Max and Maddie jumped up, "Yeah!" and ran off to get their shoes.

Mitchie glanced at me, "Why the park?"

I shrugged, "Kids like parks, don't they?"

Her eyes scanned me, "I guess, who ya texting?"

"My friend, Harper."

She stood up, "Well, let's get going, babe."

I stood and kissed her cheek, "Okay."

The kids were on the swings, including Mitchie. I told them I had to go to the bathroom, but really met up with Mason behind the bathrooms.

He smiled, "Glad you came..."

"Yeah, what'd you want to talk about?"

"Alex, you aren't a lesbian, I know you love me. Just, drop this phase and come back to me."

I paused, "Um...Mason, I'm happy with Mitchie."

"Really? Are you? Because right now, it looks like you're going behind her back to talk to me."

I sighed, "I am, but that's only because I wanted to hear what you had to say."

"Why? Because you're hoping that I'll kiss you?"

I shook my head, "No!"

He grabbed my hand and pulled me close, "Well, I'm going to kiss you."

"No, don't you dare!"

"Lexi...baby...just trust me..."

I heard someone clear their throat and I turned around. I was expecting Mitchie, but got Maddie. She was standing there with her arms crossed.

I pushed Mason away from me and knelt down in front of Maddie, "Hey, Maddie, what's up?"

"Don't think just because I'm little that I don't get what's going on."

I blinked away my surprise, "I'm just talking to an old friend."

She rolled her eyes, "Oh, please, you two were almost kissing. I'm telling Mitchie!"

I grabbed her, "No, please, don't! I can't lose Mitchie, please, don't tell her!"

"I'm telling her."

"We were just talking! He tried to kiss me, but I pushed him away!"

She wiggled out of my grip, "I don't care!"

She ran away and I stood. I glanced at Mason, flipped him off, and chased after Maddie. I was trying to stop her, but she beat me to Mitchie.

She yelled, "Alex was with a boy and they almost kissed!"

Mitchie's eyes flickered up to me, then back to Maddie. She whispered something to Maddie and she nodded. Maddie walked over to me and tugged on my arm, trying to get me to knell down. I sighed and did so.

She whispered in my ear, "Mitchie says that she's going to kick that boy's butt and that she wants you to take Max and leave."

I slowly looked to Mitchie, but she was looking at the sky. I did what she said. I grabbed Max's hand and walked away with him. My heart slowly snapped inside my chest and I held in my tears.

A few hours later, I left Max with Justin and went to Mitchie's house. I knocked and knocked, but there was no answer. I knew they were home, I could hear them. I didn't want to walk right in, but I had no intention of leaving, either. I pulled out my phone and called Mitchie. It went straight to voice mail. Are you kidding me? She's overreacting. I worked up the courage, twisted the doorknob, and walked inside. Mitchie's eyes were on me in an instant. The funny thing was that her eyes still scanned me from head to toe, which was followed by a sly smile.

"Mitch, we have to talk."

She sighed, "No, we don't. Go be with lover boy."

I walked over, grabbed her arm, and pulled her into her backyard. She didn't even put up a fight. We sat in the hammock and I was about to say something, but instead Mitchie spoke.

She said, "How could you go behind my back like that?"

"Well, maybe I wouldn't have to go behind your back if you actually let me talk to him..."

"Oh, excuse me. I was only trying not to lose you."

I rolled my eyes, "But instead you pushed me away, makes sense."

"I like you...a lot...sorry if I'm a bit much at times, sorry if I'm over jealous, I'm just flat out sorry."

"I'm sorry, too..."

She thought for a moment, "How about...we just...try to be friends first."

I shook my head, "I don't want to be friends. I want to be yours."

"You obviously aren't sure of what you want. Once you figure out if your heart belongs to me or Mason, then give me a call."

"My heart belongs to you, I already know that."

She stood, "Maybe you should just get that talking with Mason done before you start telling me things that you aren't sure if you mean."

I stood and laced fingers together, I spoke sternly, "I know what I want."

My lips crashed down onto hers. Her free hand snaked around my waist, pulling me closer. I gripped the bottom of her shirt and pulled her as close as I could. I felt a smile slowly forming on her lips. I slipped my lips away and kissed down her neck. Her breathing began to get heavy, but then Maddie yelled out to us from the door.

Mitchie quickly pulled away from me and called back, "What was that?"

Maddie repeated, "Dad says it's time for Alex to go home!"

Mitchie groaned and yelled, "Okay!"

Maddie disappeared back inside and Mitchie's warm lips were instantly reconnected with mine, but only for a minute.

She pulled away and licked her lips, "I don't want you to go."

"And I don't want to go..."

"How about we have a little secret sleep over...?"

I smiled, "I'm up for that."

"Walk out the front door, then meet me by my bedroom window."

I nodded and pecked her lips, "See you soon."

I started to walk away, but she pulled me back to her and whispered, "I wasn't kidding about kicking Mason's ass, by the way."

I smiled and walked away. I waved to Mitchie's parents and slipped out the front door. I saw Mitchie opened her window a few minutes later, so I ducked inside. She smirked at me and pulled me in close. Her lips smashed onto mine, then ran along my jaw. She started planting kisses down my neck and I gripped onto the window sill.

She whispered in between kisses, "Never...leave...me..."

I breathed out, "I won't."

The next morning, I woke up tangled up with a sleeping Mitchie. She was half on top of me, so I had to slip out from under her to stand up. No, we didn't have sex, I just slept over. I grabbed one of Mitchie's brushes and brushed my hair in the mirror. I wiped the sleepies out of my eyes and checked my phone. Harper had called for a few times, Mason had texted me non-stop, and Justin texted me once. I replied to Justin and told Mason to fuck off, then talked to Harper in a whisper tone for about ten minutes. I told her all about Mitchie. I gushed and gushed on about her until she groaned from under her pillow.

She mumbled, "I know I'm amazing, babe, but shh."

I laughed, wrapped up my phone call, and sat next to my lazy girlfriend. I poked her in her side and she jumped up a bit, squealing. I laughed until Mitchie playfully hit me in the arm.

I smiled cheekily, "Time to wake up."

She placed her head in my lap, "No, I'm too sleepy!"

I played with her hair, "You crashed out at like, ten last night, how are you so tired?"

"Shh."

I leaned down and kissed her cheek, "Come on, babe, it's almost noon. Get your lazy butt up."

My phone buzzed in my pocket, which vibrated Mitchie's head. She groaned and rolled off of me. I laughed and checked the text. It was from Mason.

"I know what will wake you up."

She rubbed her eyes, "What?"

"Mason just texted me."

Her eyes snapped open and she snatched my phone away from me, she read the text aloud, "Alex, please, just meet up with me. Stop being like this, we are meant to be. Come meet me at the beach!"

An evil smirk grew onto Mitchie's lip, "Get ready, babe, we're going to the beach."

Mitchie and I walked up onto the beach. We were barefoot, hand in hand, wearing sunglasses, and Mitchie was ready to tear Mason apart. I was honestly kind of excited to see this. Mason smiled when he saw me, but it faded when he noticed Mitchie. We walked over to him and acted natural.

He scratched the back of his head, "You must be the girl who stole my baby from me."

She smirked, "Oh, yeah."

"I hope you're happy."

"Oh, trust me, I am," she winked.

Mason's eyes shifted to me, "Is she going to be here the whole time?"

I nodded, "Well, she is my girlfriend. Girlfriends tend to stick with you when you talk to your ex."

He kind of cringed at the word 'girlfriend,' "Oh, well..."

Mitchie slipped her hand away from mine and crossed her arms over her chest, "I want to get some things straight."

"You? Want to get things straight? I'm sure that's a first."

Mitchie laughed a bit, but then turned serious again, "Alex is mine. She always will be mine. You need to back your little ass off before I kick your teeth in," she smiled sweetly, "Kay?"

He rolled his eyes, "Oh, please, you're just an experiment."

An evil grin grew, "Well, that's where you're wrong, hon. She's so much better off with me."

"Not true. She loved me, still loves me, always will love me."

I broke in, "Mason...really, you should just stop...I realize you're heart broken, but seriously, it's time to admit defeat."

He moved in to kiss me, but Mitchie nailed him in the jaw. He flew backwards and Mitchie kicked him in the jaw. I cringed and covered my eyes. I felt warm hands touch mine and pulled them away from my eyes. Mitchie smiled and softly kissed me.

She whispered, "Don't worry, I didn't break anything except for his dignity."

I smiled, "Good..."

Mason groaned, "Alex, I love you so much. If you think this is where I give in, you're dead wrong. I," he whimpered, "I will chase you forever."

Mitchie laced her fingers with mine and pulled me away.

We went back to Mitchie's house. She plopped down on her bed and sighed. I sat down in her lap and wrapped my arms around her neck.

"You okay, babe?"

She slithered her arms around my waist, "Yeah, he just frustrates me."

I nodded, "Love makes you crazy..."

Her eyes met mine, "I know."

I pecked her lips, "What do you want to do?"

Her eyes fell to my lips, "Whatever you want to do, I'm okay with."

I slowly kissed her, "How about this..."

She laid us down, tucking me under her as she kissed my neck, "This is perfect."

I placed one hand on her neck and the other on her cheek, moving her lips up to kiss me. Her lips instinctively synced with mine. Her nervous and shaky hands slipped under my shirt. I slipped my lips away and brushed them against her neck until I planted kisses all along it. She let out a loud moan, which made me smile a bit. She pulled my shirt over my head and kissed every inch of my stomach as my breathing got heavier.

She spoke into my stomach, "Want me to stop?"

I shook my head and breathed out, "No."

She smirked and kissed my neck as her fingers lightly ran up and down my arms. My heart was going a million miles an hour and everything in my mind except for Mitchie had been thrown out the window. I had her, all of her, and she had me, all of me. I flipped us over, so I was sitting on her stomach. I locked my legs around her sides and leaned down to kiss her. My hair fell over both sides of my face, kind of hiding us. Mitchie ran her hands up my legs and to my hips, where she gripped onto. I softly bit her lip as I pulled away and slipped my cold hands under Mitchie's shirt, which made her let out a heavy breathe.

She moaned out, "I love you, Alex."

I sat up, still on her stomach, and just looked at her. Her eyes were widened and she had the facial expression of, "oh, shit." She probably didn't mean to say that, but she did, and we can't really ignore it now. We were both kind of waiting for each other to say or do something, so we just sat there in a frozen silence...that lasted a bit longer than either of us wanted it to. It became very awkward, very quickly, but neither of us removed our hands from each other. Mitchie's hand were still on my hips, my legs were still locked around her waist, my hands were on her shoulders. A knock on the door snapped us out of it. Mitchie grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around my nearly bare upper body.

She tucked me behind her, "Come in."

Maddie peeked in, "Are you two gonna be hiding in here all day?"

Mitchie was quick to shake her head, "No, we were just on our way out."

Maddie nodded, "Make me food when you come out."

She slipped behind the door and closed it. Mitchie sighed and looked at me. I knew she was waiting for me to say those three words, but I couldn't, because I didn't. I didn't love her.

She pecked my lips and stood, "Get your shirt on, babe, we have some cooking to do."

I quickly tugged my shirt back over my head and stood, "Mitch..."

She waved her hand and shook her head, "Don't bring it up."

"How can I not? You told me you love me..."

She stuffed her hands in her pockets, "I just got caught in the moment or something."

"So...you don't love me?"

"Don't ask me that..."

"You do, don't you?"

Her eyes fell to the ground, "You don't love me...do you, Alex?"

I paused, "So, food, your sister is in need of it."

Mitchie nodded, "I'll take care of it...you can just...go home..."

I stepped closer to her, "Mitchie..."

Tears were building up, "Alex...just go home...I'll call you tonight..."

"I'm not going to just go..."

She loosely wrapped her arms around my neck, roughly kissed me, then pulled away, "There's your goodbye kiss...now...goodbye..."

I continued the useless battle, "Mitch, stop, can we just talk about this?"

"What's there to talk about, Alex? I'm in love with you...you aren't in love with me...end of story."

"No, not end of story. Beginning of story," I lightly kissed her, "I'll pick you up for lunch at two...no disagreeing."

Her eyes were full of sadness, "See you then..."

I knew there was nothing I could say to cheer her up, so I hugged her tightly, then left.

Mitchie's POV-

I flipped my sister's pancake as the events of this morning repeated through my mind. My girlfriend doesn't love me...how can she not love me? What did I do wrong? What am I to her? Just another heart to break?

I served Maddie her breakfast and ducked off to my room. My phone had a new text. I slid unlock and opened it, it was from my ex, Caitlyn, "Mitchie, we need to talk, I miss you. I still love you...I just want you back. I hear you're with someone, which is what opened up my eyes. I love you, Mitchie, I love you. Please, come over."

I re-read it a few times, then grabbed my shoes, and left.

I knocked on Caitlyn's front door and she smiled wide. She pulled me in for a hug, which was followed by a kiss. I knew it was wrong, I knew I would regret this, but at least she loves me.

***

I got home at around midnight. I was exhausted and my conscience was screaming at me. I plopped down on the couch and checked my phone. Alex had called over and over, and texted nearly twenty times. I rubbed my eyes and opened one, "Mitchie, where are you?! You left your sister alone and ditched our date!" My eyes widened. Oh, shit, I completely forgot about that...Everything slowly sank in. I cheated on Alex...I'm going to lose her...I'm going to smash her heart...oh, god...what the hell did I do...

***

The next morning, Alex called me.

I quickly answered, "Hey, baby..."

"Where the hell did you disappear to?"

I paused, "Babe...come over."

"Why?"

"Because you're my girlfriend and I want to spend time with you."

"Not true, I know that tone of voice, you have bad news."

I sighed, "Baby, come over, we need to talk."

She paused, "Oh...o-okay...I'm uh...on my way..."