Over My Head

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Chapter Seven

"Cooper's knocked out." Alex said entering the bedroom where Marissa lay in bed with a book on how to raise a toddler.
"He had a rough night." Marissa noted, looking up at Alex.

Marissa's glasses sat perched on her nose and Alex couldn't help but smile, there was something about the way Marissa could make anything look good. Alex couldn't help her thoughts; Marissa resembled a hot librarian, or the hot high school English teacher. If Alex had had teachers that looked as good as Marissa, she would have been in school every day.

"Sorry our night didn't exactly go as planned," Alex lay down on her stomach, perched on top of the blankets.
"What're you talking about?" Marissa set the book down on the nightstand, taking her glasses off as well and placing them next to the book.
"We were supposed to have a night without Cooper and that didn't happen."
"Did you have anything else planned?" The brunette questioned thinking about the ring that still sat in Alex's sock drawer, wondering if she should hint at it.
"I might have had a romantic night planned but seeing as how we're home and in our bed, clearly the plan didn't work," a bemused smile quickly spread across Alex's face.
"Oh, romantic night…"
"Well we haven't exactly had a lot of sexy alone time lately." Alex stated, wiggling her eyebrows.
"Ew you sound like Seth….don't do that eyebrow thing either, it looks like something he would do."
"That's not very nice." Alex said crawling under the covers, "You want to tell me why you were being so weird today now?"
"I'm not weird." Marissa turned the light off and slid lower into the bed.
"Yes you are." Alex pulled her body close to Marissa's, her arms encircling the lanky girl's waist, something she had been doing for the past nine years.

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Alex slipped out of bed making sure not to wake Marissa and kissed her on the forehead before heading to Cooper's room. She took a seat on his bed and watched him sleep for a few minutes, not knowing a more precious sight. Alex ruffled his sandy blond hair slightly and a few seconds later, his small eyes opened.

"Wanna help me make breakfast for momma?" the little boy rubbed the sleep from his eyes and with Alex's help got out of bed.

Alex carried Cooper into the kitchen and sat him down on the counter top. She pulled all of the ingredients out of the drawers and plopped them next to Cooper onto the counter. As Alex assembled the batter Cooper watched on hungrily.

"Okay little man, you want to mix the batter for me?" Alex asked, he nodded vigorously with a smile. Alex handed Cooper the mixing bowl and held it for him while he used the wooden spoon and sloshed batter all over himself.
"Wow you've got quite the arm buddy, slow down a little bit okay? We want to make sure we have enough to cook up."
"Here, why don't you put some chocolate chips in there?" Alex handed Cooper the nearly full bag, "don't put too much," she said, two seconds later he emptied the entire bag into the mixing bowl. He looked up at her fearful that he had done something wrong, "they'll just be extra chocolatey," Alex said with a laugh.

Once all of the pancakes were made and piled onto one plate and the coffee was poured into Marissa's mug, Alex handed the plate to Cooper letting him carry it into their bedroom.

The smell of pancakes and coffee caused Marissa's eyes to flutter open instantly. The first thing she saw was her little boy holding a heaping plate of hot cakes next to her bed. A huge grin broke out across her face and she pushed herself up into a sitting position. Standing behind Cooper stood Alex with a mug in her hand and some forks. Cooper took a few steps forward and with Alex's helped scrambled up onto the bed without dropping one pancake. The blond followed his lead and got into the bed as well.

"You want a fork?" Alex asked, being careful as she handed the coffee to Marissa.
"Nah," Marissa put the cup on her nightstand and grabbed a pancake with her fingers, "So many chocolate chips!"
"That was all Cooper's doing." Alex laughed, giving his head a ruffle.
"Yummy" the little boy between the two women mumbled between bites of his own pancake.
"Thanks for making breakfast." The brunette leaned over and kissed Alex slowly on the lips, while Cooper was obvious to what was going on overhead.

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"Hey," Alex said as Seth entered the diner and took a seat next to her. They tried to get together once or twice a week, just the two of them to spend some quality time together. Since Ryan had moved to the East Coast after college, Seth and Alex's relationship had become increasingly close, they were like siblings.

"You been here long?" Seth questioned pushing aside the menu, he already knew what he wanted, he didn't understand why they kept bringing them menus, their orders rarely changed.

As soon as their orders were taken, Seth started his interrogation.

"So you have anything important to tell me?" He asked, his hands absentmindedly playing with the coaster.
Alex's eyes narrowed, "No, why?"
"Are you sure? We're like best friends you can tell me anything." Seth was on the verge of rambling, his words were flying out at lightning speed.
"What are you talking about?"
"C'mon Alex, nothing to tell me?" the dark haired boy persisted.
"No…" Alex drew out slowly, confusion written across her features, "Can you just tell me what you're getting at?"
"I just figured you'd tell me when you finally proposed to Marissa," Seth answered, "I mean we're like family, big news man, kinda bummed you didn't tell me." He had his sad eyes on.
"What?" Now Alex was really lost, proposed to Marissa?
"Summer said you were proposing last night."
"How would Summer know that?"
"Well she said Marissa called her."
"Marissa called her?"
"Yeah-wait you didn't propose? You'd tell me if you were thinking about it right?" the curly haired boy was clearly in a much less somber mood.
"Yes Seth, I'd tell you," The waiter set their food down, "Why would Marissa tell Summer I proposed?"
"She found the ring." Alex whispered to herself, she groaned aloud, pushing her food away, "that's why she was being weird."
"Ring?" Seth questioned, "You got a ring?"
"Yeah, but I didn't propose…I've had it for awhile now."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Alex simply shot him a look that seemed to say, 'do I really have to answer that'.

Seth began to munch on his chili fries, while still keeping his eyes on Alex. To say she looked happy would be an understatement, she looked slightly annoyed.

"You know I'd imagine that proposing to your girlfriend would be a good thing." The curly haired boy said between bites.
"It is, I am," Alex said slowly, "I just wanted it to be a surprise."
"It's not like she knows when you're planning on doing it." Seth's eyes lit up instantly, "Keep her on her toes, you can mess with her!"

Alex laughed, it was the first time she had actually liked one of Seth's ideas.