All I want|Jack Avery

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After mine and Kat's talk we go back downstairs. Corbyn, Jonah and Zach aren't back yet. Jack is still sitting on the couch, talking to Madison who is on the other side of the couch, Mae is on the chair, and Daniel isn't in the room. When I reach the bottom, I trip over the last stair, and land on my knees, catching myself with my hands. "Are you okay?" I hear Jack say a second later. "Yeah, just scraped my knees, and hands." I say lightly brushing my hands together. "need a hand?" He asks, and reaches his hand down for me. "Yeah." I say quietly, smile, and grab his hand. When he pulls me up, I look into his eyes, and my smile grows bigger making him smile. I can feel eyes on us, and I look down. "Sorry." I say, and laugh in one small breath. "For what?" He asks, and brings or hands down to our sides, and intertwines our fingers letting our hands sit loosely together. "Umm... this." I look him in the eyes again. "I'm still confused." He laughs dryly. "Isn't this weird for you too?" I ask. "Is what weird?" He looks down at our hands, rubbing the backs of mine with his thumbs. "Heh, uhh... us just standing here." I try to explain. "No. I want everyone to know I want you, so they stay away." He looks back up into my eyes. "You're cute." I giggle. "Why thank you, and you as well." He smiles bigger. "Mmhm." I purse my lips together, then smile at the ground. "Hey," He says gently, trying to get my attention. "Yes?" I look up at him with my eyes. "Kiss me." He smirks. "Heheh, uhh... what?" I look directly at him. "Kiss me." He repeats. "Jack." I tilt my head. "Fine I'll do it." He laughs. "I'm still confu-" I then get cut off with light touch on my lips. I kinda freak out a little, still confused on the situation, then kiss him back. I feel his hand reach up, and touch my cheek lightly. He holds the kiss for a little longer, but then pulls away. "That was lame." Kat says from the stairs. "At least your boyfriend didn't have to talk me into it." Jack says looking over my shoulder at her. "What?" she laughs confused, then continues down the stairs. "I had to convince Daniel to make a move on you." Jack says, and I rest my forehead on his shoulder. "Mmhm." Kat says. "Go ahead, and ask him yourself." Jack responds, and moves his hand to my other hand. Now both of our hands are intertwined again, still hanging loosely. "I don't want to." She says sitting on the couch. "Kat, you ruined the moment." I whine lifting my head up. "Sorry, continue." She says turning the other way, and pulling out her phone. I lay my head back on his shoulder, and he starts to wrap his arms around me, and I let my hands drop to my sides. He grabs me around the waist, and pulls me closer. I pick up my head again, and wrap my arms around his neck. "Hi." He says sweetly. "You tend to say that a lot." I smile. "It's fun to say." He smiles, and we both laugh. "Can we go sit?" I nod my head towards the living room where everyone else is. "Yeah." He half smiles. We let go of each other, but almost immediately he grabs my hand, and intertwines our fingers, yet again. We walk into the living room him leading me, and we sit on the ground cause Madison, and Kat have the couch, Mae still has the chair. He wraps his arm around my shoulders, and I lean my head on him. After a moment of silence I hear someone at the door, and turn around to face it. Eventually I see Corbyn appear. "HEY!!!" He yells when he realizes his success. "Hi!" I yell not as enthusiastic as him. "Wow, thanks." He sounds disappointed. "Sorry I can't really yell." I say pointing at Jack. "HI!!" Kat yells at Corbyn. "HI!!" He yells back at her. "HOW ARE YOU?!?!" She yells, and smiles. "GREAT, HOW ABOUT YOU?!?!" He yells, and smiles back. "PRETTY GOOD!!" She laughs. "THAT'S GOOD!!" He walks the rest of the way into the house, then Zach, and Jonah trail in behind him. "Oh, guys." I say standing up, startling Jack. "Sorry." I say looking down at him. "So this is Madison." I say gesturing to her on the couch, and they wave. "Madison this is Corbyn, Jonah, and Zach." I point at the boys in the order I say their names, and she smiles at them. "And this..." I say while moving my arm from pointing at the couch to the chair, "...is Mae." She looks up at the sound of her name. "Mae, this is Corbyn, Zach, and Jonah." She waves at Corbyn, and Zach, then when her, and Jonah's eyes meet it was like something clicked. A big smile spread across both of their faces, and she gets up. "Hey." Her eyes have some kind of sparkle in them. "Hi." He has the same sparkle. "I'm Mae, as Becca said." She says stepping forward. "I'm Jonah, she also said that." He laughs. Jack stands up, and steps next to me. "Jonah has a crush." He whispers. "Well I'm guessing that Mae does too, but I don't really know her, so I can't tell." I laugh quietly. "So, how long you staying?" He asks. "I don't know, me and Madison will just leave when we want, or when we're told. How about you?" She questions. "Well, it's usually not up to me its up to Daniel..." He looks around, not seeing Daniel. "...Speaking of which, where is Daniel?" Jonah asks Kat. "Umm... I think he went into the kitchen." She looks around. "I'll go look." She stands up. "Okay." He says, then turning back to Mae. "Is Daniel the one who was out front when we got here?" Mae asks glancing around. "Yeah." I nod. "Okay." She turns back to Jonah. "Why does he always choose?" She asks him. "He's dating the head of the house." Jonah says. "Well I'm soon to be dating the other person who lives here." Jack says bumping shoulders with me. "And when did I say that was happening?" I turn to him. "I know you want me." He says wrapping his arm around my shoulder. "I also never said that." I respond. "I never said you said it, I just said that you want me." He pulls me closer. "Whatever." I smile, and laugh. "Anyways, continue." He says gesturing to Jonah. "So we will have to ask the couple when they get back." Almost as if on cue they walk in. "Hey Daniel, how long are we staying?" Jonah asks. "Uh, what do you want to do?" He asks. "I guess it depends on what happens in the next few hours." Jonah smiles at Mae. "I guess it does." She smiles, then looks down, confused. "That didn't make sense, did it?" She asks looking at Madison. "No, not really." She shakes her head. "It.. kinda made sense." Jonah says with hesitation. "In what world?" I sass. "Shut up Becca." Corbyn nudges my arm. "Back off Besson." I look at him over my shoulder. "In another universe Jenson." He responds. "Oh, also, are we going to talk about this?" He says pointing at Jack, with his arm around me, and looking at everyone. "Yeah, whats going on with you two?" Zach asks. "Well, I mean nothing really." I say. "Nothing really?" Jack says sounding sarcastically offended "Well, I mean we've kissed twice, and well that's about it." I look up at him. "Can I make it three?" He smiles. "Don't push it." I smile, and look away. "We still don't know what you guys are. Please just tell us." Kat whines sitting next to Daniel. "Well I wanna be more than friends, but I mean that's not under my control." Jack says letting go of my shoulders. "Well you gotta give me a new, maybe better impression than last time." I look at him. "Can we please move on from that?" He groans, upset that I still haven't let it go. "Move on from what?" Mae asks. "Uh... I don't like to talk about it." I look at her then down at the ground. "Also it's not that. It's just you haven't given me a good enough impression yet." I look back up at Jack. "What else is there for me to do? I mean we've gotten to know each other, I'm pretty sure you've forgiven me, we've kissed twice, and I know that maybe not everyone knows this, but we've well... cuddled almost every time I've spent the night since you moved here." He point's out. "Well... I... Uhh..." I can feel everyone looking at me, and I feel slightly pressured. "Becca." He steps closer. "Yes Jack?" I look between his two eyes worried. "What's holding this back?" He puts he hands out in front of him like hes begging for an answer. "Cause the thought of what will happen after, and how broken I will be hurts more than that day." I cross my arms scared, and feel a tear drip down my cheek. I look away from him, and close my eyes tightly. I feel everything just fade, and it feels like I'm all alone in a black room. Like there's nothing left, no way to escape this eternal darkness, I just feel broken, and gone. Everything just disappeared.