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Welcome to Hollywood: A Nalex Story

by xScribbles819

Chapter 14

(Alex's POV)

I grinned as my friends stepped through the door and stood side by side. Their faces all had different emotions. Ella was excited, Mitchie looked like she was professional debater, Jason looked super-excited, Shane looked grouchy but determined to win, and Nate... well Nate just looked incredibly cute.

Max had somehow gotten lost in this house and ended up in the kitchen too. And of course, Justin was there, ready to make fun of me as soon as this plan blew up. But this time, this plan wasn't going to blow up. In fact, it was going to stay, and it was going to win. Not that that made much sense, but whatever.

"You know, Alex." Justin said mockingly, "Your new friends sure look like the ones you had back in California."

"Yeah," Max agreed, though he clearly didn't know Justin was teasing her, "She looks like Mitchie." He pointed at Mitchie.

I rolled my eyes. "That's because she is Mitchie you doughnut!" I snapped. Then I smiled and sweetly said, "Daddy, this is--"

He crossed his arms and looked at them. "Why are they here? I thought we were going to meet those new friends of yours!"

"Don't tell me they moved to Wisconsin too." Max cut in.

"Max, let your father talk." Mom told him. Then she faced us, "Who wants pie?"

"Ooh, me!" Jason squealed, raising his hand. "Do you happen to have Boston Cream pie?"

"As a matter of fact, yes we do!" Mom replied, leading him toward the oven. "I just made some, come try it!" Jason jumped up and down and followed her.

Mitchie shook her head in disappointment. "He was supposed to start." She muttered out of the corner of her mouth.

"Start? Start what?" Dad asked impatiently. "Am I missing something here?"

"Oh, you'll know soon enough." I assured him, getting nervous. "Are you sure this is going to work?" I asked Mitchie.

She nodded. "Positive."

"Positive times two!" Ella added in.

"Mm... this is delicious!" We heard Jason say from behind the counter. He was busy shoving pie into his mouth with a plastic baby fork to pay attention to this.

"Jason, get over here." Mitchie said, tilting her head to the empty spot next to her. He looked at her blankly until he finally realized he was supposed to start the whole argument.

"Sorry 'bout that." He said loudly, stepping into place. Shane slapped his forehead and groaned. This was not turning out the way it was supposed to.

I smiled awkwardly at my dad. His face was turning purple with anger.

"What's going on here?" He asked. "You'd better explain. Now." He emphasized the 'now'.

"Ooh, he's gettin' angry." Max told us, "You guys better explain."

I rolled my eyes at Max and tried again, hoping to sound like I was an innocent, sweet girl. "Daddy, we just wanted to get back to our old life."

Dad didn't budge and just sat there, with his arms crossed, staring at us.

"Jason!" I said frantically. He finished off his pie and placed his paper plate on the table next to Dad. Dad looked at it with disgust until Mom took it away.

"Well, uh, "Jason cleared his throat loudly. "We are sincerely sorry that we have caused you this..." He paused as he looked up at the ceiling to try to remember what he was supposed to say. Mitchie sighed and shoved a pile of papers into his hand. He looked at it and smiled. "Pain. We will try our best to convince you that FreeAcne Medication is the right medication for you!" He pointed at Dad and Dad's face twisted into a grin.

"You're going to try to convince me to use FreeAcne?" Dad asked, laughing a little. "Well good luck with that."

"Jason..." Mitchie reached over and turned the paper around. "You weren't supposed to read the advertisement, I just had to use that paper because we didn't have any other papers!"

"Ohhhh...." Jason said, rereading the page. "Well, we are sincerely sorry that we have caused you this trouble. We hope that you will listen to our argument so you can move back to our humble city in Los Angelos, California, and that everything will return to normal." He looked at Mitchie, "There, ya happy?!"

Mitchie ignored him and stared at Shane. Apparently it was his turn. "Um, well, we just thought that since we didn't exactly tell anyone that you guys are wizards, it would be okay for you to move back, since no one except us knows."

Dad looked at them, one by one. "Are you sure you didn't tell anyone? Not even your parents?"

"Heh, no way! Our parents are probably in Las Vegas right now!" Jason yelled out. "They hardly ever spend time with us. Our manager's the one who practically takes care of us."

"Even though we don't need much parenting." Nate stepped in, giving me a smile. Dad glared at him when he saw that, and he managed to make himself look smaller than the rest of the group.

"And my mom is way too busy with Connie's Catering to worry about who's a wizard or fairy or genius." Mitchie added. "Plus, my dad is very involved with his store, so I can't really tell them that you guys are wizards, even if I wanted to."

"Are you considering, daddy?" I asked sweetly, trying to study his facial expressions. He did look like he was considering for a moment, but then his face turned into a stone again and said, "Continue on."

"Uh..." Shane went on, stuttering, "Our... our in-instinct is that you should move back so we can all enjoy our life again. For example," He pointed at Nate and me, "They two are clearly in love with each other, and it would kill them to be so many miles" He widened his arms to show how many miles there were between California and Wisconsin, "apart."

I blushed and looked down at my shoes. Leave it to Shane to tell my dad exactly what he didn't want to hear.

"My little girl's in love?!" Dad practically screamed.

"Well, pretty much," Shane started, but then said, "I mean, no, no way. Not yet. She's way too young." When Mitchie slapped his arm.

Dad gave both Shane and Nate a suspicious look before nodding his head for us to continue.

"There would be benefits for me, Ella, Mitchie and Jason too." Shane said. Then he motioned for Ella to take over.

"See, Alex is like, best friends with me and Mitchie." She said, smiling brightly, "And without her, our life would just not be complete. She made us happy when we were sad, she was with us through thick and through thin, and, as I already said, without her, our life would be a complete mess."

I looked at my dad and he looked like he didn't understand a word they were saying.

"Um, what she means is," I said, stepping in front of them, nodding my head, "That Mitchie, Ella and me are kind of like Harper and me, back when we were in New York. Get it?" I smiled nervously as I looked at my dad. His eyebrows were raised, but he nodded like he understood. I sighed with relief and stepped back to the side.

"And for me and Jason," Shane said, "Alex is kind of like a little sister. Well, an unrelated sister." He threw a look at Nate because Nate was giving him the evil eye.

"Heh, yeah!" Jason punched the air as if we had already won the argument.

Mitchie told him to shut up quietly enough so that my dad couldn't hear, but that Jason could be quiet.

"There are many more reasons as to why we think your family should move back to our city." Mitchie said, looking directly at my parents. My mom had come in and sat down with Dad, listening to our words.

"One, Alex was a great addition to our school. She made the classes happier and she stood up to the principal on the first day of school." Nate suggested, waving his hand in the air. He glanced at me and I smiled.

"She stood up to the principal?" Mom said furiously, looking at me with wide eyes.

"She got my name... wrong." I said, trying to inconspiciously hide behind my friends. Mom shook her head, but waved it off as my friends started listing many other reasons.

"Alex was also part of our math team." Mitchie said.

"She was?" My parents asked together, just as I said, "I was?"

Mitchie gave me a look that said shut-up-I'm-trying-to-get-your-parents-to-let-you-move-back-to-California. I gave her a weird look back and stayed silent.

"Yes, she was." Mitchie smiled. "She was great in our team, and our team has gotten much lower scores now that Alex has moved here, to Wisconsin."

"Not only would the move back be great for Alex, it would be good for Justin and Max too." Shane said.

"See, I found out that there's this girl who has a humongo crush on J--" Ella began.

"There's a girl who has a humongo crush on me?!" Justin cut in, looking excited. "We have to move back now, Mom and Dad. Please!"

Ella smiled, satisfied.

"Plus, there was a kid who wanted to be friends with Max." Nate said. "She said that she wanted to show him magic tricks."

"Magic tricks?!" Max shouted, "Like popcorn? Microwave popcorn is sooo cool! It pops, in the microwave! Hah, get it, microwave popcorn!"

"Exactly like microwave popcorn." I said, grinning. This was going great.

"Well we gotta move back now!" Max said, looking at my parents. "If there's microwave popcorn in California, then we have to go back!"

"And there are a lot of other reasons why, and we'll stay here all night if you wanna hear them." Mitchie said, smiling smugly. My parents looked nervous. Dad started scratching his head, a sign of anxiety for him, and Mom started biting her lip.

"We'll have to consider." Mom and Dad said.

"That means yes!" I shrieked.

"NO, it means we'll consider." Dad said. "You guys can go tour the house, while Theresa and I talk."

I lead them upstairs, all of us smiling because we knew what the answer would be.

Later that night, we had pizza for dinner. Dad had ordered 3 boxes and we all ran into the kitchen, eager to free ourselves from the pain of hunger.

Wow, I sound really really smart. Maybe I should go join the math team.

"So, what's your answer?" I asked, trying to sound casual. I couldn't keep my excitement in though, and I started laughing.

"Well, we had some tough decisions to make." Mom said.

"But your answer...?" Max asked.

"It's kind of hard to say this..." Dad replied, chewing his slice of pizza.

"But...?" We all asked.

"It's a no."

"YES!" Jason said, jumping up and knocking over his chair. "YES! THEY SAID NO!" Then he realized that it wasn't what he wanted to hear. "Wait, a NO?!"

"Yes, a no." Mom said, looking really sympathetic for me. My face had probably turned bright red and I was hiding behind my hair, which wasn't really working out because I had put it into a ponytail.

"Um, why?" Mitchie asked.

"We felt it was really brave of you to come and try to get us to move back." Mom said gently, "But we can't just move back and forth like there's nothing wrong. Wizards have already been notified that Alex has told you guys, and that just wouldn't be right for us to move back."

Strike Number One.

"And with all our problems right now, even if we did move back, we would have to explain to the other wizards why we did move back." Dad added, "It would take a decade to explain all of our situations."

"Exaggeration." Justin muttered.

Strike Number Two.

"We also don't feel that it's right. Just because you didn't tell anyone, doesn't mean that nobody found out." Mom pointed out. "Plus, it would be hard for us to get the exact house back, and in the exact town, and our jobs back. I mean, we just found new jobs here in Wisconsin."

Strike Number Three, and we're out.

Phew, let's take a breather there, shall we? I hope this chapter was to your liking :)

Poor Alex. She was so sure the answer was going to be yes, huh? What about you? WHat did you think? And what will happen next? Happy or sad ending? will they move back or not?

Man, my hands are cramping up. Haha, I just typed this out. I hope you liked it :D Was it long enough? Haha....

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