Chapter 4.

How Much Trouble I Can Get In

I've been in Portland for two weeks now, and I was starting to miss my old life. I woke up every morning, did my school work for three hours, waited for Nessie to get home, and then fought with Alex the rest of the night. I really needed to party, and have some fun. I had the house to my self tonight, well except for Alex, who I was hoping would be in his room.

"So what'd you wanna do tonight?" of course he's not, "Ya know since everyone else is gone." He was sitting on one end of the couch flipping through the channels on the tv. I plopped down on the other end and watched as the screen flickered as he changed the channel.

"What I really wanna do is party," I told him, laying back, "but don't know anyone here, and there's no alcohol."

"Well I can't do anything about not knowing anyone but," Alex got off the couch and went into Jake's bedroom. When he came out I wanted to hug him, he had a six pack and a bottle of Jack. "I can get you drinks, if you share."

"How did you get these?" I asked.

"Jake and I keep some stashed away, don't tell him I shared." Alex smiled at me. "There's more in the other room if we need it, and they won't be home till like nine tomorrow night."

"Well then let's party." I said.

Two six packs and half a bottle of Jack later.

"You know your not really that much of a bitch." Alex said, we were sitting on the couch facing each other, I was sure if I stood up now I would probably fall flat on my face.

"You thought I was a bitch?" I asked him somewhat shocked.

"Well at first I thought "damn this chick is sexy." but then you got all smart ass on me and I thought bitch." I laughed causing a smile to spread across his face.

"Our first meeting wasn't on the best terms." I told him, "I was hungover, pissed off, and my arm hurt like crazy."

"I see that now." he scooted closer to me. "Now I just can't help but think, your just like me. Misunderstood, and wanting to find a way to let everything out, people like us we just pick the wrong way I guess." I looked at Alex, I mean really looked at him for the first time, he was cute, very cute. He had jet black hair, that you could tell was complete natural, he had mussels not to many, and these bright blue eyes I could get lost in. "Why did your mom send you here? Bella wouldn't tell me much."

"I was a bad kid, I acted out. I went to parties got kicked out of school, was failing all my class at me new one." I told him, "She just didn't wanna deal with the problem child anymore I guess." I knew I was drunk, other wise I wouldn't be talking with him like this, and I was pretty sure he was too. "I can't compare to my brother, the werewolf, the football star, the straight student whose always home by eleven. So she just sent me off." Alex bent down and kissed me, and I didn't pull away. In fact I did the opposite, I pulled him down to me, laying back on the couch. I put my hands in his hair and kissed him back. Mom thought sending me here would keep me out of trouble, well I was going to show her just how much trouble I could be.

The next morning I woke up, head throbbing, brain fuzzy, and hyper aware that someone was in bed next to me. Damn it. I thought to myself as I stirred a little, I was pulled closer to the person laying beside me. I turned around to face them, it was Alex, all the memories from last night hit me at once.

"Hey," he said in a sleepy voice.

"Hey." I looked away from his face and he laughed. "You remember last night don't you?"

"If I didn't I'd probably shoot my self." he smiled at me. "I may have been drunk off my ass last night, but I meant everything I said. Your beautiful girl, and your not a 'bad kid' as you put it, just misunderstood. And when you drop that little bitch act you love to rock so much, your actually a pretty sweet." he kissed the top of my head. "I'm not one to sleep with a girl and then just drop them, if you wanna be friends we'll be friends, but I would really like to date you Faylen Call."

"Your being serious right now?" I looked up at him and he nodded. "Okay then, but no one can know about last night, it was a mistake regardless. I was drunk and pissed off." He smiled and then kissed me.

"Your secrets safe with me Fay."

"Good, now get out of my room so I can get dressed." I told him. He kissed me again before grabbing his pant's off my floor, putting them on and leaving my room. I got up and saw his shirt laying on my chair, I grabbed it and stuffed it under my pillow before getting dressed. When I went upstairs he was standing in front of the toaster.

"Poptart?" he asked, I nodded and took a seat on one of the barstools. "No hangover today?" he put a plate down in front of me.

"No, it take a bit more then what I had last night to give me a hangover." I told him. "If they find out about anything that happened last night I'm screwed." I took a bite of the poptart.

"We won't let them find out about anything they don't need to." he came up behind me and wrapped his arms around me. "All they need to know is we talked things and realized we like each other a lot. They'll respect that." We hung out the rest of the day just getting to know each other. Alex told me how he got to Rose and Emmett.

"My mom she was sick and dad he went kind of crazy after she passed. He started drinking and eventually started to get violent. Carlisle noticed how much I was in the hospital and eventfully went to social services. Then he brought me home, and Rosalie feel in love with me, she said I was the perfect son for them I was seven then." Alex was a nice guy when the two of weren't stuck in defense mode. Maybe staying here in Portland could get better now that I had someone worth staying here for.

Everyone got home around nine that night, Alex and I were sitting on the couch together when they got home. I was snuggled against him and he had his arms wrapped around me. Everyone looked at us when they walked into the house.

"What they hell happened while we were gone?" Jake asked.

"Evidently a miracle." Nessie laughed and pulled him downstairs with her. Rosalie came and motioned for me to follow her upstairs. I got up from me seat and went up to her's and Emmett's room. We sat down on the bed together and she turned to face me.

"I'm not gonna ask you what happened last night, because truthfully I don't wanna know." she smiled at me. "But I knew that something would happen between you and Alex."

"How did you know that?" I asked.

"Cause your just like me." she said. "Your bitchy and defensive on the outside but inside your just a girl that needs someone to help her stay strong. You need someone like Alex who can throw all your smartass comment's back at you, but still find his way to your heart." She smiled to herself. "He's seen his dad deal with me enough to learn that. You two were lucky to find each other."

After my talk with Rose I went back down to the living room and said goodnight to everyone, before heading to bed.

A/N: Thanks for the review thus far guys, they really help. So please keep'em coming. Let me know what you think of the story, what you think of the characters, or what you think will happen next.