"Love's not a competition, but I'm winning." Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning)-Kaiser Chiefs

xoxoxo

"Mitchie what is this?"

"What is what?" Mitchie sat down backwards on the couch in her dressing room almost landing on Alex's hand.

"This Mitchie."

"Oh." Alex had found Mitchie's song book. "It's something I write my songs in."

"Can I look at some of your songs?"

"Uhh..."

Alex opened up the little paper book. Mitchie didn't want to but she did, she shut the song book closed and snapped it out of Alex's hands.

Alex stared at her empty hands, "Mitchie?"

"I'm sorry but you don't get to see them yet."

"When will I?"

"Umm. Well I guess you can hear one."

Shane walked in to the room without knocking, "Yo my girls!"

"Shane, there's a reason why it's called my dressing room." Mitchie finished with a smile.

Shane continued the banter between the two, "Ah yeah? Is there a reason you don't want me in here? Maybe a secret? Maybe a secret about me?" Shane leaned in closer to Mitchie.

Mitchie pushed Shane on the shoulder playfully and he landed on the couch next to Mitchie leaving Mitchie in the middle, "No Shane. We weren't talking about you."

"Ya sure you weren't talking about how sexy I am."

Mitchie laughed, "Yeah. I think we're both pretty sure."

Alex cleared her throat, "Anyways... Mitchie won't let me look at her song book."

Shane gave Mitchie a sideway glance, "Oh really?"

Mitchie looked at Shane before slapping his leg, "Don't you dare, SHANE!"

"I'd never." Shane yelled out, "TICKLE MONSTER!" Shane started to tickle Mitchie and they both fell to the ground. Mitchie was laughing hard, literally rolling on the floor laughing.

Alex put the song book down on the side table by the couch and stepped out of the room for the two lovies to have fun. She ran into Hannah.

Miley yelled to get Alex's attention, "Hey Russo!"

Alex whipped her head around, "Oh hey Hannah. What's up?"

"Oh, I was gonna go see Nate and Jason. Wanna come?"

"Aren't you supposed to be doing a soundcheck right now?"

"Eh... It's whatev."

Miley linked her arm with Alex. Alex was taken aback.

As they were walking down the hallway arm in arm, Alex tried to break the silence, "So. Hannah, do you have a boyfriend? You like Lennart, right?"

"Umm, ha ha funny story. No. I don't have a boyfriend. Lennart. Well..."

"Y'know it's okay if you don't want to-"

"No I do want to tell you. I want you and I to be able to be like best friends by the end of this tour."

"..."

"So, I guess I'll tell you about Lennart but the thing is, I want to tell you but I don't know if I can. I don't know if I can trust you like that yet."

"..."

"Lennart and I aren't dating. I don't really like him either...but he's there when I need some...activity."

"Y'know, Hannah. Lennart is such a cheater. Last time I saw him before we left for tour, he was the man who took Nate's girlfriend away from him."

"REALLY?"

"Well yeah I guess. He really liked her. I think he might have even loved her. I think that's why he was so reluctant to break up with her."

Miley leaned in closer, "Tell me more."

"Umm. The stage is right there and you need to do sound check right?"

"Yeah but I can do that while you talk."

"Okay..."

Miley was singing a verse of each song while Alex sat on the edge of the stage kicking her feet. When Miley finished and all of the crew were trying to set up for Connect 3 to come out and practice Miley ran over and sat beside Alex.

"Okay spill. Tell me the deets."

"Uh where do you want me to start?"

"Just tell me whatever. Start from the beginning."

"Well when I met Nate, he was dating this girl named Miley. She wasn't the kindest person to me but I respected her because I was friends with Nate."

"Oh, that's nice of you."

Alex just formed a little smile.

"I'm sorry, tell me more. Tell me about how you got so close to him."

"Him and Miley just broke up so that's when he and I okay'd our feelings to go somewhere."

"So you liked him while he dated this girl... Miley?"

"Well..."

"I mean like did you do anything with him?"

"NO we did not do the nasty."

"No like what did you do with him?"

"We just hung out and stuff like that."

"Did you guys kiss?"

"Hannah, you just saw us kiss a few hours ago."

"No I mean like before. When Miley and him were still dating."

Alex frowned and looked over at Miley. Alex studied Miley's face.

Miley stared back at Alex but then looked back and stopped her questioning by standing up. Alex looked back too and saw the boys walking onto the stage. Nate walked up to the girls. Him and Alex leaned in to give each other a peck on the lips. Inside Miley knew she should've been melting or at least feeling like she just lost somebody but her affection no longer stayed only with Nate but it was spread among several men in her life. She was no longer entitled to the hurt ex-girlfriend card. And she knew it. Nate led both girls onto the side of the stage and went to his first position. Miley sat down on one of the boxes and Alex decided that she would go see what Mitchie was up to.

"Hannah, I'm going to go see what Mitchie's doing."

"Okay. I'm just going to stay here."

"Mmkay." Alex snuck into Mitchie's room.

"BOO!"

Mitchie jumped, "AHHH!"

Alex fell over laughing.

Mitchie's faced went bright red. "Alex! Get up off the floor!"

"I'm sorry. That was just so funny."

Mitchie held out her hand to pull Alex up.

They sat down on the couch.

"So Alex Russo."

"So Mitchie Torres."

"Yes...Well, you and Nate."

"You and Shane."

"What about me and Shane?"

"What about me and Nate?"

"Alex."

"Okay fine... Whaddya wanna know?"

"I wanna know, what's going on with you and Nate? Where does Miley stand in all of this love mess?"

"I don't know. Nate's just been more open and it feels like he's let that road open so now we do occasionally kiss. Or something like that."

"Are you guys sleeping together?"

"MITCHIE!"

"No silly! Not like that!"

"Oh. Then yes. But you can't give me any crap. You and Shane do the same."

"Actually, we don't."

"What do you mean? Where does he sleep when I sleep over in his room with Nate?"

"He sleeps on the couch... Or the floor."

Alex started to crack up and Mitchie turned red yet again. Mitchie covered her face with her hands, "Oh my gosh I know! I'm so horrible! I could've shared the bed with him!"

Alex threw her arms around her best friend, "Mitchie you are hilarious. I love you!"

Mitchie let out a giggle, "I love you too. But HEY! You didn't answer my question!"

Alex let go of Mitchie. "Oh gosh! If you must know..."

"Yes I must." Mitchie finished with a characteristic smile.

"Okay so Miley... Umm I guess they broke up but he's been trying for so long now. That and he was trying to at least be a good boyfriend."

"Gosh... You make it sound like you and him are married or something or trying for a baby..."

"Mitchie!"

"I'm sorry but that's what it sounds like."

"I don't know maybe you're right. Maybe I don't really know. I don't even know anymore. Like remember Bradin. Yeah I spent time with him at one of Miley's parties. We were on the beach and he was telling me this story about how he's seen such beautiful stars before. He said he'd take me one day but I haven't talked to him about it since. And Dean. Well I broke up with Dean twice for Nate. Yet, me and Nate... Me and Nate are somewhere in between platonic and physical."

"Wait stop...Physical? Tell me Alex!"

"What is there to tell?"

"Alex. I know you. I know Nate. You guys use to sneak up to Jackson's room to make out at Miley's parties."

It was now Alex's turn to turn red, "How did you know about that?"

"I've seen you and him go up there and disappear for almost the entire night."

"Yeah well. Did you know that there's a possibility that Hannah's been having sex every night with Lennart?"

"Lennart, that guy Miley was dating?"

"Yeah."

"EWWW Gross."

"Yeah."

"Who else knows?"

"Well, I think it's supposed to be a secret but the times that we were allowed onto her bus, I found a large box of condoms in her bathroom."

"You were snooping?"

"No! It was on the counter top."

"Oh.. okay well continue."

"Yeah and every time I wait for Nate to come over to our bus, I wait outside of the bus and I see Lennart get on Hannah's bus. It's really weird. I didn't even know about them but I put two and two together and it makes sense."

"Oh that's weird."

"Yeah."

xoxoxo

As promised.

Miley is trying to bond with Alex! Likey or dislikey?