He decided to relax a bit as he was stressed from all the emotional tension, so he watched tv on the couch. After about a half an hour his stomach growled, he was hungry. He looked at the kitchen and realized he forgot to go to the market, so he grabbed his MP3 player from his backpack and walked out the door. He walked into town looking for the market when he saw Elmore shopping center. It was decently sized and most likely had most of the things he needed so he walked in and grabbed a cart from the many that were in a row, he followed signs that said where to go and he soon gathered everything he needed.

After he finished-making sure he didn't forget anything he went in line to check out his supplies but realized the line was to long and went to the self service isle he went up and scanned his first can and it said,

"Please scan faster" so he scanned it so fast he couldn't see his arm when he did it.

"Item recognized, scan successful." So he did this on every item at the same speed only stopping when he had to move the barcode, after he was done he paid. Overall he finished in under thirty seconds, he noticed while scanning that a camera looked at him and zoomed, he was about to shrug it off as security when while he was about to walk out with all his groceries in hand until.

"Hey kid! Wait up" he stopped and turned around to see a small blue puppet running after him. So he stopped and as the puppet approached he wondered why he called him kid until.

"Kid, I bet your wondering who I am but I wanna cut to the chase, you're really fast when it comes to those machines so I wanna give you a job." The small puppet said with a smile.

"But I'm only thirteen I can't get a work permit until I'm fourteen." Alec said as a matter of fact

"Hmm... Well how 'bout this, we say your fourteen and I pay you eight dollars an hour. What da yah say?" The puppet asked, Alec thought about it for a moment thinking 'hmm the extra fifty cents an hour will lead to thousands of dollars more at the end of the year, and I don't pay taxes until I get a work permit soo.'

"Alright I'll do it, but I can only show up after school. What about weekends?" He asked

"I can give you Three days off a week with that in mind" he said shaking his hand "here come back tomorrow and I'll show you what to do, by the way you can call me boss or sir, whatever floats your boat. Oh and hey if your wondering I also run laser video." His boss said

"Ok then see you tomorrow boss" he said knowing it was only Thursday. He walked away and back to his apartment with all of his supplies. He walked through his door, closing it with his foot and he then put everything away. He made a quick snack and decided to go for a jog for at least two hours to stay in shape. After getting home he crawled into bed and slept. And at that everyday he went to work with a name pin and went to school where he was idolized and accepted he hung out more with gumball and Darwin-and other people too-after apologizing for getting them in trouble, he even made up with Tina and Jamie, and they stopped bullying, life couldn't be sweeter. Until one day when he decided to take a chance and ask Jamie out, he knew she didn't cause the events that followed but that's about when it started.

5 months later

Alec woke up to his alarm clock blaring, awaiting him to turn it off. After groggily hitting the off button he got up and turned off the coffee maker, which was set to start ten minutes before, he got all of this a month back. He poured himself a cup and drank it eagerly, the burning didn't bother him, because in his mind it just helps him wake up. After drinking the coffee he felt ready to take on the day and to do something he promised he would do long ago.

After doing his daily routine he grabbed his backpack, put on his shoes, and walked out the door. Upon getting on the bus like always he was to deep in thought planning today that he failed to notice gumball trying to get his attention.

"Dude... Dude... DUDE!" Gumball yelled to which it finally caught his attention.

"Huh what!" He said as he snapped back into reality.

"Are you alright, you seem distracted" Gumball asked

"I'm just planning something out" Alec assured

"Ok, but can you come over today and hang out?" Gumball asked

"Sorry but like I said to you before I can't, I can only hang out on Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays." Alec said

"Why is that?" Anais asked

"I'll tell you later but right now I've got to much on my mind" Alec said trying to avoid jeopardizing his job

"Fine but still can you come over Sunday?" Gumball asked

"Sure" Alec said as the bus stopped signaling it to be another day, as they walked off the bus. His heart pounded more and more as the moment approached, he thought of what she would say, what would she do? Would it jeopardize their secret friendship, that started not even a week ago? He decided to purge these questions from his mind as he feared that it might give him a heart attack.

He decided to hold it off for the end of the day due to the fact if he was rejected it would interfere with his school work, so he waited and waited. And as the minutes ticked by to him it felt like hours, every class becoming slightly insignificant as only Jamie was on his mind. Until the bell rang signaling everyone it was the end of algebra and the school day. "Finally" Alec said as he grabbed his algebra textbook and ran out the door with everyone else. After putting his book away he looked around. 'Now where's Jamie' he thought as he looked for her, but she wasn't there so he went to her locker. When he rounded into the corridor where her locker is he saw everyone was already gone except for her, so he walked up to her and tapped her back. She jumped in surprise and turned around, realizing it was only Alec she relaxed.

"Oh hey Alec what do you want?" She asked, with a smile

"W-well I-I was wondering I-if you uhh wanted to go out with me." He said rubbing his neck shyly and blushing the entire time. Jamie was left speechless, she never thought she had a chance with him and now he's asking her out? She wasn't saying anything and that scared Alec more then anything, so he just closed his eyes tight and waited. And what happened next surprised him he felt someone hugging him! So he opened his eyes and looked down a bit to see Jamie embracing him. "So I'm guessing this means yes?" He said smiling which made Jamie blush.

"Yes!" She said silently which made Alec hug her back. When they let go Alec and Jamie blushed.

"Well we missed the bus so how about I walk you home?" He half asked

"Yeah sure" she said as she held his hand and they both walked away. They walked and walked as Jamie had her head on his shoulder until,

"Uhh Jamie I don't exactly know where you live." Alec said as he looked around.

"Oh it's actually not far from here." She said lifting her head from his shoulder. She then gave him directions and they arrived only ten minutes later. "We'll ill see you at school tomorrow she said smiling on the porch.

"Yeah, see yah" he said as he waved her goodbye and walked away. He had a smile in his face as he leisurely walked to his apartment. But his smile soon disappeared as he saw a familiar government issue SUV coming down the road

Notes~

Sorry this chapter jumped a long period of time, I just didn't want to make you guys wait longer, action will come next chapter. Read & review, until next time!