Cory In The House – The Fight For Alyssa
Disclaimer – No, I did not write Cory in the House. If I did, I wouldn't be here!
Chapter 3 – A Past Forgotten
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Newt found Alyssa at a park halfway between his house and the café. She was sitting miserably on a swing.
He sat down on the swing next to her's. "Hey." He said softly.
Silence.
"About what I said before, I'm really, really sorry. I just…I'm not really considered intelligent." He apologized. "And, well, this'll sound silly, but there's a song about my dream girl in there." He confessed.
Newt opened to the page in the notebook, which he'd brought with him, and handed it to Alyssa.
She read the page. "It's me." She said quietly.
"Well, actually, it's my best friend from when I was little. I can't remember her name, but she was the one who came up with my nickname. You two could be twins." Newt explained. An expression of realization spread across his face. "L…Lissie?"
"Lizard?" Alyssa began to smile.
"I have missed you so much!" The cried in unison, throwing their arms around each other.
"Dude." Alyssa started one of their old jokes.
"Dude." Newt continued. They both counted to three in their heads.
"You said what I said!" They exclaimed.
Alyssa glanced at her watch. "We should start getting back." She suggested.
They got up and started walking towards Newt's house.
"You STILL have that watch?" Newt asked.
"Hey, I promised to wear it all the time. You kept your promise, right?" Alyssa raised her eyebrows, but Newt could tell she wasn't about to tear his head off if he hadn't.
"Of course!" Newt held out his arm, showing her the red, white, and blue bracelet made from embroidery floss, knotted into a diagonal stripe pattern.
"Wow, it still fits!" Alyssa exclaimed. "We're not ten anymore, after all."
"Well, it was a little big when you gave it to me." Newt replied.
"So your wrists didn't grow?" Alyssa joked.
"Just a little." He grinned back.
"Still skinny as a lizard." Alyssa patted his shoulder.
"Bet a lizard's faster than you." Newt retorted.
"And how will you prove that?" She replied skeptically.
"Like this!" Newt cried, and took off running.
"Hey! You forgot to say go!" Alyssa ran after him.
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Alyssa flung the door to Newt's music room open, stepped inside, turned around, and yelled "First!"
Newt skidded through the door. "Second!"
"Hee hee, I win!" Alyssa grinned.
"I even had an early start." Newt pretended to be disappointed.
"It's okay." Alyssa patted his shoulder again.
"Cory, do you feel like we missed something?" Meena asked.
"Only five years of pure awesome!" Newt exclaimed.
"Awesomeness." Alyssa corrected.
"Yeah, sure, what she said." Newt replied to his mini grammar lesson.
"Um, you were only gone for ten minutes." Cory pointed out.
"We were best friends in elementary school." Alyssa explained.
"That explains a lot." Meena said.
"Wait, wait, wait, so you two were best friends when you were kids?" Raven said.
"NO meddling!" Cory warned.
"Okay!" She replied.
"Best friends doesn't even cover it. We weren't known as separate human beings – everywhere we went, we were Lissie and Lizard." Alyssa said.
"Lizard?" Cory asked.
"Well, a newt is like a lizard. So every time I said Newt's name, I would think lizard." Alyssa explained.
"Oh." Cory said.
"Hey, how about you guys practice a song so I can hear Cory's new band?" Raven suggested.
"I don't know the words to any of their songs." Alyssa pointed out.
"Let's play Tangled Up In Me again!" Meena suggested.
Everyone agreed, and they picked up their instruments and started playing.
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A/N: I REALLY didn't like this chapter. Everyone seems really out of character to me, but I had to get through the whole Newt/Alyssa thing. So, I'll try to make it better in the next chapter. Keep reviewing, you guys rock! - CaliforniaRockin'101