My Exact Opposite | Jachary AU

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"Jack, you have no right - none at all - to be nosing your way into his business!" Corbyn gritted his teeth at the way Jack was acting.

"Corbyn. In the dream he was fucking perfect for me. Caring, loving, protective. And I wanna know what happened to real-life Zach that made him like this."

"If he wanted you to know, he would've told you," At that moment, Jack saw a familiar brown-haired boy walk out of a classroom and he was off in the blink of an eye, Corbyn running after him like a person running after his dog.

"Zach! I gotta talk to you," Jack said, panting slightly.

"Well, I don't -" Was all the brown-haired boy could get out before getting dragged away.

"After lunch, we have music together. And -"

"You're in my music class?"

"Yes. So we have a partner project in music, and we get to choose who we pick," Zach was slightly confused at the tone of Jack's voice and he furrowed his eyebrows.

"Zach....Zach? D'you wanna be my partner?" Jack's voice was like a faint buzz in the younger boy's ears, who was still trying to figure out what Jack was feeling. It was almost the exact same tone Reese had used while she was trying to convince their mother to let her eat candy for breakfast. The thought made Zach run his hand through his hair in frustration, a loud sigh escaping from his lips.

"Hello? Zach I-don't-know-your-last-name?" Jack waved a hand in front of his face and got a blank stare in return.

"It's Herron. My last name is Herron," He muttered, his eyes still unfocused. The tone Jack had used....it made him almost want to say yes.

Almost.

As if controlled, Zach straightened up and his eyes focused, and Jack noticed they seemed softer, some of the hard edge gone.

"No. No thank you, Jack. Besides, your girlfriend is coming in a week if what Corbyn and Daniel told me is correct. And from what I've heard, she's a bitch," As he turned around, Jack caught his wrist and turned Zach around to face him again, only to have the younger boy pull his hand away and wince.

"Jeez, that hurt," Zach shook his head, glaring at Jack at the same time. "Did you rub your feet on a carpet or something? I mean, the least you could've done was touch the metal door handle right behind you so I didn't have to get shocked by your stupid static electricity," He huffed, walking away.

Jack was left staring at his retreating back with his mouth hanging open.

Because he felt something.

And if Zach felt the 'static electricity' too, what did that mean?

***

"Every time, Jonah! Every single time! Fucking static electricity," Zach swore, his eyes flaring red. They were sitting in the music room again and all Jonah and Christina could do was laugh.

"Why are you laughing? I don't get it," He looked at the both of them, his eyes turning back to brown.

If only you knew love.....was the thought going through the both of their heads. Zach had thought the tingles he felt were static electricity.

"Zach?" Christina asked, her face lighting up with an idea.

"Yeah?"

"What do you think of Jack?" She turned to face the boy, whose cheeks were turning red. Although his expression was blank, it seemed like he was staring holes in the floor.

"He's an asshole."

"Why is he an asshole?"

"Have you not counted the number of girls he flirts with every day? It's disgusting. And he doesn't listen to me no matter how many times I tell him to leave me the fuck alone," Zach looked up to see his two friends with idiotic grins on their faces and all he could do was sigh as he rested his head on his hands, a comfortable silence taking over the music room. It stayed like that for a few minutes until the door banged open, the three of them looking up in alarm.

"So will you be my partner?" A breathless Jack asked as he barged in.

"Did I not say no earlier?" Jack didn't seem to hear Zach's statement and promptly dragged him out of the room with the younger boy struggling to fight his way out of Jack's grip because of the weird feeling in his stomach.

"Stop making me try to feel things," Zach said once they were outside the room.

"I still don't get how you can't feel," Jack cocked his head to the side as he saw Zach's eyes turn a smoky gray.

"I don't get how you can," The younger boy turned away, his eyes turning back to brown as he started to walk away.

"What's it like?" Jack's question echoed throughout the hallway, making the boy pause.

"Like being locked in a cage and watching everything happen around you when you can't get out. Like being colorblind and constantly being told how colorful the world is," The slight waver in Zach's voice took him by surprise as he looked up and saw indigo irises.

"What about your family?" He asked softly, slowly approaching the brown-haired boy.

"My father never cared for me. In fact, the only emotion I have ever felt towards him is hate," Zach said, his eyes slowly turning purple. So purple means hate.....Jack thought to himself. He'd been documenting what colors Zach's eyes changed to whenever he said something, trying to figure out what some of the them meant.

"But...but don't you love your family? Haven't you said 'I love you' to them?" He asked again, desperation lacing his voice. Zach furrowed his eyebrows at the tone but answered the question anyway.

"Maybe when I was a child. But now I can't feel. I have not said 'I love you' to my family since I was seven," He said slowly, his eyes now a swirl of gray and indigo.

"Why?"

"Because I wouldn't mean it. Just like I am incapable of feeling happiness, I am also incapable of feeling love of any kind," Zach looked up, the hard edge in his eyes gone. Jack was surprised to see a single tear run down the younger boy's cheek before he abruptly turned away and went inside the music room.

"Stop it," Jack said to the butterflies in his stomach as he pulled out his phone. He scrolled through his notes, reading what he had so far.

Color & meaning

Red - anger/annoyance

Gray - sadness(?)

Indigo - pain?

Rainbow - ?

Purple - hatred

He sighed at the small list and was about to put the phone back in his pocket when it vibrated with a message.

Gabbie: coming in a week

Gabbie: i miss you so much babe <3

Shit. 

I feel like people have been dropping the book, and I'm sorry if it's really bad. I'm trying my best to speed the plot along, but I feel like I have to many time skips already. I'm so sorry if you find it boring.

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