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The Next Day, Saturday, 8:15 A.M...
Alexa had just woken up stretching and yawning in her, appropriately titled, queen sized bed, and was a lot more irritable than usual. The events from the previous day were still fresh in her mind and it was pissing the petite princess off.
"Whatever, like I said before, it was a fluke." Alexa thought to herself.
She was hungry, so she walked down the stairs to the kitchen where she expected breakfast to be prepared or in the process of being prepared. That's how it always was. Every Saturday and Sunday morning she'd wake up to food on her plate, without even having to ask. That's why she unpleasantly surprised by what had gone down that particular morning. Instead of a plate of food at her seat at the table like usual, she had seen a note with 25 dollars attached to it.
"The fuck is this?" She said aloud.
She picked up the note and read it to herself.
"Hi, sweetie. You're mom and I had to take off for the day. Work called and we didn't have time to make you breakfast. We left money for you to go outside and buy whatever you'd like to eat this morning. We won't be back until after dark. You can invite your friends over if you want. Don't break anything. Love you- Mom and Dad."
"Are you fucking kidding me right now?!" She yelled out loud in frustration.
Alexa didn't feel like going outside right now, but at the same time she was pretty hungry. She groaned annoyed and went back upstairs to freshen herself up. 30 minutes passes and she came back downstairs. She had taken a quick shower, applied some makeup, brushed her teeth, and combed her hair. She threw on a pink and black hoodie with a pair of black skinny jeans and headed outside to get something from the store. As she stepped outside, she saw another person stepping out of their house, and her blood started boiling. It was Shane of all people. He was carrying a duffel bag with him, and he seemed to have a pissed off look on his face.
"Of course he leaves his house as soon as I do. Can this morning get any worse?" She thought to herself as she prepared for the inevitable greeting from her unwanted neighbor.
However, it never came. Shane didn't seem to notice Alexa at all. He just walked away toward wherever he was going. This surprised Alexa, and you'd think she be happy that he didn't say hi, but as we've gotten know the petite girl, she had a problem with it and was angry.
"How dare that nerd ignore me like that?!" She raged on in her mind.
Alexa was pouting at the moment, like a little girl having a temper tantrum.
"That's so rude! You know what, no. I will not stand for this blatant disrespect! Price! Price! Get your ass back here, Price!" She yelled as she practically ran after him.
As she got closer, she began to realize how dumb she was being and began to have a war of words with herself inside her head.
"What are you doing, moron?!" Rational Alexa questioned.
"Price ignored us!" Irrational Alexa responded angrily.
"Good! We don't like him, remember?! This is the one time he actually did what we told him to do and left us alone! Intentional or not! Why would you want to mess that up, stupid?!"
"People like him don't disrespect people like us like that! It's not right!"
Alexa was losing her mind.
"Shut up! Both of you! Just shut the fuck up!" She screamed.
The people around her stopped what they were doing at stared at the young girl.
"And what the fuck are you people looking at?!" She exclaimed with a crazed look in her eye.
With all this internal conflict taking place, Shane had nearly slipped out of Alexa's sight, but he had turned a corner right after she found him again. Alexa had decided to go with her irrational thoughts and follow the boy. Just way more stealthily this time. She was essentially stalking the kid at this point. It seemed like she had been tracking him forever before he finally stopped.
"Okay, now's my chance to give Price a piece of my mind." She thought.
Right as she went to call his name, he walked into a warehouse that seemed abandoned.
"Oh, come on! Where is he going now?!"
Alexa was reluctant to follow him into the building. It was pretty creepy to her to say the least. In the end, she decided that she had come this far, and if she just left, everything up to this point would've been a huge waste of time. So, she went against her gut feeling and entered the structure. The place had a dark and gloomy aesthetic to it, and it was safe to say that Little Miss Bliss was not a fan of that at all. She just wanted to find Shane, yell at him for ignoring her, then go back to what she had planned to do in the 1st place and get breakfast.
"Of course he'd come to a place as creepy as this. Fucking weirdo."
Her fear had no affect on her spiteful thoughts as she cautiously made her way through the place. She moved throughout the dark internal area of the old warehouse until she came across a door with that was slightly open. Alexa carefully took a peek through the small opening, and when she saw what was inside, she moved away from the door faster than Usain Bolt in a foot race. She was blushing furiously and was trying to comprehend what she just saw. When Bliss went to look, she was subjected to the image of a naked Shane changing out of his clothes, and she saw aaaaalllll of the kid.
"Oh sweet Jesus in heaven, why?! Why did I have to see that?!" She screamed internally.
That was her immediate response to that, but after a little bit, a little voice in her head snuck up on her, and uttered a phrase that had been brought from the very back of her mind.
"He's pretty big actually."
If the girl blushed any harder, she'd be redder than a bottle of ketchup. It took her a few minutes to control herself and regain her composure. When she finally did, she heard grunting and a thumping noise coming from the room.
"Please don't be naked again, Price" She silently begged as she went to look again.
This time she saw something else that surprised her, but it wasn't anything as awkward as what she previously witnessed. It was Shane with just sweatpants and sneakers on, hitting a punching bag with boxing gloves on. He still had the same look in his eye from earlier, but he looked even more furious by something.
"Jeez, who pissed in his cereal this morning?"
Alexa found herself watching Shane go through his workout and becoming extremely invested in what he was doing. It seemed like with every shot he threw at the bag, he became angrier. Veins were bulging out of his neck, and he was shining with sweat. He started yelling as he hit the bag, which slightly startled her. It was just so intense. When he stopped, Alexa took out her phone to check the time.
She gasped.
"11:17?! I've been here for 2 hours?!"
Unfortunately, Shane had heard the gasp that came out of Alexa's mouth.
"Hello? Is anyone out there?" He said while walking toward the door.
Bliss was panicking. She had to find a place to hide, or else Price would know she followed him. She frantically looked at her surroundings until she spotted a pile of boxes. She quickly sprinted behind them, and just made it before Shane opened the door all the way.
"Yo? Hmm, I guess I'm just hearing things." He laughed.
Alexa breathed a sigh of relief. As she crouched behind the boxes, she heard a ringtone play. At first she was terrified that it was hers, but she soon realized it was Shane's.
"Hey, Seth!... Yeah, I just finished hitting the bag like you said. Kinda went overboard I think though. A piece of the leather is falling off. My arms hurt like crazy... What?... Oh, sure I can do that. You wanna do it with me next Saturday?... Nice!... Oh, the warehouse? Nah, it's not that bad to me. It's a little dusty but I can handle a little dirt... Alright, take care man. Thanks for helping me out." And he hung up the phone.
"Time to go home, and take a nice shower." He said as he carried his bag of clothes out of the warehouse with him.
"What? He's gonna go outside with just sweatpants and sneakers on? What a weirdo. What does Seth have to do with this, though? Why is he helping him? Oh my god, my friends are stupid. Why can't they see what I see? He's a little creep. I gotta find out what Seth and Price are doing so I can stop it." She muttered to herself.
All of a sudden, Alexa heard her stomach growl loudly, and she remembered how this whole thing started in the first place.
"Oh, right. Breakfast. Damn it, mom and dad!"
