Prologue: Post Secrets

"Mitch,I'm bored." Came a groan from Mitchie Torres' best friend, Alex Russo. It was currently a stormy Saturday afternoon in March and the girls were in the midst of their spring break, although without school to occupy them and the weather being atrocious at the moment, the two girls had found themselves wondering what to do throughout the day.

"Well, what do you wanna do?" Mitchie asked, scrolling down the page of her IPhone as she checked her Twitter and Facebook, both had nothing interesting so she quickly put the phone down beside her on her bed.

"I don't know…oh! Can I use your laptop really quick? I wanna check to see if there are new post secrets up." Alex said. Mitchie looked over at her friend in confusion.

"What's post secrets?" Mitchie asked.

"You've never heard of it? Hand me your laptop, I'll show you." Alex said holding out her hands for Mitchie to pass the laptop over. After opening a new window Alex quickly typed the site in and they were brought to the "Post Secrets" page.

"Basically what it is, is people send in their secrets on post cards or pictures and they get posted on this site, I think they have some books too and a Twitter and Facebook page, I'm not sure." Alex explained. Mitchie looked over the main page and read over some of the secrets that had been posted. Some were uplifting and happy such as

I'm finally on my way to becoming everything I've always wanted to be, especially MYSELF!

Others were sad and depressing, like one that read

5 years, and suddenly, you're a stranger to me.

and some were just plain funny, like

When I was in kindergarten I thought that the overhead in our classroom was an X-Ray Machine

"Wow, how did you find this?" Mitchie asked, reading over the secrets as Alex continued to scroll down the page.

"I was with Harper one day and she showed it to me. I can't believe you never read them." Alex said. For the next hour the girls scanned the site and read over the secrets that had been posted. As she and Alex read over the secrets Mitchie felt a mixture of things: confusion, as to why people would trust strangers with such secrets and confessions, sadness, for those whose secrets were sad and heart breaking, and finally the biggest of all, curiosity, had Alex written any or sent any in? And if she did, what did she write? And what would she herself write if she were to send in her secrets?

"Cool huh?" Alex asked as they took a break from the site and headed into the Torres's kitchen so Alex could make something to eat, Mitchie insisted she wasn't hungry but accompanied her best friend anyways.

"Yeah. Hey wanna stop by the store later? I wanna grab a few things." Mitchie said as she sat down with Alex who had made herself a grilled ham and cheese sandwich.

"Sure, what store did you wanna stop by?" Alex asked.

"That little stationary store down on Lexington. I wanna grab a new notebook for my songs, my other ones getting full." Mitchie explained. Alex agreed to stop by the store with Mitchie and after Alex had finished eating the two girls hopped into Mitchie's car and headed off to "All Things Stationary".

"You coming in?" Mitchie asked.

"Nah, I'm good, I'll wait for you in here." Alex said. With a nod Mitchie got out of the car and headed into the shop.

"Hey Mitchie, what's up?" the store owner, Nicole, asked as the 17 year old walked in.

"Nothing much, do you guys have any, like, scrap booking stuff?" Mitchie asked.

"Yep, just over here." Nicole replied bringing the teenager over to the scrap booking area. Looking over her options Mitchie grabbed a simple looking beige scrapbook and picked out a few letter stickers and other random page decorators and brought it up to the front. Noticing the postcard display near the till Mitchie browsed the collection and chose a dozen or so postcards and threw them in with the rest of her things.

"Okay that'll be $38.47" Nicole told her. Mitchie handed her the money and wished her a good day before heading back to the car where Alex was sitting in the passenger seat, looking through the music on Mitchie's IPhone that was plugged into the car stereo.

"Back." Mitchie said as she threw her bag on the backseat and started to pull out of the parking lot.

"What else did you get? Looks like more than a note book." Alex commented.

"Oh, just some scrapbooking stuff, my mom's been going nuts working on a scrapbook from when I was little to now and I thought I'd start my own." Mitchie replied. The rest of the car ride was spent in a comfortable silence and just before the girls got onto Mitchie's street Alex noticed the time.

"Crap, my shift at the shop starts in,like, half an hour. Think you could drop me off at my place?" Alex asked.

"Sure, did you leave anything at my place?" Mitchie asked.

"I don't think so. If I did would you mind bringing it over later?"

"Not at all." Mitchie replied as they headed down the street to "Waverly Sub Station"

"See you later?" Mitchie asked.

"Yep, I'll text you when I'm done my shift." Alex said as she gave Mitchie a quick hug before getting out of the car and heading into her family restaurant. Mitchie drove back to her place and found herself back on the Post Secrets site, reading over peoples confessions that they were brave enough to put forward. Looking at the plastic bag that now sat on her computer chair Mitchie decided now would be a better time than never to start her book. Closing her laptop Mitchie grabbed the bag with her new scrapbook, stickers and postcards and used the letter stickers to spell out

My Post Secrets

On the cover. Taking a pen off her desk and pulling the first page of her scrapbook out and placing a postcard in front of her, Mitchie sat on her bed, wondering what her first secret should be.

Hi everyone, so this is my first story I decided to write, I was reading over my post secret book and I thought it would be cool to write a story based on some of the ones I found both in my book and on the post secret twitter PostSecrets. This story will eventually be a MitchieXAlex story but at times it will be either Alex or Mitchie centric. Hope you liked this little bit, I'll try to update again soon if I have some free time on my hands