Juanita kept trying to talk to Alex, and became more and more frustrated as he refused to answer.

"ALEX! Why won't you talk to me" Juanita burst out causing principal Schmoke to turn around and look at them.

Alex looked as though he was going to say something but Principal Schmoke got there first.

"Alex have a seat out here… ladies first" Principal Schmoke said gesturing for Juanita to enter.

Alex sat outside for about half an hour, neither calming down or getting angrier as he waited. Finally Juanita left and he was called in. Alex entered the office without paying any attention to Juanita. He sat down and waited for the principal to start.

"Alex, what is going on?" Principal Schmoke finally asked.

"What's it to you?" Alex asked confrontationally.

"Alex what is bothering you?" Principal Schmoke asked.

"Nothing… and if anything was, it's none of your business." Alex replied hotly.

"Really… Juanita told me everything," Schmoke said diplomatically.

"Traitor…" Alex muttered angrily under his breath.

"What? Alex she is your friend…" Principal Schmoke said before being cut off.

"Yeah great friend she is… wonder how long it will take for her to move on to Nat." Alex said feuding.

"Alex have you ever thought of listening to what other…" Principal Schmoke said before being cut off again.

"What's the point… No one listens to me, No one cares about me… NAT BLAMES ME, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Alex said getting angrier.

"What does he blame you for?" Principal Schmoke asked.

Alex looked even more pissed, he knew he had said too much. He had almost spilled the knowledge he had learnt just before the band went on tour.

Alex prowled around the apartment, Nat and Mr Wolff were watching something on TV, and Alex was in a curious mood. Alex walked into his dads room and found a box that contained the families memento's. Alex pulled out a photo album, and began looking through it. There were lots of pictures of his dad, Nat and some of his mother. Alex noticed how young they looked, but also how dad was still dad. Alex looked at the pictures of his mum, he didn't really remember anything about her, and the photo's of her seemed quite foreign, it was as though looking at a stranger, there was no memories, no stories that had any relevance to Alex, nothing to really give meaning to the woman in the photo. Alex turned the page and saw the pictures of him and his mum just after he was born. There was a few, but Alex found the next few pages blank. On the last page of the album, he saw an official looking piece of paper. He read it, and hated what it told him, he pulled it out, and flicked back a few pages grabbing one of the only photos of him and his mum and took them back to his room. He hid them were no one would look and sat down on the bed and let everything he had just read sink in.

"Screw you, I'm out of here!" Alex said loudly and forcefully and stood up and headed for the door.

"Alex, sit down! We are going to talk." Principal Schmoke said trying to put some authority into his tone.

"We Were Talking And Now I Am Leaving!" Alex said, his anger at everything giving him determination.

"You walk out of this office and I will suspend you Alex" Principal Schmoke said getting quite angry.

"I DON"T CARE!" Alex yelled, charging out of the office, brushing roughly passed Juanita who was still out there.

Before anyone could react Alex was out in the corridors, and to give a distraction to his get away, pulled the fire alarm before bursting outside. Alex kept running for a couple of blocks and only stopped after almost being run down by a fire engine on its way to the school.