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Tweak says, "i love you cupcake"

Alex Grey (lex_isa_wreck) wrote in haunted_roads,
@ 2008-06-27 22:31:00

Entry tags:

alex, serena

Week Ten: Friday
Who: Alex and Serena
Where: Their Apartment
What: Making up is hard to do

The apartment smelled like food with only a little bit of burning scent mixed into it. Hey! He couldn't become a gourmet chef overnight, right? But he had tried and that was worth a lot in his book. And so far, the end product didn't taste too bad. It wasn't as good as what Serena could cook, but the point was that she didn't have to cook it. And not having to cook usually made pretty much anything taste better.

For the past couple of days, all Alex had been doing was sleeping and working. His time out with Prissy had worn him out, and left him a little bit mind-fucked. That girl was something else. And he was something else when he was with her. There was no way in hell he was going to tell Serena about that whole thing though. She would kick his fucking ass from one end of the Towers to the other and back again. Some things were best just kept to one's self.

Barefoot and wearing nothing but his plaid pajama pants and a wife beater, Alex found himself actually dancing around the kitchen. He had the Allman Brothers playing, Midnight Rider, blaring fairly loudly on the stereo in the living room. Singing along, he took the Ziti out of the oven and popped in the garlic bread. Serena would be home any minute. Of course the thought had barely entered his mind when he heard keys rattling in the door.

She would have little to no time to react before her purse was taken from her and tossed aside, and she was grabbed by one hand and pulled in for a twirl around the dance floor, or the foyer if you really wanted to be picky about it. He dipped her, pulled her back up, then he let her go. "Hungry?" He raised his voice enough for it to carry over the sound of the music.

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aloveforgotten
2008-06-28 12:31 am UTC (link)

Today had been a very long day for Serena and the only thing she wanted to do was go home, open a bottle of wine and take a very hot and very long bath. Then of course she was going to pass out but she at least wanted to relax a little before that happened.

Serena was like a zombie as she made her way up to her apartment and was going on autopilot as she pulled out her keys and headed toward the door. Except that something was wrong. Slowly her gaze raised to from the knob to the small circle in the middle of the door. Was that music she heard? A brow quirked as she pushed open the door but before she could figure out what was going on, she was being swept up by her brother and twirled around apartment.

Okay, it was official. Alex had lost his mind.

"Alex what are you--" Blue eyes went wide as he dipped her and it was like the aroma from the Ziti caught her nose just as he asked his question. "Did you cook?" Okay seriously, what the hell was going on here? Not only was her brother acting like someone not her brother, but he had cooked? Ohh he was up to something, she could feel it. "Could you turn the music down? I can't even hear myself think!"

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lex_isa_wreck
2008-06-29 11:48 am UTC (link)

It wouldn't be shocking to know that Serena thought that Alex had lost his mind. Maybe he had. The last week had been one hell of one and by now, he was just so over it all that he couldn't even stand it. Today, he was going to make amends, get back into her good graces, and find out everything he could about this Kayden fellow. Any help he could offer Nox in figuring out who this guy was would certainly be appreciated.

"Sorry!" He yelled over the music, and then he moved to turn it down a little, loud enough to hear it, but not so loud that it interfered with conversation. "Yeah. I cooked. Ziti. Nox gave me the recipe. I hope you worked up an appetite at work today. It'll be done in about five minutes, as soon as the garlic bread heats up."

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aloveforgotten
2008-07-01 01:35 pm UTC (link)

Oh if Serena had only known why he was being so nice she surely would have told him to shove it. Kaden was none of his business and he needed to just accept the fact that she was in love with him and wanted him to be apart of her life. Sure she valued her brother's opinion, but there was no changing her mind on this one.

Serena definitely looked a tad suspicious as she listened to him talk about ziti. Nox, huh? She would have to be sure to thank him for somehow convincing her brother to cook. "Yeah, I'm starving," she said as she casually took a look around her kitchen. Well, nothing looked like it had been set on fire or was broken so that was a good thing.

"So what's the occasion?" she finally asked after a minute or two. "Because you never cook."

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lex_isa_wreck
2008-07-01 08:54 pm UTC (link)

She could feel free to tell him to shove it if she wanted to but he wasn't going to have it. He was his business, just like any girl that Alex wanted to be with, like Prissy for example, would be Serena's business as well. That was just the way that it worked when you were so close to your siblings.

"Good. That's just what I wanted to hear." He said, and then nodded towards the table. "Sit. I've gotta get the bread out." And he moved to do just that, dumping it off into the bread basket that he placed in the center of the table, next to the hot pan of Ziti that he had just pulled from the oven a bit ago. The place settings were already completely set. All there was to do now was serve one's self and eat. Clearly he had put a lot of effort into this event.

"You're not crazy. That's the occasion." He moved to the fridge. "What do you want to drink?" He grabbed a beer for himself. Italian food with beer. You could never really go wrong there.

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aloveforgotten
2008-07-02 01:01 am UTC (link)

Oh really? Then Alex needed to introduce her to Prissy the succubus soon then.

When she was instructed to sit, she did just that after kicking off her shoes. Oh how her feet ached! Insoles or something needed to be purchased stat. Stupid special doctor shoes just weren't cutting it anymore. "Wow, the table looks really nice," she said once she had taken a seat and grabbed a napkin. Alex had obviously put a lot of effort into buttering her up for whatever it was that he wanted.

"Wait, what?" She wasn't crazy? What the hell was he talking about? Of course she wasn't crazy. Weirdo. "Uh...some wine I guess." Since her brother had obviously lost his mind she might as well get nice and liquored up for the occasion, or at least warm and fuzzy. Though with the way her brother was acting maybe drunk was the way to go. "So why am I not crazy?"

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lex_isa_wreck
2008-07-02 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Maybe she would. Maybe she wouldn't. The girl would probably run off if he tried to take her home to his sister.

"Thank you, Madam." Yes, he had put a lot of time and effort into it, though it wasn't really to butter her up or anything. He just wanted to make nice with her, make peace, since he was the one that was wrong for a change. Of course, how was he to know at the time? Who really believed that things like that actually existed?

He grabbed the bottle of wine, glasses already on the table, and moved over to it, pouring her a glass before he himself had a seat, everything ready at that point. "Kayden's a vampire." He said, tossing it out there like it was really nothing for him to believe it, like it was just common sense that that was absolutely correct, even if he had been adamant that it WAS NOT a few days before this.

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aloveforgotten
2008-07-03 12:32 am UTC (link)

Madam? Did he seriously just call her Madam? Okay now she was convinced that he had either lost his mind or was on drugs. And to be honest, she wasn't sure which one she would have preferred. Drugs would have been easier to fix but crazy could be cured with drugs...ugh, so hard.

His little revelation left her blinking and she had to reach for her wine to get her mind some time to process it. A long, very long sip was taken as she eyed him over the rim of her glass. What was she supposed to say to that?

"Um...well...what made you change your mind?" There, that was a good place to start. It wasn't like he just woke up one morning and decided he was going to believe her. Or did he? Ugh, she was already starting to get a headache.

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lex_isa_wreck
2008-07-03 08:00 pm UTC (link)

Alex could have seen that coming, the wine thing. It was a little bit of a shocker that he was, first of all, cooking, and second of all, telling her that he believed her. He was certain she hadn't expected either.

"Nox." He wondered if that would be adequate enough of an answer, but he decided that it would not. "Apparently he's a demon." He gave a small shrug of his shoulders and then reached for some garlic bread. "Bread?" He asked, smirking inwardly, knowing that it had to be freaking her out at least a little bit that he was being so nonchalant.

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aloveforgotten
2008-07-07 11:43 am UTC (link)

Maybe she was dreaming? Maybe she had fallen asleep at her desk (again) and was having the strangest dream ever because she made the mistake of eating that leftover Chinese food she had sitting in her small refrigerator? That had to be it because if not, then her brother had completely lost his mind.

"Nox?" Serena blinked a few times before she shook her head. Okay, now she was convinced Alex was on drugs. "It's not polite to call people names." Nox was a nice guy, not some "demon" that Alex had come up with. So strange. "Um, sure. Thank you."

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lex_isa_wreck
2008-07-07 07:38 pm UTC (link)

Alex handed her a couple of pieces of bread, a small smirk resting upon his lips. "He told me you wouldn't believe me." He had called it, but then again, he wasn't quick to believe her either when she told him about Kayden either. "Tell me though, if Kayden can be a vampire why is it so unbelievable that Nox is a demon?" A valid question, or so he should think.

He sat back in his chair, pushing the Ziti around with his fork for a moment before scooping up a bite of it. "Guess I'll just have to take you over to his place so you can see the wings." He took the bite. "Mmm, this is damn good if I say so myself."

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