-Alex's Point of View-

This night was a nightmare. First, the bar, then Jack, then Dan, and finally this stupid asshole is in my home threatening Jack like he has the full right to. It seemed like it when I stumbled through the door so I'm just going to go with that was it. Literally, I wanted to bash his face in, but I knew that if I did, we'd have to have police involvement and I really didn't need to add that to my night.

"Get the fuck away from me," I growled at the twisted Dan, thinking about all the hell that he had put me through so far tonight. My eyes searched across the living area of the home and that's when I saw Jack and Josh. I raised a finger at the brown haired male and snapped, "And you. Out. Now."

He stood up as if he didn't need to be told twice to leave and I watched as he made his way toward the front door.

"Oh, and Josh," I heard Jack called and my eyes found the younger male, "Never come back here again." I kicked the door shut as soon as Josh walked out the door and I could feel the anger still flaring throughout my body.

Someone needed to pay for tonight, but I knew that nobody was going to. They never did. It's the price that we all pay for having a bad day. No one pays and only one person usually suffers, whether they take it out on the people around them or not.

"That Dan punk!" I shouted, waving my hands up in the air like a mad person and walking over, taking a seat beside Jack.

"What did he do? You sounded scared on the phone," Jack said wrapping an arm around me and I suddenly felt the comfort surrounding my body. This wasn't something that I was used to anymore. This made my heart beat a little faster in my chest and I was begging to think that the alcohol was making me hallucinate.

"Yeah, well I go back to the bar, begin some shameless flirting, because - let's face it - you were in a happy relationship and I'm a lovesick puppy. So I begin flirting, Dan asks if I want to go back to his place, me, drunk off my ass, says yes, and Josh starts talking to Dan. We get back to his place, and he starts tying me up!" I shouted, my eyes going wider as I continue to explain my horrible, horrible tale. "That's some kinky shit right there. I don't trust this guy, and he doesn't stop.' Alex paused to readjust his position on the couch. 'So, naturally, I slap him, untie myself and demand he take me home. Which is when you called. He tried wrestling me back onto the bed, but I was having none of it." I sighed as I finished my story and Jack placed a kiss on the top of my head as he pulled me closer to him.

"I'm sorry, Lex," he mumbled, my heart thudding against my chest. It had been weeks since he had called me that and that nickname falling off his lips was like the angels singing from Heaven above.

"Don't be. I got myself into this mess," I said softly.

"You wouldn't be in it if it weren't for me," he muttered and I lightly hit his arm before yawning.

"I'm off to bed," I said, standing up and wandering down the hall. I was exhausted. Tonight had been so rough and now that my hangover was coming on, I just wanted to crawl into bed and sleep until the very end of time.

My feet carried me into the bedroom and I didn't care that I smelled like sweat and beer as I flopped down onto the bed. Lazily, I pulled off my jacket and my shirt, slightly shrugging out of my jeans before rolling over on my stomach and pressing my face into the pillow.

It was only moments later before dreams took over my mine, but oh how I hated my dreams.

~~~

"Would you shut up?" She said twirling her blond hair as she sat on my brother's lap.

I was just nine, about to turn ten, but I didn't know how to take this new girl Tome had around. Her name was Katie, but I already didn't like her all that much. She was rude and I didn't think that she was all that pretty.

"Sorry," I muttered, gently tugging at the strings of my guitar. I had been playing a song that I was learning and she didn't seem to like it at all.

"Don't be so rough on him, Katie. He was just playing us a song," Tom said wrapping his arms around her, but she just simple rolled her eyes, not caring a bit.

Quickly time transformed and I saw my mother packing boxes. Tom had a bottle of drink in his hand and he was strewn across the couch, a carefree look in his eyes as he watched me.

"Thomas, are you packed completely?" Mom asked and my brother just looked up at her and smiled.

"Yeah, I've been done since that bitch left me," he growled and her eyes widened and she lightly slapped him on the shoulder.

"Don't talk like that around Alex. He's too young for that kind of language. You know that, Tom," she said softly, acting like she didn't want me to hear any of their conversation. I picked at my page following along with it.

Tom had been like that since Katie had left him. Always drinking, always breaking rules, always angry.

Another transformation. My home in Baltimore, sitting in my room staring at the Blink-182 poster that used to hang on the wall across from my bed.

It was strange, a dark feeling lurking in my gut. I climbed off my bed and I wandered through the house, steps heavy, worrying.

"Dad? Mom? Tom?" I called, not getting a single answer from anyone. I knew that my parents were probably out, but someone was always supposed to stay with me. Mom hated me staying home alone. She was always afraid that something was going to happen.

My feet carried me into the kitchen and that was when I found Tom, sprawled across the floor, vomit next to his unconscious form. I walked over to him and gently slapped his face, hoping that he'd wake up.

"Tom? Are you okay? Tom?!" My voice was begging to raise with each word and I began to shake him. My hands were quaking like leaves in the wind and I knew that something was wrong. He had passed out on occasions, but never like this. This was a first and I knew that I needed to call someone for help.

"Tom!"

~~~

Tears rolled down my face as I woke up. Jack clutched me tightly to him chest and I knotting my fingers in his shirt, letting the tear freely roll off my face. I was soaking his clothing, but I didn't care. He was here. He pulled me out of the dreadful nightmare that I call my past.

"Shh, it's over. Calm down. It's done," he whispered softly to me, kissing my forehead and I glanced up at him. I hadn't stopped shaking and tears were still stinging my eyes, making me to hide away and cry over my lost kin.

"Katie was at the bar. She's the reason Tom started drinking. She caused him all this pain and misery and... and now he's dead," I cried out and he wrapped his arms tighter around me. I looked up at him and before I even realized it, his lips were pressed against mine, kissing me gently and allowing my fears to melt away like snow in the spring sunshine.

I had been craving his kiss for so long now and now that I had gotten it, everything felt right. He pulled away from me and I just stared at his brown eyes, wondering what was currently going through the younger male's mind as he looked at me, watched me.

"Alex... I-I shouldn't have done that," he muttered rolling away from me. I didn't the same and I pressed my back against his, feeling his warmth.

This night... It just couldn't get any worse.

~~~

-Josh's Point of View-

Gaskarth. It was a name that I knew all too well. My father used to work for his father. My mother was close with his mother. My sister was close with the male himself. My... boyfriend?... Boyfriend was his ex. Now that he had come to take my Jack away, I wanted to make sure that the bastard suffered slowly and painfully.

I laid around at Dan's apartment, wondering what exactly I was going to do next. I knew that Dan wouldn't mind having a fuck buddy and I'm sure that Alexander would make the perfect one for him. I, on the other hand, wanted Jack for myself. He was the only one that continued to return to me and now, he was just something that I couldn't let go of.

"Stop moping around, Joshie-woshie," Dan said letting out a high pitched giggle as he wandered around the room, stumbling because he was drunk off his ass.

"Sit down, Daniel," I said and he took a seat before looking at me.

"What's wrong?" He asked me softly.

"You want Gaskarth, right?" I asked and he nodded his head, "Well we need a plan to get the two of them apart and make sure that they stay that way," I finished and he smiled.

"I've got an idea," Dan said and I leaned in to listen to him, a smile spreading across my lips as he explained his plan.

Notes

Title Credit: Stay Awake by All Time Low
EmptySighsAndWine

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