I know it's been along time since I've posted, but I did post a warning in the summary and in the profile that it would be. This chapter is much shorter, as I'm still revising for my exams, but I wanted to get an update posted, and I didn't want to write an authors note without writing some of the story as well.
However I'm thinking about taking the whole story down and going back and editing it as I'm not really happy with it. What do you think?
Let me know, review, PM me or whatever.
Steve watched with a smile on his face as Jack walked towards him, a chocolate ice cream in his hand. Jack hadn't changed at all; he still had the same carefree attitude that he'd had when Steve first met him. His muscles had become slightly more defined, but he had managed to hold onto his boyish good looks. The two had met a long time ago, when Jack had been about twenty one years old. Steve could still remember the flack that Jack had taken from his family and friends for hanging around with a cop, just as he could remember how loyal his friend had been to him and his father over the years.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Jack grinned at Steve, a questioning look in his eyes. Steve chuckled before answering him.
"Just thinking about what it was like when we first became friends." Jack nodded, and began to eat his ice cream. The friends stood and watched some surfers for a few minutes, and then Jack spoke again.
"So what's the deal with you and Jesse?" Steve looked at Jack wide-eyed, "Come on Steve, what, do you think I didn't see the look on your face when you came charging out of that bathroom, when you thought he'd been hurt." Jack gave Steve a pointed look.
"I love him Jack, more than he seems to think, he-" Steve broke off abruptly, his mind drifting back to when Jack had first arrived, "Oh no, I'm so stupid." He strode off down the beach and Jack had to run to catch up with him.
"What've you done?"
"Jesse finds it difficult meeting strangers, and I- I just invited you in, and then totally ignored him. I've got to make sure he's okay." Steve only hoped that he hadn't pushed Jesse over the edge.