Happy birthday to meeee! :D It's my birthday!! :D Anyways... onto the story...
Okay, so this is the part where... I'm not going to tell you. :) Read and review!
Hidden Secrets
Chapter Fourteen
"Come on dude. Cheer up! At least you got Steph away for good." Jason said. They were in the limo on their way home, everyone was there-- Mitchie, Harper, Justin, and Max. The only person missing was Alex.
"How can I cheer up when Alex didn't even come to see what I had to say?" Nate asked to no one in particular. Everybody mumbled something in response, he'd asked that question so many times.
"Nate, she'll come through." Harper said. "She always does. When she was dating Riley, and he lied to her-- oh wait, that's a bad memory because now they're never going to be together again."
Nate stared at Harper with a scared look in his eyes, her words 'now they're never going to be together again' in his mind, repeating over and over. "We're never going to be together again?" He whimpered.
Mitchie slapped Harper's arm. "Harper! Now look what you've done!"
"Oops." Harper said, covering her mouth with her hand. "My bad! But look, I'll give you this!" She reached into her oversized purse and pulled out a strawberry napkin. "I stole it from one of the tables loaded with food."
Nate took it from her slowly. "Alex liked strawberries." He said.
Justin, Max and Mitchie groaned. Jason heard them and started groaning over and over again, making Nate feel even worse because now he was boring the heck out of all his friends.
"Stop it." Shane directed. He grinned at Mitchie before continuing. "We have to make Nate feel better and then get Alex to talk to him again. Otherwise, we'll be doomed."
Mitchie nodded, obviously agreeing with Shane. "I'll talk to Alex when we get back."
"And we'll come with you." Justin and Max said.
"I'm going to make another shirt!" Harper informed them. Everyone turned their heads and looked at Harper weirdly. "What?" She asked. "I can't?"
Shane shook his head. "And Jason and I will cheer up Nate."
"I'm listening you know." Nate said.
"We don't care." Shane replied.
"I know you don't! Because Alex doesn't either! No one cares anymore!!" Nate wailed. He burst into tears, which was very un-Nate-ish, and sobbed the whole way home.
Jason, who was sitting next to Nate, patted his back comfortingly. "There, there."
"There there?" Max asked. "What will that do?"
Jason shrugged. "My mommy used to do that to me when I started crying. And believe me," he added, "I cried a lot!"
"Who actually admits that he cried a lot when he was a baby?" Justin asked.
"He just doesn't want to admit that he cried a lot when he was a baby." Max laughed, pointing to Justin. Everyone else looked down at their laps and smiled, holding their laughter.
Nate wiped his eyes as they got near to the neighborhood. "I can't believe I'm crying. What's wrong with me?"
"Nothing." Shane assured him.
"Actually, there's a lot of things wrong with me!" Nate corrected him. "And that's why Alex won't talk to me!!" He started sniffling again.
"Don't worry, we'll talk to her when we get there." Mitchie told him. "And we'll make her sorry that she didn't come, okay?"
Nate didn't answer, but instead just kept wiping his eyes after every tear came out of his eye.
The limo dropped off Max, Justin and Mitchie. Harper got off too, to go back to her house. Then Nate, Shane and Jason followed them to walk into the house that they were staying in.
"Come on." Shane said, leading Nate up the stairs. "You can cry when we get upstairs."
"He's already crying." Jason pointed out.
Shane gave Jason a death glare. "Not helping." He said under his breath. Jason nodded and mouthed, "Ohh!"
"Alex is probably laughing at me right now because Mitchie and Justin and Max are probably telling her about me crying like a little baby!" Nate said.
"Stop beating yourself up. It's not your fault that Alex didn't come." Shane said.
"Yes it is! I should've pushed Steph away when I had the chance!"
"I'm going to eat a banana." Jason announced.
Nate stopped crying for a second and stared at Jason weirdly. He sighed. "At least Jason didn't change."
"Alex!" Mitchie yelled, pounding on Alex's door. It was locked, which probably meant Alex was sleeping or something.
Alex quickly switched off the TV and changed into pajamas. She'd been watching the whole concert on TV, but decided to not to tell anyone about it. "Coming!" She unlocked the door and found Mitchie, Justin and Max standing there, their arms crossed. "What happened? Did you guys pass your police officer look or something?" She chuckled nervously as the three marched into her room.
"Alex, it wasn't fair of you not to come to the concert." Mitchie began. "Not only did--"
"Nate was literally bawling in the limo after the concert." Max cut in. "And he was also--"
"--crying onstage while he was singing the song that was meant for you!" Justin interrupted. "And then--"
"And then," Mitchie said, throwing a Look at the boys, "He started talking about how bad he was for letting Steph kiss him and everything--"
"And now he's all upset because you wouldn't come to the concert," Max said.
"Or talk to him." Justin added.
"Did you guys rehearse this?" Alex asked.
Mitchie looked at Alex. "Alex, we're serious!"
"Nate seriously was crying." Max told her.
"And he seriously started beating himself up." Justin added in.
"And now you have to go talk to him." Mitchie directed. Alex stared at them. Realizing they were serious, she started pacing around the room.
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh." Alex kept repeating. "Why am I such an idiot?"
"You're not an idiot, just really dumb!" Max said cheerfully. Justin shot him a look and he stared down at his lap. "What? It's true." He muttered.
"I have to go talk to him." Alex said. "I mean, with the whole crying thing and the song 'Sorry.'"
"Right." Mitchie said. "You can-- wait how did you know that the song was called Sorry?"
Alex's eyes widened innocently. "I didn't."
"Yes you did. You just said it." Max said.
"No I didn't."
"Yes you did." Max said.
"No I didn't."
"Yes you... did."
"Yes I did?" Alex asked, smirking at Max.
"No you didn't."
"What are we talking about?" Alex asked Max.
"I don't... know."
"Good." Alex said, satisfied. She loved confusing Max.
"Nice job. But you didn't confuse me." Mitchie said.
Alex sighed. "Fine okay, I watch it on TV."
"It was on TV?" Justin asked.
"Everything's on TV." Alex informed them. "And tomorrow, I'm going over to Nate's house to talk."
"Good." Mitchie said, smiling. Her work was done.
Short? Sorry, but I need to go eat cake now, lol. :) Review!
