Alex had been eating, he had been practising, he'd been sleeping and he'd been staring out through the window. He was officially out of things to do to keep himself occupied. Classes hadn't started yet and for the first time he really wanted them too. He wanted to spend his days on the lessons, he wanted to get assignements, he wanted everything to keep him occupied. To keep him from thinking about her. Although it was much easier to decide not to think about her than to actually go through with it. Even when he wasn't thinking about her, he was thinking how good he was that he wasn't, which of course made him think about her. It was all an evil cycle.

He walked through the corridor with his eyes steadily at the floor in front of him. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. Perhaps breaking up with his girlfriend, well ex now, had been easier if he'd had someone he could talk to. Sure, he could talk to Leo, Emma, Savannah, Katelynn and the others but it wasn't the same to talk to them as to talk to his best friends. Not only did he miss Ellie like crazy, he also missed the company of his two best friends Chandler and Fee, who from the looks of it were both doing just fine without him. He sighed like a sad puppy, maybe they were all better off without him.

Chandler and Fee were two people he really missed (but of course he was too proud to tell them) but Ellie... Ellie was different, Ellie had hurt him. He missed her but at the same time, it hurt too much to think about her. Alex decided he didn't want to meet her, it was too early. It would hurt too much and it wasn't good if she saw him all mopey. But that was exactly what he was.

Mopey and alone. Complete and utterly...

Alone.