I promise this chappy'll be longer than the other one. :)
Anyways... here's chapter 15
Hidden Secrets
Chapter Fifteen
The next day, Mitchie had woke up Alex at 7 in the morning, made Alex rehearse her speech to Nate 5 times, made Alex try on 4 different outfits, and eaten a bowl of Lucky Charms.
"I don't get why you're so nervous. I'm not even that whacked out and I'm the one talking to Nate!" Alex told her.
"If you fight again with Nate, I'm so not helping you guys anymore." Mitchie replied, ignoring Alex's previous comment.
"Well you won't have to. Because after this, we won't."
"Well look who's so confident." Max said, jumping down the stairs. "Why are you guys up so early? Is it because of that puke smell? If it is, it's not my fault. Justin was the one who kept his dead hamster!"
"It's not that." Mitchie assured him.
"Then why are you awake?" Max asked.
"Mitchie made me rehearse my 'speech' to Nate so I won't 'mess up' when I go over." Alex said sarcastically. "Like that'll ever happen."
"I knew this girl once." Max said, looking up in thought, "And I gave her a hair tie for her birthday, but she took it the wrong way because she thought that I thought that she needed to tie up her hair or something. Psh, girls these days." He shrugged and ran back upstairs.
"Whatever." Mitchie said. "Now let's practice that speech again."
"No! I don't need to!" Alex replied. "I have it memorized already."
Mitchie looked at Alex. "We need to practice if you want to make up with Nate."
"What if he says something that we didn't plan?" Alex challenged her.
"Uh... we could... oh never mind."
Alex smiled in satisfaction. "Perfect."
"Are you sure she's coming over?" Nate asked Shane for the fifth time.
"Yes! Mitchie called me and told me. Then she got Alex on the phone, and she told me herself." Shane said, annoyed. "Just stop being so nervous and relax. That way, she won't see you have a mental breakdown or something."
"Fine." Nate sighed loudly to show Shane that he was 'relaxed.' Jason came into the kitchen and mumbled something about 'not getting enough sleep' and opened the fridge.
"Where are my fruity pops?" He demanded, holding up an empty box of the popsicles he loved.
"Why are you having fruity pops in the morning?" Nate asked.
"Because I want to!" Jason cried. "Is that a crime?"
"No, no, of course not." Shane said, shooting a look at Nate. "There's some in the freezer. They're just frozen, that's all."
Jason stomped over to the table and sat down. "So I hear Alex is coming over." He said slyly.
"How'd you know about that?" Nate said, staring at Jason's suspicous face.
"Duh! I know everything!" Jason replied, examining his nail.
"Why are you studying your nail?" Shane wanted to know. "Only girls like Steph do that." He paused for a minute. "Have you been hanging out with her?!"
"Why would I wanna hang out with Stephanie?" Jason said. "She's like obnoxious."
"That," Nate said, nodding in agreement, "Is very true."
"Wow, Jason. You're improving." Shane said.
"Improving? Improving what? My music? 'Cause if you want to use my song about the popsicles, just let me know!" Jason said cheerfully.
"No, we're not using your song about the popsicles. There's like 3 lines in there!" Shane said.
"Exactly! That's the beauty of it. Oh popsicles, oh popsicles, how do you do? If I could I'd stick you inside my shoe! Now I must go, see you soon!" He sang.
"What kind of song is that?" Nate asked.
"The popsicle song! I wrote it last night, when you two were in Nate's room talking about romance and love." Jason grimaced at 'romance and love.'
"Then he sang it to me and asked if we could put that on our new album." Shane added.
"If you guys won't use it, then I'll make my own album!" Jason declared. "I think I'll name it... Popsicle Land!" He jumped up and ran to his room to write more songs about popsicles.
Shane shook his head. "Wow. That dude is seriously nutty."
"Obviously." Nate said. "When's Alex coming? Isn't she supposed to be here now?"
"Relax. Mitchie's probably making her go over her speech again."
"Speech? What speech? Am I supposed to have a speech too?" Nate asked worridly.
"No! And sit down!" Shane said, pointing to the chair like a teacher.
"Yes sir." Nate mumbled.
"Good boy." Praised Shane, patting Nate's head like he was dog.
Nate slapped Shane's arm away. "I'm not a dog."
The doorbell rang. Shane got up and grinned. "Don't mess up this time! Now I'm going to leave you two, alone."
Alex was at the door, looking excited and extremely nervous at the same time. Nate thought her face was so cute, with the mixed expressions and everything.
"Hey." Alex said, her voice shaking.
"Um, hi." Nate said, looking down. He couldn't exactly look her in the eye, he didn't know what Alex was going to say to him.
"Um, can I come in?" Alex asked.
Nate, realizing he hadn't let Alex into the house, opened it quickly. "Yeah! Yeah, come in."
"Don't mess up!" Shane's voice warned him from upstairs.
Nate looked at Alex, who was laughing. "That was Shane."
"Yeah, I know." Alex replied. She hestitated, then kept talking. "Uh, I'm sorry I didn't come to your concert last night. I was just... you know..."
"Mad?" Offered Nate.
"Well I guess you could say that. But I guess the curiosity killed me so I actually watched it, except on TV."
"It was on TV?" Nate asked
"Everything's on TV." Alex said, remembering the same thing with Justin and Max last night.
"Oh." Nate said. "Well did you see the... part?"
"Yeah. And Mitchie, Justin and Max all said that you were like crying throughout the whole car ride home."
"They said that?" A very shocked Nate asked. "They weren't supposed to say that I was crying!"
"Don't worry." Alex laughed, "I thought it was... cute." She smiled at Nate. "And I loved the song."
"Which song?" Nate asked, clearly clueless. Then he remembered they were talking about 'Sorry.' "Oh! That song!" He laughed nervously, hoping Alex wouldn't think he was stupid.
Alex grinned. "So, about us..."
"Heh, about us..." Nate repeated.
"Do you want to..."
"Do I want to...?"
"You're so clueless!" Alex said. "I'm asking about us! Do you want to get back together or not?" She demanded.
Nate grinned. "Yes! Obviously!"
"Cool." Alex said. "Steph's not here, is she?"
"No." Nate said. "I told her to go away and leave me alone after the concert. She thought the song was for her! Can you believe that? Right now she's probably on her plane home."
"Good!" Alex smiled. She trusted him now with that information.
"Can I do something?" Nate asked. Without waiting for an answer, he wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her. She kissed him back, both of them happy that finally, finally, this was all over.
"Ew!" A voice behind them said.
Nate pulled away and looked behind him. Jason was standing there, a frown on his face. "Go away Jason."
"You got it!" Jason said, running away.
Nate turned back toward Alex. She smiled and kissed him again, this time with no interruptions.
That was longer, right? I think it was about the same length... oh well, I'm sorry, but I hope you liked the Nalex scene! :) Review?
Happy birthday Demi Lovato! :D
