Alex's POV

"Just let me get mum to dress this and let me get dressed and then you can drag me out." I said too Jack as wondered out of my room.
"Let me do it." He said.
"Dress my arm?" I asked confused.
"Yeah, want too see if I'm any good." He said.
"But they need cleaning as well." I said.
"Don't bother me." He said.
I looked at him and tilted my head to the side a little.
"People run a mile away from me when they see my cuts and scars. Why don't you?" I said.
"If I see a friend suffer then I want to help them. It's what friends do, they are there for each other no matter what." He said.
I smiled.
"You see me as a friend?" I asked shocked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" He asked.
I went over and sat next too him.
"Because I'm not what people would call friend material." I said.
"Well their lying, because you are a friend material otherwise you wouldn't be friends with me." He said.
I smiled.

"Ow that fucking hurts!" I said through gritted teeth too Jack.
"Man up will you." Jack chuckled as carried on cleaning my cuts which I insisted he didn't do but he wanted to for some strange reason.
"You try having these and someone cleaning them with that shit. Ow fuck off." I said and snatched my arm away from him.
"It has too be done and I was nearly finished as well." He said.
I gingerly gave him my arm back.
He smiled and cleaned it.
Once he did that he put the bandage on.
"No so tight, I need blood to my hand." I said.
"Sorry." He muttered and carried on what he was doing until had finished.
"Not bad." I said and looked at him.
He was looking at what he had done and smiled.

What he did next surprised me.
He picked my arm up and he kissed the bandage.
"If I fell over when i was little and needed a band-aid my mum would put one on and kiss it and said that a kiss would make it go away." He said quietly.
I smiled.
"You want them too go away?" I asked.
"Yeah, you shouldnt have them. Its not fair that someone like you has too do this too yourself because of what someone has done too you." He said.
I looked away from him and pulled my arm away from him.
"You don't know what he did too me. No one knows all the stuff he did too me. All they know is that he raped me." I said and then realized what I just said.
"I shouldn't off said that." I said quietly.
Jack didn't say anything.
"How old was you?" He asked.
I shook my head.
"Not saying, I've said too much. He might come and get me." I said.
"He's not going to get your princess." Freddie said.
I looked at him.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"Because he's locked away and he won't be out for a long time and he won't know where we are." Freddie said and sat next too me.

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Jacks POV

Alex had gone downstairs as his mum wanted him for something.
Freddie stayed with me too keep me company while Alex was gone.
"What happened to him?" I asked.
"The unthinkable." He said quietly and looked down.
"How old was he?" I asked.
"It started when he was 11 but he never told anyone until he was 13 when we started to question why he had a black eye and all that." He said.
"Thats horrible." I said quietly.
He stayed quiet.
"Why do you call him princess?" I asked really confused by this.
"Dunno really, it started when he was like 8 and it sort of became our nickname for him. He also was meant to be the girl but sadly poor mum is stuck in a house with 4 men. Although her and Alex are really close and that so I don't think she minds as long as she was close too one of us three." He said.
I smiled.

"He likes you, you know." He said and looked at me.
"Don't be ridiculous." I said and looked at him back.
Still find it really creepy that all three of them had brown eyes.
"Us 3 are close and we know when one of us likes someone and he likes you." He said.
"What's too like about me?" I asked and looked away from him.
"Your different than everyone else. We're the only people who treat him like he's normal, then you show up and shows him that people outside of this family can treat him like normal, you maybe the only one, but it don't matter too him as long as he knows there's one person who treats him normal." He said.
"I know you feel the same about him." He smiled.
"How? I'm not even sure myself." I said.
"Because if you didn't feel the same about him you wouldn't let him rest his head on your back and fall asleep, you also wouldn't of let him fall asleep on your chest the other day." He said.
I smiled a little.
"And you wouldn't smile about it when you remember." He said.
I looked at him.
"Your not denying it either." He said quietly.
I sighed and looked at the door and saw Alex standing there.
"Well that was interesting to hear." He said and walked in and looked for something to put on.
"We've been ratted. See ya later." Freddie said and got up and walked out the room.
"How much did you hear?" I asked.
"When Fred said you feel the same about me about something." He said and pulled a top on.
I didn't say anything.
Alex came over in just his pants and sat next to me and started to put his jeans on.
I looked at his leg and saw a load of scars on them.
"Where it all started." He said quietly and stood up and pulled his jeans up.

We was meeting Zack and Rian at the park so we slowly walked towards it.
"What was you and Fred talking about?" He asked.
"It was nothing." I said.
"It can't of been nothing because you two would of kept on talking oif you didn't see me, that only happens when you are talking about something serious." He said sounding pleased with himself.
We was at the park and neither Zack or Rian was there so we sat on the swings.
"It wasn't serious." I said.
"If it wasn't serious then tell me what you was talking about." He said.
"Do you like me?" I asked and looked at him.
"Like as in friends or like as in something more than friends?" He asked.
"As in something more." I said.
He looked at me.
"It's slowly growing into something more." He said quietly.
I smiled.
"What about you?" He asked but before I could say something Rian and Zack showed up.

"Did you seriously have to bring him? Thought it was just going to be us three." Rian said.
I looked at Alex and he looked down looking quite upset about what he had said.
"Rian that's was really mean." Zack said.
"It's true, the only person who even likes him is Jack. That's only cause he crushing on him." He said.
"I'm still here you know! You don't have to go talking about me like I'm not even fucking here! I am here I can fucking hear everything you say!." Alex said loudly.
Rian sort off went back in his shell.
"I don't give a shit if you don't like me! No one fucking likes me but do you even think that I might actually like having a friend? I don't need bastards like you talking about me like I'm not even here. I'm not hiding in the shadows anymore. So come on then big guy what have you got to say about me?" Alex challenged and got off the swing and walked over to Rian.
I looked at Zack who looked at me.
This wasn't going to end well but Alex was on a roll and he wasn't going to stop.
"You got nothing to say too my face? But you have plenty to say behind my back. What a fucking pussey." He said and pushed Rian.
"You're a bully." Rian said.
"Me? A bully? Explain too me how I'm a bully when I will hardly speak to anyone unless they say something about me or my family. Tell me how I'm a fucking bully!" He said loudly.
Rian didn't say anything.
"Tell me!" He shouted and pushed him again.
He was getting annoyed that Rian wasn't saying anything and that really pisses him off.

I got up and stood in front off him.
"Stop." I said quietly.
"I will when that bastard actually says something too my face." He growled.
Rian didn't say anything.
Alex moved to try and get to him but I grabbed his arm and dragged him to the swing.
"Stop it now!" I said seriously too him.
"You are my friends I don't want to have you two at each others throats all the fucking time! So Rian you gonna have to suck up anything you hate about Alex and fucking get on with him!" I said and looked at Rian.
Rian didn't say anything.
"I suppose your slience means that you are not going to say anything about Alex anymore." I said.
"You are only saying that because you like him!" Rian said.
"No, im saying this because right now your being a asshole. What the fucking hell has he done to you!? He's done nothing! He didn't knee you in the bollacks like Armstrong, he hasn't even touched you so why the hell are you being an asshole!?" I said loudly.
"So you choose him over us?" He asked.
"I choose him over you." I said.
"What about you Zack?" Rian asked.
"Don't get me involved." He said.
"Right,me and Zack will go off and you can go and play happy fucking families with that waste of space." He spat.
"I am not a waste of space!" Alex shouted and was off that swing before I could stop him, not that I was going to stop him anyway.
Zack pulled Alex off Rian but Alex punched him round the face and walked off.
I went off after him.

We got back Alex's and was sat in his room.
"Sorry I made you lose friends." He said quiety.
"It's fine, Rian can be a bastard sometimes anyway." I said.
"You should of chosen them and not me." He said and climbed into bed.
"Don't forget your meds." I said.
"Fuck them." He said quietly.
I lead next too him.
"Go too sleep." I said quietly.
"But you never answered my question earlier." He said slowly falling asleep.
I looked at him and he was sound asleep.
"Becoming slowly something more." I said quietly and got comfy and fell asleep.

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