First Chapter of this story, enjoy!

"Day number four of this hell hole" Alex muttered to herself as she walked downstairs. The past two days they had been going at it like cat and dog, backwards and forwards. Mark wouldn't take none of her crap and she wouldn't take his. They made snidey comments about it each other when their back was turned. She yawned and open the cupboard not taking note of how quiet the house was. Stuck on Alex's cup was a sticky note.

Alex,

We've gone out, your grandpa has had an emergency, you know the number.

Not sure if the Colerado area number is different, check with Mark. He will be looking after you for a few days.

Behave and be nice! I'm warning you

Dad
x

Alex screwed the note up in anger and threw it in the bin, ok the so and so was looking after her. Maybe she could drive him away. She wondered if he knew anything about it. She hoped her plan would work because then it would me 1) No annyoing Mr Im-So-Bad-Look-At_Me and 2) Home alone! Right on time Mark wondered downstairs, Shawn had got him drunk the night before and now he knew why. He agreed stupidly to look after that annoying brat while he was away. Alex watched as he walked into the kitchen, he was wearing nothing but a pair of sweats. She froze and slapped herself mentally for looking at him like that. `Must be hormones' She thought.
"What do you want for breakfast?" Mark asked opening a cupboard or two.
"Got mine" Alex said waving her coffee in the air.
"To eat Alex, ya a skinny runt girl"
"Sorry pigman I decided to leave you breakfast because I know how much you liked to eat" She said rolling her eyes and taking a sip. Mark growled and Alex sighed. She went over to the cupboard and took out the bacon and pancake mix.
"I'll make you breakfast" She said sighing. Hey she might hate the guy but she still had manners to cook him something decent, he was probably incapable or boiling an egg.
Mark raised an eyebrow cautiously. "Are you planning on poisoning me?"
"Surprisingly the thought hadn't crossed my mind" She said taking out some pans.
"Well, thanks. My friend is coming round today. I don't expect ya to be all friendly but could you at least say hi" Mark asked sitting down, taking the paper and skipped to the sports collum.
"Sure" She muttered.

The door knocked and Alex looked around. Mark was in the garden, she opened the door and stepped back, it was Kane. the half masked wearing Kane but only he wasn't wearing a mask this time. He looked down at her and smiled, she was obviously taken aback by his visit.
"Hi there" He said with a smile.
"Hi" Alex squeaked, letting the man in. She closed the door and felt her knees buckle.
"Your Shawn's kid right? I'm Glen" He said offering a hand, that smile was still there.
"Alex" She said shaking his hand slowly "Marks uhh in the garden. I'll go get him m..make yourself at h..home" She stuttered and quickly ran outside. Glen smiled, she was a cute little thing. Alex bumped straight into Mark but he caught her before she fell over.
"Kane, I mean Glen's here" She said in a hurry. Mark frowned at her and let his hold on her go. "Why ya stammerin Alex?"
"No reason I said hi like you asked, see ya" She said quickly speeding off to her room.

Mark walked into the house, wiping his hands with a rag. He had been doing Shawn some favours, like fixing his car and everything else that Shawn didn't have time to do. He spotetd Glen and gave him a man hug.
"How ya doing Glen?" He asked his on screen brother.
"Good, you seemed to have settled down for now. Where'd Alex head off too?" He asked.
"Here, there, everywhere. Did you say anything to her?" Mark asked opening a beer and handing one to Glen.
"Just introduced myself why?" He asked cracking open his own can. Mark laughed at the thought of Alex liking Glen but then the laughing stopped he thought of Alex liking him and it seemed to fit much better in his head.
"I think she has a crush on you" Mark said gulping down his beer. Glen gave a laugh and shook his head.

"Married man, Mark." He said laughing at the thought, it was cute.

"How's that going for you?" Mark asked curiously.
Glen shrugged and leant back. It was going ok, just they were never there to see each other "Ok I suppose. How's the life of a divorced man?"
"Great. Get a woman for every day of the week. No strings, just what I need"

Around 8ish Glen said his goodbyes and even went as far as kissing Alex on the cheek. Her blush spread all over her cheeks as he gave a wink at her before going. After washing up the dishes she was about to head back upstairs when Mark called her over.
"Yeah?"
"Wanna watch a movie?" He asked sitting on the couch, Alex gulped hard and cussed her hormones they were being totally unreasonable. She nodded and sat down on the couch as far away from Mark as possible. Mark watched her squirm away from him and smiled. He turned on the horror flick and sat back, hoping to enjoy the rest of the movie. Throughout it, Mark kept a good eye on Alex, watching her movements. Alex wanted to go over to Mark and cuddle up to him but no that would be lack of self control and totally inappropriate.

The movie ended within the hour and Alex gave a sigh, about to go up to bed she looked back at Mark.
"Goodnight" She said with a small small smile.
Mark looked up in surprise but returned the smile. "Goodnight darlin"
Alex stopped herself from swooning and returned to her room, knowing she was gonna be having a dream or two about him.