The Good Life

Alex

I had to drive myself back to Oli's house. He, less than ten minutes ago, took me to get my car so that I could drive it home and Jack kicked me out of our house. I know how dramatic Jack could be, so it was best that I left until he cooled down. Now I had to stay with Oli and Hannah until Jack wasn't angry with me anymore. I was sad and embarrassed at the same time.

I rang the doorbell at Oli and Hannah's once I made it back there. Oli looked confused when opened the door and saw me standing there.

"Did you forget something?" He asked.

"No Jack kicked me out." I mumbled and he stepped over to let me in.

"That's because you were a dick to him last night." He reminded me and I sighed.

"I know, Oli." I went to their kitchen and took a seat next to Hannah at the dinner table.

She looked up from her cellphone at me and asked, "Why didn't you go home to talk to Jack?"

"I did but he kicked me out."

"Oh that makes sense." She nodded and went back to whatever she was doing.

"I know how you feel. I once too had to ask my best friend to crash at his place." Oli joked.

"Yeah it's literally the same thing I did to you." Hannah chuckled and Oli rolled his eyes at her.

"Well stay as long as you like." Oli told me.

"Thanks but I'm only planning to stay one day. Hopefully Jack will be over this by tomorrow." I said and he nodded.

"You can have the guest room Izzy usually sleeps in if you want." Hannah suggested.

"Yeah that's fine. Thank you." I told her. "I'm gonna go take a shower really quick." I said and got up.

"Okay I have Oli bring you some clothes to change into."

"Why do I have to do it?" Oli jokingly complained.

"Because I said so." She told him. Oli grumbled something under his breath about her not doing things because he said so.

"Don't talk back to me, Oliver." She warned and I laughed.

I left to go take my shower in the guest room. I felt like I was staying at a hotel because of how the room was set up. I went into the bathroom, started the water, and waited for it to warm up.

I sighed as I got undressed in stepped in. Showers gave me time to think and I needed to think about all the wrong I did last night. I probably should have listened to Jack and not went out. I get why he was angry, I should have listened to Oli and told him where I was staying for the night. I wasn’t thinking straight. I just wanted to take my mind off of Vinny. Now not only did I have to deal with the fact that he was furious with me, but I also still had to deal with the fact that my old friend was dead.

I laid my head against the wall and let the water run down my body. I couldn't tell if the water on my face came from the shower head or my eyes at this point.

I stayed in the shower for half an hour and finally got out. There was a pair of joggers, a shirt, and some boxers waiting for me on the counter. I looked in the mirror and rubbed at my red eyes. I really needed to rest, but I decided against it. I didn't feel like being by myself right now.

I got dressed and went back to the living room so I could be with Oli and Hannah and not alone. They were sitting on the couch cuddled next to each other. I felt so jealous watching them.

"I wish I could cuddle with the person I love." I sighed sadly and sat on the love seat by myself.

"Aw come here!" Hannah said and disconnected herself from Oli. Oli scoffed as I got up and sat in the middle of them.

"This feels a little bit better." I said as Hannah laid her head on my shoulder and cuddled into me. "Oli don't be afraid to join us." I joked.

"Fuck you." He laughed and grabbed the remote so he could change the channel.

"What do you want for dinner, Alex?" Hannah asked me.

"Um pizza probably will help fill the hole in my heart." I said dramatically and Oli rolled his eyes at me.

"Okay I'll have Oli order that later on." She said.

"First I had to bring him clothes, then I had to let him cuddle with my wife, and now you're going to make me go get him food?" Oli complained.

"I'm sure he did the same for you when you stayed with him for a few nights." She told him.

"No Jack took care of me mostly." He said.

"Oh just hearing his name hurts." I whined and Hannah held me tighter.

"Look what you did! You're making him feel worse!" She scolded Oli.

"Jack! Jack! Jack!" He yelled out. I narrowed my eyes at him and turned to Hannah and laid my head on her shoulder and started fake sniffling.

"Good job! You just earned yourself a night on the couch." She told Oli and rubbed my back.

***

It was eleven when I finally got in bed. We all stayed up eating pizza and watching a basketball game. I was tired, but I knew it was going to take me a little while to fall asleep without having Jack in bed with me. I picked up my phone to text him.

To Jack:
Goodnight, I love you.

He didn't have read receipts on so I couldn't know for sure if he saw it or not. I'm kind of sure he did since his phone always laid next to him in bed. I decided to stop looking at my phone when I realized he wasn't going to text back. I rolled over on my side and forced my eyes to close.

I heard the bedroom door open and close and then the bed dipped behind me. I rolled over to see Oli laying there.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"I'm not sleeping on the fucking couch so move over." He demanded.

"No get out." I laughed.

"It's your fault I can't sleep in my own bed so move." He complained. I rolled my eyes but moved over.

"I don't understand, you have like two other bedrooms upstairs." I said.

"Yeah but I’m not climbing those stairs."

"Well keep your hands to yourself." I joked and he laughed.

"I'd rather be eaten alive than try anything with you." He chuckled.

"Shut up!"

"This reminds me of when we were younger and would spend the night over each other houses." He reminisced.

"Yeah expect now we're both grown men so it's kind of weird."

"It's only weird if you make it weird."

"If you say so."

We were silent for a few minutes and I was finally able to get comfortable just by having another body in the bed with me. I was beginning to doze off to sleep when Oli asked, in a serious tone,
"Do you know when the funeral is?"

I knew exactly what he was talking about so I didn't have to ask him to clarify.

"No, but I don't want to know. I'm not going." I said.

"What? Why not?" That wasn't the answer he was expecting.

"I hate funerals." I shrugged. I'd only been to one, but it was enough to know that I never wanted to go to another funeral in my life.

"So if I were to die you wouldn't come to my funeral?" He asked.

"...can we please talk about anything else?" Another person dying was the last thing I wanted to think about.

"Uh yeah sorry." He apologized. "Um well Valentine's Day is two days from now." He said changing the subject.

"I know. Now I have to hurry up and get Jack to forgive me. I made reservations for Mastro's Stake house for us."

"Isn't that place like really expensive and hard to get a reservation for?"

"Yeah, but I made the reservation six months ago. Jack said he wanted to try it because David went and said it was super fancy and stuff so I was going to surprise him by taking him and Izzy there for dinner. I'm pretty sure I'm going to break bank paying for our food." I sighed.

"At least you have reservations. I'm going to have to cook for Hannah because I waited to the last minute and everything fancy is booked." He said and I snickered.

"You can't cook for shit." I joked.

"I can make pasta. So I'm going to cook that and buy some fancy wine and call it a night."

"You're going to be very disappointed when she 'calls it a night' before you two can have sex." I teased and he laughed.

"That won't happen."

"Alright don't come crying to me when you have blue balls."

"I won't!"

"Mhmm." I hummed.

"Goodnight."

"Night."

We woke up, the next morning, to Hannah calling Oli and my name. She was looking for him in the living room since he was supposed to sleep on the couch.

"In here." He called out sleepily. We were closer to each other than when we fell asleep last night.

"Oli?" She asked as she opened the door. She stared at us for a few seconds and burst into laughter.

"What's so funny?" He asked her.

"You two actually slept in the bed together." She laughed even harder.

"It's completely normal for two friends to sleep together." I defended us, but she just kept laughing. She took a quick picture of us on her phone before we could protest.

"This is going to be my phone lock screen for a loooong time." She giggled making us laugh with her.

"You're so annoying." Oli said. "Did you come in here for a reason or just to make fun of us?"

"Oh yeah, breakfast is ready!"

Notes

Filler Chapter for the most part. I feel bad for Alex!