Stay Awake
Alex Do You Not Remember Me?
I woke up to the smell of Bacon and eggs and Alex missing from his bed. I quickly looked around just in case he’d fallen out of the bed in the night and was passed out on the floor, but he wasn’t in the room all together. Suddenly I heard a roar of laughter come from someone downstairs so I dragged myself out of bed and down to greet them.
“You’re awake!” Alex exclaimed with a happy grin on his face as I walked in through the door of the brightly lit kitchen.
“Kinda” I said sleepily and he just chuckled.
I looked round the rest of the room and saw that Rian and Jack were making bacon and egg sandwiches.
Well Rian was making them and Jack was just dancing about and getting in the way. I then walked over to the sofas to sit down with Alex and watch what I believed was Spongebob with him. Then I noticed that
Zack was still passed out on the floor under some blankets.
After a while Rian then announced that breakfast was nearly ready and Alex ran over to Rian, nearly crashing into the counter, begging him to hurry up with the food while I went over to Zack to see if I could wake him before all of the food gets eaten.
“Zaaaaaaack” I said as I sat down by his head “Zaaaaaaaaaaack” He just murmered moved his head slightly and started snoring,
“Zack you lazy shit, get up!” Alex yelled from the kitchen.
Zack’s eyes slowly opened and then he just looked up at me
“Have you been cooking food?” I just stared back at him.
“Me? Cooking food? Are you insane? No. Jack and Rian are cooking egg and bacon sandwiches”
With that Zack bolted up and danced over to the kitchen to join Alex, begging for food. I just laughed and walked over to them. Then Rian passed out our sandwiches.
“Rian these are so good!” I said taking a bite
“Ahem, I helped him” Jack whined
“Okay then, Jack and Rian these are so good!” I stuck my tongue out at Jack “Better?”
“Perfect” He replied
“Anyway...” Rian interrupted “Thank you Charlie”
Once I had finished my sandwich I quickly looked at the time. 1:01pm.
“Jesus Christ!” I exclaimed
“What!?” Alex asked, conserned
“It’s fucking one o’clock, did we all sleep for ages?”
“I guess we must have, I mean we did have a late night last night” Alex replied
“And there was alcohol involved...” Zack pointed out
“Fair point” I agreed.
“I really should be getting home so I can shower at least” Rian announced “Jack do you want a lift home?”
Jack nodded
“Yeah if you don’t mind dude, that’d be great”
“I should be getting off too really, I feel disgusting” Zack said
“You look it” Alex replied and we all started laughing
“Thanks Bro” Zack said as he punched Alex in the arm
“Bloody hell Zack, sometimes I swear you don’t know your own strength” Alex said cradling his arm
“My bad...” I couldn’t help but laugh at that.
“Right lets go...” Rian whispered to Jack as they picked up their things and began to leave.
After about twenty minutes all three of them were out of the house and Alex and I were just staring at the front room and kitchen. The kitchen wasn’t too bad because Rian wasn’t that messy but the front room still had blankets and pillows and empty beer cans lying around everywhere so Alex got to work on cleaning the kitchen and I got to work on cleaning the front room since we both decided I would probably do a better job.
When the house was spotless both Alex and I collapsed in a heap onto the sofa.
“I feel like I could sleep forever” I whispered to Alex
“Don’t do that” he sighed back
“Why not?”
“Because then I’d never be able to see or talk to you again and that would make me sad”
“I didn’t think about that bit did I?”
“Maybe not” We both chuckled.
I quickly checked the time again and it was 3:47pm.
“There’s no point in us attempting to do anything outside of this house today is there?” I asked Alex
“Probably not”
That was the last thing I heard before I fell asleep.
Alex’s point of view
When I woke up Charlie was curled up in a ball on the floor and I was lying on the sofa. I looked up at the
clock and saw that it was 7:13pm. Then I heard a knocking at the front door and realised that was the whole reason why I was awake in the first place. So I wandered over to the door and saw a smallish girl with blonde hair and blue eyes,
“Errm, hello?” I said sleepily, rubbing my eyes.
“Alex do you not remember me?” I blinked hard trying to focus on the person in front of me
“Should I?”
“It’s me, Scarlett silly”
Shit. How did I not recognise her and where the hell did she come from? I need to tell her to go away in the
nicest way possible.
“Oh yeah I see it now sorry I’ve just been asleep, you woke me up” I said hoping she would take the hint
that she needs to go away.
“So are you going to invite me in or are we going to stand on your doorstep all evening”
No. I need to tell her to leave and never come back.
“Yeah sure, I guess, come on in..”
What the hell am I doing? Well I guess she could only be round for a drink and to catch up, I mean, it has
been about five years since we saw each other.
I watched her walk in and go over to the sofas to sit down.
“Alex?” Scarlett asked
“What?”
“Why is there a girl curled up on your floor?”
“Because we were lying on the sofa together but she fell asleep and fell off”
“Riiight...” I then walked over to her and sat down on the other end of the sofa. “Alex I’ve missed you.”
Fuck.
“You dumped me remember?”
“Yeah and that was the biggest mistake of my life, I don’t know how I could have been so blind”
“Well nothing is going to happen between us okay? I have a beautiful girlfriend and we love each other”
“What. Her?” Scarlett said as she gestured towards Charlie.
“Yes, Charlie”
“Oh she has a name...cute”
“Excuse me?”
“She isn’t that pretty..”
“That’s because she’s lying on the floor asleep. What is wrong with you?”
“You should be asking yourself that question not me. You could ditch this girl right now and have me back
in your arms and your life would be perfect”
“Nothing is wrong with me I love Charlie and no. I do not want you ‘back in my arms’ now get out of my
house”
“What?” She looked at me, stunned.
“You heard me, get out of my house” I started to get really angry.
“You’re going to regret this you know. You will like me. You probably do now, you’re just too scared to
admit it. I’ll get you to say you love me somehow just you wait” Was all she said before slamming the front door and running down the driveway.
Two seconds later the front door opens again.
“Alex I just saw Scarlett running from the house. What happened?” Mom asked
“Don’t worry mom”
“Whatever”
“Right I’m going to bed.” I just scooped up Charlie, kissed her forehead and carried her to my bedroom.
While I was cuddling Charlie in bed I thought to myself. ‘What the fuck is Scarlett going to do?’
Charlie’s point of view
I woke up and stretched and accidentally whacked Alex in the face,
“Oh so you’re up then?” he laughed
“Yeah, sorry for punching you in the face with my morning stretch” I chuckled.
“No problem” Alex said with a straight face, blankly staring forwards.
We sat there in an awkward silence for what seemed like ages.
“Alex.”
“Yeah?”
“Are you okay? You’re really quiet..” He closed his eyes as if he was thinking really hard about what to say
“I’m fine it’s just..”
“Just what? You know you can tell me anything, right?”
“Yeah I know that” He still had his eyes closed. Fuck. What is going on? I’ve never seen him act like this before. “I need to tell you something, something really important”
Shit. Just go ahead and tell me that you’ve cheated on me because I’m ugly and you hate me.
“You remember I told you about Scarlett a while ago?”
“Yeah, your ex who dumped you and is the daughter of Mrs Skyler at school?” I recapped.
“Yeah her, well she came round last night after you fell asleep”
Here we go.
“She begged me to take her back” He took a deep breath
“Oh, okay then. So what did you say?” I closed my eyes and started to shake with nervousness and
sadness
“I said no of course! Why would you doubt me?” He looked upset and hurt
“Alex, I’m probably hideous compared to her. I doubt why you’re with me every time I wake up in the
morning in your arms. I’m scared that this is all a dream and soon I’ll wake up and be alone in my cold bed, because you are just too good for me”
He looked my directly in the eyes, holding my head in his hands.
“Charlie don’t be insane! You’re beautiful, especially compared to her. This isn’t a dream and if it is then I
don’t want to wake up because this is just too perfect for it to end. I sent Scarlett away and out my house,
I would never want to get back with her. It’s you I want to be with, not her.”
He then kissed me and I couldn’t help but smile.
“Then why are you being so quiet about it?”
“Because she threatened that she was going to break us up and have me all to herself. Whatever it takes. I just don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just really worried that’s all”
I’m gunna fucking kill that girl. Why does she think she has the right to try and break us up? Fucking bitch. Yeah, I really don’t like her.
“Don’t worry Alex, what harm can she do? We are together, she can’t break us up. Can she?” I looked up
at his beautiful brown eyes.
“Of course not. I guess I was just over thinking”
“Oh Alex” I reached my arms round him and snuggled into his chest
“Love ya Charlie” Alex said as he hugged me back
“Love ya too Alex”
“So what do ya wanna do today?” Alex said as he moved a piece of my hair from my face and tucked it
behind my ear.
“I dunno, it’s a Sunday so there can’t be that much to do”
“That’s true, but we could go to the park!” He sounded really enthusiastic.
I just laughed and nodded, “Sounds like a good plan to me!”
“Dibs on you pushing me on the swing first though” Alex said while slowly getting up.
I just sighed and got out of bed and started to get dressed. I put on one of my pairs of black skinny jeans and my too-big-for-me Paramore top and tied my purple hoodie around my waist then I looked up and saw
Alex in black skinny jeans and a plain red t-shirt. Damn he looked good.
“C’mon then!” There was hardly enough time for me to check myself over in the mirror before Alex was
dragging me by my hand down the stairs and out the door.
We then walked hand in hand, as cute couples do, towards the park when I thought I saw someone staring at me. I quickly glanced around and saw a small girl with blonde hair and bright blue eyes quickly turn away from me and walk in the other direction. I just shook it off and pretended like I hadn’t seen anything.
This could happen to anyone. Right?
“You’re awake!” Alex exclaimed with a happy grin on his face as I walked in through the door of the brightly lit kitchen.
“Kinda” I said sleepily and he just chuckled.
I looked round the rest of the room and saw that Rian and Jack were making bacon and egg sandwiches.
Well Rian was making them and Jack was just dancing about and getting in the way. I then walked over to the sofas to sit down with Alex and watch what I believed was Spongebob with him. Then I noticed that
Zack was still passed out on the floor under some blankets.
After a while Rian then announced that breakfast was nearly ready and Alex ran over to Rian, nearly crashing into the counter, begging him to hurry up with the food while I went over to Zack to see if I could wake him before all of the food gets eaten.
“Zaaaaaaack” I said as I sat down by his head “Zaaaaaaaaaaack” He just murmered moved his head slightly and started snoring,
“Zack you lazy shit, get up!” Alex yelled from the kitchen.
Zack’s eyes slowly opened and then he just looked up at me
“Have you been cooking food?” I just stared back at him.
“Me? Cooking food? Are you insane? No. Jack and Rian are cooking egg and bacon sandwiches”
With that Zack bolted up and danced over to the kitchen to join Alex, begging for food. I just laughed and walked over to them. Then Rian passed out our sandwiches.
“Rian these are so good!” I said taking a bite
“Ahem, I helped him” Jack whined
“Okay then, Jack and Rian these are so good!” I stuck my tongue out at Jack “Better?”
“Perfect” He replied
“Anyway...” Rian interrupted “Thank you Charlie”
Once I had finished my sandwich I quickly looked at the time. 1:01pm.
“Jesus Christ!” I exclaimed
“What!?” Alex asked, conserned
“It’s fucking one o’clock, did we all sleep for ages?”
“I guess we must have, I mean we did have a late night last night” Alex replied
“And there was alcohol involved...” Zack pointed out
“Fair point” I agreed.
“I really should be getting home so I can shower at least” Rian announced “Jack do you want a lift home?”
Jack nodded
“Yeah if you don’t mind dude, that’d be great”
“I should be getting off too really, I feel disgusting” Zack said
“You look it” Alex replied and we all started laughing
“Thanks Bro” Zack said as he punched Alex in the arm
“Bloody hell Zack, sometimes I swear you don’t know your own strength” Alex said cradling his arm
“My bad...” I couldn’t help but laugh at that.
“Right lets go...” Rian whispered to Jack as they picked up their things and began to leave.
After about twenty minutes all three of them were out of the house and Alex and I were just staring at the front room and kitchen. The kitchen wasn’t too bad because Rian wasn’t that messy but the front room still had blankets and pillows and empty beer cans lying around everywhere so Alex got to work on cleaning the kitchen and I got to work on cleaning the front room since we both decided I would probably do a better job.
When the house was spotless both Alex and I collapsed in a heap onto the sofa.
“I feel like I could sleep forever” I whispered to Alex
“Don’t do that” he sighed back
“Why not?”
“Because then I’d never be able to see or talk to you again and that would make me sad”
“I didn’t think about that bit did I?”
“Maybe not” We both chuckled.
I quickly checked the time again and it was 3:47pm.
“There’s no point in us attempting to do anything outside of this house today is there?” I asked Alex
“Probably not”
That was the last thing I heard before I fell asleep.
Alex’s point of view
When I woke up Charlie was curled up in a ball on the floor and I was lying on the sofa. I looked up at the
clock and saw that it was 7:13pm. Then I heard a knocking at the front door and realised that was the whole reason why I was awake in the first place. So I wandered over to the door and saw a smallish girl with blonde hair and blue eyes,
“Errm, hello?” I said sleepily, rubbing my eyes.
“Alex do you not remember me?” I blinked hard trying to focus on the person in front of me
“Should I?”
“It’s me, Scarlett silly”
Shit. How did I not recognise her and where the hell did she come from? I need to tell her to go away in the
nicest way possible.
“Oh yeah I see it now sorry I’ve just been asleep, you woke me up” I said hoping she would take the hint
that she needs to go away.
“So are you going to invite me in or are we going to stand on your doorstep all evening”
No. I need to tell her to leave and never come back.
“Yeah sure, I guess, come on in..”
What the hell am I doing? Well I guess she could only be round for a drink and to catch up, I mean, it has
been about five years since we saw each other.
I watched her walk in and go over to the sofas to sit down.
“Alex?” Scarlett asked
“What?”
“Why is there a girl curled up on your floor?”
“Because we were lying on the sofa together but she fell asleep and fell off”
“Riiight...” I then walked over to her and sat down on the other end of the sofa. “Alex I’ve missed you.”
Fuck.
“You dumped me remember?”
“Yeah and that was the biggest mistake of my life, I don’t know how I could have been so blind”
“Well nothing is going to happen between us okay? I have a beautiful girlfriend and we love each other”
“What. Her?” Scarlett said as she gestured towards Charlie.
“Yes, Charlie”
“Oh she has a name...cute”
“Excuse me?”
“She isn’t that pretty..”
“That’s because she’s lying on the floor asleep. What is wrong with you?”
“You should be asking yourself that question not me. You could ditch this girl right now and have me back
in your arms and your life would be perfect”
“Nothing is wrong with me I love Charlie and no. I do not want you ‘back in my arms’ now get out of my
house”
“What?” She looked at me, stunned.
“You heard me, get out of my house” I started to get really angry.
“You’re going to regret this you know. You will like me. You probably do now, you’re just too scared to
admit it. I’ll get you to say you love me somehow just you wait” Was all she said before slamming the front door and running down the driveway.
Two seconds later the front door opens again.
“Alex I just saw Scarlett running from the house. What happened?” Mom asked
“Don’t worry mom”
“Whatever”
“Right I’m going to bed.” I just scooped up Charlie, kissed her forehead and carried her to my bedroom.
While I was cuddling Charlie in bed I thought to myself. ‘What the fuck is Scarlett going to do?’
Charlie’s point of view
I woke up and stretched and accidentally whacked Alex in the face,
“Oh so you’re up then?” he laughed
“Yeah, sorry for punching you in the face with my morning stretch” I chuckled.
“No problem” Alex said with a straight face, blankly staring forwards.
We sat there in an awkward silence for what seemed like ages.
“Alex.”
“Yeah?”
“Are you okay? You’re really quiet..” He closed his eyes as if he was thinking really hard about what to say
“I’m fine it’s just..”
“Just what? You know you can tell me anything, right?”
“Yeah I know that” He still had his eyes closed. Fuck. What is going on? I’ve never seen him act like this before. “I need to tell you something, something really important”
Shit. Just go ahead and tell me that you’ve cheated on me because I’m ugly and you hate me.
“You remember I told you about Scarlett a while ago?”
“Yeah, your ex who dumped you and is the daughter of Mrs Skyler at school?” I recapped.
“Yeah her, well she came round last night after you fell asleep”
Here we go.
“She begged me to take her back” He took a deep breath
“Oh, okay then. So what did you say?” I closed my eyes and started to shake with nervousness and
sadness
“I said no of course! Why would you doubt me?” He looked upset and hurt
“Alex, I’m probably hideous compared to her. I doubt why you’re with me every time I wake up in the
morning in your arms. I’m scared that this is all a dream and soon I’ll wake up and be alone in my cold bed, because you are just too good for me”
He looked my directly in the eyes, holding my head in his hands.
“Charlie don’t be insane! You’re beautiful, especially compared to her. This isn’t a dream and if it is then I
don’t want to wake up because this is just too perfect for it to end. I sent Scarlett away and out my house,
I would never want to get back with her. It’s you I want to be with, not her.”
He then kissed me and I couldn’t help but smile.
“Then why are you being so quiet about it?”
“Because she threatened that she was going to break us up and have me all to herself. Whatever it takes. I just don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m just really worried that’s all”
I’m gunna fucking kill that girl. Why does she think she has the right to try and break us up? Fucking bitch. Yeah, I really don’t like her.
“Don’t worry Alex, what harm can she do? We are together, she can’t break us up. Can she?” I looked up
at his beautiful brown eyes.
“Of course not. I guess I was just over thinking”
“Oh Alex” I reached my arms round him and snuggled into his chest
“Love ya Charlie” Alex said as he hugged me back
“Love ya too Alex”
“So what do ya wanna do today?” Alex said as he moved a piece of my hair from my face and tucked it
behind my ear.
“I dunno, it’s a Sunday so there can’t be that much to do”
“That’s true, but we could go to the park!” He sounded really enthusiastic.
I just laughed and nodded, “Sounds like a good plan to me!”
“Dibs on you pushing me on the swing first though” Alex said while slowly getting up.
I just sighed and got out of bed and started to get dressed. I put on one of my pairs of black skinny jeans and my too-big-for-me Paramore top and tied my purple hoodie around my waist then I looked up and saw
Alex in black skinny jeans and a plain red t-shirt. Damn he looked good.
“C’mon then!” There was hardly enough time for me to check myself over in the mirror before Alex was
dragging me by my hand down the stairs and out the door.
We then walked hand in hand, as cute couples do, towards the park when I thought I saw someone staring at me. I quickly glanced around and saw a small girl with blonde hair and bright blue eyes quickly turn away from me and walk in the other direction. I just shook it off and pretended like I hadn’t seen anything.
This could happen to anyone. Right?
Notes
So yeah sorry for taking so long to updateGoing to see All Time Low in Two days which is exciting haha but yeah...
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3/23/14