Chapter 7
Alex sat next to Harper on the couch, thinking about what her mom had said about the past year. Theresa had just walked in the door with the groceries, when Alex and Harper decided to approach her. "Mom," she began. She knew, it was now or never. "I don't want to move to California."
"Well, why not sweetie?"
"Because... I'm in love with Harper." Theresa dropped the carton of milk in shock.
"Wh-what?"
"It's true, Mrs Russo. And I'm in love with your daughter." Harper turned round to look at Alex and smiled.
"Ar- are you sure?" Theresa looked at the couple, before breaking into a grin. "I knew convincing all of you we were moving would give you the push you need!"
"What?" Alex looked confused.
"We set it all up! We got Justin to text Harper after the family meeting. Justin had told us what had happened at school that day, and we knew if we said we were moving, you wouldn't give up without a fight" Theresa looked proudly at her daughter, almost welling up in tears.
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Alex walked hand in hand with Harper at school that day, and the next - and the next. Of course, Jess was angry with this recent development, but was even more angrier about the fact that her 'source' was no longer willing to be her source. In fact, people admired Alex and Harper, that eventually everyone stopped caring about hiding their secrets. Helen, the class clown, revealed that she goes to clog dancing classes. Newt, the IT geek, admitted that he takes ballet lessons - and loves every minute of it. And Justin - well, he kept his secret, but I suppose that was probably one that was best left secret.
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Mini-Chapter (3)
Alex couldn't take her eyes off Harper, and was barely paying attention as the History teacher was droning on about how America is the greatest. She picked up a scrap piece of paper and scribbled "House is empty tonite, wanna drop by later? ;) xx" and passed it along to Harper. Harper scribbled back "of course I would! you look great today btw. i was just thinking. i believe that me and u? it was kismet. xx" Alex looked at it and broke into a grin, and passed back another note:
"I know. x"