YAY!!! The third chapter! I know the updates have been few and far between but I promise that they should be more frequent now (I hope!).

The movie was dull and completely unrealistic. At one point Alex was tempted to burst out laughing at the portrayal of "M" Bond's boss. She reminded him horribly of Mrs. Jones. Alicia sat right next to him the entire time; he was horribly tempted to put his arm around her when she was shaking with fright at the supposed villain.

"Hey Alex, wait up!" Alicia called as they were walking out of the cinema. Her voice sounded breathless and her face had a slight flush to it.

"Yeah?"

"Oh, um, when do you want me to come over? To you know, help you with homework…" the flush in her face deepened and she sounded embarrassed.

"Tomorrow would be fine," Alex was scratching his head as he said it.

Alicia smiled that white smile of hers, causing Alex to blush, "Ok," she said before rushing off to the left to what Alex could only assume was the direction of her house.

The walk home was cold and boring. Nothing remotely exciting happened. In fact, he only passed one person, a man in a boring business suit, who was obviously coming home from work late. The man shot him an extra glance; it must have looked odd for a teenager to be walking home alone. Alex didn't give him a second thought though; he didn't have time, for he reached his house within five minutes.

"How was the movie?" Jack asked barely before he had finished closing the door.

Alex walked over toward her and grabbed a chip from the bag in her hand, "Fine, I'm tired though, I think I'll got to bed now."

"Night," she returned to intently watching the reality show on television.

Alex climbed the stairs slowly and opened the door to his room. Collapsing fully clothed, onto the bed he soon drifted off into a restless sleep.

The sun streaming through his open window woke him in the morning. He bolted up. 'What time is it?' he thought.

A short glance at the clock to the table beside his bed answered that. His mind wandered to Alicia. When was she coming? Alex knew that they had agreed on that day, but when?

Figuring he wouldn't know until she arrived, he decided he might as well be dressed. He quickly showered and dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and headed downstairs right as the doorbell rang.

"Um, is Alex there?" he could hear Alicia's uncertain voice from the landing.

"Yeah, but who might you be?" he suddenly realized that he had forgotten to tell Jack that Alicia was coming.

"Sorry Jack," Alex walked into the foyer, "She's Alicia, she'll be helping me with the mound of homework I accumulated while I was sick…" he finished rather lamely.

Obviously oblivious to the lie Alex had just spit out; Alicia came in- a large Algebra textbook under her arm.

"I figured we might as well start with Algebra, you've missed a good deal of that." Glancing around seemingly looking for his school things she looked confused (Alex couldn't help but notice that she looked very cute when she was confused), "Where are your books?"

"Oh, I'll go get them, they're upstairs," he explained. As he walked up the stairs he turned around and pointed to Jack, "This is Jack by the way, my guardian."

Grabbing a pile of work he headed back downstairs only to find Jack scouring the house for her keys.

"Where on earth could they have gotten to?"

"Are you going somewhere?" Alex inquired cluelessly.

"Yeah, I have to run to get some groceries," there was a knowing look on her face that he couldn't quite ignore.
"Oh well, I'll just have to use my spare key," Jack headed out the door.

Alicia called after her, "Bye, it was very nice meeting you," a wide genuine smile crossed her lips.

"We probably should get started," Alex was watching Alicia closely as she said this.

"Yeah, I have a ton of work to get done in a very short period of time."

For the next hour and a half they worked intently on Algebra. After a while Alex got the point where he was so tired of it, that he couldn't add two and two.

With a sigh Alex looked up from his notebook "I need a break!"

Alicia didn't seem to hear him right away, but finally she looked up from the page she was scanning in his physics book, "That sounds good!"

"How about some popcorn and a movie, a plot less comedy sounds awful appealing right now."

Alicia giggled, "Sure!"

As Alex microwaved the popcorn Alicia continued to read the page in Alex's book intently.

Alex set a bowl on her lap, "Oh," she looked up finally, "Thanks." He picked up the remote and turned on the TV. Half hour passed in this manner, the room was full of laugher. The movie they were watching was so plotless and dumb, that it was hilarious.

Alex suddenly realized that Alicia was a lot closer then she had been at the beginning of the movie, either he had moved or she had moved, and he was almost positive that he had been stationary.

He shot what must have been his sixth glance in her direction that minute, she looked so pretty when she laughed he mused. His cheeks grew hot with this thought, but still he scooted closer. As they laughed he turned to look at her and cupped her pale cheek in his hand. Alicia turned to look at him and he kissed her. It was so random, and yet so perfect. Alex was a normal teenager for once, kissing a normal teenage girl.

Their fun wouldn't last though, Alex could hear the front door opening and closing and he quickly moved away from Alicia. At first she looked slightly hurt, wondering why he had suddenly broken the kiss, but she eventually realized that Jack was home.

"Hi guys! Did you get much work done?" there was a smug, knowing look on her face as she said this.

"Yeah, I actually need to be going, my mother will be wondering where I am." Alicia stood up, her face still beet red. "Bye Alex," she waved to him as she walked out the door.

Alex avoided Jack's gaze as he gathered up his school books. He glanced at the page Alicia had been so keen on in his physics textbook. It was all about planes and aviation. With a pang in his stomach he thought of his parents, and how they had died in a plane crash.

Walking down the bright London streets Alicia's phone rang. "Hello," she answered in a crisp, brisk voice that was nothing like her sweet, honeyed manner of earlier.

"We have found your mother's will," the voice on the other end sounded timid, almost frightened.

"And?" she asked impatiently, she had no time for incompetent idiots like this.

There was a sigh from the man on the other end, "She left you everything," he paused and with what seemed like gritted teeth spoke again, "Just as you had thought."

A smug, greedy smile crossed Alicia's face. Although, her sugary smile she had given Alex made her appear radiant; this look just mangled her normally beautiful features beyond normal recognition.

The man on the other line began to speak but Alicia cut him off briskly, "We shall discuss it when I arrive," and snapped her black razor phone shut with a smile, the day was going exactly as she had hoped it would.

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