God it fucking hurt to watch Jamie watch Caroline.
They'd been friends once, before Sam had died and he had gone off the deep end being angry with Jamie.
And he'd believed that for months, that he was angry because of Sam, until Jamie had gone missing and everything was shot to hell.
He knew what Ricky had suggested and it was logical, really it was, but he wasn't stupid, he knew how he felt.
Alex tried to stay angry, because angry was better than stupid and that was where he was heading.
Stupid meant jealous and idiotic and getting himself fucking shot and he couldn't do that to his mum.
So he shut up and stayed angry, stayed hostile as Jamie tried time and again to get through to him.
It had been harder than he had thought though, so much fucking harder. Jamie was always there, always friendly and it was so very hard to hate him.
It was only a matter of time. Jamie wormed his way in and in one sudden terrifying moment Alex couldn't hate him anymore, and that was the moment he knew it was over.
Alex packed his bags the next day.