in love with a pornstar (modern au fanfic LAMS)

chapter 52

tw ~ homophobia and car accident, don't read if you think you'll be triggered in any way :)
third person

john shoots up in bed, in a cold sweat. that dream felt a little bit too real. something about an anonymous person being out to get him?

weird.

alex stirs awake, groaning when he sees that john is up.

"why are you awake?" groggy alexander asks.

"just a weird dream. you can go back to bed."

alex rubs his eyes, shrugging. "i'm already up," he pauses to look at the digital clock sitting on the nightstand. "are you hungry or anything?"

john thinks about it for a second before nodding slowly. alex gets out of bed and grabs one of john's hoodies that he claims as his own.  he throws on sweatpants over his boxers, yawning while doing so. he finds his keys and starts walking towards to the bedroom door.

"well? get up!" alex yells.

"shh! you're going to wake up pegs and ria."

speak of the devil, both of them pop up.

"too late for that. where are we going?" peggy manages to say through a yawn.

"breakfast." alexander deadpans.

"what breakfast place is open at," maria pauses to look at her phone, "four-thirty?"

"denny's is open twenty-four hours."

maria hums in response, watching as john just stares at the bedroom wall.

"you okay, john?"

john snaps out of his trance, nodding as he  grabbing clothes. alex, maria, and peggy all share the same worried glance. john catches this, so he simply rolls his eyes.

"stop that," john deadpans as he grabs socks.

"stop what?" alexander asks.

"acting like there's something wrong with me. i'm fine, it was just a weird dream. let's just go okay? i'm hungry." john huffs.

no one says a word after that.

they walk down the flight of spiral stairs and proceed to walk towards the garage. they open it up and settle on taking marias jeep. peggy jumps in the passenger side, leaving alexander and john in the back. when maria pulled out of the garage, it was still dark outside. the streetlights were still on. however, the stars were mostly gone.

john rested his head against alexander's shoulder, sighing deeply. alex grabs john's hand, rubbing calming circles into it. john looks up at peggy who is snickering at them. john decides to ignore her instead of dignifying her craziness with a response. that and it was too early for him to think of a witty comeback.

~...~

"i'll have orange juice, please." peggy chimes at the waitress.

"i'll have black tea, please." maria states.

"black coffee, thanks,"

everyone looks at john who had his head down on the table, he was snoring. instead of waking him, alexander answered for him.

"he'll have black tea with numerous creams and sugars." alex sends a half-heartedly smile at the waitress.

she nods and scurries off to go get the drinks. alex takes a look at sleeping john. he then proceeded to poke john's thigh until he woke up.