So sorry that we couldn't update yesterday… Day before first day back at school is always so busy. Enjoy this chapter! (:

Disclaimer – I do not own Wizards of Waverly Place. If I did, Rosie and Justin would have stayed together. (I like Jalex, but Josie was actually cute.)

Chapter 8

The next day at school was awkward. In fact, awkward was a complete understatement. Being around each other, being in the same buildings, same classes, and not being able to act in their new, loving state around each other, or even talk about it to each other without being in fear of being heard, was hell for the two of them.

Their class just before lunch, double Science for two hours, had to have been the worst out of the three classes Alex had shared with him that day.

The whole class was in pairs, standing over counter tops, dissecting parts of a frog. Alex had been with Harper, and Justin with his friend Zeke. Usually, he would have paired with Juliet, but she had to be removed from the class a few months earlier due to… Personal issues she faced when there was blood around. Secretly, at the time, only Alex had been happy that Justin's girlfriend wouldn't be around him as much. But now Justin too was grateful, knowing how his and Alex's current situation was, and how he could try to spend as little time with Juliet as possible.

As much as Alex had tried to resist, she couldn't help keep looking back to the table behind her, being occupied by Justin and Zeke. Not even because of how attractive she thought he was, or because she wanted to kiss him, or anything like that. She just needed to be with him, alone, and just let the current situation sink into them properly. However, that was impossible, the school and almost a thousand pupils stood in front of her.

Harper had to keep tapping her and reminding her to focus on the work they were doing. "I only got six marks lower than Justin in last semester's SATS you know," she had explained to her.

But she hadn't gotten it – Alex wasn't staring at Justin because she doubted Harper's skills, and wanted to look to Justin and Zeke for help. Even, aside from everything, it was just cutting a frog and putting chemicals and whatever on it; Alex had done it many times as a five year old. But no, she didn't want Justin's knowledge. She just wanted Justin. Although, on the bright side, she'd thought, at least technically, she already did have him.

The day had been just as hard for Justin. Second to last period, he had had art with Alex. Unlike Alex, he didn't actually particularly like art, he'd just taken it for extra credit. A few weeks ago, the previous day, in fact, all had been fine. It was a pain to be in the same class as his sister, but at least that pain was because of their constant arguing. Now, it was because of having to fight the urge to go over to her, sweep her off her feet and place his lips on hers.

For the whole hour, Justin had watched Alex draw, and paint, express herself through various pieces of her artwork. He had just wanted to tell her how beautiful her artwork, and she, was. And the art teacher's stupid rule of 'no moving from your area' was just another cause to the cause of the discomfort. And Justin could have sworn that he saw Alex take out a notebook and work on a private drawing in it as well… He just needed to go to her, to just be with her. But he guesses he'd have to wait until they were back home, over two hours later.

At the end of the day, as Alex was by her locker getting ready to finally go home, ran over to her. She sighed inwardly as she realised she wouldn't be laving school as hastily as she's wanted.

"Alex, Alex, Alex!" Juliet squealed.

"Hi, Juliet," she smiled. Yep, she'd have to waste a few minutes. However, she did feel a lot more comfortable now talking to Juliet now. She was no longer in her annoyed, jealous state around her, now that she and Justin had developed. Even though Juliet was still her brother's girlfriend, he wasn't in love with her anymore.

"How was your date with Chase?" she said, saying the boy's name in a high pitched sing-song tone.

"Um…" To be honest, that whole Chase situation had disappeared from her mind after the events after the date. But, obviously not from Juliet's – although she was the one who had organized it all. "It was okay, I guess."

"Just 'okay'? Did you guys do anything?"

"Well, we watched a movie."

"No, I mean after that." Juliet raised her eyebrow. "At his house perhaps..? In his bedroom..?"

Alex finally realised what Juliet was suggesting. "No!" she exclaimed, her cheeks turning bright red. Alex would never do anything like that on a first date with a boy. Unlike her, she thought, remembering Juliet's vampire personality. "I didn't even go to Chase's house after the movie. We went to a bar, but I had to leave."

"Why?" Juliet whined, disappointed that Alex had disrupted her perfect matchmaking plan. However, her eyes then looked pass Alex's shoulder, to Justin standing by his locker. She swung her purse over her shoulder. "Did you tell Justin who you were out with?"

Alex hesitated for a moment. "No."

"Great, he'll be happy to finally find out! See you later, Alex."

"Umm… bye?" Alex didn't even have a chance to respond to Juliet, before she flipped her hair and began to walk past her.

She was too far away to actually hear the two of them speaking, but she could guess that Juliet was explaining about Chase from the proud look on her face and the fake surprised expression on Justin's.

Great, she though, sighing as she turned to face her locker and put the remainder of her books inside. She knew how hard the day must have been for Justin, as it had been for her. The last thing Justin needed was the story of his new lover's 'crush' being told to him by his old lover.

She slammed her locker door shut, before turning to face the 'couple' once more. And as soon as she had, she wished she hadn't, and felt a fire of fury slowly build up inside her.

They were kissing. A wild, rough, passionate kiss. Juliet was gripping Justin's shoulders, pulling him closer to her as she became caged between him and the locker she was leant against.

Alex almost yelled as she felt stomach tingle even more, watching the two of them enviously. She didn't even have an explanation for herself as to why she was feeling this way. She had been jealous the last time she'd seen Justin and Juliet kissing, but that was because she had wanted Justin for herself. But they were together now, sort of, so why did she feel the need to be jealous? He didn't love Juliet anymore; her loved her.

But still, seeing the two of them like that together, punctured her heart like a needle to a new born baby's delicate, soft skin.

Alex felt tears well up in her eyes, as she locked eyes with her brother. Even in mid kiss with Juliet, he managed to speak to her without even opening his mouth. He was sorry; she could see it in his dark brown eyes. And she knew what Juliet was like. She knew how she was, being her vampire self, and how she would get Justin to constantly be with her and kiss her and act like she was the only girl in the world. She knew that. So why did she still feel like she'd just taken a bullet?

Alex was still staring at her brother, until she suddenly saw his eyes darken and his pupils become dilated. It unnerved her slightly. Justin immediately returned his full attention to Juliet, as she pulled him even closer to her on the locker.

Why was Alex still standing there? Why didn't she just walk away? So, what – did Justin suddenly not care about her anymore? They were talking… They were communicating through each other's eyes, but then all of a sudden Justin had just left her.

Juliet pulled away, before gently wrapping her arms around Justin's neck. Alex could have sworn she saw what looked like blood from Justin's mouth on her shiny white teeth. Blood… Why would there be-?

But before Alex had even had a chance to think about what she had just seen, Juliet pointed to a clock at the other end of the hallway, before grabbing Justin's hand and pulling him to the second building for the school.

Alex was alone, standing there, in the middle of the hallway, as she watched Justin and Juliet skip through the wide double door. And Justin… Didn't even give a second glance behind him.

So that's how it was? Justin didn't even care about her anymore? Alex finally let the tears spill from her eyes and roll down her cheeks. It had only been a day, in fact, about twenty hours, but the feeling Alex had felt Justin give towards her were so intense. So certain. So real. But, obviously not. He'd just made out with his 'supposed to not be' girlfriend, and went to a different classroom with her, with Alex obviously completely out of mind.

She swung her bag over he shoulder, trying not to let out her moans of sadness, as she quickly made her way to the exit of the school. But just as she'd got to the front door, who other than her supposed crush would show up behind her.

"Hi, Alex," Chase said, stopping behind her.

She quickly wiped her eyes, and hoped that her voice wouldn't come out as wobbly and broken as she'd suspect to. She stayed faced away from him. "Hi – Hi, Chase."

"Are you okay, Alex?" Great. Her voice obviously gave away the hurt she was feeling inside. Chase walked forwards, and turned Alex to face him. She studied her face for a moment. It was now red, and her mascara had run slightly. "Have you been crying? Alex, what's wrong?"

Alex sighed and took a shaky breath. Finally, she let her tears run again and gripped onto Chase's shirt. "Everything!"

Chase's eyes widened in concern, as he put his arms around her and brought her into a hug. She sobbed into his shirt; not even worrying about how she was suspecting her was feeling after being randomly made into a personal shoulder to cry on. Literally.

After a few minutes, Alex slowly began to stop crying, and her sobs turned from sorrowful moans to soft sniffing. She closed her eyes as she heard Chase try to help her calm down, to breathe in and out, and as she did so smelt the light scent of cologne on his body so close to hers.

Of course, she couldn't explain anything to Chase. She couldn't tell him about what was going on – the situation or why she was upset. But as least he cared. At least he recognized that she was upset, and didn't just leave her, like some people.

Suddenly, thinking of Justin again sent an electric charge through her body. The way he was kissing Juliet, then left her to go with her . It still hurt, but now she felt more of a stronger sense of sorrow. She just wanted to get back.

Suddenly, she pulled away from Chase's shirt, and without even giving him a chance to speak, pressed her lips onto his. It was just an impulse; she wasn't thinking - she just felt so angry towards Justin. He wasn't there right now, but somehow, kissing Chase, was Alex's way to get back.

Chase was surprised, but carried the kiss on, pulling Alex closer to him as he deepened the kiss. He really liked Alex, but had doubts on the mutual feelings, but this obviously showed that his assumptions were all wrong.

After about a minute or so, Alex cast his mind back to Justin again. No, his kiss with her wasn't like this. His was soft and slow, while this one was rough and hard. It reminded her of the way Juliet had kissed Justin. No. She didn't want to be like her. She didn't want to be like the demanding, promiscuous slut she knew she was.

She pulled away.

For a moment, Chase just stared at her, with a confused, but completely turned on, by the sudden kiss he'd shared with Alex, look on his face.

"Alex, let's go on a date again," he said quickly, before smiling and wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

Chase came to the realisation of the stupid thing he'd just done. The stupid, stupid thing she'd just done. She's just kissed Chase, for no reason, out of the blue, because she was feeling hurt about Justin, and now he thought she liked him back. She groaned inwardly. In fact, kissing Chase, what did that actually gain her? Justin wasn't there. He hadn't seen her have a quick make-out session with the boy she knew he'd be jealous of. Juliet wasn't there. She hadn't seen her kiss the boy with such force and impulse, as she always seemed to do with Justin. It was just Alex. Alex and Chase. And now, because of her hurt impulse, she'd thrown herself into even more of what she hadn't even wanted in the first place.

She had no choice. Even, despite what she'd gone through less than half an hour before, she's be devastated if someone she liked had unexpectedly kissed her but then turned her down for a date. She had to agree.

"Sure," Alex whispered, trailing her eyes to the ground. "Yeah, we can go on another date."

"Great." Chase was silent for a minute, obviously in thought. Then he smiled, a smile that lit up his totally turned on eyes. "But let's not actually goanywhere." He began trailing his fingers down Alex's arm. She stood still, painfully aware that it was there. "Come to my house tonight."

Alex felt a cold shock run through her veins. This is all because of a stupid feeling, she thought, all because of a feeling. She looked up at Chase, seeing the lust in his eyes, and reluctantly agreed to the date.

Chase then put one arm round Alex's waist, before leaning in and kissing her lips again. She felt him gently bite her bottom lip. "There'll be more of that." He then moved back from Alex, and slowly strolled out of the school building with a grin on his face.

Alex groaned, and then threw her head back in despair. She'd kissed Chase because she was jealous of Juliet and Justin, and wanted to feel better, but now she was going to Chase's house to do… What exactly? 'There'll be more of that' – What could that even mean?
She sighed deeply, before running her hand through her.

Little Miss Matchmaker's gonna be pleased, she thought, before sighing, then walking through the school door.

See? Chalex. Told you I'd throw some in; don't get mad. ;) It's so much more interesting though! Hopefully…

Wrote half of this at lunch, and the rest after I'd finished Athletics practice. We really didn't have time but wanted to put a chapter up.

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