"WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?"

John frowned, already knowing that he was about to get chewed out.

"I don't know, I just-"

"You just what, John? You do realize that the guy you are in love with just confessed that he loves you, too, and the first thing you do is run away! That's messed up! And you obviously don't know this since you bolted, but Alex is still here, practically in tears, because you basically just rejected him. That's how it looked. So you messed up."

"Peggy, I know what I did wasn't what I should've. I'm sorry."

"I'm not the one you should be apologizing to."

John sighed, biting his lip. He knew he had to apologise to Alex, but that also meant that he would have to tell him that he had a flower for him, too. And that was hard. He let out a deep breath.

"I'm at my house. You can tell him to head over here. I don't think I can do it if I'm in front of a lot of people."

"Alright, I'll tell him. But you better make everything right."

"I will. I promise."

"Good. I'll talk to you later."

"Bye."

Peggy hung up, leaving John to himself. He was up in his room, and boy was he nervous. He didn't have a reason to be nervous, since he knew that Alex felt the same. But he did, and he couldn't get the nervousness to go away.

Meanwhile, Peggy was giving Alex instructions to go to John's house. He was very confused as to why he should go to the house of the guy who rejected him, but Peggy persisted. He eventually gave in, heading out. It didn't take him long to get there. As soon as he knocked on the door, Mrs. Laurens opened it.

"Alex? I would've thought you were still at the dance."

"Well, I was, but I was told to come here. Is John here?"

"Yes, he's up in his room. I can call him down if you want."

"No, thank you. If it's alright, can I go talk to him?"

"Of course it's alright." She stepped back, fulling opening the door and letting Alex inside. He started slowly making his way up the stairs. He didn't know what he was going to say, or what John was going to say. Maybe he could walk in and 'Hey that was rude to just run out but I'm here now and let's talk!'.

On second thought, no, that probably wouldn't be the best idea. He'd just have to wait and see what happened. He knocked on John's door, and not getting a response, slowly started opening the door. If John hadn't heard him, the slowly opening door would give him a chance to tell Alex that he couldn't come in. If he did and he was just ignoring Alex, then Alex was just going in anyways.

He opened the door enough to slip inside and saw John. He was pacing around his room, a hand on his forehead as he worriedly walked around his room. He seemed to be deep in thought, not even noticing that Alex was there. Alex didn't know if he should say something, so he stayed quiet, waiting to see if John noticed him. John continued pacing, but started running a hand through his hair. Unintentionally moving some behind his ear. Alex couldn't believe his eyes.

"J-john?"

John looked up, eyes wide and whirled around seeing Alex standing in front of his door. He was staring at John's flower that matched his own.

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