To the Moon and Back

Sharky's POV
A couple of days later I am sitting at my desk, working on some commission piece, my headphones in my ears, blasting New Found Glory, when I feel a hand on my shoulder.
I shriek and jump up.

"Fuck, guys, you are giving me a heart attack there, why are you sneaking up on me like this.?" I shoot, my hand pressed onto my racing heart.

"Oh, sorry, Sharky, we didn't intend to scare you, but I told you, not having a lock on the door isn't a good idea." Alex says his eyes wide in apology.

There is another guy standing beside him, he is taller than Alex but really lanky, his almost black hair is teased so it stands in a faux hawk and he has a bleached patch in his hair, he wears a v-neck shirt that reveals part of a chest tattoo. He has a big nose but he totally pulls it off and there is a diamond stud gleaming in his ear.

The most remarkable feature are his big brown soft eyes, that don't seem to really fit the rest of his appearance. I decide I like him.

"Hi, my name is Barakat. Jack Barakat." He says in a James Bond reference, leaving his hands buried in the pockets of his skinny jeans. "What are you doing there?" He asks looking at my table with the sketch on it.

"Oh, I do a tattoo design for a friend of mine." I answer. "By the way, my name is Sharky, but I guess you knew already."

"Yeah, Alex told me a lot about you" he replies with a huge grin while bopping on the balls of his feet.

"So? Did he?" I look at Alex with raised brows but he just shrugs as if he had no idea what Jack was talking about. Guys are so weird!

"You wanna beer?" I ask.

"Fuck Yeah!" Jack yells while letting himself plop onto my couch.

I shake my head at his manners and go to the fridge to get three beers. "So I take it you want to have a look at my Tattoo book?" I say as I sit myself beside him, while Alex sits down on the opposite couch. He nods.

"There you go" I say as I hand it to him and he starts looking through the pages. We pretty much hit it off straight away, talking about everything and joking around, he tells me he is lead guitarist of the band, which I already knew because after meeting Alex I looked them up. We have a couple of more beers.

He tells me he likes Home Alone, which I think is cute. But I have to tell him that I disliked part two, and that starts a big argument.

All this time Alex doesn't drink or say anything, he sits on the couch cuddling Luke who has snuck up to him as soon as he sat down and watches us with a somewhat distant and sad expression.

"This one I really like" Jack points to one drawing of a giraffe wearing an astronauts helmet. I look over his shoulder because I have been leaning into him and start to laugh.

"Dude, that's not a tattoo, I did that for a children's mug, I don't even know how this ended up in here. That's for kids." I tease him.

" I like it. I love giraffes" Jack pouts trying to defend himself.

"Of course you do, you look like one." I giggle and absentmindedly start to draw a stick figure giraffe on his Bizeps with the pen I still hold in my hand.

"Fuck, what are you doing there, I am not your sketch pad" he screams swatting my hand away and snatches the pen from my fingers to scribble a black spot on my lower arm in retaliation.

"Hey, stop that" I say and get a new pen from my back pocket and hold it out in front of me like a weapon. "That means war, Barakat."

"Bring it on, Sharky" he says, going into a fighting stance and making another mark on my bare knee. His long limbs giving him an advantage.

We jump at each other trying to pin the other down long enough to draw or write something on whatever part of body we can reach.

He gets a hold of my leg and writes JACK on my calf. As retaliation I pin down his head and there goes a ASS below his ear.

"You know that these pens are waterproof" I tell him.

"That's even better" he retorts adding a 'FUCK ME' in front of his name on my leg.

That just calls for a dick drawing which I do on the back of his shoulder as I sit on his bum. After that it's just random black scribbles as we go wild.

We have to stop because we can't breathe anymore from laughing and fighting so hard. We look like two idiots because even our faces have marks. And we just collapse onto the floor.

"When Alex told me you were wild and different, I didn't know what he meant, now I do" Jack says trying to catch his breath then he brings his face closer to mine and we both start leaning in.

We would have definitely kissed if Alex would not have suddenly got up, saying "Jack, come on, we have to go" in a voice that sounded pretty angry.

We jumped apart startled, realising we had completely forgotten he was there as well.

Jack looked at me and his brows shoot up and he smirks. I make an eye movement and he gives me a tiny nod. We have the same idea.

We slowly get up from the floor pretending to dust off our pants and move over to where Alex stands with his arms crossed in front of his chest and a pissed off look on his face. We look at each other and jump onto him at the same time.

Jack grabs Alex's arms from behind and they both fall onto the couch I jump onto his legs and sit on them to hold them down, then I push up his shirt and find a spot on his waist where I place a neatly written SHARKY.

Alex stops fighting back and I look up to find him breathing hard and staring into my eyes. I let go of him immediately and stand up.

"Sorry mate, I think we went a bit overboard." I say holding out my hand to help him up. He grabs my hand and pulls himself up and so close to me that our noses nearly touch. His gaze flickers from my eyes to my lips.

Alex's POV

I couldn't stop thinking about the girl so I asked Jack if he would like to come with me. As he had nothing to do he was more than happy to join me.

But when I saw the two of them get along so well, not even noticing me, I felt awful. I shouldn't have brought Jack, I knew how all the girls fell for his charm, he was crazy and funny and handsome and I'm just a lame space nerd.

When they started to fool around I just imagined myself being in Jack's place.

I know I shouldn't but I couldn't help it. Then I felt they were about to kiss and I just needed to get him away from her.

So I jumped up and said "Jack, come on let's go."

They looked at each other in silent conversation and stood up but suddenly Jack wrestled me onto the couch and Sharky sat on my legs. I tried to fight her off.

When she pushed up my shirt and I could feel her cool hands on my skin I suddenly froze. It was as if there was an electric current running through my body. I just could not move anymore.

She must have noticed because she stopped and helped me up. I pulled myself close and was about to kiss her when I came to my senses.

I cleared my throat and pulled Jack up from the couch. "Let's go" I told him and he just shrugged towards Sharky and followed me out.

When I got home I looked at my waist in the mirror and saw that she had written her name onto me like I belong to her. I traced the letters with my fingers and smiled.

Notes

Awww, Alex!
hope you guys enjoy it.