-Alex POV-

Today was the day of the party and holy crap I'm shitting myself. Jack is convinced that Vic likes me and will approve of us being together, he doesn't know the half of it, the threats to stay away and even Jaime saying to be careful. I have no idea how they're going to react and I'm pretty sure Vic will have a few words with me. Oh God...maybe I can get out of it, maybe I can stay here while Jack goes without me?

''You nearly ready?'' He called as he was walking out of the bedroom towards me.

I did my best I'm ill face and pouted. ''I'm not going, I feel sick.''

''Aww, what's up buttercup?'' He cooed.

Shit, I didn't come up with an illness. ''Uhhh, I have a blood disease.'' WHAT? Nice one Alex.

A huge smile broke out on his face and he creased up with laughter for a good five minutes. ''Oh really?'' He beamed. ''And what blood disease would that be?''

''Uhhh,'' crap crap crap, I was so bad at lying, and biology at that, especially biology. ''Type A?''

''Get dressed, you're coming.'' He giggled before pulling me towards him by my collar and planting a tender kiss on my lips.

''Dammit.'' I muttered under my breath as I opened my suitcase led on the spare bed. I pulled out my choice of clothes, I went for my regular outfit, black skinny jeans and a flannel shirt, this time I picked a blue one and I matched it with my light blue converse.

Jack went back into the bathroom and I heard the can of hairspray fill the room as he styled his mop of pre-straightened hair into his iconic skunk mohawk; that and his white Home Alone tee, grey skinnies and blue high tops made him just irresistible, oh wow. I followed him in and set my fringe in place before attacking it with the fine mist of spray. He knocked his hip on the side of mine and laughed. ''Stop looking better than me dammit Lex!"

'Oh no,'' I cooed. ''Jacky poo wants to be the center of attention does he?''

''Shut up, if you must know, I'm going to pull tonight.'' He joked.

''Oh yeah?'' I asked raising an eyebrow and playing along. ''Who's that then?''

''Uhhh, you.''

''That's a shame,'' I teased. ''I'm going to pull Mike.''

''You bitch.'' He laughed, slapping my ass as I walked out of the bathroom.

We did a final check around the room making sure we had everything we would need, phones, wallets, money and a few crates of alcohol, and not forgetting a trusty bottle of Jack Daniels. Tonight, was gonna be awesome....well, depending on Vic.

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We came up to a huge white house, three stories high with a pathway to drive down where you could park your car, we drove down there and it was like a showroom, there were about 12 spots, several already filled with extravagant vehicles, Ferrari's Lamborghini's and big black glossy four by fours. Holy shit they must make a lot of money.

''This place makes your house look like shit, dude.'' I whispered, leaning over to him to kiss his nose.

''And there was me about to invite you to move in when we got back to Baltimore.'' He laughed.

My heart skipped a beat as soon as those words escaped his mouth. ''Y-you want me to m-move in with you?'' I asked all flustered.

''Well, not if you're going to insult Barakat Palace of Wonders.''

''I promise, I won't say another bad word about it." I gushed. ''Well, c'mon then roomie, let's get this show on the road.''

We walked our way around the huge garden hand in hand, we could hear the music blaring out of the few open windows, a few slurs every now and a again and cheers. It was just coming up to 10pm so I assumed the other guys had been drinking for a while. I was nervous as anything, but at the same time excited to see Jaime again, we'd been texting a little bit and it was as if we'd known each other years...we'd always go to each other for advice or if we needed cheering up, it was great to have someone to talk to besides Jack. Don't get me wrong I love spending time with him, but everyone needs their space and their own friends, right? I hadn't gone this long without seeing Rian either which sucked, although when we got back I planned on telling him about my new relationship seeing as Jack was telling his friends.

Jack did the usual and walked in without so much as a bang on the door and went over to hug all of his 'bros' and I made my way over to Jaime to say hello, I gave Kellin a smile and looked over to Vic with a pathetic ''hi.'' As I had expected, he had a face like thunder...he told me to stay away, and here I was, in his house, dating his best friend. My bad.

Tony and Mike came bounding around the corner, they were already pretty tipsy to say the least, Tony had his arm around Vic's younger brother to stop him from falling to the ground in a heap. I introduced myself and they took me to the kitchen so I could put our alcohol in their chiller and handed me a beer and led me to the TV room, which was huge, there was a 50" flat screen hung on the wall, every console ever invented placed on a separate shelf below, a game of Fifa paused on the screen.

''Fancy a game?'' Mike offered. ''I can't see the screen for shit now anyway.''

He handed me the controller and I took over from where he left off. One game eventually led to about 15 and another 20 odd beers. I didn't notice how long I'd been there until the other guys wandered in absolutely hammered. Vic, Jaime and Kellin threw themselves on the couch next to Tony, Mike and myself and Jack sat himself down on my lap, and if it weren't for the fact the room was full of people, I would have ripped his clothes off there and then.

''Oooh, what's goin' on 'ere then?'' Tony said waggling his eyebrows at us.

I felt my face go red and was about to smile when I noticed Vic with wide eyes. ''Yeah guys, what's going on?'' He asked, not with the same lighthearted tone as his band member.

''I looked up at the perfect boy on my lap and he smiled, waiting for me to give the signal. It's now or never. I inhaled deeply and nodded my head, reciprocating his smile.

''We're dating!" He announced as if he'd won the lottery.

The room was filled with stares and silence before an eruption of applause and cheers. Jaime sent me the biggest 'I told you so' smile and I poked my tongue out at him shyly. I said my thanks to the other guys before I brought my attention to Vic who mouthed an 'I need to talk to you' in my direction.

''Babe, I'm going for a piss, jump off a sec.'' I said to Jack and he did, not sitting on Mike....whenever he'd been drinking he preferred humans to chairs, it was cute. I made my way out of the TV room and heard Vic asking if anyone wanted anything from the kitchen.

He caught up to me and we stood face to face for a second saying nothing, I was leaning against the fridge and he hopped up on the counter. ''Vic, listen, I'm not going to hurt him, I swear to you.''

''I want to apologize,'' He murmured looking down at the black and white tiled floor. ''I see the way you look at each other and I judged you too quickly, so I'm sorry for being a dick.''

I was shocked, Vic was apologizing to me? I did not expect that. I expected to be pinned up to another wall and maybe even a punch thrown in, but nope, Jack was right, he would come around to it. ''It's fine Vic, honestly. You were just looking out for him like a best friend should. I give you my word, I'm going to take care of him.''

''As long as Jack's happy, I'm happy.'' He said now looking up at me with a smile.

I opened my arms to him. ''Friends?''

He jumped off of the sides and wrapped his arms around my back. ''Friends.''

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As this place was a fucking mansion and we were all getting along really well, we were offered to stay the night in one of the guest rooms. It had gotten to about 4am now and the only people awake were Tony, Jack and myself, Kellin went to his room, Mike was led on the pool table in the games room after crowing himself the 'world champion in everything ever to be made in the entire universe in existence and more' - his words, not mine, and Vic and Jaime had retreated to their room to 'sleep' although the walls in this room were pretty thin and I can tell you now, I have never heard a person yell ''oh my fucking god, harder!'' in their sleep.

Jack had placed himself on Tony's lap now as I was concentrating on the TV, a documentary of a meteor shower playing. Space always interested me, although admittedly I had no idea what any of the long words meant, I just think the stars are pretty and it fascinates me how small we actually are and gets me thinking about life, that's what's so great about it in my opinion.

Suddenly, my gorgeous boyfriend landed on my lap with a huge grin on his face and a beer in his hand.

''Where's Tony?'' I asked confused.

''He went to find Mike I think, I'm tired baby, let's go to bed please.'' He smiled now getting back up off of my lap and pulling me up with him.

He obviously had been here a lot because he knew his way around like the back of his hand, even in the state he was in. We came to a closed door and he pulled me in for a kiss before we went in. It was a sloppy one but I knew he meant well, and it was kinda cute to be honest. ''See, told you he'd be fine with it.'' He said, proud of himself.

I rolled my eyes and laughed. ''Yeah yeah, you were right!"

''I'm always right.'' He pouted.

He opened the door and I tried to walk in before he stopped me by putting his arm across my chest, blocking my path. ''Uh - uh.'' He said, picking me up bridal style.

'Woah, whatcha doin' there?'' I giggled.

''Don't have a clue.''

He put me down in the bed and crawled in next to me, playing with my hair. I love it when we're all cute with each other rather than having sex at every opportunity we're given, I mean don't get me wrong, the sex is incredible but when we're just snuggled together, whispering sweet nothings, talking about our day or even taking the piss out of one another; it feels like the world doesn't matter. It feels like he's the only one that matters, just us in that moment, it could stay like that forever and I wouldn't complain, he's where I want to be.

Notes

Yeah, this chapter was crappy, I'm sorry :c

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