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Alexis made sure her front door didnt make a sound as she closed it behind her. Coming back to the penthouse only meant she was coming back to her life and trying to sneak back in, was here way of hiding from the world she could make after leaving Harrison.
She had a pounding headache and she blamed the sick feeling in her stomach on the plane ride but deep down she knew that it was the emptiness inside her that was making her feel this way. Alexis had every intention of leaving Harrison like a big girl and being realistic about her life as the now lonely lawyer to the mob boss of Port Charles rather than a fantasy life with her British millionaire lover. She knew the difference, thats what made her the smart Cassadine and she loathed it.
Alexis buried herself in reading contacts and answering phone messages trying to take Harrison completely out of her mind. Instead she would catch herself daydreaming about something so simple as the way he would wrap his arms around her.
Before Alexis knew it, it was already late afternoon and the phone rang startling her from the silence that had settled into the room.
Alexis Davis
I take it you forgot to call
Her heart fluttered at the sound of his voice
Im so sorry I did completely forget
You must be busy
I should be
You should be, what?
I actually forgot to call you because I was sitting here daydreaming of you in between paragraphs. I am sincerely sorry
If thats youre excuse youre forgiven. Everything ok in Port Charles?
Harrison she paused for a moment biting at her nail
What is it Lex?
It seems a little dramatic because its only been a few hours but honestly... Im miserable
Harrison let out a sigh over the phone
Honestly I was hoping more than anything you would say that
Change the subject she said abruptly
What?
Change the subject from the fact that Im like a miserable school girl without her boyfriend
Im your boyfriend? He said in a lighter mood
Im going to hang up on you! she teased
No, no please dont. Im sorry.
Did you work today? she said changing the subject for him
I felt lonely for myself, did some work, made some money, went to the gym
Sounds like you had a productive day
Well actually I was working to get you off my mind but instead I checked messages every thirty seconds in case I missed you. So I decided to go to the gym and they asked where I had been and then I found myself telling them I was with you. So there you were again and the I went back home and before I could stop myself I dialing your number
Wow you think you could get over me She teased again
I cant seem to he said seriously
Alexis let the seriousness set in
I cant get over you either
A long unnoticed pause went between them
Ill let you go
Ill call and this time I promise I will
Please do, Bye Lex
Bye Harrison
He could hear her not wanting to hang up the phone but he would have never hung up if he didnt end the conversation then
Alexis did everything to try to occupy herself she read, she watched TV, she paced the floor, she devoured popcorn. She would have done anything to try to keep her mind off of Harrison. It was now passed eleven and she hadnt heard a word from Kristina and though Kristina didnt have to report in or did she have a curfew but the more Alexis thought of why she wasnt home, the more she thought about Ned. She knew Kristina was with him. She tried not to be jealous, she tried to let him go but spending four years of your life with someone and then watching him be with your sister was inhumanly possible to do without not having at least some kind of emotion.
Alexis rubbed her eyes until they felt raw and she wanted to bang her head against anything hard as long as she could feel the pain from it to take her mind off of Ned and Kristina and Harrison.
Self inflicted pain! Good Alexis she said to herself
She finally dropped the remote on to the table and decided she would try to go up to bed and hopefully get some sleep.
Alexis buried her body into her comforter. The queen-size bed seemed to swallow her lying there all alone. She wrapped her arms around herself almost as if she were trying to comfort herself from the emotion or the lack thereof.
She squeezed her eyes shut at the sound of silence as it screamed in her ears. There was no sound of Kristina rambling on about some intuition she had or some story about how a great lesson could be learned from a wise old elephant and there definitely was no sound from someone lying beside her like the way Harrison did last night.
Her eyes finally grew tired and they burned from the tears that had lined them. She drifted off to sleep only to start the next day as the fearless and what seemed to be unaffected Alexis Davis.
It was 3 AM and Alexis was awoken by a body settling in beside her. Her body jumped at the first touch. She turned to see the outline of Harrison lying there beside her.
Am I dreaming, she said sadly not believing he was there with her
I couldnt sleep without you
So you came all the way to Port Charles? she said amazed
I came all the way to - you
Alexis left his explanation at that and Harrison wrapped his arms around her just as he had the night before. The same arms that for the first time in a year made her feel. Feel like a woman, feel like she was wanted and loved.
Harrison?
Yes ?
Goodnight
Goodnight Lex
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