UPTOWN GIRL, alex p. keaton

xiii. one more weekend

⇰ 𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟: ( 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ) 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕝 𝕚𝕟 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕘𝕦𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝕖𝕝𝕧𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕝𝕖𝕪

ARRIVING UP to Carnegie Hill to meet the Rowe's for themselves for dinner after dropping their things off, the Keatons and associates now were being led along to enter the home. All of them exchanged a glance with one another before entering the new world Alex had seemed to fall into. Being now sucked into this world themselves by association, the event was inevitable to say the least.

The Rowe family stood in a small line themselves with Diana at the center. Arabella looked to her balancing on her heels eagerly and smiled over the sight of her. Seeing the family for herself she smiled up to them with their father's now shaking hands. They all exchanged pleasantries separately to have her notice the youngest of the family. The young blonde continue to follow around Alex as Arabella couldn't help to chuckle over the sight with a small grin.

The brunette of the family came up to her interested to gesture towards the outfit she'd accompanied for today. "Arabella, right?" She nodded as Mallory only beamed to her over her own anticipation. "Now Alex is gonna kill me for asking this, but how are the three of you even sticking around at home sometimes when Fifth Avenue is literally three blocks down?"

Arabella couldn't help to laugh over this and shook her head. "My youngest sister, Stacy, has trouble with it, believe me. She's blown her credit card enough times, it's hard to keep count," She recounted as Mallory laughed over the tale.

Noticing his sister now engaging in conversation with one of the individuals he had trouble categorizing these days, Alex set himself away from his father and Lawrence Rowe to instead go over to the two girls. Arabella and him locked eyes onto one another for her to whisper over to Mallory. "Uh oh, here comes the Stooge himself."

Before Alex could get a word into his sister, Mallory raised a hand calmly to stop him. "I haven't made you look more like the idiot that you already are. Can't I just make conversation?"

"No," He answered flatly as Arabella snickered under her breath over the exchange with Mallory giving her a small wink before leaving to join Nick and Jennifer chatting along with Stacy.

Alex and her were now a short distance from one another to have him attempt to speak to her privately with the chance he'd gotten. "Your sister's nice," Arabella quickly mentioned instead.

"The two of you together already worry me," He joked to have her laugh over this. Finding himself smiling along with the way she carried on he motioned over to her. The gaze she gave him turning up from where she stood was enough to send his heart racing.

Arabella was completely unaware of him acting this way, only continuing to slightly sway in the dress she had on for today from having standing here with him. "Family is too good for you. Way too good, do you wanna switch?" She said to have him chuckle over the thought.

Stacy looked ahead towards her sister and Alex having an actually good time with one another, finding it strange. She felt something off about the way he acted around her as opposed to Diana, but she also seemed to be the only one acknowledging it because the families had managed themselves into their own worlds instead of noticing the two on the other side. "I'm guessing your parents aren't going to embarrass you with a photobook of them at a nuclear arms protest?" Jennifer asked her of of interest.

The very idea of her parents, the primary example of what a conservative family looked and sounded like, was a ridiculous image. "God no, that's more of something my sister would do. She's wrapped up in the rallying aspect—"