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: Bound Dragon, kattyq, carolinda, bigblusky, gabrynina, FiresOfDeath, h3if3ngXx, Vero, bbvcool, Dar19, The Angel's Devil, Peachy Bambi, kris007, ALEXISSA2, DushkusBitch, and comedowntome. thank you for reviewing. Really helps with the writing.

Chapter 13

"Aaron, it's Ok. Marissa knows her." Alex said, as she descended the stairs. She had seen the commotion and decided to intervene. "Hey, Summer, how are you?"

"Alex? Is that you?" Summer replied

"Yeah, why are you so surprised?"

"Well, I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but aren't you supposed to be far away from here?"

"Not really, I do work here, you know."

"YOU WORK HERE?!?!!?"

"Yeah, didn't Marissa tell you?"

"No, I had no idea, I'm so kicking her butt for it" Why didn't she tell Summer, that's her best friend, for Goddess sake. Alex thought.

"So, the two of you still friends, hum?"

"Yeah, we promised to be BFF, so its not like I'm gonna just leave that promise behind just because we are a little older, I mean I'll live under her, for-"

"You will live under her?" Alex repeated with a smirk.

"Me and Seth are moving into a apartment underneath Marissa and Ryan's, actually we wanted on the same floor, so we could actually live next to each other, but as that building only has one apartment per floor, we had to adapt." The black-haired girl replied ignoring the blonde's comment.

"I'm sure you will manage that, but speaking of which, how is Seth?"

"He's fine, better than ever, glad that he just got another comic book published, and I mean sometimes I think that's the only thing he actually cares, that and play videogames with Ryan, I swear those two are attached to the hip, it's worse than me and Marissa, but I forgot what I was saying, oh yes, he pretends I don't exist for god knows how long, I get pissed and then he does the sweetest thing I've ever seen, and I let it go, and we keep like this and I'm going crazy, cause I know he needs to treat me better than that, but I can't stay mad at him for long and he knows it, and-"

"Summer!" Came Marissa's voice from the stairs, as she descended it.

"Marissa!" Summer replied as she walked to her friend to give her a hug "You have so much explanation to do, young lady" Summer said low enough so Alex wouldn't hear.

"There is nothing to tell" The other girl responded in the same tone.

"Really? And here was I thinking that the fact that you are working with your ex-girlfriend might be a good thing to mention"

"Why? There is nothing to it, we just have to work together, that's all."

Alex, sensing the two girls wanted to talk, quickly made up an excuse to leave.

"Well, there are a lot of things to finish, so I will leave you to talk as I finish the things I gotta finish."

Marissa knew it was not true, but, sensing it was a good excuse for her to escape Summer's inquisition, she decided to go for it.

"Yeah, me too, lots and lots of things, really busy tonight, Sum, why don't you wait by the bar? We can talk later, ok?" But Marissa didn't wait for an answer.

As expected, the club was packed. Everyone seemed to enjoy the new theme and that meant neither one of the two managers had time to breath. People had taken well to the changing clothes thing, and didn't seem to mind too much on buying a shirt and shorts.

As result, instead of the usual suit and dresses there were blouses with 'Actions lie louder than words' and 'If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance' along with 'I can resist everything except temptation'.

The place was filled with bathtubs, bolstered comfortably so people could sit or maybe lye down. Towels decorated the walls, giant cotton swabs were used as statues, bubbles fell down from the ceiling, making the club a huge bathtub where the foam reached the knees.

Summer had been trying to corner Marissa all night but with no success, the taller girl always had an excuse to leave, but these times they were for real.

Half an hour to Alex shift to end, she noticed that there was a commotion in the bar. Deciding to check it out she made her way towards it.

Getting there, she found 5 girls, completely wet with water and bubbles, half dressed with miniskirts that barely covered their asses, and no shirt whatsoever, dancing on the bar like it was their last dance, which probably was because it seemed they would fall down drunk at any moment.

Besides that, the male waiters and some female had stopped working to watch the girls' show, along with most of the people around the bar.

Finding it amusing for the time being, Alex joined them, going next to the others bartenders behind the bar, under the show, looking up.

And that's how Marissa found her, looking up some girl's skirt.

She had seen the girls dancing on the bar from some distance, but hadn't given it much thought, up to the point that she got nearer and found Alex there. Then she lost it.

First, she told the girls to get down, and then she yelled at them.

"In this club, it's mandatory to use clothes at all times."

"WWeee arrrreeeeee, bbiiitchhhh" responded one of the drunken girls. "Caaaan't yuuuuuuuuuu sheeeeeeeeeee oourrrrrr skkkkkkkittttttttt?"

"Well, you need a shirt, so tonight we will ask you to leave this estabilisiment, tomorrow we invite you to come back, with both parts of your cloth. Goodnight." Then Marissa told the bouncer to walk them out. Now looking to the bartenders, she yelled at all of them. "Don't you have something to do? You know, work? Look at how many people want drinks, how about we start serving them? Good? Now, go!!!"

Tired, angry and incredibly jealous, Marissa stormed out, giving one last glance at Alex, who in turn followed her, trying to grab her arm, but the brunette didn't let her, so the blonde gave it up and instead she put filled in her hand with bubbles and threw it at Marissa, letting it fall on the back of the brunette's head and rubbing it.

Marissa, in a really bad mood, turned, and with her hands also filled with bubbles and scrubbed it in Alex's face, pushing the blonde in a wall, where she had no escape, so instead Alex decided to hold Marissa's arms behind the brunette, which resulted in Marissa pushing her body forward to give her arms more leverage against Alex's.

What the brunette didn't realize, at first, was that by doing that, she put one of her legs between Alex's, that her breast touched Alex's and that their mouths were so close that they could feel each others breath.

But it didn't take long to Alex realize it, as she looked up to find Marissa's lips barely touching her own, so she froze, tensing her muscles as she alternated between staring at the brunette's eyes and lips.

Soon, Marissa realized it too, looking up to see the most beautiful pair of eyes staring back at her. Then she lost her ability to breath.

Nose grazing, Alex put her hands down, around Marissa's waist, as the brunette did the same, bringing their bodies closer, and making it so that their lips were separated by a incredibly thin line of air.

So, there was only one thing on their minds. Just one little inch.

So what did you guys thought? I know, i'm evil, but my mom had nothing to do with it so please no saying bad things about her, ok?

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