It had been a few months since Alex and Jay had worked on the Documentary project together but they always were together. If you saw Jay walking around you could expect Alex only a short distance away in the hallway or classroom keeping an eye on him, making sure no one would do or say anything bad to his innocent friends who, now that was getting more and more brave day by day seemed to be getting into a lot of bad situations. Just recently he tried to talk to some of the jocks in their school trying to get them to stop calling Brian and Tim queer and Alex had to intervene before the jocks did something stupid and tried to hurt Jay.
Behind the cool relaxed look Alex usually had he had a short temper when it came to things or people he didn't like or trust. When Alex snapped you better watch out, he didn't think twice when it came to yelling at someone who said something bad about Jay or his roommate and his best friend and if that didn't work, if he snapped, you'd better run and fast because he'd probably end up punching someone. He was one who never regretted hurting someone simply telling Jay "They had it coming."
Jay never had to worry about being in a bad situation for too long because Alex would always seem to come to his rescue no matter how bad or simple the situation would be. Jay would never complain about that though, he liked it, knowing that Alex cared about him that much that he would protect him from people in their school or even on the street when him and Alex would walk Alex's dog Rocky who was just a young dog at the time. If someone gave Jay a weird look or said something rude towards him Alex would stop it and almost instantly too made Jay feel a lot better.
Jay stopped by his locker, putting some books up, he had that normal no emotional look on his face that he had when Alex wasn't around but he was actually pretty happy, today was the last day of school and now it was Christmas vacation for his school. Finals for the second quarter were finished and Jay was actually pretty confident about how he did thanks to Alex and him studying together for all the classes they had tests in. Alex made studying pretty easy in which Jay truthfully had never really done before thinking it was too hard for him to study and since he never really had friends before he had never had anyone help him study or study with him in general. It was a nice change to say the least.
He put his now almost empty backpack back on him quickly liking the feeling of the lightness; it just seemed to confirm that they were having a nice small break from school that could be so hectic as well as stressful at times. He had been looking forward to the break seeing as now all he had to worry about was getting to work and hanging out with Alex and Brian for most of the break.
"Dude!" came the happy cheerful voice of Brian who was quickly walking over to Jay who was now closing his locker door. Jay turned to look at the shorter man who had a huge smile on his face "Hey dude, Jay, you busy on Christmas man?" Jay thought that over, well he had been planning on going to his parent's home to go see them but they had decided last minute that instead of spending the Christmas season with their son that they would go up to California and go see other family that were farther away then Jay was because they hadn't seen them in a long while.
"Oh uh..no actually why?" he asked looking at him curiously and Brian's smile turned into a full out grin looking just as excited as ever, wow this must have been pretty important if Brian was this excited, well then again Brian got this excited over video games and mountain climbing so maybe it wasn't as important as Brian's making it out to be.
"Well-Christmas is Tim's birthday and we're just having a get together at Alex's and my house. Just a few people that are friends with Tim and everything but him and I wanted to know if you wanted to come. Alex wants you there pretty bad because he doesn't know any of Tim's friends, heck him and Tim don't even really know each other and we're all in the same class." He rambled excitedly "So you wanna go or what?"
He smiled a little at Brian "Do you really even need to ask? I'll be there." He stated happily. Brian nodded a little excitedly before texting Tim that Jay was going and within a couple minutes a text from Tim came up on Jay's phone with the date and time.
As Jay read it Alex walked over to him happily and leaned against the lockers behind Jay tugging him backwards gently once just for the small reaction Jay gave him; Jay gave a small surprised squeak of a sound as he tried to regain balance and grabbed for something to keep him upright which was actually Alex, he had wrapped his arms around Alex's neck and blushed with embarrassment before letting go and looking back at Brian who was too busy texting his best friend to have noticed Jay and Alex had been accidentally hugging.
Alex laughed a little as Jay let go, looking down at the shiny tiled floor with an embarrassed blush still visible on his cheeks and Alex wrapped a friendly arm around his shoulders giving him a small happy squeeze.
"Did you get everything for Christmas vacation?" Alex asked after a moment and Jay nodded a little finally looking up at his friend who was smiling happily at him. "Good. Oh do you have work today?" he asked after a moment before Jay took his almost empty backpack off his back and set it on the ground digging through his backpack a second before pulling out his work schedule a second and looking It over before looking up at Alex. "Yeah at 10 tonight until around 2 in the morning but since I have no homework or anything I guess we could hang out if you want? Go over the new pages of Marble Hornets you made." He stated with a smile and Alex nodded excitedly and ruffling Jay's hair lovingly once.
Jay put his schedule away neatly in his backpack again before slinging his backpack on his back once again and looking at his friend who was getting his own books into his locker quietly and smiling softly before handing him the Marble Hornets script happily so he could read it when he got to his house. Jay took the script gently treating it like it was the most fragile thing in the world right now since it was practically the greatest thing to Alex, all his joy and pride was in these pages of the script. He had spent hours on this thing, probably staying up all night a few nights in a row to finish up some of the scenes he had been working hard on.
"Ready to go?" he asked and Jay nodded excitedly walking along with Alex down the hallway quickly keeping up the pace of the taller man walking beside him. Alex opened the door for him happily and smiled lovingly at his friend who walked out of the door Alex had opened and down the steps quickly, heading for his old looking run down car. He opened the car quickly and threw his backpack into the passenger seat as he was about to sit in the driver's seat and start the car up when Alex leaned against the driver side door and looked down at the big eyed film student who slowly looked up at his friend curiously.
"I have to go to the store really quick and get some Combos and a few other things. Let's go in my car and when I finish shopping we'll come get your car after ok?" he said with a small smile and Jay thought it ok before saying "Ok." And getting out of his car and pocketing his car keys again before walking over to Alex's car as he unlocked all the doors and Jay ducked into the nice expensive looking white car and relaxing against the passenger seat happily looking at his friend happily as he started the car up.
"If you wanna listen to a CD or something I have the CD case under your seat just pick something." Alex said with a small smile and Jay nodded a little before getting the nice CD case and going through it slowly reading all the band names quietly before picking up the 'Simon Curtis-8 Bit Heart' and handed it to Alex who slid it into the CD player in the car.
"Best song on here has to be track 10." Alex said as the first song started and Jay nodded a little leaning back listening to the auto tuned music. It was actually pretty good love songs, he's never heard of this CD though which was weird because he was sure someone would have shown it to him before this since it was so well done in Jay's mind. He closed his eyes as he listened to the music happily he opened his eyes looking at his best friend.
"Pfft what a romantic you are." He stated with a small smile, "First your romance movie and now your music is even romance." Alex smiled a tiny bit too but didn't really reply right away so Jay went right back to resting against the passenger seat before grabbing Alex's camera from the back and turning his camera on.
"So Alex~" he said after he turned the radio off and had the camera recording, a small smirk on his face as Alex glanced over at Jay and smiling slightly but tried to act like he was concentrating hard on the road ahead of them and Jay was just being a dorky distraction "What's up~?"
"Driving?" he stated and now looked at Jay with a smile before looking back at the road thinking Jay was done with the camera thing but it didn't stop there, Jay zoomed in a little still smiling happily and there was just a tiny pause before Jay said "Yeah?"
Alex laughed a little before nodding and looking at Jay "Yeah.", Jay laughed as well a little before turning the camera off happily happy to have wasted a couple of minutes just being a dork with Alex as they drove down the road. He smiled happily as Alex took a hand-off the wheel before ruffling Jay's hair happily. "Your such a dork." He stated with a little chuckle and Jay smiled happily. After Alex moved his hand away and put his hand back on the steering wheel Jay turned the camera completely off and turning the CD back on and skipping to Track 10 and smiled a little as Alex tapped his fingers against the steering wheel a little with the music.
Alex stopped at a red light and looked at Jay who was watching him before Alex looked back at the road again as the red light turned quickly and they were able to go. They drove slowly into the parking lot before going in one of the parking spaces, turning the car off before looking at Jay with a smile and getting out of the car. He stretched a little and looked at Jay who was getting out of the car quickly to join Alex as they walked over to the store entrance.
"All right, Combos last because they're in the checkout isles." Alex stated "So drinks first, what kind of energy drink you like?" he looked at Jay who was taking his time to think about it before grabbing a Red Bull and putting it in the cart that Alex had gotten before Alex grabbed a second one for himself since that was actually his favorite as well and he grabbed a couple cases of soda ,putting it in the basket as well happily.
"Snacks next." He said with a happy tone "Brian said Tim likes those 'Bottle Cap' candies. So we'll get some for him since I guess he's coming over today and I like 'Sugar Daddy's', you can pick whatever you want too."
With that Jay went to the candy isle and grabbed Alex's and Tim's favorite candy before grabbing himself a 'Three Musketeer Bar' before running over to Alex happily with the candy in hand and dumping all the candy into the cart happily before standing at the side of his best friend. Alex put some Doritos and Cheetos in the cart as well before scooting down the isle with Jay and heading for the checkout.
As they got in line Jay shuffled his way ahead and grabbing two pizza flavored Combos and one of the Cheddar cheese flavored since that was Brian's favorite before going back to the cart and putting it in. After Alex paid for all the food Jay helped take the cart to the car and put the groceries in the trunk and getting into the passenger seat excitedly waiting for Alex to get into the car. He smiled a little at Alex as he started to drive out of the parking lot and down the road back towards the school so Jay could get his car from the school and head for Alex's house.
As they get to the school Jay gets out and gets into his own car starting it up happily before rolling down his window and smiled "See you soon." He said with a happy smile and they were off.