A Confession and A Date

Alex showered quickly. She hated taking long showers when she was tired. After her shower she blow dried her hair and put it up in a messy bun. When she felt she was ready, she crawled into her bed. Looking at her clock for the time, 2:45, she set her alarm for six. She had laid down and closed her eyes for a few moments, when suddenly the door bell rang. She ran downstairs to get it because her mom had left with her boyfriend to one of his friends houses and wouldn't be back until after ten that night. She got the hugest surpprise when she opened the door. It was Ellie coming to talk to her.

"Hey, Ellie. What's going on?" Alex asked her friend as she allowed Ellie to pass her into the house and beckoned her to the couch.

"I need to talk to you about something." Ellie said trying to keep her composure.

"Okay. What is it?" Alex asked with confusion written across her face.

"I..." Ellie wasn't quite sure how to finish her sentence. It was hard enough for her to come over to Alex's house, let alone tell her what she had on her mind. She took in a deep breath and continued. "I like you, Alex. I REALLY like you." Ellie's words came at a complete suprise to Alex. She had no feelings for Ellie this way. She knew she had to tell her, but she didn't want to hurt her feelings. She decided to use Paige as an excuse.

"Ellie, I'm with Paige. I love her. I'm sorry, but we can't be together." Alex's words cut Ellie deep. She began to cry and ran from Alex's house.

She ran only for a short time. Just until Alex's appartment building was out of sight. Out of breath she stopped and collapsed on the curb, still in tears. 'Why did I tell her? Why couldn't I have just kept my feelings for her to myself? I'm so stupid. Oh no! What if Alex tells Paige what I just confessed? Paige'll kill me for this.' Ellie's thoughts were interupted by the sight of Paige walking up to her from across the road.

"Hey Ellie! How's everything going?" Paige asked with a smile.

'Does she know? No. She couldn't. She hasn't even been to Alex's. What if that's where she's headed? Oh SHIT!'

"Are you okay, Hun?" Paige asked Ellie slightly worried. "You look as if you'd just seen a ghost."

"Oh. Uh. Yeah. I'm fine. How are you?" Ellie said coming out of her daze.

"I'm doning pretty good. I was just heading to Alex's. You want to tag along?" Paige asked, the smile returning to her face.

"No. I just came from there and I'm not sure if I want to go back any time soon." Ellie added the last part with a slight roll of her eyes and an embarressed tone in her voice. "I'm just going to head home. See you later." She got up and walked away before Paige could answer. Ellie's odd behavior had promted her to ask Alex what had gone on before she had met up with Ellie on her way to Alex's.

She reached Alex's appartment shortly after her odd encounter and was about to knock when the door suddenly burst open reveiling a very confused Alex holding a trash bag in her left hand, her right hand gripping the door knob.

"Paige. You're way early." The trach bag weilding girl said with a mix of shock, confusion and excitment in her voice.

"Yeah. Sorry, but my mom went with my brother and Marco to an odd dinner and a movie. You know how she gets when I'm left alone." Paige rolled her eyes at her mom's over-reaction to leaving her daughter home alone for even a few short hours. "Is it okay if I hang until eight, then we can head to the Dot and the Movie?" Paige asked using her best puppy-dog face, knowing that Alex couldn't resist her when she did this.

"Sure. Hit the couch and let me run this down to the dumpster." Alex moved aside so Paige could enter the small, dingy appartment and "hit" the couch.

As she headed downstairs, alex thought about what they could do before they had to leave. She began to grow more excited, but quickly realized what she was wearing. She finished her way to the dumpster in a jog and ran all the way back upstairs. As soon as she entered her appartment she moved to Paige to give her a moment and rushed to her room to change into something a little more date-worthy. Changing quickly, she headed back to the livingroom and found Paige sitting on the couch, patiently awaiting her return.

Paige smiled at Alex as she entered the room wearing her typical outfit: a white tank-top and a pair of baggy jeans. Paige thought Alex looked great in anything or nothing, but she liked it most when she wore her current outfit style.

Alex sat right next to Paige on the couch. "What?" She asked looking a little confused as to why Paige was smiling so oddly at her at the current moment.

"You look great." Paige said leaning in for a kiss. This was the start of a make-out session continuing on until eight o'clock. When they realized the time, they got up and walked over to the Dot. Their conversation was nothing but gossip about how everyone had been acting so strange since they had gotton back together. Soon they reached a conversation about Ellie.

"Yeah. I saw her leaving your house before I got there. She seemed freaked about something. What did you two talk about?" Paige asked trying to get to the bottom of Ellie's odd behavior earlier that day.

"Well, she told me she has a crush on me. I told her that I was with you and everything and she ran out of my house crying. It was kinda weird. I would have never guessed she liked girls let alone me." Alex answered Paige's question and ended the talk on Ellie. After they finished eating their burgers, the headed to the movies and decided on a horror flick. Paige knew this would give them some real close time since she was always getting freaked out by the gorey scenes of murder and had to have someone their to jump onto when things popped out of nowhere. When the movie ended they headed back to Paige's house for some extra "fun".

I hope the length is better!