revised may 14, 08

A/N: ok so to end the suspence... here goes...
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Chapter 10

"Alex!"
Alex turned around to look in the direction of where the familiar voice had come from.

"Carla?"
Alex was having trouble believing her eyes. For some reason, she had thought that she would never see Carla again but this pleasant surprise had truly made her happy. Carla almost reminded her of Degrassi even though she had nothing to do with that place.

"Hi Alex… how are you?"
Carla said in her perkiest voice and gave Alex a hug without waiting for her to get up from her chair.

"Good."
It was all that Alex was able to congregate at the sight of her ex-girlfriend, who'd become more beautiful since the last time Alex had seen her.
Her hair had grown longer and with her bright eyes, gray skirt and white collared shirt, she looked very elegant to say the least.
Alex found herself speechless.

"You look nice Alex…"
Carla complemented Alex giving her a cute smile as her hand rested on Alex's shoulder and where it stayed for a while longer.

"Thanks…"
Alex answered timidly.

"Oh my god, Alex! do you go to Toronto U?"
She asked excitedly as she put the pieces of the puzzle together.

"Yeah…"
Alex replied with the humblest smile as the expression of 'you caught me' appeared on her face. Alex, still astonished by Carla's presence, blatantly stared at her.

"So…"

Sam kicked Alex from under the table that brought Alex out of her trance.
She embarrassedly stood up and introduced Samantha and Carla to each other.

"Oh sorry. This is my friend Samantha, and this is Carla…"

"Hi Samantha, nice to meet you…"
Carla politely said to Sam.

"Nice to meet you too Carla."

"So, you still go here?"
Alex cursed herself in her head for asking the obvious.

"Yeah, still do. So Alex, why don't you give me a call sometime, we should talk, okay?"

"Yeah, I will …"
Alex obediently agreed.

"Bye Alex. I still can't believe this. It was so nice to bump into you like this…"

"Yeah. Me too."

Carla hugged Alex once again before she left.

"Who was she?"
Sam asked Alex who still seemed to be on another planet.

"Carla."

"I got that part, Alex. I meant, what's she to you?"

"She was my girlfriend. Ex-girlfriend."
Alex replied as she settled back in her chair.

"Ah, interesting reaction to meet your ex Alex.
By the way, how many ex-girlfriends do you have exactly?"

"Shut up."
Samantha received back the kick that she had given Alex earlier.

"You were like totally dumbfounded by that chic… correction… still are.
Are you still into her or something…?"

"Don't be silly Sam. She's my ex."

"Show me where it says, you can't have a thing for your ex? In fact my theory clearly explains why you stopped blinking the whole time, she was here."

"I don't have a 'thing' for her…"
Alex gave Sam an irritated look.

"That's not what it looked like to me and she was totally flirting with you…"

"No she wasn't…"

"…You guys must've broken up on good terms, if you're defending her like this…"
Sam wasn't sure what was going on with Alex. She had never seen Alex react like this to anyone before.

"No, we didn't. She actually dumped me."

"If she dumped you, why was she flirting with you?"

"She wasn't flirting, she was just being friendly."

"Are you gonna tell me that you didn't notice that she hugged you twice for no reason, complemented on how 'nice' you looked, left her hand on your shoulder for longer than necessary and flaunted smiles at you. If that's not flirting… what is?"

"I don't know what you're talking about…"

'Denial… the refusal to accept reality and to act as if an unlikable event, thought or feeling did not exist.'
She could feel Dr. Hanson talking inside her head.

"… Are you gonna call her?"

"…May be…"

"Hope you have better luck with 'that' conversation…"

Alex knew that Sam was right. Carla was flirting with her. However, she did not understand why she had reacted this way to Carla. There was definitely a sense of comfort she had felt being around Carla again but she had to find out if she still had feelings for Carla and she had to find it out soon.

"Jay?"

"Yeah?"

"It's me, Alex."

"Nunez?"

"Yeah."

"Where are you?"

"Here, in Toronto."

TBC

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