She's on scholarship because she hit the books; he's in school because he's rich and has the looks. Alexander Matthew's forte was memorization (girl's numbers) and going to parties. Alexandra Greene's only forte was memorization (names, dates and places) and mathematical solutions. The day they met wasn't match-made in heaven. They were buddy cleaners for the week just because they both have an Alex in their names. They were both scheduled on Fridays.
"I can't believe you," she says in exasperation. "I'm supposed to be baking cake with my mother." But she sweeps the floor diligently nevertheless.
He laughs at her, a low monotonous laugh, she noted inwardly. "You're close with your mother?"
"Yeah," she answers back, stopping to look at him. "Why?"
"Nothing," he replies.
A week later, she realizes that the origin of his question came from the fact that he wasn't close with his mother. Or his father. At all.
It was because they left him as a child.
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.alexandra greene
Never got to bake cake with her mother that day
Alexander asked her out instead
He told her about his past and how he got adopted when he was four
She listened to him as he cried his whole story out
He told her how ridiculous he looked to her
She shook her head and asked him to continue
It was the day she fell in love with him.
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