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Chapter Four: How Bad Do You Want it?

After popping out of the bathroom Alex decided it was best to ditch her last class. She wouldn't be able to sneak in without getting a detention for her trouble anyway. She had already decided to decline Mr. Laritate's invitation to detention from earlier today. Normally she would just go but now she had better things to do. Like finding out the best way to use the disk of Gigi's disgrace to its full advantage. Besides she still stood by her statement. Cake was not a pastry so there was no reason for her to go to detention. She had time to kill before she could go home. She wished there was something cool to do in the meantime but really there wasn't. Finally she just decided to take a nap. First she had to ditch this camera though because she had grown really tired of carrying it around. She tried to shove it in her locker but only succeeded in covering it with cake crumbs and sticky pineapple syrup. She seriously considered chunking it in the trash can but decided against it after a vision of Justin having a heart attack flashed into her mind.

"Oh well" Alex spoke to the inanimate object. "I guess we are stuck together for now."

Alex carefully licked as much of the crumbs and syrup off the camcorder as she could before plopping down on a bench a few blocks from school. She curled up to take a nap clutching it to her chest and drifted off to sleep.

Justin Russo was not in a good mood. As he walked home from school he could not help but think over his day and as days went it was a pretty rotten one. First his senior moments video was ruined and his camcorder was stolen. Then he had a trash can bounced off his head. Next he was attacked by a pineapple encrusted Gigi. Lastly he had stepped in a puddle of what could only be urine. His shoe was soggy and he kept getting dirty looks from passersby so he had to assume that they could smell the pee also.

He didn't have to walk far before he caught sight of a park bench with the cause of all his problems curled atop it snoring. He sprinted over to the bench his blood boiling but when he looked down at her sleeping face he calmed down. She really did look sweet when she was sleeping. It reminded him of when they were little before she had become such a pain. Even her snoring was cute which was strange because he had never found it very cute before when he had found his dad or max sawing away on the couch.

Justin shook his head to clear his thoughts. Alex was really being way to reckless sleeping on a park bench. Who knew what could have happened to her if the wrong person would have walked by and caught her in such a vulnerable position. A bubble of panic rose up in Justin's chest at the thought of anyone hurting Alex and he frantically searched her with his eyes to make sure she was okay. After scanning her a few times and finding her unharmed his eyes froze on her chest. Clutched at her chest in her grubby little hands was his video camera.

The anger rose again in Justin. His camera was covered in cake crumbs and there was a chunk of pineapple stuck to the lens. He yanked a nearby stick off the ground and poked Alex viciously in the side with it. The first poke barely seemed to register to Alex so Justin had to continue poking her until her eyes slowly opened.

Alex laid there for a few moments silently staring at Justin. He was about to open his mouth to demand his camera back when her face scrunched up in disgust and she spat out. "Geez Justin you smell like that dried up potted plant in Max's room. I see they weren't joking when they printed 'eau de toilet' on your cologne bottle."

Justin's face reddened as he watched Alex snicker at her joke. He had gone past boiling point now. "Alex just give my camcorder back now!" he yelled at her harshly.

The smirk fell off of Alex's face immediately and was replaced by a very serious expression. She sat up quickly rubbing the sleep from her eyes with one hand.

Justin thought he finally had her attention. He was sure Alex was about to give his camera back and apologize.

"How bad do you want it?" popped out of Alex's mouth.

It hadn't been the first time Alex did the opposite of what he thought she would do but some how it always surprised him.

"If you want it back you are going to have to give me something." she added on to her previous statement.

This made Justin even more furious. "Just hand it over Alex!" he yelled while reaching for her.

Sensing the imminent threat Alex darted up on top of the bench. Justin watched her jump over the back of it and start hauling ass in the direction of their home. He started to initiate pursuit but immediately slammed his shin into the bench and fell to the ground. Cursing loudly he watched Alex's figure disappear into the distance. As he lay there clutching his leg he noticed a dog turd stuck to the side of his piss free loafer.

Justin groaned in misery and stood up and tried to scrape as much crap off into the grass as he could. "This day just keeps on getting better and better…" he spewed out sarcastically.

As soon as Alex arrived home she went straight up to her room despite the fact that she knew her parents expected her to come straight to the sub shop to work her shift. She really didn't get why people always expected things of her when she never did them. But hey it usually worked out for her in the end anyway so she wasn't complaining. She had managed to sneak into the loft with out any of her family members noticing her or the fact that she was carrying Justin's precious video camera. Now all she needed to do was find the perfect hiding place for it.

An annoying thought popped into Alex's mind. Just forty minutes ago she had been trying to get this video equipment off her hands. Now she was trying to find a place to hoard it away. She didn't even have to ask herself what had changed because she knew. When she had looked up and seen Justin's red face and heard his demands she just reacted.

The truth was Alex had a problem. One she couldn't remember ever not having. A normal rational person made decisions with a combination of common sense, intellect, and natural instinct. Alex on the other hand threw all three of those practical decision making tools out the window and instead followed what she called tingles. She didn't always like the decisions she made when she followed the tingles but she always liked the feeling.

When she had seen Justin's mad flushed face she had felt like her skin had been trying to jump up and down in a sugar rush. Her stomach felt like it had been dancing and she just had to make him angrier. For some reason an angry Justin never failed to excite Alex. "It's probably cause he always such an uptight dork." Alex mumbled to herself finally finding a good place to stash the camera in her closet.

Alex set the recorder on the top self and grabbed her wand out of her boot. She paused to think for a moment before waving her wand and saying, "This object I want no one to see. Except, of course, no one but me." the said object disappeared except for a faint outline that she could barely make out.

Alex was casually trying to shove her wand back down into her boot when the sound of a door slamming filled the loft. She quickly shoved the doors to her closet closed. That had to be Justin and if he found her standing in front of her closet with its contents strewn all over the floor it wouldn't be too hard to figure out where she had put his camera. Grabbing up her wand again she decided to pop herself down into the lair and then come out into the sub shop. That would at least throw him off the scent for a little while.