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53. Alex

George POV

"Guys! They sell ice cream over here!", Nick yelled over to us, standing with Karl on a booth. Clay and I were just about to leave the Ice surface, then changed our shoes and went to them.
"I'd take one scoop mint", Clay said.
"Same thing for me", I smiled.
"Strawberry", Karl said happily.
"Alright", Nick ordered our ice cream before handing it to us.

"Heyo, you here too?", I heard a familiar voice from behind us.....Alex.
"What are you doing here?", Nick immediately went into protective mode and pulled Karl close to himself.
"Calm down Nick, I won't do anything to you", Alex rose his hands in the air and rolled his eyes with a smirk. Then I could see Clay leaning over to Nick and whispering something to him, but I couldn't hear it. Alex looked at me with a stupid smile. Alex was that kind of person, he was stupidly dumb but also had this funny and cool thing on him, I couldn't describe it, he was...interesting.

When he looked away from me, I could see him watching over to Nick with a kind of disappointed expression.
"So, what do you want from us?", Clay asked calmly while grabbing me and pulling me closer to him.
"Nothing, I just saw you here and wanted to say hi, I guess", Alex smiled again.
"Alright, then you can go now", Nick said and just wanted to walk away with Karl when Alex stepped towards him with his hands in his pockets.
"Wait, Nick, I wanted to talk to you actually...", he said, but got no further with his words.
"If you wanna say that you're not part of the shitty group, I already know. Clay just told me", Nick said without looking at him.

"And also that I'm really happy for you and Karl. You're cute....", he paused, "...together."
"Ah, okay, thanks....", Nick looked at him, definitely not trustful.
"Guys, I know that you can't like me but couldn't you just give me a chance to change? Please?", Alex looked at us with a kinda sad expression.
"Have a look what has become of us. In principle, I also gave you a chance to change yourself towards me", I whispered to Clay.
"We are something else George", Clay whispered back.
I was thinking hard about whether I should be on Alex's side or Clay and Nick's.

"Are you here to skate too?", I eventually asked licking my ice.
"Yeah, I come here sometimes to calm down", he smiled weakly at me.
"Wanna skate with me? Show me what you got", I thought it would be a good idea to get closer to him and see if he was a good person.
"George, what are you doing?", Clay pulled me close to him and whispered.
"Well, I guess your boyfriend wouldn't like that", Alex shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, my boyfriend can't tell me what to do, so....", I gave Clay my ice cream and went over to the seat with my skates and put them on quickly.
"Come on?", I waved him to me, "Put on yours."

With a broad smile, he went to another seat and put on skates. I could see Clay and Nick looking at me confused and shocked.
When Alex also had his ice skates on, we went on the ice surface again and started to skate.
"So, what made you change your mind?", I asked while we skated beside each other slowly.
"I don't know, people grow up, people change. Everything just got too stupid for me, I don't want to be like that anymore. Look at you and Clay ... I want something like that too..."
"What? A relationship?"
"No! I mean someone that gives me the feeling that I am better than what you guys think about me."
"You know, actually I don't think you're like that. The thing with Clay was even worse, so I guess I could give you a chance. Even if I don't really trust you, I think I can give it a try, right?", I smiled at him.

"You have such a good heart George, thank you", Alex looked to the ground with a smile.
"So, tell me something about you."
"Okay, euhm...about 2 years ago, Clay created that group and...I always wanted to be one of those bad kids, so I trained to get into it and one day,....Clay invited me to the group and yeah,...since that I was in. I learned much from him, he always has been a cool guy. Even if he didn't show it often, he was a good guy. When things were important to him, he was great. Of course he was that dick too, but with a certain age you think that's cool too", he paused, "But personally, I think that now is the right time to leave that behind. I have now decided what I would like to study and yeah, I want to build my life new and better. I guess."
"I knew you can be a nice person Alex", I smiled.

"So, you wanted me to show you what I got, right?", Alex eventually smirked.
"Ah, right", I looked at him, ready to speed up.
He slowly got faster and finally dashed away from me. I raced after him as fast as I could and finally caught up.
"Wow, you're fast", I said.
"You too", he smirked and speeded up more. We drove several laps at this fast pace until we eventually ran out of breath and came to a standstill.

Suddenly a song came up, a total party song if you asked me and Alex went crazy, which made me laugh. Alex didn't care what other people thought of him, he just wanted to have fun, which was very easy to see because he was dancing like a total idiot. He drove off again and danced around while grinning silly at me. I decided to join him and began to dance too. When the man controlling the music spotted us, he turned the music up and more people started dancing. It made so much fun.

Eventually I could see Clay, Nick and Karl coming onto the ice towards us. Clay didn't like that I was so close to Alex, but that was just his natural instinct. But still he came up to us with a smile and into my arms. The three boys joined the dance party and surprisingly they had fun with Alex. I guessed, probably, they saw me with him and decided to give him a small chance too.

The song played for a while and when it was over, a more relaxed song came up and I saw Karl and Nick kissing next to me which made me smile. Clay pulled me close and pressed our lips to each other. After we had pulled away after a few seconds, I turned my head to Alex and saw him looking happily at Karl and Nick.

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