Alex's Story

Chapter 24

"Alex wake up!" Sam jumped on me screaming. I woke up in annoyance and looked at Sam. Her hair was tied in pigtails and she had a pink dress on.

"I'm up, I'm up!" I said holding my hands up in surrender. I looked at my phone and it was 9:30! Ugh. There goes my sleep, flying out my window. I looked at the notifications and shrieked from the bright light. I had two missed calls: both from Brandon, wasn't gonna even listen to them.

4 game invites, I'm gonna shoot people who send me them, and two messages; Brandon and Andrea

Brandon: Please message me or something..

Andrea: Wanna hang before you go off to college?

I decided to write Andrea back. 'Yea I'll be ready in an hour and a half.' I clicked send and got up making my bed. I trudged over to my bathroom with my phone in my hand still. I shut the door and locked it. The shower was warm and quick. Trudging to my closet, I got out dark with waisted shorts with a pink long sleeve crop top. I put in my belly button ring that I got on my 14th birthday.

I straightened my hair and put my make up on quickly. The doorbell rung as I was putting on my sandals. I grabbed my phone, wallet, and necessities putting them in my white purse, jogging down to the door and met, not with Andrea, but Brandon. "What are you doing here?" I asked as the lump in my throat was growing.

"Well you won't answer any of my calls, so I thought I'd come here." He shrugged as Andrea pulled up.

"Well that sucks for you," I started coming out of my house and shutting the door behind me. "Because I'm done trying with you and Andrea's here, so bye." I finished pushing past him running to her car.

"Thank god for your timing." I told her buckling up.

"Your gonna have to talk to him some time." She said pulling away. I looked back at Brandon.

Brandon... No! Stop it heart! He can't hurt us again. "Yea well he's just another fling anyways." I said.

"If you say so." Andrea sighed in defeat.
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We went to the mall all day. Shopping was nice. I never once thought about Brandon. I bought a lot of things and we had a blast. "So tomorrow's a big day." Andrea said as we drove to Starbucks.

"Yup, college. Fun!" I said sarcastically.

"It'll go by fast." Andrea said reassuring me.

"I hope so." I mumbled as Andrea told the lady what we wanted. I got a strawberry banana smoothie.Andrea dropped me off at my house Brandon was still there, On the steps. Holding a bouquet of red roses.

I walked up to him and crossed my arms. "What the hell are you doing?" I sneered. He got up and brushed off his butt holding the flowers out to me. I took them,smelling them. "You're not gonna take no as an answer huh?" I said playfully.

"Nope." He said getting on one knee and holding out a little box.

"What are you doing?" I asked in shock.

"Alex, we both know how crazy we are for each other. I love you and I want you. All of you, no matter how hard it gets. I want us forever. And I'm willing to try if you are. So Alex Michelle Northern... will you marry me?"