A/N: Thanks so much for everyone who reviewed last chapter. As like promised we have some mind-reading, and another person gets put on the Truth spell...but who? read to find out!
Enjoy! =)
Justin was a nervous wreck; more so then he usually was too. Throughout class all he could think about was that Alex knew his feelings and that's why she wasn't talking to him.
After class, Justin saw his sister at her locker and jogged over to her. "Alex!"
She turned around slowly, already knowing who it was. "What do you want, dork?"
"Did you overhear my conversation with Juliet last night?" If she heard too much, this wasn't going to be good.
"What? No. Why would you say that? I had no clue." She fibbed.
"Stop trying to lie, Alex. Harper already told me that you did," He stated matter-of-factly. "How much did you hear?"
"Harper," Alex mumbled to herself, stomping her leg.
"Only up to the point when you started all that lovey dovey crap," She directed towards her brother. "So what if I did anyway?"
"Is that why you were all angry last night and this morning?" He wondered.
"You know those brownies we made last night were really good," She said changing the subject and then pulling out one of the said brownies from her locker to take a bite.
"Alex! I'm trying to wrap my head around the difficultness that is you, and you go and start talking about brownies!" He was raising his voice. She was riling him up. She loved it.
"Justin, there is no need to worry about me being mad anymore. Totally over it. Was just over-reacting," Alex stated, putting her free hand on his shoulder reassuringly. Justin looked like he wanted to say something more about why she was so mad, so she quickly changed the subject again. "Why were you knocking on my door anyways last night?"
"A guy can't check up on his sister?"
"By knocking on the door?" She said looking at him, her eyebrow cocked up. "You and I both know that when we want to say something to each other we just barge into the other's room. Why so formal?"
"Well…you know since you were such a brat," Justin said, pointing his finger at her, "I'm not going to tell you."
"Oh no, I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight," She said dramatically sarcastic, then stuck her tongue out.
He glared at her as he stuck his tongue out too. He left in a huff briefly afterwards.
Alex smiled as she turned back to her locker. She loved making him stoop to her childish ways. It made it seem like they weren't that different after all.
She took another bite of the brownie, "Mmm, these are good brownies though."
...
Don't ask Alex how she managed to get in the same chemistry class as her brother. He probably told her in the beginning of the year, but to be completely honest, everyone, including him, knew she didn't listen.
It actually worked out to her advantage. She got to actually torture Justin in class, and when she wasn't having Harper do all the work for her, she convinced him to do it.
'You don't want the school to explode, do you?' That line always got him.
The teacher was passing back the latest test they took. Alex would rather not look at it knowing she failed it. She quickly bunched it up, and decided the paper ball's target would be her brother's head.
She threw it lightly and it landed perfectly on his forehead. He looked up her, already knowing the culprit, and glared. She swore that she might have seen a ghost of smile though.
Justin didn't want to smile and encourage her to continue to throw things at him, but he was feeling much better knowing his sister was back to her antics again, which proved she couldn't be mad at him anymore.
Alex was becoming restless, not being able to concentrate on whatever the boring teacher was trying to teach. When was she going to be using this stuff in the future? She wasn't going to become a scientist or anything.
She cracked a grin. She could pass time reading minds. She went from kid to kid, but most were just thinking about the lesson, or some drama she really didn't care for. Then she looked at Justin, her favorite target. She zoned in on his thoughts.
'Another perfect test for another perfect student,' Justin boasted in his thoughts. Alex rolled her eyes at him. Then he sunk a bit in his seat looking at the teacher. 'Last night was close. I was going to tell her then she has to act up and ruin everything. Maybe it's a good thing though. This could have screwed everything in our lives up.' Alex knew he was thinking about her and the casual glance he casted over at her right afterwards was only another indication of it.
Instinctively, Alex thought back, 'What did you want to tell me?'
Justin flew back, falling out his chair. Alex tried to stifle her laugh with her hand. Justin rose and told the class he was fine and sat back down. Justin's eyes were wide, and he looked at her. 'Alex! What have I told you about reading my thoughts?'
Alex shrugged, 'Probably not to do it or something. But come on Justin, it's me we are talking about. So what were you going to tell me last night but didn't?'
He could see the eagerness in her face, and the interest in her eyes. 'I'm not telling you. It would ruin everything.'
'Melodramatic much?' Alex scoffed.
Justin glared, 'Get of my head, Alex.'
She did, but now she needed to think of a plan for him to spill the beans about what he was hiding from her. She could do the truth spell on him, but she would have to do it in a way that he had no clue it was coming.
...
Alex always got home before her brother, probably because he actually joined clubs and things willingly. The only reason you would catch Alex after school would be because she had to go to detention or be stuck in that stupid cheerleader's outfit that she was forced to wear because Justin got her caught into that whole mess.
She went over to the brownies they made last night, that were secretly hid from their dad, because let's face it, once he found it there would be no more to go around. The man was a human food vacuum.
She quickly enchanted the brownies with the truth spell. All Justin had to do was just take a bite, and presto, he would be spilling his guts out to her.
Sure she didn't like when it was done to her, but he was her brother. She never said she wasn't going to get even with him. Payback was a bitch.
...
Justin came home from school, and saw Alex lounging on the couch with a magazine. When he shut the door, she placed her magazine to the side and looked up at him.
She smiled really big. Justin was all for Alex smiling, but it was beginning to give him the chills since it seemed like she was up to no good.
"Justin," she exclaimed, getting up from the couch and walking over to him. "I've been thinking about what happened today in school, and are you sure you don't wanna tell me about whatever you wanted to tell me last night?"
"Alex, like you said before; if I could, I would." He shrugged it off. Oh like hell he was going to try and pull the same crap she did.
Alex smiled again, "Okay." Justin looked at her wearily; trying to make sure more wasn't coming, 'cause with Alex you just never know. He tried to walk away, but Alex pulled him back. "Oh before you go, take a brownie!" And she shoved the plate in his face.
Justin reluctantly took one, and took a bite into it. "Oh wow, they are really good."
Alex laughed slightly, "Told you." Justin shook his head at Alex, but smiled too.
Let's test this out. "Justin, have you ever failed a test?" Alex asked out of the blue. She knew Justin would never admit to failure on normal circumstances.
"Twice," He blurted out. He jumped at how quick his answer came. "Once in 5th grade, and then again last year." He widened his eyes. Why am I saying this? Suddenly a light bulb went off in his head.
"Alex! Did you enchant the brownies with the truth spell?" Alex pouted. He figured things out way too soon for her liking. "You have to get this off of me before I say things I don't want to!"
Alex looked as if she was contemplating it, but decided finding out what Justin was hiding was more important. He was going to tell her!
"I took it off for you!" He told her. "Why is it any different if it's me than you?"
Alex scoffed, "Obviously because now it's you and not me."
"Alex," He begged.
"You were going to tell me anyways, I just want to know," She told him. Justin tried to flee, but Alex grabbed him. "What were you going to tell me last night, Justin?"
Justin suddenly felt his feelings rise, and the words were mounting to his lips. He closed his eyes trying to concentrate on not telling Alex anything. His lips were quivering under the pressure that he had from trying not to let them open.
"That I love you."
A/N: How will Alex be reacting? Please Review!
** Also: I just wrote my first Jalex one-shot called, As the Fire Dies, go check that out if you haven't already! =)
