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"Alex please talk to me. I had no clue Butler was going to do that. I swear. I'd never do anything to…" Alex deleted Portman's message and put her arm around Adams shoulders. She looked up at the varsity cheerleaders as they walked into the room. None of them seemed to notice her there.
"I love you." She whispered in his ear. Adam turned to her. "I love you to."
He then started to eat again. Ken walked out of the lunch line. Alex waved at him which caught the attention of Rick and Cole. As Ken walked past them Cole grabbed his lunch.
"Hey little man, yesterdays lunch was pretty good. What have we got to day?" Cole asked opening the brown paper bag.
"Leave him alone Cole!" Alex protested but he ignored her.
"Bag of chips." Cole said pulling things out of the bag and throwing them to random team mates. Ken went to pick them up, but Rick pulled him back.
"Leave him alone!" Alex said again this time going for Cole, but Scooter grabbed her and pulled her down so that she was sitting on his lap. He covered her mouth with one hand as he held her down with the other. "Cole will hit you despite you being a girl. Just shut up."
Alex still struggled. She glanced over Scooters shoulder to Adam. He was still eating trying to act like nothing was wrong. Cole finished going through the lunch and sent Ken on his way. Scooter finally let go of Alex.
"Cole do you have any extra lunch money?" Alex asked sweetly. "I forgot mine."
"Any thing for my cheerleader." He said handing Alex a five.
"Thanks." She said walking away. She paused behind Adams chair. She took a deep breath and walked by with out yelling at him. She walked through the long lunch line. What Cole didn't know was that Mindy had already saved Alex some lunch over at the cheerleader's table. She took the long way to avoid the varsity table and dropped the tray in front of Ken.
"What's this?" He asked when he was all the food.
"Your lunch." Alex replied sitting down next to him.
"Thanks." Ken said happily.
"Don't thank me. It's Coles money." Alex said with a wink. "I asked him for lunch money and he gave it to me saying 'Any thing for my cheerleader. Ick. Any ways see you all around. The Polly Pockets are calling me."
The Ducks waved goodbye and Alex walked over to her spot by Mindy and Tammy.
"You looked comfy on Scott's lap." Tammy said as soon as Alex sat down. Alex just rolled her eyes.
"I'm sorry but I'm already taken by a varsity player. And that player is not Scott." Alex said waving at Adam. He waved back and blushed a little.
"Your dating Banks!" Tammy yelled in surprise. The lunch room went silent. Adam blushed even more as the room turned to either Alex or him.
"Yes I am. And I have ever since the Goodwill Games. Isn't that right baby." Alex said with a wink and a smile over Adams way.
"Hell yes." He said with a smile. The Ducks table bursts out laughing. They couldn't believe no one knew about Alex and Adam. They were the most obvious couple in the school. Soon the lunch room started back into its loud gossip and The squad moved on to a different subject as in Mindy and Rick loosing there virginity.
"He was like a pig unable to get enough of me." Mindy said as the others made a gross look. Alex just shook her head as they kept talking. She searched the lunch room for her family or the rest of the J.V. Squad. Mindy and Mandy sitting at the next table from the varsity flirting with the soccer jocks. The others were no where to be seen. Then Charlie walked into the room from the lunch line. He was caring a paper bag as Russ had a hot lunch and Fulton had nothing. Charlie watched as Cole took Charlie's lunch.
"They better keep their hand off my cousin or there will be hell to pay." Alex said between clinched teeth.
Cole pulled something out of the bag and as soon as he did Charlie was running down the Hall fallowed by the varsity boys. Cole threw the bag at the Cheerleaders and it landed on his girlfriends plate. Cindy opened it to reveal horse poop. The girls screamed and raced from the table as Alex couldn't help but laugh. She fallowed the stampede of students till she reached the Duck's table.
"I have a feeling those three are going to need our held." Alex said and the Ducks got to their feet. Alex then ran to find the rest of the J.V. squad. She found them sitting under a tree watching the stampede of students.
"Charlie played a prank and now he'd in deep shit." Alex said and the Conways got the their feet. The watched the group as it started to come back up towards the school. As Charlie was running past Alex grabbed his arm to stop him. The Conways surrounded him and the other two.
"Good job Ali, you caught them for us." Rick smiled at her.
"My name is Alex and don't you dare think your going to lay a hand on my cousin and friends." Alex said As the Conway kids stepped forward.
"Don't mess with a Conway our you'll get the rest." Brad said and All the Conways held up fists ready to fight.
"And Don't mess with a Duck." Alex added. "Or you'll get us all!"
The rest of the Ducks and J.V. squad stepped out of the group to stand with Alex. Except for Adam. Now the Varsity was way out numbered. By then Dean Buckley was there and split up the fight.
Alex walked up to Adam and pulled him to one side. "What's up with you? First you ignore what they did to Ken and then you back them up and not us?"
"You don't under stand Alex." Adam said pulling away but Alex wouldn't give up.
"Tell me and maybe I will." Alex begged.
"All my life I've always been the screwed up child. Then Amanda get in trouble and sent away and I get varsity my freshman year. My brothers never did that." Adam explained. "For the first time in my live I'm the golden child. I cant screw that up."
"So that's why you let Scooter hold me. You didn't want to screw up?" Alex said as a tear rolled down her cheek. "Well I've got news for you Banks. You have screwed up. Not with your parents…But with me."
Alex turned away and found herself in Luis's arms.
"What did you do?" Luis asked in surprise as Fulton and Charlie cam to comfort Alex.
"Banks." Adam whispered in surprise. Alex had never called him that. "Alex…I…"
Adam turned and walked away before any of the Ducks or Varsity saw him crying.
"What happened?" Luis asked when Alex pulled away.
"Nothing Luis. I'll be fine." Alex said hugging Fulton.
"I don't know if this is the best time to tell you this but Portman is in the hospital. They think he stopped eating. Like he was on some kind of hunger strike or something." Fulton said and Alex pulled away from him in surprise.
"I've got to go. Charlie get all my homework." Alex said starting to walk off campus. " And tell every one I'll miss the game."
With that Alex grabbed a bus home. She ran in to see her mother there with a Kleenex in her hand. Alex hugged her mother as she started to cry harder. "I need to go to Chicago."
"I know honey. I know." Roxie said smoothing Alex's hair. She handed Alex a plane ticket and a small suitcase. "There is a ticket for there and a return for tomorrow. I packed some pajamas and your second uniform for tomorrow. I'll drive you to the airport and see you off."
"Thanks mom." Alex said with a small smile. When they got there Alex kissed her mother goodbye and found terminal five. When Alex reached Chicago she called Doni's cell.
"Hello?" Doni asked sounding tired and confused.
"Doni, Is Dean still in the hospital?" Alex asked.
"Who is this?" Doni asked still confused.
"It's Alex and I'm at the airport. I need some one to pick me up and take me to Dean." Alex said tiredly.
"Your in Chicago?" Doni asked surprised. "Are you wearing a red and white cheerleaders uniform with white K-swiss shoes with red stripes and your hair in a very preppy curled pony tail tied by a ribbony hair tie that reads Alex. Varsity. Wariors. Go team?"
Alex turned to see Doni standing behind her with a smile on her face. He gave Alex a huge hug and then quickly pulled away. "Wait a minute. I thought you no longer wanted to have any thing to do with my brother."
"I lied." Alex said with a smile. "Please take me to him. And explain why this happened."
Doni called a cab and on the way to the hospital Doni explained what happened to Dean.
"After you called him and told him you wanted nothing to do with him he went in to a sort of depression that in our family is genetic for disaster." Doni said with a sigh. "He started to date Leah again which was even worse considering that she brought you up once every hour and well she used his depression to get herself pregnant with his baby."
"That Whore!" Alex exclaimed in out rage. How dare she do that to him.
"Yeah that's what we all said." Doni said in annoyance. "Any way his depression got worse and he refused to take medication for it. We started to hide it in his food. Well he found it one day and stopped eating all together. Its gone down hill ever since."
"All this is my falt." Alex said as a tear ran down her cheek. "I shouldn't have called him when I was so mad."
"Why did you call him any way?" Doni asked with a yawn.
"I had told Adam what had happened between Dean and me. Adam almost broke up with me. Every thing is fine now… well sort of." Alex said with a sigh as they reached the hospital. Doni and Alex raced up the stairs to Dean's room. As they entered the room Alex saw that Portman was hooked up to a feeding machine. The sight of him made Alex cry even harder than she was before.
"Oh Dean." She said going to his side.
"Alex?" Portman said as a tear rolled down his cheek. "Are you missing a game?"
"Yeah but it's not the Ducks I'm cheering for so it doesn't matter." Alex said wiping away Portman's tears. "You have to get better so you can come visit me at the school of preps."
"Will do." Portman said with a smile and went to sleep. Alex stayed the night in the hospital but had to leave the next day before Portman woke.
"Tell him that I'm sorry to leave so soon." Alex told the Portmans.
"He'll know." Diana said and hugged Alex goodbye. Alex left the hospital and with one last look up at Dean's room decided she was ready to go home.