Maybe It's Been You All Along - Alex Turner

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  The Arctic Monkeys' newest album 'Suck It And See' had almost finished production and had a set release date with all the songs been written and recorded. The band chose to ironically name it after the track Rosanna named and she seemed a quite flattered by it. Alex was almost uncomfortable about how much of the album was about him and his relationship with Alexa but the band didn't seem to mind.

  Rosanna refused to listen to any new tracks or demos, setting her heart on buying it and listening to it all the way through the day it was released.

  Alex had cleaned his act up since he was found on the sidewalk, a night he was not proud of. He still had marks on the left side of his face from it as a constant reminder of his actions and not to do anything like it again.

  Matt had been the only one guiding Alex through his personal troubles as there was no one else that really could. He'd tried setting Alex up with one of his female friends but Alex had no interest in the girl.

  Andy hadn't been back since his week visit. As Rosanna said, he was tangled in law studies and was lucky when he would get time off to see her.

  The launch party for the Monkey's album was fast approaching and Alex had thought he'd gotten himself over his sudden thoughts about Rosanna. However, every time he saw her, heard her voice or even heard someone say her name, he realised he was dead wrong. He just couldn't get it out of his head. He couldn't get her out of his head.

He wrote the album's closing song about the secret woman in his heart but made sure to limit it just to the two. He tried writing about other things to clear his mind but it never seemed to work. She stuck to him like the sticky black treacle he'd wrote about.

Rosanna was having love troubles of her own. Andy and her had been having fights over and over since his visit. It would seem as if it could end them, then one of them would apologise and everything would revert back to normal.

Rosanna was shopping with her friend Beth for an outfit to wear to the album launch, updating her on her and Andy's relationship. Beth was the closest of all of Rosanna's female friends and had just returned from a holiday in Croatia.

She was a tall, slender girl, a couple years older than Rosanna with brown hair that cascaded over her shoulders to a dyed blonde. She walked daintily, like she was an expensive object but had the personality of a giddy teenager.

"You need to dump him," Beth said, looking at a rack of clothes.

"Hey!" Rosanna exclaimed. "He's not a horrible person, we just have fights every now and then. I still love him Beth."

"You shouldn't be fighting so much, he shouldn't be making you feel like shit all the time," Beth said and held up a dress next to her friend to see if it would suit her. "That's cute, try that on," she said and handed Rosanna the dress.

"It's not always his fault," Rosanna defended. "It's just hard being so far away from each other."

"Look, I like Andy, I really do, but I care about you more. If he's making your life harder or always fighting with you and making you feel like shit, leave him. Do what's best for you, don't feel bound to him just because you've been together a long time," Beth said honestly.

It hurt Rosanna to hear that. That one of her closest friends thought that she should leave the man she loved just because they fought. Every couple fought, it didn't mean they had to break up.

"I don't feel bound to him," Rosanna said quietly. "I still love him Beth, we're just going through a rough patch."

"I hope that's all it is," Beth said. "I hope it gets better too, back to that fairytale relationship you two had that made everyone jealous."