When I woke up the next morning the first thing I noticed was Alex lying sprawled out on my floor. I let out a sigh and rubbed my temples. My head was throbbing, I got up and carefully stepping around Alex went into the bathroom. It seemed still quite early so no one would be awake, I'd probably just go on a walk. I looked through the drawers and managed to find a pack of ibuprofen, it would help my head. I popped out two of the tablets and downed them with some water, I got migraines sometimes and when I did they were pretty bad. This was barely anything compared to the usual, mostly it was just twinges now and then. I went back into my bedroom where Alex was still completely out, he was a heavy sleeper so I was fine. I grabbed some clothes and changed in the bathroom before heading down stairs quietly. Jack was crashing in our spare room, Alex in his old bedroom. I pulled on my shoes then left a note on the kitchen counter telling my parents I was going out.

'Hey.' A voice said just as I was about to leave the kitchen. Jack was standing, fully dressed, at the door.

'Oh, morning.' I said

'Where you going?' he said raising en eye brown at me,

'Relax, I'm only going for a walk.' I said, smiling because he was going all big brother on me.

'oh, can I join?' he said.

'Sure.' I said, Jack pulled on his high tops and jacket and we walked out the front door. I started walking down the street towards the park.

'So where are we going?' Jack asked

'Nowhere in particular, just where ever I feel like.' I said, breathing in the fresh morning air. I turned down a street and into the park. We got to the park and I smiled, through Is had some pretty rough memories with this place I still loved it. Jack noticed the kids play park and ran off like a little kid, I laughed and ran after him. He ran straight onto a round-about and shot me the cutest look.

'Push me?' he said pouting. I laughed and grabbed the end of the round-about and started running, after a couple of minutes I let go, I was out of breath.

'Geeze Jack, lose a few pounds!' I said and flopped back on the grass, completely out of breath, looking up at the sky. Jack came over and lay down next to me, he looked at the clouds.

'That one looks like a dick.' He said pointing at a cloud, I laughed, he was right.

'It could be a double scoop ice cream?' I said, Jack smirked.

'It's a dick.' He said

'Fine, it's a dick.' I said, laughing. We sat for a while just pointing out shapes in the clouds, most of which Jack pointed out were dirty. I checked the time, my parents would probably be awake now, and cooking breakfast, I had only just realized how hungry I was.

'Come on, my parents will probably be awake now.' I said getting up. Jack followed and we headed out the park, we got to the exit when.

'Leda?' said an oh-so familiar voice, I cringed and turned around to see my ex-boyfriend, Brendon.

'What do you want?' I said bitterly.

'Nothing,' he said 'How have you been?'

'Fine, can you leave us alone now.' I said venomously. He only just seemed to notice Jack.

'How's this?' he said, a slight edge to his voice.

'This is Jack.' I said, clenching my fists.

'Her boyfriend.' Jack added, I looked at him and he winked, he was only pretending and I appreciated that. He took my hand and intertwined our fingers, I felt my face heating up.

'Oh, right okay.' Brendon said 'I'll see you around then.' He walked off and I let out a huge sigh, Jack let go of my hand.

'Thanks.' I said and he smiled at me.

'It's my pleasure to be your pretend boyfriend.' He said 'what happened between you guys, you looked like you could happily rip off his head.'

'It's a long story.' I said and started walking.

'We've got time.' Jack said

'Fine.' I said letting out a sigh. 'basically he was in the year above me and we got really close and started dating, suddenly I became super popular. Life was great until I found out he had been sleeping with about every other girl in the school. I found out when Emily told me he'd come on to her.' I let out a sigh, 'it had hurt me a lot because he was my best friend before my boyfriend, it was like he'd torn my heart out my chest ripped it into small pieces then dropped them on the floor for me to pick up and try to stick back together.' Jack put an arm around me.

'Well if he comes near you again, me and Alex will beat him up for you.' He said

'Thanks, Jack.' I said smiling as we reached the house. I opened the front door.

'We're home!' I called, the smell of pancakes making my mouth water. I wandered into the kitchen, Alex was standing flipping pancakes, I grinned and walked over. There was a massive plate of them sitting next to him. I noticed the smiley face one.

'Is that one mine?' I said, already knowing the answer, he nodded. When we were kids Alex would always make pancakes and have a smiley face one, just for me.

'Go sit down, they'll be ready in a minute.' He said smiling. I led Jack through to our dining room and sat down in my usual seat, Jack sat next to me. My parents were already sitting, my dad was reading the paper and my mum was just sitting drinking coffee.

'Good morning.' I said to them.

'Morning Leda honey.' My mum said with a smile.

Alex walked through 'Pancakes are ready!' he said putting the plate down, I grabbed the smiley face pancake before anyone else could. My dad laughed, I gave him a "what?" look.

'What?' I said

'Just you and Alex, you're just like you were when you were kids.' He said and I smiled.