"So are you going to see your family on Christmas?" Jack asked.

He was sitting across from me at a nice restaurant. We had been talking quietly about various things for the past twenty minutes or so while we waited for our food and I had learned quite a few things about Jack. He loved Home Alone, he had both of his ears pierced, his birthday was exactly two months before mine and he is a momma's boy were some of the things that I remembered the most.

"No but don't worry, I'll find something to do so you can spend time with your family." I said quickly and Jack frowned.

"You can stay at my house! You don't need to go somewhere else."

"I don't want to intrude."

"You're not intruding, I want you to stay. Besides, you should get used to it, next time this year there will be a little baby that my family will want to see."

"Jack, are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm positive. You should get used to my family; you're stuck with us for life."

I laughed at Jack just as the waiter came and set the plates of food down in front of us. Jack started eating quickly and I slowly picked at my food as I thought. I liked Jack, he was nice but I felt weird. He seemed so nice and inviting and I didn't think I would be good enough for him. I began to freak out like I always did and Jack must have noticed my face because he reached his hand across the table and placed it on top of mine which made me jump.

"Are you okay?" Jack inquired and I nodded quickly.

"I'm fine." I said while looking down at my food and starting to pick at it again.

"I think you're not being truthful."

"I think you're thinking wrong." I said as I stabbed a piece of broccoli a bit more violently then I meant to.

Jack gave me a hesitant look before licking his lips, "What's on your mind?"

I sunk my teeth into my lip and idly played with my hair that fell down in my face. I tried to avoid Jack's eyes as I rubbed at my eyes, my contacts burning and feeling itchy from being in for too long. "I dunno Jack." I said softly to which Jack frowned.

"Josie." Jack cooed as he once again tried to reach out of for me but I pulled my hands away and settled them in my lap.

"I'm sorry, I'm just tired." I said.

"You can talk to me, y'know?"

"Jack, I'm fine."

"Josie."

"Jack."

"Smart ass."

Jack sighed and scowled as he watched me pick at my food. I scrunched up my nose and I could see he was fighting a smile as the corners of his lips twitched. He sighed again and pushed his plate away before putting his elbow on the table, resting his head on his hand and studying me for a moment.

"Wanna get out of here? You don't seem to be enjoying your food much." Jack pointed out.

"Okay." I said while pushing away my plate, I wasn't really feeling like eating anyways.

After Jack paid we both stood and walked out of the restaurant, me shivering slightly as a cold rush of wind hit me. Jack wrapped a warm arm around my shoulders and gently pulled me a bit closer to him. I swallowed nervously but let him keep me pinned to his side as we walked slowly to his car.

"So what do you want to do?" Jack inquired a couple seconds later.

"I don't know."

"Well we can go home or we can go see a movie or we can go over to Alex and Rian's place, they invited us earlier to come by and hang around."

"Oh."

"That's not an answer."

"I don't care; whatever we do can we stop at the house first? My contacts are bothering me and I need my glasses."

"You wear glasses?"

"Yes."

"I do too."

"Cool but really Jack, my eyes."

"Oh, okay. We can get your glasses and then we can go to Alex and Rian's for a bit." Jack said as we got to the car and I pulled away from him so I could get into my side of the car.

The ride back to Jack's place was quick and when we got there Jack told me to run inside while he waited in the car. I felt terribly awkward as I hesitantly let myself in and then shut the door softly behind me. I went upstairs to "my room" as fast as possible, took out my contacts and then replaced them with my glasses before I attempted to go back down the stairs but I walked straight into Jack's sister.

"I-I-I'm s-s-sorry." I stuttered out when she looked down at me.

She gave me a reassuring smile and I felt slightly better but my stomach still knotted nervously. "It's okay. Where's Jack?"

"He's outside in the car waiting for me….we're going to Alex and Rian's." I said while shifting my weight from foot to foot.

"Oh, they're good kids. Have fun." she said cheerfully and I nodded before slipping past her and out of the house.

When we got to the Jack's friends' house almost twenty minutes later he shot out of the car, up the driveway and into the house before I even had a chance to unbuckle my seatbelt. I was halfway up the driveway when Jack came shooting back down to me.

"I'm sorry, I forgot and I didn't mean to make you walk by yourself. Usually I just-" Jack babbled.

"It's okay." I said quickly cutting him off.

"Oh, well I like your glasses. You should wear them more." Jack said as we walked into the house.

"Thank you." I said softly while blushing a hot red.

Jack giggled and I looked down, letting my hair fall around my face and create a curtain that hid my face from his sight. We walked into the living room and I stood awkwardly in the corner while Jack threw himself down on the couch beside Alex who I barely recognized. His once blondish hair was now a dark brown and I nodded in approval though it probably didn't matter to him whether I liked it or not.

"Hey Josie." Alex said and I smiled nervously.

"Sit down." Jack said while jumping back up and tugging at my arm gently until I sat down on the couch.

"Let's go get some food." Alex said a couple seconds later.

Both boys jumped to their feet and ran out of the room, practically running over Rian who was coming into the living room. He rolled his eyes as he righted himself and then took the seat beside me. I smiled at him and waved when his eyes fell on me and he gave me a large dazzling smile.

"Hey, how are you?" Rian asked sweetly.

"I'm good, thank you, how about yourself?" I questioned while twisting my hair around my finger.

"Good. How are things going with Jack? Haven't had the urge to kill him yet?"

"No. He's funny, I like him."

"Hm, surprising. I thought you two were going to kill each other."

"I thought so too."

"What made you change your mind?"

"I don't know." I said softly.

I couldn't help but think about despite the fact that Jack could be really annoying he had good intentions. The way he had acted earlier when Audrey and I had fought was sweet and I really wanted to be back in his arms. They were soothing and I found myself feeling less stressed then I had in a while when I was with him.

"So what's going on with her?" Alex questioned as he nodded towards the living room.

"I don't know. I like her but I'm not sure the feelings are exactly returned." I told Alex before dipping my chip into salsa and shoving it into my mouth.

"Well why don't you ask her?"

"I don't know. What if she says no?"

"Then you move on with your life."

"But I don't want her to say no."

"I don't think she's going to." Alex said and I sighed.

I grabbed another chip and dipped it into the salsa as I studied Alex's face, looking for that smirk saying he was just playing with me but I saw nothing. "Are you sure?"

"I'm positive Jacky."

I chewed on my lip nervously and then looked back up at Alex who was smiling at me. "What?" I snapped.

"You really like her. It's funny cause like a month ago you were bitching about how you were going to hate her forever."

"I didn't say that!"

"Yeah you did. I remember because we were watching the game and you said that you couldn't believe that she was having your kid, that you would hate her forever."

I scowled, my thick eyebrows knitting together. "I did not."

"Yeah ya did Jack and now you like her." Alex teased and I threw a chip at his head.

"Shuddup."

"What? You don't want to talk about your girlfriend?"

"Alex, I'm gonna kill you."

"Aw, Jacky-" Alex started but he didn't get to finish because I tackled him making a loud thunk on the floor.

My fingers began their assault on Alex's sensitive skin finding exactly the right spots to push that had him laughing hysterically and squirming in attempts to get away from my fingers. He squealed as my fingers found the spot that I knew would have him begging me to stop within seconds.

"Jack please, stop." he said breathlessly between giggles.

I swiped my fingers down his side one last time causing him to laugh hard before I pulled my hand away but I didn't get up from where I was straddling his hips. "Are you sorry Lexi?" I cooed my fingers posed above him as I readied myself to begin tickling him again.

"Yes, I'm sorry Jack." he said quickly and I grinned before climbing off of him. I held out my hand to him and yanked him to his feet before leaning back against the counter. "Seriously though dude, I don't think she will say no if you ask her to be your girlfriend." Alex said.

I shrugged and sighed. "I don't know what do Alex." I whined and Alex rolled his eyes.

"Rian!" Alex shouted.

I watched him feeling confused. Why was he calling Rian? I wondered as Rian came walking into the kitchen. I was still trying to think about why Rian needed to be involved in this conversation when Alex pushed me roughly into the living room.

"Go ask her to be your girlfriend." he hissed and before I even had a chance to say no, Alex yelled, "Josie!"

Josie turned around on the couch so she was looking at me and I nervously shoved my hands into my pockets. I made a mental note to kill Alex later as Josie watched me curiously.

"Uh, uh, uh." I stuttered.

"What Jack?" she asked softly.

"I, uh, uh, can, uh, I ask you something?" I finally managed to spit out.

"Uh, yeah."

I nervously walked over to Josie and sat down beside her on the couch, watching the way she looked at me curiously. Her red hair fell along her face and she pushed her glasses back up her nose as she waited for me to say what I needed to say.

"Josie, I, uh." I said before scratching the back of my neck nervously.

"Jack, can you just tell me?"

"Oh, uh, okay. I was just wondering if you, you would, uh….." I trailed off while fear filled my heart. I couldn't bring myself to say it because I didn't know what her answer would be.

"God damn it Jack! Just spit it out!" I heard Alex bark from the kitchen. I turned to see he was standing in the doorway and I glared at him as Rian grabbed his arm and yanked him back into the kitchen, stopping only for a moment to give me an apologetic look.

I twisted back around to look at Josie who looked caught between laughing and yelling at me herself. "Can you just tell me please Jack?"

"Will you be my girlfriend Josie?"