Alex walks into the park, looking around finding the person he has been dying to see. Once he spots the figure he knows so well, he quickly walk over and slides to the seat next to him.
“Zack” he greets. Zack looks over to him, putting his camera down to his laps
“Alex” he replies, giving him a lopsided smile, “what’s up?”
“I know now”
“Know what exactly?” Zack arches his brow, looking sideways to Alex.
Alex sucks some of the air, more than he needed. He’s there because he needs help and he knows that Zack would be the only one without a biased opinion. At least, he thinks so. Zack rarely ever sides; he would be the neutral, white, fair side to every argument and thus, he knows that he can count on Zack on this…hopefully so. But talking about this isn’t as easy as just talking about some random things; he isn’t really comfortable in talking about this topic. Sure he had written a couple of lyrics regarding of the topic, but he has long since talking about it to someone. Zack would be a great starter.
“I know that…I may have unconsciously grown to like Jasey…”
“I know you like her” he adds easily, drifting his attention back to his camera
“Not like as in I like you or Rian…or Jack. But…you know, like…like”
“Oh you only like us?” Zack’s tone indicate as if he’s a bit offended by that
“Oh come on,” Alex groans in frustration, earning a good chuckle from Zack.
“I love you guys and I loved her the same way I love you guys” Alex’s voice drop, “and I really like Jasey…and it is slowly feels more and more different from my original feelings…it’s weird, it’s rather unsettling”
“mmhmm…” Zack mumbles, not tearing his eyes off of the camera
“I liked her before but now it’s growing. I like her…I really, really like her. But it’s not love as in lovey dovey couple like Ri and Cass. I don’t think it is love,” Alex snorts, waving away the idea of love as if that’s ridiculous, “but I just really like her”
“Denial much…” Zack mumbles under his breath, his voice only loud enough for him to hear it himself.
“What?”
“Nothing important” Zack puts his camera down, glancing over Alex in all seriousness, “Look, Alex. I get these confessions a lot as you may have probably noticed. Rian also came to me when he had that ex-girlfriend of his and he accidentally fell in love with Cass. In most cases, it started the same. The girl, the boy, both really immature and uncaring, both made stupid plans and ideas, both gone through a really weird situation in which they don’t know what to do anymore…” he stopped, “wait, that’s a cute duckling over there” he sprints towards the pond, snapping some pictures of yellow ducklings quacking noisily. Alex raises his brows, throwing his hands upwards in frustration,
“Really, Zack? REALLY?”
Zack grins childishly as he sprints back to the bench, “Perfect moments don’t come twice”
Alex suppresses his frustrated groan, waiting for Zack to continue his speech.
“Anyway, as I had been saying…you and Jasey have reached that weird phase. Well, I don’t know about Jasey but you have certainly gone through that. You know, in my past knowledge, a man and a woman can’t have just a casual, friendly relationship, especially with special adding to it” he smirks, jabbing Alex’s ribs playfully, “without eventually have that weird feelings for each other if they hadn’t set the boundaries straight. And I mean, a woman and a man can certainly be friends if they know that one or the other has had a special someone in their lives, but you guys don’t. You guys are both lonely and alone and you need something and you both find it in each other. There’s no way you or her wouldn’t eventually find that you feel something different, whether it is just a phase or it is something real.” Zack takes a deep breath while Alex had to think about everything Zack has been saying.
“But Zack, I am certainly sure it is not love…love is so way down the road. Gosh saying it already makes me feel cheesy” he shudders
“Are you though?” Zack smiles discreetly, “Whatever you say, Alex. One thing I can tell you though, it will be impossible for this to be resolved without some kind of bumpy road…maybe a little hurting to one or the other…”
“I don’t want to hurt her,” Alex mumbles
“Trust me” Zack smirks, “But yeah. Do what you have to do; I am sure you know what you’ve got to do. I am sure you have something in your mind, do what you think is right. If you really like her, if you really cared for her, I am sure you wouldn’t do the things that you know can hurt her…that is, if you really like her as much as you had implied to me before”
Zack finishes with a pat on Alex’s shoulder, “Now if you excuse me, I have ducklings to do a photo-shoot with. Good luck, Alex”
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No Idea (@carolimelda)
FanfictionJasey is a girl that Alex talked to when she was lost in a festival and since that they become friends that leads to them taking advantages of each other. Will this relationship works for them?
