We don't belong here

Alex's POV

I woke up and I wasn't in my room or bed.
I was in the common room leaning against Jack who was still asleep.
The straight jacket was still on me and I felt like my arms where gonna drop off or something.
I moved a little and Jack woke up and looked round the room.
"Dunno about you but I'm going back to bed since I have nothing better to do." He muttered and got up and helped me up.
I smiled.
"I'll come join you once I've escaped from this." I said and lifted my arms up.
Jack smiled and walked off.
"See you in there." He muttered and slowly walked to the room.

I went over to the nurses room.
"Can someone let me out of this please?" I asked.
One nurse looked at me and walked over.
"Are you going to hurt yourself?" She asked and looked at me.
I shook my head.
"I just want to sleep and forget about what time of year it is." I said quietly.
"Why don't you get to know Jack? He's been your roommate for 3 months and do you know anything about him?" She asked.
I shook my head again.
"But he'll want to know about me." I said quietly.
"You can't stay in your shell forever Alex. You two have more stuff in common than you think." She smiled and took the jacket of me
"If you get to know Jack and not do nothing stupid then I'll have a word with the others and see if you two can go to town." She smiled.
I smiled at this, haven't been to town for ages
"Okay, but you have to promise me you don't do nothing stupid and stay out of this jacket." She said.
"I'll try my best." I said quietly and walked out.

I walked into the room and Jack was slowly falling asleep on his bed.
I went over and climbed onto his bed and cuddled up behind him.
Jack rolled over and faced me.
"What's this all about?" Jack chuckled.
"Dunno. Haven't hugged anyone for a while." I said quietly.
"All you have to do is say." Jack said quietly and moved closer to me.
"Why are you here?" I asked.
"Apparently I tried to kill myself by mixing alcohol and pain killers. Well I sort of overdosed on the painkillers." He said looking down.
"And I have anger issues as well. But I don't understand why I'm here." He said quietly.
I looked at him there was something he was holding back.
"What about you?" He asked and looked at me.
"I'm a open book." I said and rolled onto my back.
Jack moved and lent against my chest.
"No your not. Your the hardest book I've ever had to read." He said.
"Either your blind or you seriously missed the whole study Alex phase or something." I said.
Jack chuckled.
"Well I'm not blind and I didn't miss the whole study Alex phase. Your just hard to study since your always in the bloody straight jacket ." He said.
"Well I'm not in the jacket now. Study me and tell me what you see." I said and sat up and Jack sat there and looked at me.
"Well, you been through a lot.." He said quietly and ran his finger around the scar on my neck. ".. And you want out of this life but everytime you seem to make it. You where dumped by someone and was left with someone who you didn't want to be with. But underneath all of the hard times you have had you are really nice and just misunderstood by everyone including yourself." He said.
I just looked at him shocked.
"Annd when you've been drugged up you talk a load of shit but at the same time its not." He smiled.
I chuckled.
But what he had said was true it was scary.
"Like I said an open book." I said quietly.
"I'm gonna sleep, my back and neck hurts." He muttered.
I lead down and got comfy and Jack rested his head on my chest.
I just messed with his hair.
I stopped for a few seconds and Jack grabbed my hand and put it on his head where I carried on messing with it.
I couldn't help but chuckle at it.
"Take it you like that then?" I asked quietly.
I didn't get an answer but Jack put a leg over one of mine was flat out asleep.

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