Alex's POV Tate and Lottie was in classes which meant I was stuck on my own since I didnt want to go to school. I was making myself something to eat listening to some shit on Tate's iPod since I hid it from him last night when someone knocked on the door. I grabbed Tate's baseball bat and went to the door and answered it with the bat held up ready to bash the person on the head. "You seriously gonna bash me over the head?" Jack asked raising an eyebrow. I looked at him confused and slowly lowering the bat. Me and Jack have gotten close over the last few weeks and it was nice to actually have a friend other than Tate. "Why you here?" I asked and moved out the way and Jack walked in. I put the bat back by the door. "Making sure your not dead." He simply said. "No I'm not dead." I said and walked in the kitchen and Jack followed and sat on the side. "Never put you as a one direction fan." Jack said. "I'm not. I stole Tate's iPod from him last night and now I'm regretting it as he has a shit music taste." I said. Jack chuckled. I could feel him looking at my arms since I was just walking round in Tate's pajama bottoms. I looked at him. "You have a problem with my arms? If you do I'll go and put a hoodie on." I said. Jack shook his head. "You live here you can do whatever you want." He said and I smiled. "Want this? I'm not hungry anymore." I said and handed Jack the sandwich I had just made. Jack took it and followed me to the sitting room and sat next to me on the sofa.
He began to eat the sandwich and I just looked at my arms and got up amd pulled Tate's hoodie on and walked back out to Jack. "You didn't have to put a hoodie on, I don't care about your arms." He said. "You might not care but I do." I said quietly. "Don't take this the wrong way but you did this to yourself." He said carefully. "Only because I had no other way to get rid of the pain." I said quietly. "By inflicting pain? That doesn't make sense." He said trying to work it out. "It's a different pain." I whispered. "Explain, because it makes no sense to me." He said. I looked at him. "I can't. It something I don't like talking about." I said quietly. "I understand. But if you do need to talk about it I'm here. I'm not going anywhere either." He said and I smiled a little. I heard the door unlock and I jumped and hid in the bedroom. "What you doing here Jack?" Tate asked. "I came to see Alex but he's gone into hiding for some reason." Jack said confused. "I know where he'll be. Hang on." Tate said and I heard him walk into the bedroom and saw him get on all fours and looked under the bed at me. "I can't be that scary now." Tate chuckled quietly I shook my head and slowly got out from under the bed. Tate got up and I did the same. "Having a bad day?" He asked quietly. I nodded and Tate pulled me into a hug which I returned. "You going back to classes?" I asked. "Nope, I have finished for the day, so you can go back out there and see Jack while I do some coursework." He said. "But.." I started but Tate stopped me by kissing me. "I'll just be in here. Anyway you have to tell Jack about us as well." He said and pulled me closer to him. I smiled and wrapped my arms round his waist. "Go on, otherwise he will think we're doing something." Tate said quietly and kissed the top of my head. I nodded and looked at him and walked out. Jack was still sat on the sofa and smiled when he saw me. "I'm sorry." I said quietly and sat on the sofa. "It's okay, its not that I was doing anything." He said. I smiled. "I have something to tell you." I said and looked at Jack. "Which is?" He asked. "Me and Tate are together." I said and a big smile came on my face and Jack sqealed and pulled me to his side. "About time too!" Jack said. I smiled. "But no one is allowed to know because Tate could get into serious shit if anyone finds out we're together since I'm still 16 and a minor and he's 21 and a adult so it would mean he's grooming and raping me which he clearly isnt. I know when I'm being raped and Tate isn't like that." I said a d just realized what I said. "Shit." I muttered and Jack looked at me. "What do you mean by you know when your being raped? Surely everyone knows that." He said. "Maybe they do maybe they don't or their scared to admit what has happened to them." I said hoping to get of this subject soon. Jack looked at me but he dropped the subject. Jack had gone home and was sat on the bed watching Tate do his work. "Help me." Tate whined. "What's it about?" I asked. "Well we have to sit in on this case about a girl getting abused and that when she was younger." Tate said and looked at me. I looked down. "I know you don't want to talk about what you have been through, but maybe its time to open up just a little about it." He said quietly. I felt him guide my head round and making me look at him. I felt a couple of tears fall and Tate wiped the tears away. "You don't have to say anything. I understand." He said quietly and kissed my forehead. I sniffed a little. "I'll just wing it shell I?" He chuckled and I smiled. "Just remember one thing about this. It's never the victims fault. It's always the abuser as the victim never asks to be beaten up. If they do then they're just messed up." I said quietly. Tate chuckled at the last part of what I said. "That'll stay in my head for a long time." He said quietly and kissed my cheek and went back to his work. I moved and grabbed his guitar or as I call it his other lover. "Don't be going hurting the guitar." He said seriously. "Don't worry, I won't hurt it, I'll take extra special care of it." I said and Tate chuckled. I was miles away playing the guitar when I felt someone put their legs either side of me and a head resting on my shoulder which made me jump. "Your gonna give yourself a heart attack if you keep this up." He said quietly. "I can't help it." I said and stopped playing the guitar. "Why'd you stop? I like it when you play." He said quietly. "Thought you wanted me too and we was going to have some sort of serious chat about me jumping at everything and flinching at everyone's movements." I said quietly. "I know why you jump and flinch at pretty much everything." He said and kissed my neck. "It's not my fault." I whispered. I felt Tate move the guitar and moved round to the front of me. He lift my chin up so it made me look at him. "I know its not your fault and I would never say it was your fault." He said quietly. I smiled and I felt Tate pull me onto his lap. "Want to have a shower and climb into bed and watch shit movies on my laptop with me?" He asked. I nodded. "Not yet though I happy here at the moment." I said quietly. "Until you fall asleep, that's what you really mean." He chuckled. "You shouldn't be so comfy to sit on." I said. I felt Tate push me off him and sit on me. "I would say you was comfy too but your too boney at the moment but I'm fattening you up slowly though." He said and kissed me. I smiled and Tate got off me and dragged me to the shower and after that I crawled into bed with the laptop in front of me and Tate behind being big spoon like always. I got up the website we use up and looked at the films. I found one and we started to watch it. I was slowly falling asleep when I felt Tate move and the covers move more on me. Tate must of guessed he woke me up. "Go back to sleep, I was just pulling the covers on you more so you don't freeze." He said quietly. I yawned and slowly fell back asleep again.

Notes

So Alex and Tate are together....