Summer Lovin

2.5

*2 months later

Alex

I heard the car honk and I grabbed my bag stepping into the car.

"Hey." I said softly kissing his cheek.

"Hey." Ethan said starting up the car, "Emma got to school a little earlier so we just have to get Max."

"Cool." I said sitting back.

These past months have been.. different. I rarely see Zoey, Ethan's my boyfriend now, me Max and Emma have gotten super close..- and I haven't talked to Justin, not in a while. I miss him, but clearly he doesn't miss me. He hasn't answered any of my calls or messages... I don't know. I wish he'd text me. Other than that, life's been pretty good. We got Max and soon got to school meeting up with Zoey. Here's goes the day.

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After school, Emma and I took a walk just because. We talked about probably anything you could imagine.

"Hey let's go get some coffee." Emma suggested.

"I could definitely go for a frappucino right now." I agreed. We went to the coffee shop when a very- very familiar face came up in the window. I stopped for a minute trying to make sure my brain wasn't playing tricks on me.

"Alex what are you-"

"Sh." I said quickly moving her over to me out of the distance of the window. I peeked in and I almost froze, Justin. Justin with Zoey.

"Oh my god Emma look." I said. She peeked through, "Is that-"

"Yep."

"This is not gonna end well." Emma sighed. I stared at them in the booth, talking, laughing. What the hell is going on.

Sorry guys, but I'm about to rain on your parade. I began stomping up the door when Emma grabbed me, "Alex please try to remain calm."

"I will." I said, not sure if I was lying or not. Emma walked in behind me and once I saw them I walked up right in front of them. Once Justin saw me he jumped, "Alex!"

"Justin." I said placing a hand on my hip, "Hey where's your phone? I think I texted you about 3,000 times."

"Alex-"

"Oh! Hey Zoey! Haven't seen you since first period."

Zoey looked down letting out a deep breath.

"What the hell is going on." I nearly yelled.

They both stayed quiet.

"Hello!" I yelled, this time drawing attention.

"Can we talk." Justin said standing up, "Outside."

I gave him a mean look following him out.

"I know this looks.. really bad but I can explain. Last week me and Blake flew up here on an assignment. We've been here studying attractions and stuff trying to learn more about Atlanta and compare it to New York. We went to Perimeter Mall and saw Zoey and I recognized her so I tried to go the other way but to my luck she recognized me. We started talking about you and everything and then the next thing I know, Blake is asking her to show us around and help us get through. It wasn't my choice."

"Oh Justin please that's not even half of a good excuse for you to be here with her- alone!"

"Blake's coming he's just running a little late."

"You come to Atlanta for a whole week and don't even think about coming to see me?" I asked in disbelief, "Ouch."

"It's not like that."