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Chapter 2: I'm Sorry
Alex's POV


"Your wands please." Crumbs said, holding his hand out. We all passed it to him. And then he was gone.

"We're not wizards anymore." I said to no one in particular. Justin walked away from where I was standing. I called out for him, but he didn't look back. We walked home, it only taking us about a minute or so.

When we came through the wizard portal door, mom, dad, and Masen were all sitting there.

"Oh thank goodness your all okay." Mom said, looking at all of us.

"I can't believe this," Max said, turning to Justin. "I've prepared for this that the next time we walked through that door, one of us would be a full wizard. Not none of us would be the full wizard." he said, sitting down.

"Not just us." Justin said loudly. "Any Russo from now on." he turned to look at me, anger in his eyes. I took a step back. I saw Masen somewhat take a step closer to me. "Alex just cut down the family tree, and burned it."

"I told you that I thought we would make it back in time!" I yelled at him. Mom took a step foward.

"Come on Justin, now's not the time to point fingers, honey." she said. He just crossed his arms.

"Didn't you guys promise eachother that this competition wouldn't tear you guys apart?" Dad asked, looking at all three of us.

"There is no competition. So that deals off." Justin said. It really was my fault. And now Justin really hated me. I took another step back, this time walking right into Masen. He wrapped an arm around me, and in that moment I didn't care.

What was the point anymore? None of us were full wizards. No one else could be. And Justin, I'm pretty sure he didn't want to see me at all. I wrapped my arms around Masen's waist like I used to do with Justin.

"Come on Justin, she was just trying to help her friends." Masen said, staring at Justin with somewhat of a glare.

"Wait, well maybe everything's okay, none of the wizard stuff is gone," I said, looking around at the room. And then a book on the table dissapeared. "Oh, that's not really a good sign."

One after the other, everything in the room started dissapearing. "We all need to get out of here before we dissapear like everything else!"

We all ran out of the room, and once the last person was out, Justin closed the door, leaning back onto it. There was a bright glow and then it was silent. He opened it back up, and all that was inside was frozen foods.

"It's over. We're not wizards anymore." Justin said, then closed the door. "We're mortals." Everyone stepped away from the door and just looked at eachother. Justin started to raise his hand, and Masen stepped in front of me, growling.

"Don't touch her." he said.

Justin stared back at him, and his eyes were black. "I'm not going to hit my... sister." he said, looking at me. He walked out of the kitchen, everyone excluding Masen and I following.

I smiled at Masen. "Masen, I'm sorry. But you know about me and Justin. And plus, I'm not a wizard. We couldn't be together anyways."

He shook his head. "No. I'll find a way. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go drown my worries in fifty hamburgers." He walked out.

When I walked out of the kitchen I saw that everyone but mom and dad were sitting down. Harper and Zeke were talking to eachother but I didn't pay attention to them. I looked over at Justin who watched Masen leave, and then he turned to look at me.

"Justin." I said, but he just sighed and shook his head.

"I don't know anymore Alex. Maybe, we should take a break." And with that he walked upstairs.

And then I did the only thing I could do.

I fell to my knees, then curled up on the floor, crying. He didn't love me anymore. No one did. I ruined everything. I felt Harper come down and start saying things to me, but I didn't listen. I noticed that Max had left too. I didn't know where Zeke was, but I really didn't care. Harper sat on the floor with me until mom and dad came through the door.

By that time, I didn't have any more tears left in me, but I was shaking uncontrollably. Maybe I should leave. Everyone would never have to see me again. But then I would be running away from my problems. Well, maybe it was time to start running instead of always skipping over it and going onto the next one.

Someone lifted me up but I couldn't see who it was. They took be upstairs and into my room, laying me down on my bed. They shut off the lights, and started leaving the room. Until they said one thing.

"I'm sorry, Alex."


We didn't talk to each other for the next three days. But one day in the subshop, that's when it all went down hill.

"Justin," I said, walking over to the kitchen where he was working. "I need that chicken salad sandwich for table four."

"Yeah, well I need a life time supply of wizard powers, so I guess we're both not getting what we want." He said, coldly to me. I didn't back down this time. I just stared at him, glaring. "We're out of chicken salad."

Are you kidding me? "Why didn't you tell me that before, I've been waiting like, twenty minutes." He just shrugged at me.

"Yo Justin," Max said, competely ignoring me while shoving me out of the way. "I need a chicken salad sandwich for table twelve."

"Here you go," he said, staring at me with a peachy smily and handing it over to Max.

"Ha, ha, very funny." I said after Max commented on how fast Justin was. I grabbed onto Max's arm. "I see what your doing. Max, give me the sandwich." but he refused to give it to me.

Dad came over asking us what the problem was, and we told him. He took us all into the kitchen. He told us that we had to get over what happenend. Yeah, because losing the wizard competition, killing the family tree of magic, and breaking up with my boyfriend who is my brother is easy to get over.

Right.

I walked over to my tabled and started collecting the glasses. Right when I was at the last one, about to get the lady a refill, Justin called me name. "Hey, Alex. Think fast." he said, whipping the sandwich at me. But it didn't hit me, it tipped over all the glasses filled with liquid, making it spill all over the customer.

"Oh my gosh, I'm am so sorry." I said, handing her napkins and trying to help her get dry.

Dad again rushed over, asking what happenend. "Alex, you did that on purpose," Max said, walking over to us.

"No, I didn't, Justin threw the sandwich at me, dad!" I yelled.

"What is the matter with you guys, I thought we just talked about all of us working together!" he yelled at all of us.

Hey, he couldn't be blaming this all on me! "I didn't do anything, he's the one being a... jerk." I finished, catching myself. Not a good time to start swearing.

Justin scoffed. "I can't work with her," he said, not looking at me. Max took off the apron.

"Yeah, me either. I'm done."

"You know what! Why don't you guys just get out of here, your mother and I will handle it." Dad said, starting to pick up the glasses.

"NOW!" He yelled loudly when we didn't move. I flinched back and we all left.


"Oh, there's Justin." I said to Harper a few days later. For those last nights she stayed up with me, talking about things to try and distract myself from thinking about Justin.

Yeah, because again, that was easy.

"Let's just go down the block and through the alley," I said, turning around. He turned back to look at me, then he went back to reading his magazine.

"Alright, you guys have been fighting for weeks, now let's just get this over with." She said, dragging me over to where Justin was. I got free of her grasp, yelling at her.

"Harper, no! I can't go a few more weeks ignoring them, maybe even forever!" I said loudly. I saw Justin tense up but then he relax again after a quick second.

Max then stepped out of the shop right next to us. "Oh, it's you. Yeah, I forgot something in the shop." He said, about to walk in, but Harper pulled him and I over to Justin. He turned around, staring at me.

Harper pushed both me and Max, making me stumble right into Justin. He grabbed onto me, and for the first time in three weeks I felt safe. But then it all ended too soon, and he let me go.

"It's not gonna happen."

"Not in this life time."

"See, there the problem," I told her.

Dad suddenly walked out of the sub station, putting up a sign over the 'CLOSED' one.

"Buisness for sale?" Justin asked, giving dad a questioning look.

"Dad, what are you doing?" Wait, we're moving? Why? He just looked at all four of us then walked back in. We quickly followed in behind him, seeing that all the chairs and tabled were stacked up against the walls, and that everything was already packed inside of boxes.

He told us we were selling the family buisness because we weren't a 'family' anymore. He left, and then mom left. Harper stood in front of us, her hands on her hips. "Well, I am very dissapointed in you, mijas." she said, and walked off into the kitchen.

We all just stared at her. "I really don't know how this whole mija thing works..." she called.

"Good going Alex," Justin said, hands in his hips. "you made dad upset."

"Well, I didn't do it alone." I said, my voice much more quieter than I wanted it to be. "but it doesn't matter." They couldn't possibly think that I would let this place be put up for sale, right? "I'm not going to make dad throw everything away, just because you guys hate me."

I started taking chairs down when he started talking. "Oh, so what. You're going to keep this place open? Since we don't have magic anymore, this is the only thing I have left."

"No, I've got this." Max said, taking the 'For Sale' sign down off the door. "This is the only thing I'm good at, and I can't have you guys messing it up. Now, I'm going to go teach Harper how this whole 'mijah' thing works."


And that's how it was. We set up everything back to where it was. And we started the business back up the day mom and dad went out to go look at new houses. I looked over at Justin who was taking an order, and wrote mine down quickly. I started walking towards the kitchen, but then Justin was right next to me, and we started shoving each other, trying to get to it first.

I reached out for the bread the same time he did and we both pulled on it, making it fall onto the ground. He caught two pieces before they fell and threw it on a plate, grabbing a piece of turkey and quickly throwing it on without looking. I grabbed the mustard, thinking that when he turned around I would take the sandwich for my own table. But I guess he needed it to, and when I opened it, he wrapped his arms around my shoulders, trying to get it, but it just squeezed all over the walls and floor, and onto us.

Max then came out of the kitchen closet with a bowl of chopped up lettuce. We both ran on the different side of him, and then all three of us started grasping onto whatever lettuce we could.

Yeah, and that was the last of the lettuce. Once the lunch rush was over, we all went our seperate ways. I got more condiments and things to go with the sandwiches, so I would have my own supply. I tried to get the cart that everything was on over the large step that led up to the door, but I couldn't. I saw Justin and Max walking towards me, and for a moment I thought they were going to help me. But they didn't. They just walked on by. I tried one more time, but knew that it wasn't going to work.

That was until Max came back and easily lifted it up. He smiled a quick smile and I smiled back, relieved. I was somewhat getting closer to having my little brother not hate me anymore.

Once I got everything settled, I started cleaning up peoples messes. I took the bin and started loading it up with trash. It was starting to over flow, but I really didn't care. Justin suddenly came up behind me and lazily threw trash into the bucket. It all toppled over and some of it landed on the ground. I got onto my knees and started to pick it up. But then Justin came back and knelt down, helping me put it all back. We started to stand but I suddenly felt dizzy and closed my eyes tightly.

"Hey," he whispered. I felt his hand on my back. "what's wrong?"

It then went away and I stood up. I just looked at him. "Nothing." he took the bin with all the trash in it and taking it to the trash. For the rest of the time he sometimes would look at me for a few seconds.

The time when I ran to the bathroom to throw up was the worst. Right in the middle of taking an order I just ran to the bathroom. I didn't notice anyone come in until I felt Justin's hand on on my back, with the other one holding my hair out of my face. Once I was done I flushed it, closing the lid and leaning up against the back of the sink.

Justin sat down, pulling my into his lap. I rested my head on his shoulder, and we sat there for a good half hour. It was silent until I started talking.

"I thought you hated me," I said quietly, remembering what he had told me weeks ago. I heard him chuckle. How was this funny?

"Alex, I could never hate you. I may dislike you at times, but that's just because your my sister."

"..."

"And, my girlfriend."

"Much better." I looked up at him and we both leaned in, but there was a pounding on the door.

"Uh, guys, there's like, fifty people outside, waiting to come in. We need your help." Harper called through the door. We both sighed then laughed. He pulled me into a standing position and kissed my forehead.

We walked out of the bathroom and back into the sub shop, and I grabbed my notepad but Justin stopped me. "I'll take your orders. You take the cashier, I don't want you walking around a lot if your feeling dizzy."

And that's how it went. Later on in the day, Harper was bringing people to there tables, getting there orders, Justin was making the food, Max was delivering the food to the tables, and I was at the cash register.

I saw Justin pass one of the last sandwiches to Max, which then I gave him the check and he took it with a smile from me. I turned around in my seat to look at Justin who was leaning onto the metal table, looking at me. I smiled and he smirked at me, winking.

I saw that mom and dad were back, and I guess so did Justin, because he came out to stand next to me. They just looked at us with a shocked expression, both their mouthes opened.

Justin told them to hold on before they said anything. All he did was hand them their aprons. They smiled at him and started to put them on. I grabbed my notepad and wrote down on it, 'do you think they still hate us?'. I slid it towards Justin and he looked at me and shrugged, but there was a hint of a smile on his face.

He took the pen and wrote something down, then slid it back. 'There's only one way to find out.'

Woah, wait, was he about to- his head suddenly dipped really close to mine, but I wasn't complaining. He came down, and tackled me off the chair, catching me and pulling me back up before we both hit the ground.

"Justin!" I screamed out while he laughed. I shoved him but he didn't move at all, just laughed harder. Ugh, whatever.

They helped out with the rest of the sandwiches, and finally dad walked the last person out. I had made sandwiches for everyone since we really didn't have any break time for a few hours straight. And I was starving. Justin laughed as he watched, taking a napkin and wiping my face for me. After I shoved the napkin away I smiled at him, my face all squished together. Everyone at the table laughed then, including mom and dad, which was a pretty new thing.

"Thanks for the sandwiches, honey. I can't believe how busy we've been." Mom said.

"I know. Alex had so much going on, that she made a sandwich, with peanutbutter on the outside of the bread."

Everyone chuckled but me. "Oh, no I did that on purpose." They all gave me a questioning expressing. "That's what a fourty year old gets for ordering off the kids menu." I smiled.

"I know, I got so busy I had to start writing orders on my arm." Max said, showing us his arm with writing all over it. Harper looked at it confused.

"You spelt pie wrong." she said, staring at him. We all laughed at that.

"I ran out of deserts, so I had to start giving away Max's Halloween candy." Dad laughed. Mom tensed up.

"Jerry, Max hasn't been out trick or treeting for three years now."

"Ew!" We all said and then laughed again. See, this is what we all needed. This is how it could always be. But that still didn't change anything.

"Listen you guys, I'm really sorry for messing up the wizard competition. I didn't mean to ruin your lives."

"You didn't ruin my life." Justin said, his hand holding mine tightened. "We all did great today." he said. "I can have a good life without magic." I smiled at him, then turned to Max.

"Max... can you forgive me?"

"Alex, of course I forgive you. Any sister of Justin's is a sister of mine," he said, smirking. Wait, what? We all looked at eachother then back at Max. Well, good enough for me. I chuckled to myself. Oh yeah, I'm losing it. "Now none of you can say that didn't make sense."

"See, this is my family." he said. Justin looked at him, then at me, a determined look.

"Alex and I are back together, dad." he said, all smiles gone now. Dad's facial expressions fell, but he didn't say anything.

Harper tried to break the tension. "Yeah, a family. A bunch of people selling barely edible food to an unsuspecting public. Oh, those are the Russo's I know." We just all somewhat stared at her.

"Seriously though, I am so proud of you guys for getting through this." Mom said. Suddenly the room was flying past us in a blur. Justin's arm went around me, sheilding me from smashing into the table. It suddenly stopped abruptly.

We were back in the wizard competition place. But, why? Did we forget something?

"What's going on?" I asked, Justin's arm still around me.

Rudie was walking around where are table and chairs were. "And that's the end of round two. We'll be right back, after this!"

Wait, what? I turned to Justin, grabbing onto his shirt on his chest. "What just happenend?"

Rudie leaned over and told us.

"You guys are back in the wizard competition."


Oh, baby. Every night. And I need you, and I love you, uh... upside- Touch. My. Toes. And I, cry...i-inside...

Don't you love that song! Yeah? I know you do. Alright.

So how you guys liking this? Good so far? Hmm? Nice. Hey, you guys ever have those auto correct conversations with someone else before? I just did with my ex. Wanna here it?

Him: Hey, did your family figure out about those shoes we ruined?

Me: No, not yet. But if my nana found out, she'd probably hump me until I couldn't see straight.

Him: Uh, okay?

Me: What? WOAH NO I SAID THUMP ME NOT... Ugh.

Bam. If you guys had any auto correct texts, let me here them! Maybe the best one I get, it can be a scene with Alex and any other character you want. Sounds good.

So thanks for reading, and review! Atleast 10 reviews for the next chapter, but more is welcome!

-May