I sat with my knees to my chest James and Charlie's arms wrapped around me as I sobbed. A small pool of tears formed beneath us. Every once in awhile I tried to speak but choked on my own words.

"Hey hey Al listen, that guys a dick forget about him and find a real man!" Charlie cheered.

"YEAH! But for now..." James said as  smirked at Charlie. I thought they would start kissing again but as usual I was wrong. "SANDWICH!" James screamed while he stood up. Charlie followed and I sat on the floor like a lost shit in the street. James grabbed me from under my arms and lifted me up off the tear coated floor.

"While tears streamed down my face I was loosing breath from laughter. 

"C'mon weirdo it's SANDWICH TIME!" James yelled. Charlie flopped himself onto the bed I'd just been leaning against. 

"YEAH SANDWICH TIME!" Charlie chuckled as he regained breath from the super not-graceful flop.

James had me fully in his arms now, but that didn't last long. James fumbled and almost dropped me.

"HOLY SHI-iiittt." I said as he fixed his footing, calming myself. James swung his arms side to side. And finally dropped me perfectly onto Charlie's back.

Seconds later James launched himself onto our pile of weird gay panic kids. As he landed I let out a loud chesty cough. All the laughter stopped. Silence. Then, laughter so loud it could've stopped the whole world. We laughed so hard we couldn't keep a stack. All three of us fell flat in a line across an old bed in a worn down hotel in a tiny crappy town with a population of like 6 but it was one of the best moments of my life.

We laughed for awhile then Charlie asked: hey I barley know you guys so let's play a game together to get to know each other? We both replied with yes. and so the game started.

"How old are you?" James asked. We went around in a circle so I'd answer then Charlie then James.

"15."

"17."

"And m 17!" James finished. It was now my turn to ask a question, I wanted a good one so I went with the safest option I could think of.

"What's you're favourite colour?" Good option Alex, I thought.

"Red."

"Oh I LOVE yellow!" 

" I like black." I say with a smile. Charlie's turn, I just hope he's got a good question. 

"Hmmm" he thinks. "What do guys wanna be when you're older?" I'm not gonna lie it sounded like a kindergarten sort of question but when I thought about I realised that I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with my life. If I'm being honest I really didn't think I'd make it this far, I thought I'd be dead before the morning of the second day outside the gate.

"I reckon I'd wanna be... a pro cricket player!" That sounded like it suited James. I think he'd be able to do it too. I suddenly realised that they were both staring at me.

"Alex your go." Charlie reminded.

"Oh uh right umm..." I had a mind blank. What did I wanna be? Come on Alex get yourself together, everyone's looking at you! I was freaking out. Then I noticed the book in the corner, the big chunky pirate book. The same one I'd bought from that shop. With full ass confidence I answered. 

"A pirate. I wanna be a pirate." 

James sand Charlie looked at me.

"Cool! I wanna be hmmm a pilot." Charlie said. It was then I realised they were looking at me cuz I was answering a question. Dumbass.