"You're awfully quiet tonight." I raised my eyes form my computer screen and watched Logan walk into the bedroom unbuttoning his shirt. He walked to our closet, yawning and rolling his head back and forth. "When I was given the day off, I didn't think I would be doing more work than I usually do. I'm exhausted." I remained quiet keeping my laptop on my lap staring at his back as it came into view. He glanced back at me, over his shoulder before pulling the shirt off his arms and tossing it to the laundry basket in the middle of the closet. "So this is what it's like talking to a wall." I looked back down at my computer staring at the pictures in front of me, feeling my stomach twist.
"Doesn't it seem odd that your boss is giving a job to a guy he doesn't even know, based solely on your word?" He laughed pushing his pants and boxers off, bending slightly. I stared out of the corner of my eye, just at his ass, but ignored my horniness.
"I know why it would seem weird to you. I mean. You don't trust me, so why should anyone else right?" I turned my laptop setting it on his side of the bed facing him clearing my throat. He opened up the dresser in the closet, my dresser and grabbed a pair of my sweats. He pulled them on, turning to me and frowning. "What is wrong with you? What do you have against Louis?" I crossed my arms over my chest and raised my eyebrows nodding to the computer. He sighed running his hands through his messy brown hair and walked towards me. He crawled onto the bed staring at me before looking down at the screen. He stopped suddenly sitting back on his legs and pulled the laptop up on his lap. "Where did you get these?"
"One of Kendall's buddies works for the LAPD. This morning, Kendall went to go see him, for me, to get a background check on Louis." Logan's head lifted fast and he burned holes into my head. "Nothing really came up…he's a good guy, clean record…seemingly harmless. But…" He looked back down and I heard clicking. He was probably looking through the rest of the pictures. Of him. At work or home, stopped at a stop light, laughing and walking around the mall with me Kendall…Carlos. "When we went out today, to find out about what happened to Carlos, we went to him again. This cop, Jimmy, said it is best Carlos didn't call the cops because these guys will come back to hurt him and maybe even kill him next time. And he said the best we could do, is always have someone with Carlos. SO we left, knowing the cops were on our side, but Kendall just sent me an email, from Jimmy, showing us this. It seems your boss has a little crush on you Logan, that has somehow spiraled into a complete fucking obsession." He closed the laptop quick and set it to the side looking only at me. "He also said, it's not really a coincidence that your best friend was almost beaten to a pulp with a message on his mirror with the initials L.S. on it." He quickly started to crawl closer to me until he was straddling my lap and holding the sides of my face with his hands.
"James…baby please. You have no idea how ridiculous you sound. My boss didn't come and hurt Carlos, just like he is not obsessed with me, and taking candid pictures. I mean…how do you even know it was him taking the pictures. How did this guy Jimmy even get them?"
"He hacked into Louis's computer at his work to try to see if he had any record of hiring guys to beat up an innocent guy." Logan raised his eyebrows and dropped his hands from my face. "He couldn't find anything on hiring anyone but he found a folder on his computer marked Logan. So he opened it up and found that." I pointed to my computer gently making him glance back to it and shake his head closing his eyes.
"You're over thinking things James. Maybe he was just following me to make sure I'm not a pshyco like his last assistant. And maybe he just wants to look after me. There's nothing wrong with what he did, taking those pictures. And to be completely Frank I'm a little pissed off at you. How could you keep all this information form me? And when did you become so jealous?" He leaned into me kissing me softly smiling. "You are the only person I fall asleep with. You are the only person I want to wake up to every morning. Seriously James." He straightened up grabbing my face again making me look directly into his eyes. "The only time you ever need to worry about me, and some rich guy, is if I need you to be." I gently laid my head back onto the headboard, staring at him. He looked sincere, and like seeing those pictures of him didn't even bother him. The ones that really pissed me off where the ones of us at home. He literally had to have been standing outside the window. Like the one of us on the couch. I was flat on my back staring up at the TV with Logan on my stomach biting my neck and ear. I was trying to concentrate on the show, and because I knew when the picture was taken, last week, I knew I was also trying not to embarrass our friends who were still staying with us at that time. Why those pictures bugged me, and made me mad, Logan didn't even care. I think that alone bothered me even more.
I got maybe an hour worth of sleep. I let Logan snuggle onto, or into my body, while I tossed and turned but I felt so disconnected from him. There was something wrong with him. How he could think this way, act this way was so new to me. It wasn't like the Logan I knew and cared deeply for. Maybe Louis had already slipped into his mind. Maybe something had already happened, and Logan couldn't tell me. Or maybe I was overthinking things. Maybe I am just a jealous dick. I mean, it's highly unlikely, but not completely impossible.
While Logan took a shower the following morning I changed into some clean sweats and a clean shirt slipping on some socks and shoes. I sat on the edge of our unmade bed and waited for him. When he picked up Carlos for his new job, I would just stay with Kendall and I'd go with him to pick up furniture for their house. It was going to be a long, stressful, painful day, and I was really starting to wish I had made myself sleep. I was actually considering just going back to bed, texting Kendall to pick me up whenever he was ready but by the time I convinced myself I needed sleep, Logan was running a hand through my hair asking if I was ready. I smiled and nodded standing up, casually linking his fingers with mine. I grabbed his bag from him while he grabbed my sweater and his coat. We walked downstairs, told Romeo to be a good boy and that I'd be back in a while to check on him and we were out the door.
The first thing I saw when we pulled up to the house was the plastic covering the broken glass in the front window. I bet Kendall was glad I helped him do that last night because it was now pouring rain. I was the only one who got out and went up to the door because Logan didn't want to ruin his hair or his suit. I knocked and leaned against the door frame shoving my hand sin the front pockets of my zip up sweater. I heard heavy footsteps down stairs and Carlos's name get called softly, just as the door got unlocked and pulled open. Kendall's tiered face appeared along with a glass of what looked like chocolate milk. "He'll be out in a minute. Come on in…where's Logan?"
"Dint want to get wet." He nodded turning and walking off. I followed in quick shutting the door shivering. He walked down a dark hallway before tuning, opening a door and pressing a button. I heard the garage door open, and when Kendall walked out into the completely empty garage, I followed again seeing Logan in the car still. He smiled and turned it back on, pulling up into the covered garage. I stood next to Kendall as Logan shut off the car and got out smiling between the two of us.
"Pussy. It's just a little bit of rain." Logan frowned and moved forward punching Kendall in the chest. Kendall smiled and pushed back at him chugging down the rest of his chocolate milk. I heard the door to the house get opened again and turned, smiling at Carlos. He didn't look happy. He didn't look mad. In fact he kind of looked sad and scared. He walked to us quick hugging around Kendall who hugged him back leaning down into his ear. He kissed it, rubbing his back softly and sighed. "You're going to be fine babe. No one is even going to notice." I turned to Logan confused and all he had to do was point to his face. He mouthed "bruises and cuts" and I got it fast. I also knew he was probably feeling down on himself because of what Kendall said yesterday, but seeing how they were now, made me think they might have made up. "What if I say I'll come by at lunch, and if anyone has said anything to you before then, you point him out and James and I will kill them?" Logan sighed walking to me and laid his head on my chest.
"Does everything always have to end in violence?" Kendall shrugged slowly walking Carlos to the passenger side of Logan's car.
"I'm a hockey player. I only know violence." I smirked wrapping around Logan and kissed the top of his head. While Kendall and Carlos made out against the open door of the car, Logan and I hugged.
"Hey your still not thinking about…what we talked about last night are you?" I closed my eyes shaking my head softly. "Because I just want you to know, if someone, anyone, were to ever do something to me, say something to me, to hurt me, or make me uncomfortable, you are the first person I would go to." I nodded again pulling him in closer to me. Just as I opened my mouth to tell him I trusted him, his phone went off. He pushed away just a little and pulled it out answering fast, looking up at me. "Hello?" He smiled at me, but it faded fast. "He's what?" We separated completely him walking to his car still looking at me. "Wait, why are the cops there?" I caught eyes with Kendall who seemed to grab ahold of Carlos and hold onto him tight. Carlos sighed, turned and kissed the side of his mouth.
"I love you. I'll let you know how it's going on my break. Please don't get ugly furniture and feed James. He looks sick. This sounds important, so we should probably get going." I held the door open for Logan as he got in, listening intently. I bent down carefully and kissed his temple before standing up, and closing his door. He held the phone between his shoulder and ear and smiled big at me, mouthing sorry, pulling on his seatbelt. I heard Carlos's door also close and stepped back as Logan backed out of the driveway handing his phone over to Carlos, talking still. Kendall and I stood next to each other and waved as they drove off and disappeared. We even stayed standing there, after they had left, for almost 5 minutes, before I turned to Kendall and shook my head.
"Logan doesn't find anything wrong with Louis having pictures of him. He also doesn't want me worrying about it, because I should trust him to come to me if something happens." He chuckled and glanced up at the ceiling sighing out.
"Well if it makes you feel any better, I had to work my ass off trying to make Carlos feel better last night. I literally told him working for Louis would be great and an amazing opportunity. I pulled my bullshit line that anything he doe sis perfect, but I wanted so hard to show the pictures to Carlos and tell him exactly what kind of man he's working for. But I didn't. And to top it all off I tried to bring up the fact that we haven't had sex in weeks, and he shut me down. Again. I swear to God if I don't find a fucking release I'm fucking the next thing that walks by." I turned away from him fast and tried to wrap my head around everything he said as best as I could. "Shit sorry dude…you wanna get some food before we do anything, and talk about the fact the love of our lives are working for a psychotic asshole?" I laughed and nodded pulling my hood. "Alright…let me lock the house up. And then you got to help me figure out how to get in Carlos's pants because if I can't I'm getting in yours." I turned quick to look at him but he had his back turned to me and was walking to the door. "I'm just fucking with your head Diamond…take it easy."