Eyes Open ✰ Jalex
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- In which a lonely kid named Alex who is only slightly obsessed with how colorful the whole planet is meets a lonely kid named Jack who has stopped obsessing over anything and spends his days desperately seeking someone to fill an empty space in his life.
"Just keep your eyes open."
[Named after the album "Eyes Open" by Snow Patrol]
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