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Chapter 5 What have you done since last time

During that night we had a lot to think about but somehow I think that Alex might have a bit more than me to think about at this moment, I mean it was kind of a lot that I dumped on her. The only thing that is on my mind at this point okay maybe not the only thing but it takes up most of my time right now, after I told her is if I should tell them at home that Alex is here. Then the other thing that I have been thinking about is what she has been up to and done. That is something I thought about before I met her again, but she will tell me tomorrow. I can't wait until noon tomorrow. I better go to sleep so that I'm well rested tomorrow I don't want to miss anything that she says.

The next morning I woke up pretty early, or at least it was for me but then again that is something that I always do when no one forces me to go up. Today is a day that I want to go up and I'm meeting Alex again I can't believe that she was one of the girls. But I'm still wondering who the other girl was that was supposed to be on this trip, it can't be her, right, it couldn't be Jodie. That is the only girl that I can think of at the moment that would do something this crazy. Maybe I shouldn't call her crazy I mean Alex is doing the same thing and she didn't know anyone before she saw that I was going on this thing to. I need to talk to someone just so that I can get my head straighten out, but then again that won't happen anytime, I'm not straight, that is something that I have learned even thou I just have been with one girl but it feel like she is the one.

At the beach

I was walking along side the beach with Alex, this somehow reminded me of the old days the days when we were happy together, I wish that we can have that once again. And I think that might be a possibility for that if I can show her that I have grown and that I'm not afraid of those feelings anymore and we have a year together traveling the seas so she can't really hide, that means that we should be friends again.

"So I just thought that we could get something to drink and then I could tell you what I have been up to." She told me and I was awakened from my own thoughts.

"That sounds good, so what do you want, coffee, soda or water? Just so that I know where we should go." I told her and I was kind of glad that she had said that I didn't want to push her in any direction or put any pressure on her, this would be on Alexs' terms.

"I thought that we could get some water and coffee and then sit on the beach talking. It would be just like old times." She said. This was too good to be true, she remembered.

"Sure that sounds great." So we went and bought us self something to drink and was back at the beach and began to look for a place that we could sit down and talk. We both wanted something that was a bit secluded sp that we could talk without being interrupted. And after about half an hour we found a place that we could sit down at. This was it I knew that I finally would find out what she had been up to and I wanted to contact her all the time during the time after we split but I didn't know who to proceed too all of this.

"So Rissa, what do you want to know?" She asked me, what I wanted to know, da everything but that is something that I can't tell her I don't want to seem too eager, why must everything be so hard?

"Let me see." I said and pretended to think about it. "Why don't you tell me what you have done and maybe start after we broke up."

"That sounds good. So let me star from the beginning." She said and she began to tell me what she had been up to. She told me that she had gotten back to school just so that she could get her diploma. "Besides trying to get my diploma I had to work, I worked on this club." When she told me that I knew that she always had that inside of her, the felling of knowing what you want and I have never known what I wanted but I knew at this time that I wanted her back, so listening to her telling me what she had done was important for me just like it was yesterday for me telling her what had happened to me when she had left.

"Working in a club, going back to school, there is one big surprise there." I told her and she knew that I meant the school thing.

"Well I wanted to get in to college so that I can own my own club one day maybe more, and to go to college means that you need to go to high school and graduate." When she said that I began to laugh and she did to. I t took us a while to compose ourselves after that.

"Just so you know that isn't a laughing matter." She told me and I just nodded so that she could see that I agreed with her.

"There must be more that you did, not just working and school. I mean your parents lived in LA and then we have Jodie. That is someone that I don't want to forget about and how she acted when I met her, you know when we got your necklace."

"Well, my parents are my parents; they aren't anything like your dad. He seems pretty amazing."

"That is right he is but you know my, mother she isn't like him at all."

"That is something that I know. I mean she wasn't exactly nice to me when I went to look for you one time and you weren't home. That was after you had told her about us."

"What do you mean she never told me that." When I said that you could see that she didn't believe me, I had never heard of that. "When was that?"

"I'm not really sure, but there was something that she said during that conversation that really hit hard to me. I tried really hard to forget about that but I couldn't do that."

"What did she say?" I demanded to know more or less.

"She said something about this weeks' pool-boy and that your ex looked better in a wife beater."

"She did what?!" I said but it wasn't addressed to Alex it was more of a shock to me that my mother had told my girlfriend that.

"can we just forget about this right know I would actually prefer to talk about something else." She said and I couldn't agree with her more. I knew that there was something more than what she had told me.

"that sounds like a good idea, so you don't want to talk about your parents or my parents. So what about where you lived and maybe something else?"

"Well I kind of lived with Jodie when I got back to LA but only because I didn't have a better alternative at the moment." That was all she said I had to pull the answers that I wanted from her, it wasn't easy. I found out that it indeed had been Jodie that should have been the other girl but she couldn't go with at the moment she might come along later one. There were still one more thing that I wanted to talk about with her and that was our break up and if she had felt anything like I had, I know that she must have felt something. I still remember how she looked when we parted that night on the beach. It wasn't easy for so it couldn't have been easy for her either.

"Alex I know that we have been talking about almost everything that happened to us after that we broke up but I still feel like that there is something that we need to talk about and that is the break up. I know that it will be hard for me and I guess that it would be hard for you to."

"I guess that you are right about that but could we do that later I kind of want something to eat." She said and when she said it I felt my stomach growl, I myself was also hungry and then I looked at the watch on my cell and saw that almost five hours had past.

"What do you say about we getting home and order something in and talk about that at the house. So if we feel like we need to be alone we could just get in to different room."

"Marissa, have you gotten smarter." She joked we both knew that if I wanted I could have my moments. "But that sound great." And after that we began to walk back to my dads' house but there was still one more thing that I wanted to know, I kind of figured that she was single I mean if I was together with someone I wouldn't leave them for this trip. I wanted to know how her love life had been since we split as you know mine had been pretty much screwed up.

"Alex, there is one more thing that I wanted to ask you and I hope that you won't be to upset I kind if wants to know and you don't have to answer if you don't want to." I said and she just laughed.

"Rissa, why don't you just ask me I thought you knew that I would say something if I don't want to say anything."

"I know, but at the same time I don't want to offend you."

"Spit it out." I could tell that she was beginning to lose her patience.

"I was just wondering if you had been dating someone after we broke up. And I would totally understand if you did, you could just look on how that looked for me."

"Well I can tell you that when we talk about or break up or more like after that if you still want to know after that. Is that okay?"

"Sure, no problem." I said and just like that we were back at the house.