What if ?

Date night

"Would you be my boyfriend ?"

They were at Jack's house eating some leftover pizza when Jack asked the question.

"You already asked that yesterday, and the day before, and the day before the day before and the answer is still the same."

"I know but I did tell you that I will make you like me. So did I ?" He raises his eyebrows.

"Maybe." He answers with a shyly smile. "But I don't wanna be your boyfriend."

"But why ? You basically just told me you like me."

"Because... because, I'm afraid that if we get together, you're gonna leave me. And it's unfair of me to say that because of course, not every relationship you get in can end in a happily ever after, but I just had one relationship where I got to deep into it, and then he left me, and that just..." He doesn't finish his sentence, he doesn't want to say that Ian broke him, not out loud.

"Was it Ian ?"

"What ?"

"The guy that broke your heart. Was it Ian ?"

"How do you know ?"

"Well you guys aren't very settle." When he sees Mickey with a questionning look on his face, he elaborates, "I mean the present, and those looks when you gave him the present, we all could feel the sexual tension around you."

"Okay...Well do you want to watch tv ?" Mickey really wanted to move on from this conversation. He moved forward to the tv to put a dvd on.

"Wait, can I ask you one last question." He has his hand curld around Mickey's wrist. "Please..
I promise you, we can watch any movie you want after." Mickey really wanted to moved on from this conversation but seeing Jack pleading face, he caved, for some reason, damn Ian really made him soft.

"Fine, whatever."

"Why were you at Ian's birthday party ?"

"What do you mean ?"

"I mean why go at an ex birthday party ?"

"We're trying to be friends."

"Ah okay... So you wanna watch that movie ?"

After a few days of Jack trying to convince Mickey to date him, Mickey finally caved.

"So... I was thinking, now that we're a couple, mabye we should meet Ian for lunch or something..."

"Why would you do something like that ?"

"Because, if you're trying to be friends with him I think it would be good for us to hang out, get the awkwardness out."

"Are you sure about this ?" Mickey was really nervous about this, he didn't know if he could really see Ian without it being a little awkward, so he really didn't wanna imagine having Ian and Jack in the same room together."

"No, I'm not, but I feel like it's something we have to do."

Ian was on his lunch break when he saw his phone light up with Mickey's name.

"Hi"

"Hi, soo what I'm gonna ask you is gonna be really weird, but you gotta say yes." He says a little nervous.

"Okaay, are you okay ?"

"Yea, I'm okay, it's just... We're friends right ?"

"Yes."

"That mean ? I can tell you that I have a boyfriend ? That's what friends do ? Right ?" Ian felt  his heart dropped at that, his hands becoming moist. But he really should'nt feel surprised after his birthday party. "Ian ?"

"Yea, yea."

"So I wanted to ask you if you would like to join Jack and I for dinner or something, tomorrow."

"I guess... but why would you want to do that ? Are you sure you're okay ?"

"Yea, I'm okay, it's just...Jack wants to do that, and I kinda like him, so please say yes."

"You like him ?"

"So what ? I can't be happy without you."

"No, not at all, I'm happy you're happy. Tell Jack I'll be there."

Ian was kinda looking forward to this dinner, at least he could finally see if Jack was good enough for Mickey.  But he was also dreading it, he didn't want to witness Mickey being happy without him.

Tomorrow finally came, Ian was held back at work, so when he arrived Mickey and Jack were already in front of the restaurant.

"Hey, sorry I'm late."

"It's okay, don't worry." Jack respondes. "Should we enter ?"

The restaurant was a classic  intimate Italian one, they could see the kitchen from were they were and they could smell everyone plate's.

"So what are we doing here ?" Ian asks.

They sat on a table, Mickey and Jack were sitting on one side and Ian on the other side.

"I just want to know you, outside of work I mean. Not that we really talked at work but I tought it would be good if we could all be friend. So it wouldn't be awkward between us."

"Okay."

"And also... I wanted to ask, are you gonna leave Mickey's life ?" His voice sounding rough.

"Jack..." Mickey forrows his eyes at Jack.

"No it's okay Mick. What do you mean ?"

"I mean are you gonna break his heart again ?"

"Oh, okay, well, if you really want an answer, no. I'm not gonna leave him. I know I've fucked up, mulltiples time, and I guess that you're concern, and I appreciate it."  He wasn't lying he was kinda relieved that Mickey had someone that wants to protect him, since Ian can't be that person anymore maybe Jack can. But he also wants Mickey to know that he can trust him."But I wanted to be in his life since he peed in little league, and he's been my best friend since I was fifteen. I can't lose him." At this point Ian completly forgot that Mickey was also here.

Mickey couldn't believe what he just heard, Ian couldn't lose him, he knew he was feeling like that back in their teenage year, but then the bipolar happened, and Mickey didn't know what to believe. But now Ian looked healty and balance, so what he's saying must be true. Right ?

After that Jack decided to settle on a lighter conversation, so the next two hours they talked about their job. Mickey was listening, he was surprised how they easily felt into a conversation after that awkward beginning. They looked pretty content maybe Jack idea wasn't so weird after all.

"So that went surprisingly well." Ian says

"Yea, I think it would be cool if we could all hang out again."

"Yea, why not."

Hey, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'm currently writing the last one (wich is also the next one) so everything should be published very soon.

And don't hesitate to tell me if I make any mistake, especially since English isn't my first language, I would appreciate you just more for that.