Baby It's Fact

We had arrived at the Gaskarth/Dawson house (which technically should be Dawson/Diakoulas now) at 11:30pm and Alex went straight to bed. I however, had another idea. I put in Saw 5 and opened the beer.

The phone rang. I growled at it.

"Stupid phone."

I picked it up.

"Hello?" a female voice asked.

Oh snap. It was Lisa.

"Hey." I said blankly. How are you supposed to talk to your husband's ex girlfriend?

She sounded relieved that I picked up and not Alex. If he did, there might have been tears.

From him.

There was some silence. Awkward, just the way I liked it.

"Oh! So, congratulations, I guess."

"Thanks."

More silence. Who said that too much of a good thing was bad?

I licked my lips, they were getting dry.

"You guys are made for eachother. I mean, ever since the first band practice, I kinda knew he wouldn't be mine forever."

"What the fuck?! No!" I wanted to scream.

"OK."

There wasn't much else I could say without giving it away.

"Alex is a great guy. You already know that but still. Treat him well, okay?"

"I will."

"Lisa, babe, who you talking to?"

That was a guy's voice. Oh snap times a billion.

"Just some friends from Towson." she replied to him.

Whoever he was said something before walking away.

"Lisa, I got to go."

Crap crap crap crap.

"It was great talking to you again." I added.

"Bye Jack."

"Bye."

What the hell was I going to tell Alex?

"Oh hey, your ex who you're not over yet called. She said congrats on our marriage and guess what? She's moved on. But you haven't. Now what's for dinner?"

I groaned. Looks like my get wasted and watch gory films plan would have to stop.

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It was now 1am and I was still awake.

I wriggled out of bed to go downstairs. Once I was there, I went for the fridge.

"Need foods." I mumbled to myself.

"Jack, are you still awake?" I heard a tired-sounding voice ask.

"Hey Kare-Bear."

Kara came over to where I was.

"You know I just bought all of this today, Jack. I don't want it all finished already."

I took out a piece of bread and put it on a plate.

"You're eating a piece of bread on it's own."

Kara wasn't as used to my eating habits as Rian was.

"Grah." I replied.

"Okay."

"Kara?"

"Yeah?"

I swallowed the rest of the bread.

"If you really cared about somebody, but knew something that would hurt them if they found out about it, would you tell that somebody?"

Kara tilted her head.

"Hmm."

She sat up and smiled.

"Well, I can't tell you what to do, but-"

I stopped her.

"No, it's not me! It's a...friend of mine. Yeah, a friend."

She raised an eyebrow. Oh, she so got that from Rian.

"Well, the way I see it, if your friend cared about Ale- that somebody, then they should do what's right for them. Even it might piss Alex-erm, somebody, off."

"Thanks. There's a reason why I call you Kare-Bear."

I got up and hugged her.

"Aww, Jack. You can be sweet sometimes."

"I'm not sweet all the time?" I pouted.

"No, Rian is."

"Ewww."

I jumped off her. She stuck her tongue out at me.

"Kara, come back to bed." Rian called groggily.

"RIAN! Not in front of me!" I yelled back.

I heard a thump.

"What the fuck?"

Alex was awake now aswell. All I had to do was call Zack and we'd all be awake.

"Hey should I call Zack? We could party!"

"No!" four voices replied.

"Dayum." I sighed.

They never let me have any fun.