Same Day, Same Time...
"Oh shit." They said simultaneously.
Alexa jumped up when she realized that her two best friends, Sasha and Emma, were currently standing outside her house, and it couldn't be at a worse time. If they saw Shane in her house, who knows what would happen. They sure as hell didn't want to found out, so they had to come up with a plan, and do it quickly.
"What the hell? What are they doing here?" Shane whispered to her, scared out of his mind.
"I don't know! We gotta think of something! They can't see you here!" She answered, equally scared.
"Yeah, no shit Sherlock. And keep your voice down. Look, I'll go upstairs to your room and stay there until they leave. All you gotta do is make sure they don't go inside your room for any reason. Can you do that?"
"Yeah, yeah. I can. Now get your ass up there. Hurry!"
Shane did as he was told and sprinted his way up to Alexa's room, while she went over to greet her friends at the door.
"Oh, hey guys. What are you doing here?" She asked, masking her anxious state of mind.
"Well, since we're out today, we figured we'd surprise you and visit you, girl!" Sasha explained.
"Yeah! It's been so long since we've hung out with you at your house, and this seemed like the best time to do it, so here we are!" Emma added.
Alexa wanted to say, "You have no idea how wrong you are", but instead said, "Aww, how sweet!"
"Ah, don't mention it. Now, again. Please let us in. It's raining and it's cold." Sasha requested.
Alexa did as she was asked and let her two friends into the house. They removed their shoes and coats, then sat down on the couch.
"So, what did you guys want to do?" Alexa asked.
"Well, whenever we come here we usually just go up to your room, sit on your bed and talk about whatever we want." Emma answered.
Alexa inwardly groaned.
"Shit, we do usually do that. Not today though." She thought.
"Do you wanna do that?" Sasha asked.
"Sure, but not in my room this time."
"Huh, why?"
"Why? Uh, because... It's really messy and I don't want you guys to see it."
"So? We can just help you clean it." Emma said.
"No, I couldn't ask you to do that." Alexa responded, desperately hoping they would drop this soon.
"But we're your friends. Friends help each other out." Sasha said.
"Guys, seriously. It's fine, no need to do anything of the sort. We can still have fun and hang out down here. In fact, you guys hungry?"
Emma and Sasha looked at each other with confused looks on their faces.
"Uhh, sure." Emma answered for both of them.
"Great! Wait right here. I'll be back in 5 minutes."
Alexa hastily made her way to the kitchen to gather up whatever food was left over from her and Shane's breakfast so she could give it to her two surprise visitors. Luckily, there was enough left to fill two plates, so she heated them both up in the microwave and served it to them.
"Here you go, ladies. I hope you enjoy." She said, not realizing she said that in a fake British accent like Shane would.
Her friends took the plates, but were still slightly put off by this whole situation.
"Why'd you say it like that?" Emma asked.
"Say what like what?" Alexa responded.
"You said, "Here you go, ladies, I hope you enjoy", in a weird way."
"Whaaat? No I didn't."
"Yeah you did. What, are you trying to sound like someone from England or something?"
Alexa was panicking on the inside.
"Emma, I have no idea what you're talking about."
"But-"
"ANYWAY! I hope you guys enjoy the food for right now. I'm gonna, uh, go to the bathroom, yeah, the bathroom. Don't follow me."
"Why would we follow you to the bathroom?" Sasha asked perplexed by her friend's odd request.
Alexa laughed nervously.
"I don't know! See you guys in a few minutes!"
She ran upstairs, but didn't go to the bathroom like she said. Instead, she went straight to her room to check on the boy who was currently inside it. When she opened the door, she was greeted with the image of him laying across her bed, staring at the ceiling. It looked like he was deep in thought about something. Alexa hesitantly tried to get his attention by walking up to him and tapping his shoulder.
"Price? Are you okay?" She asked.
Shane looked over at her with a far away look in his eye, but only for a few seconds before he snapped out of his trance.
"Oh, hey Short Stuff. Yeah I'm okay. How's keeping the girls preoccupied going?"
"Ugh, not well. I'm tripping over my words and making them suspicious I bet. From the looks on their faces they probably think I lost my mind or something. I don't know what to do."
"Alright, Alexa. Calm down. You got this. Look at me."
Shane maneuvered himself so he was sitting and facing his friend. He held her hands in his own in an attempt to comfort her. He continued to speak.
"All you have to do, is act natural. These aren't complete strangers. They're your best friends. There's nothing to get nervous about. Just act natural. I'm not here right now, okay? You're going to go back downstairs and have fun with... What's their names again?"
Alexa giggled at his brain lapse before answering him.
"Sasha Banks and Emma Dashwood. Sasha's the black one and Emma's the foreign one."
"Got you. Okay, where was I? Right, you're gonna have fun with Emma and Sasha. As far as anyone knows, including you, no one else in this house."
"Right, no one else." Alexa clarified.
"Good, you got this, kid." He said with a smile as he patted her head in approval.
Alexa jumped back in response, confusing Shane.
"What? Did I do to it too hard?"
She looked down at her feet and clamped her hands together while a blush started to form on her features.
"That feels... Now's not the time for that. See you later!" She exclaimed while quickly exited the room, leaving Shane even more perplexed than before. He laid back on to the bed and resumed what he was doing before... Which was nothing.
"Weird." He thought to himself.
Alexa made her way back to her friends who were finishing up the meal that she had provided for them.
"Alright, I'm back. How's the food?"
"Great, actually. I'm surprised. I didn't even know you could cook." Sasha pointed out.
"Well, you never asked."
"You learn something new everyday I guess. So, now that we've eaten, what should we do?" Emma asked.
"Let's talk... Particularly about a certain person's significant other." Alexa said, alluding to the Aussie in the room.
Emma blushed.
"Yeah, Emma. You haven't talked to us about Xavier much. How is he? Is he romantic? Have you been on a date with him yet? Come on girl, spill!" Sasha pressed.
"Okay, okay. Xavier's such a sweet guy. He's not exactly the romantic type, though. He's still very shy. Honestly, we haven't even had our first kiss thus far."
"Hmm. I'd say I'm surprised, but I'm really not. He's never had a girlfriend before so this is a whole new experience for him. It's best to just take things slow and not pressure him into anything. He's a fragile boy." Alexa said.
"Yeah, I know. He makes up for it with being cute though." Emma said, giggling at the end.
Sasha rolled her eyes.
"Whatever you say. I couldn't date a boy like that. He may be a little cute, but I'd rather have someone with a more, take- charge, outgoing personality, you know? A strong guy."
Alexa smirked.
"I'm pretty sure you just described Big E."
Sasha blushed.
"What? No. Why do you always bring him up?!"
"Because it's obvious you like him! Every time he's around, you stare at him like a fresh piece of meat. Also, whenever he tells a joke, you laugh harder than anyone else." Emma said.
"So? It's not my fault he's a funny guy." Sasha responded, trying to defend herself.
Alexa quickly shut down that argument.
"Yeah, but you always go way overboard! He could tell the worst joke in the world and you'd still be rolling on the floor like you just got shot with a cannon!"
"Whatever. I don't like E like that. You guys are crazy."
"Eh, it wouldn't matter anyway. I heard he's going out with Becky from the lacrosse team."
Sasha almost choked on her spit.
"What?! Becky Lynch?!"
Alexa started to laugh like crazy.
"I'm kidding! See, you must have feelings for him if you reacted like that. I got you!"
Banks huffed and crossed her arms.
"That doesn't prove a damn thing."
"Sure it doesn't, Sasha. Sure it doesn't."
"What about you, Little Miss Bliss?" Emma asked, flipping the conversation to the host.
"What about me?"
"Who do you like? Word around school is that Seth's got a thing for you."
"Rollins? No way. You must've heard wrong. Me and him have been friends forever. Everyone knows that. Plus, don't you think if that was true, you two would've realized a long time ago? He's your friend too."
"Okay, maybe that's wrong, but you still haven't answered the question. Who does the queen bee take a liking to?" Sasha asked, piggybacking off of Emma's question.
"No one in particular. I guess that TJ Perkins kid is pretty cute."
"Oh, I say go for it! He's a good looking one!" Sasha exclaimed.
"Whoa, calm down there, Sasha. I said he was cute, not that I wanna marry the kid. I honestly don't really have that much of an interest in anyone right now." In her head she was thinking, "Well, there is probably one person... But they don't need to worry about that."
"Booo, you're no fun." Emma said, annoyed they didn't get any information out of her.
"Sorry to disappoint you." She responded sarcastically. "Well, now what? What else do you guys wanna talk about?"
"Actually, we have to go." Sasha said.
"What?" Alexa asked genuinely surprised.
"Yeah, we wanted to just hang out for a little while. We gotta go finish an Earth Science project that's due tomorrow. Genius Sasha over here decided to wait until the last minute because she didn't feel like working on it last week."
"Shut up. You know I hate Science. There's no point in learning that stuff."
"Whatever. Anyway, by Alexa. We had a good time. Next time we'll be able to hang a lot longer."
Emma and Sasha both took turns giving Alexa a hug before exiting the house. Alexa stood by the window and waited until they were completely out of sight, then she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank God we didn't get caught." She said to herself. She walked upstairs to let Shane know that they were in the clear. This time when she opened the door, not only was the boy laying in her bed, he was fast asleep.
Alexa smiled and shook her head.
"Idiot."
She walked over to his sleeping form and gently tapped his shoulder until he started to stir and awaken.
"Oh, hey again Short Stuff. How's it going?"
"They left already." She informed.
"Really? Jesus man, how long was I out?"
"Well, I was up here like a half hour ago, so probably about 20 to 25 minutes."
"Oh that's not that bad. Why'd they leave so early?"
"Something about a school project that they waited until today to work on."
"Ha, bummer. Should've started it earlier. Anyway..."
Shane grabbed Alexa by the arm and brought her into the bed with him."
"Huh?" She gasped.
Shane looked straight into her arms with a smirk.
"Now I'm the tired one. Let's go back to how we started today."
Alexa giggled and climbed back into the bed in the same area she was before, minus the teasing. Now, she looked into his eyes.
"Ok, ya teddybear."
