New chapter! Anyone hearing about that Hurricane Irene that's suppose to hit near the cape? Ha yeah, wish me luck. I'll be typing in the basement with my dog... oh shoot where's she going to go to the bathroom? Nasty... But you guys don't need to be hearing about that... Well, this chapter I don't think has the most Jalex parts in it, but the next couple of chapters are only going to be Jalex... and Archie for some parts, but he'll be cut out soon haha. Wow, that sounds mean. Anyway, here's the next chapter!
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Chapter 4: What Did You Do?
Alex's POV
I told Justin to go distract Mom and Dad as I took the wand and the spell book back to the hotel room. Hopefully this plan would work. I re-read the spell over and over in my head, making sure that I didn't miss one word. Justin and I really needed this, and it was all up to me to make sure that it went perfectly.
I started saying the spell out loud, but jumped when I heard Mom's voice strike through the air. "Alex." She said in a stern tone.
"Mom, what are you doing here?" I asked, trying to hide the wand and the book behind my back, but it was useless.
"The minute Justin tried to magically glue me to my chair, I knew something was up." She said crossing her arms. Wow, way to go Justin. "You will just not stop will you?"
"Well what am I suppose to do!" I yelled at her. "I can't even go out with Ju- Javier..." I trailed off. Woah that was a close one. "I can't go to the...party tonight. You won't let me do anything! I am 16. You can't keep telling me, what to do." I told her angrily. She still thought I was doing this about the party.
"Oh yeah?" She challenged, her arms tightening. "Watch me. For the rest of this trip you will be pleasant-" I cut her off.
"You can't make me."
"And when we get home you are grounded. For 2 months. That's right. No dating, no parties, no magic." Yeah okay, that dating part is not going to be happening, but no magic? For two months!
"Mom that's not fair!"
"Now not another word! I've had it. Now put that stuff away!" She said, uncrossing her arms and turning around. This was not happening. She couldn't keep controlling my life. She knew that she wanted to control it just to ruin everything that I wanted in life. Including Justin. I should be able to date whoever I want without having to hide it from everyone. I clenched my fists around the book and wand.
She slammed the door closed as I growled. "Ugh! I hate you! I WISH YOU AND DAD HAD NEVER EVEN MET!" I screamed out in frustration. All of a sudden it was like the whole world was changed as the wand went off... alright what just happened? I stared at the wand, then through it on the bed as though it was burning me. "Mom!" I called, running out the door.
I walked into her room, to see her on the phone. I cleared my throat and she turned around. "Is everything okay?" I asked. She turned around off the bed.
"Yes, you startled me. I didn't think you'd get here so quickly." She sighed, putting her hand on her chest. "Now, will you get rid of this guys luggage? They accidentally put it in my room. You're a little young to be working here, am I right? But I bet you know where all the hot spots are, am I right?" She winked. My face fell. She thought I worked here? "I'll definitely be calling you."
"Oh, and if you see the uh, maid can you tell her that I need more towels." She said as a statement. My mouth opened in shock. What had I done? I quickly took off out of the room, slamming into the wall with the luggage until I dropped it on the floor. I needed to find Justin before something else happened. I ran back to where we were eating but didn't see him there.
"Justin!" I called, turning my head frantically to find him. "Justin!" All of a sudden he was calling my name, wrapping his arm around my waste and pulling me back to where he was standing.
"Alex, what happened?" He asked, releasing me. Maybe nothing did happen and Mom was just playing a trick on me... but that doesn't explain the whole wand part.
"Nothing... why does something seem wrong, where's Dad?" I questioned in an attempt to see what was different. Had he disappeared too?
"I don't know," he said, looking away from me for a moment. "He left and then Mom left and then no one came back. "Did you do the spell?" He asked... alright, how was I going to lie about this to him?
"I did... a spell," I tried, smiling sweetly at him. He frowned. He grabbed onto my arm spinning me around to where Dad was walking towards us. But he wasn't looking at us. Uh oh...
"Hey, I think I'm gonna skip out on all the family stuff, and uh, just focus on the wizard ruins. Cool?" Justin asked. Oh, this was not going to turn up good. I ducked my head and tried to walk away, but I couldn't leave Justin's side.
Dad looked confused at first but then somewhat smiled and said, "Sounds... good dude. You know, like I always say, do what you gotta do. Bring it and," he made an exploding noise as he fist bumped Justin in those weird handshakes guys share. Then he walked away.
Justin slowly turned towards me, his eyebrows furrowed... I smiled a halfway small smile and looked any where else but Justin. He brought my head up to meet his eyes. "Alex, what did you do?"
"I didn't do anything..." I told him. He moved in closer, his face a few inches from mine, then he stopped. I didn't know what else to say except to tell him the truth. "Okay, I kind of wished that Mom and Dad had never met..."
"Alex!" He shouted, pulling away. He ran his hands through his hair, pulling at the ends of it. Nice job Alex, he probably hates you now. I felt the tears coming to my eyes as I looked at him. He froze, and rushed over, pulling me into his embrace and tucking my head under the crook of his neck. He whispered he loved me and that he wasn't mad. Yeah right, I thought as the first tear came down. I wiped it away quickly, and saw Max approaching. Justin let go and he got serious then.
"Hey, thanks for ditching me at the restaurant guys," He said angrily. Justin shook his head, and started walking towards our room.
"We need the spell book. There has to be a reverse spell of some sort to make time go back at least a little bit. But then again, its thewand... ah this will probably never work." Justin said, running his hand over his face.
"Woah wait, what happened?" Max said as soon as we got in the room. Justin turned to me.
"Alex, would you like to tell our little brother what you did?" I started to speak, but he cut me off. "She got into a huge argument with Mom and Dad, and made a wish using the wand that they had never met! It's exactly like it was 20 years ago. They don't know each other and they don't know us." He stated firmly, staring at me. I looked down. This really was all my fault... Well I was just trying to do something nice... but failed at that. I messed up, just like I always do.
"So we don't have any parents anymore? Wait, I'm confused... is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Asked Max.
"Kid's got a point." I said, pointing at him. There was no one to tell us what to do, we could just be free.
"This is a very, very bad thing," Justin said, pulling at his hair. "And that is why I never do bad things, because then more bad things happen."
"So then your saying that this is somewhat your fault?" I said, looking up at him. His eyes burned into mine. He didn't say anything at that, but looked around the bed.
"Where's the spell book? And the wand?" he asked hurriedly, throwing the covers off the bed. "Alex, where did you put them?"
"I put them right there," I said pointing to the spot I through them. "before the whole world went," I made a weird noise, "so they should be right there."
Justin sighed, and looked at Max and I. "There's only one place that I would think they both are."
He grabbed onto my hand and we started running to where we saw Dad. He was sitting on a beach chair talking to a couple of women. Ugh, pig. But there in his back pocket was the book. "How are we going to get that?" I asked in an annoyed tone. Max hit me on my shoulder.
"Okay, you guys are making this way to complicated. Alright look, there's Mom." He said, leaving the group and running up to her shouting "Mom!" She looked confused. "What? Don't you recognize me?" She moved her sunglasses to get a better view.
"Oh, should I?" Max had a hurt expression on his face, but then he hid it with a smile.
"Yeah. Yeah you should, it's me, Max." He started naming all the nicknames he had. She looked around, then back at him. "Or is that just a whole bunch of words to you?"
She took her sunglasses off her head and put them back to her eyes. "Gosh, if I knew there was going to be so many kids here, I would have never booked this place." She said, then waked off. Max stopped, her asking her one last time if she recognized him at all.
I turned to Justin who was watching Max and Mom with sad eyes. He turned to face me. "I didn't mean to..." I trailed off. He just nodded and put his hand on my shoulder, looking back to where Max was. Mom started walking off again, but Max ran and wrapped his arms around her, almost tackling her to the ground.
"Max!" Justin shouted, then we both ran off after them. But I was stopped when Javier came up right in front of me. I really didn't look at him. "Look, Javier, today's not a good day for me to go to a party tonight..."
"No worries. Maybe some other time right?" He smiled, but then was called over by a group of girls. Which half of them were staring at, Justin? My hands turned into fists, but then Justin called me name. I ran over and started apologizing to Mom.
"Uh, sorry, he has abandonment issues," Justin said, pulling him off. Mom then turned, yelling "Security!" Max turned to me quickly, his eyes shooting daggers at me. Wow, if looks could kill. He walked up to me, his hand squeezing my arm. A little to tightly. I winced and tried shaking him off, but he didn't let go.
"Ow. Max, you're hurting me, let go!" I shouted at him. Justin yelled at him to knock it of, but his grip tightened.
"Alex, what did you DO? Mom doesn't even remember us! Dad probably doesn't either!" He freaked out. "And its your fault." Justin grabbed onto him and ripped him off of my arm, pushing him back until he fell onto the ground.
"Don't touch her, Max." He glared at him. "It isn't her fault. She did a spell and it turned out wrong. We will fix it. So calm down."
I looked down at my arm. Yeah, that was going to leave a bruise. I could barely move it. I poked it and it felt like it was on fire. I cried out quietly, but Justin seemed to hear. It looked like Max snapped out of whatever state of mind he was in.
"Alex? Oh man, I'm sorry, I didn't know what-"
"Max. Leave her alone. Go get her an icepack or something." Justin said, walking away from him and towards me. Max looked at me again, then with his head down, he started to run to get an icepack.
Justin didn't say anything as he gently lifted up my arm. He moved his hand over it slightly, and I breathed out a hissing noise. He pulled back his hand and put my arm back down. "It doesn't look broken or sprained. It might just hurt for a couple of days. I nodded my head, looking down.
"He was right," I muttered under my breath. Justin lifted my head up.
"Right about what? Alex, what you did wasn't your fault... you were just angry at mom and weren't thinking straight..." He trailed off. He knew that it pretty much wasmy fault. I needed to fix this**/. Max then came back with an icepack. I took it from him and placed it on my arm.
Then I pulled him in for a hug.
"I know you didn't mean to hurt me, Maxie." I whispered. "It's okay. Me and Justin will fix this." He nodded and tightened his grip on me, then let go.
We looked back and saw that Dad wasn't sitting where he was. We searched for a couple of minutes, until we found him at a hut, talking to a waitress. We stood behind him, as Justin spoke.
"It's just a simple levitation spell," he told Max. Max looked up at him.
"Relax, this is my specialty." Max smiled. Justin grabbed onto my hand as Max started levitating the book out of Dad's back pocket. I smiled, this really was turning out to be easy. Just as the entire book was out of his pocket, Dad turned around, grabbing the book. He spotted us and all of a sudden it was like we were b
0.3e21ooing pulled towards him. All of a sudden we were in front of him. Justin pulled me somewhat behind him.
"Nobody, touches, the book." Dad's voice came out viciously. We all swallowed quickly. Then Dad's face turned into a smile and he started laughing. Um, what just happened? "Haha, I totally got you! You're eyes were like, ah! What's he gonna do?" He laughed out. Then he sighed, the smile still in place.
"Alright, so what do we got here?" He said, eyeing mine and Justin's hands and then Max. "A couple of wizards trying to pull a prank?"
Everyone was silent until Justin spoke up. "Something like that."
"Excellent." Dad said, grinning. What was going on? "What's wrong with her arm?" He asked, looking at me. Max looked over at me then looked away.
I quickly spoke up. "Um, all that luggage I had to bring here. Pulled a muscle." I said, moving into Justin's side more. Dad looked at me for a second, then at Justin.
"What are you guys hiding?" He asked Justin and I. Max looked confused for a moment.
"Nothing." We said in unison. The lady brought over nachos to Dad. He thanked her, then when she walked away, he used magic to make the plate of food bigger. We all looked at each other.
"You just used magic for fun," Max stated. We were just as shocked as he was. Dad shrugged.
"Ah, well the portions here are really small. You guys want something? It's on me. It's just money, right?" Dad said cheerfully.
"Wow, where was that attitude when I wanted my own phone?" I mumbled. Justin nudged my shoulder.
"I know right?" Dad agreed, still eating his chips. "Parent's can be such jerks." Alright, enough small talk.
"Hey, by any chance, just making conversation here, but you don't happen to have a titanium wand on you, do you?" I asked, grabbing onto the back of Justin's shirt. Dad had a confused face on him, until he reached down and pulled out the wand.
"I certainly do," he said laughing. We all stared at the wand like we were possessed. I looked over at Max and he looked back at me. Dad continued. "I have more power than you could ever imagine. Pretty cool huh?" We nodded slowly. "You know, people always say that magic isn't important, but guess what?" We leaned in closer. "It is! Watch this," he said. Then all of a sudden, music started playing. We all looked around to see if anyone was noticing the flying musical objects, which no one was.
We turned back to see Dad dancing. Yeah, no one his age should be dancing like that, I thought at some girls whistled at him from the swimming pool. He grinned and gave them a thumbs up, still dancing.
The lady that gave him the nachos interrupted, saying that they were taking someone's luggage from out of his room. I wasn't really paying attention until Max hit Justin's arm and said, "Guys, that's our stuff!" Justin looked at me and I nodded my head towards Dad.
"Since your a full wizard, can I ask you a question?" Justin asked as Dad took another bite of his chip.
"Sure," he answered.
"Uh, say a young, inexperienced wizard, accidentally wished that our parents had never even met before. What do you do to fix that?"
Dad thought for a moment. "I have no idea..." he frowned. Are you serious! "Glad that wasn't on my exam!" He laughed but then stopped. "But they'd have to do something pretty fast. You know, to prevent any serious, permanent damage."
"Are you serious?" Max said.
"Permanent..." Justin trailed off.
"Damage?" I said. Alright, this was getting dangerous.
Dad tried to make it clearer to us. "Uh, let's say these people had kids," he said using hand gestures. So, eventually reality would catch up with the kids, and they'd disappear forever. No meet no kids, this is simple wizard logic-who is you teacher?" He asked shocked.
"How soon exactly?" I asked. If this was turning serious we needed to know how long it was going to take.
"Mmm, I don't know, like... 48 hours?"
"48 hours!" Justin said turning towards me, then whispering it again.
"But," Dad started to say. "they'd know before things were gonna happen because they'd start forgetting everything about their past." Woah wait what? I tried thinking back... did I have a birthday? What about Justin? I don't remember his 7th birthday...
"I can't remember anything I got for presents on Christmas," Justin whispered. Max was saying something about not remembering any experiments that he made...
"They'd need a miracle." Dad told us. "Now it was fun talking to you all and stuff. I heard there was a rockin' party tonight. Maybe I'll see you guys there. Later!" He said, giving us the peace sign and walking off.
"Alright, there's only one more thing. If we can find the stone-" but Justin was cut off by Dad.
"The stone of dreams? Yeah, that would work. It can reverse any spell or make any wish. Oh yeah, it'd be fun finding that." He laughed.
"But isn't that dangerous?" Justin and I asked at the same time. There was no way that we were going to go find it... but we needed to get our parents back. And it was my fault. We had to go find it. Justin turned back to look at me and wrapped an arm around my waste.
"So?" Dad laughed. He looked at Max. "Are they always like this? Oh! I almost forgot my nachos." He said, taking the plate and walking off for good. We made our plan: Max was going to stay here and watch Mom and Dad, while me and Justin went to find the stone. We said that we would head out the next morning, since it was almost getting dark out.
Max said he was going to go find us some food to eat while me and Justin found a place to sleep, since we didn't have a room anymore. I pointed out that were a couple of hammocks near the trees. He agreed and pulled me over to there. He called Max and told him where they were. Max said he'd found some food and he was bringing it back.
After we ate in silence, we decided to get some sleep. We needed to get up early and head out. Actually, we were going to find that magician guy. He was our only way of helping us since he had the map... oh what was his name? Artie? Arthur? No, Archie! Yeah. Okay.
"Alright guys, I'm gonna go to sleep. Night." Max said, climbing into the hammock and closing his eyes. Me and Justin walked to the hammock in front of his but it was out of view. We both climbed in, his arm wrapped around my shoulders as we looked up at the stars.
"Justin?" I spoke, still looking up. I could feel his breath on my neck as he turned his head towards me.
"Yeah?"
"I can't remember your birthdays..." I said, tears filling my eyes. His last birthday, I knew something had happened. It had only been a few weeks ago, and yet I couldn't remember. He sighed and pulled me in tighter to him.
"Me either, love, me either."
Okay, so how was that? It's 3:56 over here and this is what, the 4th chapter? And we are only 36 minutes into the movie. And we need to get up to 1 hour and 41 minutes. Yeah, well that's what my DVR says. Haha. Alright, so review! Thanks to all of you that have already reviewed and say that they like my story.
-May
