Falling Out of Trees

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Set Off//5:19

Lying in bed Marissa eyed her phone, contemplating between calling a certain someone or trying to sleep for the hundredth time. Despite not having spoken to Alex, much less seen Alex in months she didn't think calling her would be a good idea. However a bigger part of her wanted nothing more than Alex back in her life, even though Alex had left things horribly, and hurt her more than anyone else had. Marissa already knew that asking Summer's opinion would result in Summer screaming at her about what a bad idea it was, and how Alex didn't deserve a call.

Grabbing her cell phone, Marissa quickly flipped it open and started punching numbers into her phone. Closing her phone she set it next to her pillow, wondering if Alex would respond or if Alex was even awake.

As Alex shut the door to her bedroom, her cell phone vibrated once. She slid it open, surprised to see a new text message from Marissa. It was nice seeing you today. Alex felt herself smile inwardly before shooting off a response.

A minute had barely passed before Marissa's phone vibrated; she snatched it immediately and flipped it open knowing who the message was from. Yeah it was nice to see you too, why are you awake? It's late. Instead of hitting reply, Marissa accidently hit call and as she heard the phone ring she knew she couldn't hang up. If she hung up Alex would know, so she took a breath and waited for the call to be answered.

"Hey" Alex said casually, not taken aback by the phone call.
"Hey, sorry I meant to hit reply…" Marissa trailed off.
"And here I was thinking you just wanted to talk to me instead of text me." Alex laughed, while Marissa remained silent. "So you're up late" Alex added after a few beats.
"You mean early, and so are you."
"I just got home actually." Realization finally hit Marissa that Alex had left with a dark haired girl, she felt anger boiling inside of her, but knew there was nothing she could do about it, except hold her words in so they didn't tumble out.
"How'd your night go?" Marissa questioned, biting her tongue.
"Eh I've had better." Alex answered nonchalantly.
"Really?" Marissa asked intrigued.
"Yeah, I don't know. I mean it gets old sometimes I guess. How'd your night go?"
"It was okay, Summer kept bitching."
"Yeah, I could tell she hates me."
"She doesn't hate you…she just-"
"Thinks you shouldn't be friends with me."
"Well we were never really friends were we?" Marissa questioned. The line was silent as neither one of them knew what to say, until Alex cleared her thought, "I'd like to be though, if you do."
"Yeah, well I need to get up for school in like an hour so…"
"I should let you go, but let's find some time to catch up soon."
"Okay, bye and I guess good night."
"And good morning." Alex mused hanging up after she heard Marissa giggle.

Despite everything that had happened between them, for some odd reason Marissa couldn't put the smile on her face away. She closed her eyes, and continued to feel the smile, almost permanent on her lips. She knew she shouldn't have talked to Alex, much less make plans but she wanted nothing more than to spend time with her like before. The only thing that worried her was the fact that Alex could potentially hurt her again, but having Alex back in her life was better than not having Alex at all.

After their conversation Alex looked at her cell phone, noting that it was only 5:19. She didn't know what had come over her, or why she had suggested they hangout. The whole reason she had left was because she didn't want to hurt her, and she was afraid that it would happen again. However she missed Marissa, no matter how many hookups she had, no matter how many drinks she consumed, the ache in her heart was never filled or forgotten.

After an hour of trying to sleep, Alex got off her bed and made her way towards the kitchen. She grabbed some cereal and poured herself a bowl. She ate silently for a few minutes, going over the conversation in her mind for the tenth time.

"Alex?" Jodie questioned rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Yeah?" Alex replied not taking her eyes off the bowl.
"You're awake?"
"Yeah" Alex answered taking another bite.
"And eating?" Jodie said surprised.
"Yeah."
"But you never eat."
"I was hungry." Alex shrugged taking her bowl to the sink.

As Alex walked past Jodie and back into her room, Jodie remained unmoved. She couldn't shake the surprise of seeing Alex in the kitchen, much less eating in the morning. Something was definitely up, and Jodie knew she was going to get to the bottom of it. Although seeing Alex eat was a good thing, it also was very wrong, because Alex never ever ate breakfast. Jodie couldn't even remember the last time she had seen Alex go into the kitchen for food.

After a few minutes Jodie snapped out of her daze and marched over to Alex's room, as she tried to open the door, she realized Alex had locked it. "Just so you know we are going to talk about this!" Jodie yelled, before making her way back to her own room where her companion was still fast asleep.

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