Thanks for all the adds, people. The volume was surprising. How about dropping a couple of lines now to let me know how you feel?

WPFAE - I'm.... eager to see how your view of Alex changes throughout the story. If it changes at all, that is...

CHAPTER 4

"So, her first night back and you two end up having sex?"

"Pretty much." Marissa lays on the bed next to her sister.

"Does that mean you're getting back together?"

"No. Well, I don't know. Maybe somewhere down the line... eventually. I just think we should take our time and focus on being friends first and get old issues out of the way."

"Well, I've always liked Alex. It'd be cool if you did get back together."

"Wait, Kaitlin," She turns to the younger girl. "You actually remember Alex?"

Kaitlin rolls her eyes.

"You are aware that I'm only like, three years younger than you, right?"

"I do, yeah, but it's been years and you two didn't hang with each other. Not really anyway."

"I still remember her."

"She hurt me, you know."

"Yeah." The younger girl nods. "Saw you go through the whole thing. I remember you yelling at me too..."

This time Marissa rolls her eyes. "Really, you're gonna bring that up? Again."

"Hey, you unnecessarily hurt my feelings."

"And to make up for it I got you and your friends a V.I.P. night at Liquid Motions."

"After I begged you for like, a year to do it."

"Which makes it even bigger. Mom never wanted you to go there and she would have killed us had she found out."

"Pfft. She would have killed you. I'm the baby, I don't get punished."

"You are so spoiled."

Kaitlin gives a shrug of concession.

The two lay in a comfortable silence before Marissa suddenly sits up.

"Hey, how did we go from my problems with Alex to you?"

"I'm special." The younger girl states with a matter-of-fact tone. "Does anyone else know she's back?"

"No way. If Summer or Seth knew they'd tell me ASAP."

"But you didn't tell them and a day later you still haven't." She points out.

"It's... complicated." Although she wanted to, Marissa couldn't explain it.

"Well, you guys better start figuring it out."

"It'll all come eventually. Hey, until then you want to go out for lunch?"

"S'long as you're paying."

"Sure."

As they're walking out Kaitlin stops and grabs Marissa's arm. The huge smile on her face couldn't be removed.

"I can't wait until Ryan finds out. He is going to shit a brick and a half!"

Marissa sighs and shakes her head.

"There's no telling what they'll do to each other."