James who never moved through the commotion. 'God, I wish I could sleep like him. Nothing bothers him.' Kendall thought as he slipped back into sleep.

When the bell rang in the morning at 5:00 signaling that they had a half hour to get ready and go to breakfast. As Kendall got up he saw that Carlos was still passed out. The blonde gently shook his Carlos' shoulder but got no response.

"Here, let me try." James said as he came around the beds. He also gently shook his shoulder then bent forward where his face was only inches from the Latino's. He continued to shake him while say, "Carlos, wakey, wakey. It's breakfast time." Still no response, "CARLOS!" James screamed in his face causing Carlos to spook and he slapped James across the face.

Kendall watched with his mouth open before he suppressed a laugh.

"James, oh my God! I'm sorry. I didn't know that was you!" Carlos said jumping out of his bed facing James who had a shock look on his face while holding his cheek.

"Carlos! That hurt!"

"You scared me. What did you expect?" The shorter of the two through back.

"Not that you would hit me!"

"Alright, alright. Calm boys. Let's go get breakfast. And Carlos. Tell us about work!" Kendall said as he purposely stepped between them to go to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

As they walked in that direction Carlos began. "Well, James was pretty much right. The most excitement I got was to take x-rays of someone's ankle that he twisted when he stupidly jumped on his bed." James nodded. "Though they did say that if you worked the shifts between 12 AM and 8 AM you get to eat breakfast at 830 then go sleep until noon. That is gonna mess up our schedules. Other than the boredom of just pushing meds nothing really happened. We kinda worked in groups. There are only 15 patients in the entire place and we had 10 corpsmen."

"Sweet, I'm kinda excited for tomorrow." James said with a smile.

"Well, Carlos didn't we say that you would survive?" Kendall said as he put water on his tooth brush.

"Yeah, I guess you did." Carlos replied as they began to brush their teeth.

After they had their morning work outs and had lunch they returned to their bunks where they found the men that had been working the night before. They went over to their beds and tried not to wake Logan because he still had half an hour before he had to be up and get ready for their drills that they would be going through that after noon.

"Hey, what happened to Carlos?" Kendall asked James as he sat the brunette's bed.

"Oh, I think he just went to the store to get more shaving cream." James said and he blushed deeply.

"Dude, are you ok?" Kendall asked as he could feel a blush of his own creeping across his cheeks.

"Yeah, um, actually," James reached under his bed and grabbing his note book and pencil and continued, "I actually wanna ask you something. But you have to promise me you won't freak when I tell you!"

"No, James, you can tell me anything, no matter what." Kendall looked at his friend as his face turned worried.

James then scribbled in his book holding it close to his chest so that no one around them could read it, including Kendall.

He handed it to the other boy and Kendall hesitated before reading it worried about what he had written meant only for him. 'I really like you.' Is all it said and Kendall looked up with his blush deepening. He didn't let his mind wander to what the boy was going to say next but he asked. "What do you mean?"

James took the note book back and scribbled something else before handing it back to Kendall and watched his so intently Kendall was feeling a shiver go up his spine. He took the notebook and read what else had been written. 'I mean I really, really like you and I want to be more than friends, maybe. If you're ok with it. Carlos talk to me and he had told me that he was asking all of us but he wouldn't tell me anything when I asked him what you had said to his weird questions.'

Kendall looked up into those big hazel eyes that were still watching his every move and said "James, I." He stopped when James handed him the pencil and pointed to the paper. Kendall rolled his eyes and started to scribble his own answer. 'James, I like you A LOT too. And I would love to be your boyfriend? Right? Yeah, I just don't know if we should be open about it…here.'

He handed everything back to James and he read the answer. Kendall watched him as he smiled then as the smile slowly faded as he read on. He threw the paper and pencil back under his bed and said, "They can't do anything to us! Obama pulled that stupid rule." Kendall nodded at him.

"James. I said yes. Let's just take it slow and feel things out around here. OK?" Kendall reached across the bed and squeezed James' hand and. "Let's get Logan up so he can eat and be ready for drills this afternoon."

As Kendall went to stand James held onto his hand standing with him. Before he spoke his eyes fell to the floor before meeting Kendall's green one's and said. "Thank you, seriously." Kendall just laughed and nodded before he was released to wake Logan.

Let me know what you all think! I think I'm about half way through the story now.