Chapter 1:

-Mitchie's Point Of View-

The story starts when Nate and the rest of Connect 3 get ready to go on tour and so am I. We are all going together. All of us except Alex, she has to stay and help with the sub shop. Plus, her parents never let her leave. She always has to work at the sub shop. Which really isn't that fair because Max and Justin leave all the time. Actually Justin had gotten to go to Space Camp the summer that I went to Camp Rock. Alex was going to go to camp but then Justin talked their parents into letting him go instead. And the rule at the Russo household is, 'Only one Russo child can be gone at a time.' Stupid rule, yes I know. But I guess that's just how life is for Alex Russo.

-The Story-

"Do you guys really have to leave?" Alex said whining. She had been sitting in Mitchie's room for the last hour helping Mitchie pick out outfits for the tour.

"Yeah, we do. I'm really sorry Alex. If I could I would sneak you on tour with us. Actually you wouldn't have to be snuck on tour because Nate would love for you to go with him." Mitchie said as she put a few clothes in her suitcases that they had picked out earlier.

Alex smiled thinking about Nate, her boyfriend of almost two years. She had been so happy the day that he came to visit Mitchie with Jason and Shane. "Yeah, he would." Alex said but then she frowned. "But like my parents would ever let me go. Its like I own the sub station right now. Ugh, I hate it that my parents own a sub station."

"Hey at least I get free food when I come." Mitchie said smiling and then she turned to look at Alex who was glaring at her. "Or not." Mitchie said before going back into her closet.

Alex sighed as she layed down on Mitchie's bed. "You don't know how boring it will with you gone. I mean, I'm used to Nate being far away but not you. You're my best friend. Its going to be so tough on me being so far away from you." Alex said just staring at Mitchie's ceiling.

Mitchie stopped packing and sat next to Alex on the bed. "Aww, Lexi. Its going to be hard on me too. But just remember, I'm only a phone call away. And when you call me, there is a good chance that Nate will steal the phone away from me when he find out its you." Mitchie said starting to laugh. "What's better than talking to your boyfriend right after you talk to your best friend?"

"Having your best friend and boyfriend in the same city as you." Alex said still laying on the bed.

Mitchie got off the bed. "Gosh, your making this really hard for me." Mitchie started to pack again. "So I'm really surprised that-" Mitchie started to say before she was interrupted by Alex's phone ringing.

"Ugh!" Alex groaned before answering her phone. She already knew who it was just by the ring tone she had set for them. "Hello mother."

"Alexandra what did I say about you answering the phone like that?" Alex's mother said before going on a rant of how your should answer your phone politely. Alex just tuned her out and grabbed a magazine from beside Mitchie's bed.

"I'm guessing your mom went on another rant huh?" Mitchie said before packing some of her shoes. Alex's reply was just a nod. Then she continued to read the issue of Seventeen Magazine, until her mothers rant was finished.

"So what did you want anyways mom?" Alex asked while putting down the issue. She already knew what her mom was going to say, and it had something to do with either Justin Max or her mom making Alex take their shift.

"You need to get home, Justin is going on a date tonight and you need to cover his shift." Alex's mother said before Alex started cracking up.

"Right, Justin going a date." Alex said laughing. "Seriously, why do I need to get home?" Alex asked.

"I'm serious. Justin has a date." Alex's mother said in a stern voice. "So, you have about 10 minutes to get home." Alex's mother said before hanging up.

"Ugh! I have to get home. Justin some how got a date and I have to cover for him." Alex said before getting off of Mitchie's bed.

Mitchie started to crack up. "Justin having a date. That's hilarious. So seriously, why do you have to go home?" Mitchie asked trying to stop laughing.

"No, seriously. My mom said Justin got a date. I don't know who, or what species it is. But he has a date." Alex said with a sigh before walking out of Mitchie's room and out the door to start walking home.

"How the hell did Justin get a date?" Mitchie asked herself before packing again.

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Alex walked into the busy sub station where she saw Justin just standing around while Max was running around the shop taking orders and handing people food. Alex ran over to Justin. "Why aren't you helping him?" Alex asked in a harsh voice. She had always been kinda protective of Max and she hated it when Justin took advantage of him, like he always did to her when they were little.

Justin just looked at me. "He's doing fine. Why help him?" Justin asked me.

"Oh, um maybe because he is like 12 and you should help your family." Alex said before glaring and walking behind the counter to get her apron.

"Oh, Alex. You're here, good. You can give these sandwiches to table 3." Alex's dad said as he handed her the sandwiches.

"Whatever." Alex said as she took the sandwiches to the table then she walked back over to the counter where she sat down until there was another order.

"Hey, Alex. What are you doing here?" Max asked as he brought more orders over.

"Oh, I have to cover Justin's shift. Not like he was going to work anyways. So, I'm here to help you." Alex told Max before grabbing the orders and giving them to her dad.

"So what excuse to Justin use to get out of work today?" Max asked as he sat down waiting for a customer to come in.

Alex leaned against the counter. "He said he got a date." Alex said laughing. "That's the most unbelievable excuse he has used so far. I mean, really Harper is the only girl in her right mind-wait Harper isn't really in her right mind, so really only crazy girls like him." Alex said causing Max to start cracking up.

"Do you think it is Harper?" Max asked after he had finally calmed down.

"Nope. Because there isn't about fifty thousand text messages on my phone saying, 'I got a date with Justin.' So, he must either be lying, or he met some girl wandering around after they let her out of a mental hospital. I'm going with him lying." Alex told Max before grabbing the orders and taking them to their tables.

"So, is Mitchie really leaving?" Max asked Alex after she got back.

"Yup." Alex said with a sigh. "She gets to spend 4 months with Nate, Shane and Jason. While I am stuck here." Alex groaned before continuing. "I would be going with them if it wasn't for me always having to working. They wanted me to come. Mitchie, Shane, Nate, heck even Mr and Mrs Gray wanted me to come. But no, I have to stay here all the time. Mitchie gets to take the last month of school off so that she can fly out to California. She's so lucky." Alex finished.

Really all Max could say after that long rant was, "Wow." That was really the first thing that came to his mind.

Alex was going to say something else but was interrupted by her father, "Max. Alex. Your mother and I are leaving for a little bit. Alex, you are in charge of the shop. Well be back by closing."

Alex just looked at him like he was crazy, "Are you seriously leaving a sixteen year old in charge of the sub shop? And isn't there some kind of labor laws against Max working from like 3 to 10?"

"I don't know. But you guys are the only ones here. Alex, don't let Max set the kitchen on fire." Alex's father said before walking out of the store leaving Max and Alex the only ones in the shop, besides the customers.

Alex groaned before walking back over to the counter with Max right behind her. "You remember how to make everything right?"

Max sighed. "Of course, I do. I don't forget things that I had to make like 3 days ago." Max said before walking to the kitchen to work on the sandwiches that his father didn't even start to make.

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Mitchie finally got all of the clothes she wanted to take into all of her suitcases. She tried to get all of them closed. She had been trying the push down on them but that didn't work out that well. So now she is trying to sit on them and close it. Mitchie squealed and fell off her suitcase and bed when she felt her phone vibrate. Mitchie groaned and answered her phone, "Hello?"

"Hey, Mitchie. You still packing for the tour?" Shane asked over the phone.

Mitchie glared at the phone and then blew a strand of hair out of her face. "I was just about finished when you called and scared the crap out of me." Mitchie said as she got off her floor.

"Sorry Mitchie. My parents just wanted to know when you were flying out here." Shane said while walking around his room.

"No they didn't." Nate said in the background.

Mitchie giggled. "Wow, Shane. You interrupted me packing to come and spend four whole months with you, just so you could tell me your parents wanted to know when I was getting there, when you really just wanted to know." Mitchie said.

"Yup." Nate said in the background.

"How the heck is Nate hearing this?" Mitchie asked kinda confused.

"Speaker phone." Shane said before Nate could.

"Hey! Why put me on speaker phone? I mean you're never on speaker phone when Alex is over." Mitchie said while climbing back onto her suitcase to try to close it.

"How often is Alex over?" Shane asked.

"Well, she just left my house like 10 minutes ago." Mitchie said while trying zip the suitcase.

"Wow. Why did she have to leave?" Shane asked keeping Nate away from the phone.

"Oh, she had to go work, again. Justin got a date." Mitchie said finally getting the suitcase closed. She smiled proudly before falling off the bed again due to the roar of laughter coming from Shane and Nate. "Thanks a lot guys. I fell off the bed again!" Mitchie said glaring at them over the phone.

"Sorry Mitchie, but you must have expected that. I mean seriously where do you come up with Justin getting a date? You must have made that up. Justin Russo does not get dates, unless they are with your weird friend Harper. Or with that robot I saw him making." Shane said before cracking up again.

Mitchie groaned. She hated when Shane wouldn't stop laughing. "Shane, I have to finish packing everything. I'm going to leave for the airport in the morning so idk when I will be out there. But unless you want to wait for me to get a later flight, you should really hang up." Mitchie said while walking over to another suitcase trying to get it closed.

"Okay. Bye Mitchie. Love you." Shane said, waiting for her to reply before hanging up.

"Love you too, Shane. Bye" Mitchie said before hanging up and throwing her phone onto her bed and jumping onto the suitcase to close it.

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Alex woke up the next day knowing that it was the last time she would see Mitchie for about four months. So, she got up and silently walked out of the house before she would get caught. Well, unfortunately for her, Justin was just now getting in. And since Justin loves making Alex's life miserable he would find someway of having her stay home and not get to go tell Mitchie goodbye at the airport. So, Alex tried to hide behind the staircase, but that really didn't work out to well.

"I can see you Alex and by the way, I have to tutor people today so you'll be covering my shift." Justin said as he made his way up the staircase to house.

"What! I have to go tell Mitchie bye at the airport. You can take like 10 minutes out a tutoring so I can got tell my best friend goodbye can't you?" Alex asked as she followed him upstairs.

"Nope." Justin said before walking into his bedroom.

Alex groaned before walking back into her room.


So, tell me if you like it so far. I promise it will get better. And someone asked me how Tess and Dean are mixed into the story. You'll have to keep reading to find that one out. I have big plans for the two of them.

Well please Review. And I'll be working on the second chapter of this and the next chapter of basically every other story i have. So, I'll be writing alot.