Secrets and Lies
Chapter Forty Five
Jack's POV
Going public?
Don't get me wrong, it IS what I've wanted for so long; to hold his hand whenever I want, flirt in front of people and full on cases of PDA, I wanted it all. I just thought that maybe Alex was rushing into it a little too soon.
I never had that problem, I knew from a very young age, I was always open about it, and it was accepted easily as I went up in the world, nothing to worry about.
Alex, however, had a lot of those crazily obsessed fans - or as they call themselves, Lexers - who are going to be devastated when they find out that they have no chance whatsoever.
Suckers. He's all mine.
I turned the corner in the grocery store after selecting various different candies only to collide with the cart as Alex tried to turn down the same isle.
"You're a mean boyfriend," I scowled, throwing everything that was now on the floor into the cart.
Alex rolled his eyes and smirked before wheeling the cart past me. "Because I totally did that on purpose."
I grinned without saying anything and jogged to catch up with him, only to be stopped by two girls. One had bright red wavy hair that reached down to the bottom of her back, and the other had a blonde bob and a full fringe. The blonde girl started to fiddle with the bottom of her black tee, which I now recognized to be one of my own designs - the one with the galaxy JAGK printed on - and opened and closed her mouth much like a fish and looking between Alex and I.
"Hey, uh can we get a picture with you guys? We're huge fans." The redhead chirped, pulling her iPhone 5c from her back pocket.
"Sure," I replied, walking towards them, Alex doing the same as he abandoned the cart momentarily.
"What're your names?"
"I'm Holly," the redhead spoke again, obviously a lot more confident than her friend. "And this guppy is Jacey."
I smiled at them both and Alex being the awkward guy he is, shook their hands.
"Nice to meet you." He smiled.
If Jacey wasn't in full on fish mode before, she sure as hell was now.
We posed for a couple of pictures and Holly recommended that we try a cereal called Cookie Crisp, which looked like it was made for 5 year olds.....PERFECT.
"So, you guys do your shopping together?" Holly asked, peering into our cart.
"Yeah, we live together," Alex smiled sheepishly.
"Aw that sounds like a lot of fun!" She smiled.
"Yeah," I laughed, looking at my boyfriend. "It is. But we need to be going, they're showing a Home Alone 'the making of' on TV soon and I don't wanna miss it."
Holly and Jacey both nodded and Alex kissed them each on the cheek, while I waved goodbye.
Alex was handing me the last of the tinned foods as I arranged them neatly in the cupboard, whistling Somewhere in Neverland.
"So I was thinking-" he started before I cut him off.
"Aw does your head hurt?" I teased, turning to him as he handed me a few tins of soup.
He rolled his eyes and reached into the bag again, pulling out tinned sweet corn. "A little, but that's not the point."
I chuckled quietly and shook my head, taking the food from him.
"No I was thinking," he spoke again. "About how I want to go public 'n stuff.."
I closed the cupboard door and opened the huge silver fridge that was located at the other end of the kitchen, and putting in a crate of beer that we had bought.
"You know you don't have to do it right away-"
Alex sighed heavily before he counteracted me. "I know, but I want to."
I took hold of the milk from the bag that was now below Alex's feet as he perched on the island in the middle of the room.
"There's really no rush, Lex." I mused.
"But there's nothing to hold me back from it now either," he sighed again. "With what happened with Peter, it doesn't matter anymore."
I shot him a week smile over my shoulder and closed the door of the fridge. I sauntered over towards him and placed a hand on each of his hips and kissed his nose.
"So, what's the plan?"
We were sitting at our local Starbucks, iced tees in front of us to cool us down in the ridiculously hot July weather.
Alex suggested that we tell people by doing it all online, send out a few tweets and whatnot, but I argued saying that it'll cause a lot of unnecessary judgement from the fan's perspective, the ones who are for too closed minded for their own good would just shrug it off saying that it was a hack onto his account, so I suggested we did it the old fashioned way.
Paparazzi.
That's why we were in Starbucks, it's right in the middle of the mall and there are always a bunch of guys hunting down news with their fat ass cameras.
The plan was to let them 'catch us' kissing, because we knew that it would more than likely reach the front page of every gossip magazine available, and then we could confirm it online.
Ba da bing, ba da boom.
Simple.
Once we were finished with our drinks, we cleared the table and headed outside.
Straight away I spotted a man who appeared to be in his late thirties sat on a bench opposite the Starbucks, a massive camera held up to his eye and snapped a picture of the two of us together.
Deciding that the one paparazzi wasn't enough, I smiled at him and gestured for Alex to follow me.
We walked a few hundred meters down the sidewalk and as we turned the corner, I saw that there was now several cameras perusing us. Perfect.
I stopped walking and faced Alex, making sure everyone had a good view of what was about to happen.
"You sure about this?" I asked, keeping my voice low.
He nodded and took a step closer to me. He looked up into my eyes and started to blush uncontrollably, probably due to the nervousness of the new situation he was in.
I swooped in, pulling his waist so it was pressed to my own and i crashed our lips together.
Gasps immediately emitted from the paparazzi and flashes went off all around us, knowing that there's no going back now.
It was now 9pm the next day, the papers were published and an array of hate now probably filling our mentions on twitter.
I say probably because we have avoided the internet so far, we made cookies instead, and luckily this time there were no flour related incidents.
Thank god.
It had taken Alex a while to get to sleep last night due to over-analyzing everything like usual, so I pulled him into my chest in bed and watched Peter Pan with him.
He was now pacing the room, frantically tidying to try and keep himself calm. It obviously wasn't working. So I grabbed his wrist and pulled him down on to the couch beside me.
"Kitten, chill ou-" I started, cut off by a wide eyed Alex glaring at me.
I gulped harshly, maybe this was a bad idea, I knew it was too soon.
"Kay I wanna look," Alex said anxiously. "I wanna get it out of the way, where's the laptop?"
"Uh, on my desk upstairs."
He stood up and ran to our room, taking two steps at a time; no more than a minute later he was sitting next to me, the laptop resting on the coffee table in front of us.
It was too hot to actually put on our laps as I always left it turned on.
Alex opened up the search engine and typed twitter.com into the web address bar. It took us to the home page and Alex typed in his username and password, but not hitting enter, not quite yet.
He rested his head on my shoulder as I was now leaning forward too, wanting to get a better look at the screen.
I kissed the top of his head lightly and placed a hand on his bouncing knee.
"Jay, c-can you look first? Tell me if it's good or bad?"
I smiled against his hair and inhaled slowly.
"You sure?"
He hummed in response and I leaned in, hitting the enter key, Alex burying his face into the crook of my neck so he couldn't see.
I was met with Alex's timeline, tweets about space filling it for the most part, the others being from a few movie stars.
I traced my finger over the trackpad and opened the mentions tab, the top few sections filled with follows and retweets.
But then I scrolled down.
"Alex, you'd better see this."
Going public?
Don't get me wrong, it IS what I've wanted for so long; to hold his hand whenever I want, flirt in front of people and full on cases of PDA, I wanted it all. I just thought that maybe Alex was rushing into it a little too soon.
I never had that problem, I knew from a very young age, I was always open about it, and it was accepted easily as I went up in the world, nothing to worry about.
Alex, however, had a lot of those crazily obsessed fans - or as they call themselves, Lexers - who are going to be devastated when they find out that they have no chance whatsoever.
Suckers. He's all mine.
I turned the corner in the grocery store after selecting various different candies only to collide with the cart as Alex tried to turn down the same isle.
"You're a mean boyfriend," I scowled, throwing everything that was now on the floor into the cart.
Alex rolled his eyes and smirked before wheeling the cart past me. "Because I totally did that on purpose."
I grinned without saying anything and jogged to catch up with him, only to be stopped by two girls. One had bright red wavy hair that reached down to the bottom of her back, and the other had a blonde bob and a full fringe. The blonde girl started to fiddle with the bottom of her black tee, which I now recognized to be one of my own designs - the one with the galaxy JAGK printed on - and opened and closed her mouth much like a fish and looking between Alex and I.
"Hey, uh can we get a picture with you guys? We're huge fans." The redhead chirped, pulling her iPhone 5c from her back pocket.
"Sure," I replied, walking towards them, Alex doing the same as he abandoned the cart momentarily.
"What're your names?"
"I'm Holly," the redhead spoke again, obviously a lot more confident than her friend. "And this guppy is Jacey."
I smiled at them both and Alex being the awkward guy he is, shook their hands.
"Nice to meet you." He smiled.
If Jacey wasn't in full on fish mode before, she sure as hell was now.
We posed for a couple of pictures and Holly recommended that we try a cereal called Cookie Crisp, which looked like it was made for 5 year olds.....PERFECT.
"So, you guys do your shopping together?" Holly asked, peering into our cart.
"Yeah, we live together," Alex smiled sheepishly.
"Aw that sounds like a lot of fun!" She smiled.
"Yeah," I laughed, looking at my boyfriend. "It is. But we need to be going, they're showing a Home Alone 'the making of' on TV soon and I don't wanna miss it."
Holly and Jacey both nodded and Alex kissed them each on the cheek, while I waved goodbye.
Alex was handing me the last of the tinned foods as I arranged them neatly in the cupboard, whistling Somewhere in Neverland.
"So I was thinking-" he started before I cut him off.
"Aw does your head hurt?" I teased, turning to him as he handed me a few tins of soup.
He rolled his eyes and reached into the bag again, pulling out tinned sweet corn. "A little, but that's not the point."
I chuckled quietly and shook my head, taking the food from him.
"No I was thinking," he spoke again. "About how I want to go public 'n stuff.."
I closed the cupboard door and opened the huge silver fridge that was located at the other end of the kitchen, and putting in a crate of beer that we had bought.
"You know you don't have to do it right away-"
Alex sighed heavily before he counteracted me. "I know, but I want to."
I took hold of the milk from the bag that was now below Alex's feet as he perched on the island in the middle of the room.
"There's really no rush, Lex." I mused.
"But there's nothing to hold me back from it now either," he sighed again. "With what happened with Peter, it doesn't matter anymore."
I shot him a week smile over my shoulder and closed the door of the fridge. I sauntered over towards him and placed a hand on each of his hips and kissed his nose.
"So, what's the plan?"
We were sitting at our local Starbucks, iced tees in front of us to cool us down in the ridiculously hot July weather.
Alex suggested that we tell people by doing it all online, send out a few tweets and whatnot, but I argued saying that it'll cause a lot of unnecessary judgement from the fan's perspective, the ones who are for too closed minded for their own good would just shrug it off saying that it was a hack onto his account, so I suggested we did it the old fashioned way.
Paparazzi.
That's why we were in Starbucks, it's right in the middle of the mall and there are always a bunch of guys hunting down news with their fat ass cameras.
The plan was to let them 'catch us' kissing, because we knew that it would more than likely reach the front page of every gossip magazine available, and then we could confirm it online.
Ba da bing, ba da boom.
Simple.
Once we were finished with our drinks, we cleared the table and headed outside.
Straight away I spotted a man who appeared to be in his late thirties sat on a bench opposite the Starbucks, a massive camera held up to his eye and snapped a picture of the two of us together.
Deciding that the one paparazzi wasn't enough, I smiled at him and gestured for Alex to follow me.
We walked a few hundred meters down the sidewalk and as we turned the corner, I saw that there was now several cameras perusing us. Perfect.
I stopped walking and faced Alex, making sure everyone had a good view of what was about to happen.
"You sure about this?" I asked, keeping my voice low.
He nodded and took a step closer to me. He looked up into my eyes and started to blush uncontrollably, probably due to the nervousness of the new situation he was in.
I swooped in, pulling his waist so it was pressed to my own and i crashed our lips together.
Gasps immediately emitted from the paparazzi and flashes went off all around us, knowing that there's no going back now.
It was now 9pm the next day, the papers were published and an array of hate now probably filling our mentions on twitter.
I say probably because we have avoided the internet so far, we made cookies instead, and luckily this time there were no flour related incidents.
Thank god.
It had taken Alex a while to get to sleep last night due to over-analyzing everything like usual, so I pulled him into my chest in bed and watched Peter Pan with him.
He was now pacing the room, frantically tidying to try and keep himself calm. It obviously wasn't working. So I grabbed his wrist and pulled him down on to the couch beside me.
"Kitten, chill ou-" I started, cut off by a wide eyed Alex glaring at me.
I gulped harshly, maybe this was a bad idea, I knew it was too soon.
"Kay I wanna look," Alex said anxiously. "I wanna get it out of the way, where's the laptop?"
"Uh, on my desk upstairs."
He stood up and ran to our room, taking two steps at a time; no more than a minute later he was sitting next to me, the laptop resting on the coffee table in front of us.
It was too hot to actually put on our laps as I always left it turned on.
Alex opened up the search engine and typed twitter.com into the web address bar. It took us to the home page and Alex typed in his username and password, but not hitting enter, not quite yet.
He rested his head on my shoulder as I was now leaning forward too, wanting to get a better look at the screen.
I kissed the top of his head lightly and placed a hand on his bouncing knee.
"Jay, c-can you look first? Tell me if it's good or bad?"
I smiled against his hair and inhaled slowly.
"You sure?"
He hummed in response and I leaned in, hitting the enter key, Alex burying his face into the crook of my neck so he couldn't see.
I was met with Alex's timeline, tweets about space filling it for the most part, the others being from a few movie stars.
I traced my finger over the trackpad and opened the mentions tab, the top few sections filled with follows and retweets.
But then I scrolled down.
"Alex, you'd better see this."
Notes
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