Puppy Love
Chapter 2
AN: So here's the next chapter for ya'll. It really made my day seeing all the reviews, alerts, and favorites, so I just wanted to say thanks to anybody who did any of that, and to the ones that just read it too. Song lyrics are in italics, and the songs used are: The Reason by Hoobastank, What The Hell by Avril Lavigne, and Put You In A Song by Keith Urban, in that order. Anyway, I know why you're really here, so I'll let you get to reading it. Hope you continue enjoying it!
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, I don't own it.
Alex's POV
Today was Thursday of exam week. With our school's screwed up exam schedule, they had our exams for our last two classes today and then no school tomorrow. That part was nice. The screwy part was that today was a full day. After our exams we had review periods for the exams we'd already taken.
Anyway, my first exam of the day was drama. I got to the room early, so I decided to walk down the hall to the library. I'd become friends with the librarian this year because for our last class, Nate and I were her aids. We just had to check out books and put away the checked in ones, so it wasn't that hard. We talked for a bit before I noticed I was nearly running late. Or right on time for me until last year, but now I've got classes with Mitchie. Can't be getting suspended and missing them or having her think I'm a delinquent. I'm pretty sure she doesn't like them. Oh, right, you didn't know. Yeah, I like Mitchie. She was the first girl to make me realize I was bi a couple of years ago.
When I got into class, the teacher was just passing out the exams. Luckily, it didn't seem like I missed anything. I sat down and checked out the directions. All we had to do was label parts of a stage and then write a short script to perform in front of the class. Didn't seem too hard. I had the labels in a few seconds and moved on. At the end of the instructions for the script it said break a leg! I couldn't resist. Right next to it I wrote 'Why? That would make performing immensely more difficult.'
After that I did my script. My idea was a commercial for giant Pop-tarts. I was hungry okay? Don't judge me. Then our teacher, Mrs. Kurtze, passed out some sheets where we apparently had to put comments on the other people's performances. Positive comments, I found out when I got it back, but I honestly didn't see that beforehand. It wasn't like I tried to be mean with my comments, the scripts just sucked. One of the few that didn't suck was my friend Ethan's. Ethan was quite the character. He could quote pretty much any episode of South Park, Family Guy, or The Simpsons. He also knew way more than any normal high schooler about poultry and plants, and no one at school had ever seen him wearing pants. Not like that! I mean he wore shorts every day. Even in winter.
He also hated kids, which was why his script was on a product called Rid-O-Kid. He did a whole thing on how to tell if you had children and how to get rid of them and even made sample bottles out of the spray bottles of board cleaner.
Next up was Mitchie. Gosh she looked amazing. She had this purple jacket open over a gray tanktop with purple and lime green parts and a darker purple shirt under that. It was a lot of purple. And the jeans! She had these amazing dark blue jeans with star patterns of thread along the back pockets. I may have taken a bit longer than strictly necessary observing them, but like I said, don't judge me. If you saw her you woulda stared too, I know it.
She always looked so confident acting, I loved it. She just got right up there, no stage fright at all, and started her performance.
"Hello, and welcome back to QVC, the #1 home shopping network." She began. "We've got another great product for you today," she pointed at someone in the front row, "you, have you ever had to potty train a small pet, like a chihuahua, a ferret, or even a troublesome infant?" The boy she pointed at said he had. "Well, now you'll never have to again, thanks to this!" She held up what looked to be a white stapler. "The Johnson & Johnson Family Taser! Now in twelve sparkly colors! Little Fluffy will head outside as soon as you pull it out, whether he has to pee or not. Other uses include never having to wait in line again, or if you're stuck in a boring meeting... maybe I'd better show you." She called up her friend Venus, I'd heard them planning something before she started. "OK, just stand right here," she said as Venus got into position, with Mitchie pointing the "taser" at her. She pretended to shoot, but her friend just stood there. "Darn, well... I guess you'll just have to try it yourself!" She grinned, then dropped the smile and turned to yell at an imaginary person just off stage. "I know it didn't work! I swear it worked fine in rehearsal! Whaddya mean they only shoot once?" She grumbled and turned back to us. "Well, where were we," she asked distractedly as she jumbled her notes, "Ah! You too can get these great results! No, wait, that didn't work...Oh well, just, goodbye." Then her friend screamed out. "Oh, great, now it works! Who wants a taser with a five minute delay? Wait, who pinched her?" she asked her imaginary "boss". "Oh, this just keeps getting better. We're just gonna go to commercial. See you later." She finished, and everyone applauded. She was definitely the best one I'd seen. Now I just had to fill out my comment sheet.
Oh, this is not good. My hands must've been busy during Mitchie's performance, because as I looked down I discovered I'd covered most of her line with little hearts. I can't let anybody see that! I hurriedly scribbled over them, threw my name on the paper, and turned it in after the rest of the unimpressive scripts.
Later that day, we got our papers back. I immediately tossed my comments sheet toward the trash after learning of the 'positive comments' part I mentioned. Then I went to go see how Ethan had done. It turned out pretty well. He only missed two points. However, as I was talking, I noticed Mitchie over by the trash. She picked up a piece of paper and studied it for a second. Then she held it up to the light for some reason, and I noticed it was my comment sheet! I quickly walked over to see what she was up to.
"Hey Alex," she greeted as she noticed me, "I found your comment paper. How come you crossed off my line?"
I was at a loss for words for a second. Then I thought up a lie that seemed plausible enough. "Well, Ethan started writing on mine accidentally, and I wanted to leave my own comment, ya know? So I had to get rid of his." She seemed somewhat disbelieving, but handed my paper back and walked away. I held it up to try to see why she held it to the light. Dang! I swear you could see the outlines of the hearts! This could be really bad!
Two weeks later...
It didn't seem like Mitchie saw the outlines, or at least she hasn't mentioned them yet, which is good. Since then the school year has ended and we've been just enjoying summer and taking care of the dogs. One of the bigger ones, it's called a German Short-hair, is pregnant. We should have some new puppies to take care of in a couple weeks. Today, I'd just gotten over to Mitchie's house. As I pulled in I saw her with their push mower out mowing the yard. She was singing something playing in her headphones and dang did she look hot! I mean she had a great voice, not like I was staring at her all sweaty in her old t-shirt and gym shorts. What kinda girl do you think I am? I so did not almost run my truck into a tree. Pshhh...
I needed to head into the house to see what her mom needed me to do today. She told me I needed to just feed and water them all for now, nothing special. After she told me though, she walked over and stood next to me. "I know how you feel about my daughter," she started, and I looked up at her with wide, fearful eyes, "Oh, I'm fine with it. I just want to know what you intend to do about them."
"Mom!" It was Mitchie, standing by the door. "What are you doing?"
"Oh hi dear," she responded innocently, "I was just talking with your friend here about your feelings towards each other."
Her ears went pink. "You can't just go around asking people things like that! Come on Alex, I'm gonna take a quick shower, then I'll help you with the dogs. You can wait in my room if you want to, away from her." I probably would have focused a bit more on why she blushed before, but then she put her arm around me and we started for the stairs. She smelled so nice, even all sweaty. I almost fell over at the first scorching touch. I'm pretty sure after about five steps my body was warmer than hers was. I got through it though, and I got through her being naked with only a wall separating us, and we headed out to the animals. That never took too long, especially with two people, and soon we were headed back to the house.
"Oh no! She's gone!" Wait, who's gone? I must've not been paying attention, but she's rushing over to one of the pens.
"Who's gone?" I asked.
"My dog, Shell. She's a little brown beagle and she's always climbing out and now she's gone again!"
"Calm down Mitch. How 'bout I give you a ride around and we'll go find her." I think she must've been a little to stressed out to speak, but she nodded and we headed towards my big blue Dodge. We got on the road and I decided I needed to get her to calm down a bit if she was going to be able to find anything before she hyperventilated and fainted. "Is it okay with you if I put on some music?" I questioned carefully. She nodded. I started turning the dial and soon came to my one of my favorite stations I thought she might like. The song was just ending. I've found a reason to show; A side of me you didn't know; A reason for all that I do; And the reason is you. "Aww," I whined, "I really liked that one." By then the next song was started, and she was all excited telling me how much she loved it. All my life I've been good, but now; I'm thinking What The Hell; All I want is to mess around; And I don't really care about; If you love me, if you hate me; You can save me, baby, baby.
"Look, there she is!" Mitchie cried out, pointing to the side of the road. Sure enough, there was her little dog. I stopped and she hopped out, calling the animal over to her. Shell jumped into her arms and started licking her all over. Then they both climbed back inside.
"Everybody ready?" I asked, then started back towards her home when they nodded. Yes, they. I swear that little dog nodded right along with her, it was really strange. After we'd been going for a while, I turned to Mitchie. "So, we've heard some of your favorite music, but now I'm gonna show you my favorite." I flipped the radio over to a country station and found one of the best love songs I've ever heard on. This is perfect! I'm so gonna sing it to her, but not too obviously. I can just pretend like I'm having fun and check out how she reacts, so easy. I started going right along with the song.
"Well here you come again and you're lookin' so fine
You don't notice me but it's alright
I'm just a guy who wishes that I could be your man someday
Yeah a picture paints a thousand words it's true
But it's still not enough for how I feel about you
I wanna put you in a melody, I gotta set you to a groove
I wanna put you in my car and drive
And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out
I love this girl oh
If I could press play, repeat how happy I'd be
Wherever I'd go I'd have you there with me
You'd be right where you belong
I wanna put you in a song, oh oh oh
Well I'd sing about your smile and your pretty blue eyes
The way your hair shimmers in the sunlight
It'd be so easy, I'd just write it from my heart
'Cause I gotta tell the world what you mean to me
Wrap you up in a melody so you could be
Stuck in my head all day
'Cause you're already there anyway, yes you are
I wanna put you in my car and drive
And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out
I love this girl
If I could press play, repeat how happy I'd be
Wherever I'd go I'd have you there with me
You'd be right where you belong
I wanna put you in a song
And if I get it right everybody'd be singing along, yeah
And when they see you on the street they'll say,
Hey, ain't you the girl in that song
I wanna put you in my car and drive
And turn you up loud, roll down all the windows and shout it out
I'm in love with this girl
Yeah if I could press play, rewind a couple million times
Imagine for a moment that you're all mine
Every night I'd drive you home
If I could put you in a
Let me put you in a song (x2)
Oh a pretty little song about you baby."
I swear it's like she knew what I was trying to do! She was just sitting there, not obviously showing any emotion at all, but if you looked close it looked like she just really wanted to say something. Ugh, I guess I'm not getting anything out of her this way.
Mitchie's POV
Seriously, is someone watching my life just trying to kill me? First my mom pretty well tells Alex I like her, and now she's over there singing with her beautiful voice, one of favorite songs, which just happens to be an incredibly sweet love song... I'm not gonna make it to the end of the summer without doing something if this keeps up.
AN: That's it for chapter 2. Chapter 3's gonna be the end of this, I just wanted to stop here so each chapter had it's own kinda consistent theme. Anyway, next time comes the good stuff! I'm also working on an idea for a type of Liley, so keep an eye out if you wanna read that. See you at chapter 3!