All three girls were sitting in a diner, discussing about pretty much everything

OMG sorry for taking so long. I'll try to update both stories equally now, I promise. ( Note : I promised to TRY)

Thanks for the reviews!

malex4ever : Yes. And I'm back again. Glad you like Jodie. She's cool, I like her too.

shassy25 : Lol yea. Sucks for Conrad though. Jodie's and Helena's relationship will evolve a bit more in this chapter.

QueenForANight : hHaha! Well Marissa was way to preoccupied with her love for Alex to think about that. What's your excuse? Heh just kidding. Malex stay for a while? Did you already forget who the author was? I actually cheated for the german… you see, there is this thing called English-german dictionary… Yes I feel bad now because you were proud of me… Heheh. I understood the "Ich bin" without the dictionary, so still isn't that bad… right? Yea about the drawings I put the good links at the bottom. Sorry for last time.

FiresOfDeath : Oh yea One Tree Hill! Lindsay looks just like Peyton in next week's promo. But heh, she's hot. Lool no Conrad can't be gay, he's like, the straight A clean cut STRAIGHT kid of the family. I know it was short. Kind of got caught up with homeworks and my other story. Oh you'll find out about Newport pretty soon.

Blaze Phoenix : Yea I re-arranged the links. Yup, that would be him. It's also that sexy guy who went to prom with Rissa… and cheated on her. Hehe.

bbvcool : yea, as I said, Conrad is the prefect kid on the block. I know about the links, I fixed it.

Aranchy : Lol I guess, but languages is a fun thing to learn! I want to learn Russian right now, it like, obsesses me. Do you know Russian? And fine by me for Jodie, but if I make her happy, someone else will have to be sad. Deal?

Klowy : Hello you! LOl yea I read both reviews. Thanks for reading this.

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Save Me

Chapter 29 – Road trip

Jodie sighted as she sat in her car. Alone at last. Marissa and Alex had spent the whole week-end with her, thinking they would be bad friends if they aloud her to think about Helena, or about anything at all for that matter. The little did they know, she was thinking about the red-haired the whole time. Sitting all week-end with a couple in love wasn't exactly the best cure for a broken heart. Especially when one of them was her crush's ex. The Latina smiled as she remembered their argument on what Jodie should do. Marissa was pushing her to go talk to Helena, when Alex was saying that the girl probably needed some alone time. Jodie had got up and told them that the best way to find out what Helena really wanted was by asking her. Besides, Alex and Marissa went for a road trip and there was no way she would go with them. A week-end was more than she could handle.

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Marissa was shuffling through Alex's ipod as the blonde was driving the car. They had Jodie to worry about during the whole week-end and didn't have much time to talk about this, and now, it seemed like neither one of them wanted to. The brunette could feel Alex's stare on her but pretended she didn't notice. If Alex had something to say to her, then she should just say it. Marissa wasn't going to pull the information out of her.

"Are you going to put a song or what?" Alex asked. Marissa looked at her. She wasn't really looking for a song, it was just a way to distract her. She shrugged her shoulders and pressed play without even looking at the track. She heard Alex sight. A panel with "Welcome to Newport" written on it passed by. Marissa reached for Alex's free hand and took it in hers. She knew how Alex felt about this place. She squeezed her hand.

"I love you"

Alex didn't reply. She looked away. Marissa didn't show any disappointment at all. She kept Alex's hand in hers and looked at the scenery. She just wanted Alex to know how she felt. She didn't need any confirmation from the blonde. They drove in silence for another ten minutes before both girls recognized the scenery. The closer they were getting, the more Marissa could feel Alex sleeping away.

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Helena put her alarm on snooze for the hundredth time. She had no idea of what time it was and, quite frankly, she didn't care neither. Tree days ago, she had stopped caring about everything. At first, her mother tried to understand what was going on but, after being yelled at several times, she told herself that Helena probably needed some time alone.

She heard the doorbell but didn't move. Probably the stupid neighbour returning their mower. Helena didn't care about the fucking mower. It could wait her father's return from work. The doorbell rang again. The red-haired pulled the sheets above her head, trying to cover the noise, but she heard it again, and again. Sighting, she got out of bed, grabbed a random shirt and walked to the front door. She didn't even bother buttoning the shirt.

"Look they're not here so why don't you…" She stopped halfway as she recognized Jodie.

"Oh, it's you" She said. It was hard to see if she was glad or even more pissed. The Latina smirked.

"Who did you think it was?" She asked. Helena walked back to her room without inviting Jodie in, but the Latina walked in anyway.

"Some neighbour or something" She replied, getting back in bed.

"And you were about to answer to you neighbour half-naked?" Jodie asked again. She didn't make any comment about how crappy her room was. Or smelly.

"Don't give a shit" She replied. Jodie bit her lip. It hurt to see Helena so broken up over a girl who happened to be her bestfriend. She walked closer and sat on the edge of her friend's bed.

"I won't ask you to forget her" She told her, "Because she broke up with me too someday and I still remember the feeling". She saw Helena move under the sheets and knew she was listening.

"But I'm asking you to occupy yourself with something else". She waited. Helena didn't move. Slowly, Jodie got up and walked across the room. She put the dirty clothes in a corner and hung the clean ones back in her closet. She then re-arranged Helena's cds and dvds. As she was ripping off Helena's collection of pictures of Alex, she saw the red-haired sit up in her bed.

"Why are you doing this?" She asked. Jodie looked at her.

"Because you can't" She replied. She watched as the red-haired got up and took the ripped pictures from her hands. She then walked to the garbage and threw them. Jodie could see how it was hurting her.

"Ain't so hard" She said, trying to smile. Jodie walked closer and tapped her shoulder.

"I'll finish up" She said, "Get in the shower."

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"What's your first stop?" Alex asked. Marissa looked at her. They have kept silence for so long she had almost forgotten Alex could speak.

"The beach" She replied. The blonde sighted.

"Rissa…" She warned her.

"That's where I want to go first." Marissa insisted. Alex nodded and drove there although Marissa could sense how little she actually wanted to. She parked the car and waited. Marissa got out. Alex did her best not to look at her, at where she was going. She couldn't do distant relationships. If Marissa was moving back here, there was no way they could still be together. She had to mentally prepare herself to break up. She had to forget Marissa's eyes or the way her body feels on hers, or…

"Are you coming or what?" Marissa asked as she opened the driver's door. Alex looked at her.

"… yea" She nodded as she got out of the car. Marissa quickly took her hand and dragged her away from the Jeep. All this was making everything harder. Alex should have let Marissa drive back alone. She should have broke up in L.A.

"Remember our first kiss?" Marissa asked, playing with Alex's fingers as they were walking on the exact same spot.

"It was on Valentine's day" Alex replied, also remembering how she had told Marissa that it was a jinx. A few weeks later they had broken up.

"Remember how it felt?" Marissa asked again. This time, Alex didn't reply, and even if she had something to say, she couldn't have said it because Marissa had pulled her in a kiss. Closing her eyes, the blonde found herself savouring the moment, remembering how it felt the very first time she had tasted the brunette's lips. How it still felt, and how it will probably always feel.

"This is how I feel every time I kiss you" Marissa whispered as they parted. This time again, she could feel Alex tense up. Suddenly, her worry overcame her initial plan of letting Alex come out when she felt ready.

"Is there something wrong?" She asked.

The blonde looked away. She couldn't do this while staring at her. She tried to walk away, but Marissa caught up to her. She had her hands on both side of Alex's face, forcing her to look in her eyes.

"Baby I need to know what's going on" She whispered. "You've been acting weird the whole week-end."

Alex put her hands on Marissa's and gently pushed her away. God, please, don't make me regret this, she thought.

"I've been thinking…" She started. Marissa bit her lip. It was never a good sign when a girl started off with this sentence.

"And I think it is… would be better for both of us…" Alex kept going, "If we…"

She took a deep breath.

"If we put an end to this." She finally let out.


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… who wants Trey to complicate things? Lool.

Oh, about my drawings, there has been a mistake in the links. Here ya go :
Note : I separated the link in two because if I write it without any space, there will be some kind of error and you won't be able to see it. So between "photobucket" and ".com" there shouldn't be any space, erase it, and it should work.

Mischa Barton

first : img.photobucket. com/albums/v629/jolineadam/drawing/DSCN1347.jpg
More recent : img.photobucket. com/albums/v629/jolineadam/drawing/DSCN1343.jpg

Cam Gigandet

img.photobucket. com/albums/v629/jolineadam/DSCN1368.jpg

What do you think? ( they're not so recent anymore, but heh still want your opinion)

-Ethereal-123