Starlight

His head shot up revealing the most beautiful eyes. Warm and brown, like melted chocolate. He looks out of place and his eyes tell that that’s exactly how he feels, but when his eyes meets with Jack’s he smiles and now Jack feels like chocolate melting in the sun.

“Can I sit down?” he asks, his eyes never leaving Alex’s.

He nods his head and visibly relaxes as Jack sits down. Only now Jack realizes that Alex was tensed, that’s why he didn’t look up at anyone who passed by and didn’t pay attention to anything that happened around him.

“So it’s really you or am I just sitting next to a complete stranger?” Jack asks turning his head to side.

“It is me,” he answers quietly in his angelic voice, “I’m surprised you found me so fast.”

“I was supposed to look for you?” he never wrote anything about the searching part.

“No,” he smiles looking down at his fingers, “but I didn’t expect you to…well us to meet so fast. It’s just the first day and…I don’t know, it’s just weird,” he looks at Jack, “when we found out that this is about to happen I didn’t think it will be like that. I…I don’t know anything about…anyone…” here we go again. Maybe Rian was right he has some mental illness. He just keeps talking [or writing] about his friends or family or other people like they would be from some other planet or something.

He keeps looking at Jack, like waiting for some kind of answer but Jack has no idea what to answer to that. He didn’t exactly asks anything and Jack knows nothing about psychology and he doesn’t know what to answer to someone who’s definitely not normal.

“You still don’t get it, do you?” Alex looks at him with a sad smile on his face.

“Get what?”

He sighs and shakes his head.

“I don’t know where to start from. I’m not sure if you’re ready for this and I don’t want to talk about that here. It’s too many people here.”

“Well, maybe start from the beginning?”

“Mhm…” he hums looking over at the pond where a family of ducks and two swans are swimming. Some woman with two children are feeding other, more sociable ducks, “well, you already know that I’m six months older than you. When I was something around four or five years old my mom told me about you, said that you’re my human. I knew that she had her human and dad had one too. I had seen them watching over them, sometimes sending them some messages to them and I thought it is really cool, you know?”

To be fair, Jack had no idea what he was talking about. Hearing that his parents had their humans makes Jack think that Alex comes from some really fucked up family.

“I remember when I sent you the first note. I was six, but you were still five. You had a really bad day and you had a fight with your brother. You thought that that’s the end of the world and I sent you that note,” his smile grew as he talked about that, “you should’ve seen how happy you were when you finally read that note.”

“That was you?” Jack remember the day Alex was talking about. He did have a fight with his brother and that was more than stupid, but he always thought that it was his mom who wrote that note to make him feel better.

“Yeah. My first note or job as my mom would say,” another sad smile, “anyway, I’ve been looking over you since then,” he looked at Jack expectantly.

Jack looked back, kind of lost in his eyes, kind of thinking and trying to understand what he was meant to understand from what Alex just said. He had to say something. Alex was waiting, but he had only one thought in his head – Rian was right and Alex has schizophrenia or something.

“Okay…but…how did you…how could you…do all this?”

“What?”

“Well, you wrote that we’ll meet after all that…after what happened last night so…how or what…I don’t even know what to ask…”

“I have nothing to do with that. Kind of. Yes, to get here, this was supposed to happen, but I didn’t cause this, none of us did and if that would be up to us, we would’ve never chosen for this to happen. We were able to get here without this, we didn’t need that. As you noticed, it caused some problems to us too. Sometimes I got stuck and couldn’t get back, that’s why we weren’t allowed to come here for the past weeks. It was too dangerous for us and you.”

“I’m sorry to disappoint you, but none of this make any sense to me. Sorry.”

Another sigh, “yeah, I guess it doesn’t. No one told me how to tell this to you!” he puts his head in his hands, fingers running through his hair.

“I told you to start from the beginning, so maybe continue with that?”

“I did, but it’s hard when I can’t tell you the most important thing. Then it all would make sense to you, but now I make myself look crazy and I don’t want you to think of me like that,” he mumbles, still lightly pulling his hair.

“Then maybe tell me this important thing. If that would help me to understand…”

“I can’t. It’s too soon.”

“Why do you keep saying that! Isn’t it me who should decide if it’s too soon for me or not?”

“No. Believe me, I know you too well and I know you’re not ready. If I tell you, you won’t believe me and you’re not ready for me to show this to you. Actually I haven’t figured out how they work here yet so it might even be dangerous for you.”

“You just make yourself look crazier with every minute,” Jack smiles. Small attempt to make Alex feel better. From what Jack sees he looks bad; frustrated, sad and scared and it looks that the fact that Jack doesn’t understand a thing he’s telling him, just makes everything worse, “okay, maybe we can go over to my place have some coffee or tea or whatever it is you like and then you can tell me everything?”

“The part you’re ready for,” he corrects Jack, finally looking up.

“Whatever,” Jack smiles at Alex, standing up and waiting for him to follow.

Jack stood up and looked over at Alex, who was still sitting in his place.

“You’re coming?”

“Yeah,” he mumbled quietly and stood up.

Walk back to the car wasn’t filled with talking, but it wasn’t filled with awkward silence too. Alex followed Jack like lost puppy and probably felt like one too. With the looks he had and impact he had on everyone he should’ve been more confident, but he obediently followed Jack, keeping his head low and ignoring the looks everyone gave him. He might not be everyone’s type of guy, but he definitely had something to make everyone turn their gaze towards him.

The drive to Jack’s apartment wasn’t long, Alex staring out of the window with an amazed look on his face, like five year old going to Disneyland.

“Don’t say that you have never been in a car,” Jack looked over at Alex, still gazing through the window.

“We don’t…we don’t actually need them. I know you do, that’s why all streets are full of them, but we…we don’t need because we can…” he threw a quick glance at Jack before turning back to window, “never mind.”

Jack sighed and turned his eyes back to the road. All of this Alex’s secret talking started to get annoying. How hard it is to talk in full sentences and just say what he wants to say. He acts like Jack would be a complete moron and wouldn’t understand what he’s saying. Well, now he don’t understand what Alex wants to say, but maybe if he would talk in full sentences, Jack might get the idea of what Alex wants to say.

He parked his car in front of the building and looked over at Alex. He looked a lot calmer than back at the park, light smile playing on his lips.

“I hope that elevator won’t cause any problems for you?”

“Why would it?” Alex looked at Jack, brows furrowed and eyes burning deep in Jack’s soul.

“I don’t know. You seem to like cars for…whatever the reason is, but elevators don’t have windows, at least not this one and I live on the fourth floor.”

“I know,” he smiles.

“How do you…?”

“I’ve been there, remember?” he opens doors and gets out, leaving Jack kind of confused. Of course that he’s been in his apartment, but just the way he said that – I know. It sounded like he would think of Jack’s apartment as his and now he just got out of his car and already is half way to the doors of the building. Now he looks like a person who knows his value. When he turns around to look at Jack, he remembers that he needs to get out of his car and follow him. He can’t let Alex to break in his apartment. Jack’s sure that Alex could do that considering the fact that he somehow had managed to get in his apartment countless times.

“You look better than you did in the park,” he says as he reaches Alex waiting by the doors.

“Yeah, well…I like this place.”

“Interesting why?” he opens doors and lets Alex in.

“Because it’s where you are.”

“I was in the park too, but you looked…not good…”

“This place has you aura, there’s none of it in the park ‘cause you don’t spend much of your time there. This building holds your aura, mixed with other people auras who lives here, but it’s still here.”

Jack looked at Alex in disbelief. This guy is totally out of his mind and now he had showed him where he lives and probably he will regret it later, but Alex again is walking few steps ahead of him obviously feeling more than comfortable here.

Notes

There's a little lead in this chapter of who [or what] Alex is. If someone guesses then in the next chapter Alex'll tell it to Jack, if not then...Jack will be left in the dark for a while longer ;D

and sorry for any mistakes, I didn't reread it soo..my apologies ^^