DIRTY LAUNDRY

06

You get me out of my head,
You fill the space in my bed •

I was sitting on my bed, ready to leave. Jack was fixing his hair to look perfect for his little girlfriend as I was internally screaming every time last night's kiss came to my mind.
Double dates are something I was never a fan of. It's just two couples pretending they give a shit about each other, while making small talk and waiting for it to be over so they can leave. I literally had no choice. Since I am very bad at faking pretty much anything, I had to say yes, because Jack was getting suspicious. He might've been drunk but if he noticed the way I look at him, I had to start pretending otherwise. Though, I am definitely not looking forward to looking at Andie trying to climb up Jack's ass but hey, at least there's Lisa; a nice girl I'm stringing along for a cover.
Just stop it Alex I kept telling myself.
But I didn't know how and if I'm completely honest, I'm not sure I even wanted to. I mean, of course I knew that the talk with Lisa is necessary, but if me and her together make Jack jealous or at least a bit uncomfortable, I'm on board. Which was very wrong of me and I knew that it would come around to bite me in the ass eventually.

"Andie just texted me, they're downstairs. Ready?" Jack said to me.

"Been ready for at least 30 minutes. Let's go." I replied. He smiled at me and made my knees weak yet again as we were making our way to the elevator.
Sigh. This is gonna be a long night.

We decided to go for a pizza, well, Andie was begging Jack and me and Lisa kind of had to say yes. I didn't care because I wasn't that hungry and I was having a quality conversation with Lisa. Afterwards, we went to grab a drink at a local bar. Andie of course had the most expensive cocktail on the list, Jack had a beer and me and Lisa each had a mojito. It was pretty good, not that strong and not too sugary.

"So lovebirds, how was last night?" Andie giggled. I just couldn't stand her and maybe it was mostly because she's dating Jack, but I swear the food I ate started coming back up when I looked at her or heard her stupid voice.
I avoided communicating with her unless it was inevitable.

"We had sex in the bathroom." Lisa calmly replied. I almost spit out the drink. Jack looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

"Way to go!" Andie cheered, but didn't expect what Lisa said next.

"Jesus Andie, I'm joking, we met last night. Not everyone is like you." Lisa said and gave her a weird look.

"Excuse me, what is that supposed to mean?" Jack asked and looked at Andie.

"That means she's lying." Andie tried defending herself. "Don't listen to her, her virginity is clouding her mind."

I literally opened my mouth, shocked and even more disgusted by Andie. I thought it was impossible but hey, would you look at that.

"What did you say?" I asked her.

"She's a virgin." Andie repeated.

"Is that bad?" I asked her again. I felt like I was in high school and being a virgin is something you should be ashamed of. Unbelievable.

"Alex, it's okay... you don't have to..." Lisa started but it was too late, I was already pissed off.

"No, no... I wanna hear it." I said to Lisa and then turned back to the platinum blonde ratchetness sitting across from me. "What's wrong with being a virgin? Is she supposed to fuck around with every guy that hands her a drink?"

Jack looked at me but he didn't seem mad, her on the other hand, she looked furious, but she didn't say anything. She stood up and stormed away from the table. Jack's gaze was stuck on my eyes and it looked like he was signaling me to help him, asking me what he should do. I shrugged my shoulders and said nothing.

"I'm sorry Lisa. See you guys later." He said and put a $20 bill in my hand. Then he went after Andie.

"She can be such a bitch." Lisa mumbled. "Thanks for defending me, you didn't have to do that."

"Yeah I did, she's such a drama queen! I don't know how you two are best friends, you're nothing like her." I stated.

"Yeah, we have our differences but she just crossed a line, I never ever judged her... and she's judging me for not throwing it at everybody that I meet? Wow... just wow." She said. I totally agreed with her. Andie is just bad news.

"Hope you and Jack will be fine." She added.

"Yeah, don't worry. I just hope he won't let her wrap him around her finger." I said.

"God, she pissed me off." She muttered.

"Don't worry about it. Walk you home?" I asked and signaled the bartender to bring the receipt.

"Sure, that would be nice." She said. After we paid I walked her to her dorm where she hugged me and pressed a small kiss on my cheek. Then she went inside and I walked back to my dorm, trying to clear my head in the meantime. I needed to calm my tits. Tonight was very close to me exploding at Andie, even though I had a reason. Still, I shouldn't have let it go that far. It was almost midnight when I got in and still no sign of Jack. After showering and changing into my comfy clothes I jumped into bed and tried to fall asleep. Again, I had problems, too much thoughts racing through my mind. Slowly I eventually drifted to sleep, unfortunately not for long. At 2am I heard some kind of noise, so I turned the light on and saw Jack, sitting at the table, drinking beer and browsing his phone.

"Hey, is everything alright?" I asked when I lifted myself up. He didn't answer so I got out of bed and walked over to him. He didn't even flinch when I kneeled in front of him. I looked closely and saw his puffy eyes and tears streaming down his cheeks. He was crying and I don't know why but it made me feel like I had this hole inside my chest.

"Hey, don't cry." I said and wiped his wet cheeks. "What happened?"
He just shook and lowered his head, then the tears started coming again.

I leaned in and wrapped my arms around him, rubbing his back gently. He dropped his cellphone and a second later I felt his arms around me, holding me tight. His face was buried in my neck and quiet little sobs were coming from his mouth.

"Shh, everything's okay. Come on, let's get you to bed." He listened to every word I said, did everything I told him to. After changing into his pj's, he rolled into his bed and I took a seat right next to him, caressing his hair slowly, shushing him, assuring he will be just fine.

"Thank you Alex." He whispered and took my hand. When he fell asleep just a few minutes later I didn't want to let go, so I scooted closer to him and turned to the side so I was spooning him. I soon drifted back to sleep.

Another night spent sleeping next to Jack... this time wondering what the hell happened to him?