Minutes and Days: 1x03: No Parade:

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A/N: So I just finished summer school so I'll try to update sooner. Hopefully you'll enjoy my next chapter. Please review.

I'm already looking back

I'm already looking 'round

Where do we get off the track

What was it that brought us down

Alex picked up some of her things on set before heading back to her dressing room. She wasn't sure if she was Mentally or Physically tired but it didn't matter because her day still wasn't finished. As soon as she got back to her dressing room she plopped herself down on the sofa checking her cell phone for messages and sure enough, she had one from her manager telling her to review the moving scrips and pick a few to go audition for. She heard a knock on her door, "Come in," She called too lazy to get up.

"Hey," Nate said stepping into the room carrying Starbucks in his hands.

"Nate, what are you doing here?" She asked greatly surprised. She expected Mitchie, Taylor, or one of her cast mates but not Nate and she was actually happy that it was him. She couldn't stop herself from smiling at the thought that he came to see her.

"Well, I told you I'd see you around didn't I?" He replied smiling taking a seat next to her. "Some iced tea for my lady." He said handing a drink to her.

"Strawberry Black tea?" She asked examining the drink and Nate nodded his head. After all these years, he still remembered her favorite. Nate scratched the back of his head wondering what he was supposed to do next, "So you want to go out to dinner or something?" He offered trying to fill the silence.

"Actually," Alex started taking a sip of her drink, "I can't, I have to read a bunch of scrips but..." She said getting a brilliant idea, "Since you're here, why don't you help me!" She said smiling and laughing shaking his shoulder lightly.

Nate looked up at the ceiling, "See this is why I never came to see you, you always put me to work" He said jokingly.

"So it that a yes?" She asked smiling.

"I guess so." He said looking back at her to meet her gaze. Alex took her hands off his shoulder clapping them together smiling, "Well lets get to work then!" She said going over to get the bags with the many scripts handing some of them too him leaving the rest in a stack on a table.

They sat for hours reading script after script sorting them into piles. The good ones, the bad ones, and the in between ones sometimes sharing a good script with each other. Eventually she found her head resting on his shoulder finally finishing another one tossing it into the maybe pile. "I don't think I can take another one of these things." she said looking at the pile of two or three.

"You're telling me, I'm doing this during my free time." He said tossing one into the no pile.

"This isn't really what I love to do after work." She said rubbing her forehead reading the clock. 8:48.

"Well this isn't really what I call fun either." Nate added on.

"You want to have fun then?" Alex asked raising an eyebrow, "Come on then," She said grabbing his hand pulling him up laughing as she ran out the door with him following.

"Where are we going? What if the paparazzi sees us?" Nate asked his head flooding with questions.

Alex just rolled her eyes, "Relax popstar, we're just going to the set," she said with a laugh, "I want to show you something fun."

"Rockstar." Nate corrected as the got to the set. Alex was grabbing random things from the set such as hats, scarves, and fun sunglasses handing a bunch to Nate ordering to put him them on eventually leading him to a photo booth.

"A photo booth?" Nate asked taking off a pair of sunglasses and placing it on his shirt looking at her. It wasn't everyday that you found one of these onset.

"You like? Come on lets try it out." She said pulling him in by his hand putting on a funky looking hat.

They did pouty lips, peace signs, funny faces, even a kiss on the cheek, Alex even convinced Nate to try the heart things with their hands, they took picture after picture until they came out of the photo booth laughing looking at the rows and rows of pictures taking them back to her dressing room. Alex felt like she couldn't be any happier at this very second, and that their past seemed like nothing. Like it didn't even happen.

-Flash Back-

"Nate?" Alex asked, her voice barely above a whisper, "We need to talk."

Nate knew what was coming next. We need to talk always come right before a break up. He prayed that he would be wrong, that something else was really on her mind. He joined her at the window that over looked the city in their hotel room. The sun shining in. "What is it Lexie?" he asked still hoping that he would be wrong.

"I'm not blind Nate." Alex paused carefully trying to pick the right words to say next, "I love you, I probably always will, but I can't do this anymore."

"Can do what?" He asked even though he knew what was coming next trying to hold back his tears as she was trying to hold back her own.

"I can't keep pretending. We can't keep pretending that I'm her." She said looking down at her hands, "I can't do it anymore."

"I love you Alex." He said facing her holding her head in his hands placing an emphasis on you.

"I see the way you look at her."

"I love you Alex."

"It's like you're longing for her."

"I love you Alex."

She looked away trying to keep the tears from falling but in the end they overwhelmed her.

"I don't know how else to say it..." He said trailing off looking down to wipe some of the tears from his own eyes.

"What about how you show it. It's just sometimes I feel like you can't let me all the way in, that sometimes you wish I was her instead of me."

"It's not like that Alex, you know how much I love you."

"Sometimes it isn't enough Nate." She said finally looking up to meet his gaze. His eyes were filled with tears, sadness, and a bunch of other emotions she couldn't read. Maybe shock.

"Alex please, I love you..."

"You love her more." It wasn't a question. It was a statement. Alex said turning away from him wiping more tears from her eyes. She had to be strong, for herself, for him. If she didn't do this know, she knew he was going to break her heart. "I'm leaving Nate, my flight is in a few hours and I need to be at the airport soon."

"Please..." He didn't know what else to say. What to say that would make her stay. What the right words were.

"I'll see you around." She said placing one last kiss on his cheek she said grabbing her bags walking to the door.

"Alex wait," He said, "I'm sorry."

"Me too." She said wiping the last tears as she closed the door. Their breakup wasn't as dramatic as Miley's, they weren't standing in the rain, like a dramatic heart beak but a simple one, and it hurt just as much. For both of them.

-End Flash Back-

Alex looked down at the pictures they had taken smiling. "I love these." She said looking at a bunch of them.

"I love them too." He said back to her, "Especially this one," He said pointing to the one where she was kissing him on the cheek. "I know this is a total mood killer but I had this question I've been dying to ask you for a while now." Nate said blushing a little.

"Looks like I can still make you blush." She said mimicking his words from earlier.

"It's kind of personal." He said sitting on the couch.

"It's you and me Nate. It's fine." She said taking a seat next to him putting a hand on his arm.

"I'm just going to come right out and say it, you never told me but after we broke up, did you date Jacob Black?" He said his face red in embarrassment. He was worrying over something that happened two years ago. Alex just smiled at that thought.

"You know what, we tried, we really did."

"So you dated?" Nate interjected.

"You never let me finish," She said lightly punching him in the arm.

"We dated while I was in Canada, he made me really happy, he really did but you know after a while, I didn't really feel the romantical connection. We decided to stay friends once we left Canada. And besides, it was fun to see the press obsess over this." She said laughing quietly to herself, "Why the question?"

"Because, it was just something I kind of always wondered and never really knew."

"You didn't ask Mitchie?"

Nate just shook his head, back then, he was way to embarrassed to ask about Alex, especially after he felt like he broke her heart. He didn't know how.

"Hey," She said bumping his shoulder so he looked up, "I'm glad that we're comfortable enough with each other to ask these kinds of questions you know?"

"It's nice. It's really nice, I like being your friend again. I missed it."

"I missed you too. We should probably get going before we get locked in here," She said looking at the time. 9:54.

"Do you want a ride home?" He asked grabbing his jacket and the bag with all the scripts in it.

"I wasn't planing on walking." She said with a smile, "There shouldn't be anybody outside. Usually there isn't but then again, since you're here, you never really know." She said teasing him a little.

"Hey, you have paparazzi who stalk you too."

"They only care about my love life."

"Please, you have no love life." Nate said jokingly as Alex playfully hung her mouth open for a second before lightly hitting on the arm getting into his car.

"You should come hang out at our house sometime. I'm sure my mom, dad, and Frankie would love to see you again." Nate said right before Alex got out of the car.

"Yea sure, sometime then." They stood there for a second not really sure it they were supposed to hug or not but Alex finally pulled him in for one, "I had a great time hanging out with Rockstar believe it or not." She whispered in his ear.

"You too Lonely girl." He said with a smirk.

"Shut up," Alex said sticking her tongue out at him before going inside her house greeting her mom and then walking up to her room with a loud sigh. She felt happy, wonderful, and a little giddy on the inside.

"Looks like somebody is fixing the bridges she burned," Mitchie said from Alex's bed with a smirk putting down the magazine she was reading.

"What are you doing here Mitch?" Alex asked. Her day full of surprises today.

"Well your mother said you would be home soon when I came over so she let me hang out here, but I didn't want to call you in case you were doing something important. I guess it's a good thing that I didn't call, and I can see why you were out so late."

"We were just hanging out." Alex said rolling her eyes going to sit on the foot of her bed, "He was just helping me out and we hung out for a little bit. Like friends."

"That's nice Alex, I'm glad you guys can hang out again. I really am, just don't do anything you're going to regret."

Alex nodded, she knew Mitchie always had her best interest at heart, "I know Mitchie, and I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself."

So please review. I promise there will be more drama I'm just trying to build up their friendship and I do have something in mind for Shane/Mitchie/Trace that might also involve Alex and Nate and probably Miley who had been kind of MIA along with Jason :P

I'll try to update as soon as I can. Please please please review, they always mean soo much to me :D