Everyone! This story is going to be co-written between me and xxHeadInTheStarsxx, and I'm very pleased to say she has written this first chapter. Tell us what you think!!!
"Well kids, you know what time it is!" Jerry said, handing out pieces of papers to Justin, Alex, and Max Russo. Justin smiled excitedly, Max sat there, feeling clueless as usual, while Alex just stared at her cell phone screen, bored to death. "It's almost time for the Wizard Competition where you get to battle each other then at the end, one of the three of you will get to keep their powers."
"Which will be me." Justin said cockily. Alex rolled her eyes while Max just kept on sitting there, staring into space. "You could just save your time now and drop out of the competition." Justin said to Alex, smirking at her. Alex glared at her brother, shaking her head.
"Hey, at least the chances of me winning are way higher than the chances of you getting another girlfriend. So I could win too, which I probably will." Alex said, smiling. Justin squinted his eyes at her, annoyed again. Alex smirked then looked at the piece of paper in front of her. "What's this?" she asked. She looked at it, reading. "Here are the rules for the…okay, I'm bored." she tossed the paper aside then flipped her cell phone on and continued to text her friends.
"Alex, Max, you guys have to pay attention if you want to win. At this rate, Justin's right, he'll probably be the one to win unless you two take this very seriously." Jerry said sternly. Max sighed, finally listening while Alex glared at Justin as he stared back at her conceitedly. "Now, Justin, could you please read the rules of the competition aloud?" Jerry asked, nudging the paper towards his eldest son.
"Here are the rules for the Wizard Competition. Rule one: you may not cheat. If you are caught cheating, even slightly, you are immediately banned from the competition and your powers will be taken away from you for good. Rule two: the battle cannot get physical. If you hurt your opponent intentionally, you are banned from the competition and your powers will be taken away from you as well. Rule three: you cannot fall in love with a mortal. Once the wizard authorities find out that you've fallen for a mortal human, your consequences will be exactly like rules one and two."
"Well that was boring…and pretty harsh if you think about it." Max said. "I mean, no hurting anyone? It's not a battle unless someone gets hurt. Duh." Max continued, saying it like it was the most stupidest and obvious thing it the world. "And what's with the 'no falling in love with mortal' thing? It sounds stupid."
"Well it's the rules, unless you want to be kicked out of the battle and have your powers stripped away from you, you don't have to follow them if you don't want to." Justin said, handing the piece of paper back to Jerry. "Though this might be hard for Alex. No cheating? No falling in love with mortals? Hmm, she might as well get kicked out right now." he smirked at her. Alex pushed him off of his seat, sending him down onto the hard floor and yelping in pain. "And no getting physical." Justin muttered.
"I don't cheat on everything and I haven't fallen in love yet. I'm fifteen, dummy." Alex said, sticking her tongue out at him. Justin got up and sat back down on his seat.
"You probably will." Justin said, but this time seriously. Alex gave him a look, not really understanding. She then ignored him, thinking that she could care less.
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The next day at school, every girl was clutching onto their cell phones excitedly, treating it like God. Alex walked in and gave every girl a strange look. She walked up to her locker, hearing excited squeals and seen at least a dozen girls screaming about how eager they were. By four seconds, she quickly grew annoyed by the girly yells from every passing girl.
"What is going on here?" Alex muttered as the girls stayed glued to their cell phone screens. Then her best friend, Harper, walked up to her, dressed in something similar to candy. "Before I ask about whatever you're wearing, what's going on with this place? Why is everyone treating their cell phone like it's holy Jesus or something?" Alex asked her.
"Didn't you hear? They're holding a radio contest where you could fly all the way to Hollywood, California to meet the hottest band ever!" Harper said. Alex looked at her hands to see that she was clutching onto her cell phone carefully as well. Alex rolled her eyes and closed her locker then the two best friends began to walk.
"And who may this hot band be?" Alex asked, boredom oozing in her voice.
"CONNECT THREE!" a random girl squealed, jumping up and down. It wasn't long until a group of girls joined that one girl and began to talk nonstop about the band, screaming about how they yearned to marry them. "Oh, my God, I could be flying to California to meet them in three more minutes!"
"Who said it was going to be you?! What if it's me?!" another one yelled. Then three-fourths of the female students at school started to argue about who was going to win the chance to meet Connect Three or not.
"Honestly, it's just three typical guys playing guitars and singing. Why is everyone so worked up about this?" Alex asked Harper as they entered their homeroom. "It's not like they're musical gods, unless that's what everyone thinks they are." she rolled her eyes as another group of girls were huddling around an iPod, listening to the latest hits of Connect Three. "Apparently, they all think they are." Alex said, shaking her head disappointingly.
"Alex, just because you're practically the only girl in school who doesn't like Connect Three, doesn't mean that you have to rip on them." Harper said, her eyes never leaving her cell phone. "Oh, my gosh, it's almost time to call them!" she squealed as another minute ticked by. Alex rolled her eyes again..
"Harper, you do understand that thousands of girls will be calling the radio station at the same time. The chances that you'll be the one to win is like one to a million and-"
"Shhh!" Harper hissed, pointing her index finger in front of Alex's face. Alex closed her eyes and shook her head again. She turned and faced forward at her seat, resting her elbows on her desk and laying her head on the palm of her hands. "Just a couple more seconds…" Harper whispered.
Alex looked at her cell phone. She raised an eyebrow and smiled. She murmured a spell right as the ticker came across the big number twelve on the clock. In an instant, the school was filled with beeping cell phones and girls telling each other to shut up so they could listen to the other line of the call. Alex smiled once she saw the look on Harper's face.
"Hello lucky caller number twenty-three!" the radio DJ said to Harper. Harper squealed, jumping up from her seat and standing on top of her desk. Everyone grew silent as they stared at her.. Girls frowned, shutting their cell phones off, knowing that they've lost. "Guess what you won?! A trip to the one and only Hollywood, California to see-"
"Connect Three!" Harper finished for the DJ. "Alex, I won! I won to see them! Oh, my gosh, I actually won! Oh, my gosh." Harper looked like she was about to faint. Alex widened her eyes as her best friend started to fall from her desk. She quickly ran up to her and helped her down. The rest of homeroom, Alex and Harper talked to the DJ as he explained what they've won.
A trip to see Connect Three. In California. For five days. You get to bring one friend.
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By lunch time, every girl of every age were crowding over Harper, pretending to be her best friend, and act really sweet to her so that she would take them to meet Connect Three. "Guys, sorry, but I've made my choice. I'm bringing Alex." Harper said for the umpteenth time to another girl. "Right, Alex?" Harper beamed at her. Though Alex was too busy playing games on her iTouch. "Alex?" Harper said, snapping her fingers in front of her.
"Huh? What?" Alex replied, looking lost.
"You're coming with me to California. Remember?" Harper said, sounding as if she was talking to a five year old. Alex nodded, returning her attention back to her iTouch. Harper brushed her off and looked back at the large group of girls. "Sorry, but like I said, I'm taking Alex and my decision is final." The girls stomped away, aggravated and frustrated.
"Harper, who are we going to see again? Something with the number three in it, right?" Alex said, sounding as if she didn't care at all. Harper rolled her eyes and sighed.
"It's Connect Three. You know, the famous and extremely hottest brothers of all time. Jason Gray, Shane Gray, and Nate Gray. Haven't you at least heard of them?" Harper said, sort of getting annoyed by Alex's lack of pop music. Alex shrugged.
"Maybe. But what I don't get is why every girl is so in love with them. They're just three normal guys." Harper raised her eyebrow at Alex, getting even more annoyed by her lack of knowledge towards her favorite band. Alex is her best friend after all.
"Uh, they're not normal. They're gods." Harper said dreamily. Alex rolled her eyes once more and put her iTouch away. "But, Alex, if you're going to come with me to meet them, please don't rip on them or act rude in front of them. I mean, I know that you don't like them, but pretend that you're a fan. Please?"
"Ugh, fine." Alex said, defeated. Then the rest of lunch period ended up with Harper talking nonstop about Connect Three and Alex pretending as if she was listening while she ate her lunch and texted on her cell phone.
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Alex arrived at home, her eyes still glued onto her iTouch and her cell phone beeping repeatedly. She threw her backpack at Max, signaling him to put it in his room, and then walked over to the couch to continue playing the addicting game on her iTouch. "Hey, Alex, how's school?" Theresa asked, walking towards her daughter.
"Eh, boring." Alex replied. Then she remembered that she got Harper to win the once in a lifetime chance to meet Connect Three by using magic. Though, she would never tell her family that. "But Harper is inviting me to California this weekend to meet some band. Circling Five or something." Alex added.
"Oh, California! That's so exciting! Wait, honey, do you mean Connect Three?" Theresa said. Alex sighed.
"God, does everyone know who they are except for me? Even my mom knows their name!" Alex said, not believing herself. Theresa laughed and sat next to her daughter. "But so could I go? It'll be like a huge sin to miss of an offer to go to California! And it's only for five days." Alex begged.
"Well, I overheard your father talking to Justin about how he's going to start training you three this weekend for the Wizard Competition. Don't you think that that's more important than going to California to meet a band that you don't even like? Plus, you'll be missing school for three days." Alex groaned, hating her mother's parenting skills.
"Mom, I could beat Max easily and I could trick Justin into losing. I already don't pay attention at school so it's pretty much the same thing as being absent. Could I just have this one, simple five day weekend off to go to California? I heard that they have cute stores in Beverly Hills!"
"Talk to your father, sweetie." Theresa said, patting Alex's knee. Alex frowned and leaned back onto the couch. She needed to prepare herself for the biggest 'daddy's little girl act' she'll ever have to pull off if she wants to go to California. She knows that it'll be almost impossible to get her dad to let her go. If there was one thing Theresa and her kids knew about Jerry, he was stubborn and doesn't give in easily. Huh, so that's where I get it from…Alex thought.
Suddenly an idea popped into her head. It was a corny idea, but it may help her get on a plane to good ol' California. There was only one way to find out…
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