Reunited

✰5✰

✰Zach's Pov✰

"Hey Jack can I ask you a hypothetical question?" I say chewing at my bottom lip nervously sitting on the countertop while jack rummages through the bathroom cabinets in search of rubbing alcohol.

"Uh sure," He says too focused on his search. "Ah found it! Now what's this hypothetical question of yours?" He unscrews the top of the bottle and puts a cotton ball up to it.

"What would you do if, hypothetically speaking, you and someone who happens to be your ex almost kiss." I blurt out all at once. Jack turns the bottle upside down allowing the cotton to soak up the alcohol.

"Well hypothetically speaking," He wipes my wound with the cotton ball without warning making me hiss in pain. "I'd probably act like it never happened."

"But what if you were seeing a guy at the moment, hypothetically speaking, would you tell him?" Jack pauses eyeing me suspiciously, setting the bottle down and tossing the used cotton ball in the trash.

"Am I missing something here? Did something happen with you and Jonah?" He questions making me crack and tell him.

"I don't know if I should tell James." I sigh defeatedly.

"Well did you guys kiss?"

"No,"

"And are you and James like official?"

"Well no,"

"Then like I said, 'hypothetically speaking'," He does air quotations. "Act like it never happened."

"But—"

"Just get some sleep Zach." He says patting my shoulder before walking out. Well at least I forgot about the demon now, instead Jonah will haunt my dreams.

✰Jonah's Pov✰

I shrug on my leather jacket and grab my keys with a familiar place in mind as I stepped out of the house. I needed air and time away. So starting up the car I pull out the driveway and head for Chris's house.

Chris is a friend I managed to make at an event I can't remember which event, since we've been to so many, I just remember us immediately becoming friends. He invited me to a party tonight and at first I declined the offer but what better way to clear my mind then just go. I have terrible coping mechanisms really. I resort to surrounding myself with people to feel something and in the end I just leave feeling more empty.

"Jonah! I thought you wouldn't be able to make it dude." Chris greets me with a big hug at the door before stepping aside and allowing me to enter. "Make yourself right at home man. You want a drink?"

"One won't hurt." I smile as he hands the cold beverage over to me.

"Come down to the basement man," Just as I follow behind him he suddenly stops and turns to me with a serious look on his face. "Do you smoke?"

"No,"

"You don't mind though right?" I think it over and shrug. Plenty of people at other parties I've been to do it and it doesn't really bother me. "Okay cool cool." He smiles as we go down the steps.

The basement is dimly lit by red lights hung up along the walls, soft rock music emits from a radio somewhere in the room, and the smell of smoke fills my nose. I stay with Chris unsure of the other people who are here. Eventually he ventures off somewhere leaving me at the couch next to some girl. The dark haired girl is just bobbing her head to the music with a blunt burning in between her fingers. I recognize the song as 'Dazed and Confused' by Led Zeppelin and she notices me start to hum along.

"Led Zeppelin's great huh?" She speaks suddenly flicking her eyes to mine. Her glossed lips looked good under the fluorescent lights.

"Yeah," Is all I manage to say unsure of where this conversation could even go. Then her hand outstretches a blunt to me. I stare at it and wonder just how far I'll go to feel.

"Its weed not poison." She laughs still holding it out to me. "Come on, try it." I take it holding as if it was a bomb going to explode at any sudden movement. I take a very short drag of it and immediately begin basically hacking my lungs out. My throat felt scratchy and dry making me chug the disgusting beer I clung to. She laughs taking it back and climbs on top of me, my legs in between hers. "Here." Is all she whispers before inhaling the drug and blowing it into my mouth through a kiss. I look at her in astonishment but I don't push her off, I was entranced. After a while the soreness in my throat subsided. After a few more hits I felt nothing and everything as I smiled at the perfect stranger who's name I still didn't even know. After that, well, I don't remember anything.

• ✰ •

"Jonah, is that you?" I hear Daniels voice say the second I step into the house, so much for entering unnoticed. I shut the door and try to look a lot less shitty then I felt.

"Yeah, it's just me." I say rubbing the sleep out of my eyes as I make my way towards the kitchen.

"Where have you been, you look like ass." Daniel chuckles turning around to look at me before focusing on the dishes he was washing again.

"Ugh, I was just at a friends and accidentally fell asleep there." I reply groggily sitting down on a stool, I didn't want to tell him I was too stoned to drive. The sound of the clanging dishes as he puts them in the dish rack make my head throb. He dries his hands off on his jeans then approaches me.

"Geez you reek of," Daniel sniffs me again. "Weed? Hm, is that a new cologne?" He jokes I shove him aside with the little energy I had. "Hey bro I'll say nothing but you might want to shower and flame torch these clothes."

"Thanks man." I smile halfheartedly before resting my forehead on the cold countertop. Then I hear running before I look up to see Jack in the kitchen.

"So why'd you almost kiss Zach?" He questions crossing his arms. I just let my head fall right back down and groan.

✰Author's Note✰

This is me, updating, with no clue of where this book is going lol :)

Word Count Not Including A/N: 1047

✰Thanks for reading ily✰