God his smile was sexy.

That's all I could really think about through the first class hours. Well that and Matt. I didn't understand why he was being such a douche to Alex. He didn't understand what the poor kid was going through! I wouldn't tell him though, I wouldn't tell anyone. It wasn't my place to tell, but I wanted nothing more than to beat his father sensless to see how he likes it. My poor little Lex.

I don't really understand why I had called him that. At first I had gotten worried that I had made him uncomfortable when I saw the blush that spread across his cheeks, but luckily he didn't write anything to me about it so I fiugured he liked it. Sleeping over at his place last night had honestly been kind of a rush for me. I mean if his parents had walked in we would have been screwed sideways. I was freaking releived when they didn't though, and also when they didn't get mad at Alex for 'taking' those bandages. I would need to pull him aside at lunch to check those out again now that I though about it.

"Mr. Barakat!" My head shot up as the bird lady, our teacher as I called her, screeched at me. "Class has been dismissed and obviously you didn't pay a bit of attention to it. Get to lunch." I gave her a sheepish smile but said nothing as i quickly gathered my stuff and headed out.

Once I made it at the cafetiria I looked for Lex. Sure enough he was over in the corner of the room, table empty, bland bread in front of him and notebook beside it. He was just staring at like it the bread was his worst enemy. He looked like he was debating on if he should eat or not. I quickly grabbed my meal and headed over, ignoring people calling my name for me to sit by them or the rude names they were calling Lex. I pulled out the seat beside him and sat down. His head snapped up and he looked at me as if just coming out of a daze. Then he paled and grabbed his notebook.

"You shouldn't be sitting here. It's not right."

I gave him a big smile and a shrug before digging in. He watched me eat for a few minutes before looking at his own meal again. I swallowed the horribly big bite as to not disgust him.

"Hey Lex, aren't you going to eat?"

He paled a bit and nodded, but didn't move. I got kind of worried. Was this a regular occurrence? Did he normally not eat? I mean yeah the Abnegation food was gross but he had been eating it all his life. Right? Now I was freaking out. I stopped eating all together and Alex looked up at me with those beautiful eyes of his and I felt a blush go over my face.

Wow Jack what the hell? I ignored that though and gently took his fork and knife before cutting a piece of bread for him and holding the fork out. Alex looked shock, as did the rest of the cafeteria. Which honestly pissed me off, what they didn't have anything better to do other than watch us? Get lives people. Alex reached for his notebook which I took and set beside me, out of reach.

"Come on Lex, you're not being selfish. If anyone is it's me. Please eat something. Just take it one bite at a time okay. Ignore everyone else, it's just you and me here right now." I gave him my best comforting smile.

He looked back and forth between my eyes and the food before slowly leaning forward and taking the bite. I grinned then and handed him the fork which he took and, luckily, continued to eat. I didn't say anything more out of fear it would make him stop so i just returned his notebook back to his side and finished my meal. Of course, we couldn't end on that happy note now could we?

"What the fuck Jack?!" Shit. Matt.

"What is it Matt? Can't you see I'm trying to eat?"

"Yeah but why with the stiff? And the freakish one at that!"

I felt my anger rising and I stood up facing his, our noses almost touching. I felt Alex tremble beside me with only pissed me off more. His hand gently grabbed onto the sleeve of my uniform but I wasn't going to back down how. Matt looked a bit shocked which he shouldn't be by this point.

"His name is Alex, Matt. Get that through your thick skull. I'm sick and tired of you treating him like a piece of gum underneath your shoe. I swear the next time you say anything bad or rude about him, whether it's to his face or not, I'm beat you until you can't say anything at all." It was all said through gritted teeth. Matt looked beyond pissed.

"Why?! Why the hell are you choosing him over me? We are best friends! He's just a nobody! I've been with you through everything, we've known each other our whole lives! Why would you choose him?!" He was almost sounding desperate at this point and honestly I felt bad.

"I'm not choosing him Matt, I ju-"

"You are though! Normally you wouldn't look twice if I threatened a stiff, but this one? You punched me over. I don't get it."

"Matt, I want to still be friends but I'm friends with Alex also. You don't need to understand, but if you still want to be friends with me than you need to accept Alex. That's you're choice. For now I would like it if you calmed down and walked away, we're freaking Alex out." Matt looked down at Alex who was shaking and starting at the floor. He glared at him then back at me.

"Well right now I just down give a shit Jack." With that he stormed off, his little group following him. I sighed and gently pulled Alex up.

"Get you're stuff and follow me Lex." He didn't write anything, just gathered his stuff up and we put our trays away on our way out of the lunchroom. As we walked down the hall I felt his notebook poke my arm and I took it.

"Where are we going?" I was glad he hadn't said anything about Matt. I handed him back the book.

"At the restroom, I'm going to look at your back." He paled a bit but nodded and looked at the floor as we kept going. I sighed again and rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on. Again the book poked me.

"Are you angry with me?"

I stopped walking and Alex timidly looked at the floor. I gently lifted his chin so he would look at me.

"Of course not Lex, never. I'm just angry at Matt. He treats you so badly and you don't deserve it." He shrugged before writing four words that broke my heart.

"I'm used to it."

"That's the thing, you shouldn't be! I don't want you to get hurt anymore Lex. I hate seeing it happen."

"Why?" I stopped for a second, I couldn't very well tell him I liked him. I didn't want to freak him out.

"Just... trust me okay? I don't, the reason doesn't matter." He nodded and looked at the floor as we finished walking to the bathroom.

I looked down the hall each way to make sure no one had followed us before going into the bathroom and leading Alex to the last and biggest stall. Once we were in I closed the door and looked it then looked at him. He was shifting his feet while looking at him hands like they held all the answers to the worlds problems. I gently took them and he snapped his head up to look at me. I gave him a reassuring smile and he took a deep breathe before taking his hands out of him, turning around, and lifting his shirt over his back.

I dropped my bag on the ground and took out the left over band aids, wraps, and such. I peeled away the old ones and carefully and gently as I could, of course if it hurt him he didn't show it. I sucked in a breath at the damage but at least it was healing. I gently rubbed more medicine over it, wanting it to not even have a scar by the time it was completely healed. Once the new bandages and wraps were back in place he dropped his shirt and turned back to face me. I couldn't help it. I gently held his face in both of my hands and pressed my forehead to his. We looked deep into each others eyes and I was happy he didn't pull away.

What was this boy doing to me?

Notes

Hey, look what story is back! I'm honestly really happy it is being continued. Like I said I'm sad to see the old author go but I know Bree(Jagk) will do a great job, I mean just look at the last chapter and her other stories! Thanks to everyone who has stuck with this story. It know it was LONG overdue and I'm sorry about that. Also sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes that may be in this chapter. it's literally almost 5am here.

Please comment and let us know how we are doing, give Bree and warm welcome, and thanks again!

~Anna <3