No Need to Hide

“Alex? Are you alright? I heard a-,” Jack began, sounding a little worried as his legs carried him from the hall to the kitchen. But his sentence was cut short once he reached his destination and saw something he just really didn’t expect to see. Alex was crying again, which had become a not-so-strange occurrence over the past week or so, but he was just sitting on the floor, surrounded by a shattered glass jar with tears on his cheeks, and it was weird, but eye-opening. The sight of the strawberry jam covering the tiles all around his boyfriend is what made Jack want to smack his forehead, realizing just how oblivious he’d been.