Chatoyant [ Septiplier ]

Chapter Five

Jacks POV

Sarah arrived home a few minutes after us. She slid over next to me on the couch and immediately started interrogating me about the date.

I told her everything from how Mark told me he had to pick me up early to Felix squeezing the air out of my body with his presence. She had a sympathetic look on her face.

"Well," she started, "first dates aren't always the best!" She gave me a cheesy smile and I smiled back.

Mark wasn't doing much around the house, but I could feel his gaze surrounding me every now and then. Sarah and I were cuddled on the sofa reading stories and snickering to each other when I felt a warm body press on my side. My entire being lit aflame. My face was bright red and I let out a barely audible squeak. Sarah gave him a look and when he finally made eye contact he put his hands up in defense, his legs digging underneath me since he could no longer use his hands to hold himself up.

"I felt left out," he said in a whiny voice. "I just wanted to cuddle too." He elongated the vowel sound and I could feel his breath on my cheek. My heart ached.

"Mark, you could have just asked and we would have made better space for you." Sarah said keeping an eye on me the entire time.

"But Jack is so cozy!" Mark held my arm and started shaking it. My face was burning and my ears were probably a bright ass red at this point.

"M-mark can ya cut it out?" I coughed out.

"Eh fine." Mark poured slightly. "But only if I can still cuddle with you guys." He held a devious smile.

"Sure, sure whatever now shut up." Sarah gave me a sympathetic look then opened Netflix to watch a random show. After continuous bickering between Sarah and Mark, she finally gave up and switched whatever show we were watching with Total Drama Island. Mark of course decided to shout in victory (making my ears cry) and then apologize profusely.

At one point durning our weird Netflix marathon, I had to get up because being between those two was suffocating. I made my way to the kitchen and poured myself a glass of water. I heard Mark and Sarah whispering and I wasn't thaaat far away from them, but alas I still couldn't hear them.

Marks POV:
Sarah and Jack were laying on the couch just sitting there, cuddling. Jacks hair looked fluffier than usual, and I was compelled to touch it but that would be weird. He look tense though. I wondered what they were reading, so I skipped over there and plopped myself next to Jack and all of a sudden I was on auto-pilot. I felt like I wasn't completely in control of what I was saying or doing anymore. I felt Jack's arm heat up underneath my hand. The feeling was addicting and I didn't want to remove a finger off of him. His voice brought be back to reality and I realized what I was doing was kinda out of place. Sarah was giving me a death stare and she was giving Jack a sad, sad look.

I stayed there for who know how long, until Jack got up. He went to the kitchen and all of a sudden Sarah pulled my ear to her face.

"You fucking idiot. You know when you cuddle with a guy who's in a relationship like that, it's kinda weird!"

"What do you mean 'like that' I was just laying there! Plus... Jack's not even dating that Philip guy or whatever..."

"Your arms were practically wrapped around him, and in yeah he is? I got you to drive him to their D A T E. Are you dumb, or do you wanna just— never mind just stop suffocating him." Sarah started the show and Jack plopped down in his spot.

I don't know how I was holding him.. I was just... cuddling... fuck.

I-it wasn't my fault really he's just so... addictive? No... well it doesn't matter. The point is he probably didn't mind.

"Hey Mark." Sarah said aloud, "I was thinking of having a party while mom's outta town. She gave me the okay as long as we clean up and there's no alcohol but Felix is coming so that rule is thrown out the window. You in or out?"

"In as I'll ever be!"

"Wait Felix is coming? Uh... I don't really like him much." Jack whispered in my general direction. I instinctively rubbed his arm that mine was so coincidentally wrapped around and he smiled at me. What a fucking adorable smile it was.

Is it just me, or is he getting cuter by the second? God. It's weird, we used to be real close friends a year ago but it's been awhile since we hung out.. and I feel like I'm meeting a new person. And this person is amazing.

A/N: This took forever to come out and I deeeeply apologize for it. I haven't been doing much lately and haven't been wanting to do anything either, so this took forever to write. Sorry it's kinda short too, but I wanted to get SOMETHING out. Love y'all :D 💚