"So did you girls do any interesting in San Diego?" Mom asked.

"I fell in love." I mused.

"Really? Who's the lucky guy?" Mom asked.

"Ashley." I said.

"So he has an old English name." Mom responded.

"No Ashley is a girl." I replied without caring.

"What? You're dating a girl? You can't date a girl." She said angrily.

"Why not?" I countered.

"Because it's not natural. If God wanted girls to be together than that's how he would created us." Mom said.

"I'm sorry have you met God?" I snarked. "Because you apparently seem to know what he's thinking."

"You will not see this girl again." Mom remarked.

"And how are you going to stop me. I'm 18." I responded. I had just turned 18 recently.

"As long as you're living under my roof, you will live by my rules." Mom commanded.

"Fine, then I won't live under your roof." I said as she teleported out of the room.

I found myself right outside Ashley's house. It was bugger than I expected, pretty much a mansion. They even had a P.A. system. I pushed the button and it was answered by a woman.

"Can I help you?" She asked.

"Yes, I'm looking for Ashley." I replied.

"May I ask who is asking?" The woman said.

"Mom, just open the gate." I heard Ashley say. The doors to the gate then began to part. I walked through them and to the door to the house. I then knocked on that because it wasn't open. The door was answered by a blonde woman, who I assumed to be Ashley's mother.

"You must be Alex, come in." She said.

"Where's Ashley." I asked as I stepped inside.

"She's currently taking a shower." Her mom said. "I'm Candace her mother. You can start by telling why you're here at nine o'clock."

"Do you think we can wait until after she comes down to talk about that?" I asked.

"Only if you answer me one question." She said as I nodded. "Are you her girlfriend?"

"Yes." I replied. "That's not bad is it?"

"No it's been a while since she's had anyone." Candace remarked. "So how long have you been going out?"

"We met in San Diego." I answered.

"That would explain why she hasn't told me much about you." The woman responded.

"I was going." Ashley said. I turned to look at her and saw wearing a cashmere bathrobe with wet hair. Oh god she looked so sexy like that. "Alex, what are you doing here?"

"Well you gave me your address." I replied.

"I didn't exactly mean you come by in the middle of the night." She responded. I understood her reasoning behind it I guess.

"My mom and I had a fight." I said. "I told her that I was gay and she freaked out. So I kind of need a place that I can stay for a few days."

"Can she stay, Mom?" Ashley asked.

"On one condition." Candace answered as she held up a finger. "She will be staying the guest room and you will be in your room."

I then saw Ashley wrap her mom in an embrace. She looked extremely happy. I think there's a word for that. Oh well, I don't care enough to think about it.

"So did you bring anything with you?" Candace asked.

"No I didn't, Mrs. Hunter." I replied, respectfully.

"Please call me Candace." The woman replied. "Ashley, why don't you take Alex to her room? And put some clothes on."

She walked upstairs. There were a lot of stairs. I've always wondered why rich people don't put elevators in their houses.

"So here we are: guest room." Ashley said as she showed me to a room that was my bigger than living room.

"So why didn't you tell me you were rich?" I asked.

"I thought I did." She said.

"It doesn't exactly add up. I mean you were staying at some crappy hotel and you didn't have any money for a plane ticket." I explained.

"I was staying at Comfort Inn because of the good hotels were booked and I didn't have money for a plane ticket because I maxed out my credit card and my parents only gave me $200 spending money." She explained. "Anyway yeah, it was one of the reasons why I got so many girls. They love you when you're rich. So my mom said that we could sleep in the same room but that doesn't mean that we can't fuck."

"Ashley, before we do, I have something to tell you." I remarked.

"What?" She asked curiously as she lied down on the bed.

"Okay this is kind of hard for me because it's a really big secret." I started.

"Will you just tell me before I start ripping your clothes off?" Ashley questioned impatiently.

"I'm a wizard." I said.

"What?" She asked, stunned.

"I'm a wizard with magic and spells and stuff." I replied. "Are you afraid?"

"No…" Ashley said. "But I kind of want to see some magic."

"You've seen some of me, now you'll see more. Transfer my clothes from me onto the floor." I recited.

Ashley watched in awe as my clothes disappeared from my body and were suddenly scattered across the floor.

"Wow." She said.

"Are you saying that at me or that magic?" I asked, giggling

"Uh both" she stuttered.

I climbed on top the bed and grabbed the sash of her robe when the door opened. I turned to see a brown-haired boy who was about 16.

"Oh god, I'm scarred for life." He said as he rushed out of the room.

"Well that killed the moment." I replied as I began to gather my clothes. "So he's your brother, right?"

"Yeah that's my brother Chris." Ashley replied "Well since our circumstances have changed, I'll go talk to him."

"I take it that's never happened before." I assumed.

"Yeah rarely did I ever have sex here." Ashley said as she left the room. "I'll bring some clothes for you in a bit."

So I dressed myself and turned on the TV. A few minutes later, the door opened. I expected to be Ashley with clothes but instead a man walked in.

"You're not Ashley." I stated.

"No I'm her father." He replied. "Ted Hunter"

"You're British." I said. I seemed to be pointing out the obvious.

"Yes I moved my company here in the late 80s and that's when I met Candace." He said. "But enough about me. I need to talk to you."

"So you're gonna give me the whole concerned parent thing that doesn't have a problem with the person that's dating your daughter but I'll be sorry if I ever hurt thing?" I remarked.

"How did you know all of that?" He asked.

"I have a father too and haven't always dated girls. Ashley is actually the first girl I've officially dated." I said. "Anyway I'm not going to hurt her. I'm in love with her."

"Would you at least let me do my job as a parent?" He asked with a chuckle. "So what do you do anyway? And it would probably be a good idea not to answer my daughter."

"I'm an artist and a part-time waitress but I guess I just quit that job or I'm at least taking a leave of absence from it." I joked. He looked at me confused. "My parents own a restaurant and I'm not exactly getting along with my mom right now."

"Ah." He responded.

"Anyway I'm currently the artist for Captain Jim Bob Sherwood." I continued.

"You know I've always had a soft spot for that strip." Ted said. "There's just something interesting about an astronaut who fights crime."

God, am I the only person in the world to have never read the comic before?

"So yeah I would like to spend some time with her before I go to bed." I remarked. "If that is okay with you that is."

"Well for some reason I trust you." He stated. "She's in her room right now."

"Thank you." I said as I walked to the door before I stopped. "Where is her room?"

"You take a left, then a right, then it's three doors down on the left." He instructed.

I tried to take all of that in. "Could you give me a map by any chance?" I asked.

"I'll take you there." He replied as I followed him around the house and eventually to my girlfriend's room. She noticed us walk in.

"Hey Daddy." Alex said as she walked over and hugged him.

"Hey Princess." Ted responded.

"Don't I get one of those?" I complained.

She let go of her father and then hugged me. "Well to be fair, I haven't seen him since Thursday." She said. "Anyway I found something for you to sleep in."

I noticed Ted walked off but he left the door open. I'm pretty sure that meant that we were supposed to keep it open.

"It looks like privacy isn't something we'll have much of." I commented. "So did you talk to your brother?"

"Yeah he's a little shaken by the incident.' She said. "It's probably like when you walked in on Justine."

"Actually I bet it was worse for him. I thought that was hilarious." I replied. "Actually there's something that I need to tell you about Justine."

"What?" Ashley asked.

"She hasn't always been my sister." I said, noting the look of shock on Ashley's face. "No, she's not a transsexual. At least I don't think she is. They made an error on the comics and printed Justine instead of Justin. The only problem is that the error increased the sales. So I turned her into a girl for Comic Con. I was going to turn her back on the way home but she asked me not to."

"How were you going to explain that?" She asked.

"I wouldn't have had to." I answered. "Apparently the spell makes mortals think that nothing happened and you would have remembered her as my brother…man it feels so good to have that lifted from my shoulders."

"You could have told me earlier." She said.

"Yeah when we were in bed the first time, I could have said 'oh yeah I'm a wizard' and you run away and I never see you again." I remarked. "And I'm really not supposed to tell you either but I don't fucking care. I'm gonna lose my powers from being with you anyway."

"Why?" The blonde asked.

"Something about the wizard council doesn't like the idea of wizards and mortals together. That's why my dad doesn't have any powers. He married my mom."

"Speaking of your mom, I think you should at least try to make peace with her." Ashley said. "It doesn't have to be tomorrow but it should at least be in a few days."

"Fine." I relented.

"I've dealt with these types of things before, not personally but I've dated girls whose parents didn't seem to like the idea of their daughter dating another girl." She stated. "And since I was the one who turned them off from all things male, they obviously didn't like me either. Your mom probably thinks that way about me as well."

"I would imagine so. I'm pretty sure that she never even met Stevie." I replied "Most people didn't know we were together…no wait no one knew we were together. So what do you wanna do before bed?"

"Well I don't think we'll be able to do that so do you wanna go in the hot tub?" She queried.

"I don't have a bathing suit." I pointed out.

"They're in the second dresser, third drawer." Ashley said.

"Which one is the second one?" I asked.

"The pink one." She clarified.

I went over the drawer and saw several swimsuits of various shapes. I decided to pull out a blue top and red bottom. I can't believe that in all of our time in San Diego we had never been swimming. I grabbed the other two pieces and threw them at Ashley.

"So this is what we're doing." Ashley remarked as she went to the door and closed it.

Within five minutes, the two of us were wearing bikinis as Ashley guided me to the gym area. Candace spotted the two of us.

"It looks like you two need to switch tops…or bottoms." Her mother said.

"We meant to do it like this, Mom." Ashley replied as she opened the door to the hot tub area. Ashley had to be the only person I knew who had a gym in her house.

"Okay just remember to keep them on." Candace said as both of us started to blush.

We both entered the spa and looked to make sure Candace was gone.

"So why didn't Justine want to change back?" Ashley asked.

"I dunno. She said she had some things she wanted to do." I said as I leaned against the wall.

"Do you think it's because she likes Drake?" The blonde questioned.

"That might be it. Why else would she want to go back to San Diego?" I added.

"Beaches, Mediterranean climate, hot guys, hot girls…take your pick." Ashley listed.

"I'm thinking hot guys or one in particular." I repeated. "Do you really think college registration would be open?"

"Not this late, maybe for the spring semester." Ashley replied. "Unless she had like totally super awesome grades or something."

"Well she was valedictorian." I commented.

"There's a chance if she were to get on it right away." Ashley surmised. "So I think Wednesday would be a good day for you to try to talk to your mom. It would give both of you some time to process things."

"Okay I guess that will work." I replied. "Why are we not in the hot tub?"

So we spent about half an hour in the hot tub, talking about random things before we decided to get out and slipped on some robes. We were talking about movies when we got out.

"So favorite Horror movie?" I asked.

"Probably The Descent. It scares the crap out of me every time I watch it." She answered. "You?"

"Probably Snakes on a Plane." I responded. "If only for Samuel Jackson talking about motherfucking snakes and motherfucking planes."

"Yeah I'd liked that one. Who would have thought a movie about snakes on a plane would actually be good?" She agreed.

"I feel hungry." I announced "Maybe it has to do with the fact I just worked two hours without a break."

"The kitchen's this way." Ashley said with a laugh. Once we got there I found Chris there. "Chris, this is Alex."

"Hey." I greeted with a wave.

"It's nice to see you wearing some form of clothing." He remarked.

"Yeah that's not exactly how I would want to meet someone either." I chuckled. "So anyway Ashley tells me you ask her for advice on picking up chicks, any success?"

"No…" He answered.

"Well you could have come to Comic Con with me." Ashley remarked.

"I was doing that thing in that place." Chris stammered.

"He just hates airplanes." Ashley informed.

"A terrorist could have been on the plane." Chris argued.

"That happened once like nine years ago." I said. "Besides they have security now."

"They could still get through." Chris said before he left the kitchen.

So after I ate some chicken that had been left over from that night's dinner, the two of us headed to bed.

"I'll see you in the morning." Ashley said as she kissed me at the door.

"Good night." I said.

The next three days were pretty uneventful. Ashley's family treated me like I was one of their own. It felt nice to be accepted for what I was.

I walked into the Sub Station on Wednesday with Ashley.

"Are you ready to do this?" Ashley asked.

"Yeah I guess so." I said

"Welcome to Waverly Sub Stat…" Justine said. "Hey Alex."

"I need to talk to Mom." I said.

"She's in the house." Justine said. "So how have you been?"

"Pretty good." I replied. "I'm pretty sure that Ashley's parents like me. What about you?"

"I got into San Diego State."

"That was quick." Ashley commented.

"Anyway I guess we need to go inside the loft." I remarked as I ushered Ashley to follow.

Mom was in the kitchen.

"Hello Mother." I said to her.

"Alex, you're home." She said happily. She then looked up. "And who are you?"

"Ashley." The blonde replied.

"So you're the reason why my daughter left home." Mom accused.

"It's not her fault, Mom. It's yours." I replied.

"I think I heard Alex." Dad said as he came down the stairs.

"Hi Daddy." I said to him.

"Alex you're in a lot of trouble." He said.

"I wouldn't have left if I felt like I was wanted." I pointed out.

"Why is everyone trying to make me the bad guy here?" Mom asked.

"Did Mom tell you why I left?" I asked my father.

"No…" Dad said.

"It was because she couldn't handle my sexuality." I spat.

"You're making the wrong choice." Mom countered.

"Choice? Choice? I didn't make a choice." I argued. "I didn't just wake up one morning and say 'Hmm I think I want to be gay.' It doesn't work like that."

"Alright I've had enough of this." Dad said. "Alex I think it would be best if you go to your room."

"I've had enough of this too." I announced. "I am going to my room but it's going to be to pick up my things. Looks like I'm going to be leaving home early."

Epilogue

Justine's POV

It's been a month since Alex left home. I still see her every now and then, mostly to work on the comic. She doesn't go to school at Tribeca Prep anymore. She suggested that the two of them go back to Ashley's old school so that they could show people that she was back on top and in love.

Harper decided to get a place with Zeke while he was in college. She also decided to attend the same school as Alex and Ashley.

To say things at home were good would be a lie. Dad filed for divorce after they kept fighting about Alex. I don't blame Alex because I know it's not her fault. I was actually about to head to San Diego. As for Max, the Wizard council has a set of regulations for divorce of wizard-mortal relationships. The former wizard automatically gains custody of the wizard.

Both Alex and I decided to forfeit the wizard competition and give our powers to Max since when it came down to it he needed them most. He also met a female wizard and the two of them seemed to like each other.

After months of denying, I figured out that I was in love with Drake and changing back into a guy would only hinder that. I also feel like I like it too much.

I guess it's hard for everyone to have a happy ending but most of us did. I'm happy with the way my life is going and I guess that's all that matters.

So you have reached the end of Good Luck with That, Sis. So Candace is played by Cameron Diaz, Ted is played Rupert Everett, and Chris is played by Nathan Kress. I figured that Jerry would be more accepting of Alex and Theresa's refusal to change her views would eventually drive them apart. Thank you for reading and please review.