Happy Friday! Can you believe that it's been two weeks and we're already on chapter five? Ha. If I had stuck to my original plan of one update a week, we'd only be on Chapter three! Holy crap, guys. You just make me want to write and stuff,
I'd like to give credit to my best fandom friend, Kota (idontlookihunt) for her constant support and spit-balling ideas with me over Skype. She's currently brainstorming ideas for a new story because she's lost all ideas for her stories, I'll post her ideas at the end of the chapter and if you're interested in reading one of them, leave a review.
But, I have a question for you lovely readers, who should find out about our lovely secret couple first? I'm thinking Beckett or Espo. What do you guys think?
Anyway, on with the story!
Alexis walked into the loft at about 7:30. She had dropped Ryan off in front of the building so he could see Kate and her Dad yet again, and then she waited a bit to go up to make things not seem suspicious just yet. Ryan didn't understand why he didn't just get dropped off down the street and walked over, but Alexis wasn't changing her mind at what she was going to do.
She took her jacket off and hung it by the door, tossing her keys on the counter before walking into the front room.
"Hello, Alexis. I thought you got off at four?" her dad said when she walked in.
"I did, but I got a bite to eat with a friend after week." she told them with a shrug. "I'm gonna go up to my room. Plan for tomorrow." she walked over and gave her dad a kiss on the cheek before brushing her hair behind her ear.
"You don't want to hang out with your cool dad anymore? You'd rather work. Where did this come from, I'm sure it wasn't me, and there is no way in hell that it was from your mother."
Alexis chuckled before standing up straight. "You have company, Dad. I'm not going to impose on your fun. I'll call Jessica or Faye. Natalie even wanted to "facebook chat". Why it has to be done over facebook I don't know, she's crazy."
"Alright. But tomorrow we are having a movie night, so come home after you get done at work."
"It's a date." Alexis smiled. "Love you, Dad." she turned and walked around the couch and up the stairs until she was out of sight.
Fifteen minutes later she lay on her bed on, her laptop open to facebook. She scrolled through her news feed, nothing interesting happened that day. She scrolled past a picture posted by Faye of Abigale. Alexis smiled and clicked the comment button typing "Abi is super adorable. She also is super nice to the other kids in class.".
She opened her profile, deciding if she should update it. She hadn't personally changed it in a long time. She picked her phone up from by her side typing in a message to Ryan.
to Kevin: "should I change my facebook relationship status...?"
From Kevin: "do you /want/ to change it?"
to Kevin: "i don't even know. yes, kinda."
From Kevin: "then change it."
to Kevin: "Should I?"
From Kevin: "I just told you to, so do it. Now Becks is giving me weird looks, so I'm going to stop checking my phone and talk to these people."
to Kevin: "Alright, I'll call you before work tomorrow?"
From Kevin: "If you'd like to. But now I really have to stop checking my phone. Beckett scares me."
Alexis chuckled and did as she was told, changing her relationship status from "it's complicated" to "in a relationship." and standing up, leaving her computer open. She walked over in front of her mirror and brushed her hair out of her face.
Walking over to her closet she pulled a pair of white sweats and a red tanktop out of her dresser, changing into something more comfortable. She walked back over to her bed, closing her computer and setting it on the bedside table before pulling out a notebook and pen from the top drawer.
9/26
i don't think i have written in this "journal" since before i started dating Ashley, but i haven't had the courage to throw it away. I always mean to start writing in it again because i know that i will love to read back on my life before i settled down and have a family when i do actually have a family. i can see myself sitting by the fire on the night before christmas with my kids reading about what I used to be like. The strange thing is, I never used to see a face to my husband, but now i do. I haven't even been dating him long but he's one of the only guys that I've dated that I can actually see potential with. And I haven't even dated that many guys. Ashley was really my first really serious boyfriend, and then we broke up, and I didn't have another boyfriend until the winter semester in college with Jaden, who was just a mess. I mean, yeah he was a great guy, but nothing like Ashley. I always seemed to compare every guy I went on a single date with to him until Junior year in college, and then I started coming back to the loft regularly.
When I invited him to help me a few weeks ago, i never imagined that i would actually feel something more then friendship for him, but it's just crazy how things work, I guess. I can't believe he sees anything in me, either. I'm just a buzz kill as Anabeth, Faye, and Nat called me my last day in the apartment with them. But then that first date with him that was wonderful in all the ways someone could want.. and then tonight. I'm just amazed and totally falling head over heels. Last time I did this, things didn't end well, but before I start to hide from him and let myself be scared to let these feelings get too deep, I'm going to think about what if I have finally found him. My "one and done" as Kate would say? I'm not even making sense anymore, and I'm really just writing to myself so it doesn't even matter. I'm just confusing myself. The only thing I need to think about with him, is there a possibility that I could love him? And I think there is, otherwise I wouldn't be able to picture a future with him. Oh god, I'm turning into a typical teenage girl. Next thing I know I'll be doodling his name on my papers at work.
Alexis stood up from her bed, putting her notebook back in her drawer, grabbing her phone and walking out of her room. She brushed her hands through her hair, pushing her bangs to the side of her face as she walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. She grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge and took a long drink out of it.
"Hey, Alexis! You decide to come join us?" she heard Esposito ask from across the room.
Alexis shrugged, twisting the cap back on her bottle of water. "I guess so. I finished everything I needed to do."
"You just missed your cool dad." Castle said when she reached the back of the couch.
"I was just upstairs. It's not like I went to Mexico." Alexis replied with a chuckle. "Anything interesting going on here?"
"The guys are trying to figure out who Ryan went out with a few weeks ago." Kate told her.
"Ooh, I'd like to know. Let me guess, he was a handsome hot dog seller?" she guessed jokingly.
"I bet that's right!" Castle spoke enthusiastically.
"No, I'm pretty sure that she doesn't sell hot dogs. She actually has a much better job then that." Ryan said with a sigh.
"Do tell us what she does." Alexis said walking over and on the floor by the couch.
"No, because then everyone would know who she is, and we wouldn't want that."
"Is she an imaginary date?" Castle guessed again.
"Why would she be imaginary?" Alexis asked her dad.
"Well, he doesn't want to tell us anything. Not even her job." Castle shrugged and Alexis looked across the room at Detective Ryan.
"How about this, he gives us one thing he likes about her and we leave him alone for the night." Kate suggested.
"And then we get back to this tomorrow." Esposito told them with a slight nod.
"I'd actually like to hear this." Alexis said leaning back against her Dad's legs and taking a drink from her water.
"Hm. Well, she does have the most beautiful blue eyes I think that I have ever seen." Ryan said with a shrug.
"Ever prettier then mine?" Castle joked, and Alexis chocked on her water.
So not my best chapter, really just a filler. But it's fun, right? Anyway.. Kota's story ideas..
Castle and Beckett's first family vacation together.
A story that starts with the Caskett wedding, and then through their first year of marriage.
Caskett's adventures as a SECRET couple.
and lastly, the Caskett family story.
Any of those something any of you think would be an awesome story?