Hi guys! Sorry for the gap in updating again. We've been kind of busy. Thank you for wishing me a Happy Birthday for last week! =) I went to Wagamama with my family and friend, which was awesome. Who remembers the Hoe Down Throw Down? We were dancing to that. ;)

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Chapter 7

Justin stared at his watch. 10:45. She still had 15 minutes to get home. But he couldn't wait anymore; he had to tell Alex how he was feeling. This sudden insecurity was eating him alive. He groaned inwardly, partly of impatience, but partly to his own self. She stood up from the sofa and threw his head back, closing his eyes.

He walked around slowly as he truly thought about his situation. He… liked… Alex. His little sister Alex. Out of the werewolves and centaurs and elves he had once been crushing on in the past, this was by far the worst of them.

She's my sister, he kept on thinking to himself. He couldn't feel like this – I was wrong, even for a wizard, where on more than one occasion things wouldn't be considered acceptable, despite how they were perceived in the mortal world. She was wearing a pretty dress… And she looked pretty in it… So? It didn't mean he could just fall in love with her? Why did he feel like this, why? Justin yelled in confusion and anger as he paced around the living room. It was useless. He could stand there all night trying to shake the feeling off him, 'till tomorrow, 'till the day after; it would make no difference. He was falling for Alex. And he realised that he's just have to accept that.

So he had to tell her, right? Justin had to explain to his sister that he was falling in love with him… Despite how twisted and unnatural it would sound, and how she would be terrified and angry, and disown him from herself, and the rest of the Russo family, forever.

Unless she felt the same way, perhaps. Justin thought back to just before she had left to go on her date. Why had she seemed so strange after he'd told her about her curfew? Before that, in fact. When Alex had come down the stairs, when he had told her she looked nice, she'd… Stopped, like she was thinking. And why, throughout the whole of the evening, had Alex looked at him with a sort of sadness, hope… Love? Justin had picked up on his sister's quietness, and zoning out for quite a while, actually. But he had never really, cared, wondered, or even considered why. But maybe that was the reason. Maybe Alex liked him, but could obviously do nothing about it.

He suddenly stopped his constant pacing around the room, and ran a hand through his hair. He couldn't just keep bouncing thoughts and ideas around his head like this. Not on his own. She would still be at least ten minutes from home, but he just had to see her. He had to tell Alex how he felt… And ask if she felt the same way.

Justin walked over to the door and swung it open. He began to start walking, before hearing a gasp, and colliding with something in front of him. He stumbled backwards, as did whoever was in front of him. Justin stood upright, before realising that it was his sister who was standing before him.

"What are you doing?" he said, almost absent-mindedly, as he would say on the many other occasions where they would collide with each other.

"Sorry, sorry, Justin," she quickly replied, closing her eyes and looking to the ground. Alex was apologizing to him? Even, despite the evening's unusual happenings, Justin knew that his sister would never, ever, apologize to him. Or, at least not be the first of the two to do it.

"What where you doing outside the door like that?" he asked. Alex just looked up at him, before quietly sighing and moving her eyes back to the ground.

As he didn't know, Alex had left her date early to go home, but had just stood outside the door as soon as she'd arrived. She was dazed too, buy what had happened earlier in the evening, and couldn't face going inside the house to see Justin again. So she's just stood outside the door, for about ten minutes, in a complete daydream. Which was why she hadn't been quick enough to move from Justin's path.

Justin sighed, and too looked to the ground. He closed his eyes, thinking hard. He could leave it, he thought, and just forget about his feelings. He could forget about how he liked Alex, and thought she looked beautiful in her dress –as she still did-, and just discard the thought of falling in love with her. But what if she did feel the same way? Well… Wasn't it always him who would say "you never know unless you try"?

"Alex?" he asked quietly, to get her attention onto him.

"Yeah?" she whispered, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear before looking up. She saw Justin staring at her, his eyes tracking hers. He was about to ask something… Or furthermore, do something.

Justin gently put the palm of his hand against Alex's cheek. She felt her body grow hotter, as she loved the feeling of his soft hand against her skin. But her mind whirled with confusion. It couldn't be possible, could it? Justin… Liking her… Loving her… Back. Alex breathing became slightly heavier. Justin couldn't, wouldn't, feel this way, she kept repeating to herself, over and over again. But still, his hand was cupped gently around her cheek, and he was just staring intently down at her. Why would he do it, for any other reason, than for being in love with her?

Alex opened her mouth to speak, but her desired action was soon interrupted with something more powerful than the need to speak could ever be.

He kissed her. It was a soft kiss; slow and gentle, unlike any other boys Alex had kissed before. She brought her arms up and placed them round Justin's neck, closing her eyes. Her heart was beating up and down, as her body began to fill with pleasure and fear and something else. For a second, both of them were in bliss; a state that Alex had wanted to be in from a few months back, and Justin had only wanted from just a few hours earlier. And it was amazing. To both of their surprises, none of them pulled away, none of the screamed or yelled or shouted, or acted in one of the many ways a person would expect a brother and sister to act in the situation. But it was happening, and it was real; Alex's hopeful longing finally becoming a reality.

But a few seconds later, the two of them, in unison, pulled back.

"Justin," Alex started. He grabbed her hand and held it tightly in his own.

"Okay, Alex, I have absolutely know way to explain this, but I think I'm in love with you. No, I know I'm in love with you."

Alex pulled her hand back and brought both of them to her face. She felt a tear run down her cheek.

"Oh my God, Alex, I know, I'm sorry, I just… You kissed me back and I-"

Alex shook her head to show Justin the tears weren't for what he'd just said, before bringing her hands back down and looking into her brother's eyes again.

"No, Justin, it's just… I didn't think this would happen…" She sniffed, the wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. "Before, when I was leaving to go on my date with Chase, what where you thinking?"

"I was thinking about how beautiful you looked, and still look, in this purple dress," he said quickly, before blushing slightly. "Wait, Chase thinks you're pretty right?"

Alex heart beat a little faster as she realised that Justin was catching on to what she was about to say. It also meant that he knew Alex had liked him before this evening. "Yeah, and Juliet, she obviously likes you as well."

"And when I saw how beautiful you looked,"

"While I was" Alex blushed, "and am, liking you,"

"With Juliet and Chase both liking each of us,"

"The boundaries… They were broken."

Justin cast his mind back to his wizard studies a few months before. When, or rather, if, a wizard fell in love with an inner family member, the feeling could never be mutual. Only the first person to experience the feeling, in this case, Alex, would be able to like their other sibling. There were no two ways about it. And, the sibling, afraid of what may happen to them if they did, would never tell the other sibling about it. However, if the said in love sibling had someone liking them, in this case, Chase, and the other loved sibling had someone liking them, in this case, Juliet, then the 'boundaries could be broken'. The think wall of 'rule' was so weak at this point, that when Justin had even remotely thought Alex looked pretty, he was allowed to fall in love with her. And he did.

Justin leaned forward to kiss Alex again.

"But, Justin," she whispered, pushing his chest back. "This still isn't right. The boundaries… Still - It's not right for either of us. We're still… Brother and sister." The words almost sickened her as they went from her mouth.

Justin sighed. "I know," he said, before leaning in to kiss her again; this time slightly harder. "But what's right isn't always what makes you happy. Sometimes you just have to do what you know is wrong, just to experience the true feeling."

Alex smiled. It was weird, it was strange, it was unnatural, it wasn't normal to feel the way the two of them felt, but she knew her brother was right. They obviously felt something for each other, and there was no point, or way, of hiding it.

Kissing him again, Alex moved forward inside the house, allowing Justin close the door behind him. He pushed her back onto the light, wooden frame, and his hands moved down to circle around her waist. She knotted her fingers in the hair at the nape of Justin's hair, still enjoying the amazement and surrealism of thee kiss. Justin then pulled away, and Alex's cheeks were flushed as she looked up at him. He had just proved his point, alright. They just did 'what they knew was wrong, just to experience the true feeling'. The feeling of complete happiness.

"Alex," Justin whispered, his heart racing and his mind on a high. He too was in amazement about what was happening – what was just happening. How could something that was so wrong feel so right? He paused a long while, before finally saying what he'd wanted to say since eight o'clock that evening – although it felt like an eternity ago. He'd already said it, sort of, though what he'd said before was slightly different. What he'd said before was how he was feeling, what he was feeling. But this… This was just an out right fact.

"I love you."

Alex closed her eyes as she heard those three words, and little butterflies danced up and down inside her stomach. Those words, those three little words… They were words Alex had waited for, for what seemed like her whole life. Those words… They were her all, her body, her mind, her heart, her soul. There was only one other answer she could say back.

"Justin," she sighed. "I love you too."

Alex hugged him, wrapping her arms around his neck. As she pulled away, she raised her head, looking into his eyes. Despite his words a few moments before, Justin felt hesitant But he still shouldn't do this, should he? He now knew how Alex felt, how Alex loved him… But should he doing this?

"Alex…" he said as she leaned in, "Don't."

But still, she pulled his face down to hers and put her lips to his. He wrapped his arms around her waist again, deciding that all was fine, and smiled into the kiss. She brought her body closer to his, loving the feel of his lips on hers. She just wanted to stay in his arms forever.

However, the two were soon interrupted by a low, vibrating sound coming from Alex's purse. Justin pulled his arms away from Alex's body, and she bent down to her purse lying on the floor. She unzipped the bag, before realising it was her phone ringing.

Incoming Call: Unknown Number

Again.

Only this time, Alex had no doubt on who it would be. She'd forgotten to save his number to her contacts last time he's called, that was why he was still 'unknown'. Alex stood back upright, before pressing the call key to answer the call.

"Hi, Chase," she guessed.

"Hey, Alex," the correctly guessed person answered. "Um, I just wanted to make sure you got home okay."

Alex sighed inwardly, remembering about how she's quite hastily left her date with Chase. "Yeah, I did thanks."

"Oh good." Chase was silent for a moment, before asking, "And err… Are you okay? You seemed to have something on your mind when you left."

Alex's eyes trailed over to Justin's ones. He couldn't hear the conversation, but she was sure he could guess what was being said. She smiled, and he smiled back at her.

"Oh really?" she finally replied. "No no, I'm fine."

"Oh good."

"Um, Chase," she said, knowing that the conversation would go nowhere, even if she'd wanted it to. "I have to go."

"That's cool. See you later."

"Bye, Chase." Alex ended the call and tossed her phone onto the sofa. She ran a hand through her hair.

"Was that your date?" Justin asked quietly.

"Yeah. Chase."

"Chase?"

"Yeah, your friend." Justin raised an eyebrow slightly, before Alex remembered again about what had just happened between her and Justin. He was probably confused; why would she go on a date with Chase if she was in love with him? "It wasn't me," she quickly said. "Juliet kinda… Chose him for me."

"Oh." Justin realised that was who Juliet had talked to regarding Alex getting a boyfriend.

She'd chosen him.

Because he'd asked her to.

"Didn't you know?" Alex asked. Justin shook his head.

"Why would I?"

"Well, Juliet chose him, and I thought that she'd tell you because she's your…"

Alex eyes trailed to the ground. Despite sharing a kiss with Justin, and him telling her he loved her, she still couldn't face saying those words out loud. After a long pause, she whispered, "Because she's your girlfriend."

"Yeah, about that," Justin stared. But in truth, he had nothing really to say. What could he say?

However, despite neither of them speaking, the messages were as clear as daylight. They were both now fully aware of how they felt about each other.

They both loved each other.

So neither of them should have a girlfriend or boyfriend anymore, right?

However, despite this, Justin knew that the situation would be slightly harder than that. Him and Juliet had been pretty serious for a while; he couldn't break up with her. And who knew what she would do to him, or Alex, or any other members of his family once he'd broken her heart. Luckily, Alex understood all of this.

Anyway, words or no words - their eyes gazing at each other were enough to say it all.

Alex wasn't Justin's girlfriend.

And Justin wasn't Alex's boyfriend.

But he loved her.

And she loved him too.

So that was enough to make their… 'Relationship'… Work for now.

So finally… JALEX! =D Chapter 7… See isn't it better that we waited seven chapters before it all started? =) This was really hard to write though – it's not that long, but we worked really hard on it.

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By the way, my seventeen-year-old cousin is coming to stay with me for like a week tomorrow. We're gonna fight over the Mac, and, trust me… She'll win. -_- And I'm going away from Friday to Saturday. I'll try to update on Sunday. But after that, it'll be much less, 'cause school's starting on Monday. I don't even know how me and Georgia are gonna find time to write! =( So yeah, just wanted to give you guys the Jalex… finally!

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