Here it is then Chapter 2 updated and revised. enjoy

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Chapter 2 - I just want to talk to you...

The sun hadn't even risen yet and Alex's eyes flickered open for the hundredth time that night - she had had a restless night. She slowly dragged her feet across the bed and onto the floor. Her body ached from lack of sleep as she reached over for her slippers. She slipped them onto her feet and stood up slowly. Her body creaked as she stretched and yawned.

Alex wasn't normally an early riser. As she was awake and wanted to avoid seeing her little brother, Alex decided to get up and shower and have breakfast before everyone else. Then she could hide in her bedroom until she had to leave for school.

She cautiously padded across the room to the door and slowly turned the handle opening the door, hoping she didn't wake anyone up as it opened. She crept down the hall on her tiptoes, she passed Justin and her parents bedrooms with no problems.

She peered down the hall towards the bathroom and her eyes caught sight of Max's bedroom door. It was covered in posters, photos and stickers and had three large green letters attached to it spelling out "MAX". She crept closer, being extra careful as Max was known to be a light sleeper.

Just as Alex passed the door and was reaching for the bathroom door, Alex heard footsteps and the door behind her creaking open. Alex turned round and looked at Max. She hadn't bothered to turn the hallway light on and the light from Max's room was now flooding into the hallway.

Max stood in the doorway the light from behind him framed his body, Alex was just able to make out his features. His hair was tousled and was sticking out at strange angles; he was wearing odd socks, a old t-shirt that was too small, and a pair of thinning grey boxers that were also too small. Even Alex couldn't deny that he looked good.

Max blinked stupidly "Alex?" he croaked. "What are you doing?"

"Couldn't sleep," Alex replied nervously adding "Thought I'd have a shower!" Alex started to inch closer to the bathroom door hoping Max wouldn't notice. Alex had gotten up earlier to avoid this happening, she was embarrassed about what had happened.

Max stepped out into the hall and asked, "I was wondering if we could talk?" his voice was starting to return to normal.

Alex quickly muttered "Yes" and rushed into the bathroom throwing the door closed behind her. Alex fell back against the door holding her head in her hands - she could feel the embarrassment returning and this time it was joined by shame and they were rushing through her body. Alex decided at that point that she would try and avoid Max for the rest of the day but it didn't last long.

Justin had left for school early and so Alex had to walk with Max. He kept trying to talk to her but Alex stayed silent. At lunchtime, Alex and Harper ended up sitting at a table opposite Max and his friends. The entire time they sat in the lunch-room both of them kept sending glances at their sibling making eye contact only a few times in the short time they sat there.

Alex sat in the lunchroom eating tasteless food, she couldn't help but notice that Max, her brother, was very cute! Max had always been what you would call cute, but Alex wasn't thinking of Max as that type of cute. Alex was thinking of Max as cute the same way she thought of Dean or one of the Jonas Brothers as cute. That's when she realised why she had felt shame that morning. It wasn't because she had been exposed to her brother - it was the shame because she was attracted to her younger brother.

As Alex walked home that night her mind was once again on Max, but that was mostly because he was following her about ten steps behind her making a very poor attempt at spying on her. Alex legs were beginning to hurt and Alex took a seat on of the benches in central Alex sat down she saw Max out of the corner of her eye ducking behind a nearby tree, still spying on her.

Alex rested on the bench for about five minutes before deciding that she was going to have some fun with Max. Quickly Alex thought up a make-em-up and uttered it under it under her breath so he couldn't hear, "A tree is what Max is under, So drop a branch and cast him a sunder!" As soon as Alex finished the spell a light appeared above Max and the sound of a branch breaking could be heard and was seen dropping on Max's head.

Alex walked over and stood over her dazed brother. "What do you want Max?" she asked.

Max sat up and held the back of his head "The number of that Bus," he replied stupidly, his head still spinning, "and I want to talk to you!"

Alex looked him over and stretched out her hand to help him up "C'mon Maxi, lets go home!" Alex said as he got to his feet.

"But Alex I really need to talk to you," he asked pleadingly.

Alex thought about what to say, "Tonight, Maxi, tonight," she said adding "remember to knock this time though!" Max nodded and they both smiled at each other, giggled and they walked home in silence knowing that what need to be said would be said later that night.

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this was was in the original posting and i felt i should leave it in.

Ok now I would like to address an email I got for this story (don't worry people this isn't like the one I received for the JAlex story) .The email in question first said that the reader enjoyed the story but wanted to know why I was doing a Alex/Max story. so I thought I'd let all the readers know. ok so here it is

1 - As I have already said I have had writers block on my jAlex story. I was writing an original piece of fiction, but what I need to be writing was fan fiction and so this helped me get back into the FF writing mode and broke my writers block

2 - Almost all stories involving Max as one of the main focus's are one-shots, where Max/Random person pairing where they have sex, and then that's it.

3 - I wanted to write a Max story, and this idea popped into my head so I wrote it

4 - I'm sick to the back teeth of NAlex!!!! Now I'm not having a go at people who enjoy NAlex or those that write it. I'm just sick of logging on to FF(dot)net and there's suddenly another twenty NAlex fics and (IMHO) all the other stories and pairing are becoming marginalised

ok those are my reasons hope you all enjoyed this chapter and hope to see you again in the next chapter. again please review (will be really grateful)