Laurens I like you a lot

Chapter 9

John POV

I wake up in the middle of the night, expecting to see Alex next to me but he's not. I look around and see him at his desk. "Babe, come back to bed.." I say as I get up and walk over to him.

"I've just got some work to finish" He replies, not taking his eyes off his laptop or stopping typing. I wrap my arms around his shoulders from behind. "Baby go back to sleep I'll come in a minute"

"No you won't, Alex you need to sleep. Please? you can finish that later." I beg. he sigh and gets up "thank you" I smile and we walk back to bed.

"John?"  I look at him "you made me come back to bed you can at least cuddle me instead of your turtle" he jokes and smiles.

I giggle "noooo then my turtle will feel left out" i smile "but I mean If you wanted to cuddle I guesssss my turtle can sleep alone just this once." I smile

He laughs and hugs me. "You're adorable" I blush and hugs him back and cuddle into his chest.

"Shhh it's the middle of the night you're not allowed to make me blush." I whispers.

He chuckles "ok sweetie" I frown playfully and put my hand over his mouth.

"Sleep time" he smiles and nods. I move my hand and start falling asleep in his arms. I feel so safe around him and he makes me so happy.

The next morning

"MOTHERFUCKER! LAFAYETTE WHERES THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER?!" I hear Alex yell. I groans and gets out of bed.

I walk over to the kitchen and see the stove on fire and Alex and Lafayette trying to put it out. Hercules, And Peggy and on the couch and Eliza and Angelica are going through mine and alexs stuff. "Alex?"

He turns around and looks at me and smiles "oh hey babe, what's up?" Laf puts the fire out then turns around and smiles at me.

"What?! You're dating?!" Peggy yells and looks at me and Alex. I nod, still half asleep I walk over to Alex and put my arms around his and snuggle into him.

"Yeah we are" Alex says to Peggy then puts his arms around me  "are you ok Johnny?"

I nod "it's too early to be awake" I groan. "And way to early to have people over"

Alex kisses my head "babe it's like 11am" he replies. I shrug and start making some coffee.

"Hey John your a really good artist" eliza says. I look over and see her looking through my sketchbook.

"Yeah Peggy you were right he definitely would've  gotten into an art school if he applied" Angelica adds

"Wait what? I did apply, I applied to heaps. Peggy helped me submit all the drawings" I look at them confused. I look at Peggy who's glaring at Angelica. "Peggy?"

She stands up and walks over "yeah so... um I may have switched your artworks with mine so they were really bad and you wouldn't get in..."

Alex POV

Why would Peggy do that? I look at John. I can't tell if he's upset or angry... I think both. "What the fuck Peggy?! You know how much I wanted to go to those schools!"  He yells at Peggy.

"I know, I'm sorry, but they're across the country! I wanted you to come here so you would stay friends with me"  Peggy replies.

"We have phones! And I was applying for schools in New York as well!  But you just decided you know what's best for me so you forced me to come to the one college I didn't wanna go to?!"

Peggy sighs "I'm sorry man, who was I supposed to hang out with if you were in fucking California or something?"

"Maybe your fucking girlfriend! Or sisters or literally anyone in this room!" He storms out of the room. I sigh and follow him.

"John?" I find him in the library. I sit next to him on the floor and see he's crying. He's still shirtless cuz he said he was too lazy to put on a shirt last night.

"She knew how much I didn't wanna come here. She knows Arts was the one thing I thought I was good at and when I got rejected by so many I thought I sucked at it.." he sighs and hugs me.

"You are amazing at art John, the best I've ever seen. And she had her reasons but you have every right to be mad or upset."  I replied.

"Thank you Lexi... you're the best" I look at him and smile a bit.

"Hey, you know you can still apply for those art schools and drop out of this place" I suggest. It's not like I want him to go, but I want him to be happy.

He looks at me and and puts one of his hands on my cheek "you're so sweet, but I can't lose you. I may not like it here but I'm glad I came cuz I get to spend everyday with you so I'll deal with whatever I have to."

I smile a little and kiss his hand "I'm gonna protect you as best I can while you're here. Not Matter what happens. If you hate me or we fight or break up, I promise I'll still protect you"

He hugs me tightly, I hug him back and don't let go. "Thank you Alex...I love you so much"

"I love you too Jackie" I holds him close. "Let's go back to our room ok? I'll get everyone to leave" he nods and we stand up and start walking back to the room