It was Supposed to be Us

Twenty

POV-Reggie

I made April knock on the door of Willie's house. I had no idea who was going to answer, but I hoped it was Willie or Alex because how am I supposed to explain this to hi parents?

A few seconds later, Willie opened the door and I sighed in relief.

"Why is there a child?" Willie asked instead of greeting me.

"Hello to you, too," I laughed. "April is being babysat by me."

"How?" he asked.

"I'll explain if you let me in," I told him. "Is Alex here?"

"Yeah," he said shaking his head as if he just remembered I was standing on his doorstep.

Willie let April and I in and we all walked to his room where Alex waited on Willie's bed. April played with my guitar that I stopped at Mom's to get. And Willie, Alex and I just small talked until the subject Wllie wanted to talk about was no longer avoidable.

"Ok," Willie finally said, "how and why are you babysitting April?"

I let out a sigh. "Because Luke and I broke up and I didn't have anywhere better to go except Mrs. Harvey's," I explained. "She's letting me stay there and I've been babysitting April while she's at work. Today I took April to her preschool and then we decided we wanted to come here."

"Wait, what?" Willie asked.

"You and Luke broke up?" Alex asked.

I nodded. I suddenly felt like crying again, but I tried to hold it back. I failed miserabely but the effort was there.

Alex wrapped me in a tight hug and asked what happened. So, between sobs I explained the whole story, from when I saw him with Julie to just now.  Alex held me tightly the whole time, and April climbed into Willie's lap and kept asking why I was crying.

When I finished the story, no one said anything. They all just let me cry. I clung to Alex the same way I did to Mom the other night, the only difference being I didn't care about hurting Alex because he has no body. Everything still hurts the same if not  worse than it did the day we broke up.

After about twenty minutes I started to calm down, but still laid in Alex's arms because I liked the contact.

"Do you know where Luke is staying?" Alex asked as he ran his fingers through my hair.

"Probably at T.K's and Carlos's," I replied with a shakey breath.

"I'm going to go visit him," Alexsaid sternly, "Willie, can you take April home?"

"Of course," Willie smiled. And with that, he and April left.

"Lead the way, please, Reg," Alex smiled his gentle smile at me, but I didn't move.

"What's wrong?" Alex asked.

"I don't think  I'm ready to see him yet," I mumbled into his hoodie.

"Ok," Alex ran his hand through my hair again, "You don't have to if you don't want to. Just show me the way and then you can go back to Mrs. Harvey's."

I nodded and we left.

POV-Alex

We arrived in front of the house and Reggie went back to Mrs. Harvey's. I walked inside andsaw two men watching T.V on the couch. I assumed they were T.K and Carlos. I stayed invisable and went upstairs.

The first room was empty, the second was a bathroom, and I found Luke in the third room.

If I'm being honest, when I walked into that room I wanted to beat the shit out of him. But he had company, and it didn't take me long to recignize who it was.

"They said-" Luke was talking to the other person in the room.

"Lukas Dean fucking Patterson!" I yelled at him as I entered the room, interuppting whatever he was doing.

"What do you want?" Luke asked.

"Who's the blonde?" John Lennon asked.

"That's Alex," Luke informed the Beatle.

"I'm a very pissed Alex," I told him. "And you're lucky I don't you to pulp right here!"

"Hey now," John stepped between Luke and I, "Don't get you knickers in a twist."

I looked at John kind of dumbfounded. But continued anyway, "Luke, what the hell did you do to Reggie?"

Once I said that, John stepped out of the way.

"It was an accident, Alex!" Luke yelled back at me. "He was never supposed to be there!"

"Neither were you!" I swear I wanted to punch him so hard.

"I know!" Luke yelled. "I was stupid! But ask John, I'm trying so hard to make it better!"

POV-Luke

Before I could even blink there was a sharp pain going through my face starting at my upper lip and nose. I put my hand to my face in shock and stared at Alex, who was being held back by John. And T.K and Carlos were in the doorway, just as shocked as me. But I don't know if it's because John Lennon was in their house or because Alex just punched me.

"You bitch!" I screamed back at Alex.

I lunged for the tall blonde and managed to break him free of John's grip.

We rolled on the ground, punching, hitting, scratching, kneeing, and just overall beating each other up. But it was weird because we were hitting each so hard and there wasn't any blood, but it sure as hell hurt.

"Hey!" John screamed. "There's no time for fussing and fighting my friends! Try to see it the other way and understand each other! You can work it out!"

Alex was on top of me and we both stopped and looked at John.

"Did you just take the lyrics to We Can Work It Out and change them t fit this situation?" Alex asked.

"Maybe," John replied angrily. "But it worked."

As Alex climed off of me I pushed him.

"Luke!" Carlos yelled from behind us. "You were just told to stop!"

I nodded and then felt ashamed for fighting Alex. I knew Alex was right, but he hit me first. It was self defence.

"I have no good reason for being in that house," I admitted. "What Reggie did was right. I was being stupid, but I love Reggie and I'm not going to let him go. Here."

I handed Alex my notebook and he read the song John and I have been working on.

"Other than the fact that it seems geared towards sex," Alex said as he handed the notebook back, "I think he'll love it."

"I know, but I was using parts of his letters and shit," I looked down at my feet.

"Let me know if you need a drummer," Alex smiled.

"Oh, Luke," John grabbed my attention, "I forgot to tell you that I thought it'd be cool if Reggie got to meet half The Beatles. And you, too. So I invited George to come learn the song with us. He'll be hear shortly."

"George as in the George Harrison?" Alex asked.

"The one and only," John winked.

Holy shit. Two of the four Beatles? And I get to preform with them?

"John, you're fucking amazing!" I gave him a huge hug."Thank you for helping me."

"Like I said," John hugged me back. "I let the love of my life go, I'm not letting you make the same mistakes as me."

"Who's the love of you life?" T.K asked.

"Cynthia?" Alex guessed.

"No," John scoffed. "Paul."

After that we all started working on the song and T.K and Carlos stayed and listened. George came a few minutes later and the song was completed quickly. All that was left practice. And once Alex and I got passed being star struck, we all sounded better than ever.