"Jack…." I looked around me in a daze. We stood in a small opening just off the shore. Vast trees surrounded us, fairy lights weaved through their branches and softly glowed in the darkness.

"I had to get the boys to help me, sorry if I panicked you" I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the haven in front of me to look at him

"It was worth it" I said, exasperated. I was finding it hard to comprehend what I was seeing. It was so different to what I expected, how things looked little over an hour ago. In the centre was a small fire, its flames gently flickering against the darkness. Behind the fire was an array of warm looking blankets and throws, littered with patterned cushions.

"This is...I don’t know what to say" A warm feeling radiated through me, a stupid grin would be on my face if I wasn’t so shocked. Jack wrapped his arms around my waist from behind me, resting his chin on my shoulder.

"Say you'll forgive me, give me another chance?" His breath tickled my ear.

"There is nothing to forgive" I turned round to face him. He kept his arms around me, pulling me in tighter as I wrapped my arms around his neck tightly.

"Thank you" I said sincerely, my eyes burning into his. I had never seen anything like this before, let alone have anyone care enough to do it for me. He answered me with a kiss, his lips gently brushing over mine. He rested his forehead against mine and ran his hands over my hips.

"I can't believe Zack didn’t tell me everything was okay, I was literally going insane" I said as I laid next to Jack by the fire, we were snuggled up in a hundred blankets to keep out the cold. I could barely see his face, only the parts that the light from the fire touched. He smiled lightly at my remark. It was true though, I was literally ready to flee the country. The guy could of at least told me it was okay.

"He has a good poker face doesn’t he? I really wanted this to be a surprise, I never thought you'd think I wanted you to leave. Id never want that. Unless...you really do want to leave?" He slowed as he reached the end of the sentence, the smile leaving his lips and his breathing almost stopped.

"Shut up Jack, of course I don’t" I playfully hit his arm with a smile.

"Good, because I could get used to you being around" He smiled warmly, pulling me in tighter for a moment.

"So could I" I said quietly into his chest. We were silent for a moment before Jack spoke.

"So. Are we gunna talk about earlier?"

"What about it?" Of course I knew what about, I just didn’t want to talk about it. I didn’t want to taint the amazing night I was having with Holly's name.

"Why you called Holly after everything?" I sighed, tilting my head down towards our feet.

"It's okay, I just want to know" He drew circles on my back with his hand and spoke softly. I guessed I couldn’t expect him to be honest and not be honest myself.

"Me having an over active imagination mostly. I just needed to know, i still need to know, what happened between you two. I dunno, I wanted to sort everything, tell her to back off so me and you would be okay. And Alice may have … told me to."

"Hmm, why doesn’t that surprise me?" He said with a hint of amusement in his voice.

"Don’t hate on Alice, she was only being a good friend" I said a little more seriously. I felt very protective of Alice, I considered her my sister. Although this wasn’t the easiest option I could have taken, it was definitely the right one. And I owed that to her.

"I know. I owe you an explanation for this mess I've dropped you into, I should have told you this from the beginning. I just didn’t want to go back there, I didn’t think I would need to. And don’t you ever worry about us, we'll always be okay. Even if my world is torn apart" A goofy grin spread across my face. I stretched up to press a kiss on his jawline and waited for him to explain, but he didn’t. His lips trembled but he couldn’t seem to find the right words. I placed my hand on his cheek.

"You can trust me" I said quietly, almost a whisper. He smiled down at me, kissing my palm and began to speak.

"When I met Holly, just over a year ago, she was the perfect girl. Attractive, funny, sweet and desirable. I thought I had finally found someone I could be happy with. So we started dating, nothing serious, we just got together to have some fun and enjoy each others company. Things then got a little more serious after a few months of dating, as you would expect, and I couldn’t see why it was a bad thing. I liked her a lot, I thought I loved her. So why not? When we started touring for longer periods of time in the summer she began to get a little protective, paranoid even. But I expected that, I think its pretty normal to worry in that situation. On the night we met, Holly flew out to England to surprise me, that’s what I thought at first anyway. She flew out to give me an ultimatum. She told me unless I left the band, she would leave me. Obviously it broke my heart, but the boys always come first. I begged her to reconsider but she wouldn’t. So I ended it, drank the bar dry and ended up bleeding out on the street" I flinched as the memory was dragged from the part of my head id been hiding it. The image of Jack covered in blood made me want to cry. I tightened my arms around him.

"Obviously I realise now that I didn’t love her, and would go through that night a thousand times to meet you" I nuzzled my head into the nape of his neck, breathing him in.

"Me too" My breath left goosebumps on his skin.

"Well, that's it. That's all that happened" I nodded in response, closing my eyes.

"Thanks for putting my mind at ease a little"

"A little?"

"She still wants you, and there's unfinished business between you two. I mean it was her decision to break up, not yours" I decided to be completely honest, but I wasn’t sure what to expect when he answered me. She is a model for playboy and I'm …. Well me. I knew what every guy would prefer.

"You really think I'd want to get back with her now? After all this? No way. Anyway, like I said. I thought I loved her until I actually did fall in love" He sounded almost offended to start with, but his voice grew softer.

"I love you" I told him as a strange sensation ran through me. I pulled him in closer still, but I could never be close enough.

"I love you too" He answered, planting a kiss on my forehead.

"We won't have to worry about her for long, we leave for tour in two days"

"I completely forgot about that, that’s so weird!" I told him, speaking the honest truth. I had forgotten all about tour with all the drama.

"You excited?"

"….More nervous"

"Why the hell are you nervous?"

"What if the crew don’t like me? What if I can't do my job? What if the fans don’t like me? I mean I can only deal with one crazy girl at once…."

"They'll love you. And we don’t have to make us public if you don’t want" I played that sentence in my head again and asked myself if had really just referred to me and him as 'us'...as in a couple?

"...Us?" I asked.

"Oh...sorry. I just …I just assumed" He realised what he had said, he backtracked and stumbled on his own words nervously.

"Assumed what Barakat?" I said with a grin, enjoying how cute he was being.

"That we were together now, like properly" He finally got out.

"Well why don’t you just ask me" I Beamed in the darkness. Of course he didn’t need to ask me, the answer was yes, it was always yes.

"You serious?" He sighed with a smile.

"Totally. Ask away"

"Rose?" He said quietly.

"Yes Jack?"

"Will you be my girlfriend?"

Notes

Hey guys! Sorry its been so long since i updated. I'm doing A level exams and they are stressing me out, literally dying right now. But here it is, hope you guys like it! Let me know what you think. I noticed that i also lost some subscribers, sorry again for being so rubbish with the updates. I was thinking of starting off a sequel to this, what do you think? And also, if i started a jalex story, would anyone actually read it?
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