[Discontinued] The King and the Alpha ~Septiplier Fanfiction~

Chapter 16: Ice Cream Talks

•Mark•
"Mark."

I gasped, and sat up. Sweat beaded my forehead, and I pushed my covers off. Things had been strange for the past three weeks. Everything was passing me up, it seemed. It was all a blur. My mom was dead, and I didn't know what to do with myself.

Every morning Jack's voice woke me from a nightmare I could never remember. He always sounded like he was right beside me, but when I reached out he wasn't there. Jack and I had been together a lot recently, and with the events that happened three weeks ago I really was grateful to have my friends. I still hadn't gotten the chance to talk to him, it seemed Amy, Tyler, or Ethan were always with us. Signe had gone home a few days after the fire. She told us that she had gotten in touch with King Sean, and he was working to make gay relationships and marriages legal for vampires. In turn, Signe said, King Sean sincerely hoped to work with me soon to do the same for werewolves. I thought that this was a great idea, King Sean seems very kind, but I still felt... uneasy.

I took a quick shower and threw on some warm clothes. It had gotten colder, but I would still eat ice cream if I wanted to. Completely unrelated things, except they're both cold. I coughed, feeling my stomach lurch. Jack.

The soulmate bond was a weird thing, especially once it was activated. I knew I needed to find Jack. At this time, I assumed he was in his dorm so I started walking there. Since I didn't live far from the dorms it didn't take long. Upon reaching his door my stomach lurched again, this time it was painful and I keeled over. Something was seriously wrong.

I knocked, but no one answered. Surely he was here? He had to be. Why wasn't he answering?

"Jack?" I called out, knocking once more.

"Go away!" Jack cried out, his voice hoarse. I took a deep breath and opened his door.

Papers were strewn about in a messy circle around him, and he sat in the middle, hurrying to pick up everything. When I tried to step closer he stood and pushed me from seeing the papers. He looked devastated, with tears in his eyes and his face red and splotchy from crying. Finally all if the papers were picked up, and he stuffed them in a box and then put it with other boxes.

"How are you?" I ask quietly, shutting his door. Even though it was stupid to ask, I didn't want to push him about the papers.

"Clearly not good. I shouldn't have been so bold. I should've stayed quiet..." Jack said with a sigh, running a hand through his hair. He flopped onto his bed and motioned for me to join him.

"What? The Jack being quiet? That's a bit of a stretch. Whatever this is, I'm sure things will work out in your favor."

"Why do you say that?" He asked.

"Jack, I have never met anyone quite like you. The first day I met you, I felt this... I dunno, power exuding from you. You're strong and brave, and I think that things will always turn out to be in your favor. Eventually." I grinned, and poked his side.

"That's so... philosophical. Stop. I need back the goofy goober that I know!" Jack suddenly pushed me off of the bed, smirking to himself as I rolled off with an oof!

"Hey!" I drawled out. I sat up and pulled Jack down with me, laughing when he playfully punched my side.

"Ugh. Wanna go... somewhere? I can't be here right now. I don't even know if I wanna come to school Monday. I might skip. People will have my ass for that though... Shite, what do you wanna do?" Jack helped me up, and raised his eyebrow.

For one, I want to kiss him every time he does that. Hot damn.

"Ice cream is good. Sorry, I've had ice cream on my mind recently. There's a shop I know that has the best ice cream and the worst people, I love it. If you're up for it, that is."

"Sure. Do they sell cookies there?" He asked as I opened the door.

"Well right beside the ice cream shop is a bakery that makes the worst cookies but has the nicest people." I grinned when Jack snorted.

"That makes no sense!"

"Exactly. It's not supposed to."

I took him to the ice cream shop, which was having another name change. They never seemed to keep the same name for long. This time it looked like the shop was going to be called The Cream. They certainly needed to keep any possible innuendos out of whatever they decided to finally call the place.

"So... I hate to pull this on you, but we really need to talk. It doesn't have to go anywhere of anything, I just want us to talk about what happened that Friday." I finally said.

"I honestly wouldn't know where to begin, Mark. First of all, I have a secret. I chose to keep this a secret, so please respect that. Second, you are... something. Delicious, intoxicating, sweet. Sorry if that weirds you out, by the way. I don't mean for it to weird you out. Lastly... You're my soulmate. I felt it when I first tasted your blood, and again when I felt my stomach pull because you were hurting. And, I'm scared. I don't know what to do. You're the Alpha of Alphas, and I'm... a secret." Jack had finished his ice cream already, but I had yet to touch mine as I took this all in.

"Okay. I knew you were my soulmate. My wolf wouldn't shut up till I acknowledged that much. Actually, that tugging sensation brought me to you. I knew something was wrong." I said.

"What do we do?" Jack asked.

"We don't have to do anything. While you are absolutely gorgeous and a wonderful person, I'm not going to tell you that we have to be in a relationship because we're soulmates. It's whatever for now, and it can be whatever until you decide it's not whatever. If that makes any sense." I chuckled.

"What about you? Do you want to be in a relationship with me? Even if it had to be kind of a secret?" He asked. I pretended to contemplate it, thoughtfully (and dramatically) taking a slow bite of ice cream.

"Patience is a virtue, one I don't have for games most of the time. For you, I'd wait forever. So to answer you're question, yes. And, if that answer gets me a few kisses, I'd be delighted." I laughed as he took the spoonful of ice cream out of my hand and smeared it on my nose.

"For now, it's whatever. But... I think I can manage a few kisses." Jack slowly leaned towards me, pausing just before he reached my lips. Then his lifted his head up a bit and licked my nose.

"Ew! Jack!" I whined. He giggled as I playfully glared at him. I could get used to this.

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