CHAPTER DOS
"Nick!"
Before Alex knows, a girl jumps on Nick's back almost tackling him to the ground. "Hey babe," Nick greets when he can finally see the girl who thinks it's funny to jump on people first thing in the morning.
"Hey, Nicole," Alex smiles.
Nicole gets off Nick's back and wraps Alex into a bear hug.
"Hey Lexy," she says picking her up swinging her side to side, "I missed you, you little nugget."
"Nicki, I keep telling you not to carry me, makes me feel small…" Alex pouts and Nicole sets her down patting her head. She used to ruffle her hair but after the ketchup incident, she knew better than to mess with Alex's hair. Especially if it's for a special occasion.
"But you're just so cute and your cheeks and-"
"Um hello hi. Nick, your boyfriend here. Therefore, you should be saying that to me." He interrupts pointing both of his thumbs towards him.
"Shut up Nicholas. We all know I'm the cutest one. That's why Nicole here likes me more. Hah." She sticks her tongue out at him before smirking.
"Psh. Yeah well she loves me because she has told me, and that she doesn't really like you. She just loves pretending."
He whispers the last part to Alex so that she can only hear. Nicole hears him though and she rolls her eyes knowing where this is going.
"Is that why she's pretending to like you?"
"Enough! Both of you oh my god. If it's not you two being all close, it's you guys bickering. There's no winning with you two. And I don't really feel like dealing with Nick's whining after he loses yet again in their childish fights."
Nick opened his mouth to protest but Nicole quickly covered it with her hand. "Uh uh, you know it's true. Don't embarrass yourself, babe."
He crossed his arms shutting up. It was true, though. He would always complains to Nicole how if he would've said something differently, he would've won the argument.
"Yeah Nickipoo. Don't embarrass yourself." Alex adds smirking.
Nicole points at Alex. "No don't you start. I love you both but both of you stop." She states, ignoring Alex's "hah" when she confirmed that she loved both.
"K fine. I'm gonna go catch up with Miles and let you two be lovey dovey or whatever." Alex states, turning away walking the other way
"Hey, wait Alex before you go," Alex groaned and turned back to Nick, "Remember not to flirt with any guys, they're all idiots."
"So are you Nick. You need to relax and quit worrying about. Bye." She waves goodbye at both of them before quickly walking away to meet up with her best friend.
As soon as she leaves, Nicole turns to her boyfriend sighing, "Nick, you really need to relax. She's 16 not six. Stop being so overprotective."
Nick looks at her, suppressing the urge to go check up on Alex wanting to know she's safe. "But it comes with the price of being an older brother. I have to protect her from any jerk that tries to come near her," he runs his hand through his hair, "I just don't want her to get to get heart broken by these douches that she flirts with." He finishes, turning slightly red from getting worked up.
Understanding, Nicole wraps her arms around his waist and looks up at him. "And you do a great job at that, just relax a little bit more, honey."
Nick smiles and leans down to give her a peck on her lips. "I love you. Now let's go back before Alex gets in trouble." He starts, dragging her down the hall.
"And before we're late."
"Yeah that too"
...
"Hey there you are. For a minute I thought you were hiding from me."
"Of course not, Lexy. Where's Nick?" Miley asks after both girls share a hug
"Probably sucking on Nicole's face. Why?" She asks. Miles has always been curious as to what Nick has been doing lately. Kinda bothered her but not enough to confront her about it.
"Uh…no reason," Miley answers a little uncomfortable, "Let's just head to class before we're late." She grabs Alex's hand leading them down the hall to their first class before the bell rung.
They barely made it to the classroom and Alex and Miley took a seat next to each other. Alex felt someone staring at her so, being the curious one, she glanced behind her and noticed Taylor, big buff guy Taylor, staring at her. When he saw her looking back at him, he smiled doing that
...
"Hey there you are. For a minute I thought you were hiding from me."
"Of course not, Lexy. Where's Nick?" Miley asks after both girls share a hug
"Probably sucking on Nicole's face. Why?" She asks. Miles has always been curious as to what Nick has been doing lately. Kinda bothered her but not enough to confront her about it.
"Uh…no reason," Miley answers a little uncomfortable, "Let's just head to class before we're late." She grabs Alex's hand leading them down the hall to their first class before the bell rung.
They barely made it to the classroom and Alex and Miley took a seat next to each other. Alex felt someone staring at her so, being the curious one, she glanced behind her and noticed Taylor, big buff guy Taylor, staring at her. When he saw her looking back at him, he smiled doing that guyish sup nod. She found it really weird and actually hated that gesture but she didn't want for it to show, so she just smiled back at him. Taylor was one of the guys she liked to flirt with and one of the guys Nick warns her about but really, that just made her want to be around him more. He was pretty hot. Big muscles, spiky short hair, always wore muscle shirts which Alex thought was pretty weird and just plain cocky but he had this charming smile that any girl would fawn over. She doesn't really like like him, she just likes to have fun and out of all the guys that she has flirted with, he was, by far, the most decent. And also she just wanted to tick Nick off sometimes.
She turns back around to see Miley giving her a look with that know it all smirk of hers. She just knew her friend was gonna call her out on her little "eye fuck" as Miley would call it.
"So, how did you enjoy you're little not so subtle eye fucking you had there huh? Huuuh?" Aaaand there it was. Rolling her eyes, Alex replied a little too high for her taste, "I was not eye fucking him," but she knew that Miley will take her high voice as denial.
"Oh come on, you have liked him ever since you came to this school." She encounters with what she has always answered when she asks Alex that question about Taylor because she knows she'll give her the same answer. She regrets what she had done though, which was telling Miley she was "experimenting" with her sexuality since like a couple months ago, and she hasn't once stopped trying to set Alex up. Boy or girl.
Just wanting to get it over with, Alex sighs and tells her friend something along the lines that she wants so she would at least leave her alone as soon as she gets an answer that will make her happy enough to quit bothering Alex about it.
"Okaay, so maybe I have a teeny tiny crush on him? Is that what you want to hear? Anyway I doubt he even wants a relationship right now. You know him, a lone wolf."
Miley shrugs, "Hey. You never know what goes on in his head."
Not wanting to continue this conversation, she quickly adds, "Just focus on the teacher, Miles,"
...
At lunch time, Miley sits in their usual seat and Nick quickly follows. She looks up and smiles when she sees him. He looked especially good today. Maybe it was the vest he was wearing that made him look fancy, and his slightly curly almost wavy hair slicked back with the perfect amount of gel. Or maybe it was that small yet very adorable smile that he has towards everyone, especially towards Nicole. Nicole. The girl who has Nick's heart. She quickly shook her head before she got too into that.
"Hey Nick! Where's everyone else?"
"Well Nicole is doing her cheerleading thing, and well Alex is just always late," Nick chuckles, sitting down in front of Miley. She smiles and leans on her hand smiling at him, " Yeah well, you know Alex. I mean of course you know Alex because you know, sister and you know her but not at my level because I'm her best friend and I love her,and-" she stops her rambling when she saw Nick staring at her, "Um I-I mean…I missed you during summer."
Nick smiles, "Me too. We need to hang out like old times."
Miley smiles at that, happy that Nick missed her too. She had a feeling that Nick maybe likes her and she has been wanting to tell him about how she feels but something has always stopped her. It was like fate didn't want it to happen.
"Hey babe," Nicole, oh so happy walks over to their table. She leans down and gives Nick a quick kiss, which was of course, interrupted.
"Oh don't mind me, I just enjoy people kissing in front of me."
Nicole looks up and smiles, "Oh sorry, Miley," she apologizes, laughing. "It feels like I haven't seen you in forever. It's so good to see you again."
She leans over to Miley's side and they share a hug. Miley didn't hate Nicole, she was really nice, and hated to admit it, really good for Nick. She hoped they were just stupid, meaningless feelings that would go away through time. After all, he was her best friend's brother.
...
Alex was stuffing her books in her locker not really knowing what other books to bring to the next class. This would be so much easier if I didn't use my schedule for that stupid paper airplane. Ugh, where'e Miley when I need her? She needed to find her before the bell rung.
She was still rummaging through her locker when she felt a tap on her shoulder.
"Hey Alex" she jumped of course, not expecting to be touched.
"Oh god," she turned around with her hand on her chest, "Taylor hi. Funny seeing you here" She didn't have time for this… "I'm actually kinda busy right now. I need to-"
"This will only take a second, I promise." Not now…
"Yeah okay, what's up?"
"Okay so uh…you know how we have like, a thing-"
"I'm gonna cut you right there. We do not have a thing"
He looked alarmed, like she just completely threw off his game and didn't know what to say next. "Oh right, sorry. Actually, I was wondering… if you want to be a, you know, thing.."
Alex scoffed, "Okay, if you're gonna ask me out on a date, you have to do better than that."
Taylor cleared his throat, fixed his posture and grabbed Alex's hands, "Alex Russo, would you please do me the honor and go on a date with me?"
Alex tried to hide her laugh at how extremely cliché this was so it came out as a giggle. Taylor must've taken this as a good sign because he got his smirk back on his face. She thought about this, Taylor was the person she was most attracted to. Must be the lack of good looking people in this school, but either way, Taylor was the hottest. So, she decided to give him a shot.
"Yeah sure, when?"
Maybe it was him trying to hide his goofy smile that was threatening to show or how his eyes completely lit up when she said yes that made Alex think that maybe he could be worth a shot.
"Great! I'll pick you up Friday night for our date," he smiled, " See you tomorrow." He went in for a hug and Alex accepted it. He was fun in a way, though. It's not like she wasn't completely unattracted to the guy.
He turned to leave and Alex felt her phone vibrate and answered it. She should've known who would've been calling her and she did, she just didn't expect the loud squeal that came through the phone.
"Omygod tell me you said yes!" Miley's voice was way too loud that caused Alex to tear the phone away from her ear.
"What the fuck Miles?! You spying on me or something?" She heard what sounded like a couple of giggles. Both very familiar. "Hey who are you with?" Alex asked.
"Oh just Nicole and Nick. No! Don't change the subject! DID. YOU. SAY. YES."
Alex groaned and sighed. She knew her friend wouldn't leave her alone until she told her. "Yeas, I said yes. There." And cue the squeal. She had saved her ear again from exploding by mere seconds that time. "Miles please, I need my ears!" She heard her friend shush her and went on talking.
"Forget about your ears! YOURE GOING ON A DATE WITH TAYLOR SEXY AS HELL LAUTNER-"
"WHAT?!" Shit.
"Miley! Why did you-in front of Nick?"
...
"Allyson hey! How are you doing this fine morning?" Joe happily greeted her as he sat down in front of her at their lunch table. Allyson slowly looked up at Joe weirdly as he sat down.
"How much sugar did Kevin put in your cereal this time?" she asked slowly while staring him down.
"None! That I know of that is. Anyway, the date with Demi last night was awesome." He replied with the same cheery tone in his voice. Ah so that's why. She shook her head looking at him.
"It couldn't have been that great, come on Joe."
He smiled dreamily before replying, "Oh but it was. You should've been there. She was so beautiful."
"Well if I was there, I would've technically been spying on your date." She chuckled looking down.
"You know what I mean. But the date was what I dreamed it would be."
Allyson snorted. "You have dreamed of what your date with Demi would've been?" What did she except anyway. Joe was always the giddy type.
"What-no. I didn't m-mean it like-"
"Chill, Joe. It's weird, but calm down," she looked down at her food playing with it with her fork, " so uh, does this mean she's your girlfriend now?"
"Yup. She is indeed. I know it might be kinda awkward since we're all friends and-"
"Nope. Not awkward at all. Uh look, here comes your girlfriend."
Demi walk over to their table and Joe stands up to greet her. Allyson stays seated still looking down at her plate.
"Hey Demi," he smiles at her carefully taking her plate from her and placing it next to his which was across from Allyson's.
"Hey Joe," she replies before being kissed by him before she even sat down. Allyson looks up at that moment wondering if they were ever going to sit down, just in time to watch their lip lock. She turned away not wanting it to affect her.
Joe and Demi finally sit down beside each other and Demi greets Allyson which Allyson replied with a forced smile and looked back down at her food. Demi furrowed her eyebrows wondering what's bothering her best friend but before she can even get into that, Joe decides to speak up.
"I had fun last night Dems. By the way, you look beautiful babe." Demi looks away from Allyson and kindly smiles at Joe. She wouldn't call what she's wearing beautiful. It's just her usual t shirt and jeans, her everyday stuff, but despite what she thought, she took Joe's compliment.
"Thanks, Joe. You look great too," she answers and Joe smiles leaning in for another kiss.
Suddenly, Allyson stands up from her seat stopping Joe and interrupting their whole lovey fest. "Um yeah. That's enough cuteness I can handle," she has been watching this whole time and just couldn't take it anymore, she needed to leave, "see you guys later," and with that, she left, plate still filled with food.
Demi's theory was confirmed when Allyson walked away slouching and throwing her plate of food away. She never does that. She always says full plate, full of emotions which means you're not really hungry because of what you're feeling at that moment. "What's wrong with her?"
Joe shrugged not really paying attention to what Allyson just did, " I have no idea, but let's get going. I don't want to be late for class," he grabs Demi's hand stopping and making her face him. " Hey hold on, do you want to hang out after school? Maybe catch a movie or something."
"I would love that, but only if I pick the movie."
Joe laughs taking Demi's hand with his, "Okay fine, but no chick flicks."
Demi smiles, "Okay fine. Now I don't want to get detention. See you after school. Bye." She hugs Joe before walking away. Joe watches her turn down the hall and then he turns to go his class. Allyson spots him and runs over to him.
"Hey Joe! Wait up… you really like Demi don't you?"
"Well of course I do. She's just the greatest thing ever, and hard not to like. Why?"
"Um no reason. Come on let's get to class."
A/N: Hiiiii soo.. the demena is coming in a few more chapters. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing with the characters, I think I have it worked out, I dunno. I'm really liking Joe right now cuz he's somehow the easiest i dunno why. ok so das it baiii