Eternally Ours

46- Do Yourself a Favour and Run

"So Fred is it just the photography students work being shown?" Harry asks from the drivers seat, his car is the biggest so it made sense to all go in his to see this art show at Freddie and Annie's college. Jack doesn't seem to care about going back to his old college, I guess he doesn't have bad memories there, he only changed colleges because he moved house with his mum and it made more sense for him to move to a nearer college. The things I've heard about Jack's life before I knew him he seemed so different, he's not the Jack that they all knew- parts of him will always be Jack but he's grown a lot.

"No it's everyone in the visual arts section of the college so the fine art students, the graphic students the fashion side so there is a fair bit to look at," Freddie answered from beside me. Jack's hand slips into mine and I know he can tell I'm anxious it must be radiating from me. My thought is confirmed when he starts to trace his thumb up and down my hand in sort of circles, my anxiety easing with each stroke.

"And it's the pictures you took of us?" Annie asks.

"All of your wonderful faces so."

"Great, so everyone at the college is going to see pictures of me posing in a bath tub?" Harry questions not looking impressed.

"You don't even go there Harry why do you care?" Freddie fires back.

"I went to school with most of them! You could have warned us."

"I just did warn you!" Freddie shouts.

"Enough now children. Harry grow up and stop thinking you're too cool for your old mates to see and Freddie don't shout!" Annie tells the pair of them and the car falls silent. I lay my head against Jack's chest and can feel him lightly laughing at his friends. He leans down and kisses the top of my head gently and I can feel him inhale as he stays like that.

Five minutes later we park the car in the college. It's very different to my college. This one looks a bit newer but still around the same size, it's more set back then ours and not on a busy street. There are playing fields at the back that looks slightly bigger than the ones Lambeth College has to offer.

"Weird to think you used to go here," I mention as Jack falls into step beside me.

"Feels like a lifetime ago. Things have definitely changed since then." Jack answers his brow slightly furrowed. As if a bad memory had taken over him.

"Will you see any of your old friends here?"

"The only people I consider friends are the ones you and I share. I have a few old team mates that I'll say hey to if I see them." He answers his face unreadable. I mean he has never mentioned any other friends.

"Who's your best friend?" I ask I always assumed it was Harry over Freddie. I never did know until I saw how hurt Harry looked by Jack when we first started dating, not just angry, Jack was the closest person to betray him in a way.

"You are." He answers with a straight face as if the answer was obvious. I can't help the blush that creeps onto my face.

"I am?" I answer, "I meant out of the guys." I answer looking on at Harry and Freddie play fighting way in front of us, well I hope they're play fighting, Harry is winning and has Freddie in a headlock while he flails his hands around dramatically. Annie is just shaking her head walking to the building with them trailing behind.

"You are my best friend. If I need to talk to someone about anything it's you, I would want to speak to you even before we were together. If I had a good day I want to tell you about it and when I had a bad day it's you I want to be the one I get everything off my chest too." He holds my hand and then wraps his arm around me, kissing the top of my head. "The guys don't even come close compared to you. Who is your best friend?" The fact that Jack just said that to me makes me feel so much love for him, and I understand that he is my best friend to. Sam is on of my best friends, but distance has made it harder for us to stay close, Annie is my best friend too, Freddie I consider more as my brother than anything else and Harry is my uncle. But Jack is my soulmate and I know it he is my ultimate best friend because he is right he is the one I want to tell everything too as soon as it happens.