I looked at her, "I'm okay...I'd just like to be here with you, to get to know you."

She nodded, "Well, my name is Mitchie Torres, I'm 17 years old, I'm an obvious lesbian, and the rest you can figure out as we go."

"I'm Alex Russo I'm 17 years old, I don't know, I guess...I'm a lesbian."

"You guess?"

"It's still a pretty new concept to me..."

She nodded, "Yeah, when I came out three years ago, it was pretty confusing to me, too."

"How did everyone take it?"

She shrugged, "Most of them said they already knew...some were shocked, some just flat out rejected me. Thank god my family accepted me, though."

I smiled and nodded, "They're the most important."

She paused, "Well...if they don't accept you, they aren't. Those who accept you are your new family."

"Yeah..."

We just sat there for a while, watching the clouds until they turned to stars. Maddie eventually came out to tell Mitchie that her parents wanted her to do some chores.

Mitchie groaned, "Tell them I'm busy."

"I already did, they said now."

She sighed and climbed out of the hammock, "I'll be right back, Lex."

Maddie took her hand and pulled her inside. I jumped out of the hammock and checked my phone. Mason and Zeke had texted me a bunch of times. I assumed they were all negative, and I was going to delete them, but my curiosity got the best of me. I opened one from Justin that said, "You fucking slut. I hope you're happy being an abomination. You honestly disgust me. I can't believe I ever loved you. Stay away from me." I opened one from Zeke, "Mason just told me. It wasn't much of a surprise, but I'm still not comfortable with it. Stay away from me."

I swallowed roughly and continued reading. It just got worse and worse. At one point, they were telling me to kill myself. I didn't realize I was crying until the warm tears dripped down onto my phone. I wiped them off with my sleeves and was soon rejoined by Mitchie.

"Alex, are you crying? What are you reading?"

I quickly put my phone away, "Just texting."

She reached into my pocket and pulled out my phone. She skimmed through a few texts, then clicked delete all and gave me back my phone. She pulled me into a hug and sighed.

I sobbed into her shoulder, "How could they? What did I do wrong?"

"Nothing, you didn't do anything wrong. They're just closed minded and afraid to accept anything different. Don't listen to them, they are wrong, not you."

"H-he used to tell me how amazing I was!"

"Well, now that's my job. Don't worry about him, he'll get over it, but if he doesn't, then screw him."

"I-I wasted a whole year with him..."

She sighed, "It wasn't a waste, nothing is ever a waste. Just forget about his cruel words and move on, please."

I started pulling away, but my eyes met hers and we both kind of froze. We stood there for a few minutes, not doing anything, but then she pulled away.

"Come on, let's go eat some ice cream."

Once we got sick of ice cream, it was about one a.m. I was going to go home, but Mitchie convinced me to stay. Honestly, it didn't take that much convincing. We watch movies for a while, actually we got about half way through one before we fell asleep on the couch.

***

"Alex, wake up, come on."

I rolled over and covered my ears, "No, go away."

Mitchie laughed, "Come on, Alex, I've been shaking you for the past half an hour now, you have to wake up."

I groaned, "Ugh, no!"

"I'll get ice water."

"Yeah, right."

She stood up and I quickly snapped myself awake. She laughed and walked off to the kitchen. I stretched and followed her. She had just popped some waffles into the toaster and gave some already made ones to Maddie.

Maddie looked at me, "Did you kiss my sister?"

My eyes widened, but Mitchie spoke for me, "No, Maddie, she didn't. That's rude, don't ask things like that."

Maddie shrugged, "Well, she has that look on her face that girls have when you kiss them."

Mitchie laughed, "Well, we didn't kiss."

Maddie took her plate of waffles and started walking away, "Well, you should."

I looked to Mitchie, "She's, um, sweet."

Mitchie gave me some waffles, "She's an odd little girl, I know."

We ate and laughed about stupid things for a while. At around noon, we decided to go to the park. We sat on a swings next to each other.

"Didn't you say this was where you first met that boy?"

I nodded, "Yeah, and where I first saw you."

"Yeah, if only you didn't look away."

"What do you mean?"

She laughed a little, "I looked over and saw you looking at me, it kind of made me jump. It had been a while since someone had looked at me like that, especially someone that...beautiful. I just stared at you for a while, when I finally snapped out of it, I still didn't even look away. I started to take a drink of my water, and ended up pouring it down my shirt..."

I laughed, "Cute."

She stood up and put out her hand, "Come on."

I took her hand and stood up, "Where we going?"

"That boy's house, we're going to teach him a lesson."

I led the way, but once we got there, I started to back out. Mitchie didn't let me, though. She secured her hand around me arm, and used the other one to knock. Mason opened the door and his eyes instantly shrank into slits.

He hissed, "What are you doing here?"

Mitchie dismissed his comment, "Are you Mason?"

"Yeah, why?"

Mitchie grabbed me by my waist, pulled me close and whispered, "Not the most romantic first kiss, but definitely going to be the best."

She planted her lips onto mine and tightened her grip around me. We both slowly pulled away and opened our eyes. Her grip around my waist slowly loosened and she looked to Mason. I did the same, but I didn't get the best looked at him. He slammed the door in our faces.

Mason POV-

I slammed the door, leaned against it, and sobbed into my hands. How could she do this to me? She's deliberately trying to tear my heart to shreds. Well, she already did, can't she just stop and leave me alone now? I thought she loved me! What happened!? What did I do wrong? I'm still so in love with her that it's suffocating...she had to have loved me back at one point...there's no way she is fully lesbian...because she did love me! Deep down, she knows it, too. She might not want to admit it anymore, after all the things I said, but we both know it's true. That girl will never make her as happy I can. I will get my baby girl back, or I will die trying. We are soul mates, we are meant to be, we are in love. It's just a phase...it's just a phase...we will get married and live happily ever after. We will. I will not give up. She will be mine.

Alex POV-

We walked back to Mitchie's house, in kind of an awkward silence. The second we walked through the front door, Maddie was there.

She studied me, "Okay, now, you kissed my sister."

Mitchie laughed a little, "Yeah, she did, pumpkin."

Maddie jumped up and yelled, "Yes!"

She hugged me tight, then skipped away. Mitchie took my hand and pulled me off to her room.

She sighed, "So..."

"Why are you acting so awkward?"

"Because I kissed you and...you didn't kiss back...then I felt stupid..."

"I was just...a little surprised."

She laid back on her bed, staring at the ceiling, "Sorry, I know I can be a bit forward."

"No, no...it's fine..."

She sat up, "Well, you should probably get going...Hang out with your friends and stuff..."

I smiled a little, "I"m good here."

She glanced up at me and smiled, "Well, then you can help me unpack."

She grabbed stuff out of random boxes and put them in places. I just grabbed one box and rummaged through it. It had a camera in it, so I turned it on and started flicking through pictures. A lot of them were of her smiling with some friends. I started getting into pictures that were of her kissing girls. She just looked so happy, it was adorable. She snatched the camera from me and waved her finger.

I laughed, "What?"

She placed the camera in her dresser, "Naughty, no spying on my past life."

I playfully rolled my eyes, "Well, you were very cute."

She playfully glared, "My hair was blonde and I wore slutty clothing, I was not cute."

"Fine, not cute, attractive. Sound better?"

She leaned down and placed her hands on my thighs, holding herself up, "I need payback now."

"What kind of payback?"

Her eyes fell to my lips, "Take me to your house and let me look through some old pictures."

"No way."

She stood up straight and smirked, "Then I guess it's time for the silent treatment."

"Oh, come on, Mitch."

She turned her back to me and continued unpacking. I bounced up and started poking her in her sides. She let a small, cute laugh escape her lips, but then stepped away from me. I grabbed a pillow off of her bed and chucked it at her. She grabbed it, and not even looking at me, chucked it back at me, nailing me in the face. I laughed and walked up to her. I cupped her face in my hands and tried to turn her head towards me, but she wasn't having it. So, I lodged myself between her and the boxes in front of her.

Her eyes met mine, "You just don't give up."

I sweetly smiled, "Nope."

She laughed and rolled her eyes, placing her hands on my hips, "You're too cute."

I was about to reply, but her doorbell rang. She slipped away from me and jogged to the front door.

I heard the door open and her say, "Um...what?"

The voice I knew all too well replied, "I'm just here to talk to Alex."

"How'd you even find my house!?"

"Simply, really, this house was for sale, now it's not and you're new in town."

I walked up and stood next to Mitchie, "What do you want, Mason?"

"To talk to you," his eyes flickered to Mitchie, "In private."

I sighed, "Alright, just wait out there for a second."

He nodded and I closed the door. Mitchie turned to me, giving me the "what the fuck" look.

"He deserves to talk."

She shook her head, "Um, hello, are you forgetting what he did to you?"

"He. Deserves. To. Talk."

Mitchie rolled her eyes, "Whatever."

She started to storm away, but I grabbed her hand and pulled her close to me, "Don't be like that. I'll be right back, okay?"

She hesitated, "Fine, but I'll be watching."

I lightly kissed her cheek, "Okay."

I opened the door and slipped outside. Mason had his hands stuff in his pockets and flashed me a sad, yet guilty smile. It still struck me as adorable. It still made me want to engulf him in my arms and forgive him.

He mumbled, "I'm sorry, Lexi, I messed up...I shouldn't have said all those things. I guess someone will say anything when their heart is broken."

I automatically stepped a bit closer to him, "Is that all?"

He slowly licked his lips, which killed me, and said, "I want to be friends, I don't want to lose you."

I looked to the ground, "I don't know...you really hurt me..."

He lightly lifted my chin, "And you hurt me...yet, here I am."

"I-I...guess we can be friends..."

His eyes fell to my lips, "And maybe...more again..."

He started to lean in, but his body was yanked away from mine with a lot of force. He screamed out on pain and crumbled to the ground, holding his stomach. Mitchie was standing there, clenching her fist, then she turned and faced me. She didn't say anything, just grabbed my hand and pulled me inside. She slammed the door shut behind us, then pushed me against it. She pressed her body against mine.

She whispered, "Rule number one...don't piss Mitchie off..."

I slowly smiled, "Noted."

Her lips synced with mine and her hands laced with mine. Her lips slipped away and traveled along my jaw line and up to my ear.

She whispered, "You're mine, not his."

I joked, "I don't recall agreeing to this."

Her eyes met mine and she winked, "Too bad, babe."

I slipped away from her, "Let's make a deal."

She put her hands on her hips and raised one eyebrow, "Which is?"

I smirked, "If you can catch me, I'm all yours."

I took off running in the opposite direction and I could hear Mitchie chasing after me, laughing. I bolted out the doors into the backyard, nearly tripped over Maddie, and jumped into one of the hammocks. Mitchie popped up out of the doors, jumped over Maddie, but fell when she was about half way to me. I cracked up laughing. I was still laughing, but glanced over at her again. She was sitting where she had fallen, her bottom lip stuck out in a pout.

I laughed, "Awe."

I climbed out of the hammock and walked over to her. I plopped down onto my knees, leaned over, and kissed her.

I slowly pulled away, "I'm yours."

A few hours later, I had to go home. I hadn't been home for days. It wasn't easy leaving, though.

Mitchie latched her arms around my waist, "No, five more minutes, please."

I kissed her chin, "You'll see me tomorrow, I promise."

She stuck out her bottom lip, "That's too long, please, just stay."

I kissed her softly, "Babe, I have to go, you will see me tomorrow."

She groaned and pulled away from me, "Fine."

I winked, "Don't miss me too much."

"Oh, I will."

I waved and walked home. It was a little after five in the afternoon, which means my parents will be home in about an hour from work. I skipped up to my older brother's room. He was laying in his bed, messing around on his laptop.

He glanced over at me, "Oh, look, my sister's alive."

I laughed, "Where's Max?"

"His room, where else would an eight year old with no friends be?"

"Oh, stop, he's just shy."

"Well, find him some friends."

A light flickered on in my mind, "I know the perfect girl..."

I walked off to my little brother's room and knocked on the open door. He was playing with his toys and glanced up at me.

"Hey, Lex, wanna play with me?"

I sat down next to her, "Sure. Hey, tomorrow do you want to go to a friend's house with me?"

He smiled wide and nodded, "Yeah!"

I smiled and kissed his forehead, "Good."

***

Once I woke up, I got ready to go to Mitchie's. I did my hair, make up, and got dressed. I found Max in the kitchen, eating some cereal. My mom was there, talking to him, in her work clothes.

I smiled, "Hey, mom."

"Hey, sweetheart, where you off to?"

"A friend's, I'm bringing Max."

She nodded, "Alright, have fun, I have to get going."

She kissed mine and Max's cheeks, then rushed out. Max stood up on his chair and held his arms out, wanting me to pick him up. I scooped him up and carried her to my car. I buckled her into the backseat and drove off to Mitchie's place.

I pulled up into the driveway, helped Max out, and walked up to the front door. Before I knocked, I could hear Mitchie and Maddie talking.

Mitchie whined, "Where is she!"

Maddie laughed, "Go cry somewhere else, I'm trying to watch Barney."

I chuckled and knocked. The door opened quickly and Mitchie smiled wide when she saw me. She was about to kiss me, when she noticed Max, which made her stop.

She knelt down, "Hey, cutie, are you Max?"

Max nodded, "Yeah..."

She smiled, "Run on inside, Maddie is in watching some show."

Max smiled and ran past Mitchie. Mitchie stood, secured her arms around my waist, and kissed me. I kissed back, smiling, and pulling her closer.

She slightly pulled away and mumbled into my lips, "We have babysitting duty."

I groaned, "Of course."

She pulled away from me completely, "Does you brother know?"

I shook my head, "Nope."

She groaned, "We have to keep our hands to ourselves."

She stomped inside like a five year old. I laughed and followed.

***

After a while, my phone started to buzz. I checked it, a text from Mason. I glanced at Mitchie, she was preoccupied with the kids, so I opened the text, "Hey, Lex, we didn't really get to finish talking yesterday. We were...rudely interrupted. So, I was wondering, wanna meet me at the park in five?"

I hesitated but asked everyone, "Hey, wanna go to the park?"