I was pretty sure that I had posted this chapter but when I was looking through the story I saw that this chapter wasn't posted so here it is and I hope to have the next up in a week or so…
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Chapter 20 Trapped
"So Alex and Marissa, you two are going to be working together today too." Jimmy said, he had been informed by his younger daughter that Marissa and Alex should be working together as much as possible.
He smiled to himself when he remembered what Kaitlin had said to make him agree with this, if there was one quality that Kaitlin had gotten from his former wife it was the knowledge to get the own will through and talk him into agreeing even he knew it wasn't the right thing.
"Dad, why?" Marissa asked, of course she wanted to work with Alex but she didn't want to seem too eager and maybe this would be the chance for her to get Alex to talk to her.
"I was going to ask the same thing." Alex said. "You don't think it would be better if Marissa and I were on difference places on this ship."
"From what I have heard it worked great the last time you were at the same place." Jimmy said as he looked at the two younger women. "And therefore I think that we should try it again and see how it goes."
"Fine." Marissa huffed, she didn't like the idea that she was going to work with Alex if the blonde didn't want to work with her, and she knew that it would mean that it was going to be a long day.
"Could I please have a word with you when you have time?" Alex asked as she looked over at Jimmy.
"Sure." He answered and then looked over at Marissa, "You can go now and I will let Alex get you after I have talked to her."
"Okay." Marissa said and turned to Alex. "I'll see you later."
/
"What was it that you wanted to talk to me about?"
"I kind of wanted to tell you a little about the things that I have been through since the last time that I saw Marissa."
"Okay, you decide on what you feel comfortable about telling me and that is all that you have to say and nothing more." Jimmy said. "This is all about you."
"Thanks." Alex said. "So you know that I have some hospital bills to pay and don't try to tell me that you don't know about them."
"Fine, I know but only because my ex-wife told me." Jimmy said. "And she would have told me even if I told her that I didn't want to know."
"I understand that she is Julie Cooper- Nichol, is there any more last name that should be added to that." Alex asked and Jimmy could just laugh at the girl, she did have a nice sense of humor.
"I don't think so." Jimmy said. "But from what I have understood there could have been Roberts added to that."
"Summers' last name?"
"Yeah, Marissa told me that there was something going on between Summer's dad an Julie but that is over now and have been for a while." Jimmy said. "And now there is someone else there, Bullit or something like that."
"Nice, she knows how to pick them." Alex said with a small laugh at the end. "Sorry about that."
"Nothing to be sorry about and you are right." Jimmy said. "But there was something that you wanted to tell me."
"Yeah, the debt that I have is because my mother got ill." Alex said. "Like really sick."
"If you don't mind me asking, how is she doing?"
"She is in regression." Alex said thinking about her mother and wished that she was there with her.
"What kind was it?"
"I don't want to talk about that at the moment." Alex said, she felt how the tears were starting to build themselves up in her eyes.
"I understand." Jimmy said. "Cancer is never something easy to deal with, I'm here if you want to talk some more about it."
"Thanks." Alex said. "But just so you there is more than that to this whole thing, that was kind what started this whole mess, and I mean mess."
The two of them sat quite for a while before, Alex started to leave but before she left she turned around and looked at Jimmy. "Thanks for listening to me and I think that I will tell you more some other time, it was kind of nice to talk someone about all of this."
"No problem, this why I'm here." Jimmy said, "Well one of the reason at least."
/
"Sorry about that." Alex said as she walked with Marissa to where they were going.
"You don't have anything to apologize for." Marissa said as she looked over the blonde next to her.
"I should have told you about some of the stuff that I told your dad about."
"I'm not someone to judge you, and you don't have to tell me something that you don't want to tell me." Marissa said and sighed, of course she wanted to know what was going on with her friend and not being told what was going on hurt but she did now understand how Alex must have felt back then.
"We all make mistakes in some way or another." Alex said. "And we grow from them and learn from them that is the most important thing."
"We are here."
"Great, so shall we both get the stuff or just one of us?" Alex asked and looked over at Marissa.
"It will go faster if we both get the stuff." Marissa said and unlocked the door, to the closet like space.
The two of them went inside of the small room and started to get the things that they needed together, and before they knew it the door behind them closed in some strange way.
"No, no, no." Marissa could hear Alex say to herself as she saw that the door was closed.
"It's not a problem Alex." Marissa said as she looked at her friend, that just stood there paralyzed. "You just have to open the door, it's not like it's locked and even if it was I have the keys here with me."
"Don't you think that I have already tried to open the door?" Alex said. "It's locked and it doesn't matter that you have the keys."
"But if we have the keys, then we can just unlock it." Marissa said, not understanding why Alex was acting this way.
"You can't unlock the door from the inside, you can only lock it from the outside and the same goes for unlocking it." Alex said looking pretty pissed as she looked over at Marissa.
"Don't blame me." Marissa said. "Someone must have closed the door by mistake, and as you said before everyone makes mistakes."
"Whatever." Alex huffed. "I don't have my phone with me do you have yours?"
"I have." Marissa said and took her phone from her pocket. "But there is no reception down here."
"Just my luck." Alex said, and sat down on the floor, it was the only thing that she could do.
"So why don't you tell me a little about what happened in LA?" Marissa asked.
"Okay." Alex said, not really wanting to tell Marissa about all of the things that had happened in LA. "So what do you want to know?"
"Maybe if you were dating someone during the time that we weren't talking?" Marissa said looking at Alex, she herself had told the blonde girl about her love-life or lack of it or at least the stable part that was lacking.
"I was seeing this girl for a while but that ended when she went back to her ex." Alex said looking at Marissa. "Kind of the story of my life, the ones that I'm dating is always hung up on their ex."
"Don't be such a pessimist, you will find someone." Marissa said with a small smile, hoping that she would get Alex on a better mind.
"It's okay and then I kind of had this one nightstand." Alex said. "And at first it was the worst thing that had ever happened to me but then I realized that it wasn't that bad"
"Okay now I want to know more." Marissa said, hoping to be able to pry some more out of the blonde but it wasn't that easy, Alex kept her mouth closed and didn't say much more about that.
"And as you know I finished school and lived with my parents and then my mother got sick so that took part of my energy too." Alex said, not going into more about that.
"So, that is the reason that you asked Jodie to help out with the paying of bills and checking up on things." Marissa said. "And why you wanted Seth to pay you back and why you are selling you part of the Baitshop."
"Part of it." Alex said. "I kind of want to start over from the beginning when I get back home so therefore I'm trying to tie up all lose ends that I kind think of."
"And Newport was one of them." Marissa said. "So does that mean that you and Jodie are…?"
"Please." Alex said. "You saw how she was acting when we got my stuff back. I would never touch that with a ten foot pole."
"But you still have her help you with your mother." Marissa said, still not understanding the whole thing that was going on with Alex and Jodie.
"She is kind of my best friend and she knows me better than anyone else and I do trust her with my family."
"Okay."
The two of them continued to talk a little about different things and what their dreams where and Marissa was finally starting to understand what it was that was the foundation to this Alex Kelly and she kind of liked this version of the blonde more than the girl that she first had fallen for.
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"Have anyone seen Alex and Marissa?" Jimmy asked a few of the crew members that he ran into as he was looking for them, he hadn't seen neither of them and the things that they were supposed to do wasn't done and this wasn't like them at all.
"No, not for a while." One of the men said, "I saw that they were walking together to get something from the closet on one of the lower floor and Kaitlin was with them at the time or at least tried to get to them."
"I'll see if I can find her." Jimmy said. "She will probably know what is going on with them.
/
Alex was sitting on the floor; it was now real silent in the room, neither Marissa nor Alex had anything more to say to the other one at the moment. Sure Marissa had a lot of questions but she knew that she shouldn't be asking them just yet, it was better to wait and see if Alex would tell her instead.
The silent was creeping Alex out, it had been a long time since she had this feeling but she knew the feeling. This was far from good.
"We need to get out from her now." Alex said and stood up, and started to move towards the door. The blonde started to hit and kick the on the door and yell, she did everything that she could think of to make some kind of sound so that they would be let out from the small room.
"Alex, you need to calm down." Marissa said as she moved towards the blonde. "This is not helping."
"I need to do something." Alex said more to herself, she could feel how she had a harder time to breathe then she had had before, this was going to be the start of a panic attack for her.
"Alex, just listen to me." Marissa said, she had never seen the blonde girl act like this, it was scaring her, she had seen Summer getting her rage black outs, but this was nothing like that, this was a real fear and Marissa had no idea on how she would act around it or what to say to help the blonde.
"What." Alex snapped and turned around to the brunette that was standing behind her.
"I was just trying to help." Marissa said a bit defeated, this was not what she had thought would happen when she was trying to help the girl.
"Sorry." Alex managed to say as the panic attack was slowly passing by, and as she thought that it was finally under control, her mind started to drift off to what was going on in the room and it started back up again.
There was just one thing that Marissa could think of doing to keep Alex calm or maybe it was more for herself to keep calm in this situation to help Alex, there was a lot of things that she could tell herself to justify what she was about to do.
"Alex, you have to listen to me." Marissa said again but this time she didn't get a response from the blonde. That was the cue that she had been waiting for. She grabbed Alex by the shoulders and forced the blonde to look at her. Slowly Marissa mover her hands from Alex's' shoulders up to the other girls' cheeks so that she was cupping them, the brunette leaned in closer to the blonde and she could feel the erratic breathing that came from the blonde on her own lips, this was the moment that she had been waiting for since she had seen Alex again when they were in Hawaii. Marissa knew that she should close the gap that was between them but at the same time she didn't want to push it.
She looked up at Alex one more time to see if she would see something that said that she shouldn't be doing this, but there was nothing there, to the brunette that meant that she could do this. Marissa closed the small gap that was between her own lips and Alex's' lips, and there it was the kiss.
Alex was just standing there in the closet, not really knowing what was going on but when she felt Marissa's lips on her own she started to relax, that wasn't something that she had thought would happen, she mover her arms so the she was holding the taller girl closer to her by the waist, this were a place that she now felt safe.
So this was the 20:th chapter and I hope that you have enjoyed it and as I said in the beginning of this chapter I hope to have the next one up in a week or maybe even sooner, inspiration might strike like lightning after posting this chapter that I what I am hoping for at least.