Life isn't a fashion statement.

Alex's POV

I was happy that I was allowed out of hospital a day before Christmas which meant I could spend Christmas with Jack and his family which was going to be weird as I was with Quinn and Beth and normally we just get fucked out our faces.

I was still asleep when I heard Jacks door open and Jack quietly shutting the door behind him and him walking over to the bed and gently sitting on it.
"Babe wake up." Jack said quietly and messed with my hair.
I grumbled and slowly opened my eyes.
"The sleeping beauty finally awakens from his slumber." Jack said with a smile and I slapped his gently.
"Fuck you." I said quietly.
"You can do that if you want." Jack said and moved and pushed me onto my back and kissed me which I returned.
"Babe, as much as I want to but its kinda awkward fucking in your parents house while your whole family is here." I said and Jack groaned loudly and head-butted my shoulder.
"Just think about when we get home." I said and kissed him a bit harder.
"Well that makes my boner harder to control." Jack said and I laughed.
"Its a tough life for you." I said and Jack smiled.
"Boys hurry up will you." Jacks mum said and I slapped Jacks ass and Jack chuckled and sat up on my lap.
" 'Ami is waiting along with everyone else." Jack said quietly and I groaned which made Jack chuckle.
"Just think of it as a welcome to the mad house." Jack said and kissed me and got off me and held his hand out which I took and Jack helped me from the bed and we walked downstairs.

" Jacky!" A little girl said and went running over to Jack who picked her up and held her close to him.
"Jacky who's that?" The girl asked pointing to me.
"That's Alex. Alex is my boyfriend." Jack said with a smile.
"He speaks funny." The girl said.
"Grace don't be rude." A woman said and took the girl from Jack.
I looked at her arms and noticed scars all over them and I looked down and put my hand over my arm.
"You must be Alex." The woman said and pulled me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah I'm Alex." I said and looked at the woman.
"I'm Kat, this is my little girl Grace." Kat said and kissed the side of the little girl head.
"Um, I'm going to look for Jack." I said as I felt really awkward.

" See you met Kat." Jack said as he handed me a beer as I sat close to him on the sofa.
"Yeah." I said and downed my beer.
"Jesus Lex, slow down." Jack said and looked at me.
"What its my tradition to get fucked out my face." I said and Jack sighed and kissed the side of my head.
"Well it doesn't have to be that anymore." Jack said.
I looked at him and smiled and rested my head on his shoulder.
Rowan walked in the room and looked at me and Jack and smiled.
"Alex can I talk to you please?" Rowan asked and I looked at Jack.
"You say anything to hurt him Rowan and your dead." Jack growled.
"Down big boy I was only going to apologise." Rowan said and I got up and walked out the room.

"So spit it out then." I said as I turned round to look at Rowan.
"I am sorry Alex. Guess its just hard to see Jack finally having someone there for him when me and Eric are so used to looking out for him I guess." Rowan said and I sighed.
"So what your saying is I'm no good for him then?" I asked and Rowan shook his head.
"No, I'm not saying that at all. Your amazing for him, we can all see how happy you two are. Look the way I was before was completely wrong of me. I hope this hasnt messed things up with us." Rowan said.
"Your not just saying this because I nearly topped myself?" I asked carefully and Rowan chuckled softly.
"No I'm not saying it because of that. I'm saying it because I want a fresh start from everything." Rowan said and I smiled and nodded.
"Awesome. I'll let you return to Jack otherwise he'll start to worry." Rowan said and I chuckled and went back to Jack who had Grace talking to him.
I smiled and sat next to him.

We had dinner and since it had been snowing everyone pretty much bailed outside and had a huge snowball fight.
I just sat on the step and watched everyone while smoking my cigarettes Jack got me instead of smoking weed.
I saw someone sit next to me and I looked and saw it was Kat.
"He thinks the world of you." She said and looked at everyone the same as me.
"I know he does." I said quietly and looked down at my arm.
"Hey, if Jack can stick with you when you did that then he can stick with you through anything." Kat said.
"How do you know?" I asked quietly.
"Because I thought exactly the same when Eric first was with me and my unstable mind went cuckoo. But he stuck by me and now we have a beautiful little girl. If there's one thing you need to know about them is that their very loyal, and they will always protect you." She said and I smiled.
"Your very lucky." Kat said and patted my leg and she got up and joined everyone else.
I just smiled and watched everyone.

Notes

Merry Christmas everyone hope you all had a good Christmas.