EDIT: I re-posted this and added in Rachel's carelessness with her powers (cause I kind of forgot to note that she's sometimes horrible with her powers) and I got Caleb's myspace url wrong. That's right, they all actually DO have myspaces. :P Check them out, if you want.

Alex's POV

"You should stay a little longer." I sighed, arms folded and back against Tyler's Hummer as he loaded his bags in the back.

"I would... but my parent's want me home. They're a pain in the ass like that."

"Oh," I bit my lip, "so... we'll see you on the last Sunday?"

"Or Monday. I'll see how early I can get away from my 'rents."

"Awesome," I grinned, "RACHEL! HE'S LEAVING, SAY GOODBYE!" She stumbled out the stairs, a box levitating behind her as she put strands of hair behind her ears. I saw Tyler glance around worriedly but I laughed, "Dude, most people have left. Just chill out." Just as I finished, the box hit the corner of the door and toppled over, all CD cases crashing onto the stairs.

"Damn it!" Rachel hissed, standing back as they all poured like a waterfall.

"Rachel," Tyler groaned and rolled his eyes jogging over with me to Rachel's masterpiece of crap. "and you didn't even try to catch it! You just stood back."

"I know what I did!" She shot, glaring. After we got them all back in the box, she sighed, "Leah wan'ed me to give you this load of CD's to take." She grinned, "I didn't mean to peek but- well it's me! When you're on the road, check on the top. It's totally cute and you'll love it. Safe trip now."

He glanced at the box, walked over and grabbed it, lifting it into his car and shutting the door. "I told Reid everything he needed was out in the open so he doesn't burn the place with frustration if he needs something. You two don't drive him too crazy will you?"

"We wont." I grinned.

"I might," Rachel winked.

He grinned at pet my head, looking at Rachel, "Say bye to Pogue for me."

"Will do, see ya Baby Boy."

I jumped forward and hugged his waist, grinning and pressing my cheek to his fit stomach. He raised his arms alarmed and then lowered them, stroking my wild hair and chuckling. I let go and he slid into the car, shut the door and the hum of the engine started up. I guessed they didn't call it a Hummer for no reason.

I watched and waved, before turning to Rachel, "As much as I want to go make out with Reid in his room, I don't think he's home. Wanna get a drink?"

"Sure, okay." Rachel nodded, "first... I'm having a shower though."

"M'kay!" I grinned, took her hand and skipped to the door. She showered and I sung at the top of my lungs in the bathroom, my beautiful, purposely-out-of-tone melody bouncing off the walls.

"ALEX!" Rachel snapped, dropping her shampoo bottle in the shower with a crack. "if you sing that song one more time, I'm gonna shoot you with my mental powers."

"Yeah right," I rolled my eyes and started on the song for the sixth time.

"Aleeeeeeeeeeeeex," She groaned, picking up the shampoo, opening the door and throwing it at me. I caught it in the air with my warlock awesomeness and let it drop into the sink beside me without lifting a finger, a flinch I have to admit though.

"Racheeeeel!" I mocked her, grabbing up the bottle and frowning at it. I smelled it and frowned, "Hey, where've I smelt that before?"



"It's apple," I heard the smile in Rache's voice and smirked, "so you two swap soaps now too?"

"Hey... that's not all we swap." She giggled.

"No underwear swapping, right? You know that's my thing."

"No underwear swapping... I promise." She snorted, "That's gross, anyhow."

I shrugged and then sighed, fiddling with my fingers, "You know that prick Aaron, from class? He hates the boys."

"I know him." Rachel's shadow behind the glass moved around.

"He asked me out on my MySpace page." I bit my lip to try and stop the smile. It never works, "And I totally said I'd meet him tonight somewhere."

The water cut off, "But... you're going out with Reid."

"I wasn't actually going to go out with Aaron. He's a dick and... is pretty ugly too. Just saying, oh and Reid's joined MySpace, along with a few of the other boys."

Rachel wrapped a towel around her, "Yeah, Leah told me she got Baby Boy to get one so she can keep in touch. I'm still tweaking with Caleb's."

I snorted and dropped the bottle I had been fidgeting with, "You got Caleb a MySpace?!"

"Yeah," She grinned, "and hear this... I made it, so you know it's gonna be all weird."

"What's his site?"

"MySpace dot com, slash 'garwinsimmparryrmylovers'. All together though, no dots, hyphens or x's." She laughed, "His email also is 'My boxers are cooler than yours' but with dots between the words and at Gmail."

"Gimmy a pen, I need this valuable information!" I snatched a pen and wrote down on my hand; www . myspace. com / garwinsimmparryrmylovers . I beamed up at Rachel, "Any more?"

"His secret question is Have You Ever Had Sex?"

"And the secret answer?" I giggled, "Not that it's secret anymore..."

"Totally not," Rachel laughed, "The answer is simple. Never."

I laughed loudly, slapping my thighs and almost cracking my head on the mirror. I grinned at her, "I love you!"

She shrugged, "I repeat, Caleb'll kill me... but I'm trying to set up his MySpace page. It's nothing yet, but I need to get into the library again. Leah took her laptop."

I bit my lip, "Tell me next time you go. I wanna witness this."

She gave me a sly smile, "Agreed. Now let's go get tipsy!"

-

I sat back at a table in Nicky's as I watched Rachel lean across the counter to one of the bartenders who wasn't Nicky. She handed over her fake ID that Reid had helped us develop and took the drinks. 

I grabbed mine and took a huge gulp, wanting the buzz and wanting it fast. She stared at me with her eyebrows raised before sliding into her chair and propping her arm on the table, resting her chin in her palm. I watched her watch others around the bar and smirked when her eyes stopped moving.

"Who you perving on?" I asked, then placed my drink down.

"Hm?" She jumped, shaking her head and looking at me, "Oh... no one, just thinking."

"About what?" I grinned, playing with a drink coaster on the table, flicking it through my fingers.

She sighed loudly, making a buzzing sound through her lips and leaning on the table. She stared at the cardboard between my fingers, "Just how I'm gonna break it to dad."

"Break what?" I frowned.

"Tell him that I'm dating someone who's of legal age." She smirked.

I frowned at her and then a few little naggers fit into place in my mind, making my eyebrows knit together and corners of my lips straighten out, "Rach... the reason you two haven't slept together, wouldn't be because of your dad, would it?"

"Huh?" She snapped her head around to me.

"Hey," I snapped my fingers in front of her face, "pay attention. I asked if-"

"I know what you asked," She mumbled and looked down. I waited, seeking her eyes. Finally they flashed up, "I don't know! It's just... I don't know." She looked at the table and slowly, a smile came over her face.

I grinned and leaned forward, putting my hand on her arm, "What is it? Tell me."

She inhaled and then looked up suddenly, her eyes sparkling, "You know when you make a cake? Not talking about Quincy and Tyler or anything... I mean a real cake. Icing and everything." She bit her lip, "Well you know when you serve it and then you eat the icing and little things on it, but you don't actually eat the cake, because the icing is just so sweet you want it instead?"

I was frowning still, but I laughed, "I know what you mean... but I don't get it?"

She chuckled, "That's what it's like for me. I just want to eat all the icing at the moment... I don't want to actually eat the whole cake. I'm not that hungry."

I caught onto her sex metaphor, then I rolled my eyes, sitting back, "What is with cake always being the victim here? Am I the only one who hasn't made a cake joke?"

She snorted and shrugged, taking another drink, "First thing that came to mind."

"A cheap metaphor, I have to say Rach." She stuck her tongue out and it made me laugh. I drank the rest of my drink and then went up to the bar, asking for a few more.

We were both laughing uncontrollably now, and neither of us remembered what we had been talking about. Lights were a little brighter than I remembered, but outside was completely dark, making me smile hypnotically into it.

Rachel stopped laughing abruptly, looking up. I was looking around happily and then saw her, and followed her eyes. They landed on piercing blue eyes, pissed piercing blue eyes.



"Aaron?" I blurted and stood up way too quickly, knocking over my drink that only had ice in it now. Rachel scrambled to catch it. "What are you doing here?"

He shoved his hands in his pockets, "Dunno... Was supposed to be meeting a girl tonight," that stare really started to creep me out, "but seems she bailed." He looked down at Rachel and spat, "Or maybe she's some slut who has her eyes on another chick and just could not be bothered to say so."

"Hey! Don't turn on her," I pointed at Rachel who looked completely bewildered, "and she's my best friend, asshole! I mean, who do you think you are asking me out anyways, when you clearly must know that I'm already taken."

"Taken?"

"To Reid," Rachel glared, "you know? The blonde one who kicked your ass in poker the other week."

"That's fagot?" Aaron turned on me, his eyes darkening by the second, "You're going out with that fagot?"

I held my finger up to him, "Don't you dare call him that in front of me."

"Oh? We taking on his spot while he's not here, are we?" Aaron pushed his arm against me, "Bite me."

Rachel stood up quickly, almost knocking the table over. She was glaring her eyes on the verge of bursting to flames. I gave her a look that told her No, as I turned and grabbed my bag, "We're leaving... don't even think of speaking to me again."

I took the handle of my bag and then put my arm around Rachel to pull her out of the bar as we got cat called and yelled at. We only got so far in the parking lot before something hit me hard on the side and I fell onto a dark car, Rachel disappearing from my side.

"Rach?" I gasped, grabbing onto my side as it burst into pain.

"Who the hell do you think you are, walking away from me like that?" Aaron yelled at me, grabbing my shoulder and pushing me back.

I pressed my hands against the car, breathing deeply and muttering darkly to him, my voice scratchy, "You dare to push a girl... you've got balls, I must admit." There was laughing and I felt slightly sick.

"You bet I do," Aaron pushed me again, this time slamming my front against the car.

"Get off her!" Rachel yelled, the weight lifting from my back and allowing me to turn around. Rachel pushed Aaron's arms but one of his mates grabbed her wrist and pushed her to the ground. I stared with a burning gaze. A man can him me as much as he wants, but he'll only even hurt my friends because of me once. Once only.

"Let her go," I hissed.

The boy whose name I think was Jared stared at me with a mock smile, then kicked Rachel's leg. I leapt forward and launched my fist at his face, landing it on his cheek bone and sending him back.

Aaron grabbed my arms and pulled be back, but there was a loud, "HEY!" and I was let go. I rubbed my arms and looked over my shoulder to see Reid storming towards us, Pogue coming out of the door frantically.

I bit my lip and turned around to face him, running fingers through my hair. Reid was staring at me 

and then his dark eyes flicked to Aaron. He suddenly lashed out at him, pressing a finger in his face, "What the fuck do you think you're doing with my girl?"

"She didn't tell you?" Aaron licked his lip, rolling up his sleeves.

"No…" I whispered, stepping forward but Aaron's pointed finger shot up at me and I stopped dead. Everyone had been pointing.

"She was gonna be my date. She even agreed to meet me." I whined in my head. Aaron was making this all sound really bad. I saw a look flash over Reid's face. He didn't know whether to believe him, but he would never believe Aaron over me… would he? "She was sneaking behind your back, I guess…"

"Shut up!" I spat at him, my voice having a spasm in my throat. Reid looked over his shoulder quickly at me and then back at Aaron before pushing his shoulders and clamping his hand around Aaron's throat.

"Don't-!" I almost screamed. I wanted Aaron hurt, but knowing Reid there was no boundaries.

"Don't ever come near her again, you hear, or your balls will be where your mouth is," he let go and went to back up, but he wasn't done. Even I could tell. He punched Aaron in the face, letting him slide to the ground, and now I came in.

I ran to him, grabbing his hand, "Reid, let's go."

He pulled his hand away and looked down at the ground where Rachel was scrambling to get up. She grabbed her wrist and looked up at him, her eyes wide. He looked back at me, then at her again and then turned to storm away. I wanted to roll my eyes, the dramatic bastard.

"Rach!" Pogue gasped, his arms curling around her quickly. Out of the corner of my eye I could see her staring at me worriedly as Pogue tried to get her attention.

"G-get- we gotta find Reid before he trashes anything…" She mumbled, clutching her wrist to her chest.

"Rach, you're not going-"

"Damn it, Pogue!" She snapped, pulling away from him, "Reid's an insane asshole… but all the same, he's our friend and we need to find him before-"there was a crash of glass from across the dark road and I bolted. I winced at my back pain, but kept my eyes on the old, abandoned building that hid in the shadows of forest trees.

"ALEX!" Rachel yelled from across the road as I had slammed into the front door, rattling the door knob and as it refused to open, stood back and used my mind to blow the thing in. I stormed in and looked up quickly at the noise, running up the stiars and bursting into a room to see Reid sitting on the end of an old mattress, fingers at the mouth and eyes set in the wall.

I shoved my hands in my pocket and rocked back and forth, "He's right. He asked my out and I said yes, but it was a stupid thing… I wasn't actually going to go out with him. Out of all people! Reid, this is so stupid, I don't want to fight over something that didn't really happen. I mean- well you know what I mean, Reid, Baby…"

"Alex," he shook his head and looked up, "I'm not mad at you."

"…and I mean, the whole thing with you two anyways, I should have known it would just set things 

off. It was stupid-" I paused, "wait… huh?"

He shook his head, "Nah, baby girl." He stood up and faced me, "I'm just thinking of why he'd go through the trouble…"

I shrugged, "You two hate each other…"

He snorted, "Rach and I hate each other… but I don't go 'round asking Pogue out…"

I laughed, "Well Baby, for starters you're both male and I know you're perfectly straight. Second, he'd never say yes-" Reid's face was priceless, "-because! See the little because is in there too… Because you're completely, totally, and utterly mine." I leaped at him, swinging my arms around his neck. He lifted me up and twirled me once, before falling back onto the bed and sending dust particles to dance around us in the moonlight, shining in through the window. I grinned down at him, kissing his nose and pulling back, "May I continue my speech?"

"There's more?" He groaned. I nodded and he sighed, closing his eyes, "Blow me away then…"

"I'm not going to blow you, what's wrong with you!" I yelped and then laughed at his face once more. I put my hand over his eyes and then leaned my head down to rest against his chest, just under his chin, "I want you to know something," He made a humming noise in his chest to let me know that he wanted me to continue, "I want you to know that I really do love you… and I want to marry you… and I want us to have kids…" I smiled to myself, eyes closed, "…red headed kids."

"How will we accomplish that?" He murmered.

I sighed, "Technology these days, who knows… but we'll make it happen. So… we'll have… one red headed child, and one blonde, and one brunette with wild curls. Just like me."

"You're too unique, Baby Girl. There will never be another Alex in the world like you." His hand was rubbing comforting lines up and down my upper arm. "And if you ever leave… you'll never know how much I'd miss you."

I grinned again, "We'll have three kids, and Leah will marry Tyler. She'll have two children, and by the time she's thirty three… she'll be having a third. She want's three too."

"Will they have red hair?" He joked.

"No." I sighed, "But they'll look a lot like Baby Boy. Those pretty blue eyes."

"What about Rach and Parry?"

My eyes still closed, my eyebrows knitted together, I thought, "Well… Rach doesn't particularly want kids. She's crazy, I know. Pogue though," I smirked, "he'll make her have at least one. I bet."

Reid laughed, "What would its name be?"

I laughed, "Will Rach in charge? God knows... probably Africa or Paprika. Something crazy." I laughed, "Or… if it's a boy, something that will just annoy Pogue. She's weird like that, she'll probably change her mind when the kid's five and then again at fifteen. The kid'll have three names by the time their forty."

He chuckled, "She's such a freak."

"I know," I sighed, my eyes getting heavy and breathing slowing down, "but we love her."



Lights went out.