Fic Post: Fever - Chapter 2
Title: Fever
Author: songoffate
Fandom: Zoey 101
Pairings: Chase/Logan, Michael/Lisa, Quinn/Lola, Zoey/OC(Simon)
Rating: M..ish. But that comes later.
Hello darlings! Here is chapter two if anyone other then my little Macks is paying attention, lol. I’m sorry it took so long!! I’m a friggin bold-faced liar because obviously this wasn’t out within the week like I’d said before. *fail*
Two
By the time they were done decorating the common room to Quinn’s liking (that girl was a freaking slave driver) Logan was seriously considering just going back to his own room and sleeping for the rest of forever. He had no qualms about that at this point. Collapsing on one of the couches in the middle of the room, Logan groaned tiredly.
“Please, someone tell me we’re done.” He half whined, half begged. Michael sat down next to him, propping his feet up on the table and slumping down looking just as exhausted.
“I don’t care if we are or not. I’m done.”
Quinn stood in front of them with her hands on her hips glaring disapprovingly. “You two are such babies! It didn’t even take us that long!”
Logan and Michael looked at her like she was crazy. Cuz, ya know, she was. Logan rolled his eyes. “Uh, yeah. Because you worked us NONSTOP for three hours!” She huffed at him dismissively, curling up in one of the chairs across from them.
“Oh wah wah. I’m sorry your highness was that a little too much physical labor for you?” She snarked, but raised her eyebrow playfully.
Michael snorted loudly and tried to hide his chuckles behind his hand, Traitor, as Logan glared dangerously at him and Quinn in turn. Crossing his arms he leaned back into the couch, unknowingly looking every bit the petulant child.
“I hate you both.”
His friends grinned at him in unison, “Liar.”
Chase chose that moment to come waltzing in, smiling at them all in that way that tried to say he was in a good mood but something was secretly bothering him. Yeah, Logan knew him well enough to know that look. It also helped that Chase was just easy to read. Quinn jumped up to greet him, twirling in place with her arms spread wide.
“Soo what do you think?” She asked, obviously proud of ‘her’ handy work. Logan wished she was a guy; cuz he kind of wanted to hit her.
Chase laughed and tilted his head, impressed. “Looks good guys. And you got it done so fast too! Looks like I didn’t have to come back and help after all.” Logan and Michael groaned together.
“You could have gotten here sooner man.” Michael propped his arm on the arm of the couch and rested his head on it. Logan tried to curl up on the other side, and keep his eyes from drooping shut at random intervals. The little bit of sleep he had gotten hadn’t come easy to him last night and he was tired dammit.
“They don’t have the stamina to do any type of actual work.” He heard Quinn tell Chase and he opened his eyes to glare at her again then look at his other friend who just chuckled.
“Yeah. This whole lightning-fast-decorating-scenario? Was only possible because Mike and I were whipped around like servants the whole time.”
Quinn rolled her eyes. “Oh my god. Quit complaining!”
“What? It’s true!”
“Yo. Okay.” Chase hearing the rise in Logan’s voice, held up his hands. “I’m gonna stop this before it starts. Quinn, Zo wants you and Lola to meet her at the airport in twenty. Michael, you and Logan can come help me bring in the rest of the food and stuff--”
Quinn looked confused but got up anyway. “I thought she wanted to meet Simon by herself first?”
Chase blinked at her interruption but shrugged his shoulders in what he probably thought was a bored fashion. “She’s probably just nervous.”
Michael leaned forward from his seat to look at him. “…Well then why didn’t you go with her?” Logan glared at his friend incredulously and punched him hard in the arm. He only glared harder at Mike’s offended squawk and shot his gaze to Chase and back quickly, raising his eyebrows and silently asking ‘are you seriously that dumb?!’.
“She says she needs ‘girly’ support. She‘s kind of freaking out over there apparently.” Chase chuckled, but Logan’s eyes narrowed slightly at the forced smile he gave them.
Quinn started bouncing around again with a giddy smile on her face. “Well in that case I’m leaving now!” she chirped and whipped her phone out of her pocket before any of the guys could blink to call Lola. With a quick wave and another smile she bolted out of the common room, they could hear her chattering to their friend until she exited the building. If someone in PCA didn’t know about Zoey’s new foreign boyfriend, they sure as hell did now.
Michael sighed but clapped his hands loudly as if he was motivating himself to move. “Stuff in your car?” Chase nodded.
“Yep.”
Michael sighed again then headed out after Quinn to the parking lot. Chase went to follow, but Logan smacked his shoulder to get his attention. His bushy-haired roommate lifted an eyebrow at him and smirked lightly but back around to face him. “You can’t seriously still be mad that I woke you up. You love parties.”
Logan ignored him for once, voice sincere in his question. “Are you gonna be okay?”
Chase froze but his smirk fell, but only slightly. “What? Of course I’m okay. There’s nothing going on to be okay about.” He tried faking another chuckle but this one was even worse then the last. Did Chase seriously think he didn’t know the difference? Or was he just that desperate for the subject to drop? Logan would have been offended if he wasn’t so sure it was the latter.
Logan shot him a disbelieving look and Chase matched it with a stubborn glare that didn’t echo the half-smile he was trying to keep in place. They stared at each other like that for an entire minute before Chase conceded with a sigh, his entire body sagging and his face falling in defeat.
“It’s just that…I can’t help but feel a little bit replaced, ya know?”
“Chase, dude,” Logan’s face turned sympathetic. “ it’s been months now. Girls get new boyfriends. It happens.”
Chase shook his head. “No, see, I get that. I’m fine with it. But it’s like she doesn’t even really want me around anymore. I’m fine with her having a boyfriend--”
Logan’s lips tilted skeptically and his eyebrows raised.
“Well, as fine as I can be.” he amended sheepishly. “Considering she’s like using this guy as an excuse to just not talk to me. God. We were supposed to stay friends dammit! She said that this wasn’t going to change anything!”
“Of course she said that!” Logan growled, already frustrated. He hadn’t meant to get that way. He had really gone into this with every intention of playing the considerate friend, but this constant agonizing over Zoey just needed to stop. “ More than likely she wanted to get out of talking to you about it as soon as she could. Girls always whine that they wanna talk, and if you don’t then they whine some more. But if they don’t, they just lie.”
Chase glared at him again. “And what makes you such an expert on Zoey?” Logan huffed and shot his friend a cocky grin.
“I’m Logan Reese, dude. Girls have been my profession for as long as I’ve been alive. And Zoey, last time I checked, was a girl.” His grin widened at the twitch in the corners of Chase’s eyes showed he was trying hard not to roll them. “ Plus, I’ve known her just as long as you have. Difference is, I can read her better because I wasn’t ever as freakishly infatuated as you were.”
Chase couldn’t help but laugh at that and Logan considered that a win. “Freakishly infatuated? You’re on a roll today aren’t you?” Logan shrugged, unashamed and shot him another grin.
“Don’t hate.” he chuckled.
Chase huffed at him. “I’m not.”
“Lies.”
“Says who?”
“I do.”
“Annddd??”
“Aaaaannddddddddddd.” Logan drawled, eyes sparkling, “I win.”
Chase huffed again but a chuckle escaped his lips anyway and Logan felt extremely proud of himself as he noticed that the frown lines on his friends for head seemed to have faded. Good. He thought. Mission accomplished.
Logan smirked at him while Chase grinned back and wondered how this whole exchange managed to actually make him feel better.
“So I guess I’m being kind of an idiot, huh?” Chase asked.
“Kind of.” Logan returned, shrugging. “ But it happens. And you in particular happen to get extremely stupid when it comes to her.”
“Ouch.” Chase pouted, a hand held up to his heart. “That hurts Logan. Right here.”
Logan just rolled his eyes and clapped his friend on the back in a ‘manly’ way to counteract all the fuzzy girly emotional talk. He could feel the estrogen rising.
Chase exhaled loudly but drew up straight at flashed Logan a quick grin before knocking shoulders with him as he passed. “C’mon then. Don’t think just because you can talk me out of a funk doesn’t mean you can talk your way out of helping carry the rest of this crap in.” Logan didn’t miss the gratitude that laced the words and the little smile Chase threw over his shoulder before he took off just confirmed the obvious. He knew that was as much of a ‘thank you’ as he was gonna get from the guy, but he didn’t mind. It wasn’t like he was going to ask for it in the first place.
Logan sighed, looking completely put-upon and called out. “Geez. Ungrateful much? After all I do for you…?!”
“I don’t wanna hear iiiiittt.” Chase sung, his voice echoing down the hallway. Logan grinned to himself and took off after him. He didn’t have to see Chase’s face to know he was smiling again and that in itself was another victory to Logan.
He knew he didn’t look the type, hell, he didn’t act the type. But he honestly did love his friends. He just had a really hard time showing it without looking like a total idiot, but in the end Logan just wanted them all to be happy. That was the reason he was trying so hard to get Chase back to normal.
Even though, Logan thought as he met Michael and Chase outside, he would never tell any of his friends that on pain of death it, didn’t make it any less true.
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By 8:25pm, the event was in full swing.
And it fuckin’ rocked.
Somehow Lola had managed to get a hold of two multi-colored strobe lights and one regular one, the flashing effects jumbling people’s visions and amping up the adrenaline, making everyone hyper and loose(though that could also be due to the fact that he knew someone spiked the drinks). People were dancing close together in a carefree, easy manner to the music pounding through the surround sound system that Quinn had put together for the occasion. Logan wasn’t quite sure what kind of scheme the girls and Dustin pulled to make sure the teachers stayed away, but he was going to enjoy the benefits of it for as long as it lasted.
I’ve really gotta hand it to Zo’. He thought, smirking coyly at Cami Mason as she passed by with a flirtatious wave. She definitely knows how to throw a party.
“Logan!”
Logan turned at the slightly drowned out call of his name and plastered a smile on his face when he realized who it was. Speak of the devil.
“Hey Zoey..” He lifted his hand in greeting, raising his eyebrow in speculation at the tall, smiling guy who’s arm the blond girl had clutched in her grip. This must be the new boyfriend. Logan nodded at him, taking in the blond hair, lean frame(hardly any actual muscle tone from what he could tell) and light, slightly dazed looking brown eyes that didn’t look much of anywhere but at Zoey. He couldn’t tell if that was because he didn’t want to lose her in this crowd of foreign strangers or if he was just seriously that into her. Either way, ew.
“Logan I’m so glad I found you.” She gushed, face red from running around all night and possibly from the guy she was currently clinging to. Logan heaved an internal sigh. At least she looked happy. He just didn’t want her in her newfound happiness treating Chase, or the rest of them for that matter, like crap because of it.
“No you weren’t.” He grinned, more a baring of teeth than anything. “You just couldn’t find anyone else at the moment.”
Logan couldn’t tell for sure in the flashing lights but it looked like she blushed at that. He knew it was true anyway. “Well I….no. I wanted to introduce you to Simon.”
This seemed to jar the Polish kid(or at least Logan thought he was Polish) out of his stupor and he looked at Logan with a wide cheesy grin, holding out his hand for Logan to shake.
“Hello.” He greeted when Logan took the offered hand and shook it quickly. He noticed ’Simon’ didn’t really have much of an accent. Maybe he was in the States often, which could explain how Zoey met him in the first place. “Logan, right? I’m Simon.”
Logan glanced at Zoey who just beamed at him like ‘oh my god isn’t he just the cutest thing ever?!’ He wanted to gag. Michael, Quinn….somebody please save me from the freaking sap! I think I’m gonna drown in it!
“Yeah…I’m Logan Reese. Nice to meet you dude.” Well nobody could say that Logan’s momma didn’t burn some manners into him. Or that he was a horrible actor. Because right now, he was damn proud of his ability to keep talking to this guy and his over-the-moon, stars-in-her-eyes friend and keep a straight face at the same time.
Simon didn’t strike him to be a very perceptive person, which would explain why he didn’t seem to get that Logan wanted to be as far away as humanly possible right now. “Oh yes! You too! Zoey here has told me all about you and the rest of your friends.” He looked down at said girl with an affectionate smile who returned it.
Logan chuckled uncomfortably, “Yeahhh. We, uh, we have some great times together..”
“I can’t believe you are all still allowed to be in the school after some of the stunts you’ve pulled!” Simon continued, face twisted with amusement and disbelief. Logan raised an eyebrow and wondered just what exactly Zoey had told him.
Logan opened his mouth to reluctantly reply when an arm flung itself around his shoulders. “Dude! I’ve been looking for you!” Thank God for Michael.
Logan smirked, comfortable again with another sane person in his vicinity. “ Seems like a lot of people are tonight, not that I can blame ‘em. I’m well aware of how irresistible I am.”
Michael rolled his eyes and a feminine scoff followed it. Logan peered around Mike’s arm.
“Lisa!” Logan grinned, genuinely happy to see the girl. And she looked really good tonight, he had to say. Hair in loose curls, a simple black, tight, v-necked top with a matching skirt that reached to just above her knees. She really didn’t need a whole lot of accessories or flashy clothes to show off her looks. Her feet were bare, shoes probably abandoned somewhere like they always were when she danced. She hated shoes, Mike told him by way of explanation when he‘d asked.
Zoey and her foreign boy toy currently forgotten, he ducked under his friends arm and accepted the hug that was waiting for him. She giggled and lightly smacked his shoulder when he picked her up. He chuckled back and set her down with a grin. “So Lis’ when are you gonna ditch P.Diddy over here and run away with me?”
Lisa leaned close and stage whispered. “My bags are packed, we’ll leave tonight.” Logan laughed again. This joke between them didn’t get old. And neither did Michael’s reaction. Even though he knew that not only was Logan not into Lisa in the first place, but that he wouldn’t even think of touching her because she was Mike’s girl, Mike still tended to get freaked out at the thought.
“Alright alright you two ENOUGH.” He half-growled, but it was sort of ruined by the petulant pout he was displaying.
Lisa and Logan shared a grin and she leaned up to kiss Mike’s cheek, effectively melting his pout. “You know I only love you baby.”
Satisfied, Michael grinned back at her, arm coming up to wrap possessively around her waist. She seemed to like that and snuggled closer to his side. Logan could only shake his head and smile to himself. There wasn’t a single girlfriend that Mike had ever had that could compare to Lisa. He definitely approved.
“Mike, Lisa!” Zoey finally broke in, grin looking tight and fake. “You haven’t met Simon either have you?” Apparently she didn’t like being ignored. And Logan almost laughed when Simon tried a second to late to turn his frown into a smile. Psh. Caught you dude.
Mike and Lisa turned as one, and Logan could almost feel the envy rising off the new couple. Logan could kind of understand that. Their relationship was what most people would dream of, but Logan had the distinct feeling that Zoey and Simon weren’t anywhere near as strong as they were.
Mike looked at him questioningly out of the corner of his eye as Lisa took the reigns in the conversation. Logan shrugged and shot him a semi-guilty smile that made Mike roll his eyes again and wave his hand dismissively in a ‘Yeah, yeah. We’ve got this.‘ gesture.
Sorry Mikey. It’s your turn. Logan thought, though he was grateful to be out of there and knew he totally owed Mike later.
But until then, he was off to enjoy himself.
Author: songoffate
Fandom: Zoey 101
Pairings: Chase/Logan, Michael/Lisa, Quinn/Lola, Zoey/OC(Simon)
Rating: M..ish. But that comes later.
Hello darlings! Here is chapter two if anyone other then my little Macks is paying attention, lol. I’m sorry it took so long!! I’m a friggin bold-faced liar because obviously this wasn’t out within the week like I’d said before. *fail*
Two
By the time they were done decorating the common room to Quinn’s liking (that girl was a freaking slave driver) Logan was seriously considering just going back to his own room and sleeping for the rest of forever. He had no qualms about that at this point. Collapsing on one of the couches in the middle of the room, Logan groaned tiredly.
“Please, someone tell me we’re done.” He half whined, half begged. Michael sat down next to him, propping his feet up on the table and slumping down looking just as exhausted.
“I don’t care if we are or not. I’m done.”
Quinn stood in front of them with her hands on her hips glaring disapprovingly. “You two are such babies! It didn’t even take us that long!”
Logan and Michael looked at her like she was crazy. Cuz, ya know, she was. Logan rolled his eyes. “Uh, yeah. Because you worked us NONSTOP for three hours!” She huffed at him dismissively, curling up in one of the chairs across from them.
“Oh wah wah. I’m sorry your highness was that a little too much physical labor for you?” She snarked, but raised her eyebrow playfully.
Michael snorted loudly and tried to hide his chuckles behind his hand, Traitor, as Logan glared dangerously at him and Quinn in turn. Crossing his arms he leaned back into the couch, unknowingly looking every bit the petulant child.
“I hate you both.”
His friends grinned at him in unison, “Liar.”
Chase chose that moment to come waltzing in, smiling at them all in that way that tried to say he was in a good mood but something was secretly bothering him. Yeah, Logan knew him well enough to know that look. It also helped that Chase was just easy to read. Quinn jumped up to greet him, twirling in place with her arms spread wide.
“Soo what do you think?” She asked, obviously proud of ‘her’ handy work. Logan wished she was a guy; cuz he kind of wanted to hit her.
Chase laughed and tilted his head, impressed. “Looks good guys. And you got it done so fast too! Looks like I didn’t have to come back and help after all.” Logan and Michael groaned together.
“You could have gotten here sooner man.” Michael propped his arm on the arm of the couch and rested his head on it. Logan tried to curl up on the other side, and keep his eyes from drooping shut at random intervals. The little bit of sleep he had gotten hadn’t come easy to him last night and he was tired dammit.
“They don’t have the stamina to do any type of actual work.” He heard Quinn tell Chase and he opened his eyes to glare at her again then look at his other friend who just chuckled.
“Yeah. This whole lightning-fast-decorating-scenario? Was only possible because Mike and I were whipped around like servants the whole time.”
Quinn rolled her eyes. “Oh my god. Quit complaining!”
“What? It’s true!”
“Yo. Okay.” Chase hearing the rise in Logan’s voice, held up his hands. “I’m gonna stop this before it starts. Quinn, Zo wants you and Lola to meet her at the airport in twenty. Michael, you and Logan can come help me bring in the rest of the food and stuff--”
Quinn looked confused but got up anyway. “I thought she wanted to meet Simon by herself first?”
Chase blinked at her interruption but shrugged his shoulders in what he probably thought was a bored fashion. “She’s probably just nervous.”
Michael leaned forward from his seat to look at him. “…Well then why didn’t you go with her?” Logan glared at his friend incredulously and punched him hard in the arm. He only glared harder at Mike’s offended squawk and shot his gaze to Chase and back quickly, raising his eyebrows and silently asking ‘are you seriously that dumb?!’.
“She says she needs ‘girly’ support. She‘s kind of freaking out over there apparently.” Chase chuckled, but Logan’s eyes narrowed slightly at the forced smile he gave them.
Quinn started bouncing around again with a giddy smile on her face. “Well in that case I’m leaving now!” she chirped and whipped her phone out of her pocket before any of the guys could blink to call Lola. With a quick wave and another smile she bolted out of the common room, they could hear her chattering to their friend until she exited the building. If someone in PCA didn’t know about Zoey’s new foreign boyfriend, they sure as hell did now.
Michael sighed but clapped his hands loudly as if he was motivating himself to move. “Stuff in your car?” Chase nodded.
“Yep.”
Michael sighed again then headed out after Quinn to the parking lot. Chase went to follow, but Logan smacked his shoulder to get his attention. His bushy-haired roommate lifted an eyebrow at him and smirked lightly but back around to face him. “You can’t seriously still be mad that I woke you up. You love parties.”
Logan ignored him for once, voice sincere in his question. “Are you gonna be okay?”
Chase froze but his smirk fell, but only slightly. “What? Of course I’m okay. There’s nothing going on to be okay about.” He tried faking another chuckle but this one was even worse then the last. Did Chase seriously think he didn’t know the difference? Or was he just that desperate for the subject to drop? Logan would have been offended if he wasn’t so sure it was the latter.
Logan shot him a disbelieving look and Chase matched it with a stubborn glare that didn’t echo the half-smile he was trying to keep in place. They stared at each other like that for an entire minute before Chase conceded with a sigh, his entire body sagging and his face falling in defeat.
“It’s just that…I can’t help but feel a little bit replaced, ya know?”
“Chase, dude,” Logan’s face turned sympathetic. “ it’s been months now. Girls get new boyfriends. It happens.”
Chase shook his head. “No, see, I get that. I’m fine with it. But it’s like she doesn’t even really want me around anymore. I’m fine with her having a boyfriend--”
Logan’s lips tilted skeptically and his eyebrows raised.
“Well, as fine as I can be.” he amended sheepishly. “Considering she’s like using this guy as an excuse to just not talk to me. God. We were supposed to stay friends dammit! She said that this wasn’t going to change anything!”
“Of course she said that!” Logan growled, already frustrated. He hadn’t meant to get that way. He had really gone into this with every intention of playing the considerate friend, but this constant agonizing over Zoey just needed to stop. “ More than likely she wanted to get out of talking to you about it as soon as she could. Girls always whine that they wanna talk, and if you don’t then they whine some more. But if they don’t, they just lie.”
Chase glared at him again. “And what makes you such an expert on Zoey?” Logan huffed and shot his friend a cocky grin.
“I’m Logan Reese, dude. Girls have been my profession for as long as I’ve been alive. And Zoey, last time I checked, was a girl.” His grin widened at the twitch in the corners of Chase’s eyes showed he was trying hard not to roll them. “ Plus, I’ve known her just as long as you have. Difference is, I can read her better because I wasn’t ever as freakishly infatuated as you were.”
Chase couldn’t help but laugh at that and Logan considered that a win. “Freakishly infatuated? You’re on a roll today aren’t you?” Logan shrugged, unashamed and shot him another grin.
“Don’t hate.” he chuckled.
Chase huffed at him. “I’m not.”
“Lies.”
“Says who?”
“I do.”
“Annddd??”
“Aaaaannddddddddddd.” Logan drawled, eyes sparkling, “I win.”
Chase huffed again but a chuckle escaped his lips anyway and Logan felt extremely proud of himself as he noticed that the frown lines on his friends for head seemed to have faded. Good. He thought. Mission accomplished.
Logan smirked at him while Chase grinned back and wondered how this whole exchange managed to actually make him feel better.
“So I guess I’m being kind of an idiot, huh?” Chase asked.
“Kind of.” Logan returned, shrugging. “ But it happens. And you in particular happen to get extremely stupid when it comes to her.”
“Ouch.” Chase pouted, a hand held up to his heart. “That hurts Logan. Right here.”
Logan just rolled his eyes and clapped his friend on the back in a ‘manly’ way to counteract all the fuzzy girly emotional talk. He could feel the estrogen rising.
Chase exhaled loudly but drew up straight at flashed Logan a quick grin before knocking shoulders with him as he passed. “C’mon then. Don’t think just because you can talk me out of a funk doesn’t mean you can talk your way out of helping carry the rest of this crap in.” Logan didn’t miss the gratitude that laced the words and the little smile Chase threw over his shoulder before he took off just confirmed the obvious. He knew that was as much of a ‘thank you’ as he was gonna get from the guy, but he didn’t mind. It wasn’t like he was going to ask for it in the first place.
Logan sighed, looking completely put-upon and called out. “Geez. Ungrateful much? After all I do for you…?!”
“I don’t wanna hear iiiiittt.” Chase sung, his voice echoing down the hallway. Logan grinned to himself and took off after him. He didn’t have to see Chase’s face to know he was smiling again and that in itself was another victory to Logan.
He knew he didn’t look the type, hell, he didn’t act the type. But he honestly did love his friends. He just had a really hard time showing it without looking like a total idiot, but in the end Logan just wanted them all to be happy. That was the reason he was trying so hard to get Chase back to normal.
Even though, Logan thought as he met Michael and Chase outside, he would never tell any of his friends that on pain of death it, didn’t make it any less true.
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By 8:25pm, the event was in full swing.
And it fuckin’ rocked.
Somehow Lola had managed to get a hold of two multi-colored strobe lights and one regular one, the flashing effects jumbling people’s visions and amping up the adrenaline, making everyone hyper and loose(though that could also be due to the fact that he knew someone spiked the drinks). People were dancing close together in a carefree, easy manner to the music pounding through the surround sound system that Quinn had put together for the occasion. Logan wasn’t quite sure what kind of scheme the girls and Dustin pulled to make sure the teachers stayed away, but he was going to enjoy the benefits of it for as long as it lasted.
I’ve really gotta hand it to Zo’. He thought, smirking coyly at Cami Mason as she passed by with a flirtatious wave. She definitely knows how to throw a party.
“Logan!”
Logan turned at the slightly drowned out call of his name and plastered a smile on his face when he realized who it was. Speak of the devil.
“Hey Zoey..” He lifted his hand in greeting, raising his eyebrow in speculation at the tall, smiling guy who’s arm the blond girl had clutched in her grip. This must be the new boyfriend. Logan nodded at him, taking in the blond hair, lean frame(hardly any actual muscle tone from what he could tell) and light, slightly dazed looking brown eyes that didn’t look much of anywhere but at Zoey. He couldn’t tell if that was because he didn’t want to lose her in this crowd of foreign strangers or if he was just seriously that into her. Either way, ew.
“Logan I’m so glad I found you.” She gushed, face red from running around all night and possibly from the guy she was currently clinging to. Logan heaved an internal sigh. At least she looked happy. He just didn’t want her in her newfound happiness treating Chase, or the rest of them for that matter, like crap because of it.
“No you weren’t.” He grinned, more a baring of teeth than anything. “You just couldn’t find anyone else at the moment.”
Logan couldn’t tell for sure in the flashing lights but it looked like she blushed at that. He knew it was true anyway. “Well I….no. I wanted to introduce you to Simon.”
This seemed to jar the Polish kid(or at least Logan thought he was Polish) out of his stupor and he looked at Logan with a wide cheesy grin, holding out his hand for Logan to shake.
“Hello.” He greeted when Logan took the offered hand and shook it quickly. He noticed ’Simon’ didn’t really have much of an accent. Maybe he was in the States often, which could explain how Zoey met him in the first place. “Logan, right? I’m Simon.”
Logan glanced at Zoey who just beamed at him like ‘oh my god isn’t he just the cutest thing ever?!’ He wanted to gag. Michael, Quinn….somebody please save me from the freaking sap! I think I’m gonna drown in it!
“Yeah…I’m Logan Reese. Nice to meet you dude.” Well nobody could say that Logan’s momma didn’t burn some manners into him. Or that he was a horrible actor. Because right now, he was damn proud of his ability to keep talking to this guy and his over-the-moon, stars-in-her-eyes friend and keep a straight face at the same time.
Simon didn’t strike him to be a very perceptive person, which would explain why he didn’t seem to get that Logan wanted to be as far away as humanly possible right now. “Oh yes! You too! Zoey here has told me all about you and the rest of your friends.” He looked down at said girl with an affectionate smile who returned it.
Logan chuckled uncomfortably, “Yeahhh. We, uh, we have some great times together..”
“I can’t believe you are all still allowed to be in the school after some of the stunts you’ve pulled!” Simon continued, face twisted with amusement and disbelief. Logan raised an eyebrow and wondered just what exactly Zoey had told him.
Logan opened his mouth to reluctantly reply when an arm flung itself around his shoulders. “Dude! I’ve been looking for you!” Thank God for Michael.
Logan smirked, comfortable again with another sane person in his vicinity. “ Seems like a lot of people are tonight, not that I can blame ‘em. I’m well aware of how irresistible I am.”
Michael rolled his eyes and a feminine scoff followed it. Logan peered around Mike’s arm.
“Lisa!” Logan grinned, genuinely happy to see the girl. And she looked really good tonight, he had to say. Hair in loose curls, a simple black, tight, v-necked top with a matching skirt that reached to just above her knees. She really didn’t need a whole lot of accessories or flashy clothes to show off her looks. Her feet were bare, shoes probably abandoned somewhere like they always were when she danced. She hated shoes, Mike told him by way of explanation when he‘d asked.
Zoey and her foreign boy toy currently forgotten, he ducked under his friends arm and accepted the hug that was waiting for him. She giggled and lightly smacked his shoulder when he picked her up. He chuckled back and set her down with a grin. “So Lis’ when are you gonna ditch P.Diddy over here and run away with me?”
Lisa leaned close and stage whispered. “My bags are packed, we’ll leave tonight.” Logan laughed again. This joke between them didn’t get old. And neither did Michael’s reaction. Even though he knew that not only was Logan not into Lisa in the first place, but that he wouldn’t even think of touching her because she was Mike’s girl, Mike still tended to get freaked out at the thought.
“Alright alright you two ENOUGH.” He half-growled, but it was sort of ruined by the petulant pout he was displaying.
Lisa and Logan shared a grin and she leaned up to kiss Mike’s cheek, effectively melting his pout. “You know I only love you baby.”
Satisfied, Michael grinned back at her, arm coming up to wrap possessively around her waist. She seemed to like that and snuggled closer to his side. Logan could only shake his head and smile to himself. There wasn’t a single girlfriend that Mike had ever had that could compare to Lisa. He definitely approved.
“Mike, Lisa!” Zoey finally broke in, grin looking tight and fake. “You haven’t met Simon either have you?” Apparently she didn’t like being ignored. And Logan almost laughed when Simon tried a second to late to turn his frown into a smile. Psh. Caught you dude.
Mike and Lisa turned as one, and Logan could almost feel the envy rising off the new couple. Logan could kind of understand that. Their relationship was what most people would dream of, but Logan had the distinct feeling that Zoey and Simon weren’t anywhere near as strong as they were.
Mike looked at him questioningly out of the corner of his eye as Lisa took the reigns in the conversation. Logan shrugged and shot him a semi-guilty smile that made Mike roll his eyes again and wave his hand dismissively in a ‘Yeah, yeah. We’ve got this.‘ gesture.
Sorry Mikey. It’s your turn. Logan thought, though he was grateful to be out of there and knew he totally owed Mike later.
But until then, he was off to enjoy himself.