Maid For You
Title: Maid For You
Author: alltime182
Pairing: Alex Gaskarth/Jack Barakat
POV: None
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Illness in the family and homophobic comments
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the people in this story!
Summary: Jack has problems that no nearing 18 year old should have to deal with and money is one of them. But when he goes looking for a new job, he finds that a certain someone he thought was an enemy could be everything he needs to deal with those problems.
Jack was in Biology class when it happened. He can't remember feeling particularly sick or dizzy, he just stood up and fell over again. He does recall an extremely sharp pain exploding from somewhere on his head but he couldn't distinguish where exactly it was coming from before the classroom disappeared and he'd blacked out.
'Dude what the fuck?' He winced at the sudden sharp tone of a voice he recognized coming from beside him. Jack slowly opened his eyes and through the blur of bright lights he met the disappointed gaze of his best friend Rian.
'Can we please use of indoor voices?' He muttered closing his eyes again to try and stop the pounding in his skull that had started up again.
'What the hell happened? I get called out of Spanish and told to go to the nurse's office to help you?' Rian dragged the stool up next to the plastic-covered bed which Jack was currently lying on. 'Apparently you fainted.' Rian was still carrying a tone which sounded as if he were frustrated at Jack's condition.
Jack wasn't quite in a position to deal with his friend's inquisition and so just moved the ice pack he was using to nurse his injured head to a more comfortable spot and shrugged as an answer.
'This is getting ridiculous.' Rian responded 'How much sleep did you get last night?' He asked like he was Jack's parent instead of his oldest friend.
Jack turned his head to the side so he could look him dead on and frowned at his friend's question, 'What does that have to do with anything?'
Rian sighed and explained 'Were you working last night? Is what I really mean to ask.'
Jack's expression turned stony and he moved his head back to looking at the ceiling, 'That has nothing to do with it.' He added.
'Like hell it doesn't!' Rian exclaimed 'You can't keep doing this to yourself Jack!'
'Look I probably just got squeamish, there were like twenty pig's hearts in that room!' He snapped back.
'Please who do you think you're talking to? I've watched enough Saw movies with you to know that you don't get squeamish. You're exhausted Jack, you need to sleep.' Rian calmed his voice slightly after receiving a few pissed off looks from the secretaries trying to work outside the office.
'I already have done,' Jack replied with a smirk.
'The biology room floors don't count smart arse!' Rian tried to maintain his angry disposition but failed letting out a chuckle. 'Come on I'm taking you home.'
'So did you fuck her?' Matt nudged Alex and whispered from across the table.
Alex who was trying to find the main blood vessel in the pig's heart before him looked up and shot him a confused expression 'Who?'
'Who? Man, that girl who was practically eating your face off last night!' Matt proclaimed slightly too loud, a few people turned their heads in the classroom to find the source of the comment. Alex quickly went back to massacring his assignment, where the hell was this blood vessel?
'Oh dude, dude, dude' He heard Evan chime in with his limited vocabulary 'She was gagging for it!' He contributed eloquently.
'Yeah, if you didn't end up tapping that shit then I don't even know you.' Matt added just as poetically.
Alex felt like Danny for Grease being bombarded with all these questions, though I doubt they were going to break into song anytime soon. He glanced up at his friends who all looked hopeful as if their lives depended on Alex's sex life. 'Yeah.' He answered 'I did.'
The boys immediately high fived and fist pounded each other in celebration over Alex's triumph, but he just went back to working on the heart, possibly stabbing it slightly harder than he should do. They clearly hadn't picked up on his despondent tone of voice.
He agreed with them that the girl, Lisa was it? Had been extremely hot and if it she had appeared at any other party he'd been to this year he probably would have done the dirty with her. They had got as far as a bedroom somewhere in the house and he remembered her pushing him down onto the bed. However his mind just wasn't on the task at hand though and like a pussy he'd actually excused himself out of the room, leaving a very confused and horny blonde behind.
Of course he'd never admit this to his friends, that would be like social suicide, but where was the harm in lying to them? It's not like he'd ever see this girl again and his street cred remained in check. Life was good.
His train of thought was broken by a crash at the front of the classroom and a girl's scream. He snapped his head up and saw people gathering around someone, he dropped his implements and followed everyone else to get a better look.
People's mutterings were broken by the teacher's call for everyone to remain in their seats, but as the crowd dispersed Alex could see someone lying on the floor not looking very responsive.
'It's that faggot Jack.' He heard Matt mutter next to him and Alex frowned after his best friend who was going back to their table.
Alex took one more look at the boy whose head was looking the worse for wear, and then also went back to his friends.
'Thanks for looking after me nurse Rian.' Jack smiled sweetly and fluttered his eyelids at his friend from his sickbed.
'Shut the fuck up man! You know I only did this to get out of the math test I've got next period.' He smiled back at him though and handed over the fresh ice pack he had just got out of the fridge.
Jack laughed whole-heartedly but both boys became quiet quickly again and the tone returned to a more sombre level.
'So how's your mom doing?' Rian asked delicately from the foot of Jack's bed.
He felt Jack shuffle uncomfortably in his sheets and then a small sigh escaped his lips 'Pretty much the same, no better but no worse.'
Rian knew that Jack hated talking about anything to do with his mom or that event, but he also knew it was important for him to stop blocking it up. Besides this way he could continue talking about their previous subject 'You've got to stop working nights Jack, if it means you're fainting in the middle of class.'
'Rian I'm-' Jack tried to plead his case but Rian quickly cut him off 'No you're not 'fine' and if you are then that is a very fucked up version of it. Shit man, you're one step away from dropping out.' He looked over at his friend and was shocked to see him with eyebrows raised and looking as if Rian was missing something, it clicked then 'You're going to drop out?' He shouted incredulously at him.
'I don't know, but it' definitely an option I'm considering.' Jack responded calmly as if this was a perfectly acceptable idea.
'No it's not an option, it shouldn't have even entered your mind!' Rian was having a hard time keeping his cool with his stubborn friend, the whole idea seemed crazy to him.
'Yeah well you don't have to deal with the same shit I do so excuse me if I'm not swayed by your precious opinion.' Jack shot back and Rian immediately fell silent in a state of shock. It didn't take long for Jack to realise that even in the circumstances that is the most douchebag thing he could have come out with. 'I'm sorry Rian, I didn't mean that, it's just everything is so messed up at the moment.' He said sincerely.
Rian looked back at him and managed to give a small understanding smile but it still had a trace of hurt in it, 'Just think about your mom Jack, she wouldn't want you to give up your education.' Rian got up and went over to his bag which he had dropped by the door, he rooted through it for a moment before producing a newspaper, throwing it over to Jack. 'Here, I've circled the ones that sounded good, they've got flexible day hours and good pay.' He said softly, grabbed his bag from the floor and grabbed the handle to the door 'Get better, see you tomorrow..' He quickly left the room, leaving Jack to look through the job section of the newspaper and feeling like horrible person.
Later that night he found himself standing outside an obscenely large house with the same paper which he looked at once again and then back to the house, and then back to the paper. Housekeeper wanted three days a week at convenient hours apply within at this address. Jack knew he was heading for the classier part of town but shit, if he was expected to clean this house, he'd definitely have to drop out of school to have the time to do it.
He suddenly regretted keeping on his skinny jeans and chucks, but with the sensible words of Rian echoing in his mind about getting a reasonable job he knew he couldn't back out of it now. He descended down the immaculately kept front garden with cliché rich people shit like rose gardens and fucking stone cherubs, who the hell lives here?
There was both a knocker and a doorbell and he paused for a second wondering which one to use before finally deciding on the doorbell. His hand shook as he pressed it and an annoying chimy sound echoed from inside. He had to keep repeating his mantra of keep cool as he waited for someone to answer. But after at least a minute of waiting there was still no response, he didn't know whether even then he'd given anyone inside enough time, could they even hear him from the depths of this ridiculously huge house? He didn't want to seem impatient but regardless he rang the doorbell again.
From somewhere near he heard a voice call 'I'm coming, jeez calm down.'
Shit, should have waited.
The door swung open and Jack took a step back registering who the voice had belonged to.
'You?' The person at the door said.
'You?' He replied equally as shocked.
A/N Started this story tonight as a way of getting over the urghness of waiting for my A-level results tomorrow *badtimes*, however I've really enjoyed writing this first chapter and I hope you enjoyed reading it:) Comments are appreciated! Alex and Jack would want you to share the love <3