"So Jess, how come you moved over here?" Jack says, blowing out a mouthful of cigarette smoke. I could tell him, but I won't, not yet. What would they think of me? What if they'd tell everyone?

"Family complications." I say, rolling my eyes and shrugging my shoulders. I can feel my cheeks burn up. Luckily for me it's getting dark, so nobody will be able to tell. "Anyway, Jack, do you not have anything else that doesn't taste like cat piss?" I snigger, shaking my now half empty can at him. I'm such a pessimist.

"Oh shit, yeah, I totally forgot-" he says, shooting up to his feet. The end of his sentence fades out as he runs into his kitchen.

"So Gaskarth, how's you and Kierra?" Rian winks at Alex, I thought she hated him.

"What?" Alex responds quickly, holding his body up with both of his elbows. I'm confused.

"C'mon Alex?" Rian says to Alex as he gets to his feet. "Just lighten the fuck up, okay?" He murmurs under his breath as he walks away from us, into Jacks kitchen. I try to ignore their childlike behaviour by lighting up a cigarette. I slowly rest my back down onto the grass, the stars are so beautiful. So free.

"What're you thinking about?" Alex's asks pleasantly as I inhale another puff, then flick the ash onto the grass.

I shrug. "I was just watching the stars, and how stunning they are. Why?"

"Yeah? And I was just wondering, y'know, conversation and all." He says quietly as he scoots over to where I'm laying.

"What are you thinking about?" I ask, turning onto my side to face him. My voice was barely a whisper.

"I would tell you, but-" he says, with a sigh, forcing out a small smile. I slowly drag my eyes up to meet his, it's like they're on fire. Burning straight through me.

Alex's POV.

"-But then I'd have to kill you." I whisper, forcing out a small laugh. I fall onto my back, she was right. The stars are beautiful tonight.

"I don't mind." She says quietly, gazing back up to the sky again. She's the only girl that can make smoking look beautiful.

"I wouldn't want to bore you." I whisper before closing my eyes. I could just fall asleep.

"Aw, boo you, Lexxy." She says quietly, poking my ribs. My ticklish spot. Lexxy? I don't know what that is.

"What're you thinking about now?" I say, accidentally.

"Everything." She says, her blue eyes dark, with some unfathomable expression.

"Good or bad?" I ask, whilst finishing the last drops of my beer.

"Both..."

"Another night?" I wonder.

"Yeah..." She smiles at me, rolling onto her side again, twisting her can into some deformity.

"Do you want another drink?" I was getting myself one, so I may as well. She nods, still star gazing.

"'Lex, you're gonna have to go..." Jack says in a quiet voice as I walk in, he was sat across the dining table.

"Huh?" I say looking into the fridge. There's nothing decent. Fuck.

"I'll explain later..." He says, waving his hands around. He must've been on the phone to his old folks or something. I don't know. It's Jack, he's probably just tired or wants to jack-off in his room.

"Whatever-" I shrug, walking out with an almost empty bottle of Jacks.

"Alex-" Shit. Another lecture. "You got to lay off the booze-"

"Jack, I-" I release a small sigh, "It's almost empty-" I shake the bottle at him, "It's the only good thing I have left."

"You have me?! The band?! Your fucking friends, Alex, there's more to life than drinking every night." He growls through his teeth at me.

"Whatever, Jack." I mutter, walking outside. I can't believe him sometimes. I have my friends? No I don't, I've had nobody all summer. What's the fucking point with them. How can he tell me what to do?

"What's up?" Jess says, still looking up at the stars.

"We're leav- I'm leaving." I murmur quietly, "I doubt you'll be able to make your own way back... Safely."

"Neither will you if you're drinking that?" She says, sitting up, glancing at the bottle of Jacks, then back up at me. I'm not going to drink it whilst driving her home. I'm not a fucking sociopath. I'm probably the closest you could get though.

I force out a small laugh, trying my best to ignore her last comment. "You coming or not?"

Notes

Honestly. I had to write this in my notes app on my iPhone, (aka worst thing ever.) so I if there's any typo's, mistakes ect. just blame Apple!
but once I get onto a laptop I'll edit them, because go me

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