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---Jack---
he walks out of the house his music playing in his headphones and he steps down to the sidewalk and crossing the road kicking a few rocks off the pavement into the grass. almost tripping a bit later thinking this was another rock but nope it was in the sidewalk.
he gets his keys and opens the door rattling the doorknob a bit and he gets it open passing phone guy.
"oh Jack your here early could you help clean up the arcade a bit it’s a bit of a mess and Jimbo is out it would be a big help?”
"yeah I can don’t worry"
"yeah I was gonna ask Dave but he’s not here yet surprisingly”
"oh weird he’s usually here so early?”
that's fine...
he hates Dave anyway he killed jack’s sister, Dee. so why should you give a damn about him he's only one of the only people that cares about you other than Peter, well he doesn't even care that much but that's beside the point he sucks HE KILLED JACK’S SISTER.
"Employee, hello? hello, hello? you just started spacing out"
"oh yeah I'm fine, I'll go to work now bye"
he goes in walking all the way to his locker noticing his lock is gone? and his locker is open... wide open... really Dave..?)
is that a note in his locker? yeah it is so he reads it to himself
'A sorry to my lovely sportsy’
I know this won’t do anything to help but I still want you to know I’m sorry jack for everything, for just being awful, for breaking in, for not always giving you answers even when I should have, always acting ungodly annoying, and lastly I'm sorry for killing your sister, jack I would tell you all the reasons but I don’t think anyone could believe that especially coming from me…
I'm sorry jack even if you don’t care I just needed you to know'
A word stuck out to jack 'my lovely' it didn't mean much and to be fair Dave is kind of flirty to jack but that's just how he is, but he's never called jack lovely!
he puts the note back in his locker and walks out to the arcade remembering he's supposed to clean but while he walks there and cleans, he's still thinking
what did Dave mean by lovely? Is this why Dave didn't come to work? all these questions flooding his mind but he goes back to cleaning and gets up and walks to the prize corner to get a wrench and he buys one after Matt's rant and he walks back to fix a machine opening it up and fixing a cord and closing it and he realizes the timer is almost all the way down so he goes to wind the box and he does and Matt starts ranting again
"Hey, old sport"
"Matt don't call me that"
"Fine so Jack have you seen Dave your always with him so I'm guessing you know?"
"no. I was gonna ask you the same"
Matt goes on and Jack just walks out of the room walking down the halls and into the safe room still denying to himself that he's 'not worried about Dave'
he sits there thinking about him hoping he just may show up to work today but 15 minutes goes by... than an hour... and after sitting there thinking for so long its already 5:45pm and he gets his things some of he puts back in the locker but that note. he takes it home
Jack gets home setting his things by the door and walking to his room and he takes the note out of his pocket and sets it on his bed and changes out of his uniform not really caring to put pants on, he's home alone why would it matter?
he lays down and holds the note just looking at it every way he can cause he still doesn't know how to feel about it so he leaves it there and stands up off his bead and walks out and down the hall to his kitchen and makes dinner and he takes his bowl and goes to the living room and he watches tv while eating.
after a bit he finishes his food and he gets up and turns the tv off, walking to the kitchen and washing his bowl and putting it back then heading to his room
what did Dave mean by lovely? Jack continued to wonder so he re-read it...
He realized the note was a confession wasn’t it...
---Dave---
He was at home mostly panicking
what is sportsy thought of it wrong, what if he didn’t feel the same.
why did he do that he could have just let his thoughts eat him alive and Jack would just be clueless
he could have just maybe admitted it instead of hinting cause Jack wasn’t always the best with hints...
He decided to look at the time. It was 6:30pm Jack would be at his house...
so he decides to call Jack
---Jack---
his phone is ringing so he picks it up
“So old sport, m’ sorry about that note I shouldn’t have put it in your locker-”
“Dave where are you”
“M’ at my apartment why sportsy?”
“Are you able to walk to my house?
He hears a knock on the door and immediately opens it and hugs Dave
“Dave, was the note a confession”
“I- yeah... sorry, I shouldn’t ha-”
before dave could finish speaking he pressed his face against Dave’s and he was shocked at first but started to lean into it
jack pulled away and closed the front door and pulled Dave back in kissing him again his face a way darker purple than before
“Now I’m kinda glad I left that note for you sportsy”