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Disclaimer – I do not own Wizards of Waverly Place. If I did, Alex would have stayed as that rebellious tomboy she was in the first season.

Chapter 2

When Alex got home, she saw a note stuck to the refrigerator door. It read:

'Justin and Alex, your Aunt Julia urgently needs your Dad and I at her house. To save you guys trouble, Max is coming with us. We'll be back on Sunday night. Until then stay safe… And try to leave the house in one piece.
Mom xx'

Alex mused on the thought of having no parents, but it didn't even really matter. Yes, there would be no one telling her what to do and when to do it, 24/7. But she never did what she was told; she was Alex Russo – the ultimate rebel. Just now, she could be one without having to listen to her parents' reprimands every five minutes.

She walked out of the kitchen and sat down, flicking through the channels trying to find something half decent on TV. About twenty minutes later, Justin arrived home.
"Hey, Alex."
"Hi."
"Where's Mom and Dad?" he asked. "They got a meeting or something?"
"No." She gestured to the refrigerator. "They had to go to Aunt Julia's with Max; they'll be back on Sunday."
"Oh, alright." Justin said. He thought for a second, before glanced at Alex.

"No parties," he said with a serious look.

Alex pretended to think, then sighed. "I'm not going to have a party because I don't want to have a party," she said, making it clear that she had decided this on her own, not because Justin had just told her not to. Besides, she wouldn't have anyone to invite, aside from Harper. And that wouldn't be a party that would be having a friend round. Then Justin would invite his girlfriend Juliet and… Alex didn't even want to dwell on the thought of Justin with her.

Justin squinted at his wristwatch, then sighed, running his hand through his hair. He'd promised to pick up his girlfriend, Juliet, up half an hour after school. He'd already wasted ten minutes at school trying to sneakily leave his Alien Language League, and the traffic near his house wasted another five. It would be another twenty minutes before he'd arrived at his girlfriend's house. "I have to go," he said to his sister. "I have a date with Juliet so-"
Alex felt a pang when she thought about him and Juliet. "And?" she said sharply. "What makes you think that I should care?"

Justin stared at her sister and she gave him a look. "Just to let you know… And I'll be back by about eleven. Don't wait up."
"Oh, I won't."

Justin went to the hook on the back of the door, and swapped his usual, navy jumper to a casual, black jacket.
Alex faked a cough.
He turned around, to see his sister judging his outfit.
"What?" he exclaimed.
"Nothing," Alex said slyly; a smile creeping up on her face.
"Do I look okay?" Judging by the look on his sister's face, an Alex-like witty remark was on its way.
"You look the same as you always do, let's put it that way."

Wittiness. Check.

"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I'm kidding, kidding!" Alex chuckled. "You look fine."
"Good." Justin replied, rolling his eyes. He grabbed his car keys from the table, then headed to the door.
"Ish."
He turned round and smirked at her. Typical Alex. "Idiot," he laughed opening the door. He said goodbye to Alex, and closed the door behind him, leaving Alex smiling at her success.
At least she'd be on his mind for a while. Somewhere, waltzing around his brain, reminding him of how horrible he looked in that jacket. Well actually, Alex thought he looked great in it. But she couldn't have said that. It would have come out as a romantic flirt, rather than friendly sibling comment.

But, how Alex wished that she could be going out the door with him.

Alex quickly went down to the lair. She slowly pulled a mirror out of an old chest in the corner, and recited a spell.

"Oculus spyveria," she whispered, as the mirror started to glimmer slightly. Good. The spell had worked; she could spy on Justin and Juliet.

But invading his private life? If she knew Justin had spied on her when she was out, Alex would have been angry, as well as utterly mortified. But hey, it was the other way round; Alex was spying on Justin. Girls were supposed to get jealous if they knew the boy they liked was hanging out with someone else, right? She had to see what they'd be up to. Call it disrespectful, call it unfair… She just called it 'looking.'

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And yeah, Juliet's gonna be in here a little bit. But don't worry; it isn't a Justin x Juliet story! We just needed a character to portray Justin's current girlfriend.

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