Can't stop, won't stop! I must be dreaming.

I awoke, startled by my own ring tone. I reach for the phone and without looking at who's calling, I answer.

"Hello?" I mumble.

"Princess Diana! What's good?" Alex asks me enthusiasticaly.

"Well. I just woke up." I groan stretching. "Why what's up?"

"I wanted to come by and take you to breakfast. You up for it?" He asks hopefully.

"Mmmmm sure. Lemme give you my address." I give Alex my address and I can hear his car starting in the background. Shit I gotta get ready.

We hang up and I sprint into my bedroom and get dressed. I get into my bathroom to do my makeup and gasp as I realize I have awesome hair. I laugh, shake my head, and look at my piercings. Hot as hell. But I have to clean them still. I wince as the cotton swab makes its way around the jewelery. I use my H2Ocean spray and dab it dry. I do my makeup and decide to actually do my hair today. I brush it out and pull my bangs back and clip them in place. As I look at myself in the mirror, I realize I left my music on from last night. Cause I'm damned if I do ya, damned if I don't.

All of a sudden I hear a knock at the door. I turn the music off and run to the door to answer it. Next thing I know Alex is dancing in my living room, finishing the lyrics at the top of his lungs with, "Make a fool of myself when you hang around. When you're gone, I'm a match that's burning out"

I giggle and stare at him realizing he's wearing Pickatchu pajama pants, and a white tank top. His hair is all sorts of messed up. All of a sudden, I feel way too overdressed.

"No. No way Princess. We are not leaving here until you change into pajamas. What is the point of going to breakfast dressed up?" He grinned at me like I was crazy.

I roll my eyes and run back to my room. I look through my pajama pants and settle on a pair of zebra striped ones. I pick a pink crop top so I can show off my awesome new piercings. I slip on my favorite pair of dinosaur slippers and run back out to the living room where Alex is lounging on my couch, facing away from me. I tip toe his way and sneak up from behind him and just as I'm about to scare him, he reaches up and grabs me, scaring the absolute crap out of me. I fall onto my floor, totally freaked out. Alex jumps up and comforts me.

"I am so sorry. I was just joking" As he reaches down for me, I jump up and scare him right back. "You asshole!" He yells at me cracking up.

"Payback is a bitch!" I yell at him grabbing my phone and wallet on the way out. "Wait who's car do you want to take?" I ask looking back at him.

"My car." He pushes past me and opens my door for me. I get into his very darkly tinted, black Mazda. It looks pretty old and beat up. "I like to keep a low profile." Alex says as he climbs into the front seat.
We speed off and sit in silence, just enjoying the car ride.

"So where are we going for breakfast exactly?" I ask him, suddenly curious.

"Ihop. If that's ok with you?" He asks me.

"Sure. I haven't been to breakfast in so long. I usually make my own." I realize.

He laughs and shakes his head like it's such a ridiculous thing. My phone buzzes and I look down at it. It's a text from John.

I don't know about you, but waking up without your love by your side sucks. I miss you Diana. Please let me come home.

"Who's that?" Alex asks glancing over at my phone.

"Oh just John asking for me back." I reply as I delete it. "I think I might just block his number. I am getting tired of these texts."

"Right on ya." Alex grins at me.

We pull up to an Ihop in the middle of no where. I assume it's to keep this "low profile" he speaks of. Alex and I walk inside and grab a booth furthest away from anything. It takes the waitress a while to realize we were even there but when she did, she took our drink orders. We browse through the menu in silence. I decide on the chicken and waffles platter. Alex chooses banana caramel pancakes. Our waitress returns with our drinks and we give her our order.

"So how was your night?" Alex asked me, sipping his hot chocolate.

"Ugh. Don't even. It sucked. I'm just so tired of that house already. It's just a bunch of old memories." I fiddle with my straw.

"Well have you considered moving?" He asks.

"Actually...No I haven't. That's a really good idea." I think. I have a lot of money saved up since John always bought me everything. Besides, the house is mine. It's literally in my name. I can sell it. "Alex you're freaking brilliant."

He cracks up. "Do you have any plans today?"

"No none at all." I lie. I have work today, but I think I'm gonna call in "sick". I haven't missed any days recently anyway.

"Well let's go apartment shopping." He suggests. "There's a loft for sale right around my area."

"Sounds good to me." I say excitedly. "So how was the rest of your night?"

"Lonely." Alex laughs. "Couldn't fall asleep for hours. Jack was staying up watching movies all night so I joined him. Rian and Zach didn't get in until 4. They went to some party. Maybe you'll get to meet them tonight."

"Hopefully." I smile. I guess that means I'm hanging out at his place tonight.
The waitress brings us our food and we dig in. I didn't realize how hungry I was. We eat and enjoy our food in silence. We finish up the food and our waitress brings the check.

"Oh I'm sorry I forgot to ask. Can you bring a split check?" I ask. But before I can finish my question, Alex snickers and whips out his credit card.

"Don't listen to her." He looks at me and rolls his eyes.

"Thank you." I look down and blush.

We get the card back and walk back to his car.

"Can I just say that I really like hanging out with you." Alex blurted out.

I crack up. "You're such a goofball. I like hanging out with you too."

We get into his car and drive. "Did you want to go back and change for apartment shopping or are you fine?" Alex asks me.

"Nah, unless you want to."

"Nope." He grins.

I turn up his radio and we drive back to his loft. "Look right across the street." He points.
There is a smaller scale loft directly across from Alex's. It looks pretty nice on the outside. We park the car and walk up to the door. It's locked, of course. But we call the realtor and she is able to meet us in about an hour.

"Let's just chill at my place until then." Alex suggests. We walk into his loft and plop on the couch. "Any movie you want to watch in particular?"

"No, surprise me." I reply. He pops in Beauty and the Beast and I crack up.

"What?" He asks, genuinely confused.

"What are you, a 7 year old girl?" I laugh at him.

"Fuck you." He mumbles. "I love this movie."

"I was kidding." I nudge him. "I love this movie too."

He puts his arm around me and I scootch a little closer to him. We watch the movie in silence for a while and all of a sudden his door flies open. It's Jack with a bag of McDonald's.

"Hey Diana." He smiles at me.

"Hey there." I smile back, surprised he remembered my name.

"Do you guys want some? I got a few extra hashbrowns." Jack offers.

"We're good man. Just came back from Ihop." Alex replies.

"Good, because I'm hungry." Jack runs back into his room with the food. "Nice PJ's losers!" He yells back at us.

Alex and I laugh and look at each others pj's. "Your's are pretty cool." Alex gestures to mine.

"Back at you." I giggle.

Next thing I know, my phone is ringing. It's the realtor.

"Hello?" I answer.

"Hey there Diana. I'm right outside the loft. Are you almost here?" She asks me.

"I'll be right down." I answer.

We hang up and I stand up.

"The realtor is here I take it?" Alex asks me standing up with me. I nod my head. "So Princess Diana, are you ready?" He asks me looking down at me with his hair half in his eyes.

And at that very moment, I knew that I was ready.

Notes

HerpDerp, I have classes today wah. Leave me comments so I have ways to entertain myself in classes! Thanks for reading everyone (:
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