[logan] London's calling

[Joel Carter Foster]

Joel turned his hat backwards on his head as he looked up in the mirror. “ I gotta get this man, I’ll be back,” Chace said as he picked up his phone and headed out of the dance studio. Some random dance studio that Logan had talked to the owners about keeping open all night so that they could rehearse. He could sweet talk anyone into anything. But it was pretty amazing honestly – having Logan out here with him. He knew that he was hiring more people at the offices to do the busywork, paperwork, things that someone like Logan Renner shouldn’t be stuck behind a desk doing. And he’d actually gotten a chance to come out and see Joel, see how the tour was going, see how the fans were reacting, maybe give some advice on what they could change or make different to improve it. Joel rolled his neck from side to side, smiling over at Tori who was sitting against the mirror. He gave her a quick wink as he placed his hands on his hips and walked over to Logan while trying to catch his breath. They’d worked on some fresh choreography on a few songs – including Boyfriend and Beauty and A Beat. And now they were messing around with some stuff for Out Of Town Girl. He didn’t want fans to feel like they could expect what was coming next. It was fun, all three of them together, yelling over each other while laughing and trying to re-correct some dance moves. Some worked out, some looked like shit. To which they all just stared at each other and laughed. It was probably fine for them to take a few minutes to catch their breath, too. Joel was sweating like hell anyways, which is why he had stripped down to just a pair of basketball shorts. It was weird that when he had started this he was just a boy. Now his muscles and frame were starting to fill out pretty similarly to Logan. He hopped up on his segway, zooming in circles around Logan. “ Pay no attention to them haters ‘cause we whip em off and we ain’t doing nothing wrong.. so don’t tell me nothing, I’m just tryna have fun…. So what’s up.. yeah… I whip my hair back and forth,” he sang quietly as he scooted his segway up as close to Logan as he could, tapping against his foot and leg. But when Logan stepped away to bend over, Joel hopped off his segway and placed his hands against his back and did a frogleap over him before he rolled onto the ground. Joel laid there, placing his hand against the sweat of his stomach as he stared up at the ceiling and tried to catch his breath.

When he saw Tori moving around he turned his head on the floor to look over at her, instinctively twirling his wedding band around his finger. As he sat up he let out a cough, holding the bend of his arm over his mouth as he felt it rattle inside his chest. His throat felt like it was on fire but he sure as hell wasn’t about to tell Logan that. He shook his head slightly, clearing it again as he placed his hands against the floor and stood up, making his way over to Tori where his water was. After sitting down beside her, he smiled at her lazily, holding his hand out for his water. He was glad that school was on break, and wasted no time getting her pretty hind end out on tour with him. Joel tilted his head as he looked over at her, placing his hand against the inside of her thigh before he leaned over to give her a kiss. Joel traced his thumb over the top of her leg as he finished off his bottle of water, chucking the empty container at Logan. He smiled, seeing that Logan was finishing up with whatever he was doing, probably sexting Blake. “ Alright,” he said, giving Tori’s leg a tight squeeze before he leaned over to kiss her again. Once he stood up he stretched his arms out over his head and made his way back to Logan. “ Oh my god I’m hungry,” he said, holding his hands on his stomach, making a pathetic face at Logan. “ Hot wings?” he asked in a raspy voice before he coughed again and took a few steps back from Logan. He couldn’t be the only one that was starving. Joel bent his legs back, stretching them out before he dropped them back on the floor and looked at Logan trying to cover the strain in his voice, “ What was that last bit you were doing before Chace headed out?” he questioned, referring to the sequence of dance moves that Logan had come up with a few minutes before.

[Logan Chase Renner]

Logan laughed, watching Joel doing a move that was completely ridiculous, but so silly it was funny. It was late, stupid ideas were flying, Logan had had his fair share of not so good ones. But Logan knew there was no such things as a perfect show, or a flawless performance. It could always be made better, and Joel was aiming to give his fans the best of his ability. If Joel was tired he wasn't showing it, but to be fair, they all were. Even Tori over there was yawning on occasion. Taking a short break wasn't going to hurt anyone. Chace had gone to take a phone call and Joel went and sat beside Tori after being his typical nuisance self. Logan had bent down to pick up his phone, texting Blake to see how things were at home, how was Kenzie, etc. When he had finished, Joel asked about the last move he had did and Logan said seriously, "This one?" and then proceeded to lower the waistband of his shorts, dancing like a penguin from Mary Poppins. "Let's definitely get some wings," Logan added as he moved on from a penguin to a chimney sweep, "Look Joel, London inspired..." One of Logan's favorite things about Joel, his ability to mimic what he saw. "As far as the wings go, too bad we don't know anyone local who would know a good good wing place." After all Locals knew all the best places that tourists didn't. Or it would be nice if London had a BDubbs. Logan proceeded to grab Joel's arms from behind, acting like a puppeteer and continued to help Joel with his 'dance moves'.

[Joel Carter Foster]

Joel cleared his throat again before taking in a deep breath. Maybe he could see a doctor soon without anyone at the label finding out. But as Logan used his arms like a puppeteer Joel couldn’t help but laugh.He popped his arms in place, before letting his hands hang loose. He’d seen a music video for Nsync once where they had pretended to be puppets, and from that he had remembered the choreography to it before breaking out into a few segments of it. It was ridiculous really, how Nsync realized that they were puppets in the making, doing whatever the label told them to. A lot of people probably assumed the same about Joel and Logan; that Logan was the puppet master and Joel was just a product of being attached to strings. Couldn’t be farther from the truth; learning and absorbing was different than being brainwashed and molded. But he was glad that Logan wanted wings, too. He could eat wings day and night, all day long. “ Baby do you want anything?” he asked as he looked over at Tori. Maybe she did, maybe she didn’t. But he pulled out his phone anyways before opening up the UrbanSpoon app until he found a place that had wings. Joel placed the phone between his ear and shoulder as he took his wallet out. “ Hey can I place an order for wings?” he said before biting the edge of his lip. “ What kind of flavors?” he asked before looking over everyone. “ Can we get 50 mild traditional, 25 mild boneless… yeah.. 50 hot traditional, 25 hot boneless. 50 honey bbq traditional and 50 honey bbq boneless.” he ranted off. That should be enough for everyone. Maybe. He knew he loved wings, plus Chace and Logan could be hungry guys too. “ Yeah we’ll take some celery. Like.. 25 packets of ranch and like.. seventy-five of bleu cheese,” he said before making a face at her comments. “ I really like bleu cheese,” he said before tapping his credit card against his knee. “ Okay ready? “ he asked before giving them the credit card number. And of course they’d asked the name on the card, “ Joel Foster,” he said before hearing the silence on the other end of the phone. It killed him how observant people were. South African accent, love for wings, in England for tour. And then the scream on the other end of the phone came and Joel looked over, giving Logan a pained expression. He stood there for a few moments, letting her scream as he took in a deep breath and sighed. Eventually he cut in, “ Alright, you alright now?” he asked before giving a nod. “Yeah I can do that,” he said when she requested that he sign some stuff. After a chuckle he sighed. “ Thanks, love you too”. When he hung up the phone he shook his head back and forth before looking back at Logan as Chace walked in. “ Ordered wings,” he said flatly. No one would be surprised that he was doing it really. But after taking in a deep breath, he placed his hands back on his hips and looked at Logan. “ Ready to work?” he asked as he headed over to Logan.