The Son Of Alice || A Once Upon A Time Story

In Love

I walked out of the changeroom with my dark green t-shirt and black shorts on. I saw the rest of the boy's class still jogging. My Emery looked at me "What are you waiting for? A slap with a ruler? Cause apparently now that's ILLEGAL." He said sarcastically. I smiled and joined the others. "Hey man." Ethan said. He was the son of the Huntsman, who was revived with his heart not long after death. Ethan was much taller because he was 14. I heard he failed a grade.

He was in love with Ashley Nolan, Mackenzie's fraternal twin sister. "Hey." I said. A few minutes passed of us running. The girl's class was in the workout equipment area of the gym, mostly on treadmills. "Okay boys it's time to switch!!!" Mr. Emery yelled to us. The girls' gym teacher, Mrs. Fraser informed the girls.

That's when Mackenzie walked in. I smiled at her and she smiled back. I waved and pointed to the workout equipment and she nodded. The classes switched and Ethan sat at an upward pushing device "I'll bet your in love with Mackenzie." Ethan said. "And you like Ashley." I said, smirking. "We know eachother too well." He said and started lifting 80 pounds. I sat on a pile of mats next to him, "WEAK!" I said deeply, cupping my hands around my mouth. He rolled his eyes.

Ethan changed the weight to 150 pounds and kept lifting with ease. "You try." He said and got up. I sat down and started with 80 like him. "Too easy." I said. He changed the weight to 150. I tried my best but I couldn't lift it. "I win." Ethan said. "Whatever." I rolled my eyes. He grabbed my arm and put it on his bicep and flexed. "What are you doing?" I asked. His muscles WERE quite large. "You see? I'm much stronger than you." He teased. I pulled my hand away and got up.

"You are so strange!" I said

We continued with the machines for a while, until class ended. "Have a good rest of the day!" Mrs. Fraser said, "Don't eat junk food and sit around in the couch!!" Mr. Emery shouted. They were kind of like good cop, bad cop. We were changing and Ethan was changing right next to me. Something fell from his bag and I looked at it on the floor. It was something called a jockstrap.

"Ew gross!!" I said and kicked it away from me. Ethan shrugged and we finished up.

The bell rang. It was lunch now, so I walked to the class where I had detention. Mrs. Warren, a very nice teacher was there to handle things. I waited around for Mackenzie and ate an apple as I waited. After a few minutes she arrived "Hello!" I said. I should've said something better. "Hey!" She said and sat down.

"I think I've figured you out." She said, smiling. I wondered what she was thinking "Why didn't you tell me you were a strange boy from a strange land?" She whispered. I looked around "Tell no one, please!" I said "I won't." Kenzie said and smiled. "That's not my only secret." I said quietly "You can tell me anything, Alexander." Mackenzie whispered "My friend was turned to stone and he's in an old barn and..." I stopped. She was surprised "Um alright.. and what else?" She asked.

I looked into her eyes and said it to her face. "I'm in love with you Mackenzie Nolan. The truth, plain and honest."

The pretty blonde charming girl seemed shocked I had said that. That was the end, I had screwed up. We sat awkwardly in silence for a moment.

"I'm in love with you too." She said

I looked at her, eyes widened. Mrs. Warren looked at us, moved her glasses down and said "Shhh!" I glanced at her for a moment. Then looked back at Mackenzie. I held both of her hands tightly. "Will you go out with me?" I asked quietly "Of course!" Mackenzie whispered "Meet me in front of Granny's at 6:00pm" I told her. She smiled and nodded. We did some work that Mrs. Warren handed out to us.

Hours later...

5 minutes before 6:00 I arrived at Granny's. Quite soon, Mackenzie arrived with a black dress on. "You look beautiful." I said, amazed. She smiled at me.

We walked inside. Ruby, Dorothy, Granny and Ruby's younger brother, Jasper were inside. "To go please." I said to granny after we ordered our food. "To go? We aren't eating here?" Mackenzie asked, looking at me. I held her hand. "I'm bringing you someplace special." I said, smiling at her.