Dear Readers-

Yes, it is short. Sorry. It used to be apart of Ch.11 before I posted it but then I changed my mind and made it ch.12.

-SDSL

Disclaimer:

I only own Alice, the cousins, Amy and Alex (aka the twins), and the plot. Which I happen to think is spectacular.

Alice

I walked out of the bathroom at Sarah's new apartment, holding my wet clothes, handing them to Sarah. I wore mesh shorts, a t-shirt, Pogue's leather jacket, and my hair piled on the top of my head. Amy and Pogue were sitting on the couch, looking cozy. I smirked. I can't thank you all enough." I said.

"It's no bother, really." Sarah smiled at me as she went to put the clothes in the new washing machine.

I smiled as I sat on the couch next to Amy, folding my legs underneath myself. "And I'm sorry that we met under such crappy circumstances. Let me re-introduce myself. I'm Amy Danvers." I said shaking her hand.

"I'm Amy Catrel, and it's no big deal. Pogue and Sarah explained everything to me." I rose my eyebrows. Pogue shook his head as if to say 'Everything but the power'.

"I'm glad." I smiled as Sarah came back.

I snuggled into Pogue's jacket, and he smirked at me, chuckling as he said, "You like that jacket a lot, huh?"

"Yes." I said in my little kid voice. "It's comfy, and warm, and smells nice like you do." I said, still in my little kid voice, causing all of them to laugh.

"Hey Pogue, can you take Amy home? I'm going to have Alice stay here, because, after all, we have a third room and a third bed. And I promised Alex I would get her home before ten." She smiled. I grinned, I knew what she was doing.

"Yea, sure. I can do that." He said as they stood up.

"Here, you need it more than I do." I sniffed. "Bye bye, jacket. I wuvvles you." I said in my little kid voice again.

"I know what to get you for your birthday!" He said in a sing song voice as he put it on. "Bye, Alice. Don't get too down, sweetheart." I smiled as he kissed my cheek. "Take care of her, Sarah."

Sarah nodded. "Of course. Have fun you two!" She called after them. Pogue glared at us as he shut the door behind himself. As soon as he did, the two of us began laughing uncontrollably.

She sat beside me, saying, "He is so going to ask her out when he drops her off."

"Duh." I said, as we continued laughing.

"Alice…" She finally said. "I want you to know that Pogue told me about what happened, and I chewed Caleb out about it. I'm so sorry… " She said, hugging me tight. "Oh, and Caleb's an idiot. That, and if… if you want to come live ere with me and Kate… you can."

"Wow, Sarah, I… wow." I said.

"Oh, and you have some messages." She said, "Would you like me to tell you them now, or are not up to it?"

"Just… go ahead and tell me." I said, and she nodded.

"Okay then. The first one is from Reid. He said to tell you that he would kick you're brother's sorry ass from here to 'fucking' Mars for the nasty remark. That and he thinks Caleb is a manwhore." She said, making me laugh. Old predictable Reid. "Oh and he wants to know if you want to go out to dinner at Chey Langra at seven this Saturday." Like I said, old predictable Reid. "That, and he's gone to hunt down you're brother."

I groaned, putting a hand over my face. "Oh boy."I then rubbed my eyes, turning to face her, saying, "Next message."

"It was from Tyler. He said not to worry. He got a hold of Reid before he managed to do anything stupid. That, and he says your brother was way out of line." She told me.

I let out a breath of relief. "That's good. Are there any more?" I asked.

Like, two." She grimaced as she said, "The next was from Caleb, and Pogue answered on this one. Caleb wanted to know where you were, when he could get you, and why Pogue wouldn't let him talk to you." Sarah said, and I was shocked. "And his message was that he was sorry. He said he didn't mean it and he doesn't feel like himself lately. He wants to make it up to you. He wants to do lunch at Missy's tomorrow afternoon." She told me.

"… I'm having trouble processing this one. Next message." I said.

"This last one was from Kate, and Pogue picked up the phone for this one too." Sarah told me. "He said that she was pretty surly with him because she wanted to talk to you herself. She told him he was an idiot. And her message for you was that she loves you and is here for you. And to call her back or she'll castrate Pogue." She said, causing me to laugh again. "Oh… and just a side note, don't tell her that Pogue blew up her bed. He thought there was something moving in there and… well… kaboom."

"Uh, that's a lot to take in." I said, leaning my head back.

"I know sweetie, but we can get this all taken care of tomorrow." She said, smoothing back my hair.

"I know." I sighed. "But, I can't hide forever. Although, I don't think… I don't think that I'm going back to my brother's house. At least not for a while." I told her. I opened my eyes, turning to look at her. "Is your offer still on the table for me to live with you guys?" I asked.

Sarah smiled. "Always will be." She said, hugging me. I called Kate, then Pogue, then Reid, and then Caleb. I confirmed lunch with Caleb, but not much else. I also told him that someone would be over his house soon to get some of my things. I told Reid dinner was great and there was no reason to destroy Caleb. I told Kate about everything… even everything about Evan, and no one else knew that… I didn't even tell Sarah. And the Pogue said he'd collect all my stuff from the house and smack some sense into Caleb. And he asked out Amy, which was too cute.

A few minutes later, Kate rushed in the door, throwing her stuff on the ground. "Hunney, come here." Kate said. "Tell me more about today."

"Caleb… he freaked out on her again." Sarah said.

"I love him, Sarah." I told her tearfully. "I... love him. Why isn't that enough for Caleb? Because it's enough for me!" I cried at her between sobs. "Why is it never enough?"

"Aw, come here, sweetie." She said, sitting down beside me on the couch, pulling me close. "Caleb's just... a bit... you know..."

"Obnoxious?" Kate asked.

"Yea, well I was gonna say over-protective, but yours works too." I laughed a bit as Kate crawled onto the couch next to us, joining our hug as they let me cry in silence.

Then Kate jumped up. "Okay, all we need is some Ben & Jerry's ice cream, a few spoons, and Romeo & Juliet. The good one, though, with Leonardo... I'll be right back!" She shouted, running into the kitchen as both Sarah and I began to laugh. When she went to her room to get the movie, she screamed and came out, with the movie, but looking freaked. "What the hell happened to my bed?"

Dear Readers-

Mmkay, here's the thing, I know she really hasn't actually officially moved out, but I think this was a big step for her, standing up to Caleb and all. Oh, and I never actually write about this in the story because they never actually find it out. But Brooke was controlling Caleb's mind a little bit. Only hen he was freaking out. So whenever he overreacted, it was really Brooke, playing with his mind and trying to make things worse... which she def. accomplished. So don't hate Caleb! And the next chapter will be up in an hour or two. THANKS SO MUCH!! R&R please!

-SDSL