Concealed // Alex x George

Suspicion- Kaylnn (part one)

I'm missing a sock!' James yelled from the motel bathroom.
'Its been one night!' I yelled back, while sitting on my suitcase, to try and get it to close. He walked out and stood leaning on the doorframe.
'You can talk, you couldn't find your keys, we could lose a deposit.' He teased .
'Well we found them so you can keep your freaking deposit!' I say chucking the keys at him, he caught them in the inside of his elbow before dropping them on the carpet.
'Smooth' I say bluntly, while simultaneously zipping up my suitcase.

Eventually, James found his sock in the pocket of his trousers, I dont know either and we headed to the meeting spot outside reception. After dropping the keys off we realised no one else was there.
'Where is everyone? We're twenty minutes late, are they coming?' I start to panic. I feel James's sturdy hand on my shoulder, my pulse quickens and I chew on my lower lip.
'Don't worry, we can go and look for them if you'd like?' James smiles down at me.
'I'd like that.'
James grabs my hand and starts sprinting in the direction of Will's room. I have no choice but to run alongside him. Our fingers interlocked makes my breath quicken, although In fairness, that could be from sprinting.
We arrive at their room and James is about to knock on the door but I push it open before his knuckles hit the wood.
Wilbur is sat on the bed on his phone.
I put a finger to my lips, and sneak over to Wilbur, unaware that we were in his room. As I near closer I see his screen, its someone's instagram, I think a girl's.
'Who's that, your girlfriend?' I say plopping on the bed next to him. I look to the top of the screen and see Aria Tamigotchi plastered above the story reels. My breath hitches. Is that? Maybe? No. Why does it matter if it is?
'Fucking hell Kaylnn, jesus James, control your girlfriend.' Wilbur says, switching his phone off, clearly panicked.
'She's not my-' James starts, out of the corner of my eye I see him blushing, which makes my heart ache, a spurge of emotion flares inside of me.
'Answer my question!' I blurt out.
'What? Of course not, I don't have a girlfriend.' Wilbur Soot is really freaking out.
'Who's instagram was that then?' I inquire, I have no control over my words at this point.
'Urm, Nihachu. Why'd you care? You jealous?' He says slyly. The comment about Nihachu was a lie, so was the one about me be jealous, obviously.
'I am not jealous!' I raise my voice. James runs over to me, grabbing my arm.
'Leave it.' James' touch calms me instantly, although I realise that this trip will not be as easy as I'd first expected. 'Sooo, wheres Will, we were supposed to meet by reception.'
'Maybe at George and Alex's.' Wilbur says bluntly, glaring at me. I glare back.

James ushers me out of the room before I ruin any friendships, or postures.
We head to George and Alex's room.
'What was that about Kay?' The nickname made my heart flutter; but I can't tell him, I dont have any proof. Maybe he was just looking at a friends instagram. James wouldn't believe me over Wilbur. Right?
'I dont know, I guess I'm just tired.' I shrug, feeling ashamed.
'Didn't sleep well in my presence, dont blame you.' He says smugly. I punch his arm playfully, rolling my eyes. 'You can sleep in the car.' He says with kind in his eyes.
James knocks loudly on the door, I hear Alex inside.'Sorry, sorry, I overslept!'

Will opens the door. The room is in a state of pandemonium, open suitcases on the bed, George running around and Will filming Alex throwing clothes in, for his instagram story.
'Yikes.' Says James, taking the words from my mouth.

We help them pack up their things and transport them to the car, Wilbur was sat in the drivers seat.
'I don't trust him driving.' I whisper into  James' ear. 'After the last car ride.'
'I get it, I could offer to drive, he's pretty stubborn but I can try.'
'No, no its fine.' I had been looking forward to sitting next to James this whole time and Wilbur Soot was certainly not going to ruin this for me.
We piled all the luggage into the boot and sat down. Wilbur and Will in the front, George and Alex in the middle row and me and James in the cramped back. It was kind of nice, being so close to him.
I feel so guilty about that, James has Aria. I don't want to get in the way of that. Although I have suspicions that Wilbur has feelings for Aria, she seems nice enough, and she's serving in the military. I had promised myself not to be mean about her, she makes James happy enough so that makes me happy.  Or it should.

So far Wilbur hasn't crashed the car, although he has refused to pull over for Alex to use the restroom, resulting in a sloppy job at peeing in a bottle. Or so I gathered from Georges complaining about his soaked shoes. That and the smell. Ew. What else would I have expected from a roadtrip with only boys?
I must have drifted off because when I woke up, my head was on James' shoulder, I sat up abruptly, I could tell my face was growing redder by the second.
'Sorry, I guess I was tired.' I apologise.
'It's fine, I took this cute picture of you sleeping.' He pulls up a photo of my head on his shoulder.
'Not the worst picture of me, when your little brother is your photographer, a half decent picture is very rare.'
'They can't be that bad, you have a very photogenic face.'
'Did you just call me attractive in nerd terms?'
He scratched the back of his neck, his face was red too. I couldn't help but burst out laughing, James joined in. Soon Alex and George's heads were peering over their seats, they began laughing too. Chaos.
We were still pretty hysterical by the time we pulled in to a McDonald's drive thru. I took us a while to order, but eventually we ordered everything and handed it out.
'Wait I don't have any chips!' Shouted Will from the front.
'Shit, they must have messed up our order.' Said Alex.
'You can have mine' I offered, hoping he would reject, but he accepted, leaving me fry-less.
'Want some?' Offered James.
'Thank you' I say, grabbing a small handful.
Alex went to throw out his pee bottle, which put me off my Fanta slightly.
'Are we nearly there yet?' Said George, a couple hours later.
'Nowhere near.' Said Wilbur.
'What country are we even in?' Asked James.
'Wait, don't tell us, we can play Geoguessr irl!' Suggested Alex, which sounded like fun.
'We only go through one country inbetween England and Switzerland.' James said pointedly. 'I was born in Switzerland, fun fact.'
'Everyone knows that James.' Wilbur accused.
'I didn't know that.' I lied, when he first told me he did youtube, I went through a phase of trying to learn everything about him, that was one of the many things I learned.I just wanted to prove Wilbur Soot wrong.
'What country do we even go through?' Asked Alex.
'France you dumbass.' Said Will.
'Okay, sorry.'

'We have to pull into a supercharger guys.' Said Wilbur.
He parked up and plugged the car in.
'We should go and buy some snacks and stuff.' Suggested George. Everyone agreed, even if they weren't hungry, we all were desperate to stretch our legs out.
Inside, it turned out we were in France, closer to the Swiss border though. Anyway, none of us didn't speak French, well at least not very well.
'I speak three languages, not one of them French.' James complained, picking up a pack of chips. 'Want any crisps?'
'Crisps?.. Oh yeah, I forgot British people are weird.' I rolled my eyes.
'Whats that about British people?' Said Alex, overhearing.
'IN-GER-LAND!' Yelled George, arousing some odd looks.
'Shush' Said Will looking peeved.

When we got back to the car, James pulled up Netflix on his phone.
'What do you wanna watch?' He asked.
'Victorious!' I probably should have made it seem like that was the only thing on my mind, but oh well.
'Sure.' He offered me a earbud and shuffled closer so I could see the screen.
He put on the first episode and pressed play. When the songs came on I couldn't help but nod my head to them, James probably thought I was insane, but I couldn't care less. Except I do care about what he thinks.
I shouldn't but I do.
And I don't know what to do about that.

Right hello, thats the end of the chapter. I hope u like the direction the fic has gone in recently, I dont actually know if anyone is still reading but, oh well.