Wishing For More - Lord of the Flies (Jalph)

Bonus

The music was too loud and the colors too bright as the dark male set down his glass. Years had passed and the brief loving embrace of a relationship had flitted by, leaving him broken, breathless, and a drunk. There was nothing wrong, society insisted, in turning too alcohol to wash away your problems, but, if you started to binge-drink, you were suddenly a hazard and a drain on the world. Even if your constant drink buying increased economy. Even if it meant you weren't roaming the streets, looking to hurt. Looking to kill. With dark eyes and a dark smile, the man pushed himself away from the stool, discarding a last, withering, look at the spot where they had met. If only. If only. A flash of red caught in his eye and his first thought was 'Police', but, then, as his thoughts slowly calculated, he remembered that the Police's sirens were blue and white, and, despite the stereotype, rarely involved red. He coughed blood into a tissue and wished, once again, for the end of his torture. The end of waiting. The end of hope. The end of everything.

"I am NOT going back there!" Jack barked, squirming away from Monica, eyes narrowing to express his utter disbelief. "You know about Roger!"
"I know how he fucked you over. Jack, you need to face your fear! You admitted to liking him once."
"That was before I knew Ralph."
"Roger still loves you."
"I've moved on."
"He hasn't."
"Get him too!"
"Roger is my brother! He deserves a chance to be happy again. Remember when you proposed to him? You screwed him for 19 nights straight, took him on a date, confessed your love and then proposed to him."
"Monica." Jack's voice was a warning.
"Then you left him! Waiting at the alter. Hoping. Waiting."
"It's not my fault!"
"What? That you were still in love with your golden-boy?"
"Ralph has always been the one."
"Tell that to the several hundred guys you've screwed on one night stands. Guess who you screwed the longest?"
"Roger, but-"
"19 days isn't long enough to fall in love, I know! But he deserves happiness. And you ripped it away from him."
"I couldn't go through with it!"
"Why bloody propose then?"
"Because... Because- Because he..."
"You loved him."
"Once."
"But you did."
"Maybe."
"You can love him again."
"Unlikely. Not with Ralph in my life."
"Ralph won't even have sex with you. Roger? He'd give you everything."
"You really presume me to be so shallow that you believe me to just be in a relationship for sex?"
"You have to be pretty shallow to abandon a guy at the alter."
"It was one time!"
"It was Roger. You loved him! You were just afraid of being in a serious relationship."
"I have Ralph now."
"Now? Now! That's the point. You only have Ralph because he broke up with his girlfriend."
"For me!"
"No. For himself. Roger has always liked you."
"Roger doesn't make me feel the way Ralph does."
"Is that such a bad thing?"
"Ralph loves me."
"Ralph views you as a murderer."
"He does not! Not anymore."
"Roger has never thought negative of you."
"I don't care!"
"Give him a chance. I'll distract Ralph at the bar, you need to talk to Roger."
"A chance for what?"
"To remind you how you once felt."
"I-"
"You owe him that much!"
"Okay. I'll talk to Roger."
"Great! I'll text him now."
"Jack?"
"Fuck."
"You proposed to Roger?"
"It was a long time ago."
Silence.
"But you're meeting up with him again?"
"Monica? Did you set me up?" Jack twisted to see the heartbreak on Ralph's tanned face.
"He needed too know. About everything." Monica glanced at a nail, nervous.
"You loved him."
"Ralph. I did."
"Then why did you agree to see him again?"
"To get Monica off my back!"
"Jack.. I just... I'm scared."
"Of what?"
"Of you leaving me."
"I'd never!"
"Really? After what I just heard?"
"Ralph. I love you. It's that simple."
"Is it?"
"One day, I'll marry you."