Alex left thinking Marissa didn't love her. Few years later they meet again, they have to work in the same place in LA. Marissa is now engaged to Ryan. Alex goes for the get some, get gone routine. Appearances from old friends and new ones.
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Thoughts are in italic.
Flashbacks are in bold.
AN: thanks to xxocluvurxx, damaris89, QtrMoon, ALEXISSA2, Vero, h3if3ngXx, dHee, FiresOfDeath for reviewing. I love to read your opinons. And Feel free to give ideas, i'm always open to change the storyline, I know the ending but the middle is open for discution.
Chapter 10
Marissa turned off the car as she finally got to the beach Alex had drawn on the map. Not that was difficult to find, it was just really far from the city. That's why there isn't a lot of people.
A little to her left she could see some people her age, whom she thought were Alex's friends. But she wasn't about to go over there, as the blonde wasn't anywhere to be seen and Marissa didn't know anyone there, except maybe a Latino girl whom she had a sinking felling it was Jodie.
Remembering that the night before the club was so packed that the two girls hadn't had any time to talk about what time they would meet here, the brunette decided to get something to eat at the minimart she had seen a couple of miles back. It was already lunch time, and Marissa hadn't had breakfast yet, not that she had been wake for that long.
As she entered the store, she noticed Alex with a pack of beers and an ice-cream on the line to pay. The brunette was going to make her way to the other girl, when she noticed that the blonde had something on her mind.
Alex's shoulders were tense, her hands kept twitching and she had a far away look on her face, showing that she was deep in thought. Marissa decided not to disturb the distressed girl, instead she opted to follow Alex, her food long forgotten.
Marissa was proven right. As soon as Alex reached her car, the blonde kicked the left front tire three times, at the same time shouting very unlady like words. Taking deep breaths, the blonde calmed down, got into her car and drove to the beach, followed by a worried Marissa.
Reaching the beach, Alex parked the car and made her away towards her friends, pulling Jodie aside to talk privately. Marissa watched the interaction, but couldn't make out what they were saying.
"Hi, guys. I'm sorry, but I kinda have a very important thing to talk to Jodie about. So, if you will excuse us."
"Thing? What thing?"
"A very important thing. Now, come on, Jo." Alex didn't give her time to answer, as she pulled the dark haired girl away from her friends.
"Hey, hey. Alex, where is the fire?" Noticing the annoyed look on her friend's face she continued. "So, tell me, what's this very important thing?"
"I have a problem."
"A problem?"
"Yeah. A big one."
"So, do tell. What's this big- OH MY GOD!!! YOU ARE PREGNANT!!!"
"What?!?! Me? NO!!!!!!!!!!"
"Are you sure? 'cause you have been experiencing some intense mood swings lately, you know, happy-then-angry-then-happy-again, could be the hormones, the far off look on your face, and I think you have gained some weight-"
"Hey! I am not fat! And I am certainly not pregnant!"
"Nobody said you were fat, sweetie, gaining weight is not always a bad thing. You should tell your girlfriend that."
"Marissa is perfect just the way she is." And seeing Jodie's smiling face, Alex added. "And she is not my girlfriend." Which made the other girl chuckle.
"So, let's see, wild guess here, but I think this big problem has something to do with somebody's not girlfriend. Ok, that sounded weird. Maybe somebody's ungirlfriend? No, that's worse. Imgirlfriend?"
"Jodie, kinda losing the point here."
"Oh, yes. The point is the brunette bitch which I don't like to talk with nor about. What did she do now?"
"Nothing."
"Good. Problem solved. Now lets get back to the group, I really want to take my board and hit the waves."
"Jodie, would please listen to me? I'm serious." That got the girl's attention, for she saw Alex's conflicting eyes.
"What's on your mind?"
"Marissa."
"I think we've established that."
"Yeah, but the problem is that she is the only thing on my mind. I can't think of anything else. Literally."
"So, you are all stalker like now?"
"Not like that. It's just, I… Well, I feel numb when she is not around. When she smiles, my heart feels like it will burst with so much happiness. When she is sad, I feel like crying, so I say or/and do anything to make her laugh. When she is angry, I wanna punch someone. When she is calm, I can stand 12 hours of traffic without complaining. The idea of her with someone else drives me insane. But, I can't stand the thought of her feeling lonely."
"Girl, you have it bad." Jodie said, hugging Alex.
"I know. But it's not like I wanna feel like this. I mean, this makes me do things I don't wanna do. Like my brain is saying something, but my body responds to her commands. And it's driving me nuts. I can't even go to the beach with my friends without inviting her, so she doesn't spend her day off doing nothing"
"Wait a second, you invited her here?"
"Ops, I may have forgotten to mention it."
"Damn right you forgot to mention it. What time does she get here?"
"I don't know"
"What you mean you don't know?"
"We kinda didn't have much time talk about the details."
"By the details you mean the hour that bitch arrives and ruins our day, therefore the hour I have to be 50 miles away from here?"
"You say it like I want her to be here. I don't. I don't want to go to a minimart and think 'Maybe Marissa will be at the beach when I arrive, maybe she will be hungry, she probably hasn't eaten anything since she woke up, and it's a good idea to take some food for her. What kind of snacks would she like?' and being halfway through picking it before I even realized what I was doing."
Jodie just held her tighter, putting her chin on Alex's neck, speaking words of comfort in the blonde's ear. There she came to two conclusions.
One, Alex wasn't crying. She hadn't even raised her voice thought her rant. Although, the blonde was on the verge of a nervous breakdown she refused to let others see her on what Alex considered to be a state of weakness.
Two, the subject of their conversation was a few feet away staring back at them. Good thing Alex hasn't noticed her yet. I hope she isn't able to listen to us. The last thing Alex needs is her ex hearing her profession of love.
Pulling back a little, Jodie decided to start helping Alex with her situation.
"Alex, the way I see it, you have two options."
"Which are…"
"You can either fight for her or move on"
"That's easy, I want to move on, I just can't."
"Are you sure?"
"There is no choice for me to make. Marissa chose a long time ago. She chose him." The blonde said that with a grim look, like she had something bad on her mouth. "And she stuck to her decision. Now, all that's left for me is to pick up the pieces. Now, tell me, how do I forget her?"
"We can try a few techniques. There is the old 'getting her out of your system'"
"Great, what do I have to do?"
"Well, you know, you do her. You fuck her and be done with her, you know closure and stuff. There is a catch though, it may backfire, and you just end up wanting her more. So, let's just leave that as a last resort."
"Good idea, 'cause I just can't deal with it backfiring."
"Okay, next then. You can ignore her. You know pretend that she doesn't exist."
"That's not very practical, seeing I work with her."
"Don't you just hate your job sometimes?"
"Yeah, it sucks." Alex said without meaning it, both girls knew the blonde loved her job.
"Alright, but you have to spend as little time as possible with her. Don't talk to her unless it's absolutely necessary. If there is a way to avoid her, you do it. I don't have to mention anything about you talking to her after work hours, do I?"
"That is probably a good idea, but I will have talk to her in the afternoon this week, 'cause we have to change the club's theme."
"Why do you need her for it? You are the boss of that place, you can do it on your own. You have done so ever since it opened, and may I say, you have done a great job."
"I'm not sure Morgan would be trilled to know I shut her out. We established it from the begging that there would be somebody helping me."
"Fine, but no spending the afternoon with her after this week."
"I try my best, I promise. Any other ideas?"
"Why should I tell you? You keep turning them down. You obviously don't want to forget about her"
"I do, I really want to. Please, help me. I can't go through life like this."
"Alright, fine."
"Thanks. You know I love you right?"
"Yeah, yeah. I'm a very loveable person, everybody tells me that."
"You're a very modest person too." Alex said sarcastically.
"One of my many qualities."
"Now, putting your ego aside, you were gonna help me."
"Where were we?"
"Me ignoring her."
"Right. Let's see, how about you stop inviting her to hang out with you, especially if I'm gonna be there too." Jodie said, a little annoyed.
"What part of me not having control over my limbs don't you understand?"
"The part when you don't make a conscious effort to stop yourself. If you realize you are gonna invite her somewhere, you walk away, put your hand over your mouth, I don't know. Just try to spend as much time away from her as possible."
"Ok, what else?"
"Have fun without her. Alone or with someone else. Just enjoy yourself. Spend quality time with your friends. I don't know. Find a girlfriend or a boyfriend, as long as they keep your mind away from Marisa, it's worth it."
"I don't do relationships."
"I knew you'd say that."
"You know me too well"
"I try, but you need to let go, don't try to act like you don't care about feelings."
"Look at the headache I'm going through just because I fell in love, I'm not gonna get involved with anyone anytime soon. I don't wanna care about someone. Right now, I just wanna have fun."
"Fine, as long as you have fun with someone that's not Marisa."
"Ok"
"I think that's the basics, we can improve the plan as we go along."
"Good, now how about we get back to the guys, I really wanna hit some waves before Marisa gets here."
"Why don't you go ahead? I will be right there in a few minutes." Jodie never took her eyes away from her prize.
"OK, what are you going to do?"
"Just a favor to a friend. I can take care of myself. Go."
"I'm going, I'm going. And here I thought friends liked to spend time with each other."
"You know I love you." The girl said to the blonde's retreating back.
"Or so you say." Alex said without turning back, smiling, as she walked back to her friends.
Jodie waited a few moments, making sure the blonde wasn't going to look back, and made her way towards the girl she disliked so much.
"And so the prodigy girlfriend returns."
"Hello, Jodie." Marisa said ignoring the other girl's comment.
"What are you doing here?"
"Alex invited me."
"And, you couldn't say no?"
"I didn't want to."
"And of course the princess has to have what she wants, right?"
"What's your problem?"
"You, you are my problem. You think you can just barge back into Alex's life and mess everything up? Let me tell you something, I'm not gonna let you come back and do whatever the hell you want with my best frie-" Jodie stopped for a second, thinking up a different technique. "with the best girl I've ever met. Hear this, it took me all this time, but Alex and I finally are getting back together, and I'm not gonna let you ruin that. You stay the hell away from her, do you hear me, bitch?"
This chapter took me more time to write than i had anticipated, it should have been up friday, but i couldn't finish it. The idea was for the beach to be in one chapter, but it got longer than I had expected so i decided to divide it in 2 here. Only 10 chapters and that's the 3rd time it happens, weird.
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