Chapter 43

Jake's POV

"I need an adult."

"I am an adult," Alex said, trying to hold back her laughter catching the TFS reference, she took a seat next to me and put her arm around my shoulder pulling me into a hug.

"What is this?"

"Affection."

"Disgusting...gimme more," I said, giggling and smiling, just generally happy to have this moment with her before tonight. I didn't deserve this kind of happiness, with all the atrocities Jack and I had committed, we deserved nothing more than death itself, and yet, here I was. Getting the one thing I so desperately craved and didn't believe that I deserved. I was brought out of my ocean of negativity by Alex kissing my forehead trying to get my attention.