Jack’s been out for hours now but he’s still breathing steadily so we think he’s going to be okay. He better be okay, it’s not like we have hospitals anymore. I must have paced up and down the stairs between the living room, where Jack was, and our bedroom a million times before I was eventually stopped by Kellin.

‘Alex, stop pacing for fuck sake. He’s going to be fine’ Kellin snapped as he blocked my path.

‘I know he is’ I snapped back before pushing my way past and heading down the stairs again.

‘Then what are you so worried about? If it’s about that little kiss then don’t be’ He said as my heart did a double take. How the hell did he know?

‘How do you know about that?’ I asked, folding my arms over my chest defensively.

‘My bedroom window over looks where you two had your moment. It was quite cute really’ He said with a smile, obviously just teasing me. I uncrossed my arms and let out the breath I’d been holding. ‘We live with Vic and Jamie, we don’t mind a bit of gay’ He said, clearly trying to be funny to hide an emotion in his voice that I couldn’t place. Was Kellin jealous of Vic and Jamie?

‘There’s nothing going on between Jack and I. I kissed him in a heat of the moment kinda thing. He’s probably not even going to remember it’ I said, crossing my arms over my chest again.

‘We shall see’ Kellin said with a wink walking back towards his room before stopping to face me. ‘Oh Alex, see when you two do end up getting together? Keep your sex noises to a minimum please. I don’t need to hear that!’ He said with a laugh before disappearing into his room leaving me standing on the stairs shaking my head in disbelief.

‘OW! RIAN! THAT FUCKING HURTS’ I hear Jack’s voice yell from the living room as Rian just laughs. I all but sprint down the stairs and into the living room to see what Rian is doing to Jack that hurts so much.

‘ALEX!’ Jack calls as I enter the living room to see that Rian is only trying to clean the wound on Jack’s head whilst Jack makes it impossible by wriggling. ‘HELP ME!’ He wails childishly as Rian looks at me with a look that begs for me to help him.

‘Please’ Rian begs, still struggling to hold Jack still.

‘If you help him torture me, I will make you sleep outside Alex!’ Jack threatens me, as he wriggles around managing to fall from the couch onto the floor.

‘You wouldn’t do that to me’ I said as I grabbed his hands and pinned them in place, only to have him start kicking. ‘Jack, I’m going to sit on you if you don’t stop’ I warn him only getting a glare in return but managing to get him to sit still as Rian cleans out the wound on his head before bandaging it up again and leaving us on our own as I pulled Jack from the floor and put him back on the couch.

‘Lex, I can sit!’ He protests as I try to get him to lie down.

‘You need to lie down’ I protest, pushing his shoulders until he is on his back and looking fairly comfortable.

‘Lie with me?’ He asks looking up at me innocently and pulling me down on top of him.

‘I thought you said lie ‘with’ you, not on you Jay’ I laugh as I move over and lie on my side in the little gap next to him watching as his face falls into a frown as though he is thinking hard about what to say next. I can’t help but wonder if he remembers the kiss and if he does remember, is he okay with it? The look of concentration is still on his face and I can’t help but try to break the awkward silence we have fallen into.

‘Don’t think so hard Jack, you’re giving me a headache just looking at you.’ I say with a little giggle hoping to get rid of some of the tension in the room but not succeeding in doing so as Jack turned on his side to look at me intently.

‘You kissed me’ He stated simply with no emotion in his voice. My heart skipped what felt like a thousand beats as I tried to decipher how he felt about all this. He just stared at me intently waiting for me to answer him.

‘I uhm-‘ I started not really knowing how to finish my sentence, ‘-know I did’ . I mentally slapped myself for not having a better answer and for kissing him in the first place. Why couldn’t he have just forgotten about it?

Jack made a little noise at the back of his throat to acknowledge that he had heard me and that’s when my mouth started going as I let out a string of apologies for what I had done.

‘I don’t know why I did it Jack.. I just thought you had died and I was upset and I just did it and I’m sorry’ I rambled on finally settling for not making more of an idiot of myself than I already had done.

‘I’ll just go Jack’ I mumbled as I manoeuvred myself off of the couch and away from Jack.

‘Lex’ He called me gently just as I reached the door. I made a little noise at the back of my throat to show that I had heard him. ‘Come back here’.

Despite all my instincts telling me to just leave and avoid further embarrassment I walked back over to Jack and stood infront of him as he watched me carefully.

‘Kiss me again’ He demanded, getting into a sitting position and then standing up infront of me placing his hands on the sides of my face and forcing me to look at him as his eyes burned into my skull.

‘I want you to kiss me again’ He said moving his lips in to meet mine that were still frozen in place. He wants me to kiss him again? Why? All my questions left my head when Jacks warm breath fanned over my lips gently causing them to come to life and crush themselves against his as my hands found their way to the back of his neck pulling him closer to me until our chests were touching. We kept kissing until I had to eventually pull away for air and nestle my face into the crook of Jack’s neck.

‘That kiss was definitely better than the one earlier’ Jack teased earning himself a little slap from me as he wound his arms around my waist tightly.

‘I totally called it!’ Kellin yelled causing Jack and I to break apart quickly and me to blush. ‘I told you we would see Alex’ He said with a wink as he left me to face Jack and his questions about what Kellin was talking about.

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