Chapter Inspiration: I Should Have Known- Foo Fighters


"Wait so a straight flush is better than a full house?" I questioned looking down at the mock hands Marc had laid out on my couch.

"Yeah but a royal straight flush is best... Like there’s nothing better you can have!" He explained as I rubbed my temples.

"What’s the difference there both in order with the same suit?"

"The royal one is like the highest cards..." He told me holding up what I assumed to be an example, "10-jack-queen-king-ace!"

I let out a groan falling back into the armrest. It was already Tuesday December 7th, we had already been back to school and I was not having it. I was relieved to be free from the house for the overwhelming hours of the day but it had come to the point where I decided it was best to bring my own people if the boys would be over even though Alex was still M.I.A and Rian had heard he was coming.

The idea landed me in my living room, sitting on my couch with Marc while he so desperately tried to explain the basics to poker even though if we were to be honest, it was going in one ear and out the other and we both knew this to be true. Andrea had lost all interest in the game of explanation before it had even gotten into full swing and had found herself perched by the front window seat aimlessly fiddling with the curtains. "Can we watch a movie?" She called from her place on the sill.

"Like what?" Marc questioned shoveling the cards into a pile and began to make a deck again.

"I don't know," she sighed as I folded my arms over the back of the couch to look at her, "go make some popcorn and stuff and me and Jase will pick!" She spoke as Marc nodded getting to his feet and disposing the neat deck on the coffee table before disappearing into the kitchen. I sighed getting to my feet to venture over to Andrea, plopping down on the opposite end of the window seat before pulling my knees to my chest to rest my head. "How you doing?" She asked as I instantly rolled my eyes with a groan leaning my head back.

"I’m fine!" I groaned again, "I’d be even better if everyone just let it be and stopped asking about it!"

"I wasn’t asking because I’m like concerned about you..." She smiled out the window.

"Good friend you are!" I scrunched with a chuckle.

"No not like that!" She laughed pushing my knee lightly. "I mean like, it’s weird on all of us, just not having him around, jacks been a miserable sap and you guys just seemed to be really close is all..."

"Yeah..." I smiled down on my lap, "I don't know what happened."

What Andrea was saying began to hit a nerve, it was odd without him around, even if we all tried to dismiss his absence, he wasn’t the kind of person to just take up space in a room no matter where he was, and to have him not there anymore was really beginning to take a toll on not just me but everyone. The idea that we would never be the way we were was a rip in the gut. I couldn’t help my mind from drifting to how we used to be just weeks ago, sitting in his kitchen talking about anything at all like we could sit there forever and just be with one another. like nothing else really mattered.

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We had let some of the windows open a crack, letting the cool November breeze drift through the house, letting the early winter air nip at our cheeks. There was something different about the way Alex's eyes were lingering on mine that day. I glanced up meeting Alex's warm eyes as a smile tugged at his lips.

"What?" I smiled looking up at Alex who sat across from me.

"Nothing," he smiled dropping his head with a humble smirk. "Just thinking."

"Bout what?" I questioned tying the strings on my sweat shirt together only to let them fall loose on my chest again.

"You" he said glancing up through the hair that had fallen into eye shot, "and me."

"What about us?" I laughed.

"That maybe my Nan was right, maybe she had a point." He laughed turning and leaning against the counter.

"Alex..." I sighed knowing what his Nan had always said about the two of us when we were younger. She was a harmless old woman who believed your first love is your only true love, the one who teaches you what love will be the only one who can truly make you feel that way, and anyone else is a false facade. She would always tell our parents that Alex and I would fall in love and get married one day when we would throw sand at one another in the sandbox. No one believed her of course, it was a sweet theory, but one issue rose, Alex and I didn't love each other the way she thought we did. Alex and Rian would always pick fun at me and tell me we would get married sending me running to our dad crying about the boys giving me cooties or some shit.

"What do you not remember our pact?" Alex laughed as I rolled my eyes at the boy.

"Rubbish!" I laughed tossing a few pieces of popcorn into my mouth. "Pure rubbish!"

"I meant it." Alex smiled, "if I’m single at 30, I’m going to hunt you down and ask you to marry me on the spot."

"And what if I'm not single?" I retorted.

"Please!" Alex scoffed as I gaped in awe and threw a handful of the snack at the snickering boy.

"Really now," I laughed, "if you can be real about it so can I, if you are still single what will you do if I’m not?"

"Same thing obviously," he shrugged, "it just sucks to be the other guy; you know losing you to a guy with much better hair and a voice on an angle!"

"I hope you go bald!" I joked poking my tongue out at him as his jaw hit the floor.

"TAKE IT BACK!" He yelled lunging at me.

"ALEX STOP!" I laughed as he wrapped an arm around my neck and began to give me a nuggie.

"TAKE IT BACK!"

"NEVER!"

"TAKE IT BACK OR ILL SIT ON YOU!" He laughed still mustering up my hair.

"YES ALEX BECAUSE YOU’RE SO FAT!" I laughed poking a finger into his side.

"YOU’RE SUCH AN ASS DAWSON!" He laughed as he released my neck and pushed me to the floor as he sat on my stomach.

"AND YOU DON'T HAVE AN ASS!" I laughed a flat laugh at my friend.

"Take it back and I’ll get off you." He spoke.

"Nope!" I cooed popping the 'p' as Alex shifted his weight to place his hands on either side of my head so he was hovering over me.

"Then say you'll marry me!" He taunted.

"No!" I laughed.

"Why not?" He pouted poking out his lower lip.

"It will be hard to marry someone I can only have sex with when the entire population is dead." I spoke recalling our agreement at me and Rian’s party, post Rian thinking we slept together.

"Then I’ll just have to kill some bitches wont I?" He smiled as I pushed him off of me.

"You Alexander are absolutely, 100%, completely, totally, and utterly ridiculous you know that?" I laughed at Alex.

"It’s why you love me though right?" He asked as I got to my feet to slide to the counter top.

"Dream on kiddo!" I laughed as I shot the boy a playful wink.

"You’re so going to marry me one day!" He laughed as I rolled my eyes letting him win this one time, for now.
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"JASEY!" I shook my head before realizing Andrea had vanished from her spot before me, I glanced over to see the two of them gawking at me in confusion, "you want to watch this movie or what?"

"Yeah... Guess so!" I sighed getting to my feet and plopping down beside Marc on the couch.

"You okay?" He questioned glancing down on me as I began to fiddle with the hem of my tee, "you seem a little off."

"I’m fine." I nodded as he leaned over placing a light kiss to the top of my head before ruffling my hair.



"It’ll all work out kid," he sighed, "he'll come to his senses, eventually."

Notes

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