#fezho fic

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Summary: Lexi goes to visit Fez a while after the store incident. And it hits off from there.

A/N: this series just spun out of some posts I’ve made on here, it was going to be a one shot but after some comments asked me to continue I just went a head and wrote this. Idk it’s awful but I want more interactions and cute shit and since Sam ain’t giving anything imma make my own crap up lol enjoy! Forgive any mistakes lol

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 1: Could Just Peddle Away…

chap summary: The one where Lexi gets a house tour

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Lexi stood at the door, apprehensive to knock. Why was she even here? She wondered to herself and glanced over to her bike leaning against the wall.

Fuck. She could just quickly jump on and peddle away. But she knows what would happen if she did. She’d be thinking of him non-stop again. And be back here another day and the whole thing will happen again and again.

She sighed getting annoyed at herself and knocked on the door.

Ashtray was listening to music as he was checking the pills he got under the magnifying glass. No bad. He poked the pill a few times with some tweezers to make sure it wouldn’t crumble and reduce itself to a wasteful dust he wouldn’t be able to push. He heard knocking on the door and turned towards the noise and then looked at the monitors sets up for the front door camera.

It was that chick Lexi.

Ashtray had only briefly met her properly after Fez came back stuttering when Cal had left the store and puffed out his chest to intimidate them. Ashtray left the fridge after a brief sit down to get his adrenaline down, asking Fezco “yo, what the fuck did he want?”

Lexi looked bewildered to where Ashtray stood halfway out of the damn fridge, and ducked her head down when she saw how Fez’s eyes were just watching her. Ashtray shook his head. “Yo. Fezco? Do you think that mother fucker will be back ‘round here?”

Fez finally looked away from Lexi and lazily replied with, “Ion know, man. But we preparin’ just in case.” Ashtray understood, gave a nod of his head, and went back into the fridge.

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Ashtray smirked a little as he hit the mic button.

“Who is it?” He asked. Yeah he knew but fuck it, he wanted to see what she would say. Would she say she’s a friend of Rue’s or Fez’s? Will she fumble with her words?

“Um…it’s Lexi?….I-…I’m a friend?” He could see how she cringed at herself as she said it.

He left the room and closed the door behind him, making sure it was locked as usual. He walked down the hallway and heard Fezco walking around upstairs about to descend them as Ashtray got to the door to open it.

“Yo, who is it?” Fezco asked as he walked down the stairs, sneakers off, cigarette behind his left ear.

Ashtray didn’t answer and opened the door. There stood Lexi looking at her bike then suddenly let out a big smile to Ashtray.

“Hi”

Ashtray nodded but kept his face stoic of emotion. Fez walked up behind Ashtray. “Lexi Howard. What are you doing here?”

Lexi’s eyes went from Ashtray to Fez and then back and forth.

“I…um…actually I came to….well-“ she began before Fez smiled and said, “nah your good, come on in.” He moved back and pushed open the screen door, then took the other door from Ashtray so he would hold it for her.

Ashtray laughed under his breath as he retreated into the kitchen to make a snack. In reality he wanted to watch them struggle to communicate with one another since all these two ever did was stutter and smile.

He got a bowl out on the kitchen counter and began to get himself some cereal, real slow.

Lexi stood there hands behind her back as she smiled at Fez and briefly looked around the place. “Nice home.”

Ashtray laughed then let out a cough as he pretended to be busy. He started looking at the huge choice of cereals to choose from.

All three of them.

They both looked at Ashtray then back at each other as Fez let out a quiet ‘thanks’

“Would….would you like a drink or something to eat? A sandwich?” Fezco asked her.

Ashtray closed his eyes and shook his head as he opened them. Did he just really offer her a fucking sandwich?

“Um…a drink would be nice. Thank you”

Ashtray was done with his cereal and turned with a bowl and spoon as Fez walked towards the kitchen as Lexi stood there.

“Your name’s Ashtray? Right?” She asked carefully.

He nodded again.

She briefly looked at Fez then back at him wondering what to say as she gave an awkward smile. “That’s an..interesting name.”

“I once ate cigarettes from an ashtray as a kid”

She didn’t know how to reply to that and also was a little shocked he actually spoke to her and shared something about himself.

“Did you know that the ashtray’s existence was dated back to around the early 19th Century?” she randomly let out.

Ashtray stood there holding his bowl, with a small frown. “But some people say it might have been the 1400s” he replied back.

Lexi stood there a little surprised.

“What? I deal drugs I’m not stupid.” He let out and retreated back to his room.

Fez was grinning as Lexi was talking to Ash. He never thought about the history on the ashtray. Like what? But the fact she just KNEW that blew his mind.

What else did she know? He just wanted to listen to her talk.

He got them two orange juices and placed the glasses on the counter where Ash was before he left.

“Um…here you go.” He smiled softly and Lexi thanked him.

He wanted to know why she was here. Why did she come here? To his home?

Was it to see him? Was it because she was scared of what happened at the shop and wanted to ask if he’d seen Cal?

Why did Cal ask about her telling him who he was?

“So, w-would you like a tour?” He asked. He don’t know why he asked that but it just came out.

She stood with her hands together in front of her now and nodded with a smile, her dimple showing.

He pointed a thumb behind him. “Well, this is the kitchen.”

She laughed and nodded. He loved that he made her laugh. He wanted to do it again.

And he motioned to the living room. “That’s obvious I guess.”

She laughed again with another nod.

He walked down the hall and pointed at various rooms and just said what they were or let her look in them. When they reached his grandma’s room he was a little worried, only because he didn’t want her to think that he had hurt his grandma in anyway or the image of her in bed would shock or disgust her.

“Um, so this is my grandma’s room. She’s….sick so I-I look after her.” He said as he opened the door.

Lexi looked into the room as he opened the door. He kept his eyes on Lexi as he pushed it open. She looked at the woman who laid in bed, hooked up to various machines and drips.

Lexi looked back at Fez. “You’re also a full time carer for her?”

He nodded and sheepishly looked away at his Grandma then back her. “She makes good company, sometimes” he ended that with a one shoulder shrug. Lexi smiled in the way she did when he said she was the coolest person at the party. Like she felt her insides melt.

What a selfless and caring man. What was he doing wrapped up in all this? She realized just how soft and kindhearted he really was.

After talking about his Grandma, they moved to the opposite room that was the last one. His room.

“Um this is my room. There’s not much else to the house. There’s Ash’s room and some other places but you don’t need to be seeing them.”

Lexi understood what he meant and wasn’t expecting him to open his bedroom door, but he did.

She peered in and saw how normal his rooms was, apart from some things that took her by surprise.

His bed had an old wooden headboard to it, and the pillow case had a galaxy print on it. That made her smile. Did he like space? His blanket was navy blue and furry, looking comforting and really soft. Also another furry blanket that had money printed on it. That one made her chuckle a little. Then she spotted the big French fries novelty pillow. The decor was like the rest of the house, not touched at all.

She saw how he had random posters of things he liked like comics and movies, but not too many. He was very neat and kept things in order by the looks of it. She even saw some figures on a shelf. She expected his room to be either the bare minimum or full of things she saw in other boy rooms when they went to parties and she would wander off looking around since everybody would just usually leave her all alone.

It had cute things that he obviously liked and meant something to him. She didn’t want to pry, but maybe he didn’t have a childhood like other kids and this was some of that old self showing through.

“I, er….I like comics and shit but I don’t read shit like you do.” He scratched the back of his head a little as she turned to look at him.

“I like it.”

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After awhile they were both sat down on the sofa talking. They forgot how long for, and to be honest they didn’t care either. Ashtray walked into the kitchen to grab a drink when he heard them laughing together about something. He rolled his eyes as he grabbed a coke can from the fridge and shut the door to it.

Lexi was sat on the sofa with the knitted blanket on her knees as she sat with her shoes off and her feet on the sofa. Her arms around her legs hugging them as she laughed and spoke softly.

Fez had one arm on the back of the sofa slightly facing her listening and laughing to the things she’d say.

What the fuck was happening?

Was Fez falling in love?

Love?

Was that even capable in this business?

Was it too dangerous to let anyone love you or even love someone. They could get hurt, they could be used against you and dragged into a matter that would put them in danger.

Ashtray watched them as they spoke until Lexi realised he was there and turned her head to look at him, shifting her body more on the sofa towards Fez.

“Hey”

She was speaking to him. Including him and not leaving him out. He wasn't used to that. He was just seen as some young kid that ain’t got a future and brushed aside because he isn’t big enough to deal with or even worth talking to. He blinked a little taken back.

“Yo” he let out.

“Been busy?” She asked with a soft smile.

He let out a stiff nod. “Been checking the quality of the new batch of C2-57 pills. Not bad.” He drank from the can.

Lexi blinked back at him, mouth gaped a little. “Ummm..” she said quietly. “Cool”

Fez laughed. “Hey Ash, do you want to get some pizza tonight or summon?”

“Sure” he answered and walked closer to where they were sat.

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Chapter 2

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Home | Fexi - ch.2 - Dealing Is Like Going To School

A/N: this series just spun out of some posts I’ve made on here, it was going to be a one shot but after some comments asked me to continue I just went a head and wrote this. Idk it’s awful but I want more interactions and cute shit and since Sam ain’t giving anything imma make my own crap up lol enjoy! Forgive any mistakes lol

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 2: Dealing Is Like Going To School

Chap summary: Ashtray says dealing drugs is like going to school. Then Fez and Lexi talk about why she really came to the store that night.

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Rues voice:

They talked. They laughed.

It was like they’d known each other for a long time.

Fezco wasn’t even aware of anything else other than Lexi and her voice. He just listened and smiled.

He took in everything she was saying.

He liked her company. He liked her.

He was just Fezco with her.

No one more, no one less.

Lexi didn’t even think that she was rambling when she was with him. She just spoke.

She never felt like she was just talking to fill the silence.

He genuinely wanted to listen to her talk.

And she liked that.

She didn’t know one person that actually listened or like what she had to say.

They were in their perfect bubble with each other.

No one else existed.

Just them.

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Ash was sat on the one orange sofa chair, pizza eaten, his coke can empty on the table as he grew tired. This was weird. The whole situation was fucking weird.

And what confused him was that he wasn’t sure if he liked or not.

A part of him was on egde. But then he thought well….he was always sort of on edge. If you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.

But then another part of him liked how calm things were. It was like when they would watch movies together and just….be brothers. There were plenty of times they did that, of course. But to have another person present was weird but weirdly nice.

Of course he didn’t let them know that. Fuck no.

He sat there very rarely giving a smile than his usual scowl or unamused face as they spoke about random things. Lexi even asked about drugs and compared learning about them was sort of like science class.

Ashtray thought for a moment. “Ye, I guess what we do is sort of like school. No need to go to that fuckin’ place then.”

Lexi leaned her head on the arm of the sofa and asked, “How so?”

Fez was sat next to her on the other side of the sofa and was just looking at her as he took another drag of his cigarette.

“I do science with drugs, math with money, geography from goods location, gym with boxing, and English, well what else is there to know?” He shrugged and leaned back in the chair.

Lexi blinked for a moment taking it all in. “True….wait boxing?”

Ashtray then stood up and let out, “G’night” leaving them two alone as he walked off to his room and closed the door.

Lexi sat up from where she was leaning and looked at Fez. “Boxing?”

He chuckled as he took a drag, “Ye, he does boxing. He’s ain’t one to mess with.”

Lexi nodded. The silence was about to fall on them until Fezco broke it by asking, “So…..um…what brings you here?”

He then let out a soft laugh. “Kinda stupid to ask since you’ve been here for a while, not that I mind! It’s cool… but…I-I’m just wondering why?”

Lexi let out a soft sigh as she was about to tell him the reason why she went to the store.

“That night at the store, I…didn’t want a drink.” She looked down at her hands then back at Fez as she spoke, he sat just looking at her. She saw how his brows lifted a little when she said that, like a glimpse of hope hit him.

“Really?”

She nodded. “I wanted to tell you that Cal Jacobs came to my house and interrogated Cassie and me. He was threatening to call the police and say we were holding information about the party.”

Fez nodded as he took another drag and then put out the cigarette. “He came to your house?” He sat up more, getting serious but Lexi’s hand wave calmed him.

“Don’t worry. It was nothing. He tried to scare us into telling him but I didn’t say anything.” She looked him right in the eyes as she said that. She was damn proud she didn’t tell Cal anything either.

She watched as a small smile played on Fez’s mouth, as if he was also proud of her.

“But…..but Cassie….she told him. I’m so sorry. I really am. I don’t know what’s happening with her, or what’s she’s going through right now but….but she’s been acting really strange and we even had a fight about her telling him and I said she’s a fucking idiot-“

“Yo, Lexi, it’s cool. Nothing happened. And Cassie is probs dealing with some shit her self. I know she’s cool. It’s ok.”

He was focused on how worried she looked, the little crease between her brows as she frowned. He wanted her to relax and not feel worried about him, but he deep down felt his stomach feel something because she was so worried.

“I know but…I should have just warned you at least but-“ she let out a frustrated groan, leaning her head on the back of the sofa which made Fezco laugh a little.

“What?”

She turned her head to look at him as he also moved his head to do the same. “…..when I saw Faye…I just…I don’t know I just…couldn’t? I couldn’t say I came to see you. That I….wanted to see you.” Her voice went quiet at the end but he heard. His breathing picked up a little along with the fluttering in his stomach.

“You ain’t gotta worry about her. She’s just stayin’ because of a favor I owe to someone. That’s all. She sleeps on the sofa, or passes out in the bathroom, until I help her back to the sofa.” His voice was soft and quiet.

Lexi blinked at him. “You’re so caring.” She thought, but said it out loud.

Fezco smiled.

His grandma told him never to fall in love because it was the one instinct he wouldn’t be able to trust.

One thing was for sure.

He trusted Lexi Howard with his whole heart.

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Chapter 3

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Home | Fexi - ch.3 - Doing What Makes Her Happy

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 3: Doing What Makes Her Happy

Chap summary: Lexi and Fez talk about her play. He asks if he’s in it…. Lexi’s cheeks begin to burn.

Previous chapters:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Next:

Chapter 4

(Rue’s voice)

Lexi stayed talking to Fez until late in the night.

She brought up that she was currently directing a play at school.

Holding auditions, writing her story and making it into a production to show the whole school.

She felt like she was doing something for herself for once.

Something she actually wanted to do.

Not following anyone else or their terms.

But only herself and her own.

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“So you like…held auditions for your sister and friends?” Fez asked as he sat on the sofa, his left arm draped over the back of it.

Lexi nodded.

“Bet that was weird at first.” He commented and she laughed a little.

“I guess. Hearing people yell lines at me that Cassie has said was an experience.”

Fez chuckled. “I bet.”

“But like…I finally feel, like, the first time in my life I’m doing something for myself.” She gestured with her hands as Fez sat listening to her. He nodded.

“Ye, best to live your life for yourself and not for others, you kno?”

Lexi thought for a moment. “You seem to help everyone, even if you don’t need to.”

Fez took a drag of his joint. “Ye. But, I don’ kno’.” He admitted. He knew he did. But he couldn’t help it. He wasn’t like what people saw.

And he knew that’s how Lexi saw him, not like how everyone else did.

“I like that you help people” she admitted.

He smiled and looked down at his fingers that held the joint. “You do?”

Lexi let out a noise of agreement.

“Well..um…I like how you’re finally standing up for yourself.” He quickly took a drag of the joint. God why did he just say that.

Lexi smiled and watched him as he smoked. His long lashes fluttered as he took the drag. He really was something completely different.

What she saw and experienced each day seemed the same bleakness that felt like a routine that was starting to get dull. But now, since she met Fez, it was starting to not feel so bleak. Not so dull anymore.

“So, you got all your friends in the play?” He asked looking at her.

She pursed her lips thinking and let out, “yeah, well. People will be playing them, with different names.”

“Are you worried they’ll be like….angry or upset with what they’ll see?” He asked.

Fez was actually curious what the hell she was writing and what they’ll see.

Will she let them know how they make her feel?

He wondered….

Lexi was thinking for a while and kind of shrugged and let out a nervous laugh. “Kind of…I guess. But also…not really?”

Fuck it. He thought.

“Am I in it?” He didn’t look at her as he asked. He kept his eyes on his hands again before dragging his eyes up to finally look at her when she didn’t answer.

She was sat there staring back at him. Her cheeks began to burn a little as he stared at her. Those eyes.

“Um….I haven’t finished writing everything yet..but we’ll see” she awkwardly let out and ended it with an even more awkward laugh.

Fez nodded his head softly and took another drag.

Lexi felt her heart pick up.

She actually wrote a scene of the New Years party. But she didn’t want to just tell him about it. God no. That would be humiliating.

“Fez…” Lexi let out.

She didn’t say his name often but when she did, damn did Fez want to smile. He kept his cool though, with the joint at his lips. He nodded his head up as if to say, “wassup?”

“Would you like to come and see the show when it’s ready and finished I mean. Like would you like to come and see it?”

He exhaled a big cloud of smoke, making sure not to blow it in her face as he nodded. “Ye. Yea, I would.”

Lexi smiled and nodded, breaking out in a big grin and she laughed softly.

If she was on the phone with him or alone right now, she would be kicking her legs in the air, scrunching her face up with the biggest grin and maybe even have a little dance.

She pulled her knees back up to her chest and leaned back looking at Fez.

Yes. She was finally doing what she wanted to do and making herself happy.

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Chapter 4

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Home | Fexi - ch.5 - Word

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 5: Word

Chap summary: Lexi wants to give Fezco his sweater back.

Previous chapters:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Rue’s voice:

Fez drove home like usual.

Music playing, joint lit. 

he was just thinking about the night.

The fact that Lexi came to visit him was still making his head spin a little.

He was just surprised she would still want to see him after what she saw at the party and the store.

He felt himself wanting to see more of her.

As if the presence of her was even more soothing than anything else, even the lit object currently between his fingers.

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Fez locked his car and looked around the street before heading up the path to the front door. Ever since Cal Jacobs came for a visit, and left with more than what he bargained for, thanks to Ash, Fez felt a little more on edge, just in case he tried anything else. He knew the man wouldn’t try anything, he gave him his word and he seemed like he was telling the truth, but there’s no harm to stay alert.

Once inside, he walked through to the living room and looked at the pizza box neatly put on the counter. And the two glasses were long gone, cleaned and drying in the kitchen.

Fez threw his body on the sofa and let out a deep sigh. He sat there staring at the tv. The blank screen facing him, the soft reflection of himself and the yellow glow from the lamp keeping him company.

The fluttering in his stomach had finally stopped, yet he kind of missed it.

It was an odd feeling that Fez hadn’t really felt before.

He brought both hands up and rubbed his face, bringing his hands to then roam to rub the back of his head.

The thought of Lexi liking him for helping people was on a loop in his head.

She liked him.

‘Not like that bro’, one part of him yelled, but the other part didn’t say anything.

He moved off the sofa and strolled towards his grandma’s room. Opening the door and checking on her. Placing the blanket higher on her body and making sure the machines were all okay. Once satisfied, he shut the door behind him and went into the room across the hall.

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Rue’s voice:

Fezco didn’t know how to fall asleep at first. He was just replaying the night over and over.

The same went for Lexi. 

They both just laid there thinking about each other.

Not someone who was more or less just in the background.

It was weird how they both felt like they had finally found someone they could be comfortable with. 

Someone who saw them for who they were.

And not someone who was nothing more than a drug dealer.

Looks can be deceiving.

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Lexi sat at her desk, bored out of her mind. It was Friday and a whole week had almost past since Fez dropped her home.

She glanced at Rue’s empty desk, her brows furrowing with worry. She hadn’t seen her for a few days. She knew that Rue wasn’t in a good place, you could just look at her and see that. But she still cared and wanted to help her as much as she could, but she couldn’t do it unless Rue wanted to be helped.

She’d been texting Fez, of course. They would send random messages to each other quite a lot since the night she sat on his sofa and told more about herself.

She would even send random facts and he’d send back awestruck replies or questions. She’d find herself smiling each time her phone lit up or vibrated. Only for her smile to fall if is wasn’t from the freckled boy.

She needed to give the sweater back to him. She quickly typed out a message about meeting tonight, hiding the phone under her desk.

Hopefully he would say yes.

“Hi! How are you today? Are you working at the shop tonight?” She was so tempted to put a kiss at the end of it but she refrained her thumb from doing so and hit send.

Soon enough he replied back. “I’m gd Lexi, how u doin? Ye, I am. Wassup?”

“I’m good, I just wanted to know in case I had to stop by, I’ll make sure to say hi.” She typed out then erased it.

“I’m cool thnx.  I wanted to come and hang out wiv u.” Again, she erased it.

she thought for a moment, wondering what the fuck to reply back. She also didn’t want him to wait long for a reply, not that he probably cared, he had other shit to deal with and probably didn’t care about her like that.

But the image of him stood there with his cheeks going darker the night he dropped her home flashed in her mind and made her think differently.

“I’m good thnx. I just wanted to stop by the shop n wanted to make sure u’d be there.” She typed quickly and hit send.

Straight away she got a text back. “Cool. Ye, stop by! I mean if u’d like.”

She smiled and put her phone away.

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Lexi rode her bike, music blaring in her headphone as she swerved, turned, rolled, peddled her way to the store. The green sweater was folded neatly in her backpack.

She decided to wear a denim skirt, some white socks with flowers on them, a pair of vans, and dark green cardigan with a white-T-shirt under it. When she looked at herself in the mirror, fixing her hair so that it was down but sort of like how it looked the first time she went to the store, she realised her outfit kind of looked like Fez’s at the party.

She chewed on her bottom lip thinking if she should quickly change but she grabbed her bag instead and practically ran out of the house, telling her mom she’d be back later.

Pulling up to the store, she placed the bike against the wall like last time but something made her freeze.

Before she could even think of anything Fez’s voice broke her current staring contest with the backpack she took off and placed on the bike seat.

It hit her that she kept his sweater for a while. How the fuck would she explain this to him? How could she explain why she took it?

Why did she take it?

“Nice to see you again.” He let out leaning on the doorway of the fire exit.

Lexi smiled to him. “Hi”

He smiled back to her and asked if she needed anything from the store.

Lexi’s eyes went to the brightness of the store behind him then back to his face as he stood there. He had that hopeful puppy eyed looked he had the first time she visited.

“Is anyone else here?” She rambled out.

“Um, no. Ash is at home looking over a few things and Faye is with her boyfriend in a car somewhere.”

Lexi’s hand went to her bag and she quickly unzipped it.

“I er….I have something for you. I mean…I have something of yours….Not that I took something of yours, you…you left it at the er….at the party.”

Lexi’s voice died down a little with a cringe after she heard herself rambling on and quickly looked into the bag to break the eye contact.

Fez was a little confused but also a little happy that she said ‘I have something for you.’

His eyes broke away from her face, watching her brows crease gently as she fumbled with her bag. He looked at the item in her hands when she pulled it out.

There, folded neatly in her hands was his green cable knit sweater.

He forgot to grab it when he left the party. To be honest he felt a rush of adrenaline mixed with slight shame when he looked at Lexi again when McKay finally pulled him away from Nate.

He wanted to go up and tell her this wasn’t like him. This was business. And it was very rare that he had to get violent. He hated it and knew it wasn’t really a part of who he was, but what he had to do.

He stepped out of the doorway, looking at the sweater. “You grabbed it for me?”

Lexi nodded as he looked at her and back at the sweater a few times. “I thought, well, If you took it of to go beat Nate up, then you must like it a lot.”

Fez laughed a little looking at it then he looked at her.

“Ye, I do like it a lot.”

Lexi felt her cheeks begin to heat a little before he took it from her. “Thanks, it means a lot.”

“Don’t mention it.” She tried to play it cool but her cheeks still felt like they were hot and she internally cringed at herself.

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Fez was sat on Lexi’s bike and was riding it with her carefully sat on the bars, her feet dangling over the wheel, making sure she didn’t hit it as he went around the car park in random patterns or circles.

He told her to hop on when after talking a while and asked if she really liked riding her bike. After come coaxing, and Fez helping her on as he sat on the seat, he began peddling softly, making Lexi laugh out and hold on for dear life at first before she began to relax and just enjoy the moment.

They spoke about random things again. Laughing together as they nearly crashed the bike or tipped over a few times.

A silence fell on them for a while as Lexi’s chuckling softly stopped. Fez was steering the bike in a straight line along the car park.

“You kno’, I was kinda worried you….you wouldn’t wanna see me after seeing that shit at the party. I’m real sorry I didn’t get to say goodbye.”

Lexi could tell he was sort of frowning without needing to turn and look at him. “Fez…don’t worry about that. That was, like, ages ago.”

He was just looking at her back as he steered and then turned the bike softly to go back the way he came.

“Ye, but still…..sorry you had to see that shit Lexi.”

Lexi shrugged while holding on tight to the bars. She really didn’t care about Nate. To be honest, she felt conflicted watching Fez beat the shit out of him.

Half of her was in shock and another was….awestruck.

“He had it coming.” She said softly and heard Fez let out a soft chuckle.

“Word.”

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Chapter 6

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Home | Fexi - ch.4 - Like A Blanket On A Cold Night

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 4: Like A Blanket On A Cold Night

Chap summary: Fez drives Lexi home. Lexi can’t help but wish that the drive home was longer.

Previous chapters:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Rue’s voice

Fez told Lexi he would drop her off home.

He wasn’t prepared to let her ride her bike home this late at night.

They spoke about music. Recommended songs and talk like they’d known each other for years.

It’s a comfort that settled on them like a warm blanket on a cold night.

It felt right. It felt good.

Like home.

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Lexi hit the stop button on her phone, ending the song she played for Fez as he drove with one hand while the other was on his lap.

“That’s what you listen to?” He asked generally interested if that’s the type of music she liked.

It was different and nothing like he’d expect. But he liked that. He liked that she was just so full of surprises and never ceased to amaze him.

She smiled shyly looking at her phone. “Yeah, it’s a little odd I guess.”

Fez glanced at her next to him then back on the road. “Nah, it’s cool. You like what you like. Reminds me of that…um…like gameboy music or some shit. It’s cool.”

Lexi smiled to him as he kept his eyes on the road. She was just fully staring at him now.

The shape of his nose, the close shaved hair that showed the shape of his head. She then realised she was thinking about the shape of his head and blinked, bringing herself back to reality. She wanted to laugh at herself but suppressed it.

“Is it this one?” He lifted a finger from the steering wheel and pointed at her house.”

Lexi looked up and sighed a little. She wanted the car ride to be longer. But she wouldn’t admit that.

Not right now.

Her head felt all over the place but in a good way. And the feeling fluttering in her stomach was one of welcome.

It felt nice.

“Yeah” she let out quietly.

Fez noticed that she didn’t sound very happy but he didn’t comment on it. He turned off the engine and watched her as she sat there looking at her house.

“Um…is your mom gonna be, like…cool with you coming home now?”

Lexi doesn’t take her eyes off the house. “I don’t think she even realised I wasn’t home.”

And that hurt admitting that.

Fez felt his brows lift a little as that took him by surprise. Who couldn’t notice this girl? Who couldn’t care about where she was or what she was doing?

All Fez wanted since he officially met her at the party was what she was doing, thinking, fuck even what she was reading.

He shook his head softly. “Lexi…” he wanted to tell her she mattered. That she should feel better about herself but he couldn’t say anything when she looked at him.

Those big brown eyes looking at him with so much hidden pain.

He blinked at her then let his eyes fall onto her lips. He let out a soft cough and shifted in his seat. “Um…so…I’ll  h-help you with your bike.”

She felt herself let out the breath she was holding when she watched his eyes look at her mouth. She nodded with a smile and opened the door. Fez also got out of the car and quickly popped the trunk to grab her bike.

He insisted pushing the bike for her as they walked to her door.

“I better cut quickly in case Cassie….you kno’ being with me.” His tone made him sound almost sad.

Lexi turned to face him as she took hold on her bike, her porch behind her.

“Fuck her.” She smiled to him.

He let out a chuckle and looked down at the floor.

“Thanks, for like, comin’ to see me Lexi Howard.” He smiled to her, hands in his pockets as he stood there like he felt shy.

She grinned at the use of her full name. “Thank you for a lovely night, Fezco.”

It was late and dark but she swore she saw his cheeks turn a little darker.

He motioned his head to the few steps leading to her front door. “Get home safe.”

Lexi let out a laugh and nodded. “Thanks.” She put her bike on the porch and opened her front door before she turned and waved to Fez who even lifted a hand from his pocket and waved back before turning and walking back to his car.

Lexi closed the door but watched through the window as he drove away.

She turned, leaning her back against the wood. She felt herself smile again.

Her eyes went over to her mom in chair, long asleep. Probably passed out from a night of drinking wine.

Lexi walked over and turned off the TV, removed the remote from her mom’s lap, and placed a blanket over her before retreating upstairs to her room.

It wasn’t very late but she was dreading coming up with something to say to Cassie if she asked her where she’d been all night.

She wanted to tell her that it wasn’t any of her business since the last time she asked if her sister was okay, Cassie bit off her head and snapped back at her. She loved her sister but she was getting really sick of her acting so weird with her.

Opening the bedroom slowly, she braced to see Cassie either asleep or awake on her phone, ready to grill her ass. What she found instead surprised her. Her bed was empty.

Lexi entered her room and closed the door. Even the bathroom was empty, the door open but lights off showing no vacancy or presence of her sister.

She wondered for a moment where she could be but then just shrugged it off. Mkay was probably meeting up with her and trying to work something out between them.

Lexi fell back on her bed, looking up at her ceiling thinking of the night. The flashes of Fez’s smile, eyes, face, nose, hands, shoulders, everything was taking over every thought. She turned her head over to the neatly folded clothes on her dresser.

Her eyes landed on the dark folded piece wedged between two light colored sweaters, as if being protected.

There hidden beneath some of her clothes was Fez’s green sweater.

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Chapter 5

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Home | Fexi - ch.6 - Good For You Good For Him

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 6: Good For You Good For Him

Chap summary: Cassie is a mess and Lexi has had enough.

Previous chapters:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Rue’s voice:

Fez and Lexi.

Lexi and Fez.

She played with the words in her head a few times.

Letting herself smile at the thought of him.

Their texts to each other made her laugh.

She could just hear his voice and how he’d say it.

She hadn’t felt this way before.

It excited and scared her.

What she was scared of, she wasn’t really sure.

But she remembered something Fez said to her on that sofa many nights ago.

The warmth of the air from people dancing.

The smoke swirling, catching light from the yellow lamps lit around them.

The way he giggled to a comment she said about the party.

The fact she was fearless.

So, fucking fearless.

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Since the reveal that Cassie was in fact, for some reason, fucking Nate Jacobs, she’s been a mess.

Lexi tried talking to her many times about it. She would get doors slammed in her face, yelled at, Cassie breaking out in tears straight away, everything apart from her remaining calm and talking about it with her sister like she used to.

One night when Cassie was calm in her bed, just laying there, red faced from crying but the hysterical loud sobs had slowed down to muffled cries then to just tears falling silently from her eyes, Lexi walked over to her side of the room and kneeled down next to her bed.

“Cass, come on this isn’t okay.” She had enough of seeing her sister like this. It was insane.

“You don’t understand!” She began to yell again. Lexi just sat there taking it.

“We’re in love! And they were broken up! It’s not my fault!! They weren’t together! Everyone can judge me all they fucking want! But he is in love with me and I’m in love with him! And now everything has gone to shit!”

Her face seemed to have turned an even deeper shade of red and snot began to shine from one nostril as she sat up a little to let all that out then broke out in a deep throaty sob and fell back down on the bed.

Usually Lexi wouldn’t argue back but this had been going on, the same yelling and the same excuses, for the past few weeks.

Lexi was sick of it.

“Do you hear yourself?” She said quietly.

Cassie looked at her as she moved her head on the bed. She could see Lexi’s face a little from the light shining from her side of the room.

But her brows creased at her younger sister.

“Look at yourself. Do you think this is normal?” She raised her voice.

Cassie crossed her arms and looked away.

Lexi stood up and began yelling back. “You say your in love with him but look at yourself. You’re a fucking mess. This isn’t love. This isn’t like you. If he loved you he would be here standing up for you agains’t everyone, but he isn’t Cass. He isn’t. Is this why you’ve been getting up at 4 a.m. every morning?”

Cassie didn’t answer but she uncrossed her arms, looking at anything else but her.

“He came to Maddy’s party and gave her a gift in front of you and it seemed pretty sure that shit was still going on between them. Look at you! You’re hear sobbing over a piece of shit that doesn’t care about you. He used you. He doesn’t want you!” That hurt yelling that but it’s what she needed.

Cassie’s head whipped to her sister and she opened her mouth to say something but Lexi cut her off.

“No! And to say they were broken up doesn’t make shit better and you know that! She’s your friend. Your best friend. And you do that? Even if they were broken up, you don’t do that shit to your friends. You’re being selfish and a fucking bitch. And the fact you tried to take the attention off yourself by trying to put the focus on Rue when shit went down is fucked up. You saw the state she was in and you would have thrown her into the pit if it meant taking the heat off yourself. Nate isn’t in the clear either, he’s a fucking asshole anyway and deserves just as much shit, if not more. I don’t know what the fuck has happened to you. But if this is all because of Nate, that’s made you this way….and you’re okay with that? Then you two deserve one another.”

Cassie was staring back at her as she spoke. She couldn’t answer. She couldn’t think of anything to say.

Lexi walked over to her room, grabbed her mini backpack and stormed out of the room as Cassie began to call after her.

Lexi stomped down the stairs and headed towards the door, phone to her ear. She knew she couldn’t call Rue, and there wasn’t really anyone else she considered one of her own friends.

Except Fez.

“Fez, hi. Can I come over? You are? Okay…um…is it okay if I come over to there then? No, it’s okay I’ll ride my bi- oh, okay, see you soon.” She ended the call as she stood there by the front door. Fez was on his way to the store since he was working there for the night but insisted he’d pick her up and take her along with him.

“How’s she doing?”

Suze’s voice broke the silence as Lexi stood there looking at the door.

“She’s a mess mom. I’ve given up trying.”

Her mom nodded and took a sip of her wine. “All this over a dude….” She lightly chuckled and drank some more with a shake of her head.

Lexi watched her mom sit there looking back at her. “Who was that?…On the phone.” She asked.

Lexi would have just said ‘oh a friend we’re going to study together at their house, I’ll be back later.’

But she had enough.

“It was Fezco.”

“Fezco? What kind of name is that?” She took another sip. Lexi just watched her mom. She looked down at her glass then to her youngest daughter.

“He a nice guy?” She softly smiled when Lexi smiled back to her.

“He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met.”

Her mom nodded and raised her glass. “Well good for you.”

Lexi’s fingers fumbled with her phone a little. “He….he beat up Nate Jacobs at the New Years Eve party…”

She raised her glass again. “Well good for him.”

Lexi laughed then heard his car pull up. “I’ll be back later, I just….I need to get out of here.”

Her mom nodded and smiled. “I trust you.”

And with that Lexi opened the door and ran a little to the car.

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Chapter 7

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Home | Fexi - ch.8 - Down Bad For You

Warnings: swearing, lol, drug use/talk etc, anything you’d expect from Fez/Ash/Lexi etc it will probs show up

Chapter 8: Down Bad For you

Chap summary: Fez drops Lexi home and finally meets Suze.

Lexi goes to visit Fezco at the store but he ain’t working…..

Previous chapters:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Rue’s voice:

That night Fezco dropped Lexi home.

They were reeling from a high.

One of the best highs each had felt in a long time.

And no drug was involved.

The moment Fezco took her hand Lexi felt like her heart would burst.

And since then, the feeling hasn’t stopped.

The same went for Fezco.

The feeling from her hand in his was a new one and it was intoxicating.

He still felt heat on his cheeks from thinking about it.

Smiling, laughing, talking to each other in the car.

They enjoyed their peaceful, unbroken, pure time together.

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Fezco insisted walking her to her front door again.

“Fezco, you don’t have to-“ Lexi began to protest as he also got out of the car.

“Naw, naw. Someone could come and snatch you up from me.” He let out. He realised what he said and let out a little chuckle and looked down at the floor shyly.

Lexi smiled to him as they picked up each other’s pace and walked towards the front door.

“Thank you again, for a lovely night. I had a lot of fun.”

Fez nodded his head and quickly glanced at her. “Ye, me too. Me and Ash usually have movie nights and shit. So, um…you should come by some more and, like…join us? If-if you’d like.” Lexi watched him as he kept glancing at her face then at anything else.

What they didn’t realise was Suze had opened the door and was stood there with a glass of wine in her hand.

Lexi notice that Fezco stood a little straight as he looked at someone who was behind her.

“Well, did you have a nice time?” Suze asked.

Lexi quickly turned around to her mom. “Oh, hi mom. Yeah, I did….” she was wondering what the fuck to say.

“Um…Hello Mrs. Howard. I…um…I’m a friend of Lexi’s. Fezco ma’am. Nice to meet you.”

Suze heard how he asked her daughter to join him and someone else for movie nights at his. And she had to admit it, hearing this poor sod stutter and shyly ask her daughter was damn cute.

“Fezco……interesting name. And nice to meet you, too. Um….Fezco…I wanted to say thank you for helping out Lexi tonight. I really appreciate it. Thank you for being a gentleman.”

Lexi was stunned for words. Her mom stood there actually like a normal mom.

Fezco let out his usual chuckle laugh and bowed his head to the floor a little. “Naw, no problem. Lexi knows she can stand by me any time.

And thanks for the compliment. Much appreciated ma’am.”

Lexi was looking at him as he spoke and when he glanced at her when he said stand by me she smirked back to him.

“Have a good night Mrs. Howard. And I hope to see you soon Lexi. G’night.” And he smiled to them both as Lexi walked up the porch to her mom who raised her glass to Fez. “You too sweetie.”

Once Lexi was inside she was expecting her mom to say something. To say something about him, anything bad, a sarcastic comment, anything negative, she was waiting for it for some reason.

But she didn’t, Suze just stood there and sipped some wine. And looked past Lexi to the door and pointing a finger.

“I like him.”

And with that she went to the living room and sat down in front of the TV.

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Lexi’s eyes went to the shop as it came into view. She was riding her bike back from school after having another after school rehearsal.

She could drop in and say hi…..

Without even thinking much more about it she was pulling up into the car park, placing her bike against the wall of the fire exit like she usually would.

Walking in the store she smiled, excited to see Fezco just sat about working. She suddenly froze in place when she saw Ashtray sat on the counter, leaning back against the cigarettes, typing on his phone.

Oh fuck.

She didn’t know why but she didn’t know how to actually speak to Ashtray. He was very serious for a kid and didn’t really talk much to her.

He looked up from his phone when he noticed whoever entered the store not say anything or even move. He looked at Lexi standing there, she looked a little surprised and taken back.

He let out a snort of laughter which took her by surprise even more, he looked back at his phone. ”Fezco ain’t working today.”

Lexi’s mouth opened and closed. “I….er….actually I came for a-a drink.”

Ashtray snorted again and nodded. “Ye, sure. Like you did the time Jacobs came to the store.”

He put his phone in his pocket and looked at her.

Lexi looked around the store with her eyes and then let out a sigh. “Fine. You got me.” She walked closer to him as he sat there hands clasped together in his lap.

“You real caught up on him huh?” He asked.

She shrugged then crossed her arms as she leaned back on the fridge. “Maybe.”

“And he’s down bad for you.”

Lexi’s guarded stance eased a little as she let her arms fall to her sides. “Wait. Really?”

Ash shook his head. “You too really are dense. Didn’t you two watch a movie together the other night? Singing and shit? Fuck.”

“You two watch movies together too right?”

“Ye, but we’re brothers. He just sits there and watches. He don’t fucking sing or cry. After he got back I didn’t see him smile so much to himself before. Shit was weird.”

Lexi smiled to herself.

“See? You’re doing that shit too.” He clicked his tongue and shook his head again. “You two got it bad.”

Lexi felt her cheeks begin to burn and let out an awkward laugh. “Well….um, don’t you like anyone like that?”

Ashtray looked at her as if she’d grown a second head. “I ain’t got time for that shit. I’m making sure the mortgage gets paid off, we don’t get into any trouble, and making sure sales are pushed.”

Lexi felt suddenly sad.

“Don’t you….don’t you ever like, just do kid stuff? Like, do you miss being just a kid?”

Ashtray’s usual serious face eased for a moment, but only just slightly before he shook his head again. “It’s all I’ve ever known. Nothing to miss.”

Lexi’s heart felt heavy all of a sudden. She wanted to help and protect him. He had nothing like a real childhood but was thrown into the lion’s den, just like Fezco. They didn’t have a normal life at all.

“Fezco invited me to join you guys to watch movies sometime….I…er….I hope that’s okay.” Lexi looked away from Ashtray’s stare.

“Sure.”

She looked back up to him. “Wait, really?”

He raised his slit eyebrow to her reaction and didn’t say anything.

Lexi blinked and awkwardly stood there. “Oh. I…I thought you didn’t like me being around or was getting annoyed with…” her voice died down when she realised she was rambling on.

“If I didn’t like you, you would know by now.” He replied back which surprised her. The serious, quiet, very protective little brother of Fezco, liked her.

She felt a little proud that he did. Like she got through that tough exterior.

“Oh….good.” She smiled.

“You gonna buy summin or not?” Ashtray’s voice broke her little proud bubble.