A/N: It really amazes me how so much time can just disappear. A whole week can go by without you even noticing, but, without further adieu, here you go.

Selena's POV

"Alex, you really shouldn't borrow your brother's car without asking him first." My mother told me sternly. As if Justin would ever let me borrow his car.

"I did ask him."

"No you didn't! You told me you were taking it and ran off before I could stop you!" Justin exclaimed, gesturing wildly.

"Well your car is fine isn't it? I didn't damage it." I told him pointedly, "And besides, when else is it going to get driven? I don't see why you got yourself a car when you can't even pass your driving test. At least I have a licence." Owned.

Justin just sighed heavily and stalked off up the stairs. Poor guy, I win every time.

My mom gave me a stern look before getting up and going back downstairs, leaving me alone to think. Finally some peace.

I couldn't understand what had gotten into me. I knew I liked guys, or at least I had for as long as I could remember. But it seemed that ever since I learned that Selena was gay, I couldn't stop looking at her in a different light. Every time she came into the room I found myself checking her out before I even noticed that I was doing it; every time she came close to me, my heart started beating furiously and when she came to my room after her shower that morning? Man… what can I say? This is so frustrating, what am I? Some sort of sick pervert?

Sighing angrily at myself, I propped my feet up on the coffee table, grabbed the remote and switched the TV on. So Random! was on. As I watched I took particular note of Sunny Monroe. If Selena's ex looked just like her then Selena has pretty good taste, that girl is HOT… Argh… I need to stop this. Throwing the remote back down on the table I stood up and made for the stairs leading down to the sub station. If there's one thing that can distract you from your thoughts, it's working in a sandwich shop.

When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I found that my parents were nowhere to be seen, and that Selena was happily chatting with a customer from behind the counter. What is she doing here; I thought she was at Hugh's house?

"Hey, what are you doing here; I thought you were at Hugh's house?" I called out to her, a huge grin coming to my face. Yeah I just said what I was thinking, got a problem with that?

She returned my grin. "I was, but we finished early so I came here. Your parents were going out and told me, or should I say 'Alex', to watch the counter while they were gone.

"Huh, nice" I replied, my fingers fidgeting nervously at the edge of the counter. "Need some help?"

"Sure, Max was in the back making the sandwiches but he disappeared a few seconds ago." She said with a cute little smile.

"Got it."

I made my way into the back of the shop, smiling contentedly to myself. Ok so I'm totally gay for Selena and I don't care who thinks that's weird.

We passed the next hour or so working in relative silence, the only real communication being when one of us was calling an order through to the other in the back. It was… nice… relaxed. I could get used to this.

As the evening drew to a close and our last customer left, I heard the door open out the front as someone entered the substation. Thinking nothing of it I dropped a bag of trash in the bin and walked out of the kitchen. Shit! I froze as I saw Harper; fully dressed in one of her typically themed colourful outfits, chatting with Selena by the cash register. I started trying to edge my way back into the kitchen, but just as I was passing the door Harper glanced up and made eye contact with me. Her left eyebrow shot up in confusion as she looked between Selena and I and she started to speak.

"Alex… have you been using-" she began.

No! Nonononoo! I started waving frantically at Harper from behind Selena, trying to get her to shut up.

"-magic again? You know you're not supposed to use it without permission." She finished.

My hand went to my face and I let out a low groan. "Umm… Harper, this is Selena, she moved here from L.A. a few weeks ago." I told Harper pointedly, hoping that Selena wouldn't take any notice of Harper's slip.

"Magic?" Selena asked quizzically, turning around to look at me. So much for her not taking any notice…okay…what should I tell her?

"Don't mind Harper, she's just kidding, she…erm does that a lot... you know?" I said weakly. Kill me now.

"Oh, really? Ok then." She said clearly not convinced, but not following the subject any further. She turned to Harper and reached out her hand, "Hey Harper, I'm Selena, I-uh know we haven't been formally introduced but I've actually been around for a while. I even talked to you a few times… Alex and I sure look alike huh?"

"And that's just about where the similarities end." I interjected.

"Too true." Selena agreed.

Harper looked between the two of us again before shrugging that Harper shrug and reaching out her hand to take Selena's. "Oh, what the heck. Hey, nice to meet you Selena. I have a feeling I'm the last person to know about this." She said smiling warmly.

I gave Harper a mischievous smirk. "Well… not the last person, our parents don't know yet."

Harper looked pleased at this news. "Then I'll be looking forward to their reactions when they find out." She stated, continuing to grin.

Selena stood up and looked at her watch before moving over to the coat stand and grabbing her coat. "Speaking of parents, mine want me home for eight, so I'll see you two tomorrow." Damn… I was hoping she'd stay over again… I guess Harper will have to do.

I gave her one of my world famous pout's. "Aww, going so soon…?"

Selena just returned my pout, turns out that's another thing we have in common. "That pout doesn't work on me Alex, you should know better, and yeah I gotta go, so see ya!" she called out as she headed out the door.

"Bye!" Harper and I called after her.

I turned to Harper. "Sleepover?"

She gave me an 'of course I'm sleeping over I have so many questions to ask you, so duh' look and nodded curtly. "Sleepover."

"So, what you're trying to tell me is that Selena has been going to our school for a week… and she has even been talking to me for a week and I never even noticed?" Harper asked.

"Yup, that's about it." I replied.

"I feel so stupid." she said, groaning.

We were in my room eating pizza and talking about Selena.

I nodded. "Yup, we wanted to see how long we could keep it up before you found out… which you did. And of course you nearly revealed magic in the process." I said, giving her a playful nudge and stuffing my slice of pizza into my face. This stuff is so good.

Harper gave me a look with seemed to be an attempt at anger. "Yeah, well that's your fault for not telling me about her, and I would probably be upset about this except for the fact that it's hilarious." She pointed out, starting to giggle. This made me start to giggle too and before we knew it we were both rolling around on the bed laughing our heads off.

After a few minutes the laughter died off and I slowly became more serious as I realised that I finally had someone to talk to about what I was feeling. And who better than Harper, the least judgemental person I know.

"So Harper… I need your help with something…" I said with a serious tone. Ok here we go, the big reveal.

"Is everything ok?" she asked, clearly worried at my tone.

"Yes yes, everything's fine… well not fine but nothings wrong…. I just need to talk to you about some… personal stuff."

She put her hand on my knee. "Ok then, shoot."

I sighed before beginning to speak. Ok, where to start. "Right…um… remember back in seventh grade, when I dated Danny Clark? Remember how all the girls were crazy about him? How they would never shut up about how gorgeous he was?" Harper nodded so I continued.

"Well, I thought he was disgusting, and I've thought the same of pretty much every guy I've ever dated. Sure, Dean was pretty cool and we got along well, and mason was a real good friend, but I was never attracted to any of them… I've never really got it… never understood what it is that makes a guy so 'hot' or so 'cute'. I've never seen what all the other girls see. I just went along with it because I thought I was supposed to, because that's what normal people did. But recently, things have started to change. Over the past week or so since Selena got here, I've started to feel those feelings that I've heard people talking about all my life. I've started feeling them every time Selena walks into a room, every time she hugs me and every time I hear her voice on the phone." I paused for a breath and looked Harper in the eyes. "I don't know what it means Harper, I don't know if I'm gay or what. All I know is that Selena takes my breath away and if that's wrong or strange… I don't care, cause that's how I feel." Wow, I actually just said all that.

Harper just looked at me for a few seconds, dumbfounded, before she burst into tears and started hugging me, which of course, caught me completely off guard.

"Harper…Harper! Get off me, and what are you crying for?" I asked, holding her at arms length. She just smiled at me through her tears.

"Sorry, Alex, I'm just so happy to see that you're finally growing up. Taking some decisive action in your life." Huh?

"Decisive ac- sorry, what? Oh never mind. So. You're okay with it? With the whole, me liking Selena thing?" I asked her uncertainly, tilting my head to the side. Please say yes. Please say yes. Please say yes.

"Of course silly! Didn't you hear me? Of course I'm okay with it, in fact I'm really happy for you, kinda always guessed you'd turn out to be a big ol' lesbian, kinda ironic though."

"What's ironic?" I asked, lying back on the bed.

"That the only thing that can tame the great Alex Russo is… well… just about the closest thing to Alex Russo you could possibly find. You're a strange girl Alex, and you make for one heck of an interesting best friend." She said, also lying down on the bed.

"Aww, thanks Harper... i think, so tell me, how are things between you and Zeke?"

As Harper began to tell me all about herself and Zeke, and I just sat there with a big grin on my face. I was happy. My best friend accepted me for who I am, and I knew what I wanted. Selena.

Until next time folks! (I have no idea when that will be.)

-L.