Author's Note: This is my first fanfic and it was just something i threw together so read and review and if anybody likes it I'll post more.
Title: Just Friends, But I want More
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters I just wrote the story.
Summary: Alex and Marissa are best friends and next door neighbors. Alex is in love with Marissa but Marissa is clueless, but maybe she feels the same way she just hasn't figured it out yet.
Rating: R-future sex parts
Chapter 1: Only In My Dreams
It was the last week of summer and also the hottest as the sun streamed through a window left open, due to the summer heat, on to a tousle haired brunette head just barely visible among the jumble of sheets and blankets.
Marissa rolled over, yawned, and then stretched, laying in bed only to wake up further before pulling herself out of bed. She stared out the window, looking at nothing in particular, trying to remember why she had woken up feeling so happy. What had she been dreaming about? She screwed up her face trying to remember, but the only thing she could think of was Alex. Alex was her next door neighbor and best friend for as long as she could remember; they had grown up together…but why had she been dreaming about Alex? What had she been dreaming?
She shook her head and decided it probably was because they had been planning to hang out all day today.
She rolled back over and looked at her clock.
It read 10:30.
Alex was probably still in bed, she was definitely not a morning person, but Marissa decided to call her anyway.
She reached over and grabbed her cell phone dialing an all too familiar number while trying to untangle herself from her sheets.
It rang once.
Twice.
Three times.
Marissa was about to hang up when she heard a sleepy voice answer.
"Only one person would call me this early." The voice said.
Marissa rolled her eyes, "It's 10:30."
"That's early in my book."
"Alex, come on."
"Alright, alright I'll get up."
"Thank you."
"Thanks for ruining a perfectly good dream." Alex said slightly annoyed.
"What were you dreaming about?"
Alex paused as she remembered what she had been dreaming about…. Marissa and Alex were walking along the beach not saying anything just watching the waves and thinking to themselves. Alex stopped and turned to Marissa, and looked in to her hazel eyes and said the one thing that had been eating at her since she started liking girls.
"I love you."
Marissa looked back at Alex, smiled, and simply said, "I know."
Alex had slowly begun to lean in just a few inches away from making contact…
Then the phone had rung.
She had wanted to turn over and finish her dream, but the ringing was making that near impossible. She mentally kicked herself for not turning it off. She finally decided that she would pick up, say fuck off, and hang up, but as she reached for her phone to do just that the smiling face of a brunette appeared on her screen and she couldn't help but smile. She tried to sound annoyed, but had failed miserably.
Alex had gotten so caught up in her thoughts that she had completely forgotten she was still on the phone.
"Did you go back to sleep?" Marissa asked.
"What?" Alex shook the thoughts from her head, "No, I'm awake."
"So what were you dreaming about then?"
Alex thought for a moment and blurted out the first thing that had popped into her head, "Oh well I was on top of Britt and I was just about to…."
"Ugh, spare me the details," Marissa said not letting her finish her sentence, "why do you go out with that bitch anyway?"
Alex had wanted to say because you don't like girls, but opted for simple "I don't know" instead.
She thought for a minute. "Why do you keep getting back with that jerk Brad? He's an ass that doesn't deserve you."
Marissa got quiet and decided to give the same answer as Alex, "I don't know."
Alex sat up in bed and ran a hand through her dirty blonde hair and then remembered something. "I forgot to tell you that Britt is coming with us."
"WHAT?!" Marissa screamed into the phone, forcing Alex to take it a few inches away from her ear, "why did you invite her?"
Alex put the phone back up to her ear, "Marissa it's early please no yelling."
Marissa sighed, "Sorry, but why the hell did you invite her, you know I can't stand her."
"I didn't invite her she invited herself when I told her I was hanging out with you today."
"Well can't you uninvited her or something?"
"I didn't say you had to be nice to her."
"Fine, but if she says one thing about me that bitch is going down."
Alex chuckled.
"What's so funny?" Marissa asked.
"Nothing, nothing I was just trying to imagine you beating up Britt." Alex said trying hard not to laugh.
"Just get your ass up." Marissa said before hanging up.
Alex smiled at her phone before rolling off her bed and throwing on the first shirt and jeans she found before walking over to her bedroom door and throwing it open.
She yelled, "I'm going out with Marissa mom."
"Ok, have fun," her mom yelled from somewhere downstairs.
Alex walked over to her balcony doors and was about to throw them open when she heard her mom yelling up at her.
"Use the front door you can't keep jumping over to Marissa's balcony or one day you're going to break your neck."
Alex rolled her eyes and made her way downstairs and into the kitchen where she found her mom making her little brother Kai a sandwich.
Kai smiled at Alex as she entered the kitchen and quickly turned to his mom smiling even wider, "You owe me a dollar."
His mom Jamie frowned and looked at Alex.
"What?" Alex asked.
"Mom bet me a dollar you'd jump the balcony anyway." Kai smiled triumphantly as his mom handed him the sandwich.
Alex looked from her brother to her mom with a look of fake hurt on her face, then she smiled deviously, "guess you better pay up then hunh mom?"
She laughed at the frustrated look on her mom's face before she ruffled her brother's hair, told her mom she'd be back later, and left.
Kai watched his sister leave, and then turned back to his mom smiling with mustard on his chin.
"What?" she asked.
Kai held out his hand smiling even wider.
Jamie smiled at him affectionately before sticking out her tongue and running from the kitchen.
Kai blinked staring after his mom, before jumping down from his stool and chasing after her.
Back outside Alex was making her way over to Marissa's front door mumbling about how the balcony was faster, but stopped when she realized she was already there.
She decided to be polite and ring the doorbell.
Marissa's dad David answered the door smiling even wider when he saw who it was.
"Well look who it is, finally got tired of using the balcony?" he asked.
"No, my mom told me I'd end up breaking my neck so I decided to humor her for once."
"Well you know you're always welcome no matter what way you get in the house." he said, before stepping aside to let her in.
"Thanks Mr. D," She smiled and made her way up to Marissa's room.
Alex walked down the hall stopping every so often to stare at photos on the wall. Most of them had just Marissa and her dad, but a few of the older ones had an older woman in them waving and smiling beside Marissa's dad. That was Marissa's mom who had died when they were 9 yrs. old.
Alex sighed and continued on down the hall to Marissa's room, which was at the end. As she got closer to the door she heard frustrated grunts coming from inside and saw clothes flying past onto the bed.