one for the road

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miles sighed as he longingly looked at his lock screen on his phone. it was a picture he took with alex at the itunes festival. alex looked so perfect. his brown hair that was a little messy from being on stage. his stupidly adorable smile that practically lit up miles' world. why couldn't alex be gay?

"what's wrong babe?" jack asked miles. "oh, um, nothing" he lied. he couldn't stand to look at jack. sure, he loved jack, but he would never be alex. "well, i'm off to the store. don't forget your management needs you to post about me sometime today" jack said, kissing miles on the top of his head.

after jack left miles sat and tried to bring himself to announce his relationship. hours before he had finally announced to the world that he was gay and his management was upset with him. he didn't get approval before he did it so in return they told him he had to post about jack so people didn't think it was for attention.

miles was deep in thought when his phone rang.

Alex Turner❤️

he answered it almost immediately. alex invited him to his new year's eve party. he was so excited to finally see his al again. but he had to post soon before the management got mad.

he went into his camera roll and picked a cute picture of him and jack holding hands and decided to post that one. he wrote a simple caption and sighed as he threw his phone onto the couch.

matt texted miles and suggested he bring jack to the party. miles really didn't want to but he didn't wanna seem weird.

jack still hadn't come home and miles decided to put a record on his turn table. he grabbed his own record, colour of the trap, and decided to listen to the title track. he wrote that song with alex but he also wrote it for alex.

i have learned to wait. most of the things you say i don't understand but i will sit and listen

miles was interrupted by jack coming in the door.

"you alright?" jack asked, concerned. "oh yeah i'm good. hey, on new year's eve do you wanna go to a party at alex turner's house?" jack looked annoyed. "you mean the one who's all over you every time you preform together? sure"

miles hated when jack brought up the last shadow puppets or 505 or anything that had to do with miles preforming with alex. he missed it too much and jack knew that.

jack didn't really like alex. he always thought he'd end up stealing miles away from him. they met briefly in 2013 before anyone knew about him dating miles.

miles couldn't help but count down the days until new year's eve. he had never been so excited in his life. jack tried to talk miles out of going to the party a few times but it never worked.

christmas had come and gone and miles spent the day with his family. jack tried once more to get miles out of going to the party but he didn't budge.

the day has finally come and miles was awake at 7am to get jack ready and to the train station.

"ugh miles why are we leaving so early? the party doesn't start until 6!" jack protested. "yes but we have to check into our hotel room" "hotel room? miles you said we'd go there and come right back after midnight!" miles chuckled. "yeah well change of plans. i wanna be prepared in case alex wants to start writing more songs" jack rolled his eyes as he took him and miles' bags and put them in the car.