My Life Sucks

A Game Of Cards

Mark's POV

"H-hey J-Jack...." I was cut off by Jack's phone ringing, he picked it up, talking to what seemed to be his mother, he put the phone on speaker so that he can continue playing the video game with me.

"Hey mum." He said into the phone.

"Hey honey, I was just wondering...is Mark with you?" She asked Jack, he then looked at me with confusion.

"Uh yeah he's here." Jack responded, while eating a lolly from the stash that Dan and Phil took back to the house.

"Hello Mrs McLoughlin." I said to her.

"Hello Mark." She replied with a warm voice.

"Why, is everything ok?" Jack asked her, we both looked at each other concerned.

"Yeah everything is fine, I was just wondering if I could talk to him for a minute?" She asked.

Jack's POV

I watched as Mark walked out of the room, on the phone with my mum, I wasn't sure what she wanted to talk to him about, did he do something that my mum wanted to know about? About 10 minutes later, Mark came back and gave me my phone.

"What did my mum say?" I asked as he sat back down on the cushion next to me. 

"She told me to tell you, because she thought that you would have a hard time processing this, she said; 'tell Jack that I have to move back to Ireland, only for a few weeks, because I have come down with a terrible sickness and I wouldn't know what to do if you got it. So I have made up my mind to go back, I will see you soon...hopefully.' And that's all she told me before she hung up." Mark said, looking at me with worry.

"Is the sickness that she has that bad?" I said, looking down at my lap with my controller still on.

"Apparently, I'm sorry Jack, but hopefully she'll get back before you know it." Mark said, trying to help me lift my spirit. 

Mark's POV

We decided to turn the PlayStation and head to bed, it was close to midnight anyway. I told Jack to start getting ready for bed while I have a word with Dan and Phil.

"Hey guys." I said to them, quietly.

"Oh hey Mark, you guys ok in there?" Phil asked, taking the now empty bowl of lollies that the two have been eating off his lap.

"Yeah everything's fine, we're just going to go to bed now, so try to make out quietly would you?" I said as we all laughed a bit.

"Ok." Dan said as they both waved 'goodnight' while I headed up the stairs, towards the bedroom. When I arrived to the door, I could see through the crack, that Jack had already fallen asleep, he must've been so tired from playing games. I quietly sneak in bed next to Jack and went to sleep. 

I woke up the next morning to find that Jack wasn't in bed, I looked around to see if I could find him at all, but my eyes haven't adjusted to the morning light yet. I got up, stumbling a little before getting my balance and walking downstairs to find Dan, Phil and Jack all in the lounge, eating breakfast, Jack saw me walk into the room.

"Good morning Markimoo." Jack said as he finished a piece of bacon from his plate.

"Good morning." I replied as I went on the couch and lied on Jack's legs.

"What's wrong, Mark?" He asked in a cute voice. 

"Nothing." I said back, but only sounded like wordless mumbles, Jack laughed and gave me a hug.