Hey all! I've been gone for what, a month? It's been way too long indeed. I hope you guys are all still at least mildly interested in my story still. Unfortunately not too much else happens after this chapter. Its going to end soon. Oh well...Enjoy!

The tension in the room had grown from simply awkward to nearly unbearable.

"Somebody say something!" James exclaimed, flailing his arms. "This is killing me! We are four best friends from Minnesota and we can't even figure out how to start a conversation? This is pathetic. Carlos, what is going on?" His voice was steady but there was a rapid rise and fall of his chest that betrayed his frustration.

"Well...LOGAN!" Carlos cried, shoving the other boy in front of him. "You're better at explaining things, why don't you take point?"

Logan rolled his eyes and groaned. "I gotta get new friends," he muttered.

"James, I suppose Kendall has already filled you in on what happened to you when you collapsed?" James nodded.

"Good, then we don't have too much to explain then," Logan said with a grin.

"Meaning..." James said expectantly.

"That nothing really happened other than," Logan's voice trailed off and nobody understood what he said.

"Eh?" Carlos, Kendall and James all said in unison.

"Car...I...t toge..." He mumbled again.

"Logan, SPEAK UP!" The trio shouted.

"Carlos and I got together!" Logan exclaimed in fright.

The room suddenly got so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

James shifted in the bed and Kendall nearly fell off. "Careful, James," he muttered.

Carlos slid closer to Logan and they all just stared at each other for a few moments before Kendall finally said something.

"Okay then, so, we're all gay?" he asked, shrugging with his hands in the air.

The other three choked and began spluttering nonsense at him.

"KENDALL!" They managed to spit out.

"What?" he replied looking utterly baffled and completely innocent.

"It's just...not something we were expecting, that's all," Logan said still alarmed but slightly calmer now that he was finally able to come up with a logical explanation for the situation.

"Yeah, I get it, it's weird, it's new, it's uncomfortable, but are we all at least happy?" Kendall asked, looking around at all the boys.

They all exchanged glances, nodding assuredly.

"Then what is the big deal? If we are happy then there shouldn't be a problem," he said with finality in his voice.

"I love it when you make light of a situation," James said in a sappy voice.

Logan looked thoroughly disgusted and Carlos just smiled.

"They are kinda cute together, don't you think?" he asked Logan, tugging on the other boy's arm gently.

"If by 'cute' you mean 'cute' in a way that makes me want to hurl my guts, then yes, I couldn't agree more," Logan sneered.

Carlos looked hurt. "What, I thought we were, you know, together, is there something wrong with being, um, gay?"

Logan's face immediately morphed into one that was apologetic. "Oh, no, Carlos, I just mean that it's going to take me some getting used to, seeing the two of them together. We are together, I want to be together," he whispered, kissing Carlos' hand. "That is, if that's all right with you," he asked in a low voice.

"Y-yeah, I do," Carlos replied in a shaky voice. Logan's seductive voice and suggestive glances were making him go weak in the knees and both James and Kendall could see this.

Kendall shot a questioning look at James and received a nod in response.

"Guys, we have one last little problem!" Kendall announced loudly before Carlos and Logan started doing something that was not smiled upon by society in public.

Three heads snapped to attention.

"Hmm? And what would our 'last little problem' be?" Logan asked, mildly curious. He shifted in his stance, slightly unnerved. Carlos reached an arm around his shoulders protectively and James smiled from his spot on the bed at his two friends.

"Kelly and Gustavo don't need to know about our 'situations', but what the hell are we going to do about my mother?" At the utterance of the word 'mother' every single boy flinched.

Truly, they were now in a fix. They all lived in the same apartment with two women. (Even though Katie was technically still a girl, they all just thought of her as 'all grown up because of how mature she acts.) What were they to do? They couldn't hide it forever, especially not from the others that lived in the hotel with them.

The four of them puzzled over their dilemma for a few moments before Carlos snapped his fingers and broke into a wide grin.

"I know!" he exclaimed excitedly.

"What?" James said, mirroring his excitement.

"We should tell them the truth!"

"Are you nuts?" Kendall, James and Logan cried all at once.

Carlos looked a bit fearful.

"Wha...why not? It's the easiest solution," he replied sheepishly.

Logan sighed and ran his fingers through his hair in frustration as he glanced to Kendall in search of assistance.

"Carlos, we all know that you mean well for us, but telling my mother the truth would be detrimental to our well beings!"

"Yeah, if you want to have a depressed mother on your hands and one that would also might want to rip your head off, I really don't know which, then by all means, tell her about you and Logan, but Kendall and I will think of something else," James said, shaking his head.

Carlos looked rejected. "Well, it's not like you guys were coming up with anything," he muttered bitterly.

Kendall looked thoughtful for a moment before Logan began voicing the reasoning.

"I suppose, it would just get it out of the way for us and save us a lot of trouble and them a lot of needless guessing. It would also make it easier on us, to be living with them when they don't know about our situation, rather than living with them when they don't know," he shrugged.

The boys hmmed respectfully.

"All righty then, so if we are going to be doing this upfront and personal, we might as well make it good, but nothing that is going send her right where I am, okay?"

"Meaning what exactly?" Carlos asked, genuinely confused.

"I mean, we don't want to do anything too dramatic that could seriously affect Mrs. Knight's health that would cause her to have a heart attack or faint, understand now?" James asked again, flourishing his hands.

Carlos nodded, his mouth in a small 'O'. Logan rubbed the small of his back sympathetically as he thought for a moment.

"What if, we cooked her a nice meal, then talked about it over dinner?" he suggested.

"Sensible, reasonable, and completely safe! Let's just make it an easy food to eat, you know, one that isn't easy to choke on?" Kendall said.

"Jell-o?" James suggested.

"That could work," Logan said thoughtfully. "When are they going to let you come home?" he asked James after a moment.

"I'm not quite sure," James said, frowning.

"They said within 24 hours they would release you," Kendall said softly, gazing into James' eyes.

They smiled briefly at each other and turned back to their friends.

"Then I guess it's settled!" Carlos exclaimed. "We'll plan everything out here, then we will have Logan drive us to a supermarket to buy everything, Kendall will get his mom out of the house for a few hours while we prepare everything, then they will both go to get James and it will all just fall into place from there!"

James, Logan and Kendall all just stared.

"What?" Carlos asked, bemused by their faces.

"Nothing, Carlos. I think we are all just a bit...impressed at what you just said. It had nothing ridiculous in it and it actually made perfect sense. It was fantastic, really," Logan said with love and admiration shining in his voice.

Carlos beamed and received a light peck on the cheek.

"See? I'm not THAT stupid," he laughed.

James smiled at their relationship and was nonchalantly reminded of his own by a light squeeze of the hand from Kendall.

"Great, then it's all settled then?" Logan asked the troupe.

The boys exchanged nods and set to work on everything they would need for the morrow.

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