40 Days - a Jaspar Au

Chapter 1

JOE POV

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40

I woke up the next morning, my Laptop next to me and my duvet sprawled all over the floor. Adding to that, some guy was screaming outside of my flat. As I could understand it was because the boyfriend of a, as I quote "stupid fucking bitch", had gotten coffee spilled over himself, since his girlfriend had tripped and stumbled into him. Poor girl...

Well, I'll take that back, now she's screaming histerically. I rolled out if my bed and groaned in agony, when I fell on the floor. Afterwards I got up and shut my window energetically. When I finally took a look at my clock, it was only 8 am and that was extremely ear I'd been awake till 2 am. Yeah, Tumblr is my life, and I'm not ashamed one bit.

My morning rushed by, in a blurt of showering eating the rest of Pizza and cleaning a bit. Then, at about 11 o'clock, my doorbell rang. I knew who stood in front of the door the second I touched the knob; "Oh my god, Phil, you cannot say that!"

"What's up Yoseph!" "Phil! I told you not to say that, you're terrible!" I couldn't help myself but laugh, when Phil greeted me with one of his terrible puns, and Dan immediately face palmed himself because of his boyfriend. In fact none of our friend group did actually know, if they were a real couple, they started to play as if they were, when it was Phil's turn to get 24 years old and he still hadn't found a partner. But by now they seemed to be a real couple, the just didn't tell is if they were.

"Good Morning you two! Come in, I need to get my jacket and my wallet." I greeted, almost getting choked in their bear hugs, damn my height! "Hurry up, Joe, we still need to pick Chris and Peej up!" Dan reminded me, leaning against the wall in the hallway. I hurriedly grabbed my stuff and followed them to their car. "How are you doing anyways? Found anyone by now?" Phil asked, when we were seated and Dan started driving. I just shook my head, sighing.

The 24th-Birthday-need-to-have-a-partner-otherwise-dead-thing wasn't really mentioned amongst us, it was kind of a depressing topic, since we'd lost a friend a few years ago. Sometimes it seemed as if no one was actually bothered by the fact that I was potentially going to die in 40 days. I knew that wasn't happening, I could see the looks my friends have each other, scared and sad ones, when they thought I wasn't looking.

The car was awkwardly silent for a few minutes, then I broke the silence; "Who's coming today anyway? Janya and Narcus are on trips, aren't they?" (And yes, we give each other ship names, we're awesome!) Dan nodded, Phil answered. "We're picking up Chris and PJ as well as you, Troyler and Konnor are arriving together. Zalfie's bringing Louise, I think." I gave Phil a thankful smile and realized we arrived at the Kendall-Ligouri "residence" also known as flat.

"Hello everyone!" Chris screeched imitating Tyler's voice as soon as he'd come out of the door, PJ grinning widely behind him. Chris and I usually jokes around and imitated characters and people to coincide humanity, and we were both pretty good at it, without wanting to sound arrogant. "Hey guys!" I answered first, with Troyes voice, making Phil giggle. Hugs were exchanged, and I scooted in the middle of the backseat, with me being the smallest it was only logical to be in the middle so the other giants were able to have a bit of space.
"God, I can't handle the gay in this car!" Chris sighed, when we were all seated and driving once again.

"I'm not gay. I'm bi." Dan protested.

I exchanged a look with Phil in the mirror of the car and we burst out laughing. "You do realize you're in a homosexual relationship for four years now, Daniel darling?" PJ asked, raising his eyebrows. "Not to forget the fact that the only time you were in a straight relationship because the girl payed you for it to get revenge on her ex?" Chris added, making Dan cringe.