Once we are seated, the waitor hands us our menus. "Anyting to drink?" "Iced tea with lemon for me." Jack orders. "And you sir?...Sir?" He snaps me out my thoughts. "Hmm? Oh, er, I'll have what he's having." I say, feeling my cheeks go red. The waitor nods & goes to get our drinks. "Alex, baby, are you okay?" Jack asks, cupping my hands in his. I nod, staring at the cuffs on my dress shirt, then shake my head. "What's wrong?" "Th-there was a different reason I was gone..." I mumble, looking at Jack. He has a questioning look, telling me to continue. I nod & hesitantly take my hands out of his to undo my cuffs. Once I do the waitor comes with our drinks & I quickly hide my hands in my lap. The waitor looks at me weird. "Are you guys ready to order?" "I'll just have a salad." I say quickly. Jack looks at me weird & the waitor raises his brow. "You sir?" "I'll... have a salad too." He says warily, looking at me. The waitor nods & leaves to get our food. "Alex?" Jack says tentetavely. I nod & place my hands on the table, palms up, revealing scars, some bad some not even noticable. "Alex, w-why?!" He says, placing a hand over his mouth. "I-I've been like this, e-ever since Tom died..." "Tom?" "My brother..." "H-How come I've never heard of this?" "I don't like talking about it..." The waitor comes with our food. "Anything else?" "Two glasses of wine?" I ask. "Of course sir." He walks off then returns after a short while with two wine glasses & fills them. "L-Leave the bottle." He nods & then goes to wait on another family. We finish our salads & the bottle of wine in an uncomfortable silence & then leave to go home. "I can't believe you kept this from me." Jack says in the car. "I can't believe how badly you're taking this." I grumble, pulling into our drive way, once I park Jack gets out & slams the car door. I turn off the car. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I say, hitting my head on the steering wheel. There's a knock on the window, I look up to see Mark. "I see you told him." I nod. "He's pissed." I nod again. Then there's a loud crash & what sounds like glass breaking. Immediately I'm right at the source of the noise. I gasp at the sight. The mirror is broken & Jack is on the bed, face in his hands, blood dripping down trembling arms. "J-Jack?" "Get, out Alex." He growls.

Notes

Oooh, drama. Thank you to MeowKittehMew for the first comment. :3 I hope you like! xo