CHAPTER TWO

"Alex! Where were you? I was so worried!" Theresa Russo said to her daughter.

"Why did you run away from your brother? We were so worried about you sweetie!" Jerry joined his wife in fussing over Alex.

"I was in the mall and guess who I met!" Alex said, faking the excited voice.

"It won't be long my darling, pick up the phone nobodys on it. Where are your friends now baby? Where are who are supposed to be there for yoouuu. When you falling down the world starts spinning round."

"Justin … Why on Earth are you sining Falling Down by Selena Gomez and The Scene?"

"Because they are awesome."

"Well then you can support me on this fact then ..."

"What fact?"

"I HAVE TICKETS AND BACKSTAGE PASSES TO HER CONCERT ON SATURDAY AT THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN!"

"WHAT! Are you serious? I wanted to go to that! How did you get tickets and backstage passes?"

"Lets just say I won a little competition in the mall and she gave them to me personally." Alex told her brother.

"OHMIGOSH! You met Selena Gomez!" His mouth falling agape.

"Yeah ..." She said, then turned to her parents. "So, Justin wants to go so can we? There are tickets and passes for the whole family, even Max."

"Since there are five of each then I guess." Theresa said hesitantly.

"Thanks Mom! On Saturday I'm going to shopping for my concert outfit." Alex said running up the stairs to go to her room to tell Selena that she could come.

"Are you serious? We can go to the concert? Yeeeaaaahhhhh! WHHOOO-HOOOO!" Justin yelled as he ran out in to the sub shop to tell his friends about him personally meeting Selena Gomez.

"Selena! I can come! By the way my brother has a major crush on you and is your biggest fan ever. So I'm going shopping for my outfit now so that I will be free on Saturday. See you then! Bye!" Alex said to Selena's voice message.

"Did I just hear you calling Selena?" Justin poked his head around Alex's bedroom door.

"No. You just wanted to hear me calling Selena Gomez. Why would I even have Selena's number anyways? I'm not planning on stalking her like you would!"

"I am not going to stalk her! I'm just a huge fan!"

"Yeah whatever. I can tell that you're lying Justin. You're in lo-ove with her!"

"No I'm not! I already told you I'-"

"Whatever. You know that I don't really care now go I have to find a suitable outfit for the concert."

"See you care too. You have to find the perfect items of clothing that work together."

"No but there will be lots of cute boys that just like you, have a crush o Selena. So vamos!"

"When did you learn how to speak a word of Spanish? And where are you taking me?"

"We are going shopping." Alex stated to a horrified Justin.

"When will this torture end?" Justin wailed to the whole mall.

"Justin. You're with me so that we can find you a suitable outfit for you to impress Selena. And for me to get your opinion on my attire! Now what do you think of this top?" Alex asked her brother who was so ready to die, holding up a silver singlet that was baggy at the neck and very breezy.

"If you wear that Mom and Dad will kill you."

"No worries I'll layer."

"You'll what?"

"Layer? Justin, you know nothing about fashion do you? Layering is when you wear multiple layers but you can see the appropriate layers. Like when I get a layered hair cut. So if I layered it with this purple singlet and wore those pants." Alex rambled on. "JUSTIN!"

"Huh? Sorry I was daydreaming."

"What? About you and Selena living happily ever after with each other? Justin that will never happen."

"How do you know?"

"Just trust me I know this stuff. Now do you think that I should wear these silver boots or those purple ones?"

"The purple ones. Now can you hurry up so that you can tell me what to wear?"

"Justin you look fine. Just wear what you would normally wear. There's no point in getting her to like someone that isn't you."

"Great so I was dragged out here for no reason apart from to help you choose your outfit."

"Pretty much. So you think that I should wear the purple boots? Hmmmm? Yeah I think I will. Justin? You know sometimes you have really good fashion sense."

"Ummm? ...Thanks Alex? Can we go home now and can you tell me what you are planning to do on Saturday morning since you aren't going to be getting your concert clothes?"

"Ummmm ..."

"Come on Alex I know you're hiding something from me. So spit it out."

"Ummm …No Justin. If you want to find out then wait until Saturday. I'm not giving in to your authority."

"But.."

"No buts. Or else I'll never tell you."

"Fine fine I'll just wait until you want to tell all."

"Good boy. Now go find some more dolls to buy."

"Alex. They are action figures not dolls. Learn the difference."

"I would but there is no difference. So what do you want to wear to meet you celeb crush?"

"She is not my crush, just the thing that I think about every second of my life." Justin said, staring dreamily off into space.

"Justin."

"Huh?"

"Justin. You just confessed your love for Selena Gomez in the mall. So are you going to answer my question? What do you want to wear? And no you aren't allowed to wear you Tears of Blood shirt ever again. So if you wore a plain white tee and a pair of jeans with a pair of converse she would think you were a great guy. So you don't need to buy anything but you do need to part with your TOB shirt. Now lets go home."

"Finally!"

AT THE RUSSO HOME

"I'm telling you Max! She's lying to us. She told mom and dad that she would get her outfit on Saturday but she just went and got it with me!"

"Justin. Knowing Alex she will want to go and get another because it isn't good enough. Now I need to o and find those UFO sheep and space cows."

"Typical Max." Justin sighed in frustration.

"I'm telling you Sel, the outfit is amazing. You are going to LOVE it!" Justin overheard Alex talking on the phone. 'Who is Sel? OMAF(1)! She does know Selena Gomez! Shut up Justin! She's talking again!' Justin scolded himself.

"So I meet you at your hotel room so that we can practice for the concert on Saturday. One second Selena, my brother, AKA your secret admirer wants to talk to me." Alex walked over to the door and listened carefully. Then she heard Justin start to crawl away. "Justin Russo. I never knew that you would stoop so low as to listen in on my phone conversations. WHY?"

"You're talking to Selena Gomez! You have her number! An-"

"And you want me to give it to you. The answer is NO JUSTIN!"

"So this is my secret admirer. Thanks for giving me all those gross love notes. Ale now I know why you hate having siblings let alone brothers."

"Yeah I know! They just barge into your conversation without a single thought of respect. But they forget that their sister is always Daddy's Little Princess. And Daddy's Little Princess can get him to do anything like not letting him go to any concerts for a week."

"You wouldn't do that!"
"Allow me to demonstrate. Daddy! Justin was-"

"Fine. I won't tell. But remember that I know everything." And then Justin stalked out the door.

"Huh. He so doesn't know everything. He doesn't know that I'm singing with you on stage and that there is something really weird going on here."

"Yeah like that fact that we sound and look exactly the same. We have the same excellent fashion sense and we both have the same dream. We're best friends and we tell each other everything, we have no secrets."

"Speaking of secrets, I have to tell you something. I'm a wizard. I can do magic and spells and stuff like that."

"You have got to be kidding me! I can do that too! But I can't do it all the time only sometimes."

"Ohmygosh! We might just be"

"Twins!"

"Twins! This is insanely weird. I'll ask my parents about wizard adoption and see if I can come up with anything. So I'll see you on Saturday?"

"Yup. See you then! Bye!"

"Bye! Twin." Alex hung up the phone and went to ask her parents about wizard adoption.

IN THE RUSSO WIZARD LAIR

"Dad. Do you know anything about wizard adoption?"
"Why Alex?"

"You know, I'm just curious."

"Well, if the wizard is put up for adoption then the new parents know nothing of the child's former life. Nothing of their parents, friends, pets nothing. Only the wizard adoption agency manager knows who the true parents are. The new parents are told a little about the true parents' lives but that is all that they know. You can search it up on the . (wwww)."

"Thanks Daddy. Oh I think that there might be a secret stash of jerky in the house that you don't know about. I don't know where it is though."

"Jerky? JERKY!" then Jerry Russo race off on a house-wide jerky hunt.

"Well that work well. Now lets just type in 'Adoptions 1994- 2010' That should give me some idea."

The Wizard internet worked its magic and then the result came up.

"Ok then. 'On the 1st of December 1996 there were two twin girls born to the Royal Family of the Magical Universe. They were unnamed because they were yet to be christened. The night before their christening the King and Queen went missing and with no one to protect them they were put up for adoption. They were both adopted on the same night by two very different families. One was adopted by a well known wizard family and the other by a very famous human family. They were both adopted on midnight of the last of night of 1996.' So I was right. Selena and I might be adopted. Now to see if the family descriptions match." Alex typed in 'Russo Family'. "Wow. We are well known. Now for the Gomez family. 'The Gomez family is a very famous human family that is into acting and singing. They have no natural children but have an adopted daughter named Selena. She has her own band and has acted alongside many wizard and human actors and actresses.' perfect match! But that means that Selena and I are the Princess's of the Royal family of the Universe. This is officially weird."