PRESENT DAY: NARRATOR POV

"Alex?" Mitchie snapped her fingers trying to get Alex's attention but Alex was far away in her head.

"Hello? Earth to Alex!" She dragged out the "Hello" as long as she could, clapping her hands in an attempt to pull Alex out of her own little world. This time, Lexi jumped at the loud clapping and shook her head to get back to reality.

Seriously, Alex, get your shit together.

"What's on your mind Lex?" Mitchie said, a hint of concern in her voice.

"Just everything. Summer is almost over and it's going to go by so freakin' slow. We're stuck at home and we're wasting the last few weeks of sunlight and beach time we have left."

"I know what we could do," said Mitch, a mischievous grin stretching its way from ear to ear across her face.

"Whatever it is, no."

Alex was not in the mood for shenanigans, especially after seeing Mitchie's expression.

"Come on! You don't even know what I was gonna say, Lex!"

Alex sighed, signaling Mitch to say what was on her mind.

"Thanks there, Capitan! Okay, so we'll need cash... Lots of it. I mean, plane tickets are expensive and I hear it's expensive down there-"

Alex cut Mitchie off with a loud cackle.

"Where the Hell do you think we're going, Mitch?"

Mitchie mocked an offended face, scrunching her eyebrows and placing her hand on her chest as if Alex had just told her she was stupid or ugly, but she quickly recovered. "I was thinking Mexico... Maybe Cabo?"

Alex tried not to smile at the idea, but she couldn't help herself. It sounded awesome, and as much as she hated to break rules, she would do anything for her best friend. Alex knew she deserved a getaway after the last year. She spent all of high school working harder than anyone she knew to keep a perfect grade point average, a fantastic college application, and extra curriculars that took up almost all of her time outside of school. She deserved a break for once and Mexico sounded amazing.

"Maybe," she said after a few minutes of hard contemplation.

"Maybe my ass," Mitchie said loudly.

"What? I want to think about it. How are we even going to get enough money to go anyways?"

"We can figure that out when we get home," Mitch said, trying to come up with ways to get the money.

Alex knew that money was hard enough to come by since the country was in an economic crisis, let alone making enough money to go to Mexico for an entire week. As she worked the idea over in her mind, Mitchie was screaming the words to an old Usher song, throwing her hands in the air out of excitement.

When the girls pulled into the parking spot underneath the awning outside of Mitchie's apartment, they put the top of the convertible up, grabbed their stuff out of the back seat and made their way into Mitchie's living room. The room was a disaster, like always, but Alex usually liked to help Mitch clean up when she came over.

"I've got it!" Mitchie yelled as the girls were folding laundry on the couch.

Flashback 02 : "The Concert Pt. 2"

Junior Year of High School

As they reached the outskirts of the city, the excitement in the girls was overwhelming.

Alex was concentrating on not hitting every other car that they passed in the insanely clogged traffic, as Mitchie flipped off and cursed at every single car that cut them off or made any other driving errors. Her fits were almost amusing but overall ridiculously dramatic.

"Oh my God, Mitch, stop pissing everyone off!" Alex said with annoyance.

"Come on, that asshole just cut you off and didn't use their blinker. Fuck this shit."

Mitchie was feeling antsy and she was ready to just haul ass to this concert and have the good night that she knew was ahead. Alex on the other hand was just ready to get some food and stand for a little bit after sitting through such a long drive. After half an hour of driving around the city and getting lost a few times, the girls found an In-N-Out close enough to the venue to walk there before the show and parked at the giant cement parking structure behind the venue.

"Thank God. I was craving meat," Mitchie said, lusting over the Animal Fries she was about to inhale after they got to the front of the line.

"I was half expecting you to say that you were craving the blood of everyone you yelled at while we were driving earlier."

Alex thought it was hilarious but Mitchie just scoffed and glanced at her best friend with an eyebrow lifted as to say something along the lines of Well fuck you too then, buddy.

"This is the greatest thing I've ever eaten in my entire life," Mitchie said, her mouth full of fries and strawberry milkshake.

"You are seriously disgusting. Why am I friends with you? You're an animal right now."

"Hello, I got Animal Fries. If that doesn't explain everything, then I just don't know about you," Mitch shot back with a cheeky smile.

"Okay, okay. You've got me on that one."

After the girls ate, they walked back to the parking structure at the venue to change their shirts and spruce up a bit, with just half an hour until the concert. Alex chose her favorite black and gray shirt with one sleeve slunked off, while Mitchie just stuck with her usual white v-neck and the leather jacket she almost always had on. The two shuffled through their jewelry, picking out just the right accessories for their ensembles.

"Damn. We look hot."

Alex said that, meaning that she thought Mitchie looked hot. Mitchie knew all but one thing about Alex and that was Alex's little crush. Ever since they were kids, they always made their way back to one another, each knowing very well that life without the other would be a pointless and depressing sequence of events.

"Bitch, I know," Mitchie said, ready to dance.