AN: Again, this is another story that I thought up while I was working and watching TV. Like with my other stories, this is about my OC David Falcone, and Alex Russo, from Wizards of Waverly Place. If you seen the episode, I Almost Drowned in a Chocolate Fountain, this is where the story takes place, or the story is inspired by that episode. It takes place, well, you will find out where. As always, enjoy.
Chapter One: At Friendship's End
You know what's funny? Relationships. Hell, even friendships for that matter. Both are complicated as hell, and one mistake can end both. That mistake can be as simple as forgetting the right sandwich that your significant other loves, to full blown infidelity. One is not as serious as the other obviously, but it can have just as bad results, terrible results, or just as surprisingly, not as bad results at all. In my honest opinion, I would have to say that friendships are more fragile and harder to maintain than a relationship. That is my belief, it is not fact, just an observation.
Why the diatribe? It is just to set up what is about to come. See, Alex Russo, 15, and David Falcone, just 16, are friends. More than that, best friends. They grew up together, and their parents were friends like they were. Alex has a knack for getting in trouble using her magic for doing things that she were not supposed to do. David would get in trouble for trying to protect her. It was a good friendship, but as with inter gender friendships, sometimes romantic feelings would come up. David, if you would ask him he would tell you this, he did not know where or when these feelings came up or when it happened.
Of course, Alex was oblivious to her friend's feelings, and it frustrated David to no end. What really tugged at his heartstrings, was watching the girl that he secretly liked, go out with other boys. That drove David up the wall, and infuriated him. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, there is a limit to how far David would go for his friend, Alex, and he is about to reach that limit...
Alex was in a bind. She was waiting on Riley to call her and ask her out, but if she was to go out with him Friday night, she had to watch Max. She really wanted to go out with Riley, but Max was her first concern. Justin had a date Friday, and her mom and dad were going out Friday night. That left her to watch Max, because she was the only one free and wasn't doing anything that day.
Snapping her out of her thoughts was the phone ringing. Alex ran out of her room to answer it. Just as she knew it would be, it was Riley calling.
"Riley! What's up!" Alex said, trying not to sound too eager, but failing badly.
"Hey Alex. I was wondering, if you weren't doing anything Friday night, would you be interested in doing a group date with a few friends of ours? About 7 o'clock?" Riley asked.
"Sure. That would be cool. I will see you then!" Alex said. She hung up the phone, and ran back into her room, squealing and giggling happily. That brought her brother Justin into her room.
"What are you so happy about?" Justin asked her, standing at the doorway to her room.
"I finally got a date with Riley! This Friday night!" Alex said, still feeling the excitement from Riley calling her a few minutes earlier.
"You do know that you are watching Max Friday, right?" Justin asked her. That killed what excitement that Alex had, and she sat on her bed, sighing heavily. Just like that, her plans were ruined. She felt like screaming, then she had a thought of inspiration.
"What if I could find someone else to watch Max?" Alex asked.
"It would have to be someone that they trust, but I think it would be alright." Justin asked her.
"Someone that they trusted, like David, right?" Alex asked her.
"Yeah." Justin nodded. Alex smiled, and pulled out her cell phone.
"Wait, what are you going to tell him?" Justin asked her.
"I am going to tell him that I am going to a party, and I need someone to watch Max." Alex said.
"Wait, you are going to lie to David? Your best friend, you are about to lie to him." Justin said, shaking his head.
"Yes, I am. Now shut up." Alex said, as someone answered the phone.
"Hello?" A voice other than David answered.
"Villo?" Alex said. Villo was David's other guardian. Louis Saint was the other one. With Louis being a US Marshal in New York, he was gone a lot, and Villo stayed there for free, in exchange for keeping an eye on David. The thing about Villo was that he was half human, half lion, due to Kelbo Russo, Alex's uncle.
"Yeah." Villo asked her.
"Is David around? I need to talk to him." Alex asked him.
"Fine with me." Villo said. "David, your girlfriend is on the phone!"
Alex heard a smack, "OW, you son of a-", and David's voice saying, "She's my friend, jerk." Then David got on the phone.
"Yeah?" David said.
"David, I need a favor. I was invited to a party Friday night, and I need someone to watch Max. Can you please watch Max for me?" Alex asked.
David was silent for a few moments, then she heard a sigh, and then he spoke.
"Fine, I'll do it." David said.
"Thanks babe. Be here at Seven, okay?" Alex said.
"I will. See you then." David said.
"Okay, so what is happening?" Villo asked as he sat in a chair opposite of David in David's room.
"Well, Alex told me that she is going to a party Friday night, and she needs someone to watch Max. I told her that I would do it." David said.
"Really now?" Villo said. "Didn't even see if you wanted to go with her?"
"Villo, you know that Alex and I run in different groups. Her friends are different from mine." David said.
"Now you are making excuses from her." Villo said. "Look, I know that you like her, but you have to stand up to her, and at least tell her how you feel."
"I don't want to ruin things between us. Plus, I don't think that she feels the same way." David said, sadly.
Villo couldn't stand David looking or feeling sad. So he just sighed and looked at him.
"Alright, look. If you need any help, I will be here." Villo said.
"Thanks." David said.
Now the Russo children. I mentioned the relationship between Alex and David. Of course, she had two brothers. Alex was the middle child, Justin was the oldest, and Max was the youngest. Justin and David, well, it was what it was. David and Justin got along, just barely. See David thought that Justin had the 'holier than thou' attitude. You know, people that tell you how you should act without being in your situation or knowing about your situation, and when you call them on their BS, you are the bad guy.
Max and David, however, were like best friends. Max preferred having David watch him, because David let him have fun. David made sure that he didn't use magic, but besides that, it was a good time whenever those two were over there or together.
David arrived at Jerry and Theresa's (Alex's mom and dad first names, for those who didn't know) home about 15 minutes before seven, and Alex opened the door, dressed like she was going somewhere else than a party. (Remember the outfit at the end of the episode I Almost Drowned in a Chocolate Fountain, that is what she was wearing)
"Wow. Nice outfit." David said, stepping inside, taking his NY Yankees hoodie off and hanging it up.
"Thanks. Max is in his room, Mom and dad should be back by 10, and I should be back before then. Thanks again, David." Alex said, hugging him and kissing him on the cheek.
"Bye." David said. Once Alex left, David went to Max's room, and knocked.
"Come in." Max called. David stepped inside, and smiled at the youngest Russo sibling.
"What's up?" David asked him.
"Oh, nothing." Max said. "David, why are you watching me?"
"Alex is going to a party, and she needed someone to watch her while she went out." David said.
The tone of the room changed, and David knew that something was wrong here.
"What? What's the matter?" David asked him.
"Alex told you that she went to a party?" Max asked him.
"She isn't? Where did she go really?" David asked him.
"I kind of overheard her and Justin talking." Max said. "She needed someone to watch me while she went out on a date. Justin told her she shouldn't be lying to you, and Alex said she didn't care."
Max watched as David tilted his head to one side, and smiled.
"Really now?" David smiled. "Grab your coat."
"What are you going to do?" Max asked him.
"Grab your coat. We are going on a little ride." David said.
Max told him what restaurant that Alex was at, and David knew where it was. The fact that he dragged him there meant that David was looking to confront his 'friend'. Max felt horrible for ratting out his sister, but at the same time, David was his friend, and knew that he was going to find out the truth sooner or later.
The restaurant was fancy, to say the least. David didn't care, because what he was about to do was going to require them to make a quick exit, anyway.
Max and David stood at the entrance to the restaurant, and they both entered, went pass the host of the restaurant, and scanned the restaurant for Alex, and her dating companion.
"Where are they?" Max asked him. David scanned the area quickly for them, and there he found them. Just when things were simmering before, the guy that Alex was sitting next to, leaned in, and kissed her on the cheek.
David wanted to go over there, and kill that guy, but he thought of something better. He saw a desert tray coming by, and he smirked menacingly.
"Wait right here." David said to Max. He walked up, shoved the waiter that was wheeling the desert tray around, and he started pushing it right towards Alex and her date.
David let go just in time to see the tray come right at Alex, and before you knew it, it tipped over, and splattered all over Alex, her date, and the people that she was with.
Alex stood up, tried to clean herself off, and looked around in time to see David leading Max out of the restaurant.
David sat with Max until his parents got home, which wasn't until about 10 minutes after they left the restaurant. Jerry and Theresa entered the home, and David stood up, and grabbed his hoodie, sliding it on in the process.
"Hey David, thanks for watching Max." Jerry said.
"No problem. See ya." David said coldly, exiting the house.
"What's with him?" Theresa asked.
"David saw Alex with another guy." Max said. "He poured dessert all over her and a guy at the restaurant that they went to."
"Wow, what did Alex say?" Jerry asked him.
"No idea. We were gone and back here before she could say anything." Max said. "It looks like they are finished as friends."
This was it. That was it. That was it. That is what David kept telling himself as he stomped into his home, right past the sleeping Villo, and into his room. He grabbed an overnight bag, and began stuffing random clothes into it. He had no idea where he was going, or what he was going to do, but he had to get the hell out of here. He didn't care where he went, or even if he got there, but he had enough.
David slung the bag over his shoulder, and walked right out the front door, and up the street. He looked around, and then right at his cell phone. He wondered if he should give anyone a heads up as to where he was going, before he could do anything, however, his cell phone began to ring, and he saw from the caller ID, it was Alex.
David stood there, contemplating answering it, but knew that blowing up was the last thing that he wanted to do. He sent it to voice mail, and then sent out a mass text to everyone.
Goodbye, forever.
He hit send, and smashed his cell phone to pieces. Before he left, he had two more people to say goodbye to.
The graveyard was dark, but David was able to see well enough to find his parents gravestones. They were buried right next to each other, like any decent couple would have been. He shouldn't be here, but he had to say goodbye one last time.
"Mom, Dad. I know that you were watching me from wherever you are. I just had to say goodbye one last time." David began. "I have no idea if I am ever coming back to New York, but I just had enough, you know? Alex used me for the last time, and I know that we are not going to be on speaking terms for a long time, if ever again. I don't know where I am going, but I had to say goodbye before I left. So, goodbye."
David touched the gravestones of his parents, let a tear fall from his eye, and disappeared into the New York City darkness.
AN: As of the present, I have no title for this story. The moment that I get a title idea, I will post this story. Thanks for reading.