Jack Barakat was my best friend. From Kindergarten all the way up to now when we were both twenty two years old. We met when we were four. I moved in next door to his house from New Jersey to Maryland the summer before Kindergarten started. I stepped out of the back seat of the station wagon that me and my parents drove down in and Jack was playing with his older brother and sister May and Joe. They stopped chasing each other long enough to check out the new red haired blue eyed girl. May and Joe stayed back while Jack ran right up and hugged me. My parents laughed while Jack pulled back and said "Hi! I'm Jack Bassam Barakat. Who are you?"

"I'm- I'm Kaileigh." I said

"Don't be so shy Kaileigh. I'm going to be your best friend!" he said and hugged me again that time I hugged back. We were inseparable since then. His room was right across from mine with a tree in the middle. For his sixth birthday his parents got us walkie talkies and he gave me one. Every night we would talk about what happened that day regardless if we spent the whole day together; sleepovers every weekend the whole nine yards. I was there when his band got signed and I was there merch bitch with Vinny ever since while taking online classes while touring twenty four seven. I even sometimes went with them when they record their records. Jack was my BEST friend and my other half. My life was perfect. Almost.

Alex Gaskarth was the devil himself. Every fiber of his being was coated in everything bad in this world. He spent every moment of his miserable excuse for a life trying to make my life a living hell. From hiding my clothing so I have to run to find my clothing NAKED to tripping me and breaking my fucking arm. GOD! I hated that guy but I put up with him for Jack. We were both his best friends and I loved Jack more than I hated Alex. Barely. The first day I met Alex I knew it would never end well.

Jack and I walked into our first day of high school hand in hand after my dad dropped us off before he went off to work. I was a mousy little girl with black framed glasses. Of course the next summer I hit a growth spurt and all of a sudden I got boobs, contacts and some curves. Jack wasn't a fan of the way guys looked at me after that but that is beside the point.

I was terrified while Jack was jubilant. I squeezed his hand and he looked at me with a reassuring smile and kissed my cheek.

"Everything is going to be Kai- bear." He said. Everyone always thought we were a couple but we never were. In high school I liked him but it was just a crush and only lasted for a little while, I didn't have feelings like that now. We both walked into your history class and sat down next to each other. I opened up a green notebook that hand HISTORY written in black sharpie in my fine handwriting. Jack took out a blue notebook from his back pack with HISTORY written on it in my hand writing as well. The day before I went over to Jack's house and we organized his backpack which probably would look like a tornado by the end of the day.

I heard some loud obnoxious giggling from the door and turned to see Alex walk in with a blonde on his arm. He bumped into my desk and knocked my notebook off of it. He quickly glanced at me and kept walking.

"Hey!" Jack said and I shhed him.

"Jack it's okay." I said and got the notebook off of the tan tile floor.

"HEY!" Jack said ignoring me but standing up.

"What!" Alex asked turning around. Clearly annoyed.

"Jack." I whispered.

"No Kaileigh. This dudes a dick." He said to me "You need to apologize." He said directed at Alex

"I will not." Alex said

"I think you will." Jack said

"Stop." I said a little louder. Jack ignored me.

"Are you going to make me?" Alex asked.

"If I have to." Jack said moving to stand in front of Alex. Jack was slightly taller. Three or four inches, Jack was lanky though, not that Alex wasn't, but he was just the slightest bit buffer.

"I'm not going to apologize to this bitch." Alex said and with that Jack pulled his fist back and let it snapped forward. It connected with Alex's face and he stumped back. The people in the room gasped while I said, "JACK!"

Of course the teacher had to have walked in right as Alex went to hit Jack back.

"BOYS!" the teacher yelled. She was a middle aged woman with dark hair and dark eyes.

"Principles office now." She said. I sunk down in my seat. Only Jack would get in trouble in the first hour of the first day of school. A few minutes later I was called down to the principal's office. I sighed and gathered my stuff before heading down. As soon as I got there the princible was leaving.

"I will be right back." He said and opened his office door for me. I stepped in and saw Alex and Jack both sitting in chairs bleeding from the nose.

"Jack…" I said and got out some tissues. I wet them with my water and cleaned the blood off of his face.

"Thanks Kaileigh." He said and I gave him more tissues to hold over his nose. Despite that fact that he was a douche I gave a tissue to Alex. He took it and didn't say thank you or anything.

"You have no fucking manners." Jack growled.

"Don't get you panties in a bunch, I'm just not going to talk to your girlfriend who really started all of this." He said

"Shut the fuck up! She didn't do anything!" Jack said. I blushed when he didn't correct Alex about the girlfriend thing.

Jack and Alex both got a weeks worth of detention. After that week they were friends. Close friends too; they started a band called All Time Low with other boys named Rian and Zack. It amazed me how boys could just punch each other and be friends the next day. Jack made Alex apologize and they connected when Jack found out he played guitar as well.

Again. I HATED Alex Gaskarth.