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~SOS~

Downstairs the phone rang for what seemed like a million times, as Alex tapped one of her father's pens impatiently on the large Cherrie wood desk she sat behind then finally. When Alex was about to give up hope, a familiar voice greeted her:

"Hi Lex." There was the usual warm smile in Mia's voice.

"Well if you knew it was me why didn't you pick up sooner?" Alex tried to sound angry as but she couldn't quite pull it off.

"Because I love to push your buttons Darling" Mia retorted with a smirk.

"You know just how to do it and it's not right of you! You have no button's I can push back," Alex pouted,

"Of course I do, I just don't let you push them."

"Of course you don't…" Alex sounded defeated.

"Lex, what's wrong?" Mia knew her cousin better than anyone, even though they didn't speak that often and saw each other even less; Alexandra Cabot never went down without a fight.

"She's here."

"Who? Where?" Mia couldn't help feeling a little concerned by the anxiety in her cousin's voice.

"Olivia… Well she isn't here, she's upstairs, and I don't know what to do with her."

"Olivia? Wait, your girl, you spoke with her… And, brought her home! Wow Lex, it went that well, eh?"

"MIA! No it didn't, but yes I did." Alex was currently too stressed to have a sense of humor.

"How did this all happen?" Knowing well enough that if she couldn't make Alex laugh things must be pretty bad, Mia sobered her tone. That alone was enough to comfort her cousin just a bit.

"I don't know, it just kind of, happened: I got up the nerve to confront her after school today. That could have gone better, but it could have gone a lot worse too… Then on the drive home I saw here sitting there on her front stoop. The weather is crap here. And the sounds coming out from her house! Mia I've told you about the bruises and everything else, she looked so alone… I don't know what I was thinking but I channeled my inner Mia and decided to bring her home. " Alex sunk deep into her fathers oversized office chair completely bewildered by her own predicament.

Mia had been listening intently and now she smiled "Honey, I normally bring home lost dogs and abandoned kittens (not to mention Bob) not people, but I'm flattered"

"Well you would have done the same, I know it."

"Yes, in this case. And I'm glad you did it."

"I'm not!" Alex chucked her pen back onto the desk.

"You don't mean that Lex. If she didn't need your help she wouldn't have accepted it. You did the right thing, and I know you care about her."

"Yes, but now what? Mia, she wont talk to me, won't look at me, I don't even think she wants to be here."

"Well from what you told me about her before, that doesn't sound very out of character to me." Mia pointed out.

" It's not, but I can' stand her attitude. She is so abrasive and ungrateful, she won't even try."

"Have you?"

"Yes, and she won't have anything to do with me… Mia I can't do this. God I wish you were here! You are can handle messed up people."

"Alex that's so mean!"

"What? It's true: she IS messed up, besides, you can handle me can't you?"

"You're worth it Lexy." Mia smiled warmly into the phone. " And so is she."

"You don't even know her." Alexandra voice was soft and almost meek now, a tone reserved only for her beloved cousin.

"True, but I like her."

"What? You have nooo idea."

"Call it intuition."

"You and you're damn intuition." Alex rolled her eyes but smiled, classic Mia. "I tried to follow it today and look where it got me!"

"Give her a chance Lex! She hasn't had it so easy, I'm sure. Besides she can't be all bad"

" I know that, and I'm trying. But she is the most insufferable, incorrigible person I have ever met… She's kind of hot, but she's a bitch!"

" How do you know she isn't thinking the exact same thing about you, Miss Cabot?" Mia Laughed.

"Oh just shut up and get you're butt on a plain to New York, right now!" Alex wined

"Yeah, Yeah. You'll have to tough it out on your own for now Princess."

"Ohhh my god! Not you too." Alex groaned, as she heard the receiver beep

"What did I say?" Mia raised an eyebrow

"Nothing… I've got a beep, it might be Mum & Dad."

"Okay, send them my Love. Take care Lexy"

"You too, and I will"

"See you soon" Mia smiled

"Bye Babe."

-CLICK-

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