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Logan Weston and Mason Brooks

Logan Weston and Mason Brooks became friends through a Baltimore gifted academy and remained part of the same close friend group through Edgewood High School and graduation.

Overview

Mason was one of Logan’s four closest childhood friends, alongside Malik Carter, Jordan Wells, and James Pennington. Their friendship included school, group messages, gaming, travel, trash talk, and practical responses during crises. Mason’s sports arguments were primarily with Jordan; with Logan, he used humor to interrupt spirals and call attention to the physical costs of Logan’s workload.

Foundation of the Friendship

Mason attended the gifted academy with Logan, Malik, Jordan, and James. Mason, Logan, Malik, and Jordan became friends in second grade; James joined them in third grade after moving from England. When Logan was bullied there, Mason urged him to save threatening messages and reported the harassment to a teacher, who told him to stay out of it. Mason, Logan, Malik, and Jordan later attended Edgewood together, while James attended Baltimore School for the Arts.

By his fourteenth birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mason was worn down by both his own bullying and the harassment directed at Logan. Mason and James, the group’s two White members, had tried speaking up for Logan, but their concerns were not taken seriously. This dismissal affected Mason’s willingness to report the bullying about his own body size: he feared that people who would not take Logan’s mistreatment seriously would laugh at him for asking for help. His friends remained in his corner while online schooling made his own bullying worse.

Mason did not always recognize Logan’s strain or follow through on shared work. While serving as student council event coordinator in spring 2024, he failed to obtain formal-venue quotations before a deadline, and Logan completed the missing work while Mason was absent with an illness. The episode added to Logan’s pattern of taking responsibility for other students’ unfinished tasks. During their senior-year basement gathering, Mason repeatedly invited Logan into the multiplayer game and continued the loud play until Logan became overwhelmed and shouted at the group.

Logan understood Mason’s difficulties with the formal-venue task. His tired frustration centered on the unfinished work and the added burden, rather than anger at Mason himself. Afterward, Mason apologized repeatedly. Logan reassured him that it was fine, but Mason insisted that the extra work he had left Logan was not fine, acknowledging its cost to his friend.

Dynamics and Communication

Mason communicated casually and often used exaggerated humor. When Logan sat at lunch with untouched food while working on scholarship essays, Mason poked the tray with his fork and said, “That’s not food. That’s an edible paperweight.” He answered Logan’s scientific explanations of sleep deprivation with three jokes: “Did he just say he’s operating without a brain?”; “So… what you’re saying is… you’re about to die?”; and “He doesn’t sleep. He’s not human.” The jokes acknowledged concern without requiring Logan to discuss it directly. During the basement game, Jordan and Malik debated basketball statistics while Mason complained about their “basketball nerd-off” and said, “I didn’t bring my graphing calculator for this shit.”

Logan believed in Mason’s DJ work and music production from the beginning. He treated Mason’s ambition as real without making a performance of encouraging him, patronizing him, or turning the early SoundCloud account and secondhand equipment into a joke. Logan’s steady acceptance meant that Mason never had to defend the seriousness of the work or prove that he deserved to call himself a DJ before he had conventional evidence of success.

When Mason chose the DJ name Mase Effect, his friends responded with eye rolls. Logan then addressed him by the name, making Mason smile.

Mason’s support was practical when he understood what was needed. After Jacob became faint at school, Mason brought Logan’s car to the side entrance, notified the teaching assistant that Logan was leaving for a medical reason, and checked whether Jacob would be all right. When Jacob was critically ill after a later seizure and cardiac arrest, Mason asked Logan for updates and offered help. Mason also joined the group’s commitment to become Jacob’s reliable crew.

Cultural Context

Mason and James were the group’s two White members; Logan, Jordan, and Malik were Black. Mason’s loyalty was part of the friendship they had built since childhood, while his experience of schools and police differed from theirs. He and James spoke up when Logan was bullied, but their reports did not ensure that adults protected him. That failure later discouraged Mason from reporting the bullying he faced himself.

During a tense police encounter involving the friends, Logan felt Mason move closer and heard Malik stop laughing. Mason’s protective response mattered to Logan, although the officers did not read Mason’s White body as they read his Black friends’ bodies. The distinction shaped the danger each friend faced and what protection Mason could offer. In their ordinary time together, Mason’s deadpan humor also gave Logan room to be an exhausted friend rather than a symbol of what he endured.

Years of daily friendship shaped the group’s shared jokes and ways of speaking. Mason absorbed some of his Black friends’ cadences and expressions through that closeness; for him, the language was familiar rather than a performance borrowed for effect. That familiarity did not erase how racial coding attached differently to similar language when Mason spoke and when his Black friends did. Their closeness and those different consequences remained part of the same relationship.

Shared History and Milestones

Mason joined Logan, Malik, Jordan, and James on the Caribbean cruise for Logan’s sixteenth birthday from March 23 to April 1, 2024. His physical comedy and deadpan observations contributed to the group’s games and running bets. Although Mason’s sustained sports-statistics arguments were usually with Jordan, he and Logan also shared analytical banter and low-key rivalry during the trip. In 2025, Mason organized a basement gaming gathering, attended Edgewood’s graduation, and later proposed a welcome-back gathering at the Grid after Logan’s hospitalization.

After graduation, Logan left Baltimore for Howard University, while Mason stayed in the city and began modest music-production work from his parents’ basement.

In late 2025, Mason learned from a friend about CCBC’s Music Production and Audio Recording Technology certificate. Although Logan had taken dual-enrollment courses at CCBC Essex, he had not known about the program earlier and would have shared it with Mason if he had.

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