Nightmares (Alex Gaskarth X Reader)

Chapter 3~ I Think You Should Know

I don't know when I woke up, all I knew was the car was pulled over at an old, fishy looking gas station. "Yeah this doesn't look creepy at allllL." I said to myself, no one else was in the car so I figured Alex had started craving snacks. Suddenly a raccoon jumped onto the hood of the car and sat there for a while before jumping off. A few minutes later, Alex came back with a handful of snacks "you had to stop at the sketchiest place?" I yelled "when you're hungry you're hungry." He laughed "okay true." I sighed letting out a small grin. "Look at the sunset." He smiled "yeah...it's really nice." I said "so, are you hungry? We can go eat somewhere and look around, besides...the whole point of this was an adventure right?" He asked "true." I said "come on y/n, the world isn't gonna be here forever, make the best of it while you can!" He smiled "j-just- "have fun while you can y/n! Please!" He said "Okay fine." I said. It's hard to refuse someone like him. After driving for a bit (and already eating half of the snacks), we pulled up to a small town and found a small restaurant. I didn't think the food could get better, but that quickly changed when we got some of the pie from there...let's just say we both ate half of one and bought another one. After we finished eating, we walked around. We ended up at a little park "hey look y/n, you can see the stars really nice over there." Alex said motioning toward a cluster of hills behind a fence "but it's fenced off." I said "I got you babe." He said climbing over it and jumping off. I followed and landed in his arms, he spun me around and placed me back on the floor. "Let's go." He said and we walked up the hills "you're right, it really is beautiful up here." I smiled. "Yeah...it really is." He said "I guess since this whole thing is an adventure...so tell me something I don't know." I said "alright." He sighed "you wanna know what the rose on my hand means and the whole story behind our song therapy?" He asked "yeah." I answered "my half brother committed suicide when I was twelve, he was an alcoholic, but the thing left me so scarred that I had to see therapists, but they always ask what's wrong, making me relieve the moment...that's where the line 'Therapy you were never a friend to me' comes in...therapy made my life hell, and the rose also has a meaning to me and that situation." He said

Alex's POV

"So now that I've told you something...why don't you tell me something." I said "you would find out eventually, so why don't I show you now." She sighed, she always wore a lot of bracelets or a hoodie to cover her wrists and I always wondered why, she started taking all her bracelets off...and I saw scars on them...how could someone like her do that to themselves? "W-why?" I asked "my mom left me when I was twelve...I had friends up until then, my dad started drinking, and when I was fourteen he was a hopeless drunk, I was bullied so much for my scars, I constantly got notes taped inside my locker such as 'kill yourself' or 'if you don't kill yourself now, I'll do it for you' it hit my mind more than once th-that I was better off dead, I lived with it for two more years, but it got to be unbearable, and one day, my dad was knocked out after drinking his night away, so I took the chance to slip his gun out of his closet...I was going to do it, no one would stop me, besides no one cared, but then, someone did care... she ran out at me, and I felt like someone actually cared..." she sighed and started crying "I-I'm so sorry that happened to you, but you're a strong girl y/n, and you fought through it, I'm so proud of you even though I didn't know you." I said and hugged her, she buried her face in my chest and cried more, I wrapped my arms around her "nothing like that will ever happen again, I promise." I said. "You're strong y/n, very strong." I said. After she stopped crying, we lied on our backs and looked at the stars. I pulled y/n closer to me and kissed the top of her head. "I love you y/n." I smiled "I love you too, Lex." She said. The smile that had been growing erupted across my face, and J was probably smiling like a second grader when the girl he likes accepts the flower he gave her. I just couldn't help it. What could be better right now? Being out here on this beautiful night, with my beautiful girlfriend, I was starting to forget my nightmares, and that was a really good thing. "It's getting really cold, I think we should keep going now." Y/n shivered "okay," I said and carried her on my back to the car, within a few minutes, she fell asleep again, which makes sense because it's been a long day, I was getting pretty sleepy too, about an hour later I couldn't go any longer without crashing, I was so tired, so I stopped off and went to find a hotel for the night, it would definitely not be very nice, but it would be better than having to sleep in the car. "Y/n, wake up baby." I said "okay, I'll just take you to the room." I said to myself after she didn't even move. In the morning after we went down for breakfast, I was ready to keep going. "We'll be in Baltimore today." I said "that's good." She smiled "I can't wait to see where you grew up." She said "I can't wait to be back home." I said. For some reason I was in the mood to sing, and we sang Guts, Time Bomb, Weightless, Lost In Stereo, Painting Flowers, and a bunch of our other songs "you know...you can be a singer, no matter how much you say you can't." I said "I can't sing Lex." She insisted "no no no no no, you have such a good voice." I insisted "nooooOoO." She argued "I don't care what you say, you have such a great voice." I said quickly leaning over and kissing her cheek.