My Personal Angel

“Alex, I really don’t want to talk about it,” Jack retorted.

“Jack, I just want to know the basics, don’t go super in deep. You’re my age, why are you an angel,” I asked.

“Why wouldn’t I be an angel?”

“I’m just really curious. You never talk about yourself and it would obviously lead to me asking questions.”

“Fine, what do you want to know?”

We were sitting on my bed; it was past midnight, probably somewhere around one thirty. My head was resting on his shoulder. We were watching Sleepaway Camp and I wasn’t overly playing attention and neither was Jack. We were sitting with our backs pressed against the wall and a blanket covering our crossed legs. I really enjoyed spending time with Jack, I seemed to spend almost all of my free time with him.

“When were you born,” I asked.

“And this is when you find out that I’m only nineteen because I died at nineteen. I was born in 1988, so if I was alive I would be twenty-eight,” he answered.

“Wow, really? You only died nine years ago?”

“Yeah, you know I was in a band too.”

“You’re fucking pulling my leg Jay, what?”

“Guitarist in a Blink 182 cover band.”

I stared at Jack, my mouth slightly agape. I had no idea that he had been in a band, however by looking at him I could definitely see him being in a band. I don’t think they would have made it but it was still cool to think about how much time he had to have put into his work. I mean, Blink songs are really fast meaning he spent a lot of time just trying to bring everything up to speed.

“You can be a real asshole sometimes,” Jack said

“Then stay out of my head asswipe,” I retorted.

“I wish I could, I know everything you think and I wish I didn’t.”

I blushed quite red at that, not realizing that he could hear everything I thought. There were quite a few things that were I had thought where I forgot someone could hear and now I wished that he couldn’t hear. I don’t know how he was able to look at me straight because, let’s face it, I was a teenaged boy.

“Oh trust me, I wish I couldn’t hear what you think every now and then,” Jack laughed.

“Oh shut up,” I sulked.

“Respect your elders!”

I couldn’t help but laugh at how stupid this boy was. There were times that I wished he was real. Well, he was real but I kind of wanted him to be seen by other people so that I wouldn’t have to go without talking to him so I didn’t look crazy. It’s amazing to think about how the scariest moment of my life led me to probably my closest friend; I guess spending all my time with him would lead to him being such a close friend.

I couldn’t help but shiver into Jack, I suddenly felt a lot colder all of a sudden. He tensed up at my sudden movement but quickly loosened up again. I felt his arm wrap around my waist. I thought nothing of it. We were just friends so I thought nothing of it, I mean, nothing could ever happen anyway and I was certain I was straight. I looked up at Jack and smiled, he made me very happy by just being around him.

“Hey Jay,” I said.

“Yeah,” he responded.

“Thanks for everything.”

Notes

Sorry for the crappy filler, I really felt like I needed to get something out and it's crunch time at school. I'm going to a concert on Saturday though which will be fun. I promise the next update will be better, I've just been pretty busy.

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- Jess