Jack


“Jack, wake up your drooling on me dude,”

“Ugh,” I responded, blinking my eyes awake the familiar obnoxious fluorescent lighting of the hospital.
Seriously, how are patients supposed to get any sleep when the lights are burning their eyeballs. I turned my head to the side, feeling a damp feeling of drool on the side of my cheek.

Gross. I sat up and wiped my mouth, looking around to see that I was in a chair by Rian’s bed, asleep on his lap.

“Jack,” he repeated, making me groan. He’s so annoying.

“What do you want me to do for you now, Ri?” I muttered, and yawned loudly.

“I want you to check your phone. I think it’s Alex.” he told me, pointing to my phone that was across the room charging.

“WHAT?” I nearly screamed, stumbling out of my chair and ran to my phone.
I scrolled through nearly 5 missed text messages from Tom. Apparently I was able to see him 3 hours ago, but I was asleep, and Alex was starting to get upset that I wasn’t coming.

Oh my fucking god, I can see him.

I changed my shirt into a clean one, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair, and was seconds from being out the door until the others started waking up.

“Where are you going?” Tay mumbled, rubbing her eyes, Brendon, Cass, were also stirring while Hayley and Zack were still passed out.

“To see Alex,” I answered, and immediately left.

This felt unreal. I mean, I was just seeing my boyfriend but we’ve been seperated for what has felt like weeks. I felt uncomfortable whenever we were seperated for a few minutes, let alone days.

I glanced behind me to see that Cass, Tay, and Brendan were lazily following me, Rian close behind them.

Even though I woke up seconds ago, I’ve never felt this kind of excitement.
I made it to the hall, and made eye contact with the devil nurse from yesterday, and she rolled her eyes at me and simply opened the door to Alex’s room for me to enter.
It took everything out of me not to give her the middle finger, I wasn’t going to risk it.

I slowly walked in and smiled at the sight I saw. My gorgeous caramel haired boyfriend, lying in the hospital bed with one of his arms in a cast, poking at a small container or jello like it was going to attack it.
I would’ve laughed at his inexperience with jello any other time But, my hands were shaking I was so happy and relieved.

He survived a car accident.

“Baby…” I mumbled, and smiled as he looked up and his expression completely changed.

“Jack!” he reached out his one arm for me to come to him, I didn’t wait another second.

I ran over to him, climbed on his bed so I would be sitting on his lap straddling him, and wrapped both my arms around him in a tight hug.

This is what I’ve been waiting for. I’m never letting go of him.
Because apparently whenever I do, he either gets beat up by some asshole, or have a car collide with the one he’s in.

I gently kissed him all over his face, and noticed there were tiny scratch marks all over his face. Probably from when the window shattered…
He was in a fucking car crash, and he’s okay.
Everything’s going to be okay, it’s like this never happened. This was just some nightmare that passed, as long as Alex is alright, everything’s going to be alright.

Tears pouring out of my eyes, I stared at him with blurry vision as he gave me a weak smile.

“You scared the shit out of me, Lex.” I muttered, pressing my forehead to his. Alex wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me even closer to him if it was possible.

“Don’t cry, love.” he whispered with another weak smile, and wiped my tears away with the sleeves of his long sleeve shirt. He could’ve died, and he’s worried about me crying.

I squeezed him tighter, and buried my face in the crook of his neck. He smelled like hospital, I seriously can’t fucking wait to get him out of here.
I heard a chorus of ‘awws’ come from the other side of the room, knowing that all my friends and that bitchy nurse was in the doorway seeing me cry but I don’t give a crap anymore.

“I can’t help it. I was so worried about you baby, I can’t live without you. I’m so fucking in love with you Alexander. Shit, I thought I was gonna lose you forever.” I rambled, Alex sighed and hugged me tighter.

I know I look like a total pussy, and Rian was probably going to make fun of me later for this, I don’t care.
I’m in love with Alex, and he’s fine. That’s all that matters.

“I love you so much Jack, it’s okay. I’m not going anywhere.” he soothed me.

I sat up and wiped away the rest of my tears, and Alex gave me a small peck on the lips. I smiled, pressing my forehead to his, with one hand on his face and the other around his middle.

“I didn’t know if I would be able to hold you like this again,” I breathed, Alex frowned and leaned into me, laying his head down on my shoulder as we hugged.
I kissed his forehead, and it felt like we were in this position for ours. Just adoring each other, thankful that he was okay and we got to have this moment together.

“I’m okay,” he mumbled.

“Don’t you ever fucking get in a car with Rian again,” I chuckled, making him laugh. I loved that laugh.

“Dude!” Rian protested, I turned my head to look back at them.
Tay, Brendon, and Cass were all tearing up at the sight of our reunion, Rian held his girlfriend in his one free arm as she cried tears of relief.

“I won’t,” Alex promised me, and my attention went immediately back to him, admiring his features I thought I’d never get to see again.
His messy light brown hair, his adorable big brown eyes, his button nose and crooked smile that made the back of my knees go weak everytime.

I attached my lips to his, holding his face with two hands giving him a slow, and passionate kiss.

How would I ever live without this boy? I can’t imagine what life would be like if he didn’t make it through the surgery. I would have to go to his funeral, sleep in my bed alone, eat dinner alone.

I’d never get the same feeling of butterflies in my stomach whenever he sang to me.
I’d never gape at the same sight of him blushing when I compliment him.
I’d never be able to try to sneak up behind him to give him a hug, even though I can barely do that now. He always suspects me coming.

I would’ve never been able to get out of this dumb town with him, and move in with him in.
I would’ve never been able to wake up and fall asleep with him every single day.
I would’ve never been able to marry him.

I can do those things. He isn’t dead, he’s alive. Life is so precious, and I have found love that most people don’t even get once. I’m never letting go of him.

People groaned once they realized we weren’t going to stop making out, and I was relieved to hear their footsteps leaving the room.
I licked his bottom lip with my tongue and he graciously opened his mouth wider, so we would french kiss. I love kissing him.

I remember our first kiss, how amazing it was it felt like electricity ran through my entire body. He’s become such a great kisser, I mean he always was, but now we really fit well together. He was new to this whole french kissing thing, we started like a month and a half ago, but fuck. He was really fucking good at it, he’s good at any kissing, he is good at everything.
I love him so much, oh my god. I was being as gentle as possible because he just had brain surgery, and he seemed to be pretty groggy still since his lips were trying to keep up with my already slow pace.

I moved down to his neck and he hummed with pleasure, wrapping his hands around my waist. I can’t imagine not being able to do this everyday. Not being able to do this ever again…
I’m not going to let him out of the house again, he’s never leaving my sight.
I smiled as his breath hitched as I placed small nips on his neck.
I heard quick footsteps enter the room and flinched at the voice.

“MOM AND DAD ARE COMING! JACK, UNATTACH YOURSELF FROM HIM NOW.” Tom scream whispered at us, his entrance shocked me so much I stumbled off Alex and fell to the ground clumsily.

“Oh, Jack, are you okay?” Alex said worriedly, placing a hand on my shoulder as I struggled to get up.
I landed face first into the tile floor, and still managed to blunder into the chair next to his bed. I nodded to him, he looked completely flustered, and we both plastered a fake smile on our faces as his parents walked in.

“Jack! That’s so sweet of you to come and check on Alex!” his mom exclaimed. I would recognize that thick British accent that I could barely understand anywhere.

I glanced at Alex as she said his name, and tried not to gasp as I saw it.
He has a hickey on his neck.
Shit. I tried to think of any way possible to hide it that wouldn’t be obvious, but all the attention was on Alex so there’s no way they wouldn’t notice.

“Yeah, I just wanted to make sure he was okay.” I said, and his parents smiled.

I coughed, turning Alex’s eyes to me. I tried to casually point to my neck, so he would get the message, but he didn’t. He just gave me a confused look and set his attention back to his parents.

“He’s fine,” his dad shrugged, taking a few steps closer to him.
I really started to panic. There’s no excuse if they find it, they will know that it was me.

Tom glanced over at me, and my eyes widened and I mouthed the word ‘HICKEY’ and pointed to Alex. He narrowed his eyes the second he saw it on Alex. I’m sure he wasn’t too pleased to see a hickey on his little brother’s neck, or finding me on top of him like I was a few minutes ago, but I could tell he was coming up with a plan to hide it.

“Uh, no I’m not.” Alex told his dad, gesturing to his broken arm.

“Alex, you got to sit up dude, you just had brain surgery.” Tom told Alex.

“I am sitting up,” Alex said, very confused. He still had no idea about the pink mark on his neck that could expose our entire secret relationship to his parents.

Tom walked over to him, fixed his pillow, and causally pulls the collar of his shirt higher up on his neck so it would be hidden. Alex blinked at him like he was insane, so he was obviously still oblivious.
Thanks to Tom, it was no longer visible.
If his parents say it they would’ve known right away, that could’ve been very very bad. Well, it would’ve been worse if his parents walked in while I was on top of their son, and completely making out with him.
Thank god for Tom, or today would’ve gotten a whole lot worse.

I watched as Rian, Cass, Hayley, Zack, Tay, and Brendon walked in the room, making it crowded and I frowned as I saw Alex become uncomfortable.
In a dream world, I would be the only one in this room taking care of him, but that was not going to happen.

“Wow, Alex, I had no idea you had so many friends.” Mrs.Gaskarth exclaimed, Alex rolled his eyes.

“I thought that everyone thought you were a dork,” Tom chuckled.

“Oh, we do.” Zack laughed, making everyone else laugh too.

It wasn’t horrible, we all started chatting about Alex and what happened in the car crash. I was kind of silent the whole time, staring at Alex and how he was reacting to his parents meeting his friends. It made me uncomfortable to see him uncomfortable.

He put on the fakest smile I’ve ever seen when he was with his family. I doubt they’ve even ever seen a real smile from him, not the kind that I see everytime I see him.

“So Jack…” I turned away from Alex and looked at his Mom, surprised she said my name.

“We heard that yesterday you were shouting at nurses to let you visit Alex after his surgery.”
The whole room burst out with laughter, I felt a hot blush of embarrassment rise onto my cheeks.

“Oh god,” Alex chuckled, smiling.

“We’re glad that he has such a good friend who cares and protects him, thank you Jack.” Mr.Gaskarth told me.
Damn, he wouldn't feel that way if he knew I was just Alex’s friend. But, having his Dad’s approval was something I’ve always wanted, I knew once he knew the real me he would never speak to me again, but knowing that he liked me right now was nice.

I could tell Tom, and all of my other friends were biting on their tongues, containing their knowledge that they know something very important that his parents don’t know.

“You should’ve seen the load I put Rian through for crashing that car,” I chuckled.

“I survived the car crash, but I didn’t think I would survive through that.” Rian laughed, making others laugh too.

“You yelled at him?” Alex asked, surprised and he looked completely flattered.

Of course I would yell at Rian, I would yell at anyone who put him through any kind of pain. If Rian didn’t break his collarbone, I would’ve broken it for him, I was so pissed off. I still am a little, but knowing Alex is okay made me a lot calmer.

“It wasn’t a yell, it was more like a livid scream.” Cass laughed, making his parents laugh.
Alex smiled at me, holding a sleeve covered hand up to his face. trying to hide his deep red blush.
Fuck, I missed that smile.

Notes

ahhh
i get sadder and sadder when this story gets closer to the end
i love it as much as you guys, probably more
but sadly it cannot last forever

BUT THIS CHAPTER IS SO HAPPY YAYYYY
JALEX IS BACK

now i realize i kind of started rambling, i didn't know what else to write so i just wung it
oh well, it's just relieved jack that his little babe is okay

and ANOTHER CLOSE CALL WITH ALEX'S PARENTS AHHH

by the way, if you guys were wondering what alex sounds like with a british accent
here ya go
this is pretty much how i imagine him speaking in my story
ITS THE CUTEST THING EVER
how i picture alex's accent is in this story

here is the cutie himself
my fav

Title credit- Edge of Tonight