The bus ride (Jack barakat)

Chapter five: A whole other day

"FUCK OW Ow ow" I heard someone yelling I quickly sat up and opened my eyes to see Jack bent over hugging his foot. Wait where am I? Oh wait never mind. I remember wow, yesterday was a roller coaster. I mean I love roller coasters but when its not a ride; but rather your life it's not as fun. I was quickly drawn out of my thoughts by jacks voice "sorry. I didn't mean to wake you. Well I did. Just not my screaming" he said with a chuckle
"Oh, no it's fine I usually wake up to yelling."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah it's the sound of my alarm. See I just recorded the sound of people yelling and set it as my alarm. It's pretty effective." I said and Jack laughed. God his laugh is so great like its the classic 'haha' a lot like my own
"So lace?"
"Jack?" I said raising a brow or more like attempting to
"You can't raise your eyebrows?!" Jack exclaimed pointing and laughing.
"Shut up. I don't want to talk about it. What do you want anyway? Or did you just want to bother me, the dear sweet sleeping beauty?" I asked scratching my head while holding back a yawn
"No, as sweet as you look sleeping compared to when you're awake. I just wanted to see if you wanted breakfast?" He said with his stupid smirk
"Um yeah here let me just get ready." I said hopping out of bed while trying to find my dress and shoes from last night. "Um where's my dress?" I asked not being able to find it
"Oh here I put it in the closet, but you don't have to wear it." I looked at Jack a little confused he then noticed and continued "I mean it's dirty, and you're clean. You can borrow some of my clothes." He said smiling. he walked around his room looking for a shirt and some pants. I decided to sit up a little to try and wake up more. His room was nice cream color and it was pretty neat. There were pictures on the wall and some of their platinum discs and pictures of his family and the band everywhere. It's really nice. "Here this will fit you." Jack said with a smile handing me a blink-182 shirt
"Thanks, but what about pants?"
"Pants? No one wears pants anymore." He said as though it was most obvious thing
"Um no, honey. As fun as not wearing pants is. I think I'll need them in public." I giggled
"Daaaamn girl fine. What ever you want. Here you can wear these instead." He said with a smirk handing me a pair of blue shorts. I opened them up and saw that they were the booty shorts that said 'get low' on the butt.
"Omg. You're really handing me your merchandise from like three years ago?" I asked amused
"Well yeah. I mean they're great! I can wear a pair with you if you want." He said jokingly
"As nice as your legs might be. I'd rather not see. Ok, well, um...I'll go get low." I said shaking the booty shorts and walking into the bathroom. After getting changed I walked out to see Jack sitting on the couch in his living room already dressed in black skinnies and his camo shirt with his glasses on playing with his phone.
"Cough cough. Notice me." I said looking at him
"Great let's go, shorty!" He said loudly grabbing my hand and leading me to his car. We drove for 20 minutes before coming to an IHOP and getting out. We were served soon after and brought waters.
"So Barakat..." I said breaking the silence
"So...fuck I don't know your last name. Only your first. You know it's not fair that you know my full name and I don't know yours."
"Well that's what you get for being famous. I get to know your age, height, and name I've also seen a picture of you practically naked while you know nothing about me." I smirked while taking a sip of my water.
"See that's not fair. You should get famous and send me nudes. That way we're even."
"Hey if I was famous I would not send you nudes!" I gasped
"Sure you would. Or I would just see you naked in person." Jack winked and my face immediately went red I look down trying to avoid him from seeing my embarrassment, but it was no use he just laughed at me "anyway...since you're not famous and I know hardly anything about you. Let me ask you some questions."
"Fine hit me with your best shot." I said with a devilish smile waiting to take what he throws at me.
"What's your full name?"
"Lacey May Parker" I said smiling as Jack just stared at me intensely
"Alright I like it. I'm still just going to call you Lace though." He smiled
"Hey I've got no problem with it. I like it, it's a cute nickname."
"Anyway, before your comment interrupted my interrogation." He sighed rolling his eyes making my laugh "how old are you?"
"I'm 25"
"What do you do for a job?"
"I'm a photographer." I said smiling proud of my job
"Where are you from?"
"Maryland. Just a bit further south from here."
"Um..." Jack was cut off by our food being placed in front of us. And I immediately started digging into my waffles when Jack laughed
"What?"
"Nothing it's just you have whipped cream all on your face."
"Oh ok." I said not caring, wiping what was on my face before going back to eating and Jack eating his. After finishing half my waffle I looked up to see Jack staring at me "What? Do I have more food on my face?" I asked wiping my face again
"No...not at all." He shook his head
"Then why are you looking at me? Gosh go back to eating your omelet or something." I said getting flustered
"Okay, but don't think this is the end of my questions." He said in a joking tone but still a tad serious before going back to the food.
After finishing my meal I excused myself to go to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror and I looked horrible. My hair was a wavy mess my eyes were bright sure, but there were dark bags under them. I turned to look at the rest of my body in the mirror. I looked at my stomach and hated it sure I wasn't super large but I still hated it, my mid section was short while my legs were long and my legs weren't that bad. I mean I still hated them but I could tolerate them. That's why I didn't mind wearing short shorts or short dresses. I then sighed and left the bathroom after washing my hands.
"Hey" I said sliding back into the booth
"Hey lace. You know the waiter was checking you out when you left to the bathroom." Jack said sounding a little irritated, but trying to push it aside
"Really? Maybe I Should go give him my number." I smirked
"Nah I wouldn't. He seems like a douchbag." Jack said not looking up, but rather at the bill
"Here let me pa...actually-"
"No I'll pay." Jack retorted immediately
"Just as well. I forgot I didn't bring my purse. We're going back to your place right? Because I really need to grab my stuff and head home." I said biting my lip
"Yeah, sure. Hell I'll even drive you home." He said with a smile getting up and waiting for my hand to lead me back out to the car. Wow Jack really likes to hold hands. Not that I'm complaining I like it too. Once we got back to jacks house he quickly opened the front door and led me into wear my stuff was.
"Ok I got it!" I called back from the other room I was walking back to jacks living room when I tripped over something or maybe nothing because I'm just that clumsy and fell straight on my face. "Ow..." I groaned loudly from the floor getting back up
"Shit hey sorry. I didn't know someone was here or I wouldn't of left my shoes there." The stranger said taking my arm and helping me up
"No, it's fine I should really stop being a cluts and tripping over people's shoes." I chuckled looking up and seeing non other than the Alex Gaskarth
"Are you a fan?"
"What?" I said quickly coming back to reality
"Are you a fan? I mean you have that look like 'omg it's Alex from all time low!!!!' Or maybe that's the look of 'OH MY GOD A FUCKING STRANGER WHOSE GOING TO CHOP ME UP INTO LITTLE TINY BITS!" He said imitating a teenage girl
"Wow that's a great imitation, but um yeah I am a fan." I blushed looking down
"Hey what's going on?" Jack called walking to where Alex and I were "oh hey Alex I didn't know you were here!" Jack said hugging Alex
"Yeah I just got here. But obviously you have other plans." Alex said wiggling his eye brows causing my fave to grow red.
"Shut the fuck up." Jack said sounding embarrassed and irritated.
"Ok sorry." Alex said holding up his hands in defeat.
"Whatever man. I'm just going to take Lacey home so I'll be back in like an hour or two." Jack said walking over to Alex and I. I my shoes and jack and I walked out the door.
"Bye Lacey!" Alex called
"Bye Alex it was nice meeting you!" I yelled back. Jack opened the car door for me and closed it after i got in before running to the other side and got in I told him my address and we were on our way. After about 20 minutes of silence only the radio playing and the quietness of us singling along to ourselves Jack spoke.
"You know I ever got to finish my questions." He looked at me for a moment.
"Okay what else do you want to know?"
"Let's talk about your friends at the bar last night." He more so stated than asked
"Sure um. Ok there's Charlie. He and I met when I first started college him and I were in the same English and we've been friends ever since he's more like the let's party 24/7 type and he's really sweet and stuff." I looked over at Jack to see if he was still listening before continuing. "Then there's Lexie. Her and I met in middle school. She's pretty laid back and isn't so much of a thrill seeker like I am. That's pretty much the gist."
"Ok." He shrugged
"Okay? Is that all you wanted to know? You're not going to ask anything about me?"
"Not really. I want to figure you out for myself." He smiled at me and my stomach did a flip for some reason. I mean I've always had a huge crush on Jack barakat when I was younger and even still today. But I've known him for two days really and now my stomach decided to act all funny. I mean he held my hand for fucks sake and now because of a smile my tummy feels weird what the hell.
"But there is one thing I want to know." He asked a bit shyly. strongly out of character for him I looked at him waiting for him to continue. "Are you a bottom or a top?" He asked trying to keep a straight face as mine went as red as a tomato.
"I guess if you're lucky you'll see." I said smirking back at him making it his turn to blush, but never did. He only smiled
After 30 minutes and a bunch of bad jokes and singing horribly off-key with the car radio we had arrived. Jack parked and got out of the car as I grabbed my things and started heading to the apartment buildings door .
"Jack do you want to come in for something to drink?"
"Sure yeah!" Jack said cheerfully as he proceeded to grab my arm and skip with me down the hall to my apartment door. I slid the key in the lock and opened it only to be faced with a pissed off Lexie.
"Where the hell have you been!?" Lexie roared grabbing my arm and pulling me in the door.
"What?"
"Where have you been I've been trying to call you. It's fucking 3 in the afternoon. You could have been dead."
"Oh sorry I guess my phone was dead. Now chill out I'm alive and in one piece." I said spinning around to show her I was still alive.
"Fine whatever." She was still a little upset but she was trying to calm down.
"Oh, hey Lex this Jack." I Said grabbing his arm and pulling him through the door as Lexie sat down
"Hello" he said in a funny tone making me laugh
"Oh. Um well I'll be in my room and leave you to it." Lex said winking and walking off making me roll my eyes.
I walked into the kitchen with Jack right behind me. I handed him a water. And walked back out and sat on the couch patting the seat next to me waiting for him to join. He came and jumped smack on the couch almost landing on me.
"Jesus Jack close enough. I'm pretty sure your balls hit my shoulder when you came down." I chuckled
"They probably did. I mean my balls are pretty huge."
"Well thats probably because you've never busted a nut." He was about to protest but then stopped
"So what do you want to do?"
"Um we could watch a movie? Does that seem good to you?"
"Yeah it sounds great, lace." I pushed play waiting to see what movie was already in the player and the nightmare before Christmas started playing. Jack and I turned all the lights off and and watched the movie in as dark as a room we could make it.
"You know what just hit me." I said out of no where
"What?"
"We went to I Hop and I didn't even wear shoes." I said laughing with Jack laughing seconds after.
When the movie was over about an hour and half later Jack and I said goodbye exchanging numbers so we could talk and plan to see each other again soon. This just happened to be an amazing Saturday.

A/N: I finished. Next chapter will be a little different. But I think it will be good