Hi! My name is Mariana and I decided to write this fanfiction here. It´s about Alexbelle as teenagers and in a modern au world. I post this fic on my tumblr as well and I will be very happy if you decide to comment and tell me what you think and make constructive critics. Just remember that english is not my main language, so it´s normal if you find mistakes.
Thank you!
I sat on the edge of my bed, waiting for my phone to ring. I glanced quickly at the clock and rolled my eyes. As always, he was late. I was already used to it, though. There was always the option of going to school by myself, but I guess I can say I´m a soft kind of person, so I waited for Alexander to call me. Five minutes later, my phone, which was on my bed, started ringing. Thank God, I would probably fall asleep if I had to wait one more minute. It stopped ringing half a minute later.
"Mom, I´m going to school!" I shouted, standing up and picking my bag from the floor. I picked my phone was well and checked my pony tail one last time.
"Have a nice day, sweetheart!" she shouted back from her room.
I smiled as I ran downstairs. I shared that big and always clean house with my mother and my sister, Madeline. My father was working in New York at the moment, so I would only see him in a couple of months. I missed him like crazy, but at least we could talk with each other by phone calls or skype. Sometimes we would even wright letters to each other, but it was rare.
"Bye, Jennings!" I blew a kiss to my dog sleeping in the couch, with his eyes covered by his fluffy ears.
In the minute I close the door behind me there are big, familiar arms around me, spinning me around. I wide my eyes and laugh as Alex keeps twirling with me in my house´s garden. My mom will be so pissed at him for stepping on her flowers.
"Ale-ex, put me down!" I demand, pulling my arms around his neck and hugging him tightly so I won´t fall. That huge boy with a baby face already let me fall a couple of times, so I always try to prevent it – or, if I can´t stop it, I will make sure my friend comes down with me. "Pull me down now!" I repeated with a giggle.
"Alright, alright," He laughs with me as he stops spinning and pulls me down. I maintained the hug for more ten seconds and when he hugged me back I pulled away, putting my feet back on the grass. "Morning, sunshine," Alex smiles sweetly, like he always smiles at me, and kisses my forehead, wrapping an arm around my waist. "Tired from the Holidays?"
I nod and step to his car. "Yeah. I´m absolutely exhausted by not doing anything. I should stay home today, maybe I would get better."
"You´re so lazy, Izzy," I stuck my tongue to him and he chuckles. "Let´s just go to school. You don´t want to go get late in our first day, do you?" I raised an eyebrow and opened the door of the car, then sitting on the passenger seat.
"You are the one who´s late. I´m always punctual," Okay, okay, that was a huge lie. I´m not that punctual, but I´m also not like Alexander, who has to get late to wherever he goes. He is always late. "You´re lucky I´m your friend, or else I would just go school by my own. I have nice legs to walk by my own," I hear him make some comment about my legs, which I didn´t really paid attention to so I don´t know what he said, and roll my eyes. "Just drive, blondie."
"Your wishes are my commands." I´m not looking at his face, but I can hear the smirk on his lips as he talks and turns the car on.
We arrive to school some minutes later. In fact, the only reason why Alex gives me a ride is because we like that time together, when we can talk with the low music between us and the houses and trees being painted in flashes of blurred colors and lights. I asked him about his siblings, Natalie, Sophie and Nicholas, and we chatted about how great the big Holidays were and how they should last the whole year.
"WELCOME BACK" someone printed a huge poster with those letters in bold and put it on the white wall of the school´s building. Alex shudders beside me when we hear the ring which announces classes will start in five minutes. It´s loud enough for us to hear it from the car park.
"I hate school." He mutters. His smile has faded and my friend has a scowl on his face. I have always found it funny how someone can be such a big enemy of school. Not that I´m a big fan of it – you can ask anyone, the would all tell you the same – but I think that learning is good and I like learning, not the school.
"Well," I put my hand on his shoulder and Alex looks at me with his blue eyes which always make me sigh whenever they glance at me "Welcome back," laughing I watch him grumble.
We leave the car in the park and walk into the school. There are students outside, some are sitting on benches and others are standing and hugging their friends they hadn´t see during the Holidays. I look for Jackie or Jen, but they are nowhere to be found.
"They´re probably inside, taking pictures to post on Facebook," Alexander mocks, with his arm over my shoulders, as we walk in. And he is right. Knowing as they are, they will also ask us to stay still and smile widely so they can take thousands of pictures. I always let them take the pictures, but all my friends know I´m not very comfortable in front of a camera, so they never post mines on facebook or any other social network. Good friends, I can call them.
The corridors are the same, I observe as Alex and I walk to the second floor, where we know we will find Jen and Jackie. Everything is the same in that place and I feel just like last year, though I know I have change a bit. When finally we find Jackie and Jen, I think that they changed so much, even though I was with them during the vacations. Jackie had her ginger hair tied in two long braids, but her smile when she saw me was a huge and excited as always. I loved Jackie and how she could be so protective over me. She was, with no doubt, one of my best friends. And Jen –who had cut her hair so it reached over her shoulder - oh that girl would die laughing, I could predict. "Ringing Bells, Ringing Bells!" she would start singing that anytime she felt like it, just to embarrass me. I don´t even know why it embarrasses me, but it does and Jennifer gets so amused by that. When we had a group hug, I wished we would never change so drastically it ruined our friendship.
Everyone changes in the summer Holidays, but I don´t think there was much I could have changed. My hair grew a little, but I usually tie it in the top of my head, so it´s not something very noticeable. I still use the same type of clothes and, as an example, I was wearing some white shorts with a blue top and black all stars. The same old Isabelle, with a shy and innocent smile, you could tell. But what really changed about me was something inside. Everyone knows it will happen, and you hear stories about it since you´re a little kid; everyone will, one day, fall in love. And I can say that what changed about me was that, during Holidays, as we went to the beach together almost every day and fed strawberries to each other and made fun of weird clouds on the sky, pretending life would always be like those days, I fell for Alex, my best friend. I just hoped that it was a change he wouldn´t notice.