I had just woken up and was about to get dressed when Matt approached me. Jack was currently having a wee. Matt was sporting a smile and knelt down beside me.

“Hi Alex, I wanted to apologize for being shit to you. I’m sorry,” he announced for everyone to hear. But as soon as everyone had stopped clapping and humming in approval, he continued, much more quiet and with much more venom to it. “Listen, I saw that letter you wrote. Jack is mine. Don’t you fucking touch him or you will get hurt.”

I could feel myself becoming pale, all the blood draining from my face. But I was not ready to accept this.

“Hey, did everyone hear what Matt told me? Matt, would you be as kind as to repeat your words? Telling me to stay away from Jack or you will hurt me?” I said, smiling sweetly at him even though my voice was shaking. Zack came here.

“Alex, are you serious? Did he really say that?” he barked. He looked pretty mad and mad Zack is scary Zack. Matt tried to back off.

“No no no of course I didn’t say that,” he said, offering a smile. But I was quick to react.

“Yes he did. He claimed Jack to be his and that he would hurt me if I touched him.”

“He wrote a fucking letter to Jack and told him he loved him!” Matt hissed.

“Hey what are you all on about?” Jack said, stepping out of the restroom.

“Matt is blackmailing me,” I said, folding my arms.

“That is not true!” Matt exclaimed.

“Yes it is,” the whole room replied in unison.

“Matt, what the fuck. I told you I do not want to continue this relationship before you have sorted yourself out. But I think you just messed up any chance of me continuing it,” Jack snapped and stormed away. Only seconds later he returned to add: “And snooping through personal things is disgusting by the way.”

Matt stood up, looking angry, and stomped away.

I looked at Jack for a moment before hugging him. He laughed and I smiled too. The others demanded to know what had happened and we decided to have a drink with them and talk.

We didn’t tell them about what was going on with me but we talked about Matt and what he had done. We decided to not fire him yet but we would watch out for possible others.
After we had talked about various other things, for 3 hours in total, I decided to sneak away and write the song for Jack. I got my guitar, my notebook and left the bus, going to the tree under which Jack and I would meet later.

It took me some time but then… inspiration came to me. I jotted down line after line of the text before grabbing my guitar and strumming a few chords. It didn’t take long before I found the right ones. I played the whole song a few times and then put down my guitar. I smiled. This was perfect.

4 hours to go. Time to set up the place.

Notes

Oooooh smackdown!

ARE YOU EXCITED FOR THE DATE?

-Laura