Barely Legal. [Milex]

One For The Road

Somehow we managed to sneak out to the schoolyard without being seen. My mates said it was necessary for a moment like this. They knew I needed them. I hadn't been this sad in a long time.

"Are you alright?" My beautiful blond friend asked, resting his chin on my shoulder.

"I don't think so, Dames," I whispered looking down, taking a long drag of my cigarette. We were skipping class, sitting on the green grass of the outside field. We weren't allowed to smoke inside the school but I didn't have nerves of steel. And technically, the field wasn't ''inside'' the school.

"You know it's only a month, days go fast Mi," Jules said with his head resting on his knees, looking at me with a sympathetic face.

I nodded. "I know but I can't help being sad," I sad almost emotionless.

Damon rested his head on my shoulder and sighed. "Did you see him yesterday?"

"Yeah, he was really busy though. With all the lads, making calls, packing shit..." I shrugged. "We didn't get to be alone."

"Are you seeing him today?" Asked Jules.

"Yeah but he's gonna be with them anyways, they had a lot of stuff to do," I responded.
I never thought it was going to be like that. I thought we were gonna spend the last few days together, alone, enjoying the other. But it was impossible with everything that had been going on.

"Something's something," Dames whispered, looking up at me.

"Yeah, I guess," I said, thinking about how everything was gonna happen. Waving goodbye at him from outside their van's window. Crying on the bus as I went back home all alone...

Wait... I didn't have to be alone.

"Hey, can you two come with me?" I asked a bit more cheerful.

"Really?" They both smiled.

"Really. I don't wanna be left alone when he goes and you guys should say goodbye as well, I don't know." I said with a small smile. Having my mates with me was always helpful, especially in times like this.

"Sure, I'll go." Damon smiled.

"Me too." Said Jules, bumping his shoulder against mine.

"Thank you, lads."

When classes ended the three of us took the bus to Alex's flat. Jules and I had class with him that day but due to all the chaos going on in his life he didn't go, so we had a substitute who let us do whatever we wanted, what was the point of that? Who knows.

During the whole ride there no one spoke, they probably didn't know what to say to me. There was honestly nothing they could say to make this better. I couldn't imagine how it would've been without them with me.

Aly and I have only been together for a few months and now he had to leave, right when we were in the good part. This was unfair, it didn't matter how many times I repeated myself that this was good for him I couldn't be happy about it. This was shit. And I felt like shit.

I sighed as the road started looking more and more familiar. ''Let's go,'' I whispered, loud enough for them to hear me.

''Wow...'' Damon said when he saw the two vans outside Alex's building. ''This guy won the lottery.''

I smiled as I opened the gate, moving aside to let them come in first.
We walked inside and I said hello to Jared, who looked at me with a sad smile. He probably knew what was happening.

''Alright, a few things,'' I started when we were going up in the elevator. ''It's probably chaos up there so please try to not disturb or get in anyone's way, I made that mistake yesterday and almost got my arse beaten by Matt,'' I warned.