A/N: Guys, I'm really trying and I'm super sorry that this is long over due. A lot of conflicting emotional situations have hit at once, and I just haven't had time to get this out. I'm sorry that it might be a little less than up to par but I hope you guys like it anyway.
Alex saunters back into her bedroom only to be met with a very smug looking Kim Greyleck. She flushes a little as the brunette's dark eyes bore into her accompanied by a well satisfied smirk.
"What?" Alex mutters sitting next to Kim on the floor.
"You know what." Kim replies smugly, her grin widening when she sees Alex's blush deepen. She knows that she could very well play off that she saw Alex kissing Casey outside just a few minutes ago, but then again, what fun would that be?
"I'm afraid that I don't." Alex mumbles, praying that the coloration in her face with disappear. She doesn't need anymore confirmation that Kim most likely saw them, but that doesn't mean she has to admit to it.
She isn't exactly why she had kissed Casey in the first place. In her head, she keeps telling herself that she did it just because the redhead had said she hadn't kissed anyone, but in her heart, Alex knows it's more.
Another thing that Alex isn't sure about is her attraction to Casey. She has absolutely no idea of why she feels oddly drawn to the shy girl, but it's sort of there and she sort of doesn't know what to do about it. It's like this weird slimy feeling inside her, and she doesn't know what to do with it.
Meanwhile, Casey blinks rapidly before she slowly brings her fingers to her lips. They're still tingling from where Alex had kissed her, and she's not sure if the tingling is a good thing.
She feels like she has just swallowed a gallon of sand and her heart is still racing at probably ninety nine miles an hour. That was in no way the way she had ever imagined her first kiss would be, but she isn't complaining in the slightest.
In fact, oddly enough, Casey finds herself wanting for Alex to kiss her again, and the thought makes her blush all over again. It isn't that she isn't interested in girls or anything, it's actually quite the opposite. She and Alex are so different in personalities and looks and everything else, but she can't help but find herself extremely interested in the blonde.
After another moment of trying to slow her heart rate, Casey gives up and forces her legs to move. She walks back into the room with her gaze aimed firmly at the ground, determined not to make eye contact with the others.
She can feel someone watching her intently, and she briefly looks up to realize that it's only Alex, with an unreadable expression on her face. If Casey didn't know any better, she would say that Alex is actually trying to analyze her.
Thankfully the silence is broken by Kim awkwardly clearing her throat, and Amanda finally being able to coax an angry Serena out of the other room.
"So um…what kind of movies do you guys like to watch?" Alex asks curiously, deciding that a movie would probably be their safest bet for the rest of the evening.
"I'm pretty open, as long as it's not sappy romance movies that will make me cry." Amanda states, folding her arms.
"Yeah, or horror. I don't do to well with horror." Connie says nodding her head.
Kim rolls her eyes and looks over to Alex who has her eyebrows raised in question. "They'll watch anything." She says not wanting to limit the movies that they can watch.
Casey decides not to say anything so she doesn't draw any kind of attention to herself. She does however glance at Alex who gives her a nervous smile before she stands to search for a movie. Some things in this world do not come easy for people, and for Casey, crushes is one of those things.
Midway through their third movie, mostly everyone has fallen asleep, all except Casey who wasn't paying attention to the movie to begin with. She glances over at a sleeping Alex, and blushes once again. Oh yes, crushes are most definitely not her thing.
Later
Ever since the whole sleep over thing, Alex can't help but notice that Casey has practically made it her life's goal to avoid her.
She's pretty sure that it has to do with the kiss, and she must admit, it was a bit spontaneous, but the very last thing she expected was for Casey to just flat out ignore her after it.
Alex has noticed that Casey won't talk to her, her friend's or anyone else, she's reverted back to sitting at her secluded table alone at lunch, heck, she's even made it a purpose that she walks the other direction whenever she sees Alex coming down the hall. Alex is most definitely positive the others have noticed as well.
"So…..maybe its cause you kissed her." Kim says one day, after probably almost two weeks of pure silence from Casey.
Alex immediately blushes and shrinks down in her seat. "You weren't supposed to see that…." she mumbles quietly.
Kim grins broadly and shrugs her shoulders. "Oh but I did. Why'd you kiss her? I didn't even know that you liked her."
"I only did it because she said that she hasn't ever kissed anyone….I think. Now I really don't know, but now she's also avoiding me like the plague. I didn't think she'd be mad at me, but I guess I was wrong."
Kim purses her lips and hums as gears begin turning in her mind. She has an idea, but she isn't going to run it by the other girls until it's complete. So she simply settles on humoring Alex for a little more.
"She'll come around eventually I guess. Or you could just corner her at lunch. Oh! Or go to her house. That's a good idea." She offers, throwing out random ideas.
Alex's face contorts into concentration as she actually thinks about the idea that Kim has given her. It's a bit of a long shot, but it's actually not that bad of an idea. Maybe she'll do it, she has till the end of the day to think about it some more.
"That's really not a bad idea…" she mumbles, quickly gathering her things and rushing out of the classroom when the bell rings.
Kim watches the blonde leave hurriedly and she smirks to herself. She has a plan…a very good plan to be exact; she just hopes that it won't back fire on her…and that the others will agree to help her.
Casey frowns to herself as she sits in her room once she gets home from school. She knows that she could have handle the situation with Alex a lot better than she has, but she really has absolutely no idea of what to do.
Ever since Alex's sleep over, and that impromptu kiss, she's been feeling these weird feelings that she probably shouldn't feel; feelings that she's not used to feeling.
The only thing that she could think to do was avoid the blonde, simply so she wouldn't have to deal with those brewing feelings. At the same time, it doesn't look like her method is helping because those feelings are still there.
Casey knows that it's wrong for her to like Alex, simply because they're two totally different people that come from two totally different backgrounds. There's no way that the presidential daughter would want to go out with a poor girl who comes from a full house.
She sighs heavily and slumps back onto her bed when she hears the doorbell ring. Sitting up quickly, she stares confusedly into her room wondering who it could be at the door. Maybe her mom left her key at home or something.
"I'll get it!" Lindsey shouts racing down the stairs to answer the door before anyone else. She stands on her tiptoes t see through the peephole, and frowns when she sees a stranger on the other side of the door but she answers it nonetheless.
"Hi, um…is Casey here?" the smiling blonde asks nicely.
"Are you a friend of hers? She doesn't really bring friends over…waaaait a minute…I know who you are!" the eleven year old says as her mouth forms into a perfect 'O' shape. "I've seen you on TV before! You're…"
"Alex?" Casey says confusedly, drawing the other girls attention away from her younger sister.
Alex looks up and finds a very confused Casey staring at her. She nervously puts on her best smile, suddenly wondering if this was at all a good idea.
"Casey, um…hi! I wanted to talk to you so I just thought I'd…"
"It's fine…uh, come in." Casey mumbles shoving her sister out of the way, and motioning for Alex to enter.
Alex steps into the house and marvels at how small and homely it feels. All she's ever grown up in are large manors, mansions, and now the White House, so she can honestly never say she knows what it feels like to actually be in a 'home'.
"Um…we can talk in my room." Casey says, noting her beaming sister and not wanting her to be any kind of embarrassment in anyway. She gives Lindsey one last look before she leads Alex up the stairs and to her bedroom.
"Sorry it's a little messy…" she mumbles.
Alex raises her eyebrows and turns towards her quiet…friend? "Casey this room is spotless." She deadpans, noting that the room is in fact, spotless.
Casey shrugs and sits on her bed, giving Alex the incentive that she can sit as well. She has no idea what it is what Alex wants to talk to her about. No scratch that, she knows exactly what Alex wants to talk to her about, she just doesn't know how it's going to go.
"So…you said you wanted to talk…?"
"Oh! Yeah, um…I did…" Alex says awkwardly rubbing the back of her neck. "I just wanted to say that I'm sorry I kissed you, and that I made you uncomfortable. I shouldn't have done that and I'm sorry…"
Casey silently stares at her hands trying to fight the heat that is rushing to her face. She doesn't really know what to say, and she's never really been one that's been able to tell a lie, so she decides it's best to remain silent.
Alex however, takes this silence as Casey being angry with her, and she immediately begins to try to fix whatever it is that she's messed up.
"Casey, please say something…I'm sorry, and I really want to be friends with you, if that's okay." She pleads, trying to get some sort of responds.
Casey takes a deep breath and nervously begins wringing her hands out of habit. "I'm not mad at you…I…was avoiding you, because I think that I might…like you…" the last part of her sentence is so quiet that she prays that Alex didn't hear it.
Alex raises her eyebrows in confusion and she scoots closer to Casey. "You…like me?"
Casey blushes and ducks her head. After a long few minutes, she nods quickly, hating that she can't lie to anyone.
"That's okay you know…because I like you too." Alex responds, letting the other girl know that there isn't anything she should be embarrassed about.
Casey's head snaps up and she stares at Alex in utter disbelief. There's know way that she can like her, not when they're so different.
"But…why? There isn't anything about me to like." She responds quietly, averting her gaze back to her hands.
"Yes there is. You're really smart, and believe it or not, you're a really cool person to be around." Alex states.
"No I'm not…that's why I don't have any friends and that's why Abbie picks on me."
"Abbie is a jerk, Casey; she shouldn't be your comparing basis on anything. But you really are cool to be around. You're also really pretty."
Casey snorts cynically and shakes her head. "Alex you don't have to lie to me to try and make me feel better. I'm not as pretty as you or Kim or anyone else…I'm dorky and weird and I have glasses…"
"But I still think you're pretty." Alex says seriously. "Just because you have glasses, doesn't mean that you aren't pretty."
Casey doesn't respond to this simply because she doesn't believe anything that Alex is saying. No one has ever found her pretty, so why, all of a sudden would Alex of all people, find her to be?
Alex sits still for a moment before she cautiously raises her hand. She reaches over and carefully removes Casey's glasses from her face, causing the redhead to duck down even more.
She waits for a moment, until Casey finally looks at her, as if silently pleading with her to give her glasses back. But she can't help but smile at how beautiful she finds the shy girl without her glasses.
"See? You're still…really pretty…" she says grinning at how easy it is to get Casey to blush. "So, if you like me…did you like it when I kissed you?"
Casey remains silent for a long moment before she reluctantly nods her head. She feels her heart leap into her throat once again as she recalls the feeling of the kiss.
"Can I kiss you again?" Alex asks quietly, trying to contain her smile when she sees Casey give yet another hesitant head nod.
She softly cups the other girl's cheek before she slowly moves in close until their lips are only millimeters apart, giving Casey a chance to back away if she wants to. When she receives no response, Alex moves forward and gently takes the redhead's lips in her own.
Casey sits paralyzed once again at the feeling of Alex's lips pressed against her own. She has no idea what she is supposed to do, having never experienced a full on kiss before.
Nervously, she closes her eyes and raises a shaky hand placing it on the back of Alex's neck to hold her in place. Her heart rate speeds up as Alex deepens the kiss even more and their lips glide smoothly against each other.
After about a minute or so, the kiss ends, leaving both girls panting for air. Casey once again feels that strange tingly feeling in her lips, only now it is accompanied by a slimy feeling in her stomach.
"W-why…do you…I can't understand how…no one ever…" Casey eventually gives up on trying to form words and simply settles on taking a deep breath. "Wow."
"Wow…" Alex repeats, thoroughly shocked herself by the intensity she feels from the kiss. "Um…I think, I should go…I'll see you at school?"
"Uh…y-yeah…s-school…I'll…see you…" Casey stutters as she gets up to show Alex to the door. She watches as the blonde gets into one of the two SUVs outside her house, all the while her heart still pounding in her throat.
'I like her…and she likes me back…that can't be right. No one ever likes me…but what if she really does? What am I supposed to do now?'
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**Important** I have a crossover with Criminal Minds, idea in the works at the moment and I wanna know what you guys think if I should give it a go or not. Of course it'd be A/C but I just wanna know what you guys think of that idea. I've written maybe a full chapters preview worth so I wanna know if it's even worth posting.