Disclaimer: I do not own the characters, they belong to Josh Shwartz and Fox, title belongs to Killswitch Engage.

It came to my realization that I'm sure everything seems rushed. I was really trying to get all this information out in a semi-short period of time, so I decided that instead of just writing in one sitting I would just take my time a bit on it. Hopefully it shows, as always hope you enjoy.

It had been hours since Casey had left. Alex was positioned upright on the sofa staring blankly at the wall, deep in thought. Casey had pretty much just broke up with her, but she had no idea what to feel. She knew that she did love Casey but, she didn't feel anything, well, she was confused. She knew that the other girl was right when she told her about the way she had looked at Marissa, without even realizing it. She was just so unbelievably confused she had no idea what to think, feel, or do. It was like she had just been throw in the middle of nowhere and had no idea what was going on or where she was.

She decided that the best thing to do was keep her mind occupied, then at least she wouldn't have to think about the confusing mess that had became her life. So she decided to go into work, not realizing that the club didn't open for another three hours.

She hopped in her Jeep, and took off down the road. When she finally made it there she was a bit suspicious by the lack of cars in the parking lot, still not realizing what time it was. She made it inside got down to the bar and became face to face with the big boss, ' oh shit we had inspections this week, I guess I have some explaining to do as to why I haven't been here the past two days..' breaking out of her thought she spoke up.

"Ronnie! What are you doing here, I thought inspections didn't start until tomorrow?" She said keeping her voice from cracking, it seemed like it had been so long since she had spoken.

"Yeah well, I got some calls from you employee's telling me you haven't been in so I decided to make sure there wasn't a reason." He said before raising his eyebrow and continuing. "So Alex, is there something I should be worried about, with you not coming in to work and all." he said in an authority like tone.

"Nothing that hasn't been handled, just a personal thing but like I said before its been taken care of." trying to reassure him that there was nothing, when the world just clasped on top of her.

"Well I sure hope so, I couldn't live with myself if I had to fire not only my best club manager but my favorite one." Ronnie replied smiling widely for the first time since Alex had been there. "So since you're in now, why don't go on back to your office and take care off all that paper work I seen piling up on your desk? I'm sure you could use something to do, it gets boring around here really fast."

"And you think paper works fun? Yeah okay Ronnie" she responded finally letting some of her personality come back to her, with the sarcasm and all.

"Well of course its not fun, but if I remember correctly thats why I hired you." he said winking before walking towards the door. "Look Alex, I gotta go but you know my number if you need anything, since it doesn't look like your employee's will be here any time soon." before Alex even had a chance to respond he was out the door.

'Well I at least he wasn't completely pissed about my absence, but looks like I have a lot of paper work to do'. Alex thought to herself while grabbing her Mp3 player and heading back to her office.

Without out realizing it Alex slowly drifted out of her work and into thought. Then a certain song came on, it had reminded her so much of Marissa, and thats when she realized for the first time in a year and a half. Marissa, that's what she wanted. How could she not have known, I mean Casey had even known and told her yet she still didn't realize it until now, yet now it seemed like the most obvious thing in the world. ' She told me she loved me' after that thought a huge smile appeared on Alex's face. She felt as though she just had an epiphany or something. She decided in that moment that she needed to call Marissa. So thats exactly what she did, she picked up her phone and waited while it began to ring.

Alright so I'm sure you can see where this is beginning to go, originally this story was going to be a prologue type thing for a Malex fic, although some Malex will be touched upon before this fic is over, I'm still consider the sequel so if you think you'd read it please suggest it. Hope you enjoyed, also if you like music you should check out some of the bands who's songs I use as title really great stuff, have a good day and be safe!