In Another Life

Introduction

Zach was sat on his bed, looking around at the white walls of his room, his hands messing with the Ariana Grande blanket that he'd bought online. The boys were downstairs eating a dinner of Chipotle that Jack and him had gotten.

Zach decided that sorting his thoughts would be a good thing to do, what with the tour in Asia coming up and the new music coming out and all. Maybe it would calm him. Make him a little less stressed.

He started the filing in his head but it was all too crazy and he couldn't remember which file went into which drawer or even if he was doing alphabetical order or not. He sighed, reaching into his nightstand to find a piece of paper and pen. He sighed in relief once he found a black ballpoint pen and an old receipt from Target. Flipping the receipt onto the blank side, he started writing.

Thought #1: Chipotle is way too expensive. $5.00 for a burrito? Lord Almighty.

Thought #2: Will the fans like the lyrics to our new song? I hope they do.

Thought #3: Ariana Grande's album is lit. I wanna see one of her shows on her next tour.

Thought #4: Jack is hot. I definitely have a crush on him. Does he have a crush on me? I hope so. That would make my life. But that means I'm either gay or bisexual. Most likely I'm gay because I don't like girls. None of them are cute the way that boys are. I like Jack. I like him a lot.

He sighed, setting the receipt down on his nightstand and clicking the pen closed, tossing that onto his nightstand as well. He decided to change out of his skinny, black jeans and black T-shirt, and into some black sweatpants and a different black T-shirt.

Then Jonah and Corbyn walked into the room, sitting on their beds that are next to each other. Jonah had a red comforter with black accent pillows. Corbyn had a comforter with the galaxy on it with galaxy printed pillows and black pillows. Zach had a plain black comforter with plain black pillows, the Ariana Grande blanket at the end of his bed being the only color there.

Jonah and Corbyn were talking about something that had to do with James Dean. The boys always liked to tease Zach saying that if he wasn't careful, he'd end up like James Dean. Zach always blushed a little when Jack would say that. He guessed the comparison to one of the hottest actors that ever lived, coming out of Jack's mouth, forwarded to Zach, made it sound like Jack was calling him hot in a lover kind of way. Even though Zach knew he was only saying that because they were friends.

Zach had known about his feelings towards Jack for a while but always pushed them away in fear of what his family would think. But now, Zach wasn't so sure if he cared about what his parents thought of him. Isn't that what the world has been telling people this whole time? That it doesn't matter what other people think, it's what you think of yourself?

Zach knew that telling Jack about his feelings towards him was a necessity right now. He needed to get it off his chest. But Zach was exhausted. Sleep was also needed right now. He decided to tell Jack about his feelings tomorrow. Right now he needed sleep.

He said goodnight to Corbyn and Jonah, put his phone on charge, and fell asleep to the soft mumblings of Corbyn and Jonah still discussing James Dean.