The first thing that I did when I got to school the next day was put up my signup sheet. I looked at it for a moment and then slowly walked off to class. Throughout the whole of the morning lessons all I could think about was the signup sheet, Alex’s parents and Alex.

Signup sheet, because I don’t know what type of people would be signing up and I was worried that the whole thing wouldn’t work and no-one would sign up.

Alex’s parents, because I have no clue what they’ll think of me from now on after the mess Alex and I got into last night.

Alex, because he was always on my mind.

It came to break time and before meeting everyone I quickly went to check the signup sheet I had put up. I saw that one person had signed up for drums, his name was Elliott. I just sighed. Hopefully more people will sign up by the end of today.

When I got into the break room I walked over to Alex and just sat down and started to eat my food,

“Hey babe, what’s up?” Alex asked

“I’m fine Just school has been so boring today I can’t even cope”

“It’s fine you have me in your lesson next” Jack half shouted across the room.

I saw Alex roll his eyes at what Jack had said. I guess they aren’t getting along as well as I thought. I just nodded back at Jack and turned back to Alex,

“Are you okay?”

He looked down at me and fake smiled,

“I’m fine, don’t worry about me”

“Alex, don’t you start this” I said in a half jokey tone

“Charlie, I’m okay I’ll talk to you about it at home, okay?”

We stared into each other’s eyes until Vinny jumped up and shouted in our ears,

“GET A ROOM YOU TWO!”

Both Alex and I just chuckled and I leant into his shoulder.

Break soon ended and both Jack and I walked to the gym for pe. An awkward silence hung in the air on the whole walk there. I don’t even know what’s going on anymore. One minute Alex says they’re getting on okay the next Alex is giving Jack evils and claiming he’s okay.

Jack’s point of view

I came out of the changing rooms and the girls still hadn’t come out yet so the teacher told us to just take a ball each and wait patiently for our partners. I was throwing it against the wall when I saw Charlie quickly run in front of me and catch it before it hit the ground, she then turned around and said,

“Hey”

“Hey Charlie”

She ran over to the other side of the net with the ball in her hand,

“Jack, I need to ask you something” I felt a lump appear in my throat. I’ve always hated it when people say
things like that to me.

“Fire away” I tried to look like I was still happy. I don’t think it worked because the look on Charlie’s face changed.

“What is going on with you and Alex I don’t understand?”

All I could do was stare at her while I tried to figure out what I was going to say. The lump in my throat got bigger and my mouth became dry,

“I don’t know. He will only look at me and talk to me when we’re at band practice and even then we won’t have a full blown conversation it will just be a ‘Jack play that differently’ or ‘Jack play that faster’ I thought we were okay after that evening at his and yours but I guess not”

I just stared at the ground wishing that this horrible feeling would go away. I hated talking about Alex now, even when my mum asks me why he hasn’t been round in a while I just choke on my words and run up to my room. We used to be such great friends but then Charlie entered our lives and that changed. Why did she have to be so pretty? If she wasn’t so attractive and wasn’t so good to talk to I probably would have just sent her out of the door the second I saw her in my house but no I had to go and ruin a great friendship instead. I honestly thought we had gotten over this and that things would get better but I don’t know what to think anymore. Yeah I guess I can admit I have been looking at Charlie still but it’s not like I’m going to grab her and run.

Charlie interrupted my thoughts by appearing in front of me with her arms out wide waiting for a hug. I just smiled half heartedly walked into them. She was such a good hugger, I wanted to stay like this for at least the whole lesson but the teacher just shouted at us and she let go. I sighed as she walked off to the other side of the net and we started playing again. Alex is so lucky, I hope he knows it.

Charlie’s point of view

“Jack, I don’t know what to say other than I’ll talk to him again and see what that does but he’s stubborn”

“I know he is, I’m sure he’ll come around soon” He had a hopeful sort of smile on his face.

We spent the rest of the lesson playing volleyball badly and trying to stay off the topic of Alex for Jack’s sake. I was just planning on what I would say to Alex in my head so that I didn’t make him angry again.

At the end of the lesson it was lunch but before I went to the music room I went to my sign-up sheet and nearly screamed at how happy I was

“Elliot Drums
Megan Bassist
Hayley Lead Guitar
Dan Rhythm Guitar”

I quickly took down the piece of paper and made a mental note to make an audition sheet up that night.
I then wandered over to lunch were Alex instantly noticed the smile on my face,

“Hello beautiful, why are you so happy then?” At least he wasn’t in a mood anymore

“I’m slowly starting to form my band” I just grinned some more

“Really?” He looked at me to see if I was joking

“You seem surprised?”

“Well yeah, after one day...”

“Maybe there are other people who want to enter Battle of the Bands too but just don’t have a band to be in, like me”

I just stuck my tongue out at him and then started to eat my lunch. Once I had eaten my food and the guys conversation about Battle of the Bands had died down I got up and stood in the middle of everyone,

“When is the next band practice?” They all looked up at me confused then Matt said,

“I’m guessing it would be today”

“Why?” Rian said

“Beeeeecauuuuuussseeeee I thought that maybe we could go out for dinner or something tonight because we haven’t actually done anything like that and I thought it would be nice....” A few people nodded

“Where shall we go then beautiful” Alex said as he wandered over to join me in the middle of the room.

“Well...where does everyone want to go?”

Everyone started talking at once and in the end we were all tied between Pizza Hut and Mcdonnalds

“Why the fuck would you want to go to Mcdonnalds?” Matt said

“Why the fuck not” was Vinny’s reply. As much as I loved Vinny, he did get on my nerves sometimes

“Vinny lets just go to Pizza Hut, I haven’t been there in a while and it’s thousands times better than Mcdonnalds” I explained to him

“Buuuuuuuuuut” he pleaded

“No, c’mon Pizza is amazing!” I said

“True dat” Jack said from the corner of the room

“So it’s decided Pizza Hut it is”

After that we decided what time we’d be getting there. 7 o’clock so we could go home, shower and sort ourselves out before we ate.

I was quite pleased with myself since by doing this I could make Jack and Alex sit next to each other and hopefully they’d sort something out or just have an uncomfortable meal. It would be their choice.

Once school had finished Alex and I drove back to his and as we walked through the front room we noticed something different,

“Where the fuck are my parents?”

“I don’t know do I?”

“Oh yeah, I’ll call my mum, give me a second”

“Okay”

I then left him in the kitchen and walked to his room to dump my stuff and go and have a shower. Just as I was finishing getting my clothes together to take into the bathroom Alex ran in,

“They have decided to go and see another random play again...I don’t know why but ahh well, but I’m gunna have a shower first because I’m amazing and you love me”

I just laughed and let him grab his clothes.

“So we have the house to ourselves tonight?”

“Yuhuh” He just winked at me and walked out of the room.

I just chuckled and then put my clothes that were in my hands down on my bed and got out a piece of paper and started to write a second poster

“Elliot, Megan, Hayley and Dan you all signed up to be in my band!

This is pretty awesome now I will be having the audition in the Music room on Monday at lunchtime.

Hopefully you’ll be able to come!

See ya there!”

I did it in big writing and did some fancy shizz around the edges to fill up space and then shoved it into my bag to be ready to be put up.

Alex then wandered into the room with black skinnys and a shirt on. We had all decided to dress sort of smart since it was a load of friends going out for a meal but it didn’t have to be too smart since it was pizza hut. I then just jumped up, went to the bathroom and got into the shower.

About half way through the shower I realised I had forgotten to bring my clothes with me. Once I had finished I wrapped a towel round me and went into Alex’s room. He was just sitting with his notebook in his hand, staring at some doodles he’d drawn when he looked up at me.

“Oh hey there Charlie”

“Helloo Alex”

“So what brings you in here with no clothes on eh?” He just winked at me and I just couldn’t help but laugh.

“I accidentally left my clothes in here and I needed to get them, that is unless you want me to come out for dinner with no clothes on I’m sure everyone will appreciate that” I said in a sarcastic tone

“Good point, but I like you like this”

“Oh do you now” I walked over to him and he just slowly stood up until I got to him and he just kissed me. I
wrapped my arms around his neck and I felt his hands reach around my waist and pull me closer. Alex then pulled himself out of the newly ironed shirt and tossed it onto the floor. I then started to undo his belt.

We gasped for air as he kicked off his skinny’s and then he pulled me on top of him as he fell backwards onto the bed.

“At least now no-one’s here to interrupt us” was the last thing Alex said before my towel was taken off and he pulled me ontop of him.

Saying that it was amazing would be an understatement.

I quickly checked the time and saw that it was 6:50pm

“Shit”

“What’s up?” Alex said confused

“We’re supposed to be at Pizza Hut in ten minutes”

“Oh yeah, that might not be possible” we just laughed and slowly got out of the bed

“I need to shower again...” I looked at Alex “We both do”

“C’mon then” He said as he grabbed my and pulled me towards the door.

I just laughed and followed him to the shower. We had a highly quick shower and then got dried and dressed very quickly but by the time we got into Alex’s car it was 7:15pm.

“Let’s do this” Alex said before he stepped on the accelerator and drove in the direction of Pizza Hut.

When we got into the restaurant we saw that everyone had already started eating. I wasn’t surprised to be honest it was 7:25pm twenty five minutes after we were supposed to start eating

“Why are you two so late?” Zack asked confused

Alex and I just looked at each other and laughed

“Actually on second thoughts I don’t even want to know” Zack said trying to shake out any idea from his head which just made everyone laugh.

Before we sat down we went and got some food and when we got back the only seats left were two next to

Jack. I looked at Alex,

“If it makes you uncomfortable I’ll sit next to him if you want” Alex looked at me and then back at Jack

“No, I’d rather sit next to him” he then walked past me and sat down on the chair.

The whole of the meal was quiet because everyone knew that there was something going on between Jack and Alex and they’re awkwardness made everyone else awkward. Once everyone had finished their ice cream Alex suggested an idea

“Okay guys so it’s only half nine and my house is free for the night so do you all want to come round mine and drink a load of alcohol and watch films?”

Everyone just nodded in agreement so we all chipped in for the bill and then got into our cars and headed to Alex’s house. Rian stopped on the way to get beers and other alcoholic things since he is old enough.

When everyone was standing in Alex’s kitchen/dining room/front room Alex and I ran upstairs and got blankets and pillows for us all to sit on and then laid them out on the sofas and the floor in front of the sofas then everyone collapsed to the floor with a drink in hand.

Half way through watching The Fox And The Hound I noticed that Alex had quite a few cider and beer cans lying next to him on the floor,

“Are you okay?” I heard Jack ask him, obviously he had seen it too

“Huh? Oh yeah I’m fins Jack, don’t worry” He didn’t say it in a harsh way, just in a tired tone.

“Okay well if you need to talk about anything you know I’m here” Jack half smiled at him.

Alex then looked at Jack and started to drunken ramble,

“Jack I’m so sorry I shouldn’t be so horrible to you all of the time I’ve just become so jealous and I just can’t stand the thought of loosing Charlie to you, it would break me and you keep looking at her and spending time with her in lessons and I just really wish it was me y’know? I just love her so much and I have let it come between us which I shouldn’t of done because that’s what idiots do so I’m so sorry Jack I love you too, sorry”

Alex was nearly crying and so Jack just patted him on the back

“Alex, it’s fine calm down”

“But I don’t want you to hate me”

“Alex, I don’t hate you, no-one could hate you and you know Charlie loves you, I mean look at her”

Alex turned his head round and saw that I had tears streaming down my face because of what he had said

“Oh baby come here” Alex said as he pulled me into a tight hug

Nothing else was said and we stayed in that position for another three films until people slowly started to pass out and fall asleep so once Home Alone had finished Alex got up and pulled me into a fireman’s carry and started to try and walk across the room with me

“Alex I don’t think this is going to work” I said laughing as he nearly fell over for the third time. He then put me down and I helped him stagger up the stairs to his room, got him undressed and fell into bed with him.

All I was hoping now was that Alex remembers saying all the things he did say to Jack because if he didn’t things could get complicated again.

Notes

Okay so firstly, the sex scene was horriffic and I apologise I'll make it better next time ;) and secondly please give me some feedback on how you think this is going?
Thank you for reading though!