Excuse Me, Im Not Alex..

Chapter 1

***Kevin POV***

Its been passed 1 year since Alex was found dead. I can still remember the news like it was yesterday.

I was sitting in my office at the university grading papers when I got a call from my best friend Ray.

"Hey pal! What's up?!"

It's been 5 months since I moved out of his house and had spoken to him, I do miss him.

"Nothing's up, everything is just wrong..." He cried out In sorrow. My heart dropped and my blood ran cold as I heard a sob.

"What happened?!?!" Ray doesn't cry, he is like made of rock and the last time I saw him cry was when his wife died, so something big had to happen to shake him like that.

"It's..it's..Alex...she's dead.." It's felt like time slowed down in that one second. Everything started moving slow. My hearing going deaf and my sight going blind as I took in a hard gulp. I haven't seen Alex since..since I last saw her at the airport 5 months ago.

"Ray, that's one sick joke man, you shouldn't be joking around like that.." I felt my self forcing to say. I wasn't going to believe it, Alex can't be dead!

"I'm not lying, why would I lie about that?!" His voice was starting to get high, but I can still here the pain behind his words as he spoke to me threw the phone. That's when it hit me, he was telling the truth. I placed my hand over my mouth as a sob escaped my lips.

"Wha- what happened?" I stuttered. There was silence on the other line for a few seconds, but those few seconds felt like an eternity.

"She got into a car accident, her body was found really burned up in th- the ca- car," and he started crying. I breathed in hard, tears falling down my face. Even if I knew Alex for a short time, I came to love her.

I was hoping that one day, I could return and maybe start something with Alex, and our plan was to wait till summer. That's when summer came, we both would meet up and see what goes from there, and summer is coming up.

Now, there's no plan. No chance. Why does this have to happen to me?!

"I am on my way, I will be there in a few hours," I told him sternly while standing up from my desk, packing my suit case.

"Thanks man.."

"No problem, we are family, I have to go bye.." And quickly I hung up. That's when the tears just poured out. I pulled my hand into my hair, gripping it tightly and pulling on it.

This is not fair! And with that I knock everything on my desk to the floor spreading papers and books all over the place.

I was pulled from my thoughts when the school bell rang and the students filed into the classroom, all talking and smiling while I'm here dying on the inside. Today is the one year anniversary of Alex's death, March 15. But I plaster a fake smile and greet them like I do every morning. Honestly I like working in a university, all the students act like adults and aren't as crazy as the high schoolers are.

I went to stand up from my desk when the phone rang. I picked it up seeing it was the principle.

"Hello, this is Mr. Walker speaking," I say my usual teacher voice.

"Good morning, this is principle Johns, I am calling to say that I have selected you take on an assignment that should be arriving to your class room any minute now." He replied in a deep voice. I nodded, this is odd.

"Well, there is a new teacher coming to work here, and she will be sitting in on your classes for awhile so she can get the flow of how a university works." And just at that moment she stepped into my classroom.