Kiss Me Again

It was the day of their basketball game, and I was more than excited to see them (well mostly just Alex), play! He doesn't seem nervous about it at all, in fact, him and Jack have been boasting about how "hard they're gonna win" ever since we sat down at the lunch table.
"Dude, fuck that other team! You know we always win! Right, Al?" Jack chuckled, holding up a fist for Alex to bump, which he gladly did.
"Yeah, don't we always? We win the game...and the girls.." Alex winked, wrapping his arm around my shoulders.
"Hey, watch it! You only get one girl!" I warned, smirking at him.
"That's me, right?"
We turned around at the voice, to see Lisa (surprising, right?), standing behind us in her skimpy outfit.
"What do you want, Lisa?" I crossed my arms and rolled my eyes at her, definitely not in the mood for her bitchiness.
"Yeah, besides her boyfriend!" Hayley snickered from her seat.
Lisa just threw her head back and laughed, then flipped her long, light brown hair over her shoulder.
"Ha-ha, you two are so very funny! Anyways, I just wanted to stop by and wish you good luck on your game tonight!" She smiled at Jack and Alex, but then leaned down to Alex's ear level.
"I'm sure you'll do great.." She giggled, then ruffled his hair a bit, before strutting off; leaving me furious.
It's like she just loves swooping in here just to flirt and talk about my boyfriend like I'm not even there!!! That bitch!!
Alex hesitantly turned to look at me, as if he were afraid that I would explode.
"Babe..there's no worries. Calm down." He tried to soothe me, but failed.
"Ugh!! What is her problem?! I'm so mad right now!" I huffed.
Alex shook his head and began lightly drumming his fingers on my knees.
"Hey, don't get her get to you. I'm not going anywhere, alright?"
"Okay..but she ran her fingers all through your hair!! Only I can do that! Now it's all...fucked up!" I pouted.
"Why don't you fix it for me then, babe?" He smirked.
I reached up and started brushing his soft, perfect brown locks with my fingers, and putting teased strands back in place from where Lisa messed it up.
"There." I finished, then crossed my arms, still a bit pissed.
"Hey..cheer up."
"I can't."
"Please? Don't listen to her, Tay. When we win tonight, I'm gonna win it for you. No one else, okay?"
I couldn't help but smile, and lean up to kiss his nose.
"There's that gorgeous smile of yours!" He grinned, making me blush.
"Shut up, Alex.." I laughed, leaning my head against his shoulder.
"AWWWH!!" Hayley squealed, smiling at us.
"Oh my God, I know!!" Zack mocked, dramatically fanning himself with his hands.
"I know, right?! They are like sooooo cute!" Rian joined in on the teasing.
"Oh shut up, dickheads!" Hayley rolled her eyes at them, causing them to burst into laughter.
"Don't listen to them baby, you're adorable." Jack smirked, wrapping his arm around her shoulders.
Alex laughed and rolled his eyes.
"You guys are insane."
"So are you, babe." I joked, turning my head a little, to place a single kiss on his neck.
"Oh am I?" He connected his forehead to mine and smirked.
"Yeah..you're my kind of insane."

The day went by fairly quickly, and we were soon in our last class of the day.
We all walked into the Music room, and took a seat on the floor as we always do.
The bell was seconds from ringing, when suddenly, we saw Lisa enter the classroom.
What is she doing here??
Alex turned to me with a confused expression, which I returned right back to him.
Just then, the bell rang, and Flyzik stood at the front of the room and began speaking.
"Alright everyone, I'm excited to inform you all that we will be having yet another performance project, that will make up 50% of your grade. This time, though, it is for not only seniors, but for every student in the school to watch; along with family! We're having a showcase just for you guys, in two weeks, after school!"
The class erupted in cheers.
"Sounds fun." Alex winked at me.
I grinned at him, as Flyzik began to talk again.
"You'll need one partner..any sex and any instrument, including singing. I would also like to introduce you all to Lisa Ruocco, if you all don't know her already, which you probably do."
That earned a few chuckles from around the room.
"She's gotten transferred into this class, and I hear she's got some pipes on her. So Jack, grab a guitar and get up here so she can do the initiation!"
Jack groaned and got up, not as lively as usual. I can't blame him.
She got her fucking schedule changed??
Why the fuck would she do this?
One of the only classes I love, and she's officially ruined it.
Jack got his acoustic ready, and she soon started singing some Miley Cyrus song, and even added some "twerking" near the end.
When she finished, the class erupted into applause, well all except for us. Our faces were made of stone.
"Great job, Ruocco!" Flyzik praised her.
"Oh thanks!" She grinned, flipping her hair.
"Now, since you took the pleasure in switching to our totally awesome class, I'll let you choose your partner, first."
Lisa had a devious smile on her face.
"Anyone I want?"
"Anyone you want." Flyzik repeated.
"Hmm..I think I want...Alex!" She pointed at Alex, with a smug look on her face.
My jaw went slack, and I stared at her in disbelief. I heard gasps and whispering all around us.
"Alright Gaskarth, you heard her. Come on up here and sign your names." Flyzik called Alex, who seemed to be frozen, staring up at them.
"Uh..o-okay.." He hesitantly got up, giving me an apologetic look, before getting up and walking over to sign his name with Lisa, and start practicing.
"Everyone else, partner up and start figuring out what you're going to be doing."
I just sat there, lost and defeated. I wanted to perform with Alex. My boyfriend. But now, he's performing with Lisa. A total slut who wants to steal him from me. Great.
Just great.
I saw Hayley give Jack a kiss, before walking over to me, and offering me a hand. I took it, and she helped pull me to my feet.
"Come on, we're partners." She gave me a sad smile.
"But...what about Jack?"
"If you can't work with your boyfriend, then I can't work with mine."
"But Hayl-"
"Alright?" She cut me off, giving me a stern look.
I sighed in defeat.
"A-alright...thanks, Hayley."
She really was a good friend.
Hayley beamed at that.
"You're welcome!! Come on, let's go sign up!" She tugged me over to the sign up sheet.
After that, we just started discussing what we were going to do till the bell rang (We decided that we're going write a song.) But I couldn't help but sneak jealous glances over at Alex and Lisa. Once in a while, he would catch my eyes and we'd both start smiling and blushing. But other times, Lisa would catch me looking, and start scooting closer to him, and touching him more, and it was ripping me apart inside.
So when the bell rang, I stormed out of the classroom, and straight to my locker to get my things. Once I did, I got in my car and left, not waiting up to say goodbye to Alex. I was way too pissed to talk to anyone, really.
I'll just see him at the game..

When the time of the game came, Zack picked me, Rian, and Hayley up in his black Cadillac. I put my hair up in a ponytail like Alex likes it, and I played it safe with an oversized red shirt, and a pair of black leggings. The gym is absolutely freezing.
Hayley and the guys wore red, too, showing off our Dulaney Lion pride.
When I suddenly left the school earlier without contacting Alex at all, he got really worried about me, and sent me a bunch of texts, asking if I'm mad at him, and if I'm okay and all of that. I didn't respond to any of them, because of the fact that I was still annoyed to death at the whole Lisa situation, but now I realize how selfish I'm being.
He's probably worried sick about me!
I decided to text him back.
Me- No worries, baby. I'm on my way to the game! Good luck, I'm rooting for you! ;) <3

He responded about five minutes later, when we pulled into the school.

Alex- I love you x100!! Get your cute ass down here, good luck charm ;) <3

I giggled at the text, as we walked into the gym.
"Who's that? Is it Alex? Oh my gosh, I bet it is! What did he say?!" Hayley squealed, peering at the screen over my shoulder.
"Calm down Hayl-"
"AWW! HE CALLED YOU HIS GOOD LUCK CHARM!" She squealed, after she finished reading the text.
I blushed, as we walked up the bleachers, and took a seat.
Soon, the game started, and I had my eyes glued to Alex; while Hayley's were stuck on Jack.
I found myself just getting lost in watching him; running up and down the court, blocking and dribbling. I was more into Alex than the game, really. But, honestly I think everyone paid a lot of attention to Alex. He scored a lot of shots for the team, a star player, really.
But then, I turned my attention over to the cheerleaders; Lisa being in the center, watching Alex just as intensely as I was. In contrast to Alex, I absolutely hated her every move.
Whenever she got up off her bench to cheer and shake her pompoms in the air, I barfed in my mouth a little.
I hated that she had this effect on me. That she can make me so fucking angry and uncomfortable with every single situation. Like this one, for example. My boyfriends' playing fucking basketball, and I can't even fully enjoy it just because she's here.
Ugh.
Soon enough, though, the game ended with a score of 24-10, making us the winners, by 14 points. We all hopped out of our seats and cheered.
I was heading down the bleachers to go run into Alex's arms and congratulate him, but stopped in my tracks when I saw that Lisa already beat me to it.
She was full-on hugging him, with her arms around his neck, standing on her toes in order to reach him. He seemed a bit shocked for a moment, but then hesitantly hugged her back. Then, she turned her head and kissed his cheek, before pulling back and flirtatiously playing with his hair.
I'd seen enough. My heart was slowly breaking to pieces at the sight, and I just wanted to get out of there more than anything. I began to panic, and I ran right past them, and out of the doors of the gym to get outdoors in the chilly air.
I didn't really want anyone to see me. I started struggling to breathe, and tears were threatening to spill over. Just the thought of Lisa stealing Alex away from me, is enough to get me all worked up like this.
I felt weak and defeated, and like complete shit.
Then the doors opened, and I heard a voice calling my name. Then, the voice stopped. I turned to see Alex, giving me a worried look as he ran over.
"Tay! Baby, what's wrong? Are you o-"
"No!! No Alex, I'm not okay!! Tell me..please tell me how in the hell am I supposed to be okay, with Lisa always around to try and ruin what we have?!" I exploded at him, tears streaming down my face.
"Tay, baby, that's not gonna happen, I promise you it won't!!" Alex argued, wiping my tears with his thumbs.
I pushed his hands away, and looked down.
"I bet you like her back..you were hugging her and everything..I saw you." I muttered bitterly.
"What? Baby no..I-I just..I was being polite, ya know?" He awkwardly tried to explain himself.
"POLITE?! You were being POLITE?! Well she's not polite!! She's out to get me!!"
"Babe, she's not out to get you-" He tried to reassure me, before I cut him off.
"You're right! She's not out to get me, she's out to get you!"
I began storming in the opposite direction to the parking lot, just wanting to hop into Zack's car and go home.
But oh yeah, we live in the same house. Awesome.
I got into the car, where everyone else sat, giving me looks of bewilderment. I just sighed heavily, and waved them all off with my hand, not wanting to answer any questions.
Once Alex got into the car and they saw his distressed expression, everyone just knew to shut up and leave the both of us alone. Hayley gave me a skeptical look, before averting her eyes to cut little glares at Alex throughout the whole car ride to our houses.
After the awfully long car ride, I shot out of the car, into the house, and upstairs. I quickly changed into some shorts and an old band tee, before turning the light off and hopping into bed, pulling the covers completely over my head.
I soon felt the bed dip, and I heard Alex sigh from beside me, as he crawled under the sheets.
"I'm sorry, Tay. I love you." He whispered, sounding miserable.
I didn't move a muscle.
"Come on, I know you're still awake, don't shut me out."
I still didn't budge.
He sighed of defeat.
"When you wanna talk to me again, I'm here, okay? Just know that I'm really sorry."
I sighed, and curled up into a ball.
Though he was laying right next to me all night, I still felt alone without his warmth around me.
That night, I didn't get much sleep.

Notes

Aw poor Tay :(
I really need to update more often, I'm sorry. This chapter was so crappy.

I just may be the first to turn Jack and Alex into basketball players..heh heh.
Okay just picture them wearing those gym outfits from Coffee Shop Soundtrack, and then picture them running down a basketball court.
DO YOU SEE IT NOW. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I DID THIS xD
I really know nothing about sports, so here, take his athletically uneducated chapter xP

AND WHERE DID YOU GUYS GO?! PLEASE COMMENT <3
Thanks! :)

Title cred: That Girl- All Time Low