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New Friend Ship
Around 6:30 Alex started to get ready. She picked out a black polo with white lace trim. It had princess style sleeves and a corset style ribbon lace up back. She put it on and looked in the mirror. That was much better. Then she looked through her pants and found her favorite pare. They were black low-risers with glow-in-the-dark hook-and-eye closers on the sides and back pockets. She slipped them on and examined herself in the mirror. She couldn't believe she could fit into a size three again.
"Hey Alex…" Charlie trailed off as he saw his cousin. "You look…"
"Back to normal." Brad said giving her a high five. "You should paint you nails black and white like you used to and tip your hair in black."
"No the hair would be too much, but the nails sound like a good idea." Alex replied searching in her bag. She found her nail polish and pulled them out. She only owned four colors, black, hot pink, a dark purple and white. She shook the black and painted three finger nails on each hand, her pinky, her ring and her pointer. She let them dry then added another coat. After the second coat was dry she painted her middle and thumb nails with white. She turned to Brad and Charlie. "How does that look?"
"Good." Both boys replied but she could see confusion in Charlie's eyes. It was time f or her to explain.
"Charlie this is what I dress like back in Iowa." She said as she straitened her hair.
"So your gothic?" Charlie asked unsure if he really wanted to know her answer.
"No, punk." Alex replied with a smile. "The black lipstick is too much for me."
"That's good to know." Charlie said smiling back at her. No matter what she looked like she would always be the same Alex.
"Alex!" Casey called from the front door. "Some one is here to see you."
"You going on a date?" Charlie asked in surprise.
"Its not a date." Alex said grabbing her pack and shoes. "Hey Charlie do you have any old rollerblades I can barrow?"
"No, I have something better." Charlie replied. He went to his closet and pulled out a box. He handed it to her and smiled. "Happy Thirteenth!"
Alex opened the box and inside here a pare of black shoes. She took them out of the box and smiles. "There rollershoes."
"Yeah I have some too!" Charlie said with a smile. Alex hugged him and put them on. She then put down her pack and picked up her hip purse and met Fulton in the living room. She found him being questioned heavily by the quadruplets.
"So is this a date?" Sami asked.
"No."
"Why not?" Came Sara.
"I only like her as a friend."
"Oh so she's not good enough for you?" Kassy asked.
"She'd be better than you four."
"You just got told!" Collin said with a laugh.
"That does happen to them a lot." Alex said with a smile. "It must be a Barbie clone thing."
"We are not Barbies!" the quadruplets yelled in unison.
"They even talk like clones!" Fulton said poking Sami on the check. "They even feel plastic!"
Alex grabbed Fulton by the arm and hurried him towards the door. "We'd better get you out of here before they call out the Barbie reinforcements."
"Yeah you'd better run!" they yelled after them. Alex and Fulton left the apartment laughing their heads off.
"Man how can you stand to live with them?" Fulton asked when they started to walk down the street.
"I stay out of the house as much as possible." Alex replied as she turned her shoes into blades. She did a fancy turn that landed her skating backwards in front of Fulton. "So where are you taking me?"
"You're just going to have to wait." He said picking up speed as he past Alex. She smiled and raced after him. They raced on till they came to the stop lights. They leaned against the pole to catch their breath.
"You're a pretty good skater." Fulton said fixing his bandana.
"Yeah well I used to be better." Alex replied. She waited for Fulton to cross his arms across his chest before she reached up and pulled his bandana over his eyes. He grabbed her hand, pulled the bandana back up then got her into a head lock.
"Whaahaa! Get out of that!" Fulton said with a laugh. Alex smiled as she hit him hard in the side causing him to loosen his grip and she got loose. He looked at her in surprise then smiled. "You're good."
"Of course I am." Alex said smiling back. "So tell me where you're taking me."
Fulton smiled and shook his head. "Right this way Firefly."
"Firefly?" Alex said confused.
"Yeah it was the only thing coming to mind so I used it." Fulton replied as he opened up the door to his left and showed Alex inside.
"Wishing you were some how here again.
Wishing you were some how near
Sometimes it seemed If I just dreamed
Some how you would be here.
Wishing I could hear you voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you helped me to do
All that you dreamed I could."
Alex quickly picked answered her cell phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Suki!" A deep mans voice said from the other end
"ANDY!" oh my god how have you been? Where are you?" Alex exclaimed at the sound of her best friend's voice. "Have you talked to Sami?"
"One question at a time, Suki. Your going to ask to many for my brain to remember." Andy said with a laugh. There was a small pause and he drew in a deep breath. "I'm doing well and I'm back home and no, you're the first person I called."
"Man I feel all special now!" Alex teased. Andy had been her best friend sence the day she had moved to iowa. He had been her only true friend even when she had gotten them into trouble. He had moved after the accident along with his sister Becki. "How are things going back at home?"
"Great!" Andy replied happily. Alex could hear other people talking in the back ground. She guessed it was his sister and her friends. "The gang was sent to the academe Ali! You can all come home! They got sentenced to the academe till the twins enter the ninth grade!"
"Andy…we're all home schooled as you know. The twins will be entering the ninth grade next year with me." Alex reminded him. Her heart was filled with joy at the news of the gang getting sent away but she could never return home if they would be out in the next year. "A year will not change what happened Andy."
"But it could." Andy said still trying to sound hopeful then sighed knowing she was right. "Your right. Well I'd better get going. Miranda and I are going to the movies."
"I thought you hated Miranda." Alex said thinking of her sister. Was Andy moving on with out her. "What about Sami?"
"Sami's a great girl but she's not here. Sorry Ali but I can't just sit here and dream about her. I need some one with me. Tell her I'm sorry." Andy replied as he hung up the phone.
Alex just stood there heartbroken. Andy hadn't just moved on with out Sami, he moved on with out her as well. Her greatest friend seemed so distant. She had only felt her heart get ripped into two once in her life and that was back home and Andy was the only one there to bring her back to happiness and now he was the one taking her happiness away.
"Are you alright?" Fulton asked putting a hand on her shoulder. Alex looked up at him and could see the concern in his eyes.
"Can you just hug me for a moment? I just need a hug." Alex replied not waiting for an answer she threw herself into his arms and help back the tears she thought she'd never cry. Fulton did not pull back from her but held her close to him. His grip on her was not gruff or perverted like a guy who wanted something more than a friendship, but warm and thoughtful. Alex was truly grateful to have him there at that moment. Her longing to cry left her and she pulled away from him. "Thanks that's what I needed. So what are we doing here?"
Fulton opened the doors and Alex was met by a room full of her brothers and sisters and Charlie's team mates. "SURPRISE!"
"Oh no way!" Alex exclaimed. She hated surprise parties but at that moment she was glad to be surprised. She turned to Fulton and smiled. "You were in on this?"
"Charlie thought I'd be the only one who could trick you into coming." Fulton replied with a shrug. Alex reached over and pulled his bandana over his eyes and moved away from him before he could grab her. She then went in search of her cousin. She found him in the back talking to Connie and Guy. Alex slowly came up behind him and put him in a bear hold. "Hey cuz!"
"Aw Shit!" Charlie said trying to get out of the hold. He reached one of his feet back and wrapped it around her leg causing them both to fall. Charlie landed flat on top of his cousin knocking the wind right out of her.
"You two never grow up." Roxie said helping Charlie up then helping Alex. "But I'd have to say that's the first time I've seen Charlie get out of that hold. Way to go!"
"Thanks Roxie!" Charlie said sounding pleased with himself. (He had never called Roxie aunt because Aunt Roxie made her sound 80 years old)
Alex looked around at the room filled with smiling faces. She could feel her heart heal it's self as she thought. Who needs Andy or any of the people back home. Here is where true happiness lies.
