Back to You

2- Ellie?

"A-Alex?!"

"That my name dont wear it out," He smirked and winked at me.

"Ho-ow are you even here right now?! It's not possible! You died for crying out loud!" I basically scream at him while pinching my arm and slapping myself. I keep looking back as i try to find a spot to park real quickly.

"Stop doing that Ave..." Alex say to me softly with sadness and surprise in his eyes.

"How are you here Alex?! Tell me! I need to understand. You need to help me here. One minute you are dead the next you scare the hell out of me in my backseat!" I exclaim unblocking my seat belt so i can fully turn around after parking.

He holds his hand up as if he is surrending, " I know... I know... All of this is sudden but I don't know how i got here myself. One minute I saw darkness and the next thing I know I woke up in your car!" He sighs as he runs his hand through his dark brown hair and then letting his hand drop in defeat.

I stare at him blankly, probably having a look of disbelief on my face. "This has to be some sort of joke..." I mutter to myself in astonishment.

He laughs loudly snapping me out of my daze. "Well it's true princess your stuck with me again."

I'm going crazy I must be there is no human explanation that he is actually here not 2 feet away from me. I knew I would go insane sooner or later but now? Geez... there goes my sanity.

"So... Where we going?" Alex asked while he climbed over the seat and flopping down into the passenger seat grinning at me wildly.

I just look at him in utter disbelief.

"You come back from the dead and the first thing you do is ask me where we are going?!" I practically scream at him. My knuckles slowly turn white when my grip on the string wheel tightens.

"Alex..you need to understand why I might be a little shaken up by this-" I turn towards him fully taking him in "-This morning I was crying because today was your one year death anniversary, and now you are here in front of me giving me a bloody heart attack!" I huff as I cross my arms.

He studies my face a few more moments curiosity in his eyes and a hint of something else? Before I could ask what was it he pulled me into a tight embrace.

"Oh how i missed you" I hear him mutter into my neck.

I sigh as i relax into his arms. Though it didn't last for long before my stomach started to hurt because the middle console was digging into my side.

I sit up already missing the warmth from his embrace. I grin at him sure there was tears in my eyes, "I've missed you too"

I turn and buckle my seatbelt after starting the car. I start heading down the street with a little smile on my face.

"Ave?" Alex looked at me with a confused face.

"Yeah?" I glance at him before looking back at the road.

"Isn't the school that way?" He pointed a finger behind him.

"No, I moved school a little afterwards you... uh you know" I glanced at him with an unease expression.

He looks at me in understanding and nods a little.

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He looks up after a while seeming to fall asleep slightly on our way to our 'hideout'.

"We aren't going to school, are we?" Alex asked recognizing the surroundings trees.

"No, we are going to our hideout." I glance at him and wink seeing his ears turn red slightly I let out a chuckle.

"Okay," He replies while smiling watching outside the window as we drive by the bit of wilderness.

I felt a familiar sense of anxiety. Thinking back to the last time i was at the 'hideout'. It was after he died and right after the funeral. I went there to grieve. There is pictures of my family, his family, and us together. Our hideout is an old abandoned cabin. We had a tiny kitchen that we would bake together in (always ended in a big food fight), a big bed, a couch, a single comfy chair, a bathroom, and our corner of memories.

Our corner of memories was where the pictures and tokens were. Tokens of stuffies that Alex might have won me at an arcade we went to when we were 12, coins we stole from fountains (long story), and little treasures we find.

When Alex died I went there and packed a lot of stuff and put it in a storage closet in the cabin. I couldn't bare to see it and be reminded of him.

I was interrupted by Alex snapping his fingers in my face. 

"Yes?" I grin brightly at him, glancing at him every few seconds.

"I asked whatever happened to Ellie." He asked with sadness and love. Ellie was Alex... girlfriend of sorts. They kissed and went out but was never official. She knew our friendship was platonic, but whenever she got me alone she would tell me to back off from "Her man." Other then that I was waiting till Ellie was ready to actually be with him and not want it to be officially.

At the mention of her I felt my girn dim for some reason before it brightens again trying to cheer Alex up.

"Well at your.....funeral she took the title of your girlfriend and she cried a lot after a few weeks she moved. No one heard from her again really. Lots of people think she just vanished." I explain to him carefully watching his expresion.

I saw him clutch his fist together. Why is he angry?

"She had no right," he scoffs in disbelief and kept looking out the window.

I was confused. No right to do what exactly? "What do you mean, Alex?" I ask him.

"To call herself my girlfriend" He gritted out through his teeth.

"Uh? Weren't you guys a 'thing'?" I asked completely and utterly confused. They were dating? What's different now?

"She was using me to get back at her ex." He says in a low angry type of growl voice.

I gasp, surprised at this new information. "B-but she always threatened me away from you why would she do that if she was just using you?" I somewhat try to reason with him.

He rolled his eyes somewhat at me, "She wanted her ex and me all to herself. And no one could keep me away from you," he blushed when he realized what he exactly said.

"I m-mean uh that I mean as in a friend way like we um in a way that's platonic." He stutters out releasing his fist and running a hand through his hair.

"Its fine-" I slightly giggle "- I understood what you meant," I smile warmly at him turning up the radio slightly.

I pull up to the hidden wide path that leads to the cabin. After parking a little ways from the cabin we climb out of my car. I saw Alex coming around and felt him grab my hand. I look up at him with question in my eyes.

Alex grins warmly at me, "C'mon, Let's run!"

I laugh as we started running to our little home. 

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Eliza