Something New - [Carl Gallagher x Male OC]

Four

Carl had to admit, the two stars were definitely added throughout the night. After the movie they went to the diner and Jack offered to pay but Carl insisted to pay.

"No way, man, let me pay. You already brought the snacks."

Jack smiled at him. "You sure? I usually order a lot." Carl nodded. "It's fine."

Jack didn't lie. He ordered quite a lot but at the end they ate everything together, laughed at each other's lame jokes, but there was still something that was bothering Jack and Carl could see it.

Sure, he might not be the best at school, but he wasn't stupid - not at all. He noticed the fact that whenever Jack smiled brightly it faded away whenever he thought that Carl wasn't looking at him anymore. Was he forcing himself through the night? Did he actually want to be with someone else right now? Maybe with that girl he fought another guy for the other day.

But he didn't have the right to be jealous, really, what even are they?
Carl had to laugh at his own thoughts.

"What?" Jack asked as he drank out of his straw and Carl thought he looked cute. Damn it.

He really is pretty, cute, handsome, honestly, every positive word you can come up with. Carl thought he hated him at the beginning, well, they are the complete opposite of each other, physical appearance aside; Jack has light hair and dark eyes while Carl has dark hair and light eyes. Jack was tall - definitely well over average, while Carl was of average height, maybe even a little shorter than that.

Schoolwise, Jack has something in his head. Carl never saw Jack's arm not raised eagerly to answer a tricky question which pissed Carl off at the beginning, but now he was actually impressed in some kind of way.

Carl surrounds himself with some dangerous people while the most dangerous person Carl has seen in Jack's life is some guy trying to beat him up over a girl - Carl considered this kindergarten level. There wasn't even a knife involved.

Carl learned over the short time that Jack is quite a tease, while he's acting smart at school he can be lost at times when it comes to things like cooking or killing an annoying spider at Carl's place.

Jack gets easily disgusted by these kinds of things, so Carl already knows that he has to get all the work done. While Carl is killing the spider Jack is always telling him to try to not kill it but to simply get it outside in a painless manner. Carl thought that that's cute of him too.

"Carl," Jack said and Carl realised that he still hadn't answered. "Why are you laughing all of a sudden. Let me laugh with you." Jack smiled brightly again and this time the smile stayed. Maybe he was just imagining things.

"You..." Carl started. "like to spend time with me, right?"

Jack was taken aback. "Y-yes sure. You are fun."

"I'm just fun to you?"

"That's not what I was trying to say. Carl, I think you know that I enjoy spending time with you and you know what you are to me."

"Yeah, you just told me, fun."

"Come on Carl you are twisting my words."

"Hmm, sure." Carl said. He ruined the mood, he really did - But he had to know.

"Carl." Jack said with a steady voice.