The Maynards

Jack's Secret

My video with Joe had gone live and that Friday morning, when I had finally arrived at school, I had so many questions from all my friends. They couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. I mean ever since 12 I was the biggest fan girl of these people and everyone would get fed up with me constantly mentioning one of their names, so to see me in a video with one of them was insane, if only they knew.
It was lunch and I was getting quite a few texts from Jack, now Jack and I weren't the best of friends and I had only met him a few times, but to me I had known him for years. I tried to ignore the constant buzzing and as I was in lunch I couldn't look at my phone to read them properly. My friends started to question what the noise was but I acted like I heard nothing so that a teacher wouldn't come over and confiscate my phone.
The buzzing had finally stopped and we headed back to the classroom with half and hour left of lunch. I opened my phone and had 16 messages from Jack. This can't be good.
I started from the top and slowly read through them, this wasn't good. A few of my friends could see the expression on my face and came over to me. They immediately saw who the messages were from and said to me all at once.
" Gemma, is that really Jack Maynard"
"That's a lie"
"Is this serious"
All the commotion, that I was completely oblivious to, caught the attention of the rest of my class mates and they all soon came over.
All the noise made the teachers question what was going in on, they stormed in the room and I quickly hid my phone and everyone else froze. The teacher quickly assessed the situation and gave us all the really camp and annoying 'look'.
The teacher left and I looked down to carry on reading the texts and I totally forgot about the hickeys from last night. My hair was in a pony tail and EVERYONE behind me could see them, to make matters even worse one off my class mates went
"Ooooo look what's on her neck...... Slag"
I could either do two things 1 kill the bitch, or 2 ignore her. There was more important stuff than this stupid girl and this stupid hickey so I decided to ignore it and carry on reading the texts, there was nothing I could do about it now and from what I was reading, I wasn't planning on staying in school much longer.

I finally finished reading them and tried to gather what I had just read. All the texts were in block capital and seemed drunk. It was 2 in the afternoon, and I new Jack liked a drink or two but this was like Saturday night 2 am drunk not Friday afternoon 2pm drunk. I started to really panic, something wasn't right. In the texts Jack was telling me how he needed help and that someone was going to hurt him. I quickly went to text Conor, surprising evryone standing behind me, starting the commotion again. I asked him where he was, he told me that they were all at Joes, apart from Jack who stayed home to edit.
I paused and thought for a second, but I knew if I told Conor this, that all they guys would go over and just take the piss out of Jack instead of helping him, and of course they cared but would probably just vlog it and laugh, but Jack sounded like he needed proper help, so I decided to go over myself. I stood up and realised the fuss I had caused, trying to ignore everyone around me and grabbed my bag and raced out of the classroom, pulling my hair down as I ran, despite only being in school for a few hours.
I may have only known these people properly for a week or so but to me I had known them 4/5 years and I really did care about them, and I wasn't going to let anything happen to Jack. I had watched him from from 40k subs to 1m and whatever it was that had happened, it had really screwed him up.
I had walked past the main office where I saw Imi, one of my best friends. She asked me where I was going, I told her I was leaving and to tell the teacher I went home ill. She hadn't seen any of the videos so she knew nothing and this was not the time to have a gossip session over it. She looked confused but I was gone before she could ask anything.
Imi was one of those friends I could trust and I told her everything, but I couldn't tell her this right now, I was in a rush and in my gut, I felt like something was not good.

I raced out of school trying not to be seen by the security cameras at the gates, jumped on the first bus and was at their flat within 10 mins. I hadn't heard anything else from him and I tried calling him but he wouldn't pick up. I knocked on the door, but there was no answer. Luckily I knew where the spare key was and lifted up the bottom of the door mat- as if no one would even think there would be a spare key under there. I frantically opened the main door and ran upstairs to the front door of their flat. Nearly missing the key hole, within a few attempts I was in, and I calmly took a deep breathe and opened the door. I walked through to the living room and there in front of me was a drunk Jack Maynard, crying on the sofa, half empty vodka bottle in hand.
He was not so surprised by my visit as I thought he would be. He stared up at me and I couldn't believe what I was looking at. I had never seen him like this, the only Jack I knew was the party animal who was a low-key fuckboy who was always smiling. I took the vodka bottle out of his hand and asked him what was wrong, a tear rolled down his cheek. I felt horrible for him so I gave him a hug, he hugged me back and his large muscly arms rapped around me, as if he was the one comforting me. In a clam relaxed tone I whispered in his ear,
" Come on Jack, what's wrong, I promise I won't tell." There was a short pause before he said
" I messed up, I really did"
" it's alright you can tell me"
"Well you know Conor's ex-girlfriend"
'Oh god' I thought, Jack and Conor were extremely close and I knew that they loved each other very much and would never want to hurt each other. Jack carried on in his drunk mumble,
"Well.." The smell of vodka on his breathe hitting me " I slept with her"
I froze, this was not good.
"And"
' oh no, God please no,'
"She is pregnant."
My blood turned cold, shivers ran down my spine, I didn't know how this was going to end, Jack burst into tears and all I could do was lay there, hug him and tell him we would work something out and it will all be ok. What else was I meant to do, this was obviously not going to end well.

5 minutes later, Jack still in tears, me lying next to him, his head tucked under mine and my hands stroking through his long soft blonde hair. I suddenly heard the clicking of the door unlock, and before I could do anything, Joe, Conor, Oli, Mikey, Caspar and Josh were stood in front of us, their eyes wide with shock. In front of them was a mess, vodka and gin bottles half empty on the ground and a teary eyed Jack and I hugging on the sofa... What the hell were they going to think of this...