NINE

"I need food."

Jason didn't look up to see who said it, he was pretty sure it had been Alexia.

The plane had just landed in Dubai and the six friends are now currently strolling through the Dubai airport, trying to find a nice place to eat. The flight had taken twelve hours and everyone was too tired to even speak. Of course the plane had offered food, but no one was really fond of it.

The airport was huge. There were palm trees everywhere and everyone was in awe. The shop department was three stories high and looked like it could be its own mall. The place was crowded and Jason saw tons of men wearing that long white dress he'd seen on television. There were children playing with the water in a fountain somewhere in the back and he spotted two women secretly taking pictures of their ankles.

He chuckled.

"This is amazing.." Sienna murmured, taking it all in. The others agreed and Jason hummed.

"And so crowded!" Chloe continued, trying not to bump into strangers. Jason laughed. "Yeah, I'm sure we'll find somewhere to eat."

After five minutes they found a Burger King and quickly went inside. The girls went searching for a table while the guys ordered a ton of food. Grabbing their order when it was finished, they joined the girls around a round table somewhere in the corner.

"I'm starving!" Alexia squealed when she saw the food and took a bite of the first hamburger in the bag. "I feel you." Jason agreed, shoving half the burger down his throat. No one really spoke after that, everyone was too busy eating.

Twenty minutes later, everyone was done eating.

"They've got Wi-Fi." Ryan noticed. Jason rolled his eyes. "Always looking for Wi-Fi, aren't you, Butler?"

"What would I do without Wi-Fi?" Ryan asked, looking at Jason with a big smile on his face. Jason sniggered and shook his head, taking a sip of his coke. The girls were talking about the clothes they brought so he decided to listen, maybe hear something fun.

"I brought a blue bikini, a pink one and one with black dots." Chloe said, looking at Sienna and Alexia. Chaz picked it up and nudged Jason's shoulder, starting to smile perversely. Jason tried not to laugh and nudged Chaz back, shushing him.

"Oh, I saw the pink one right? It looked good." Alexia replied. Chloe nodded. "Yeah, I like the pink one most. Although, it looks better when I'm a little bit more tan."

"Well it's good we're going to the Maldives, we will get tan for sure." Sienna smiled. The other girls high fived her. "What about you, Lex?"

"I think I brought like, more swimwear than normal clothes." Alexia chuckled.

Jason swallowed uncomfortably.

"The yellow one, the peachy one, I've got a white one, a black one, a glittery one.." she furrowed her eyebrows together and seemed to be thinking. "The golden bikini.. I think I even brought one see through. I can't remember."

The girls giggled. Jason heard Chaz gulp.

"I cannot wait to see their fucking bikini's." He whispered, looking down at his empty soda. Jason agreed. "I cannot wait to fucking get to the Maldives. This may be the best thing that's ever happened to us."

Chaz nodded. "Hell yeah."

They left the Burger King after a little more than an hour. Jason felt more energetic and was laughing and joking with the others. The girls were completely in their element, entering every store they passed. Jason, Chaz and Ryan honestly didn't mind. They were enjoying the gigantic airport just as much as the girls were.

"We have to go inside!" Alexia nagged when they stumbled upon a Victoria's Secret. "I don't mind. Let's do it." Jason grinned cockily and looked at Alexia. She laughed and shook her head, shoving his shoulder before walking towards the entry.

The girls quickly spread through the store. Sienna and Chloe were raking the panties-isle while Alexia was spraying perfumes and body mists in the air.

Ryan pulled up his eyebrows when he saw his girlfriend holding up a blue thong. "Um... I'm going to go help I think..."

Jason and Chaz laughed as they wished him luck. Chaz followed Ryan the second he saw Chloe piling up a lot of cloth so in the end Jason decided to accompany Alexia.

"Hey."

She jumped up. "Christ! Can people stop scaring me like that?"

Jason chuckled and grabbed the body mist out of her hands, reading the name out loud. "Pure seduction? That's some heavy shit you've got here."

Alexia snorted and pulled it out of his hands. "Shut up, they smell heavenly."

"Sure.... I'm pretty sure you're only buying it because it says 'Victoria's Secret'".

She smiled. "I think that if I was going to buy something because of the name, it would be their underwear, don't you think?"

Jason cleared his throat and shrugged, trying to act like the thought of Alexia in her underwear didn't do him much. "Maybe."

"I'm going over there." She pointed at the pile of panties and underwear. Jason nodded. "Yeah, I'll go with you."

He followed her to the heap of underwear, and she looked at him funnily.

"What?"

"Nothing..." she laughed and shook her head, starting to dig through everything. Every time she held up a thong, Jason looked away. He couldn't help it, seeing her holding underwear just made him feel some type of way.

Eventually, she grabbed a red thong and looked at it for a long time. Jason couldn't look away this time. Shit, that was hot. He imagined her wearing it, how it'd hug her beautiful curves..

Stop it.

"Alright, I'm done." Alexia grabbed everything and walked over to the cash register to pay. Jason was left alone next to the pile of underwear and looked at the red thong on top. Too bad.

-

Their next flight was almost leaving when they finally made it to their gate. People looked at them in disappointment and annoyance when they entered the plane, but they didn't really care. The girls were happy with their purchases, and so were the boys.

Wink, wink.

The seating arrangement was a bit different this time. Chaz and Chloe wanted to sit next to each other and so did Ryan and Sienna, so Jason and Alexia were stuck sitting behind each other.

Chloe and Chaz are tickling each other and Ryan and Sienna are basically eating each other up, which meant Alexia had no other choice but talk to Jason. No matter how unfortunate the seats were arranged.

When the stewardess told everyone to 'buckle up', Jason turned around in his seat and looked at Alexia, who was already pale. "Hey, you'll be fine."

"You can't say that, you remember what happened 15 hours ago right?" Alexia muttered embarrassed.

Jason smiled softly. "Yes, I remember."

She didn't respond so he threw his arm out of the seat, backwards. She looked at it. "Why is your arm... um... hanging here?"

"Take my hand."

Alexia looked at Jason in surprise. He wasn't laughing. Jason looked serious. His eyes looked straight into hers, and she looked back. A sigh emitted his lips when he noticed how beautiful, how brown, her orbs were. He wished he could look into them forever.

"I will crush it." She whispered, not looking away.

Jason kept his eyes locked with hers. "We both know you won't."

She gently placed her hand in his and he squeezed her hand, letting her know everything was going to be alright with one movement.

Jason felt her squeeze back and turned back around in his seat, still holding hands with the girl behind him. His entire hand burned wherever he felt her skin on his. Her hands hadn't changed. Still soft, still petite and still perfect in his own. He'd stay like this forever if he could.

The plane took off and he squeezed her hand again. She squeezed back. She was okay.

Even when the lights went off and everyone was free to move, he kept holding her hand and closed his eyes.

"Thank you." The voice came from behind him.

His cheeks heat up. "Always." He murmured back, not looking at her. There was a silence followed by Alexia interlacing her fingers with his, stroking the palm of his hand with her thumb. He opened his eyes for a mere second and closed them again, trying to show no sign of how much this meant to him.

He didn't respond, but didn't pull back either. They kept their fingers interlaced.

-

"Jason,"

"Jason."

"Jason!"

"Jason!"

"Oh my God, JASON!"

Jason's eyes flew open and he jumped up, looking around sleepily for whoever had called him. The air plane turned out to be in a sleep modus. The lights were dimmed and he could see the darkness outside all of the windows. There wasn't much noise, few people were awake.

"What's up?" He sighed, looking at Alexia. She was sitting in the seat next to him. Turning around to look at the seats in the back, he saw Ryan and Sienna both sleeping. No sign of Chaz and Chloe. "And where are Chaz and Chloe?"

Alexia shrugged. "No idea. They left and they've been gone for nearly thirty minutes. Anyway, I can't sleep. Wanna watch a movie?"

Jason widened his eyes and chuckled. "From everyone, you woke up me because you couldn't sleep?"

He saw her cheeks getting red. She started scratching her neck, which he knew meant that she was nervous or uncomfortable.

"If you don't want to watch a movie just say it."

"No, no, I do. I'm just surprised, that's all."

She turned around and leaned back in her seat. "Don't be. Pick a movie."

Jason leaned forwards and started tapping on the screen, asking her what she was in the mood for. He kept thinking about that she woke him up out of all the people. It kind of made him feel good. Special.

"Ew, no! No horror." Alexia squealed when Jason pointed to a horror movie. He laughed and put his hand over her mouth. "Shut up! Everyone's asleep!" he whispered. She muttered a little 'oops'.

"What about this?"

"Nah, not feeling it."

"Okay," Jason scrolled further down until a title caught his eye. "This sounds funny."

"No."

"Okay..."

"Keep scrolling!"

"I am! Jesus woman."

Alexia burst out in laughter. He couldn't help but laugh too when he saw her laugh. It was so contagious.

"Jesus woman!" She mimicked, trying to be all Jason-like. Jason rolled his eyes and shook his head. "God, you're annoying. Let's just pick a movie!"

Eventually they both decided for a Gossip Girl marathon. It was Alexia's favourite show and Jason secretly liked watching it, so it was a win-win situation.

Gently leaning into Jason's side, Alexia crossed her legs and sat comfortably to enjoy her show. Jason looked at her with a side eye, revelled with how comfortable she appeared to be. No matter how hard it was for him to admit it even when it's just with himself, the woman sitting next to him did things to him. There were certain feelings only there when she was. His heart beat faster, his knees shook, his hands turned clammy and last but not least, he wanted to be nice. He had the strong urge to compliment her, talk to her, laugh with her, joke with her...

The woman sitting next to him was the woman he loved. The woman he had loved since high school, the woman he still loved throughout the years she wasn't present, even when he wasn't sure whether you could still call that love, she proved him wrong by coming back. Every single feeling that had faded away came back stronger twenty times. Jason knew he loved her.

.....And she was engaged.

Remember, Jason? Stop thinking about her in that way.

Jason felt a heaviness on his shoulder. He relaxed when he saw it was just Alexia, leaning her chin on his shoulder and her eyes locked with the mini screen in front of them.

He didn't want to ruin the show for her, but fortuitously Jason knew that she had seen Gossip Girl five times, and that was three years ago. Imagine how many times she'd seen it now.

"Alexia?"

"Hm?" she mumbled, not looking away from the screen. Jason did the same and kept his eyes on the screen as well.

"How many times have you re-watched this?"

She didn't say anything, following the movements on the screen. He kept silent too.

"Eleven times."

"Eleven? What the actual fuck, Alexia. Where did you even find the time?" Jason blurted out, chuckling. She sniggered and shrugged, readjusting her chin and hands on his shoulder. "Jason, I had way too much time on my hands. Unlike you, Damian doesn't like watching it with me, which meant I went through the episodes on a quick rate."

Jason licked his lips and thought back to all the times they'd watched the show. She was right, they were very slow. They made out every ten minutes, Jason always slipped a finger in after fifteen minutes and twenty minutes into the episode they'd been having lazy sex.

He laughed at the memory and she pulled away from his shoulder, nudging it. "What? Why are you laughing?"

He kept laughing and shook his head. "Yeah, us watching Gossip Girl together was useless."

It took her a split second before she burst out in laughter too. "Oh my God..." she laughed.

She wiped away a tear and both of them silenced down. Jason turned his face to look at Alexia, locking his eyes with hers. Her face was very close. Very close. He could finally look at it from nigh. Jason couldn't help but look at her pink lips, which she licked the moment he dropped his gaze. A squirmy feeling in his lower stomach erupted and he gulped, his eyes still on her lips, knowing Alexia was also analyzing his face.

Her skin looked soft. So soft he wanted to feel it. So he did. His thumb caressed her cheek and jaw line in awe, eyes still on her lips.

Jason heard her breath catch in her throat and looked back at her eyes.

In that moment, he smiled a genuine smile and Alexia smiled back sincerely. He knew she loved him too.

"Alright then, let's watch it!" Jason dropped his hand and kept the smile on his face, facing the screen. "Let's do it." She replied, looking at his arms. He caught the glimpse and opened his arms, pulling up his eyebrows and dared Alexia to do it. She rolled her eyes and nestled her herself against his chest, wrapping her arms around it.

Jason grinned and wrapped his arms around her small frame, leaning his chin on the top of her head.

Both of them were consumed by the screen, finally paying full attention to the show. Jason occasionally made a comment and Alexia would reply, explaining it or telling him to shut up.

-

"How long left?" Alexia yawned. Jason grabbed his phone out of his pocket and looked at the time. "Forty minutes, we're almost there." He paused the episode and Alexia let him go so he could stretch.

"We've been watching for a long time." She said. Jason nodded, looking at the seats behind them. Both Ryan and Sienna were still sleeping, and there was still no sign of Chaz and Chloe.

"Man, where are they? They've been gone for hours!"

Alexia also looked at the empty two seats, one behind their row and the one next to her. She shrugged. "I don't know. Chloe said she was going to the bathroom and Chaz followed her."

"Should we go see?" Jason asked. He wanted to know whether the guys had jumped out of the plane already, and also he really wanted to know if Chloe had been giving Chaz head. That's what best friends want to know.

"Sure, let's go."

Jason and Alexia wiggled themselves out of the seats and shuffled through the rows, trying to avoid people's limbs that are hanging out the seats while they're sleeping. They bumped into two children, but in the end they finally made it to the bathrooms.

"You check the men's rooms, I'll check the ladies." Alexia ordered. Jason nodded and opened the door to the men's pissing place. It was empty. Pushing every door open, there was no one either. The entire bathroom was empty, so he went back outside.

Alexia was already outside, waiting for him.

"Nothing." Jason said. She nodded. "Yeah, the entire bathroom is empty but one stall, but I only saw one pair of feet so..."

"Alexia! That could be them!"

"Since when do they both only have one foot?"

Jason shook his head and laughed, pushing her inside followed by himself. "Jason! This is the girl's bathroom!" She hissed, but in that exact moment, Jason put a hand on her mouth.

There were moans. And not just soft whimpers, no. Loud moans and screams. Jason tried to keep in his laugh as he looked at the closed stall, indeed only seeing two feet. Two men's feet. Feet that were wearing green Adidas shoes. Chaz' shoes.

Alexia's back was pushed against his body because of the fact that he had his hand covering her mouth, so he decided to keep it there for longer. In the mirrors he could see her eyes going wide with every moan that came out of Chloe's mouth. Yes, it was clearly Chloe.

"Chaz..." Chloe whimpered. There was loud grunting and banging.

Jason could just imagine how her legs were wrapped around Chaz' waist and how he was pushing the poor girl into the wall every thrust. Jason and Chaz were close enough to know these things from each other. Mainly because they'd both accidentally walked in on each other fucking.

Jason felt Alexia's lips against the palm of his hand.

"Stay silent." He whispered in her ear, his body still pressed against the back of hers. She obediently nodded, leaning backwards as much as she could. Trying to be as close as possible.

Jason sighed heavily and closed his eyes.

Chaz and Chloe were still fucking in the stall and Alexia and Jason stayed like that until the cracking and banging of the wild sex stopped.

Chloe was panting and Jason heard Chaz laugh. "Tired?"

"You wore me out."

There was a kissing noise and Jason tightened his hand in front of Alexia's mouth, knowing she was going to laugh when hearing the kissing noise, which she did.

"Who's that?" Chloe whispered.

Chaz shushed her and Jason heard a zipper. He let Alexia go and smiled widely at her, knowing they were going to see them now.

The door opened and Chaz walked out, followed by Chloe.

Jason and Alexia burst out in loud, plangent laughter, both of them doubling over. They were laughing so hard Alexia started crying and Jason started to make a weird beeping noise, indicating he was out of breath and needed to stop laughing.

It took a while before both of them finally could stop and after that Chaz and Chloe dripped off in embarrassment, going back to their seats while Jason and Alexia were exhilarated and ready to follow the two wherever they were going.

"I can't believe they were having sex!"

"Well I do. It was bound to happen! I'm happy Chaz fucked her, he really wanted to do that." Jason sniggered. He sat in his seat and Alexia did the same, sitting down in her original seat behind Jason. Chloe and Chaz were now sitting next to him.

Ryan and Sienna had also finally woken up, oblivious to everything that had happened.

"Where was everyone?" Sienna looked at Alexia. Alexia pulled up her eyebrows and rubbed her chin with her finger. "Hmm... where were we?"

Jason laughed from the front. Chaz shoved his shoulder.

There wasn't enough time to elaborate, because fortunately, their plane was going to land in twenty minutes and everyone was trying to gather their cords, phones, ear buds, pillows, etc.

Alexia buckled her belt and swallowed, looking at the back of Jason's seat.

Jason knew she was nervous again.

"Close your eyes and think about something else. Something fun. A memory, a wish, something you want to do, to buy.." he said as he put his hand out for her again. She grabbed it without hesitation. "I'll do the same."

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before thinking about something that had happened a long time ago.

"I'm Jason." Jason whispered to the girl in front of him. The girl had long, dark hair and sparkly eyes. Jason had never seen her before but definitely liked the way she looked.

The girl turned around and took a long look at Jason before replying. "Alexia."

Jason nodded. "I know. Mrs. Choocha introduced you just moments ago."

Alexia seemed to be thinking and Jason noticed how cute it was when she knit her eyebrows together. "Mrs. Choocha?" she wondered.

"Rumour goes she flashed her... you know, vagina to a student. I can't remember a time someone didn't call her Mrs. Choocha." He explained, shrugging.

"Oh." The girl pulled up her eyebrows at the weird information and then turned back around, paying attention to the class. Jason cussed inwardly and scribbled something out of annoyance on the paper. Why was he so bad with girls?

Jason laughed out loud, remembering what a sap he was. However, it didn't take long before he finally made contact with her again. Maybe a month? He remembered dating a girl named Ivy, which stopped when him and Alexia became closer.

"Jason, focus please!" Alexia snapped in frustration. They were sitting in his bedroom, trying to finish the project the two of them were paired together to do. However, Alexia got annoyed quickly and Jason liked messing with her. Her reaction was funny.

He also thought she was extremely sexy when she was angry.

Oops.

"I'm focused, I'm focused!" Jason grinned and sat back up, writing down what she had asked him to write down. She sighed and covered her face with both of her hands. "We are never going to finish this."

"Whatever you say, just don't send any of that negativity my way." Jason continued writing.

"It is NOT negativity. It's annoyance. You're annoying. You're a kid, how old are you, for Christ sake?"

"I'm sixteen, and so are you, so you don't have to feel older and all that."

Alexia growled and shut her mouth.

It was silent for a while, as both of them stole glances of each other without the other one noticing. They continued their project in silence until Alexia spoke up about a subject that had nothing to do with the project.

"So... uhm, you and Ivy have been dating for long now, right?"

Jason shrugged. To be honest he liked Ivy and he liked having someone to make out with, he liked being able to say he had a girlfriend and he liked when she put her hand in his boxers, but he wasn't sure, was this how it was supposed to feel? Because if it was, love was boring.

"A month or so, I guess that's long."

She nodded and looked down at the book in front of her, softly scratching her neck. Jason's eye caught the movement and he looked at how her hand touched her own skin. Her neck, her collar bones, her cervix and then sneakily looked at her boobs, although he felt his cheeks heat up.

"Why did you ask?"

"Ivy's in my economics class."

"Oh." It was silent again. Jason pondered over things he could talk about with her, but he really didn't know what to say.

"She's nice." Alexia commented, looking up.

Jason nodded. "Yeah, she's nice."

This was the third silence, but this time it was different. There was a certain orbit lingering in the air between the two teenagers, who were now full on staring at each other.

In a split second Jason leaned forward and Alexia did too. He pushed his lips against hers roughly and she kissed him back.

Ivy Who?

"Jason, Jason! We landed!"

Chaz' voice woke him up out of the memory and Jason opened his eyes, looking outside of the window. There was a dark sky, but his mind was still thinking about teen Alexia and how he'd been unable to resist her. 

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A/N: Hey guys! I'm sorry the chapter is a little bit of a filler, but I promise the next one'll be better! Love, M