Sorry to break it to you guys, but this is like the 2nd last chapter. The next one'll be pretty long, just like the last chapter in A Summer to Remember. So... enjoy this chappy!


Hidden Secrets

Chapter Eighteen

"Go!" Theresa said, pointing upstairs.

"Fine." Alex and Max groaned. They stomped up the stairs and into their rooms. It was Saturday, 3 days before school started. Theresa had just ordered her stubborn kids to go upstairs and get ready for school. Justin, of course, had already gotten ready-- a month before.

Nate came in through the door, 'no need to knock', he had been told. "Hey Theresa." He said to Alex's mom. He was allowed to call Alex's parents by their first names... he had been forced to.

"Hi Nate!" She said brightly. "I just ordered the kids to go upstairs and get ready for school. You can head on up."

"Okay. Thanks." Nate replied. He walked upstairs and knocked on Alex's door. The last time he had barged in, she was asleep and had somehow thrown a banana at his head. He figured she was half asleep and thought he was Justin or something.

Alex opened the door and grinned when she saw her boyfriend. "Hey you."

"Hey yourself." Nate said, walking in. He sat down on a random chair and looked at the pile of clothes on the floor. "What happened? Have a fashion emergency?" He smirked at Alex.

"Oh shut up. As if you rock stars don't have fasion emergencies yourself." Alex said, smirking back.

Nate pretended to be offended. "Gasp." He said, then laughed. "No, only Shane has those kinds of things. Me and Jason... actually only me is very... not fashion emergency-ish."

"Really?" Alex said, still doing her famous smirk.

"Yes, really." Nate said, getting up and walking over to her. "Stop smirking."

"Why?" Alex said, deeping her smirk. "Does it... bother you?"

"Yes!" Nate replied. When Alex wouldn't stop smirking, he wrapped his arms around her and started kissing her, trying to make her stop smirking.

"Stop!" A voice said behind them. "This is too gross!"

Alex stopped kissing for a second and said, "Go away Mitchie." Then she turned back to Nate's face and started kissing again.

"But this is gross!" Another voice said.

Nate sighed and let go of Alex. "You guys are not cool." He said to Mitchie and Shane. They were both standing there smirking at Alex and Nate.

"See?" Alex pointed out. "I'm not the only one who smirks."

"Oh you should see Nate at home!" Shane started to say. "He smirks like crazy!"

"No I don't!" Nate exclaimed, throwing a fake punch at Shane.

"Oh see how he denies it?" Shane said.

"Shut up." Nate muttered.

"Don't worry." Alex said, smiling sweetly. "I think Nate looks cute when he smirks."

"Yeah, don't be so harsh to your band-mate!" Mitchie said, scolding her boyfriend. "I'm going to have a talk with you young lady!"

Nate laughed. Even though girls were coming to his defense, he loved the look on Shane's face.


"La la la la, la la la la, Elmo's world!" Max sang while hopping up and down. "La la la la, la la la la, ELMO'S WORLD! HE LOVES HIS GOLDFISH! HIS CRAYONS TOO! THAAAAT'S ELMO'S WORLD!!"

Alex and Nate stared at Max, speechless. Max had just 'performed' Elmo's world for all of them.

"So what'd you think?" Max asked.

"Uh... very nice, very nice." Theresa said, clapping her hands. She nudged Jerry and he started clapping too.

"What about you guys?" Max asked Alex and Nate.

"Scary." Nate replied.

"Very scary." Alex added.

Max shrugged. "Oh well, whatever." Then he went off and kept singing Elmo's World.

"What has my son grown into?" Jerry said, shaking his head.

"Oh be quiet. It was probably a dare or something. You know kids these days." Theresa assured them.

"Mom?" Alex asked. "I don't think Max was dared to do that. He's Max!"

"Well maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, but I am not letting Max grow into an Elmo toy!" Jerry said, heading up the stairs.

"Where are you going?" Theresa asked.

"I'm going to have a serious talk with that boy!"


"You're going Tribeca Prep, right?" (A/N: I found that was the name of their school on wikipedia :D) Alex asked.

"Yup." Nate, Shane and Mitchie replied.

"Aren't you guys worried that you'll be mobbed by screaming fangirls all day?" Justin asked, looking up from his wizard book.

"Nah, not really." Shane replied.

"Yup, we'll still have our girls." Nate said, grinning at Alex.


I know, I know. It wasn't long and it was a bad chappy. It was kinda a... filler. The last chapter is coming... yeah. I'm writing it right now actually. So review? That would make me happy. :D