A/N: I just wrote this at 3:30 in the morning… I'm quite tired… Any feedback would be awesome.

Alex was fuming when she saw Dean flirting with some girl at the carnival. He even pulled out his phone! We were only broken up for 2 months! How could he?

"Um, miss?" A timid man interrupted her thoughts. "Can I just get one pretzel with mustard?"

Alex huffed as she filled his order. "Two fifty." She said in a very uninterested tone. "Thanks." She said dryly and took his money from the counter.

She is pretty though, I have to admit. Alex took a bite out of her free pretzel as she stared at the new girl. And I'm totally over Dean anyway. He just fixes cars all day with no interest in anything else. It's not like he'd be a great future boyfriend either. He didn't even make a good boy friend five months ago… He just sucks.

Alex quickly snapped out of her rant when she noticed the new girl wave at her. She grew bright red and waved back, pulling her visor in front of her eyes.

"Hey, Russo." Alex pulled her visor up to reveal Dean and his crew standing in front of her.

"Oh, hey Dean." She sighed, as she got her mind off her embarrassing moment. "How're you guys enjoying the carnival?"

"This place is awesome." He slurred. "I nearly hurled on the last roller coaster but I totally held that in." he said proudly. Alex glanced back over to the girl in the dart booth and rolled her eyes. "Yo, you know her?" he asked as he caught her looking over at Sonny.

"No. Never met her." Alex snapped quickly.

Dean gave Sonny thumbs up and she gave one back. "Sonny's madd cool." He stumbled. "You should talk to her for me. Tell her how studly I am." He kissed his biceps which nearly made her stomach flip in disgust.

"Alex!"

She turned around to see her boss. "Oh, hey, Ted." Alex bit her lip and watched Dean and his drunken crew stumble off.

"Pay attention to more customers and not your friends." He spat and stormed off.

Alex rolled her eyes and looked back at Sonny who watched the whole thing. Worst shift ever. She watched as Sonny picked up a giant poster board that had the prices written on the front and began to scribble on the back. Alex's spine straightened when she read what she wrote: You Ok? Alex gave her a tight lipped smile and nodded. Sonny gave her a sympathetic smile and turned her attention back to a customer who waved her down.

"Maybe I will talk to her."

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Sonny closed up the booth and jumped down from the counter. "Hey." Sonny turned around to see Alex with her uniform carelessly rolled up into a ball and hugged to her stomach.

"Hey." Sonny replied with an extra wide smile, exposing her bright white teeth. "Are you okay? I saw Ted pretty fuming."

Alex shook her head. "Oh, I'm fine." She laughed harder than she expected. "He just didn't like when my friends came by."

Her expression softened. "Oh, they were your friends?" she questioned. Her previous encounter with those boys weren't exactly pleasant.

"Sadly, yes-ish." She scratched the back of her head and a short silence followed afterwards.

Sonny shrugged. "Right, my name is Sonny." She held out her hand.

"I know." Alex admitted as she shook her hand, but quickly recovered. "I mean, I read it on your name tag." She lied.

Sonny laughed. "So, what's yours?"

" Alex."

Alex. Sonny bit her lip. "How long have you been working here?"

"About 3 days or so." She replied. "I totally hate this job. All I do is sell pretzels all day."

"That does blow." Sonny nodded. "Are you working tomorrow?" she asked with her eyes glistening.

"Yeah." She replied, fidgeting with her uniform. "So, I guess I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yeah!" She exclaimed more excited than she wanted to. "Definitely."

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Throughout the entire dinner, Alex couldn't stop smiling. "I know that look." Justin announced. Alex shot him a look. "Who did you meet?"

"You met a boy?" her father exploded. "Who?"

Alex looked up in disbelief. "I didn't meet anyone last night."

Her mother raised an eyebrow. "Come on, Alex. Who's the lucky guy?"

Alex jumped from her chair and tossed her dish into the sink. "I didn't meet anyone, so stop asking." She said before running up the stairs.

Alex locked herself in her room and flopped onto her bed. Why can't I stop thinking about tonight? Stupid Sonny. "Stupid Dean." She huffed before rolling over to attempt to fall asleep.

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Alex ran to her booth as she struggled to get her uniform on. "I'm here." She said breathlessly.

"And twelve minutes late." Ted tapped his foot. She hated when he did that. She also hated when he licked his lips and left white debris lingering at the sides of his mouth.

"It won't happen again. I just missed my train…" she trailed off, and her eyes met Sonny's. Sonny gave her a smile as she handed a group of adults a set of darts.

"It better not happen again, Alex. You already have 2 strikes against you."

"Don't worry, Sir." Alex cringed when the word Sir left her mouth. It wasn't like her at all to be a kiss ass but she really wanted those tickets. "It won't happen again."

He nodded. "It better not, or you're canned." He said before he stormed off.

Alex glanced over to see Sonny holding up the same sign as yesterday. A smile crept across her face and nodded. Despite being yelled at, she couldn't help but smile the entire night. She also watched Sonny work and exchanged glances from time to time, laughing about customers from a distance. Though they were inaudible to one another, they both understood what they were trying to say.

Suddenly, a large group of parents with their kids decided they all wanted a pretzel. Once she finished up serving the crowd, she looked up at Sonny who looked at her sympathetically. Alex began to mime tying a noose and hanging herself. Sonny laughed and earned strange looks from her oblivious customers. Her laughter died when she saw Dean and his crew stumble over to her booth, obviously intoxicated again. She quickly gave Alex a Please Help Me look before she put her fake smile on.

"Yo, Sonny." Dean attempted to say slyly. She did her best to keep her smile. "Awesome night, right?" him and his crew high-fived each other, obviously more intoxicated than she thought.

"I suppose. I'm stuck here all night." She turned her back to them and tried to find any excuse to work. She readjusted the prizes, blew up more balloons and ducked behind the counter out of their sights but still managed to speak to them.

"Why don't you come see me on your break?" Dean asked hopefully.

Still out of sight, she answered, "It's only a five hour shift. I don't get a break." She lied. She did get a fifteen minute break but she wasn't about to spend her golden time with Dean and Pals. She could think of a lot of better ways to spend it, but only one way crossed her mind.

"What about afterwards?" he slurred.

She poked her head out from beneath the counter, "I have a curfew." then ducked back down.

"Too bad, Sonny. What about you just come early to work and we could just chill together? Me and you," Sonny rolled her eyes, grateful that no one was able to see her being "rude". "We could get to know each other better."

"I'm very busy, Dean." She finally said as she poked her head out from the counter. "And if my boss sees you guys standing here without playing a game, he's going to yell at me and possibly fire me."

"Cool, cool." He said and backed off. "I'll catch ya tomorrow, Sonny." He gave her a drunken salute. "Come on, fellas."

A/N: Suggestions?