Janoskians One-Shots

Video + James = Secrets Revealed

It was nice seeing James again after all of this time. I know he had tried to keep in touch, but we were all busy with our own stuff. Now, James thinks we are simply using him for views. That couldn't be the farthest thing from the truth.

Beau and Luke had been busy working on a new contract with management while Daniel was working things out with his father. Then, there was the whole move back to Australia that took time and attention away from everything else. We forgot to keep in touch, and eventually it was too late. James hated us.

He had tried reaching out to me at the end, but I had only pushed him away. I was dealing with my own issues that not even Luke knew about.

Now, here we were. We had just recorded a new song and James was still acting like we were terrible people. In all honesty, we kind of were. He had left and we had effectively ruined our friendship.

Our management team and James' Management had decided to force us to sit down and wait for them while they finished the paperwork for the new song. James was not very happy at all.

"This is stupid!" James grumbled. "You guys got what you wanted so I should be able to leave already!" To be honest, what he said had really hurt. As Luke spoke up, I started to fidget with my hands out of nervousness.

"It would be nice to catch up with our friend, too." Luke replied, causing James to scoff.

"Some friends you guys are! I actually tried to keep in touch with you, but you obviously didn't care!"

"It's not that we didn't care." Beau interjected. "We all had a lot we had to take care of once you left."

"Like what?" James rolled his eyes in disbelief.

"Luke and I had to spend a couple weeks with management, rewriting our contracts. With you out of the picture, our whole contact was voided. There were a lot of things we had to spend time on to fix. Plus, Daniel was busy with his dad. John was having a crisis and wanted to reconnect."

"What was Jai's excuse then?" James asked suddenly, causing me to look at my shoes and bite my lip. "What was he doing that he couldn't even answer a simple text from his best friend!?"

"That's easy," Daniel started before frowning in confusion. "Jai was...what was he doing?" I gulped as everyone turned their gaze to me for an explanation. Everyone was confused now, and I honestly didn't know what to say.

"I was busy...doing stuff." I made up a horrible excuse. Luke narrowed his eyes at me as James' expression softened.

"What were you doing, Jai?" Luke asked suspiciously.

"I wasn't doing anything. It's not a big deal..." I trailed off, refusing to make eye contact with anyone.

"It obviously is if you won't tell us!" Luke argued. "You're supposed to tell us, at least me, everything, Jai!"

"Well, not this! Okay Luke? This is the one thing that no one should know!" I yelled angrily.

"What's so bad that you can't tell anyone, Jai?" James asked.

"You wouldn't look at me the same way!" It was true. My friends would think I was pathetic and that was the last thing I wanted. "I'm sorry James! I truly am. Something happened and for a while I was too ashamed to talk to anyone, even Luke."

"Wait, so the entire time I've been gone, you've been keeping a secret?" James asked confused.

"Right before you left actually. The night I was going to tell you, you told everyone that you were leaving and weren't coming back." I admitted before standing up and leaving the room before anyone could stop me. I ran until I reached a small park we used to come to when we were younger. It was then that I let my tears fall. Everything was my fault. I was so stupid.