Wanting What She Can't Have

Summary: Alex's question to Marissa is answered with a question only to teach her a lesson...Just read it to understand.

Ratings: MA-for some adult language and swear words

Chapter2

Marissa's POV

A couple weeks have passed since I had met her and we spent all of our time together rather it was just to hang out at each other's houses or just doing homework together. It wasn't until the day I had asked her to come to my stepfather's stables to ride horses that I realized that she had a huge crush on me.

We were riding on the horse trail and she had asked me how would I feel if she ever asked me out? I looked at her for a minute without saying anything and then she asked me if I kissed you would you get upset. I had no idea where she was going with this but I answered her last question and told her I don't think I would get upset if you kissed me. She then smiled at me and asked another question…

Since then I still never really answered the question that she asked.

We were sitting in her living room doing our homework together when she looked up at me.

"So you gonna answer my question I asked you the other day?" she questions me with a raised eyebrow.

"I did answer it," I look back at her smiling before looking back down to our homework assignment. Alex sighs rolling her eyes at me.

"You know answering someone in the form of a question when they have already asked you a question first, is not really an answer," Alex looks at me smiling meanly raising her eyebrow.

"Actually it is considered an answer, it's just not the one you prefer to hear," I let out to her with a raised eyebrow. She sighs another breath and shakes her head.

"Whatever," she let out smiling rolling her eyes and looks down to her homework again.

"Besides, I happen to already like someone," I let out smiling underhandedly as she looks back up at me.

"Who?" Alex let out looking at me meanly very jealous at the thought of me liking someone else that might have not been her. I looked back up at and let out a small laugh before I looked back down to our homework.

For another whole week I had her thinking and wondering who I may have liked. I even made her so mad that she stopped hanging around me for a while when I started hanging back out with my ex-boyfriend.

"Why are you with him again? Don't you remember what he did to you?" she had asked me when she saw me hanging out with him again.

I just shrugged my shoulders and told her, "I like him and he did apologize." Alex had looked back at me with a shocked gasp and walked away not hanging out with me for a while after that. If only she had known I was only doing this to make her crazy considering I had already made up my mind from the moment I laid eyes on her I liked her. I was just making her work for it, if she really wanted me she was gonna have to prove herself that she did.

…

After three weeks of not hearing from Alex or talking to her I had decided to distance myself from my once again ex-boyfriend after he had called her a dyke again in front of me. He once again got pissed that I was taking up for her and hit me and I didn't see him after that.

I smile as I spot her sitting by herself on one of the swings in the park nearby the school. I head over to her and take the swing next to her.

"Hey," I let out as she looks up at me and nods her head before looking back down. "I broke up with Luke again," I said smiling shrugging my shoulders.

"Oh, that's nice," she shrugs her shoulders without looking up at me.

"I miss you," I finally let out to her. Alex soon looks up at me again and that's when she sees my swollen busted lip.

"What happened?" was all she asked. I let out a sigh and look down.

"Luke hit me because I got mad at him for calling you dyke again," I let out shrugging my shoulders. "That's why we broke up," I let out finally looking back to her.

"He's an asshole to have hit you, you know," Alex let out looking at me shaking her head as I sigh shrugging my shoulders.

"Yeah, I know," I said getting up from the swing and stood in front of her. "You wanna know another reason I broke up with him?" I looked at her smiling crossing my arms.

"What?" Alex looks up at me.

"I like someone else," I tell her smiling.

"Yeah, who is it that you like?" she questions me with a raised eyebrow. I smile back at her and hold out my hand. She smiles at me and takes my hand.

"Well, it's someone who likes me, but she knows or she should know that she can't always have what she wants," I tell Alex smiling with a raised eyebrow pulling her up from the swing.

"Oh, yeah?" Alex questions me with a raised eyebrow. I smile back at her and nod my head.

"Yeah, she's wanting what she can't have," I let out smiling lightly placing her hand over my heart. "But what she didn't know, the answer to her question, 'Do you always want what you can't have?' was her answer all along," I tell her smiling as she looks at me smiling confused shaking her head. I smile back rolling my eyes. "The answer is in the question, if you work hard for what you want then wanting what you can't have will never win in the end. Because in the end you actually do end up getting what you can't have," I tell her smiling. Alex looks back at me smiling gasping shocked, she had realized the whole meaning of my answering her question with a question had really meant something.

"So what you're saying is, in wanting what I can't have I will end up having what I want in the first place?" she asked me smiling.

"Yeah, I just had to make you see that," I smiled back at her. She smiled back at me and leaned forward placing a soft kiss onto my lips.

Wanting what she can't have, she learned it's not always the meaning that you think.

The end