Sorry it is so slow going. I just want to take my time building it up, and not to make everything happen in just a couple chapters. Things should pick up in the few though.

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Alex was a nervous wreck as she finished packing her things. She had spent the last couple days packing everything she owned into boxes destined for her new home. Her friends had been understandably sad, but also supportive. Telling her they would miss her and to call, a lot. Alex had to admit that she was going to miss them a great deal. She didn't know she was going to meet such great people when she moved to Charlotte. Actually for her first year here, she didn't really have any friends, but she was pretty sure that could be chalked up to her business opening the new club. She found people here to be extremely nice in general. People didn't go out of their way to cause problems, unlike her last home. Everything was always drama. Their lives revolved around gossip. The fact that she was readily going back to a place that she clearly thought poorly of her showed just how much her clubs meant to her. At least that is what Alex liked to think. She tried not to admit to herself that a person was her main reason for returning.

Lost in thought, Alex missed the fact that someone was talking to her. She turned to find her best friend Kate glaring at her.

"Sorry. What did you say?"

"I said I was really going to miss you and I hope you visit. I'm over here baring my soul and you're just looking off into space. Story of my life."

"Haha, no need to embellish. I'm just a little distracted. I am a little worried about leaving."

"Alex Kelly is nervous. Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, the world must be ending. Hell must be freezing over as we speak. I don't think I have ever witnessed a site such as this."

Laughing at her friends choice of words Alex tried to get a sentence out, but her laughter was preventing it. She eventually got her fit under control enough to console Kate and let her know that of course she would visit and keep in touch.

"Why won't you tell anyone where you are going? I'm supposed to be your best friend, yet you are hiding something important from me. Makes me feel kind of like someone else must be best friend and you tell them everything, and I'm just a pretend friend that you need to help run your club."

"Oh geez, could you be anymore dramatic." Alex thought back to her earlier musings about how less dramatic Charlotte was. Now she thought that they might now be so different. " I will tell you where I am once the new club is set up. I need to be completely left alone for awhile to get my head straight. And once I'm settled I will fly you out to see me. Deal?"

"Deal." With that Kate proceeded to bounce away gloating to anyone within earshot about how she will be the first to know where Alex was going.

Alex chuckled at her friends behavior for a minute before returning to her previous train of thought. Although she was nervous about moving back, she was also excited. She knew the reason for her excitement was not the club she was going to be opening, but the thought of seeing her first, and so far, only love again in person. If she did happen to have the luck of seeing her love again, she wasn't sure if it would be a happy or completely heartbreaking experience. But she was sure she needed this closure to fully move on.

With everything packed up, and a flight leaving tomorrow morning, Alex turned in for the night, the thought of seeing her ex swirling in her head until sleep overtook her.