-1Chapter 2- World Spins Madly On
A/N: Well hello there. Thank you so much for the reviews. They mean a lot. And if you haven't reviewed, please do so. By the way, if any of you have any questions (its ok, I know this is a bit confusing) feel free to email me and ask away. And, my old pen name was benshott, but I changed it, so some of you might recognize me from reviewing your stories. I promise the next chapter will be better, I just had a lot of stuff to fill you guys in on before I actually started the story. Anyway. Here it 'tis.
Disclaimer for the whole story- I don't own nothin.
"And I told you I didn't want my picture ta-ay-ken, but you snapped it anyway, well I guess now, I guess you won't have trouble remembering me some day, some day-ayyyy-"
"Ugh!" She searched for her phone, finally finding it on the floor beside the bed, and opened it.
"Okay that song is so not a good song to wake up to," she mumbled into the phone.
"Yeah but it's our song. You know you love it," the other person replied.
"Uh huh. So…why are you calling me this early in the morning?" she asked frustrated.
"That's no way to talk to your sister Alex. And maybe I just miss you." the younger girl said.
"Ashley, I saw you...like…" she looked at the clock, "seven hours ago. What do you want?"
"Ok, you got me. Well…you see, we got some deliveries today and…well…they're all messed up. Some of the stuff isn't even here and the stuff that is here is either not enough or the wrong kind. I never knew there were so many types of alcoholic beverages." Ashley said quickly.
"Slow down…all of your talking is making my head hurt."
"I told you last night not to drink so much. But did you listen to me? Noooo!" she exclaimed.
"Ha. Ha ha," Alex replied sarcastically, "ok now…can't you just tell the people that they got the deliveries wrong and to fix it?" Alex was still aggravated that she was woken up at 9 am after getting only 4 hours of sleep.
"But you're so much better at yelling at people! I'm too nice!" she whined.
" You don't seem to have a problem yelling at me," she retorted.
"Yeah, but you're my sister Lex! It's easier." she said.
"Forget it. I'm not coming down there!" Alex replied.
"But it's your club!" she said, drawing out the word 'your'.
"Yeah, my club, that I'm paying you to manage! Now listen. Go down there to the delivery guys, tell them they fucked everything up-"
"Aleeeeexxx," the younger one interrupted, whining.
"You really need to get a back bone. Ok, tell them that the orders aren't correct and you would really appreciate it if they could fix them," she replied, annoyed at her sister for not having the balls to tell someone that they screwed up.
"Hmm…that's not too bad. Thanks Alex! You're the best!" the girl said, happy that she had found out the answer to her problem.
"Yeah I know. Ok, well I'm going to go get showered and everything now that I'm UP!" Alex said angrily.
Ashley laughed nervously, "Yeah sorry about that. But I got to go. Duty calls. Are you coming down here tonight?"
"Yeah, James wanted to check out the band tonight," she said, not noticing her slip.
"Ugh. Jaaaammmmees," she said in high-pitched annoying voice. "So you'll come down here just for him huh? I see how it is."
"Ha. Funny." Alex said sarcastically. "Why don't you like him anyway?"
"Um, because he's an ass??" she retorted. "I can't stand that guy. He's a man whore."
"We've been going out for 2 months. How is he a man whore?"
"Because he flirts with anything that moves!" Ashley exclaimed.
"That's not true-"
"Puh-lease" she said dramatically.
"Whatever. I got to get ready. I'll talk to you later." Alex was upset with her sister. She guessed that Ashley and her latest boyfriend, James, would just never get along.
"Ok. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you upset. I just…I don't know. I get a bad feeling about that guy. He doesn't deserve you. But I'll talk to you later. Love ya sis." she said, regret showing in her voice.
"It's ok. Love you too. Bye."
"Bye."
Alex sighed when she closed her phone. She knew that James wasn't exactly the best guy out there, but he was nice and charming, and he was hot.
But she loved her little sister more than anything, and she cared about what she thought.
"Well…I guess I'll be breaking up with him soon. There goes another one," she thought
Ashley was Alex's younger sister by two years. The two were always very close, but when Alex moved to Newport they didn't talk much. When Alex moved back home, they kind of picked up where they left off.
"Hmm. To change the ring tone, or not to change the ring tone. That is the question." Alex said out loud. "Oh god I'm talking to myself." she rolled her eyes.
She starting laughing though when she thought about how she came to love the song used as her sister's ring tone.
Alex had been in LA after her and Marissa broke up for about two weeks when her sister decided that they need to have some good quality time together. So there were off to the mall.
On the way there, Ashley put a cd in. The sounds of Saves the Day were quickly heard coming through the speakers.
"What is this?" Alex asked.
"Saves the Day, duh. Now shut up, I like this song!" Ashley yelled, and then turned the music up louder.
"Don't
you remember the last time we were speeding down this highway?
Anna
slept in the back seat, dreaming in the autumn heat.
We turned up
the country radio.
I said, "if you want me just say so."
I slicked back my hair in the wind."
"What the hell?? This is horrible!" Alex exclaimed.
But Ashley only continued to sing along at the top of her lungs.
"I
told you I didn't want my picture taken but you snapped it anyway.
Now I guess you won't have trouble remembering me someday."
"You really like that song?" Alex asked once Ashley was finished with the whole song.
"You don't?!" she said, amazed.
"It's annoying!"
"That's just because you don't know it. And it's so much fun to sing along to. Here, I'll play it again. You'll start liking it, I swear." she said and pressed the back button on the stereo.
"Doubt it," Alex replied as she rolled her eyes.
Well…turns out, Alex really did grow to love the song. So pretty much every time her and Ashley would get in the car together, they would play it and sing along, screaming their lungs out. So when it Alex was trying to figure out what ring tone to use for her sister, only one song popped into her head. "Take Our Cars Now!" by Saves the Day.
Alex smiled to herself and dropped her phone. There was no way she could change it after all of this time, even if it wasn't the best song to wake up to.
She started walking towards her shower and sighed. She didn't really want to go tonight. But she assumed she had to. It was her club after all. She thought about how lucky she was, to be living it up in the city, and to have her very own club.
The club was called Two Faced. The reason for the name was because half of the week the club was a dance club, and it played all rap and hip-hop, well, pretty much anything you could dance to. And for the other half, they had the best up and coming rock bands (and all of the popular bands) come and perform. It was really the best of both worlds. Everyone loved the place, celebrities included. Alex was really proud of. And she felt like she deserved it too. After all, she worked her ass off for it.
After leaving Newport, she went back home to LA. She ended up going back to school, and when it came time for college, she knew that she wanted out of California. So when NYU accepted her, she packed all of her stuff and moved across the country. She majored in business management, and knew exactly what she wanted to do. Own a club. Luckily, in the four years that she had lived in New York, she had tons of contacts, and plenty of people that were will willing to help her make her dreams happen.
So she started planning for it when she started her last year of college, and her parents helped fund it. Throughout the years, they had really become close and accepted Alex for who she was. Her dad even enlisted the help of Art Steele, a middle aged man who owned four clubs in Atlanta, Miami, Las Vegas, and LA, and they were all hot spots for celebs. This man was truly the best in the business, and was more than happy to help Alex with the new club after he heard her ideas for it.
The club opened two weeks after she graduated from NYU, and was an immediate hit. And Alex couldn't have been happier with the way that everything was turning out in that part of her life.
Her love life, however, was another story. Through the years, Alex had girlfriends and boyfriends, but none of them lasted more than about 3 months. It was hard to find someone worth dating in New York. All the girls were usually obnoxious and not her type at all, and the guys thought they were God's gift to women. And her latest boyfriend, James, was no exception. He was a total dud. Sure, he was hot, but he knew it. And he was completely clueless when it came to Alex and her feelings.
Alex realized the reason that most of her relationships failed, and that was because they could never live up to the relationship that she had with…her.
Her. Tall, skinny, brown hair, blue eyed beauty. Marissa.
Alex still missed her after all of these years, and wished that she could see her, find out how she was doing. The break-up was horrible for Alex. For months, she didn't look at a guy or girl and think about them in that way. Because every time she would, she thought about Marissa and how much she missed her. She felt so stupid for leaving. If she would have stayed, maybe it would have worked out.
But it was too late now. She didn't even have her number anymore after an unfortunate accident involving a pool and a fully clothed Alex being thrown in, cell phone in her back pocket. And she didn't have her contacts saved on her SIM card, so every number was lost. Alex liked to think that if she had Marissa's number she would call her, but she figured that her nerves would get the best of her.
Alex shook her head to stop the trip down Memory Lane, and started getting ready. She had a few errands to run before going to the club tonight.
After getting out of the shower, Alex picked up her phone and noticed that she had two missed calls. One was from Katie, a girl about a year younger than Alex. They were introduced to each other by Ashley, because her and Katie were best friends. Alex and Katie got along really well, and they quickly became good friends.
The other call was from Peyton, a girl the same age as Alex. The two met their freshman year in college, and have since then been best friends. They told each other anything and everything. Peyton showed Alex around New York when they met, because she was born and raised there. Alex doesn't know what she would have done all these years without Peyton. The two weren't romantic or anything, because Peyton was straight as a board. She loved men. (Peyton is kind of Alex's Summer) But she had no problem when Alex told her that she was bisexual, and neither did the rest of Peyton's friends, who all soon became Alex's friends too.
Alex called Katie first, because she said that it was important on the message.
"Ello?" the girl on the other end answered.
"Hey Katie, what's up?" Alex replied.
"Oh nothing much. I was just wondering who was playing at the club tomorrow," she said.
"So, that's what was so important?" Alex asked.
"Uh yeah. Pretty much. I knew you'd call me back if I said that," she laughed.
"Ugh. I would have called you back anyway. And Silverchair is supposed to perform tomorrow," she said.
"I love Silverchair!! Are you going?" she asked.
"Duh. Do you know long it took to get them to play? There's no way I'd miss them," she exclaimed.
"Ok good. How bout we invite everybody down there tomorrow, we can all hang out."
"Yeah that sounds good. The show starts at 8, but we can get there at about 7." Alex said.
"Awesome. Listen I gotta go, I'm about to go into a meeting with, 'The Man'." Katie said.
"You mean he's real? I thought he was just a made up person. I've only heard you mention seeing him once," she laughed.
"Yeah, and that was when I first started working here. He said 'Hey you, get me a coffee'. It was touching, really." she joked. "But yeah, we're having a new girl come in from Hawaii, and we're having a meeting about her. She's supposed to be really good, with a degree and everything. She's gonna be on the design team with me."
"Oh that sounds cool. But I'll let you go, I gotta call Peyton."
"Ok, bye Lex."
"Bye," Alex responded and hung up the phone.
Then she pressed 1 on the speed dial.
"Bout time you called me bitch!" she heard Peyton's voice answer.
Alex laughed, "Nice to talk to you to Peyt. What's up?"
Peyton laughed also, "Nothing much, I was just seeing what you were up to today."
"I gotta pick up some stuff from the store, then tonight I'm going down to the club. What about you?"
"Ehh. Nothing. I'm bored. Want to go grab lunch?" she asked.
"Sure. Where?" Alex stated.
"How about that new Italian restaurant? I heard It's really good."
"Sure. Meet you there in an hour?"
"Sounds good. See you then. Bye."
"Bye."
Alex looked through her closet and found something to wear. When she walked out, something on her dresser caught her eye. It was a picture of her and Marissa, on they beach about a week after they started going out. They both had huge smiles on their faces.
Alex had debated putting the picture up, she worried that it would make her miss the brunette even more, but decided to put it up. It was from a time when she was really happy, and it was a good memory. She looked at the clock and noticed that she really needed to leave.
"Shit…I gotta hurry." she said while grabbing her keys and walking out of her posh apartment.
A/N- Ok. All done. Next chapter will have a lot more dialogue in it, I promise. Haha. The story really starts now. But I think that M/A won't meet until chapter four, so hang in there. By the way, like I said, the song is "Take Our Cars Now" by Saves the Day. It's a fun song. Download it if you want to. And it really doesn't have anything to do with the story, but I thought I'd just throw it in there. Next chap should be up in about 2 days.
