I am going out and Austin says he is taking over with the kids today. I am so excited to go out and have fun. I smile at Aubrey and kiss her head, "I love you baby." She smiles, "Love you too." I smile and then kiss Aiden's head, "Be good for daddy." I grab my purse and kiss Austin, "I will see you later baby. I love you." He smiles, "Have fun. I love you too." I turn and walk out the door and get in my car. I go to the mall to shop.
An hour later I have new jeans, shorts, skirts and shirts. I stop by the food court to get a pretzel and something to drink. I sit down and place my bags next to me as I eat. I finish my pretzel and just relax letting everything drift away. "Hey, what are you doing here?" I turn and see Trish. "Hey." I get up and we hug each other before sitting down again. "I came to shop. Austin gave me the day off." She smiles wide, "Then I want you to come with me to something." I nod, "Of course." We grab our bags and I follow her to the end of the mall where she stops and points into a window. "That guy in there has been following me around like crazy. I know he likes me and I have seen him around school but never got to talk to him. I need help." I smile and push her into the store and follow behind her. I do not have to do anything because Trish bumps into him and he catches her smiling. They start talking and hit it off. I smile at Trish, "I am going to go." She nods and waves her hand with a smile. I laugh and walk out of the store and head to my car.
Putting my bags in the car I get in and head to the store where I need to pick up some things for the house. I park the car and get out walking into the store to get what I need. About an hour later I have everything that is needed plus some adorable clothes I saw for the kids and a few cute toys. I walk the cart to my car and put everything in. I walk the cart to the cart return and then walk back to my car and get in. I back out and start to head to the nail salon to get my nails done.
Hour and a half later my nails are done. My feet feel amazing and I love the color. My fingernails look much better. I like being able to do stuff for myself again. I like being able to get out and do stuff. I pay the lady and tip her well. I am walking out and going to my car when my phone goes off. I pick it up, "Hello?" "Hey, what are you doing right now?" I shrug, "Not much, just out enjoying a day away from the kids." I hear his deep laugh, "Well, can you come over? I need help." I get in my car and lean against my seat, "I can be there in ten if you need me now or I can be there in about an hour if it can wait." I hear breathing as he thinks, "Well if you come over now I will order pizza to feed us." I sigh and smile, "I will be there in ten." Hanging up I back out and head to the dorm rooms.
I park my car next to his jeep and get out. I walk up the steps and smile at a girl coming out so I walk in as she leaves the door open. I walk up to his room and knock on the door. A few seconds later the door swings open and I smile, "Where's the pizza?" He laughs and follows me in, "On it's way." I sit down in his chair and watch him walk to his bed and sit down. He stares at me and I laugh, "Why am I here Alex?" He laughs, "I need help with a few things. One I need help because I want to join this club and auditions are this week but I don't know what to do and I mean I know I can sing and stuff but this is different. I know you were in glee club and I need help. "I nod, "I can help you with that. What is the other thing?" he laughs and points to a list of classes, "I need help figuring this out. My counselor sucks and you are the most organized plan ahead person I know." I laugh and look over the list, "I can help you with both things but you must feed me." I hear a knock on the door and laugh as Alex opens the door and the pizza guy is there. "How did you get in?" He shrugs, "Someone let me in." Alex shrugs and pays the guy then takes the pizza and closes the door smiling at me, "Okay here is food now help me."
Two hours later and Alex's classes are picked out and organized into when he should take what. He is organized now and ready to follow the list and graduate with no problems. I yawn and look around, "Now time to practice for you audition." He brings up the form on his laptop so I can read everything and know what he needs to be prepared for. Five minutes later I smile, "This is easy. We can be done in no time." Alex grabs my hand, "Come on lets go to the football field." He takes off running dragging me with him.
He stops at the field and smiles, "What are we doing here?" He looks around and I can tell he is sad. He wants to be back on this field more than anything and not being able to kills him. "More room to practice." I nod and smile, "Let's go." I take off running and he follows. He catches up in no time, "What are we doing?" I smile, "Got to keep up the energy on stage. So you can't run out of energy, can't get tired." He laughs and stops after a minute in front of me. "I have the athletic part of it. I just need help with actually getting in."
I stop and look around trying to think. "You can dance Alex, but you need to be able to dance without a partner." He nods and plays music on his phone and starts to move around. I start to laugh, "Your good." He laughs and stops, "I can't get the peppy part of this at all, I get to serious." I laugh and start to dance around with him. He starts smiling and having fun. After the song ends I smile, "That is all you have to remember. How much fun you have while dancing? You have to let loose and enjoy it. Don't worry about being serious, this is about having fun." He smiles and nods, "I think I can do that." I laugh and look around, "You miss this don't you?" He looks around too and nods, "More than you could ever imagine." He sits down on the grass and looks up into the stands. "This was my whole life, now that I can't do it, it kills me. I sometimes don't know what to do." I look around and sigh standing up, "This was a part of your life, it wasn't your whole life. You had fun playing this game but you can still play just not on a 'team'. Have fun in life Alex."
Getting up he smiles and looks aoround, "Your right for the most part." He looks around again, "Let's finish up here." Walking over to his phone on the ground he pick it up and we realize the music stopped. "What's left?" I shrug, "Choose a song that works for you and rock it. Just go out and have fun and show what you can do." He smiles and hugs me. "Thank you Ally."
We start walking back to his dorm. I pull my phone out to check the time and sigh. "My phone is dead." He pulls his out and laughs, "Mine too." I shake my head as we start walking faster to his dorm. We pass a group of girls and I smile, "Hey, can you tell me what time it is?" A girl checks her phone and smiles, "Its almost eleven." I smile, "Thanks." I look at Alex with wide eyes. "What's wrong?" I shake my head and look back at him, "I had a date tonight with Austin. He is going to be so mad." He puts an arm around my shoulder, "Well it's too late to go home tonight. Stay tonight and then in the morning go apologize like crazy." I nod, "Yeah your right."
We reach his door and walk up to his room. He grabs a blanket and pillow and puts it on the other bed that hasn't been moved out yet. "Choose a bed?" I laugh and take the bed that hasn't been taken out and lay down. "Night Alex." He smiles and lays down in his bed, "Night Ally."
I wake up and look over at Alex. I get up and start to grab my purse and everything to leave and apologize to Austin. I hear movement and look behind me to see Alex sit up in bed and rub his eyes. "What time is it?" I shrug, "I don't know." He looks over to the alarm clock and laughs, "Ally, it is one." I look at the clock and sigh. "Ugh the kids have a play date a one, so Austin probably isn't even home." I sit back down on the bed and sigh. "I am screwed here." Alex comes over and sits next to me. "How about I change and we go get something to eat?" I nod and watch him grab clothes and walk outside. He is back in a few minutes with a fresh pair of clothes on.
We get in the jeep and he drives us to a Italian restaurant to eat. We are seated and given menus. "Why didn't we go to a small restaurant?" He shrugs, "I wanted pasta." I laugh and order my food once the waitress comes back. Twenty minutes later I am eating some of the best pasta I have ever had. Alex pays and we get back in his jeep. He drives back to the dorm and I give him a hug. "Good luck on the audition." He walks me to my car and I go to open the door and sigh. I try to find my keys and can't find them. I look in the car, "Fuck." Alex looks in and starts laughing, "You locked your keys in your car?" I nod and lean against it, "This day can't get worse." He laughs and grabs my hand pulling me away, "Want me to take you home?" I shrug, "I really should call and get my keys out though." He nods and takes my upstairs. I lean against his door and sigh, "Fuck, my phone is dead." I throw my head back and it hits the door and I feel a slight pain in my head. "Okay, this is what we are going to do. We are going to go charge my phone and then go to the office call for them to come fix your car and then get you some aspirin." I laugh and nod. He puts his phone on the charger and we walk the minute to the office. I call the number in my wallet. "Hi, I locked my keys in my car." "Don't ask me how I did it, I did it." "What? Are you kidding me? Yes fine. Call this number when you arrive." I hand the phone to the lady and she gives him the address.
We walk back to Alex's room and I sigh, "He can't get here till morning." Alex looks at the clock and laughs, "Probably not when it is eight already." I sigh and lay back on his bed. "Thank you for letting me stay Alex." He laughs, "Anytime." Alex puts a movie in his television but I fall asleep five minutes in, wanting this day to be over.
