3rd person POV
In the midst of the New York-ers walked a woman the age of 32. She was a brunette with the typical brown eyes. Having spent the last 17 years in Texas, her skin was darker than before and had developed a faint hint of a Texan accent. She had been wondering around New York for a month now, going for town to town in search of someone. She come with a lot of baggage; a dark past. She had vowed never to step foot in this city again, but now she was back with good reason. By what she had learned earlier that year, she figured the one she was looking for would be 16 years old. She searched through the high schools, and asked around to anyone who would answer. Obviously she's had no luck, but she has a good feeling that she's on the right track. She needed to find her soon, a 16 year old should in no way be living on their own. She had tried it, and it was horrible, in no way did she wish her sister the same thing. This would be harder since the girl wouldn't be suspecting her, she wouldn't even know who she is, and there were slim chances she'd believe her, but she had to try. She wasn't going to give up, she came this far, and she wasn't backing down now.
Dallas Torres left home at the age of 15, leaving three horrid brothers, an observant father, and an abusive mother. It wasn't until 3 months ago she found that she had a younger sister as well and since that day she had been following any leads she can to search for her sister. She didn't have have a family growing up and she didn't want the same for Michelle.
Alex's POV
"Okay sit down" Mom told me once we got home. I helped Mitchie onto the couch before sitting myself down next to her.
"Now tell me. What the hell is going on!? Why-" I was cut off by Momma.
"Language" She scolded and I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever, just tell me. I think I have a right to know" Mom nodded.
"Yes you do. And this might be difficult to believe." she started.
"And you need to know we love you very much and we have good reason for keeping this from you-" Momma added in before I cut in myself.
"Was I adopted?!" I asked shocked. Their eyes widened.
"What!? No! We told you, we got the treatment. If you were adopted we would have told you" Mom said immediately.
"Then what is it?" I asked.
"Well, you know-" Momma started again, but this time it was Mitchie who interrupted.
"Oh for the love of.. Your parents were famous, still kind of are" Mitchie blurted sounding annoyed. We all looked at her in shock and she started blushing.
"Sorry, I'm just really tired" She said sheepishly. My parents nodded as I thought about what she said.
"Famous? How?" It would certainly explain the paparazzi.
"Alex, have you ever wondered why we don't let you watch TV, or keep you away from any magazines, or any sort of Media?"
"Well yeah, I mean it gets kind of annoying when I have to learn everything from Mitchie.." I said then realized something. "You knew!" I accused her.
"Well maybe. I mean how else could you not find out at school? I mean I thought you would have thought something was off with all those people I would cut off or shut up. I mean remember when I punched Mason when he wouldn't shut up?" She said and I laughed at the last part.
"Oh my gosh, I wish I could have seen my own face. That was completely random! I mean we were just having a normal conversation and you came out of nowhere and punched him!" Mitchie chuckled along with me.
"Well I tried interrupting, I tried tricking him, distracting him, I even got the principal to call him to the office but when it didn't work, I did the first thing I thought of"
"So you sent him to the nurses office?" I said with a huge grin remembering that day.
"Girls! What's this about punching someone?" Mom asked with an eyebrow raised and we hung our heads.
"He was a jerk anyways." She mumbled and I couldn't help but smile at that, but my smile soon faded when I remembered what we were just talking about.
"But you still haven't told me how you were famous" I pointed out. The room was silent while my parents exchanged looks. Like they were having a conversation with their eyes. Soon Momma went upstairs and came back down with a box. She set the box on the floor in front of me.
"Go ahead, open it" She told me. I got off the couch and opened it with curiosity. I went to the box and opened it. Inside were a bunch of CDs and posters and magazines along with some movies and other things. I picked up a magazine in awe. It was a Cosmopolitan Magazine. I couldn't believe it when I saw on the cover was Momma with light hair and darker skin. Her hair was being blown back and she was showing a lot of cleavage. I looked up to her with wide eyes and she was blushing.
"Yeah that was a um a long time ago" She said clearing her throat. "Moving on" She said taking the magazine from me. I looked and found that all the magazines had either mom, Momma or both of them on the cover with captions like, hottest female and find out why Justin and Selena broke up. I opened that one to the page and saw a picture of Justin Beiber with his arm around my mom as a teenager. I only knew about Justin Beiber because someone at school was making fun of him so I asked Mitchie about it and she showed me some stuff. I have to say, I thought it was a girl singing until Mitchie showed me the name and then his picture.
"You dated him?" I asked and Mom nodded.
"Yeah it was for publicity at first and then when I got to know him, I sorta did get feelings for him." I looked back to the magazine.
"So you were together, then broke up because he cheated on you, then got together on which the same day he cheated again?" I asked after skimming the article.
"No, you shouldn't believe those, they're often false. What happened is our careers got in the way. We stopped having time for each other so people assumed we broke up, then when they spotted us together they thought we got back together, then we broke up because we didn't see it going anywhere. It was a mutual agreement." I nodded then moved onto the CD's. There were eight albums total. Four from each.
"Can we play one of these?" I asked and they both nodded. I got up and went to the stereo inserting the one on top of the stack. It was Here We Go Again. There was a picture of Momma only she had black hair in this one. She was holding her finger to her lips as if she were keeping a secret. I put the CD in and hit play. The room was filled with the sound of a guitar, drums and a base. Then the lyrics started.
I throw all of your stuff away
Then I clear you out of my head
I tear you out of my heart
And ignore all your messages
The song went on and I found myself admiring her voice.
So how did you get here under my skin?
I swore that I'd never let you back in
Should've known better than trying to let you go
'Cause here we go go go again
I listened intently to the lyrics, the voice and the music behind it all as the song played fully. When it ended I turned to her in wonder.
"Was this about mom?" I asked her. Momma shook her head.
"No, that one wasn't really about anyone, just something I thought my fans could relate to. Stop the world is about her though." She told me. I checked the case before setting it on track 9.
I don't know why, I don't know why I'm so afraid
I don't know how, I don't know how to fix the pain
We're livin' a lie, livin' a lie; this needs to change
We're out of time, we're out of time and its still the same
We can't stop the world, but there's so much more that we could do
You can't stop this girl from falling more in love with you
You said 'nobody has to know',
Give us time to grow, and take it slow
But I'd stop the world, if it'd finally let us be alone
Let us be alone
I found myself mesmerized. These were amazing. I listened to this one all the way through as well.
"That was when I was scared on how everyone would react if I was with your mom." Momma said once the song had stopped and smiled to Mom. "Gosh I was so scared, your mother didn't even know. I felt like I was taking a risk releasing that, but a part of me wanted her to figure it out." She kissed my mom on the cheek and I rolled my eyes going through the rest of the CDs.
"Can I keep these?" I asked hopefully. I wanted to listen to all of them.
"Sure, go ahead" Mom told me and I smiled going back to the box. I went through it some more looking at all the posters while Mitchie read the magazines. I picked up a movie and found Momma on the cover along with the Jonas brothers.
"You knew the Jonas brothers?" I asked her and she nodded.
"Yeah, they sorta helped me build my career" I nodded looking at the cover again before picking up another one. This one had Mom on the cover with Jake T. Austin and some guy I've never seen before. It was a tv series becuse the box said it was Season Two and I couldn't help but marvel at how young mom looked. Not to mention, it really did look like me. Like exactly identical. I used to shrug it off when someone said I looked like her but now I see they weren't kidding. I turned the box over and read the back.
Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie) and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) continuing to compete to become the leading wizard in their family. Also starring in the series are María Canals Barrera and David DeLuise as their parents, Theresa and Jerry, and Jennifer Stone as Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle.
"Alex?" I asked looking up to her. She nodded.
"That was my favorite character to play and I found that I loved the name. Your mother agreed with me so that was what we wanted to name you." She told me. I found myself wanting to watch it even more to see just who I was named after. I read it over again and noticed something.
"Selena Gomez?" I asked looking up again.
"It was her mom's maiden name." Momma spoke up. "We both chose to use our mothers names when we became famous." She explained.
"Mitchie Torres?" Mitchie asked from her spot on the couch. She had picked up the box with Momma and the Jo Bros and was staring at it astonished. She looked up to my parents and Momma laughed.
"Yeah, I though it was ironic when you two became best friends. Alex Russo was who Selena played in her Tv series, and Mitchie Torres was my role on Camp Rock. They're the roles we're both most known for" She said smiling. Mitchie and I glanced towards each other. It was silent for a moment before we both giggled.
"I guess that means we're soul mates" I told her dramatically.
"Alex, my love, don't you see we were meant to be?!" We broke out in laughter. A part of me wanted her to be serious but I know she wasn't. Wait, why did I just think that? I looked at her again. I felt the feelings I've been getting lately. Could I really be falling for her? She's my best friend! And a girl nonetheless! I shoved the thoughts out of my head not wanting to think about it.
"Let's watch one of these!" I suggested getting up and putting the Wizards of Waverly place DVD in.