A/N: Hi guys! Happy new year! And a belated merry Christmas and happy hannukah! Hope you guys had a wonderful holiday. I've been really busy with school, PLL, Secret Circle, and Vampire Diaries premiers, and social lifes. Lol, anyways, enjoy the chapter! Btw, warning, you'll be seeing a bit more of someone lovely in this chapter :*
Chapter Twenty-Nine:
Brand New Eyes
Chapter Song: Before The Worst by The Script
The questions had come to an end, but that was only after two weeks. The craziness of the whole Anna-Alexa look alike craze slowly died down and the awkward stares had decreased day by day. I convinced myself, with a small help of Danny and Elliot of course; that there was no chance in hell she would show up…if we didn't see her already, we wouldn't be seeing her at all. She was probably dead for all we knew. That's how I was going to leave it. She was dead, done, topic over. Moving on. Now, with it being four fifteen on a cool Sunday afternoon, you would think I would be outside enjoying the rest of the day. But no, I was standing in the check out line at the local pharmacy, a pack of gauze and medical tape in my possession. These things weren't for me, they were for Danny, who was currently lying unconscious on his bed with a bleeding arm. Since he didn't have any medical supplies left, so Elliot sent me out for it while he baby sat Danny making sure 'nothing bad happened'. This was all because of a ghost attack, which had taken place less than an hour ago.
"When do you think he's gonna come back?" Elliot asked me while pausing from playing Angry Birds on his phone.
"Don't ask me." I shrugged, not bothering to look at him. I was sitting sideways on the cushioned butterfly chair. I had my head resting against the wall and my legs crossed over each other, hanging over the opposite side of the chair. My head, being tilted up, looked up to the phone I was texting on. My arms were outstretched so I was holding it above my head. I was that bored. Danny had left since his ghost sense went off twenty minutes ago. Elliot and I had grown bored of our conversation, so he had turned to the games on his phone for fun, while I had done multiple things—thought about how it was to hot in this room to wear a blazer, go over what shoes my white blazer, black and white cheetah print tank top, and black leggings outfit, then text Jenna asking her what was up for the day. It was all just as boring. We continued doing our own thing until in the back of our minds we heard a yelling. The yell got louder and closer. Then there was a crash and a thump. An intangible Danny Phantom flew through the window and crashed on the floor, hitting his head on the floor and dresser. We both gasped and our bodies shot up.
"Oh my God!" I squealed, dropping my phone onto the floor in the process. In seconds, Elliot and I were by Danny's side. We watched as two rings formed around his body and turned him back to normal. He groaned and rolled over towards me.
"Danny?" Elliot shook him. Then we saw a wet spot on his sleeve. Elliot rolled it up and saw a deep gash on his upper arm, very close to his shoulder. I took a breath in and looked away, covering the side of my face with my hand. I hated the sight of blood. I hated its iron smell, it made me feel sick. I had bad experience's with it, whether it was the time I was seven and cut my hand open or once when I was skateboarding with Jeremy and he fell off and sliced open his leg and arm while also receiving a bloody nose. I couldn't even deal with going to go take blood. I'd always try to get out of it, but sadly enough I'd be force into it and almost pass out while they would hold the needle.
"What's wrong?" Elliot turned to me.
"N-nothing." I stuttered.
"Go check in the bathroom if there's any tape and gauze." He ordered. As quick as he said it, I was out of there.
Finally, stepping into the front of the line, I handed the money to the cashier. With a dull and repetitive 'have a good day', I proceeded to grab the plastic bad and make my way to my car. Continuing walking, I stuffed the bag into my purse so I could be hands free. Then I felt my pocket vibrating the moment I stepped out of the store. Perfect timing, I sarcastically thought. It was Elliot of course. What did he want now?
"Yeah?" I answered.
"Where are you?"
"Walking out of the store. Why? Is he dying?" I asked, knowing Danny's condition was not that serious. Okay, it was a major wound but with him being part ghost, he usually healed ten times quicker than a normal human.
"Can you hurry up? Please?"
"You're already lucky I didn't get a speeding ticket on the way here. But to answer your question, yes, I will and currently am hurrying."
"Much appreciated."
"How bad is he bleeding?"
"It's calming down but he's in a ton of pain. He woke up and passed out again."
"Great. I'll see you in a few minutes."
"Fine." He agreed and I hung up. Where on earth was my car? I just wanted to go home already. Sliding my phone in my pocket, soon enough I spotted it. But while I continued to walk towards it, I had that strange sense that someone was watching me. Looking around, I could almost swear I saw someone standing behind a tree, but that was only for half a second and I didn't hear any noises. Before getting my car door open, I looked to my right one more time to see nothing once more. I was just being suspicious as usual. I carried on having that uncomfortable feeling of being watched. Ignore it, I told myself. Adjusting my mirrors, I gasped at the site of a figure standing beside the tree in a black hoodie. I knew for real this time, I had actually seen the person. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman, but what I did know was I knew it was real. The jacket shadowed the person's face, which was buried in the hood over his head, so I snapped my neck around to look for it. By the time I did, the person was gone. Am I really getting that crazy that I'm imagining things? But, I swear to God I had seen a person standing right there. I guess I was just over tired. I knew I didn't sleep a ton last night but I didn't know it was that much.
"Here." I walked in, throwing Elliot the plastic bag. He barely managed to catch it.
"What took you so long?"
"Some—never mind." I decided not to tell him about the person I thought I saw in the parking lot. "What's going on?" I changed the subject, looking over to the sleeping Danny.
"Well, as of five minutes ago it healed a little, so it's on its way."
"Looks like you're going to be a good doctor." I smirked, taking a seat down on the seat in the corner of the room.
"I hope so." He said before ripping open the packages to the products I had just bought. Danny continued to sleep for a while. And in that mean time, I spent it looking out the window and doing what I did best, thinking. My mind wondered back to the topic of the person who I saw in the parking lot. What if that was her? What if that was Anna? It couldn't have been, it was probably some creepy guy just stalking me. But then again, what if it was her?
"You're thinking about her, aren't you?" Elliot's voice shook me out of my ocean deep thoughts.
"Is it that obvious?"
"I've heard that before," he chuckled, "but yes, it's obvious."
"Ugh." I groaned.
"Hey, you've got every right to wonder."
"But it's been eating me up for the past few days. I've just got to move on like everyone else did."
"It's a bit harder than that. Everyone else didn't have the same face as her. And on top of that they didn't know she's a ghost."
"Kinda wish I didn't know that myself."
"Yeah I know, but as we said before, it's a one and a million chance she'll find you let alone she's still alive. It's weirder than anything. Besides I'd rather move onto the topic of the relationship between you and—"
"her, I know. I don't know how we're related. I mean it must have gone centuries and centuries down the line, but still, I've never seen something so…accurate."
"Right….that. Believe me, I couldn't even tell you."
"Figures," I sighed, picking up my purse, "I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"
"See yah." He waved.
I walked into class with a feeling I've had many times before—annoyance. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to leave my bed this morning. I felt and looked disgusting—which Shylee had obligated disagreed on. She was required to tell me I looked pretty, I was her stepdaughter, she couldn't tell me I was ugly.
"Well you're here earlier than usual." Danny commented.
"I could say the same to you." I said while I had put my bag onto the ground and turned in the seat to face him.
"Feeling any better?"
"Mostly all healed up." he proudly stated. The bandages were peaking out of his dark blue sleeve.
"And a good happy Monday morning to you guys!" Elliot cheerily sat down next to us with a smile on his face. His books hit the table with a loud smack.
"What's got you so excited?"
"Made a move on Jenna. I think she's finally warming up to me." He gave a slow and approving head nod with a smile. I rolled my eyes.
"Oh please, Elliot. She's got a boyfriend, lay off."
"It's not going to last forever!" He whined.
"It's Jenna, lay off." I warned in a demanding or threatening tone. I then turned back to Danny, "anyways, where were we?"
"Not sure." Danny smiled, and then it dropped when he looked up.
"Um, excuse me." An unfamiliar and not to mention awkward voice piped up. I turned my body halfway around and my eyes traveled from seeing a black V-neck to a gorgeous face of a guy in front of me. His eyes were a beautiful mix between blue and grey. They were captivating. His hair was a dirty blonde and it was the perfect length—not to long and not to short. It was just the way I liked it.
"Yeah?" I asked trying not to be awkward. Oh my God, how long was I staring for?
"Is this seat taken?" he asked, pointing to the empty seat in front of me.
"Oh, uh, no." I moved myself to sit normally.
"Is it alright if I sit here?" he wondered.
"Of course." I tried to smile cute, but it probably failed miserably. Scratch that, I was sure it failed miserably. Gosh I was so insecure.
"I'm Alek by the way." He said once he sat down and turned towards me.
"Alexa." I nodded.
"And I'm Elliot! And that's Danny." Elliot chimed in from the background. Really? He couldn't shut his mouth for five seconds? I turned my head towards him and gave him a 'wrong timing, shut up before I kill you' kind of look. Turning my head back around, I saw Alek smile and wave to the boys.
"Hi." He pursed his lips and focused his attention back to me.
"Are you new or am I just really blind and I've never seen you around school before?" I asked the new guy, who gave off a short laugh at my what seemed to be dumb comment.
"I just got in a few days ago."
"No way," Finally, a reason to continue on talking with this beautiful boy, "I thought I'd be the only new person here all year!"
"At least I'm not alone. That's pretty cool, where'd you move here from?"
"California."
"Ooh, a Hollywood girl." His eyebrows rose.
"Anything but. Beach is more like it. What about you?"
"This really small town in Minnesota. No one's ever heard of it before, I was lucky to get out while I could. Kind of sucks starting out when the second semesters coming around in less than a month. When'd you start out?"
"Late August."
"Oh, so you've been here for a little while."
"Five months, it's getting there."
"Is settling in here that hard?"
"Not at all. You catch on pretty quickly and I made friends in an instant. It definitely wont be hard for you."
"Well, looks like I already made one." He smirked.
"Class, attention, today we're go—who are you? You're not in my class." Mr. Henaley stopped to look at Alek, who had turned back normally in his seat.
"Well, there's a paper from the office on your desk that says I am." He said. The very confused teacher walked over to his desk, picked up the paper and quickly skimmed it.
"It appears so. Welcome to the class Mr. Westburn."
"It's Alek." He corrected. I could spot three girls that were prettier than me look at him. I was already jealous. No, Alexa, stop. Jealousy is ugly and who cares, he's just some guy who's probably a jerk. They're usually rude when they look like that.
Class had gone by fast. Why? Because I was actually enjoying it, unlike most days. We had partnered up and Alek had chosen me, over every other pretty girl that was dying to be his partner! It felt amazing. And while we weren't working together, I was staring at the back of Alek's head. I was pathetic. The bell rang, but I hardly noticed it until a little voice in my head told me to get up. So I did, I shuffled together my papers and slid them into my backpack.
"Well I'm officially completely—" Danny began but was soon cut off.
"Hey, Alexa, I was—oh sorry, Danny is it? Didn't mean to interrupt." Alek apologized.
"It's fine." Danny mumbled.
"Right, uh, would you mind helping me find my next class?"
"Yeah, sure, what do you have?" I asked him. He handed me a white piece of paper, similar to what I had gotten on my first day.
"Your class is on the way to mine. And looks like we have a few classes together." I smiled, handing him back the paper.
"Great." We began to walk.
"Elliot, are you coming?" I noticed he wasn't following me. He was also on the way to my class. Everyday we had walked together.
"Coming!" He caught up to us, we walked out of history together, leaving Danny behind.
"So, welcome to Grove High Alek! You're gonna love it here."
"It's school." He plainly said.
"Yeah I know but still, you get to make good friends and stuff." Elliot shrugged.
"Elliot, quit while your behind." I warned.
"It's fine." Alek laughed.
"Alright, well this is your class, so, see you later?" I stopped walking.
"Sounds good. Thanks Alexa, for helping me out and all." He smiled, taking my hand and kissing it. My heart stopped, and inside, I was dying. I watched as Elliot stared him down.
"See ya." I stopped myself from smiling like an idiot. Maybe I didn't look that bad today after all! Alek walked away and left both Elliot and I speechless.
"Oh my God, what was that?" Jenna squealed and ran up to me.
"I don't know." I paused, completely shocked and a bit confused.
"Oh my God, let's go, you have a lot of explaining to do, starting off with, who was that hottie?" Leaving Elliot standing there, we walked away and towards math.
"His names Alek Westburn, he just moved here from Minnesota, he hates small towns, and by the look of his clothes and backpack, his favorite color is blue."
"And what just happened?"
"He just kissed my hand, which is really weird and old fashion, but totally respected and adorable."
"So whens the wedding?" She joked.
"Very funny. But really, he's such a nice guy."
"Ugh, he sounds perfect. I'd go for him but you two look pretty cute."
"Hello? Jenna? Does Matt not come to mind?" I laughed.
"Who?" She winked.
"Remember that boy that you're dating? Oh yeah, him. That's right." I smiled.
"Come on, dish on everything that happened last period." She demanded.
The shrill sound of the bell of last period rang and in moments, we were all out of our seats. We had just finished up doing a lab, and we didn't want to stick around to clean up.
'Are we still going to the café?" he asked.
"Oh right, I forgot about that."
"We don't have to do it today."
"No, it's good, I'm starving anyways. But, yeah, sure."
"Cool, so I'll go get Elliot and meet you there?"
"Yeah, see you in a few." I said, picking up my backpack and walking out of the room and towards the parking lot. By the time I got there, a lot of the people had left.
"Hey, Alexa!" I heard someone say. It was probably Elliot, who was looking for Danny. Turning around, I was deceived. It was Alek. Oh my God, this was the third or fourth time this day he was catching up to me.
"Hey." I gave a flirtatious wave.
"What's up?" he jogged over to me, and ran a hand through his hair.
"Nothing, just heading to my car. You?"
"Nothing. I just—I wanted to thank you for helping me out today. I would have been so lost without you." He laughed. His laugh was even cute.
"Your so welcome, really, it was nothing."
"You're awesome. Anyways, I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yeah. Wait—Alek, are you doing anything right now?" I asked.
"Nah." He shrugged.
"Do you want to come to this café with Danny, Elliot, and me? We were going to go get something to eat."
"Oh God, are you sure? They barely know me, I don't want to intrude or whatever."
"They'll be fine with it. I promise." I smiled. He nodded his head, agreeing to my invite, and we headed to my car.
We drove down to River Street and as I passed one café and another, I noticed the one where Danny, Elliot, and I had sat a couple of months ago. Where I was attacked by a ghost.
"You okay?" Alek asked. I shook off the memory like it was some dream that never happened.
"Yeah, sorry, day dreaming." I partially lied. I pulled into the parking lot of the café and already saw Danny's car there. Him and Elliot were standing in the parking lot. Parking the car, we both undid our seatbelts and got out of the car.
"Hey Alex—Alek?"
"Hey." Alek smirked to the two boys.
"What are you doing here?" Danny asked, sounding hateful.
"I invited him." I chimed in.
"Awesome, so you're eating with us?"
"That's why I'm here." He put his hands in his pocket.
"Cool, let's get a table." Elliot nodded, making an attempt to act cool for once. We all began walking. Well, everyone except Danny.
"Wait—Alexa…" Danny stopped me.
"I'll meet you guys inside." I sighed, walking over to him. He looked annoyed.
"What?" I asked.
"Why did you invite him?" he said
"He's new. Why not?"
"Because it's just supposed to be me, you, and Elliot."
"Jeez, what do you have against him? He's new, just like I was. I would have loved to have someone invite me out like that. Why is your problem with him?"
"He looks like a jerk, I never trust guys like that. Besides it's just another person that could figure out everything."
"You're kidding me. He's a really great guy. Why don't you try being nice to him." I gave him a glare before I walked away and into the restaurant. God, what was Danny's problem and what did he have so much against Alek? He wouldn't be figuring the secret out, we fooled everyone already. He was just one more person to fool. He had no clue who Danny Phantom was anyways, and he never would.
