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Everyone in the room stared wide eyed at Louise, who was just as surprised herself. The very first words that left her mouth in that moment were, "Hell fucking no. I am not getting into a dark closet with Logan. I mean--that has got to be pedophilia, he shouldn't be allowed to participate in this game with us, he's like a hundred years old." Louise then crossed her arms over her chest defiantly. Being in the same room--even the same planet with Logan was too much for her, let alone a dark closet where they would be expected to make out. She couldn't stomach the thought.

Logan scoffed at her words, "I'm twenty five! Besides, pedophilia is when someone has a sexual desire for a child. I don't have those kinds of feelings for you, and I definitely don't want to be pushed into a dark closet with a girl who almost crashed my car." As the thought reached his mind, he finally added, "And I have a girlfriend anyway, I can't be doing things like this when she's at our house, fully trusting me to be a good boyfriend."

Reaching for her sister's phone with lightning speed, offered, "Okay, okay, do-over. Louise switch seats with me."

Louise rolled her eyes, but did as her friend asked. She got back on feet from where she had been sitting between Andy and Ollie, and walked towards where Aimee was sitting. Aimee rushed to Louise's former seat and placed the phone on the floor in the middle of their circle, hitting the button on the app for the bottle to spin. After a few seconds of spinning, the bottle pointed at Louise, who was sitting in Aimee's previous spot. Aimee's smile dropped, but she hit the middle of the screen again to see who would be the person picked next.

To everyone's surprise, Logan as picked for the second time. Aimee picked up her sister's phone and shook it,  "This app must be broken. It keeps picking Louise and Professor Bush." The twin shook it once more and was tempted to throw the phone onto the floor in an attempt to get it to work, but Annie took it from Aimee's hands. 

"You should have just done the re-do without switching seats." Annie told her sister. But instead of encouraging another do-over to please her sister, she said something else. "Maybe they should just get it over with so we can continue with the game." Her dark eyes looked to Andy Pesto, who was sitting next to her sister Aimee. Annie wanted to get her chance with one of the new boys, which she knew were not actually Louise's boyfriends. Annie had been told by her friend that the Pesto twins were her friends from back home.

Andy and Ollie didn't protest either about Louise and Logan going into the closet together.

Instead, Andy rather encouraged it. "Yeah," He agreed with Aimee. "Just get it over with."

Logan shot the twin a confused look. "Why would you encourage your girlfriend to go into a dark closet with me?"

Suddenly remembering that he was supposed to be playing the part of Louise's boyfriend, he replied nervously, "Well, she's already my girlfriend and this is just a game, so I shouldn't worry about her being alone with you. Besides, aren't you two supposedly arch enemies? I doubt you two will actually use those seven minutes to get intimate." Louise was surprised with Andy's response. She knew the twins as being good boys, but not very bright. This had been one of the most coherent and well thought out responses Andy Pesto had thought up in his life.

With a roll of her eyes, Louise pushed herself back on her feet. Since no one seemed to be against the idea of her being paired up with Logan for the stupid game, she sighed in clear annoyance at her friends. "Fine, whatever. Let's just do this now. The sooner it begins, the sooner it will end." She huffed. 

Andy had been right, ultimately.

There was no way she was going to be making out with Logan in there. 

With the same level of annoyance, Logan got back on his feet obnoxiously and followed the seventeen year old to the empty closet in the guest room. Any and Ollie had no use for it, since they would only be staying for two days. Louise opened the closet door with a complete lack of enthusiasm and stepped inside. Once Logan was inside as well, she closed the door and sat in on the carpet floor, in the dark. 

Logan sat down next to her, the closet wasn't exactly spacious, and even less with two people in it, considering that he was very tall. Louise brought her knees to her chest, out of some consideration for him, to give him more room. But even so, she complained about having to make the sacrifice for him. "Dude, can you stop being so damn tall? You're taking up all the space in the room. Next you'll be breathing all the oxygen too." She hissed at him, rather annoyed. She genuinely thought she would have found a way to get out of it. But none of her friends came to her rescue, not even Aimee who was completely obsessed with Logan.

Logan snorted, arguing with her, "I can't just stop being tall. That doesn't just happen on command. I don't wake up in the morning and think: I'm gonna be tall today, just so I can annoy Louise."

"You're the spawn of Satan, and you're so fucking annoying." Louise muttered, hugging her knees closer to her chest.

"Me?" Logan now laughed a bitter sound that rumbled out of his chest. "You're the evil one here with your bunny ears, two boyfriends, and disregard for the rules."

At his words, Louise laughed. 

"Why are you laughing?" Logan asked her, trying to find her eyes in the darkness of the closet. But all he could see was black. There was no light switch in there and all they could do was listen to each other's voices. They could also feel the warmth radiating off each other.

"I just can't believe you actually bought that whole two boyfriends crap." She continued laughing at him. "I mean--why would two boys willingly date the same girl, at the same time?" 

"You said they share everything." He pointed out, urging her to remember the very thing she had said to him when he wondered which of the two was her real boyfriend. He also didn't believe that two boys would be willing to date the same girl.

"But not women." Louise informed him, shooting him a look that said isn't it obvious? But of course, he couldn't see her through the dark. "Well, Andy and Ollie have never had girlfriends because everyone back home thinks they're too weird, but I'm sure they wouldn't agree to share a girlfriend. No guy would go for that." As she said those words, she remembered a time when Jimmy Jr was fighting for Tina's love against a boy named Josh that she had met at the super market. Things had escalated to a point where they got into a dance off, and finally both asked for Tina to choose. When she tried to suggest for the three of them to be a thing, both boys wouldn't go for it. 

Logan crossed his arms over his chest and huffed in annoyance, "Well coming from you, I'd believe anything. How was I supposed to know you were lying about having two boyfriends?"

With a sigh, Louise reached into her pocket and got out her phone. Her thumb clicked on the home button and the screen lit up, giving them some light in the otherwise dark closet. She looked at the time, only a couple of minutes had passed.

Louise saw a hand reach for her phone and she tried to pull it away from his reach, but Logan snatched her phone from her and looked at the time on it. "You brought your phone in here and you didn't use it to give us some light?" He asked her, outraged. Now his blue eyes squinted at the bright light from her cellphone, an it took a few seconds for them to adjust.

The girl with the pink bunny ears hat gave a nonchalant shrug of her shoulders. At the same time , her hand reached over to his and she snatched her phone back out of his hold. "You should have brought your own phone instead of leaving it outside."

"This is not ending soon enough." He complained, shifting in his spot so that he was sitting at an intersection with her. Logan had his legs crossed and now stretched them out feeling a soreness and relief in the cramped space. His legs found their way under hers, which were pulled up to her chest, and she swatter him away with her hands.

"Its only seven minutes, don't make yourself too comfortable." She told him with a roll of her eyes.

"You know, Louise," He began with a sigh, "You don't have to be so rude all the time. I'm not seventeen anymore, and you're not nine, the Bunny Ears War ended a long time ago." At least to him it had.

Louise gave a shake of her head, her face illuminated from the bottom with the phone rested on her lap to provide some light. "You messed with my ears, Logan." She said to him with a shake of her head. "No one messes with my ears. That's why we're arch enemies, and that's why this rivalry will never die."

"You're so resentful." Logan said. He figured that the reason for that was that she was still young, and needed to grow up and realize it had been a petty fight between two kids that should have gotten over it by now. He had gotten over it and was only unpleasant or spiteful towards her whenever she was the one being spiteful towards him first. 

Logan didn't want to argue with Louise anymore. If anything, he wanted to get along, or at least tolerate each other. When he initially arrived at St. Mary's Academy and found out they would be in the same school, and even in the same class room, he had felt that fire he had felt when she was only nine. It had been a desire to tease her like any seventeen year old would have done. He remembered all the times he and Louise had argued so many years ago because only she had the ability to bring out the worst in him. Only she had the ability to push his buttons like that. As the days went on, he later realized he was over being Louise Belcher's arch enemy, and he no longer wanted that.

He was an adult who had matured over the years and he discovered he wanted to get along. Louise wasn't a bad person. He had seen the way she was a good friend to Annie and Aimee, as well as Andy and Ollie. She was only rude and nasty to Logan. She was still as sarcastic as she had always been, but never a bad person.

Logan knew that if she would just open up those walls she had been putting up against him, there was a chance they could actually get along. There was a chance they could actually be friends.

But it wouldn't be happen as long as Louise didn't want it to.

When the light from her phone turned off, she clicked the home button once again, her eyes drawn to the light radiating off the screen. "Its time." She commented, her tone much more relaxed than the sharp one she had been using earlier.

As though having heard her, they heard the doorknob twist and the door open, the light from the room outside was at first too bright for them. "So...how was it?" Aimee stood before them, biting her bottom lip in worry. She feared that Louise and Logan had actually been making out in the closet.

Louise got back on her feet, and stepped out of the closet, giving Logan enough room for him to get up as well. As she walked past her friend, she said in a teasing voice, "Oh yeah, Aimee. We got it on in there. Logan has some really soft lips. And we were just about to get undressed when you opened the door." She lied. Logan walked out of the closet adjusting his button down shirt and his jeans which he had worn to work that day.

"How could you, Louise! You're my best friend!" Aimee whined.

Louise turned towards her, quickly saying to her, "I was joking, Aimee. I would never-ever make out with that guy. I would probably first tongue kiss a dog." Her eyes looked to Logan with a mere hint of disdain.

"That's not what you said when we were in the closet making out." Logan pointed out, faking a look of innocence on his face.

This earned them a jaw drop from Aimee Arriola-Hendricks.

It was true that he wanted to try to be her friend, but for the time being he would do the opposite. Messing with her was just as fun.

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i realize that its been WAY TOO LONG since i updated this. my updates were several times per week and now they are about once a week. i am sorry, and i will try to update more often, but i've been super busy at work. 

thank you all loads for reading.

also, what do you think about logan actually wanting to make peace with louise, obviously after this whole chaperoning deal? a step in the right direction? you know what they say though...there's a fine line between love and hate. but...logan already admitted he doesn't hate louise. does louise hate him? or does she also not hate him? stay tuned to find out! ^.^

-clary xx