Under a Paper Moon (Jalex)

Chapter 15

Jack's POV

Dear Diary, it's me again! Well obviously it's not going to Alex because that would be weird. Anyway the party tonight should be okay, as long as we don't play some childish games involving alcohol because me and Alex don't mix well with alcohol. Maybe if I just told Alex I was ill we wouldn't have to go but it was for halloween so it makes me want to go I guess. Alex wants to dress as a zombie and I was obviously thinking of being Jack Skellington because hey, I'm called Jack.

I put down my pen and threw my book across my room as Alex entered. "Jack! It's nearly 6pm and you're not even dressed!" He was always stressed before parties as stuff like that. "Don't wanna go." I mumbled before turning away from him. "What's wrong, Jay? You usually love halloween?" He laid beside where I was sat, elbow propped against my window ledge. I shrugged which I knew Alex hated but I didn't even know why I was sad, I just was and I hated it. "We don't have to go. I understand you don't want to because I'd rather be home too but we need to go for Rian and Zack." My head shot up as those words fell out of his mouth. "Zack told you?!" I practically screamed. "What? About what? I meant because they're in our band and they're our best friends.." Alex became confused which was shown by his oh so famous eyebrow knitting an puppy eyes.

"Right. Zack likes Rian. But you can't say anything because of Cas! Okay?" Alex's face just began to drop completely, "NOW WE REALLY HAVE TO GO." He pulled me up and through clothes at me before pinning me to the floor. "Just sit still already! I know what I'm doing." I took the opportunity to sit up once he got the face paints. He placed one hand on the back of my head and the other was in use of holding the crayon like paints. "You're even prettier up close." Alex sighed before rubbing my face with white pastel.

Alex's POV

I just really liked sitting in front of Jack and taking in every little detail of him. I knew since the first day we met he didn't like people staring at him because it made him feel uncomfortable but lately he'd be settling for it. With Jack now ready as well as me we made our way down the road where we found Rian outside the door of his house, drinking with Zack. "AYEEE GASKARTH!" Rian nearly pushed me to the ground with his meatiness. Zack pulled Jack aside and began talking until Cas arrived.

You could actually feel the hurt that Zack was feeling right now and heck, it hurt more than anything. But we knew this wasn't our place to be so we ventured inside, there we a couple of tens of people. Most of which we didn't even know at all. Once the guys came inside it was clear something had happened because Cas wasn't with them, she came all the way down here just to dump Rian.

Rian, Zack, Jack and I all sat in a circle along with a few people we didn't know but saw ten around school before we left. Once the bottle was placed in the centre along with a shot glass Jack gave me a worried look in which I returned with an uneven smile. Rian span first as it was his party, as soon as it faced Rian me and Jack smiled to ourselves. "We'll here goes." He took his shot but I think us and everyone else noticed that Zack didn't have his, he didn't need to after all. It lasted for ten seconds but Zack looked pretty chuffed and surprisingly so did Ri.

Jack's POV

I knew as it landed on me that Alex was scared. We'd made out plenty of times at home before but this was it public, a room full of people we barely knew. We both crawled into the centre of the circle and Alex sat up on his knees, placing a hand on the side of my face and simply brushing it with his thumb before he dived in. To be honest the girls in the room soon gathered, I could feel it, them all staring. That's when Alex took it a step forward and slipped his tongue into my mouth and everyone started whistling and chanting something, we'd been kissing for three minutes.

As we looked around both Rian and Zack were gone but we still stayed downstairs all night until 4am when we headed back home where we found my mother stood looking unpleased. "What time do you call this?" She stood, tapping her foot until none of us could really answer. "Get to bed because Alex has work again tomorrow." We began to climb up the stairs, "Oh and boys? Nice video." She chuckled to herself. Had someone actually sent her the video? Great. I mean she's known for ages about me and Alex and she's walked in on us more than enough times but that video was different. It was in front of new people and this time no one gave us any crap for it.

We were finally able to be happy.