Logan returned home to find James and Kendall missing with Carlos in the basement playing a snowboarding game on the Wii using the balance board. Both Carlos and James had been visibly upset when they first discovered that Griffin's video game system of choice was not an Xbox or a Playstation, but rather a Wii, which they declared was sort of the girl of the video game world. But, then, Carlos found this game and was instantly obsessed.
Logan made it down the stairs in time to witness Carlos crash and burn on the board, falling flat on his back. Naturally, he was wearing his helmet so he wasn't hurt.
"Co-oo-ol."
Logan laughed.
"My highest score yet," Carlos announced sitting up. "You wanna try?"
"Sure." Like the other guys Logan liked playing video games. He just wasn't as obsessed with them as Carlos or as competitive as James. However, they'd been in Aspen for a week and a half and he had yet to try his hand at Carlos's new favorite.
"OK," Carlos stood up and handed the Wiimote to Logan, "you have to hold this while standing on this." He demonstrated. "And then you just—" he wiggled his body. "It's kind of hard to explain."
Logan threw his baseball cap onto the small couch behind him. He now had major hat hair but he wasn't James so he didn't care.
"How was school?" Carlos asked as if he was taking bad tasting medicine. Logan had gotten situated on the board and was now taking a practice run down the slopes.
"I met this rabid fan who claims she has a sister who's 'my biggest fan' but she knew way too much about me. I—oops." His Mii fell flat on his face. "I never thought about how us being celebrities would affect us out in the real world, you know, outside of Hollywood and our confined world of touring. OK, I am so not getting the hang of this," he finished as his Mii fell down again.
"Talk less play more."
"Hey, you're the one who asked the question!"
"I was just being polite," Carlos admitted.
Logan smiled. He could have been hurt by the statement that Carlos didn't care about his day, but he knew Carlos. Carlos cared, but when it came to school…well, many times he'd seen Carlos's eyes gloss over at the mere mention of the word.
"And how was your day?" Logan bit back still wearing his smile.
"Fine. I didn't go to school."
Logan stepped off the Wii board and glanced around the room. It was a pretty big room and yet didn't cover half of what the basement was. The room contained a couch, the television, the Wii, a refrigerator, a wet bar, a stereo, a foosball table, a pool table, dome hockey, and two chairs set up by the pool table.
"You done?" Carlos quickly asked. Without waiting for a response he took the Wiimote out of Logan's hand and stepped back up on the board.
"Hey, I need the practice!" Logan pretended to whine.
"I need to beat my high score," Carlos replied seriously.
Logan chuckled softly. To say Carlos was obsessed with this game was putting it mildly.
I told you I'd update even if I got zero reviews. :p I hope you like the story. It's not got much going on right now, but there will be some drama and some shall I say, whumpage (I never heard that term until I started reading BTR fics and I guess what I'm going to do isn't excessive…well, I'll let y'all be the judge of that), but that's all I'm going to say because I hate spoiling stories.
Just a small filler chapter, but those are necessary to advance stories.