Really Chapter 21

Authors Note: Sorry for not updating in a while, my updates are going to be slow since school started like three weeks ago... Anyways, thank you for betaing Marie Elaine Cullen!

Disclaimer: I still don't own Alex Rider and probably never will:(

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Following the meeting, Alex went back to Isabella's house. As he entered he could feel the tension throughout the house. Everybody was staring at him, and Alex knew that Isabella's parents probably regretted taking him in.

It wasn't really their fault though. Isabella didn't like him, he got in a fight with her boyfriend on two occasions, he had a bad reputation at school, and he was the cause of all the fan girls at their house on Friday night...

Not to mention, the meeting Mr. Wilkens had to attend tomorrow. But to be fair, Alex was yet to be aware of that... As far as he knew, only Blunt was coming.

Alex snapped out of his thoughts when Mr. Wilkens called him over to the living room, where the rest of the family resided.

Alex slowly walked over taking note of all their faces. None of them looked too happy. He was kind of getting nervous, but his face stayed completely blank.

He felt like a rebel. The typical stereotype of most teenage foster kids. He probably looked the part too, with his many scars and bruises still left over from his missions and his black eye from Jake on Thursday night. Even though they were fading, they were still noticeable if you looked close enough...

As he entered, he sat down on the other side of the couch Isabella was on. She gave him a disgusted look, which Alex ignored.

Everybody in the room stayed silent in the room for a couple of minutes before Mr. Wilkens started talking.

"Isabella and Alex, I am very disappointed in both of you."

Alex was becoming very uncomfortable, even though he didn't show it. What was this talk going to be about? Was it aimed towards him?

Isabella was confused. She hadn't done anything wrong! It was all bloody Alex's fault.

They both snapped out of their thoughts as Mr Wilkens began speaking again.

"The neighbors called while we were at work last night. They said they saw a whole bunch of people coming to the door. I am very disappointed that you would throw a party without telling us."

"Especially you Isabella you know the rules. Also, Alex you can not run off to other peoples houses whenever you want without telling us. What if you got into trouble? We wouldn't know about it. Do you understand me ?"

Isabella shifted around in her seat nervously, before Alex responded.

"Yes, sir."

Mr. Wilkens then turned to face Isabella. "How about you?"

At first Isabella stayed quiet staring off into nowhere. Then she started laughing? Or was it crying? Then she burst into tears while attempting to talk.

"None of it is my fault! It is all Alex's! I didn't even invite any of those girls! Most of them were dorks and they didn't even pay attention to me! What happened? None of this would have happened if Alex didn't come."

Isabella was so distraught that she didn't even realize she was talking to anybody and started thinking her thoughts aloud...

" And now that Jake has broken up with me the only "friends" I have are the nerdy kids that think they can have me as a girlfriend since Jake broke up with me! Even Kate and Emily barely pay attention to me anymore! They only want to talk about freaking Alex!" She started crying again and ran upstairs, leaving three confused people behind.

Mr. Wilkens rolled his eyes and Mrs. Wilkens followed Isabella upstairs in an attempt to comfort her.

Alex wanted to laugh, nut, he refrained from it because Mr. Wilkens was glaring daggers at him again. He felt like the whole scene he was in had come out of a bad soap opera. He had heard of girls throwing fits and getting emotional, but not like this. He found it sad that she did not even realize all the people that were always willing to be friends with her. Instead she ignored them because she thought that she was cooler than them. And, he couldn't believe that she was jealous of his popularity! Seriously, he was known as the Druggie. That was probably why most of them came to see him. They simply wanted to find out more about him, the mysterious Alex Rider. The only friend he had was Tom!

After a few more minutes of thinking about things under the watchful gaze of Mr. Wilkens, Alex excused himself andheaded upstairs to his room. It was only around seven, but he went to bed anyways. It was the perfect opportunity to catch up on sleep and he was going to need to mentally prepare himself for his meeting with Blunt at school tomorrow. He was really hoping that the whole meeting would go smooth, but he was fairly surehe was going to get the opposite.

Authors Note: This was kind of a filler chapter... I am soooo sorry that it is really boring I have rewritten it multiple times and it always seems to get more boring... Anyways Hope you liked! Please REVIEW. (I will try to update faster next time...) Alex is going to be in for A big surprise when both Blunt and Mr. Wilken's show up for the meeting:)