The Party Scene (Jalex)

13. Always

OKAY WOW GUYS ILY and heh thank you for the lovely comments on my last chapter. Anyway as you can probably already tell the song for this chapter is Always by Blink 182, because you know what that song is just tears and wow okay wow thank you.

*Alex's POV*

"Hey, Lex?" Jack calls from my room

"What?"

"Do you have a sweatshirt I could borrow? Sorry mine kinda got drenched in... egg"

"Oh, yeah, sure" I hurry up the stairs. I look through the messy dresser and sigh, pulling out the only sweatshirt I had, minus the one I was already wearing as a pajama shirt. It had Mickey Mouse on it... I had gotten it from my aunt when she came back from her trip to Disney World last year. Normally I wouldn't mind wearing it around the house but... This could be embarrassing because... Well... You get my point right? "Umm... Yeah... This is like... The only other one I have. If you don't wanna wear it that's fine"

He chuckles and nods "Mickey is great, thanks man"

"Okay, I'll leave you to get changed" I say, setting the sweatshirt on the bed

I slowly make my way down the hall before hearing a slight... Whimper, I guess you could call it. I stop and listen closely, moving silently back towards the closed door of my room. "Shit shit shit. Don't start this now. White sleeves aren't going to work if this doesn't stop" Jack whispers to himself "Come on" He sighs and I hear him sit down on the bed. "Fuck... Alex why did the simple thought of you make me turn around and run right back here? People were chasing me trying to beat the shit out of me and the whole time I could've just locked myself in my own house, but no, I risked it and ran here, because I knew it's where you were"

What? He came back here because of me? The question pops into my head yet again, Why did he go outside in the first place?

"And I thought that was the stupidest thing I did today, but no, because now I'm here with you, it seems like the best decision I could've made. This, now, is the stupidest thing I've done today" He sighs "Now please stop bleeding"

I peek through the gap in the side of the door and see Jack holding a tissue over his arm. Crimson words seeping through the thin material... A mixture of anger and sympathy wash over me as I hurry down the stairs and into the kitchen. After throwing a roll of gauze on the table along with a note, I sprint outside and run through the dim streets to the school. The red and orange morning sky providing me with just enough light to find my way.

*Jack's POV*

Eventually the cuts on my arm stop bleeding and I pull on the sweatshirt. Alex practically looked mortified when he pulled this out of the drawer, cute kid, thinking I'd laugh at him for owning a Mickey Mouse shirt. It still smells like his cologne, that sounds creepy but since I've been hanging out with him so much, I can identify it's sweet smell in a second.

I smile to myself and walk down the stairs, looking through the house for him, but there's nobody to be found. There's a little roll of gauze wrap on the table in the kitchen and a note next to it "Just went out for a minute. From what I heard I figured you needed this. Be back soon -Alex"

Fuck... He heard me. Why did I have to develop a habit of talking to myself!? What did he go out to do, anyway? I sigh and carefully slide my sleeve up and wrap the gauze around my arm. If Alex doesn't come back in ten minutes I'm going out to look for him.

*Alex's POV*

I stumble through the front door of the house my vision a little blurry. Jack walks into the foyer and stares up at me in horror.

"Oh my god! What happened to you?!" He helps hold me up and I take a deep breath

"I didn't know he was still in the truck" I mumble, my lip stinging where it split

"What do you mean, Alex?" He hands me a paper towel for my bloody nose and helps me over to a chair in then kitchen

"You hurt yourself because of Joey Samuels, and I got really mad. I went to the school and kinda... Smashed one of his headlights. But I didn't see him in the truck until it was too late. He got out and beat the shit out of me"

He sighs "Alex, you really didn't have to do that"

"Yes, I did, because I care about you and want you to recover. There's no way I'm gonna let an asshole like him get in the way of you getting better"

Jack stares at me for a second, before slowly leaning in and softly kissing me. As much pain as I was in, it all seemed to melt away for that minute.

We both blushed and grinned like idiots for what seemed like forever before he carefully hugged me and whispered "Thank you"

Heh okay wow