Mitchie was confused when she woke up alone in her bed. She stretched and got out of bed to head downstairs as she heard laughing coming from the kitchen.
"Good morning Mitchie, Alex and I were just talking. I'm so happy you have finally made a friend." Connie gushed. Mitchie felt a wave of embarrassment wash over her. Feeling like someone was looking at her, Alex looked up to meet Mitchie's gaze.
"Come and sit Mitch, have some breakfast." Alex said as she pulled a seat out for her.
"Alex was just telling me about your morning grumbles towards your science teacher." Connie announced as she was filling Mitchie in on the conversation between her and Alex. Mitchie grumbled in response before realising what she did, causing both Alex and Connie to laugh.
"Anyways, I'm off to work...but it was really nice to meet you Alex. You are welcome here anytime. It's nice to finally see a smile on my girls face." Connie said as she got up and kissed both of the girls heads.
"Bye Mrs. Torres. My pleasure" Alex smiled politely.
"Alex, call me Connie." Connie responded.
"Bye mum, love you!" Mitchie said, getting increasingly embarrassed by the second. When Mitchie heard the front door shut, she looked up at a smiling Alex.
"You enjoyed that, didn't you?" Mitchie said, completely aware of the fact that Alex was taking a lot of pleasure in Mitchie's embarrassment.
"Why yes, yes I did." Alex giggled.
"I hate you." Mitchie said with a playful glare to let Alex know that she was joking.
"You just broke my heart Torres." Alex joked back.
"Mhm." Mitchie responded before giving in to her giggles.
"Walk me home?" Alex asked when they had settled down. Mitchie felt a bit disappointed that Alex was leaving already but plastered on a smile anyway.
"Sure." She responded before heading upstairs to change.
The walk was filled with chatter, Mitchie really enjoyed Alex's company and vice versa. They finally arrived at Alex's house and Alex was relieved to see her mum's car in the driveway, meaning Miley would be nowhere to be found.
"So, this is me." Alex said, debating whether to invite Mitchie in or not. She really wanted to hang out with Mitchie more, but she didn't know if she'd be in trouble for not being home this morning when her mum arrived. She decided to take her chances.
"Did you want to come in?" Alex asked Mitchie who looked far away in her thoughts.
"Sure." Mitchie replied with a small smile. Talking with Alex the last week had been more then she'd done in months, she didn't know how she would go speaking to someone who wasn't Alex. Letting Alex inside her bitch barrier to protect her heart had been hard enough. Alex smiled and lead the way inside.
"Mum! Where are you?" Alex yelled out.
"Alex Russo! Where have you-" Theresa began to scold Alex as she walked into the room, she cut herself off when she saw Mitchie.
"I was with Mitchie and her mum for breakfast." Alex explained. Half true.
"Hi Mitchie, I'm Theresa. It's very nice to meet you." Theresa said as she shook Mitchie's hand who smiled in return. Theresa returned her attention back to Alex.
"Just leave me a note or som-" Theresa cut herself off for the second time in minutes.
"Baby, what happened to your lip?" Theresa said as she inspected her daughter's lip. Alex suddenly became very conscious. She forgot about that.
"I-uh-fell. You know how clumsy I am." Alex lied quickly. Theresa raised her eyebrow at her daughter in disbelief. She knew something was going on, her suspicions were confirmed when Mitchie became very uncomfortable. Theresa was going to get to the bottom of this. She knew her daughter wasn't hurt at the hand of Mitchie, her daughter had come home with cuts and bruises long before Mitchie came to town, but she suspected Mitchie knew the truth.
"Do you girls want breakfast?" Theresa said, changing the subject, for now.
"Oh yes please, I'm starving." Alex said cheerfully. Over breakfast, Theresa observed how Alex's eyes lit up whenever Mitchie spoke, or whenever her daughter responded. That was something she hadn't seen in what felt like forever. There was no forced smile, just the old Alex that Theresa had missed terribly. Theresa liked Mitchie already.
"I'm going for a nap, night shift kills me." Theresa announced as she left the table.
"Sleep tight mum! Love you!" Alex said as Theresa kissed her cheek.
"Love you too sweetie, it was nice to meet you Mitchie." Theresa said before leaving the room.
"So, what did you want to do today?" Alex asked Mitchie with a smile. Before Mitchie could reply, Alex felt her phone buzz.
She's a keeper Lexi! ;)
Alex's eyes widened as the text message from her mother. Alex knew she liked girls, Alex didn't know her mother knew. Alex thought that she had been so stealth, considering she'd been with Miley for so long. Alex was torn between been terrified and bursting out with laughter.
"Are you okay?" Mitchie askedcuriously as she eyes her friend.
"What? Yeah, I'm good!" Alex said with a smile, she didn't think sharing her mother's thoughts on Mitchie would be appropriate. She had just gotten Mitchie to be human around her, she didn't want to jeopardise that. Mitchie decided to leave it, and stood up from the table, Alex at her side. Mitchie put her arm around Alex and smiled at her.
"So are you going to show me your room dork, or what?" Mitchie joked as she let go of Alex and raced her up the stairs, not waiting for a response. Alex smiled at Mitchie's childish nature and giggled, before chasing her new friend up to to her room.