A/N: I'm only starting this NOW because it's going to be so much longer than any of my other stories, simply because of all of it's content. I'm serious, it's going to be a long one, but I'm sure you guys aren't going to be complaining any. In fact, I think this is by far going to be the longest story I have ever written. Ever.
Anyhow, I did a few things different in this story, simply cuz I like trying out new stuff and all. I hope you guys enjoy it and all of it's…differences? Lol. I'm going to try to incorporate as many characters as possible, original and unoriginal alike. So I hope you look forward to that.
Don't worry, I'm not giving up on HSG, I'm just putting together where I want that one to go and it'll be updated within the next one to two days, depending. Anyhow, here's my little idea. Hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I don't own any unoriginal character in this story. All the original ones are mine though!
Sixteen year old Alexandra Cabot groans and pulls her comforter further over her head as her alarm continuous to blare irritably. She reaches an arm out of her cocoon of blankets and slams her fist down on to the 'snooze' button for probably the fourth time that morning. Just as she's sure she's about to fall back asleep, another loud blurring interrupts her slumber and she grunts as the noise continuous.
She fumbles blindly for her cell phone which is lying on the nightstand along with her wretched clock. "Lo?" she mumbles groggily into the phone with out even bothering to look at the caller ID to see who it is interrupting her sleep.
"Whoa, you sound…terrible. Is it safe to assume that you aren't ready yet?" Serena Southerlyn snickers from her line of the phone.
"…no…where are you?" Alex responds as she continues to lie under her covers.
"I'm outside your house…" Serena replies blankly.
Alex shoots up in her bed and this time actually bothers to look at the time that is written on the clock. "Oh my god!" she exclaims as she practically flies out of bed, nearly dropping her phone in her process. She ignores her best friends' laughter coming through the speaker and proceeds to ramble into the phone. "Oh my god, Serena, I'm so sorry, give me twenty minutes at least." She states, before hanging up.
After taking the fastest shower in the history of showers, Alex flies around her room trying to get everything together for the day. Now she's probably going to be late for school, all because she didn't feel like waking up when it was time to wake up. Curse her laziness and procrastination syndrome. She throws on her uniform and throws her hair into a mess ponytail; she can always brush her hair at school right? She throws all of her work into her school bag before she grabs her phone and sprints out of her room.
"Someone over sleep?" Veronica Cabot inquires with an amused smile on her face as she watches her daughter practically jump down the stairs.
"Not now. Bye Mom. Love you." she exclaims, giving her mother a kiss on the cheek before she gazes down at her thirteen year old sister, Rachel. "You, not so much. Bye."
Alex sprints down the steps of her house and across the lawn over to where Serena's car is parked in her driveway. She throws her stuff in the back seat and quickly jumps into the front. "Guys, I'm so sorry I'm late…I over slept."
"Over slept meaning you hit the snooze button at least six times." Kim Greylek states, earning a snicker from Serena.
Alex rolls her eyes at her best friends and moves to put on her seatbelt when Serena stops her. "You have your pompoms?"
"They're in my locker. At least they better be because I am NOT going back in that house to look for them. Coach can just scream at me if I forgot them again. I'm in the kind of mood where I'll just take it."
Serena shrugs her shoulders and quickly pulls out of Alex's driveway, heading towards Underwood High. She taps her fingers against the steering wheel awkwardly at the silence in the car. "So…is this going to be one of those rides? Those rides where Kim sits in the back and does her make up and Alex just stares blankly out the window? Come on guys, it's homecoming tonight! Aren't the two of you excited in the slightest? We have that huge pep rally today and then the dance!"
Both of the other girls in the car groan considerably at Serena's overexcitement about school spirit and school functions and just school in general. It will always be beyond them on why their bubbly friend is always so excited about literally…EVERYTHING.
"You are always way too excited, Rena." Kim murmurs as she continues to blot her lipstick in her handheld mirror. She moves to apply more, but freezes when she feels the car swerve intentionally. "You SO did that on purpose. Why are you even going to the dance if you don't even have a date Serena…"
"Hey, I have a date! I told you that Olivia asked me last weekend and I gladly told her I would go." The blonde replies, taking her eyes off the road briefly to glare at her friend in her rearview mirror. It isn't until then that she notices her other best friend's quietness for the past few minutes. "Ali, are you alright? You are going to the dance right?"
Alex shrugs a shoulder and continues to rest her head against the window. "I dunno," she replies indifferently as if she's trying to make it seem like it's not really bothering her in the slightest.
Her answer sparks confusion amongst her two friends. The two other girls make eye contact with each other briefly in the mirror before Kim leans forward and sticks her head up into the front seat. "What do you mean 'you dunno'. You have a girlfriend. Why wouldn't you know already?"
"Yeah, haven't you and Abbie talked about whether or not the two of you actually plan to go?" Serena chimes in.
"Again, I don't know. " Alex replies, a little more firmly. "We haven't really talked about it, which means that she hasn't exactly asked me. I don't know if I'm supposed to bring it up with her or if I'm supposed to assume that we're automatically going together or if she's actually planning something. She's been super busy with basketball lately, I don't really think that she's thought about it. It's not a big deal."
Serena gasps and her mouth hangs open for a good ten seconds before she is able to compose her self. "Alex, it's HOMECOMING, how can it not be a BIG DEAL!? You should say something. Or better yet, you should ask someone else to go with you. Ask Kim, I'm sure she'll go."
"I'll pass." Kim responds blandly as her attention is already turned back to her makeup. "I enjoy being the one person there without a date."
"Really, it's not a big deal Serena. If Abbie wants to ask me, she can and if she doesn't want to go, then that's fine too." Alex replies, though the sadness can be portrayed in her voice. "My two best friends will be there anyway, so that's what matters right?"
"Seems, like she pays a lot more attention to basketball than she does to you." Kim murmurs quietly in the backseat.
"And you seem unhappy." Serena adds in, matching the brunette's bland and quiet tone. "For the most part, at least."
Alex squeezes her eyes shut for a brief moment before she shoots a glare at both of her friends. "I am perfectly happy alright? I'm as busy with cheer just as much as Abbie is busy with basketball, so it's not like she's blatantly not making time for me like you guys are making it out to be. So just lay off alright?"
"Geez, fine…sorry…" both girls murmur in unison as Serena turns her attention back to the road. She briefly glances at her best friend out of the corner of her eye once more and internally shakes her head, hoping that Alex is actually alright like she claims to be.
The rest of the drive to school is silent between the three girls for no one really has much of anything to say after that point. When Serena pulls into the student parking lot of the school, Alex spots her girlfriend sitting on the hood of her car, talking with a bunch of girls in letterman jackets; the rest of the basketball team.
"Out of all the parking spots in this lot, you had to choose this one." Alex mutters quietly, quiet enough for Serena not to hear her as she gets out of the car and reaches in the back for her stuff. Finally, she straightens up and puts on her best smile for her girlfriend. "Hey…"
"Hey you." Abbie responds as she slides off of her car and wraps her arms around the blonde waiting for her. "I missed you yesterday. I thought we were gonna hang out after school."
Alex shrugs indifferently as she leans into the brunette's embrace. "I had a lot of homework last night and I overslept this morning anyway, so it was probably best I stayed in."
"You could've stayed over, you know. My parents weren't home last night." Abbie purrs suggestively as she leans in closer. "We could've had some alone time."
"Unfortunately, mine were and they wouldn't have agreed to having me stay over at my girlfriend's house on a school night. Especially if her parents weren't home." Alex replies with a shake of her head.
"You could've said you were staying at Serena's to study or work on a project or something…"
"My parents trust me Abbie, and I'd rather not violate that trust that I have with them. Maybe we can hang out later? After the dance? Or we don't have to go to the dance if you don't want to. We can always just do something else…"
Abbie raises her eyebrows and tilts her head to the side in question. "The dance? I didn't even know you had planned on going to the dance…"
'Because you never asked. I even bought a dress and everything…' "I mean, I did, but…we don't have to go." Alex responds quietly as she casts her gaze down to the ground.
"No, ah, we can go…it's just a little last minute that's all. But we'll go, since you really want to go." The athlete replies rubbing at the back of her neck. "We'll talk more about it later, alright?"
"Alright," Alex says with a small head nod before she wraps her arms around her self. "Can I have your jacket?"
Abbie tilts her head again and frowns slightly. "You didn't bring your own jacket?"
"No, I did. But I just like wearing yours." The blonde cheerleader responds with a small blush at her cheeks.
Abbie smiles as she shrugs off her letterman and wraps it around her girlfriend. "Better?"
"Much." Alex answers as she steals a quick kiss. "I gotta go. I'll see you in class okay?"
"Alright. You don't want me to walk you to class?"
"No, it's fine. I've got a lot of running around to do before first period anyway."
Abbie hums and nods her head before she kisses her girlfriend another time. "Okay then. I'll see you later."
Alex smiles and gives the snickering basketball team a wave before she turns and heads off towards the school with her best friends. She adjusts her bag on her shoulder and shoves her hands into the pockets of Abbie's letterman.
"Because you look so happy right now." Kim says sarcastically, not missing a beat on Alex's sudden change in mood in the past five minutes.
"I'm fine. It's nothing to worry about really. Things are just weird right now." Alex responds with a shrug. "I'm surprised you were even able to notice my mood what with Serena making drooling goo-goo eyes at Olivia ever since we pulled into the parking lot."
Serena blushes furiously and opens her mouth to respond but snaps it shut when she realizes that she has nothing to say on the subject. "What all do you have to do before class anyway? You don't seem to be in that much of a hurry."
"I'm not…I just didn't want Abbie to walk me to class this morning." Alex responds as she makes a brief stop at her locker. She shoves her pompoms to the side to make room before stuffing a couple of textbooks inside. "We would probably end up making out until the tardy bell then I'd get in trouble for being late again."
"Still think she could've asked you to homecoming." Serena murmurs with a disapproving shake of her head, flinching when Kim elbows her in the ribs.
Alex shrugs before she closes her locker and turns around. "Like I said, we're already dating, so it really doesn't matter. I better get to class. I'll see you guys at the pep rally." She says before walking off towards her first period class leaving her two best friends silently staring after her.
She makes her way to her English class and takes a seat in her usual desk next to Olivia Benson. Olivia is probably one of the handful of Abbie's friends that Alex can actually stand to be around. There's something about the outgoing brunette that differs her from the rest of the basketball team and Alex has no problem with that at all. She also thinks it's super sweet that Olivia was the one who asked her best friend to the homecoming dance; unlike a certain someone else that Alex knows.
"Rough morning?" Olivia inquires amusedly with an arch of one of her eyebrows.
Alex chuckles quietly and nods her head as she runs a hand through her hair. "Yeah, I refused to listen to my alarm this morning. I was up really late doing that stupid calculus crap that still doesn't make any sense to me. But I got it done. How was practice last night?"
Liv winces at the question but settles on shrugging her shoulders. "It was rough. We did a lot of cardio which is always an ass kicking. Then Abbie outplayed all of us in the scrimmage as usual. I think we're going to have a really good team this year. How's cheer going?"
"Great…" Alex groans sarcastically, sinking down into her chair. "I'm so tired of our captain already. Just because she's a senior, she thinks that everyone else on the squad is her slave, the rest of the seniors included. Plus she's a complete airhead. I want to push her off a bridge."
"Ooo, getting kind of violent there aren't we?"
"You have no idea…"
The bell sounds signaling the beginning of first period. The teacher Miss Pritchett, a middle aged woman who has been teaching for far too long, stands up and begins writing on the board. "Today class, we will begin talking about symbolisms, idioms, and other types of literally devices. We will be learning how to identify these device and by doing that, we will be using an excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'." She pauses as she begins to pass out the hand out and the excerpt to the class. "Each of you will pick a partner and-"The door to the classroom flies open and in walks a lean redhead who just so happens to be the bane of Alex's existence.
Miss Pritchett sighs heavily as she realized this would happen because she practically goes through it every day. "Miss Novak, you're late…again."
Casey Novak clicks her tongue and plops down in her seat, putting her head on her desk as she does so. "Thanks for stating the obvious, but I already kinda knew I was late."
"And dare I ask if you have a note this time?"
"You'd be wasting your own breath if you do."
The teacher sighs heavily and pinches the bridge of her nose in frustration. "Well I would highly appreciate it if you would not be such a disruption when you enter my class almost ten minutes late." She concludes, but abruptly continues on. "And please take your feet off of the furniture. You are not at home."
Casey rolls her eyes but reluctantly complies to the teacher's request. She then turns her head towards the blonde sitting next to her and a smug grin slowly spreads across her lips. "You know, you always look pretty damn hot in that skirt."
An uncomfortable shudder runs down Alex's spine as she forces her self not to look at the green eyes that are not so shyly roaming over her body. "You say that about every outfit I wear Novak." She responds, not bothering to give the redhead the satisfaction of looking at her.
"Well then maybe it's because you always look so damn hot in anything then huh?" Casey replies, her smirk only widening by the second. "I bet you look even hotter in nothing at all. You strike me as a thong kinda girl though. I like that."
"Yeah? I like it when you keep your mouth shut. Wish I could say the same for all the girls you fool around with though. Their mouths are just like their legs for you; always open."
"Would you like to join me sometime then? I promise I'll make it worth your while."
Alex wrinkles her nose and this time turns to glare at her annoyance. "Thanks but no thanks. I have a girlfriend who just so happens to be a billion times more respectful than you are."
Casey raises her eyebrows but that stupid smug grin doesn't disappear from her lips in the slightest. "Is that so huh? Word is that Carmichael's been complaining that you haven't given her the goods yet."
Anger flashes in Alex's eyes and her face flushes a dark red. "She has not!" she exclaims, probably a little louder than necessary seeing as she's supposed to be working on what ever the assignment is.
"Truth hurts don't it Princess?"
"Don't call me that, I'm not your 'Princess' and I have absolutely no reason to believe anything that you say. You're just jealous of Abbie, that's all."
Casey smug expression falls and it's replaced with one of anger. "If you think I'm jealous of that scarecrow, then you've got another thing coming. That stuck up wannabe needs to be taken down a few pegs anyhow."
"Don't talk about her like that."
"It's true."
"Hey Novak, why don't you just shut up and mind your own business?" Olivia speaks up from her seat. She honestly gets tired of hearing Casey run her mouth day in and day out, and today, she's not going to take it.
Casey flips off the brunette before she leans back into her chair and puts her feet on her desk once again. She looks over and gives a highly flustered Alex another smirk before she drifts off into daydreaming; what she typically does in all of her classes anyway.
Like I said before, it's gonna be different. And I paired Alex and Abbie together right now for a reason. Would any of you guys like to try to guess that reason? Lol, anyhow, hope you enjoyed the start to this. Don't forget to leave all of your lovely feedback!