Troubled

Four.

"What's up?" A smile grew upon her lips as she heard his voice. Alex knew that he would follow her. The boy had been looking for her for a week for crying out loud. Hell almost every girl in school was working their favorite features even more, in all too desperate attempts to grab his attention.

"What's up, what?" Alex's smile turned into a confident smirk as she leaned her back against a locker in the hallway.

"You know anything?" Justin dug his hands into his pockets as his eyes searched hers for some piece of evidence.

"About what?" She crossed her arms above her chest causing Justin's eyes to trail a bit south for a moment. Gosh, he was such a boy.

"You know what I'm talking about." Justin licked his bottom lip as his eyes darted back to hers.

"You sure about that?" Alex's inner goddess was literally high fiving herself at the little game she had started. Damn, she loved to play games with him.

"Oh I'm sure, princess." Alex cringed at the nickname he had used for her. A smirk grew upon Justin's lips as well, as he realized the game she was playing.

They kept their gazes locked at each others for a while. Justin was clearly waiting for her reply, though it never came.

"Why did you want to talk with me?" He finally asked her, as he took a step closer to her. Their bodies was only a couple of inches apart and the body heat, they were each creating, was radiated on to the other.

"I heard you were looking for a mystery girl." Alex shrugged as she turned her eyes away from his and decided to play extremely interested in the almost empty hallway.

"And.." Justin took another step closer, bringing her eyes back on his. It might have been the desperation within him, but for a short second those eyes of hers felt familiar.

"Presenting to you; your mystery girl." Alex made a simple hand gesture towards herself and within seconds she felt Justin's brown eyes searching her from head to toe.

"Impossible." He whispered to himself as he took a single step back, in order to get a better look.

"Possible." She smirked at him, slightly amused with his reaction.

"Do you even go to school here?" Justin raised an eyebrow at her, cursing Chaz and his big mouth for, posibbly, having spilt the word of his search to the whole damn town and all their teenage girls.

"Yes, yes I do." Alex's amusement only grew at the sight of his confusion.

"Who are you anyways?" Now it was Justin's turn to cross his arms above his chest, looking suspiciously at Alex.

"Alex - I moved here a week ago." Justin's, still, raised eyebrow urged her to add some details to her explanation. She sighed. She hated the fact that she had to paint the whole picture for him and suddenly she didn't feel amused at all. "From New York."

"Well, Alex from New York." He mocked with the amusement in his voice as clear as day. "Every girl in this school is fighting for the spot as my mystery girl, what makes you think that I'll believe you?" He mocked with a huge smirk on his face.

By now, Alex's patient was as thin as a piece of paper and she had no intentions of sticking around trying to convince him much longer. After all, he was the one looking for her and not the other way around. "Look Justin,_" She almost spat the word at his face. To be honest who could blame her? The guy was literally acusing her of lying about something only he had been interested in. After all she was just trying to be nice, apparently that wasn't a term that was very wellknown in Stratford. "I was just trying to be nice, but you can keep on looking for that mysterious girl of yours, 'cause honestly; I do not give a fuck if you find her or not."