Alex's POV

"Alex, you'd better see this." Jack spoke, seriousness in his voice.

I wanted to turn back, not know. I wanted to throw the laptop across the room and just go to bed. But u can't, because the whole world now knows. Not only am I going to have Peter judging me, but the rest of the world too now.

"Do I have to?" I pouted, lolling my head back.

"Yep." Jack said, turning the laptop around so it was now facing me.

I took a peek at the corner of my eye, half squinting so that everything was blurry. I could make out the banner of Twitter and my background though, a picture of one of my crowds from tour. I sucked in the relatively dry air around me and opened my eyes fully, taking in each comment that was filling my mentions page.

It was everywhere, tweet after tweet, picture after picture - the one the paparazzi snapped and others from us on tour, links to gifs of us....it's all over Tumblr too? Fucking great.
Then I started to actually read what people were saying...they, they supported us?

***I knew Jalex is real, I fUCKING KNEW IT***

***cuteness overload omfg I cant***

***Alex Gaskarth and Jack Barakat announce homosexual relationship in public***

It went on and on. I was surprised that people seemed to think they knew we were dating before we actually did...but nevertheless, they were accepting of us, for the first time in a very long while, I had been accepted. And it felt like the best fucking feeling ever.

I felt Jack place a hand on my knee and I turned to face him, a huge smile on his face.

"No more hiding." He whispered, resting his head on my shoulder.

No more hiding.

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A few months have passed now, and it's late Fall, we were finishing up with our wedding plans, Erin is five times the size she used to be. We hadn't been back to the studio much lately either, we were had organized our second tour together which was set to kick off the week after our honeymoon, yeah, we'd set a date too - November 20th - which might I add is in ten days. Yeah, that's right, our wedding is in 5 days, and no, we still haven't made the finals arrangements for our ceremony.

We both agreed that we wanted to get married somewhere with a lot of scenery, so we chose the small Forest not too far from where we live, the only thing we hadn't decided on was the band...Jack wanted the Pierce The Veil boys to play for us, but Vic was already the best man, and honestly...they weren't wedding material. I on the other hand, wanted the band Brash and Reckless from the 24 hour date we went on together...it would mean something to us and make it special, it was a pretty adorable idea if I do say so myself and because they aren't well known, relatively cheap!

For now though, I was still in town, trying on different Tuxedos for the big day, Rian and Cass by my side to tell me if it looked lame or if my butt looked big in it, whatever it is that girls do when they go shopping. Heck, I was just glad to have some help, especially seeing as I was planning on asking Cassadee a pretty big question.

"Ri, will you lay off the champagne, it's not free yanno,'' I said rolling my eyes as Rian helped himself to his fourth glass.

''Hey, it's a special occasion!" He chirped, raising a glass to me. ''Besides, Cass is more help than me.''

Cassadee scoffed quietly and sat on Rian's lap, ''Of course I'm more help than you are,'' she laughed sweetly before turning her attention back to me. ''How many suits do you have left to try on Alex? You've been through 9 already...''

It's true, I was being picky, but I wanted to make sure it was perfect. I walked back towards the dressing room curtain and poked my head around the sheet. ''Two.'' I said blandly.

''Well get your perky lil butt in there and get changed!'' She beamed, taking Rian's glass off of him and taking a mouthful.

After following the same actions as before, I put on the penultimate suit. Shirt on, pants on, tuck in my shirt, tie, jacket. I took one last look in the full length mirror, ruffled my hair and set stepped out. Cass was laughing at Rian, and when she noticed me, her face dropped slightly.

''Don't like it?'' I asked her, and she shook her head ever so slightly.

''I just, I just don't like the whole grey thing with a blue tie, that's all...'' She trailed off.

I grunted, lolled my head back and walked back into the changing room to put on the last tux in my size...she better approve of this one because I sure as hell haven't wanted two hours for nothing.

I got undressed and put on the final suit, shirt, pants, tie, jacket, mirror check, step out from behind the curtain to ask opinions.

As soon as I walked out, Cass' mouth fell open before forming a perfect white smile. I straightened out the black slimfit tie and shifted my weight between my feet, tired of all the standing up.

''It's...it's beautiful.'' She grinned, walking over to me and feeling the fabric of the burgandy blazer I was wearing. ''The color is stunning.''

''It's different,'' I stated, looking down at myself, ''but I like it.''

''Jack's a lucky guy.'' She spoke, so quietly it was almost a whisper.

That's when I looked back up to her, tears welling up in her eyes as she smiled at me. God knows why girls get emotional about this stuff.

''Cass?''

''Yeah?''

''I was wondering if you would do me a huge favor?'' I asked.

''Sure thing Lex, what's up?'' She replied, blinking back the tears.

''Will you be my Maid of Honor?'' I asked as I took her hand in my own.

If she wasn't smiling before, she sure as hell was now. She leaned up onto her toes and kissed my cheek softly and nodded her head.

''I would love to.''

Notes

<--- Alex's Tux