All Time Slash - Fireworks. (Jalex FanFic)

Chapter 26

Jack’s fingers curled around the bare hip of the sleeping male next to him.

Their hot breath was heating the back of his neck, shivers tingling down his spine.

As his nails gently grazed against the skin, he listened to the older boy stir in his sleep, a state which Jack preferred him to be in if he was honest. It certainly made things a lot easier.

“I wish I could tell you the truth,” Jack began to whisper, “I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to be with you. I’m just scared, Oli...”

The American teenager retracted his hand back to his side, feeling quite disgusted in himself. He knew that Oli was his current boyfriend, and he was cheating on him with Alex, yet he believed that in actual fact, being here, he was cheating on that other English boy.

Either way, Jack’s actions cause somebody to get hurt.

At least with Alex understanding the current situation, it made Jack feel a little less guilty. Alex knew that Jack couldn’t just say to Oli, “It’s over.” for there were many more complications than that. Anyway, even if Jack was able to do that, it would cause such controversy if he jumped into a relationship with Alex straight away.

They would be forced to wait for at least a couple of weeks.

Alex hated waiting, but it had become something he was getting good at.

Jack wished for things to be easier, but he’d come to realise that with Alex, nothing would be easy, not ever.

Pressing his body up against the wall, he was attempting to wriggle from Oli’s grip, yet the older man did not want to let go, so it seemed.

Jack was regretting the decision to stay the night in this hellhole, but he knew that it was the only thing he could do.

The past couple of days, Jack had made excuses to not see Oli, “I have to go shopping with my mum.” or “I need to catch up with school work.” both were lies which Jack spun to allow him time to spend with Alex.

Whilst Oli thought he was studying, or maybe doing early Christmas shopping, Jack was in fact in the arms of the boy whom he believed to be falling in love with, ever so gradually.

Oli was growing suspicious, which Jack could sense. He knew that when Oli offered the boy to stay over, he couldn’t decline, because otherwise the man would figure it all out.

Sure, it sounds like a good idea, maybe have Oli break up with him, but suspecting him of cheating (when the accusation would be true), it was a large risk for Alex’s health. Jack wasn’t prepared to put the boy in danger, especially since he knew exactly what Oli could do, and it was not fucking pretty.

Stretching an arm across Oli’s sleeping body, Jack picked up his mobile from the bedside table. Drawing the item into his chest, he checked for the time.

Three a.m, has he seriously been awake for this long?

He hated his mind; he doubted it would ever let him rest.

Pressing into his inbox, Jack scrolled through several messages, before finding one that Alex had sent to him the other night when he couldn’t sleep.

“stay strong 4 me, ok beautiful? everything will be good soon, it will just be me and you vs the world like it should be. i know its hard but we can do it, we can do anything as long as we have each other. and we do. so just lay your head against your pillow, close your eyes, & think of me. think of us & how happy we r going to be, dont give up <3 xxxxx”

A smile tugged at the corners of Jack’s lips as he settled into the pillow, imagining that the arms wrapped around him were Alex’s, and if he just pretended that he was with the boy now, maybe he could drift off.