Wow, just wow. I never thought in one upload I could get so many people saying they missed my stories and that they can't wait until the next sequel. Guys, you don't know how amazing those words are to a writer, or maybe you do but….wow. I'm working on things as I type but I'm so amazed by how loyal you guys are…makes me wanna' cry or something. Anyway, I have so many thank yous to go through that I'll just save that for the FINAL update of this story. So onto chapter 44, can you believe it? This has been the longest in this series. I thank all of you for pushing me forward and conning me into another sequel. Just kidding, I'd do almost anything for you guys. On a short note, I'm going on vacation in two weeks, but that doesn't mean my writing is. I'm making a writing schedule to keep up with so by the time the new year starts, in three weeks, although it sounds longer, I'll be posting "The Code of Charm." Wow this is long. I came across the new name for the sequel by searching through the dictionary, funny story, okay skipping my long rant, enjoy.

Its amazing how fast I can pack clothes, puppy toys; food, beds, as well as other necessities for a few weeks stay at a summer home, while Alex, my slow moving fiancé, is still working on her closet.

"Need any help?" I climb onto the bed, sitting on my legs as Alex turned quickly to face me. In her mouth was a wire hanger with some jeans on it, and in both her hands were boxes.

"What do you think?" She muffled as I shrugged.

"I don't even know what you just said," I lied, climbing onto the floor and sliding over towards her. Roger was walking in circles against the bed as I pulled the wire from Alex's mouth.

"How did you pack so fast?"

"Its easy," I told her, "I'm a Torres. We never truly stay in one place for long, well for vacations and such." I began folding the things that I had before I felt something hit the top of my head. "Ow, Alex!"

"What?"

"You know what," I gazed around me, "what did you hit me with?"

"What the what now?"

"Don't play dumb," I dropped her clothes onto the bed, pressing my left hand against my waist.

"OO scary stance, shiver."

"Don't do it again," I warned her by pointing at her before re-facing the bed. Roger was making noises under a shirt that now engulfed him. "Are you trying to kill our child?" I lifted the puppy from the avalanche of bright red shirts before placing him onto the floor. After a few minutes of packing I left Alex to the rest and slid into bed. It was late anyway, no use in both of us staying up all night. Coco was next to me with Roger on the opposite end as Alex cursed at different objects in her way. Her voice slowly faded out as I drifted off to sleep, letting the numbing sound of slight hissing paralyze me before I became unaware of the outside world.

"Mitchie question," a voice which I was pretty sure was Alex's came from behind me. I turned about, making out the girl's face. I was in my room, sitting cross legged on my bean bag chair working on a few assignments from class.

"I'm too busy to answer any questions."

"But its important." I didn't know why I was going back to a time that I was fifteen but it was in my mind as clear as day.

"Okay, what is it?" I gazed up at Alex as she lowered herself before me, our brown eyes meeting. I didn't want to react on the feelings I was having at this moment.

"Junior year we're suppose to go on a class trip, and senior year we have prom and things like that, so I was wondering.."

"You were wondering what?" I swear the way her eyes burned into mine seemed as if we were reading into each other's souls.

"If you'd..," her voice lowered, "be my date."

"Be your what? You're kinda talking low."

"I want you to be my date. I mean I know its early and all but…"

"Alex," I sighed, placing my papers next to me. "We've been over this, we're just friends and we both know how we feel about each other but…we aren't suppose to act on them."

"We aren't acting on anything, I just want you to be my date for prom, besides girls usually go with their friends."

"But is this on a friend basis or will this be on something more?" I rose my eyebrow as she bit her bottom lip. I was certain that my instincts were right, but I had to turn her down, it was the only way we could actually be held as 'normal.'

I could hear a loud beeping in my ear before I sat up quickly. It was the alarm clock next to Alex, ringing like crazy as the morning light blazed into the room.

"Lexi cut that off," I called to the girl next to me as she waved her hand into the air. "Lexi cut it off." I covered my ears, and closed my eyes as Roger began barking, and suddenly Coco. "Alex!"

"Umm." She whined, kicking her feet as I decided I had to shut the thing off myself. I faced Alex, crawling one leg at a time across her before hitting the snooze button…nothing.

"Go off," I screamed as I hit the button again, this time causing music to play. Alex tried to lift up fast but she caused herself to knock against me, as I fell over the side of the bed onto the floor. I felt the plush carpet as well as the hardwood below.

"Mitch are you okay?"

"No!" I hit the floor, pushing myself up as Alex covered her mouth. "If you laugh I swear.."

"I won't."

"As if my knee didn't already hurt."

"You just can't stay off your knees can you?" Alex chuckled a bit as I stood up.

"I warned you."

"I just thought you meant don't laugh," she lifted up her hands as if I was going to hit her. Which I'm proud to say I didn't. I unplugged the clock before calming the dogs down, and taking a look at my new battle bruise. Not only was the knee I keep knocking into stuff red, but the other one as well.

"Great," I glanced down before trailing into the bathroom. There was no possible way that I could slam into stuff these many times. Maybe Alex infected me with her clumsy gene. I ran cold water across my knees before Roger whined himself into the bathroom. His head was low and his eyes big.

"Its not your fault. Its hers," I pointed to Alex as she crawled out of bed.

"Its not my fault either."

"Yes it is."

"No one told you to straddle me in my sleep," she leaned against the archway as I glared at her.

"I was trying to cut off the alarm clock."

"Yeah, sure you were. That, and getting free fills."

"Of what? I've touched every inch of you already."

"And you just can't get enough can you?" She shook her head mouthing the words 'no, you can't.'

"Alex, go and walk the dogs," I signaled her out of the bathroom, "go."

"And now she's being demanding. I like it." I watched as she made claws and acted as if she clawed at me while she did a small growl.

"What will I do with you?" I shook my head before standing back up.

"I don't know, but the better question would be, what would you do without me?"

"I could be sane." I nodded to myself before walking up to Alex. We were now face to face as she studied me. It was true that I wasn't mad at her, no matter how bad the throbbing was in my legs. I swear it was as if I really was on my knees a lot. Scratch that and remember to never say those words out loud.

"I still need you to walk the dogs."

"Heck no, they hate me. Last time I walked them Coco made me fall into the grass, and that was yesterday."

"Alex, go." This time I used my hush voice as she began whining just as bad as Roger below us.

"Can you go too?"

"I'll finish your packing, now go."

"Fine." She stumped before she leaned into me, kissing me quickly before smiling. "Tastes just like candy."

"Mitchie flavored," I informed her before I stepped aside, walking back into the room to finish things from last night.

"Okay doggies, lets go."

Once the room was empty I crawled back into bed and closed my eyes, and once I was sure Alex was gone, I drifted back to sleep.

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Whispers filled the room. They were faint but still pretty clear. I shifted in the bed, opening my eyes, spotting no one in sight. I could hear Harper, Justin and Max talking. In no time I was out of the bed and in the shower, trying to get dressed as fast as I could. It was a normal thing of mine to leave the bathroom door either opened, unlocked, or cracked, it was just a habit. So as I was hopping out and grabbing my towel the door was pushed open by Coco as she barked at me.

"Hey!" I'm glad to say I caught my balance and wrapped the towel around me as fast as I could. "Go into the room." I tried to make her back away but she refused to do so. She ran over to me, rubbing against my leg as if she was a cat. "I just took a shower!"

"Coco?" Once I heard Harper I tried to move towards the bathroom door but she spotted me and the dog within a few seconds. "Oh sorry Mitch."

"I'm in a towel, its fine. Can you please…get her," I waved at Coco before Harper came in to grab her.

"I heard that you guys are going to school. Senior year is going to be amazing."

"That's what I'm hopping for."

I was dressed shortly after and down the stairs, joining everyone. I sat next to Justin who was across from Harper, Coco, and Roger, who were all sitting on the floor playing with puppy toys.

"You know its going to be hard for me to watch this house and my own," Justin was sipping on a soda and talking to me as I rose my eyebrow.

"You have a house?"

"An apartment, yes. I mean Max is going to be living at home with Mom and Dad and they're all trying to take over our rooms. You know Alex and I."

"Yeah." I nodded. 'That reminds me, I should tell my parents that I've decided to finish high school." I tapped the arm of the couch as Max and Alex walked into the room with popcorn.

"You know guys, if you want a little company I'd be happy to move in." Harper was staring between Alex and I. "I'll be heading to Columbia next year anyway and what's a better way to end senior year then with two awesome people that I love a lot."

"Well I don't know Harper, I just thought you and Justin would share his place," Alex bit into some popcorn, before she faced Justin. I did the same as Max sat between us, squeezing Justin to one side and me to another.

"My place is for me." He defended.

"Oh come on, Zeke isn't going to be going to our school and you have an extra room."

"You haven't even seen my apartment."

"You circled it on that map you tried hiding from me," Alex informed him, "it was circled, its just a block from here if I'm not mistaken."

The room grew quiet as all of us focused on Harper and Justin. I knew Harper loved the idea of living with Justin, but Justin himself, not so much.

"I don't know." He shook his head.

"I'll totally help pay bills. That settles it. Justin I'm moving in with you." Harper clapped to herself as Justin sighed, sitting back against the sofa, not protesting at all.

I stood, making it over to the front door to look for my keys.

"Are you going somewhere?" Max asked.

"Yeah, I'm going home, well…back to my parents house to get the last of my things and tell my mom and dad about school."

Alex was barley paying attention as she poked fun at Justin and Harper before Max came over to me.

"I'm going, I call it." He said aloud.

"Okay, lets go. LEXI I'LL BE BACK." I yelled over to the girl before Max and I made it out the door.

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Alex's P.O.V

"Guess who called yesterday?" Harper was sitting next to me as I shoved Justin onto the floor.

"Who?"

"Derrick!"

"Really? What'd he have to say?" I asked as Harper opened a soda can before sitting it onto the table.

"He asked if we were considering his cruise offer. I told he we couldn't because you guys were going away to school and all this other stuff but now, do you think we could go?"

"On a cruise?" I rose my eyebrow, not really wanting to go another week on a boat.

"Yeah. We have what, two and a half weeks of summer left. Lets do it!"

"I don't know Harper, Mitchie and I get way too close on those things."

"Well you're engaged now so who cares. Do it, do it, do it!"

"Harper!" I tilted my head as Justin slid over to us. He was sitting on the floor with his elbow pressed into the cushion of the couch.

"Coco and Roger can't go on cruises," Justin tapped my leg.

"Oh right, see Harper, I have puppies now."

"Your brother could take care of them, well Max at least."

"Harper, I don't trust that boy with anything for more then a few hours."

Lights pressed against the window before they shut off, I expected Mitchie was back.

"No cruise, but maybe Mitchie will rejoin the cheerleading squad." I told Harper, as I made it over to the front door.

"Shish boom bah." She chanted as I noticed Max running up the steps. In his hand was Mitchie's old laptop. I grabbed it from the boy as he protest, watching Mitchie climb up the steps with a box.

"What's all this stuff?" I asked.

"Just my dolphin and random things. See." I glanced into the box before nodding.

"So when are we driving out to the beach house?" Max asked as I followed them into the house. It was getting a bit late.

"Guess we can finishing putting things into the trucks and we can head out." I opened Mitchie's laptop, typing in her previous password, finding the entire thing blank. No programs, no folders for songs, nothing.

"Hey," Max grabbed the end of the laptop.

"Would you stop, and why is this blank?"

"Mitchie is letting me have it, she said she's writing everything out now." Max continued to tug on the device until I let it go. He slammed it shut and began helping Justin and Harper with the boxes.

"Mitchie," I followed the girl up the steps as we left almost everything in the music room in its place.

"Yeah?"

"You're letting Max have your laptop?"

"Yeah. I don't really have a need for it now."

"That makes no sense."

"My dad ordered me a new one, and…I don't mind if you read my songs now."

"You minded before?" I asked as she faced me.

"Yes. And you can admit that you're very nosy."

"No I'm not," I crossed my arms mumbling.

"But I love that about you. Usually you never take no for an answer. And you stalk my computer's hard drive," she giggled before I narrowed my eyes at her, helping with the last few boxes. Once everything was loaded and we all were in the trucks we made our way back to the beach house, almost a hour from town. I was driving Mitchie's truck with Harper and of course Mitchie while Justin drove Max and the puppies.

"Alex, you know what. I think your brother is braking under my charm," Harper happily stated to me as she squeezed between a sleeping Mitchie and myself.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because I know he is. We're going to be Mr. and Mrs. Finkle.

"Gross." I laughed as Harper narrowed her eyes at me before turning the station on the radio. "Don't squish my baby now."

"Who Mitchie?"

"No big foot."

"Oh, well when you see him.."

"Harper."

"I won't kill her." She slid into Mitchie's seat, waking her as I giggled at her frightened look. The moon was high in the sky, the cool summer air blowing through the trees and everything just seemed perfect now. We passed a few houses I was familiar with before I let Justin lead in his truck as I followed him. Once we made it to the beach house, we left everything where it was and filed out onto the beach. The waves made everything seem so perfect and quiet.

"I could sleep here." I whispered as Mitchie slid her hand through mine. Harper was setting up a chair for herself as I yawned. Coco and Roger were attempting to go into the water as I took over Harper's chair, and placed Mitchie on my lap.

"Is there any Wi-Fi out here?" Max asked, making his way to the house, cuddling his new laptop close.

"So," Harper slid next to me, making it even harder to breath in the small chair. "We all can officially make this our lazy day," she closed her eyes as I faced her.

"I can't breath."

"Good to know." She nodded, laying against my shoulder as Mitchie laid back onto my chest.

"I'm going to die from the lack of oxygen," I gasped seeing if they would care, which they didn't. I finally embraced the cramped space and closed my eyes as Justin began moving things into the house.

Okay I became sleepy real fast. Last chapter is the next one, it may be short with very long review replies. Because of course, there is a sequel coming up. Also so many people were questioning things about the people in this story, like Mackenzie and Michelle. Just wanted to remind you the story is called 'CRUSH' but there will not be any more drama from Michelle, I'm more or less fond of her then Mackenzie. Any who, I need to work on things for finals, later guys.