Chapter 9
peter walked up to the front door to the winchester household, a small plastic box with a red boutonniere inside it in his hands, a matching one on his lapel, the teenager reaching out and pressing the doorbell, excitement bubbling in his chest, sam opening the door with a wide smile, "hey pete." he smiled, moving out of the way for the teen to come in, "jack's finishing up, he won't be long." the man smiled and peter nodded, taking a seat at the kitchen island.
it had been five months since the school trip to europe and jack's injury, he was almost completely healed now and he just needed a little help from a cane at the moment, having a small limp as well but other than that, he was perfectly fine and here peter was, waiting for his boyfriend so they could go to the winter formal.
peter looked up from his lap as he heard footsteps, standing up as he saw castiel walking down the stairs with jack following behind him, a smile spreading across his face as jack noticed him, the two teenagers smiling like dorks, "you.....you look beautiful." peter breathed out and jack blushed, "it's not too much?"
jack's winter formal outfit of choice was a black button up with white polka-dots on it, a black blazer over it, wearing a pair of black jeans that had floral designs patched onto them, along with a pair of doc martens platformers with golden studs on them, wearing blood moon earrings and the necklace that peter had bought him.
the outfit was was very......jack.
"no, not at all. you look really good." peter reassured, walking over to him and giving him a peck on the lips, the blonde unable to stop smiling and blushing, "oh, i brought this." peter muttered before unboxing the boutonniere and taking out the flower, delicately pinning it onto his boyfriend's lapel, the faint sound of a camera click being heard and peter realized that castiel or sam were taking photos.
"dad, really?"
"shut up, i'm taking pictures and i'm going to make you pose for them two." sam returned and jack groaned whilst peter chuckled, finishing with the pin, "okay, now pose for us!" the man declared and jack climbed up a couple of the stairs before sitting down, peter going on the step behind him and wrapping his arms around him, jack leaning into peter.
the two did a few poses and sam took pictures of each, along with some candids of the teenagers laughing in between poses or being idiots.
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jack, peter, mj, ned, and betty sat at one of the tables in midtown's auditorium, watching their classmates dance oversexually or like idiots or both, "do you think that this is one of the biggest moments in our lives?" michelle randomly spoke, everyone turning to her, "like, adults always talk about highschool in such a good light and yeah, i can talk about some stuff that happened here in a positive way, but not the way adults do."
"i think it's because they're looking back at a time with less responsibility." jack added, getting a look from the rest of his friends as if it to say 'there's an avenger at this table', "okay, obviously we have responsibilities, but not boring responsibilities and in highschool, they had......dreams and stuff. their futures weren't set in stone or anything, so they cherish a simpler time." he finished and everyone nodded.
"i think i'll look back on this fondly."
jack looked to peter, who was fiddling with the buttons on his cuff, "like, yeah sure, some stuff sucks but for the most part.......i'm having a good time." he added and jack smiled, peter looking back to him and smiling right back, leaning forward and giving jack a kiss, michelle making a fake gagging sound and peter flipping her off before pulling away.
the song that was playing over the loudspeakers changed to a slow song that sounded like it was by sleeping at last, the teenagers around the table looking up at the sound change and peter stood up, holding his hand out to jack and the boy went to take it, cane in hand but he paused, looking at the thing before he put it down on the table, taking peter's hand and standing up, "you leaving that behind?"
"yeah.....i wanna try without it."
peter nodded, holding jack's hand as the two walked out onto the dance floor, jack having a limp to his step but for the most part he was perfectly fine as they weaved their way through the crowd of students, peter stopping somewhere on the auditorium floor and turning to jack, putting his arms around his boyfriend's waist and the blonde doing the same as they began to dance along to the song, which was a sleeping at last song.
jack put his forehead against peter's, closimg his eyes and just taking in everything that was happening as they swayed to the beat, his heart thumping with joy and he opened his eyes, meeting peter's and they both smiled, jack licking his lips before kissing the brunette softly, moving one of his hands to the back of peter's head and burying his fingers in his hair.
now, jack didn't know if it was because he'd known peter for so long or if so much had happened between them this past year or if he was just a gay disaster, but the way the euphoria exploded in his chest whenever he kissed peter or basically did anything with peter, it just felt beyond what he'd expect to feel in a highschool relationship.
"i love you." jack muttered as he pulled away from the kiss, hand still in peter's hair and he pressed his lips into a line, suddenly terrified of what his boyfriend's answer was going to be and peter brought a hand up to jack's face, cupping his cheek and smiling, "i love you too."