The Cruise 3/7
Tittle: The Cruise 3/7
Pairing: Alex/Mitchie
Summary: I suck at these so I'll just say that that this is a fanfiction story that I posted there and for those who haven't seen it I'm posting it here. The title explains it all..just try it and you'll like it :)
~Day Three~
I was up most of the night staring at the ceiling, counting the sparkles and so far I was up to nine thousand and forty-eight. I didn’t want to think about Mitchie but nothing I did could get her off my mind. I heard the covers ruffle in the room a few times around midnight. I crawled from where I was and opened the room door quietly. Everything was dark, the light from the front room shone on Mitchie’s face exposing her dim smile. She looked so peaceful, one leg was under the cover and the other gripped the fabric in place, forcing it to stick to the bed. She took a deep breath and I got a bit scared thinking she’d open her eyes. I crept from the room getting a look at the clock only twelve fifteen. I sighed before crawling back into bed and once again staring at the ceiling, counting the sparkles again until I fell to sleep.
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“Alex,” a whisper shot into my ear, I turned before opening my eyes spotting Mitchie’s lips before she pulled back.
“What time is it?”
“Umm a little after six, I can’t sleep”
“And so you woke me up to tell me that?”
“Walk with me until I get sleepy”
“What? Nooo”
“Come on, you always walk with me”
“That’s when I was stalking you, I’m done with that,” I said shakily before Mitchie placed her fingers between mine and tugged on me.
“Come on, unless you want me to walk on deck alone…oh someone could kidnap me or something and fulfill all their sexual desires,” I laughed after she said that and stared at her, raising my eyebrow before crawling out of bed.
“One day I’m going to stop falling for all of this”
“All of what?”
“Jumping when you say so, its not me”
“Oh get over it,” Mitchie said before sliding her flip-flops on and me doing the same. We made our way on deck, the sun was barley up in the sky and the air was already warm and moist.
“I’m not going to be able to get back to sleep,” I whined before placing my elbow on the railing at the edge looking down at the water. Mitchie removed her hand from mines before nudging my shoulder. “What?”
“We should totally go shopping today, I mean the dance is later on tonight and we should be arriving at the private island soon, we should get dressed and head out onto the land before everyone else,” that sounded suspicious, I mean yeah Mitchie loved to shop but…
“Did you really wake me up because you couldn’t sleep or because you wanted to be the first to go shopping?”
“Ummm”
“Mitchie!?”
“Okay fine, I wanted to go shopping, we should be landing in a hour and it takes you forever to get dressed”
“I want to kill you now,” I said dully looking away from her as the water crashed onto the side of the boat.
“Well you can’t” she smiled before I faced her. The blue cool water reflected in her eyes making them sparkled before I looked away.
“I hate shopping”
“But don’t you want to tell me if I look good in something or not?” Mitchie asked before I pulled away from the railing and faced her.
“Let me tell you this straight Mitchie, I can’t be this close to you all day, I just can’t. You don’t want me acting more than a friend so I honestly can’t spend all day with you, my hormones WON’T allow it, and as of right now, being this close isn’t working,” I tell her this before running my fingers through my messy hair.
“Well that sucks”
“Why do you sound so okay with everything I just said?”
“Because I am okay with it, I understand”
“You’re honestly going to shop by yourself?”
“Well I don’t want to…” her eyes met mine, she pushed her bottom lip out before blinking and I narrowed my eyes.
“I’m going back to bed”
“But I just thought you said you couldn’t go back to sleep?”
“I can do anything other than letting you continue to manipulate me, goodnight, or morning, whatever,” I say before waving goodbye to Mitchie. She stayed where she was as I left, my legs were getting cold because my boy shorts were extremely thin and the wind was blowing under and against them as if it was having a field day or something. I was doing a little power-walking back to the room before I turned a sharp right and knocked into a hard object falling onto the floor.
“Crap,” I said turning over before trying to stand up, spotting a strawberry- blonde girl around my height rub her head. Her eyes were a bright green color and she wore a blue jeaned skirt and a pink top that tied across her neck. I stood up before offering her my hand. She looked up at me before sighing and placing her hand between mine, I tugged and she pulled before standing up. “Sorry about that”
“Its okay, I think I just have a concussion,” she laughed a bit, it was quiet and almost unnoticeable.
“I should have been looking where I was going”
“Me too, I mean not where you were going but were I was going,” she giggled before folding her arms across her chest. She had a perfect tan, she wasn’t pale and no where near orange.
“I guess I should go back to my room,” I pointed as she nodded and I turned away from her. I could still feel her looking at me, my neck grew warm and no footsteps or movement was heard. I faced my room door and felt around for my room key but it wasn’t on me.
“Crap..Mitchie,” I whispered before hitting my head. The blonde laughed before I faced her and she turned her head before brushing her shoulder length hair behind her ears.
“Locked out?”
“Um, yeah kind of”
“Oh, maybe that brunette you were with has the key,” she said as I raised my eyebrow at her. Was it rude to ask her what the hell she knew about Mitchie?
“Brunette?”
“The girl you left on deck!”
“Right,” I nodded before making my way back towards the blonde before stopping in front of her. “How do you…?”
“Oh I’ve seen you guys around the ship…I mean its not that big you know!” she giggled.
“Right”
“I’m Michelle,” she placed her hand out in front of me as I stared at it before taking it.
“Alex”
“And your friend?”
“Oh she’s just Mitchie,” wait did I say JUST Mitchie?
“You guys hang out a lot?”
“Yeah we cam on the cruise together”
“….oh okay,” her voice went low, faint almost. I couldn’t believe I was still standing there talking to her.
“She’s my best friend,” I quickly said after hearing her sadden voice.
“Oh cool, friends are nice,” she nodded as I studied her face, what the hell was I getting myself into? I was about to walk away from her when I saw Mitchie turn the corner, she had the room key propped up in her hand with a smile on her face that quickly faded. I don’t know why but I felt weird standing between the two of them.
“Just what I needed,” I said grabbing the key from Mitchie as she stared at the girl before turning back to me. I didn’t say anything and grabbed Mitchie’s wrist pulling her towards the room before waving good bye to Michelle.
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“Who’s she?” Mitchie asked as I began picking up the stuff I slept on.
“Oh that’s Michelle, she was standing out there when I found out I didn’t have the room key”
“Why didn’t you come back to get it?”
“I was but we started talking and stuff”
“Oh, well it’s a good thing I came back then”
“Yeah I guess so,” I said quietly.
“You guess so?”
“What? I was coming back”
“But you didn’t you were talking to Michelle”
“Mitchie don’t”
“Don’t what?”
“Are you seriously getting jealous over a girl that I saw in the hall?”
“No,” she scoffed before I eyed her and smiled.
“Sure you’re not”
“I’m not,” she said before walking towards the room. “I’m getting ready to go shopping with myself”
“Have fun,” I said before laughing again as she narrowed her eyes at me and stuck out her tongue.
“You better keep that tongue in your mouth before it goes into mine..I mean yeah,” I said hitting my head before falling onto the couch.
I’m not sure how long I was laying down since Mitchie went into the bathroom but it felt like forever. I hopped up from where I was and made my way into the room I had yet had the chance to sleep in. The shower water was still running.
“Mitchie come on I have to get dressed too,” I called out but no answer came. “Mitchie?” I pushed open the bathroom door that I always felt was unlocked for me and saw only a shadow of Mitchie’s body in the shower. There was a large cloud of smoke and steam everywhere.
“Alex? Are you in here?” I heard her ask before my eyes widened. I didn’t say anything. “Its cold, ALEX…..” I still didn’t answer until she opened the bathroom sliding door and looked out at me. “Wow, I knew it was you, get out and close the door, its cold,” I heard her say before diapering back to where she was. I swear I use to think about so many things when I saw Mitchie’s wet hair and shoulder, why not now. Maybe I’m falling into the just friend’s category, I can’t…I can’t go back to just being Mitchie’s friend.
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At least ten minutes later and she appeared from the bathroom, her hair still dripping wet and a white tank top and dark skirt covering her body with white flip-flops. I just stared at how shiny her skin was, her legs looked long and decently tanned and her shirt was turning a bit see-through on the sides, making it to the front, I swallowed hard before speaking.
“Mitchie, maybe you could umm, I don’t know, put on a darker color top”
“Why?”
“….you know what just go with that look,” I smiled before pushing past her and heading into the bathroom. I took several minutes washing my hair, my body, rewashing my hair and body before actually climbing out of the shower thirty minutes later, with my short shorts and dark shirt with a large skull on it, my converse and knee socks. The entire room was empty, no Mitchie, no nothing. I felt a bit lonely then, I mean the room was extremely quiet, nothing in the halls even clicked in my head as noise. I sighed before staring over at Mitchie’s laptop, she hadn’t used the thing since we got on the ship. I walked over to the kitchen counter and pulled it from its leather bag, rubbing my hands across the top before finding the latches to open it. The seventeen inch screen was wide and clear as I pressed the power button, waiting for it to pop on. I walked to the counter and hopped on to it before placing the laptop in my lap reading the blue page with a black box saying password. I often knew Mitchie’s passwords but I couldn’t figure it out, I used all the ones I knew of, Torres125, Mitchie125, Friends12, 19Hutch4, ThunderGurl15, and BlackHawk75. I tapped my fingers on the hard surface of the counter before biting my bottom lip and clicking the hint key. Love is so hard to find, but when you have someone true, you know they’ll never break your heart.
“Corny,” I scoffed out loud before typing in Alex, but that wasn’t it. Then I tried, Russo, Russo125, Alex125, and all the previous ones. I wanted to just hit my head onto the thing hard until I just pressed my fingers over a few keys typing the word mybabyalex, and to my surprise it worked. The thing booted up and on the screen sat a picture Mitchie and I took a few months ago in her room. We were laying on her bed side by side in our matching black t-shirts, Mitchie kissing my cheek and me tossing up the peace sign. I giggled at the picture before rubbing my fingers onto Mitchie’s face. I mean it was the screen but still Mitchie, I loved the seven dots that sat on her nose, the six light ones and the seventh darker one. She didn’t have many icons; internet, fire fox, recycle bin, pic, me and Alex, my baby. I stared at the My baby one for quite some time before double clicking it and closing my eyes. That’s when I saw even more pictures of me and Mitchie, but they were all the ones she swore never to place on the internet. I mean we kissed, and we kissed a lot, there were even some tight embraces in there. I was kicking the counter when the room door opened and I hopped from the counter placing Mitchie’s laptop in a drawer.
“Are you sure you don’t want to go shopping?”
“Am I really?” I was referring to her my baby album.
“What are you talking about?”
“Aww Mitch, why do you have to be so difficult in everything,” I said walking over to her, she stepped back studying my face until her back hit the wall.
“Why are you being creepy, this is not friend like”
“I know, but you don’t really want to be my friend do you?” I smiled at her before dropping my hands on her waist.
“Creepy much…are you going shopping or not?” I leaned in to kiss her lips but she quickly turned her head and my lips landed against her cheek. “Is that my computer bag? I haven’t got on that thing since I got here.” Mitchie pushed me up and I grabbed her hand.
“Fine lets go shopping”
“Wait, I should check my e-mail”
“Why? I mean I’m the only one who messages you”
“As mostly true as that is I want to check some other message,” and with that I let her go and she reached the counter.
“Where’s my laptop?”
“Um, I think I saw it” I scratched my eyebrow as Mitchie’s fingers ran over her hips.
“Alex,” she whined as I sighed and went over to get the thing.
“Well I changed my password anyway”
“Really? You got me then,” I said pressing buttons for the thing to close out but Mitchie grabbed it and saw some of the pictures I was going through.
“You went through my pictures?”
“In my defense…I’m in all of them so doesn’t that make them half mine?” I smiled but Mitchie kept a normal expression.
“You went through my computer, and how did you get my password?”
“Umm well, I..”
“Ugh”
“What’s so wrong with me getting on your computer anyway, it was never a problem before”
“Because ,Alex, I have things, Alex, That I don’t want you to see, Alex”
“Awesome way to use my name Mitchie”
“How much did you go through?” Mitchie asked placing her laptop on the kitchen counter before her elbows followed and her head went into her palms.
“Not a lot, besides I know you love me”
“You already knew that genius”
“Yeah but I didn’t know I was your baby,” I smiled walking over to her. She looked hurt almost as she stared at me, her eyes unmoving and her breathing extremely slow. “Look Mitch, I just saw it and decided to get on it, no big deal right?”
“Yes big deal Alex,” she began clicking buttons violently on her computer so I stopped where I was.
“Why is it so hard for you to just admit your feelings to me?” I wish I didn’t say that because Mitchie’s eyes watered and she slammed her computer screen down. She looked away before pulling the thing into her arms and pushing past me and out the room. I didn’t stop her, hell I didn’t want to stop her, because not only did I just hurt her, I hurt myself in the process.
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“Come on Alex, the dance starts in two hours and you still haven’t got a dress,” my mom spoke to me tugging on my arm. I laid in the room all day once again staring at the stupid sparkles above my head. “Now little Russo,” my mom said, that was what she use to say when I was seven, I sighed and followed her to the deck of the boat. She grabbed a few things and we made our way over to the steps that lead us onto the private island.
“I don’t like dresses, can’t I wear a snazzy pants suit or something?”
“And look like a boy, I think not, unless…” my mom stopped and I stared at her.
“Unless what?”
“I don’t know”
“Mom, okay this is getting weird, is there something you want to say to me?”
“NO”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes”
“Huh, is there something you want to ask me then?”
“No, not really,” my mom said as we reached the bottom and touched the sold concrete.
“Mom?!”
“Oh look there’s a dress shop,” my mom pointed off in the distance. Everything about this island was colorful. The birds that were all solid colors of red, blue and green. The stores that sat on colored bricks and the multi-colored flowers, everything was screaming out to me, tell her Alex, tell your mother you’re gay and get it over with.
“Mom, umm I guess…. I mean… I really have to tell you something about me”
“Oh,” she said holding open the store door for me. I followed her to the back where short and long dresses hung on racks.
“Um, I mean telling dad seems worse than telling you,” I gulped as she turned to me.
“What color do you like best, red, pink, or blue?”
“Mom I really have to tell you something”
“If its about you and Mitchie I already know,” she pulled a dress from the rack and placed it in front of me.
“Wait, and you trust me enough to let us share a room?”
“Huh? Of course”
“Do you even know what I’m talking about?”
“Pink, no blue, go try this on”
“MOM!” I screamed before she stopped and a few people turned to us.
“That’s rude Alex,” she said turning away from me lifting a knee high blue dress up to me, strapless might I add, with a short slit going up the right leg.
“I give up,” I tossed my hands into the air before she pressed her fingers into my shoulder.
“You like Mitchie I know honey, I’m not dumb but at least Mitchie is the stable one, your hormone level is off the charts sweetie, and she keeps it down by refusing you, its perfect, which means I don’t have to watch you two”
“So you knew what I was talking about?”
“Yes”
“And does Ms. Torres know too?”
“I’m not sure, she hasn’t spoke about it and I’m not trying to give it away, I’m just trying to keep you in check, do you like this dress?”
“Yeah mom, I do,” that was corny but she just took a ton of weight off my shoulders. We walked out of the store and it was already dark. How did that happen?
“So, as long as you girls keep everything to a minimal tonight then I don’t think Connie will find out,” my mom smiled and placed my dress in my arms. “Now get dressed we have at least forty minutes before the dance.”
I nodded and walked back to my room as my mom went to hers.
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It didn’t take me that long to get dressed, Mitchie still wasn’t in the room so I decided to walk to the ballroom alone, but when I reached the hall I saw Michelle. Her hair was up in a bun and she wore a tight silver dress that showed off her figure.
“Hi Alex”
“Hey”
“You’re walking to the dance room?”
“Yeah”
“Can we walk together?”
“Sure,” I said quietly as Michelle slid her arm through mine.
“You’re looking hot in that dress, as in like cute..or something,” she blushed as I nodded.
“And you’re looking pretty good yourself, silver is so your color,” I said as she laughed again. We made it through most of the larger areas before we made it to the ballroom. There were chairs on the far right and far left of the room with a large dance floor in the middle. It was black marble with small white swirls going through it. On the back of ever chair sat white balloons on thin silver colored strings. Music was playing and everyone was walking into the room dancing.
“You want to dance?” Michelle asked turning to face me as her arm slipped from mine.
“Um, actually I have to find Mitchie”
“Oh okay, we’ll can I at least get one dance tonight?” she asked nervously as I smiled and nodded.
“Sure”
“The last one?” she asked as I studied her face. I didn’t know what to say…was I suppose to say no?
“Okay,” I nodded before walking away and leaving her where she was. An hour past since I was sitting at a table away from everyone. Most of the people were dancing and still no sign on Mitchie. I sighed before pressing my chin into the table. I was humming something in my head like Mitchie,Mitchie, now you gotta’ kiss me. I loved changing the Miss me into Mitchie. I smiled as my chin pressed onto the cloth more before I pulled back and saw long dark brown hair, placed in curls walk into the room. I mean the hair had to be connected to Mitchie, she had her back to me standing in a light blue dress almost the color of mine, it was longer as well with a bow on the back. It made a pyramid shape in the front since that part was cut. I walked over to her since she was the only one off the dance floor.
“Can I have this dance?” I asked as the girl faced me and it was in fact Mitchie with her bottom lip pressed tightly under her teeth.
“Alex I’m sorry I got mad at you for nothing”
“It doesn’t matter, shall we dance?” I asked as she nodded and I grabbed her hand. My mom and Connie was dancing on the other end of the room so Mitchie and I could dance as close as we wanted. I pulled her almost to the middle of the dance floor and placed my hand on the middle bottom of her back and pushed her into me. One of my hands met hers as her other one sat on my shoulder. The song wasn’t slow at all but that’s how we danced to it, slow and steady before I gently pushed her away and she swirled under my arm before coming back. We did this for a few songs, her eyes meeting mine without once looking away. Everything felt warm, perfect, in place until the announcer spoke.
“This is the last dance of the night so make it count,” I swallowed hard because it was finally a slow song and through the crowd I saw Michelle coming towards me.
“Um Mitchie, I umm..I kinda promised someone this dance,” I said quickly as she pulled away and her face saddened. “But I don’t have to..”
“You never break promises remember,” she said to me as I gulped and looked down as Michelle stopped near us. I knew Mitchie was looking at me before turning to us.
“Hey I’m Michelle”
“Mitchie”
“Alex I believe this is our dance,” Michelle said as I looked up at her and nodded before she slid her hand into mine. Mitchie’s eyes dropped before she turned away from the dance floor and made her way to the door.
“Mitch,” I called out as the music played and Michelle pushed herself closer to me. The brunette I loved walked out of the door before I could stop her.
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“Where were you Legs?” my mom asked as I turned to her.
“I was on the other side of the room dancing”
“Oh, with Mitchie?” she smiled as I looked down and shook my head. “By yourself?”
“I WAS dancing with Mitchie, but then I danced with someone else”
“Is that a good thing?”
“No that’s a stupid thing,” I said pulling at the top of my dress to stay up.
“Well didn’t you guys dance at the last song? It was sweet”
“No, we danced at every song except that one”
“Oh, bad move sweetie”
“She told me to”
“And you listened?”
“I have to make it better”
“Well not to creep you out but your dad often puts songs on for us to dance to”
“Yes very creepy but I can do that”
“Uh huh, maybe you guys need supervision”
“Mom,” I nudged her shoulder as she laughed and stopped near her door.
“Okay fine, I trust you Legs, you and Nails”
“Mom please give us new nicknames,” I said before walking towards my room, she watched as I made it into my room before entering hers. The lights were out but I could hear faint whimpering in the bedroom. I took a deep breath before cutting on the light and seeing Mitchie in the distance with her face buried in her pillow. I crept over to one of my backpacks and slid over near the television before placing a cd into the dvd player.
What if I told you it was all meant to be?
Would you believe me, would you agree?
Its almost that feeling that we've met before so tell me that you don’t think I’m crazy when I tell your love is here and now
As the song played I made my way over to the room and walked over to the bed. I placed my hand over Mitchie’s and began brushing her hair from her face.
A Moment like this.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
Some people search forever for that one special kiss.
I cant believe its happening to me.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
“I kinda saved the last dance for my best girl,” I whispered as Mitchie stared at me, tears running down her face. I brushed them away with the back of my hand before tugging on her to get up. She did slowly before standing on the floor. We stayed in the dark room as the only light shone into the room from the living room.
“What about Michelle?”
“I told you, you were jealous,” I laughed before Mitchie rolled her eyes. “But you’re my best girl…and according to you I’m your baby which kinda means you’re mine,” I said before pulling her into me and once again placing my hand on her lower back, this time they both met their and held her. She shook her head before placing her arms around my neck.
Everything changes, but beauty remains.
Something so tender I cant explain.
Well I may be dreaming but til I awake..Can we make this dream last forever?
And I'll cherish all the love we share for a moment like this.
Mitchie sighed before coming into me. Her breath running warmly over my skin, her eyes locking with mine before she smiled and stared at my lips before pressing hers over them. There was nothing separating us, and if possible we would have be conjoined or something. She pulled back a bit before coming in again, her lips crashing onto mines harder, her smile was evident as I rubbed my fingers on her back. Her arms came closer together making everything around us turn darker. The song barley reached my ears anymore. I felt something sticky run across the bottom of my lip before opening my eyes. Mitchie’s was still closed so I did the same and just let her tongue slide into my mouth. Our tongues brushed against each other, fighting for control. Giggling followed, trailing from her and then a moan. Her breathing was getting harder as I slid my hands lower, I felt her rise on her tippy toes almost before my hands landed on her butt, she giggled loudly before pulling back. We both stared at each other as the song stopped. We didn’t say anything as more tears fell down onto Mitchie’s cheeks, and once again I brushed them away before we pulled back from our embrace. Mitchie patted her dress down before brushing her hands through her hair.
“You look horrible,” I laughed as she giggled before hitting my arm. “But you do, I mean, what happened?” I laughed again this time dodging her hand before running into the living room. She followed as I giggled trying not to fall.
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