Alexa had watched from the sidelines as her true love fell in love with someone who wasn't her. Every day he posted photos of him and her and one day she broke. She finally agreed with her parents to move away when she was fifteen, but what happens...
(Izzie is Lenny and Roxanne's daughter. She is 5.)
I song sing the words to my original song 'Make It Shine' which I sang at the leavers concert at my high school. (Victorious - Make It Shine, all credit goes to them.)
"This Miami you, is my favourite Alexa to ever walk this planet." Chloe says as I stand up and finish the song. I smile and give her a quick hug before Lenny calls us over.
"Okay, rooms. Becky has requested to share a room with Bean and Alexa. Charlotte will share with Donna and Chloe. Keithie will share with Harley and Nath. Cassidy can join with Greg, Andre and Braden if you are happy too? Or we can give Becky, Bean and Alexa a bigger room so you can go as a four. Izzie will probably end up sleeping with us." Lenny tells us the room order before asking Cass specifically.
"I'd rather share with Alexa and the younger ones. Sorry boys."
"Don't worry Cassidy, we know it's nothing personal." Greg tells her reassuringly. She smiles and I elbow her lightly.
"No, you know that I don't like American boys, English all the way." She tells me and I laugh. There was one English boy in our year who was single and Cass gushed over him every single day for two years.
"Yeah yeah." I laugh. We all spend a few hours catching up with each other and I tell all of the New England kids about my time in Miami.
To tell them about the last three years actually toke quite a while. When we're finished talking about it we look to the the adults already out and having fun outside. We decide to join them after we take our bags to our rooms.
When we make it outside Keithie drags me behind the house. I had no idea why but I guess I was about to find out?
"Alexa, I get that your back and here to stay but you have a lot of explaining to do." He tells me and I just nod my head. "The day you left you told me that i was the reason you were moving to Miami. What did I do to you?"
"I'm sorry about that, it was out of order to say that to you because it wasn't true. When I walked up to you that day I actually wanted to tell you how I felt before I moved away. I guess because you forgot that I was moving away and you asked about your dad's party, I got mad."
"So I wasn't the reason you moved away. That's good to hear. So, you said you wanted to tell me how you felt, well, you can do it now." He tells me and I look down at my feet. He places his hand under my chin making me look up at his face. "You can tell me."
"You don't get it Keithie, if I told you it would destroy our friendship, you'll hate the closest person to you and I'll never be able to even see you again."
"Please, I'd never do that to you. You are my best friend and I'd never hurt you that way." He tells me. I sigh before turning around and walking in the opposite direction. "Harley told me Alexa, the day I asked her out instead of you." This angers me. Not that Keithie knew and had said it, but because Harley had told him.
I run away from Keithie and to the lake where everyone was. Perfect. I charge up to Harley who was skipping rocks with Cassidy and Nath.
"You promised me that you wouldn't tell him, I thought you had one spot of understanding left inside of you but now I know that you don't." I snarl into her face.
"What are you talking about Alexa?"
"You told me that you wouldn't tell him that I loved him. You promised to keep my deepest secret inside and never tell anyone."
"Alexa, I never told him that you loved him, I told him that you didn't want him becoming distant from you because of me. I'm not that mean." She tells me and I break down in tears. I thought that I could do this but I now know that I can't. "Lexa you okay?"
"Of course I'm not. I've ruined everything." I cry as I break down in tears.
"Baby, you haven't ruined anything. You were worried that your secret was out. I would've reacted the same way." Nath tells me as he comes down to my level.
"No you don't understand. I thought that after three years away, my feelings would go away, but it hasn't changed anything. I still love him Nath, I still love Keithie and I can't do anything about it."
"Alexa?" Shiznit. Why did he have to hear everything? I have screwed up big time and I had a feeling there was no way of coming back from it this time.
"Keithie, I should have told you years ago. I know that now, but you were happier with Harley than you ever would have been with me. I still class Harley as a friend even though she abandoned me and I didn't want for you to break up because you seemed so happy together. I get if you hate me and I totally understand if you want to never see me again."
"Alexa, you're my best friend and I fully forgive you even though there's nothing to forgive you for. You didn't say anything to keep me and Harley happy and that's one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me." Keithie tells me wiping away my tears and picking me up from the water. "Let's go get you changed and then we can go on a walk, just us two."
"I'd like that. Thanks Keithie." I tell him hugging him lightly trying not to get him any wetter than he already was.
We both head into the house to get changed into something not as wet. I toke out a grey top and a dark grey skater skirt and changed into it in the bathroom. Once I am changed I redo my hair into two a side Dutch braid and put on a pair of white Converse. I had taken off my Vans before I went in the lake.
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We meet each other in the main room of the house and exit the house after he puts his arm around my shoulder. We decide to walk around the woods where the lake swing was.
We walk in silence for quite a while until we reach a largish rock.
"Let's make this our spot. It's far enough into the woods where no one will find it." Keithie says and I nod agreeing with him.
"I'm sorry about all commotion earlier on. It was so unexpected and not cool of me."
"Alexa, I would've reacted the same way, so please stop apologizing." Keithie tells me as we lock eyes. This was wrong, we were both in in relationships. But it was so tempting.
"I just feel as if I've ruined our friendship in some way, but not completely."
"LexaLex, I have so much adoration for you and it literally impossible for either of us to ruin our friendship. We have been friends too long for anything to change." We weren't as close together now but we were still cuddled together and looking right into each others eyes.
"Keithie, do you think, if I had told you about you know, that we would have any chance of being a couple?" I ask him wary of his answer. He looks back into my eyes after looking away for a split second and leans in a little closer.
"Why don't we find out." He answers back and I know what he means.
"I'm fine with it as long as you are." I tell him. We both smile and lean in at the same time. As our lips connect I feel fireworks fly in my stomach and I feel something I had never felt before. True love.
