Alright, after you guys reviewed and voted, it's pretty clear most of you wanted the sequel to A Summer to Remember. :) Just in case you didn't read that, I suggest you do, because well...that's usually how people read sequels and stuff. I mean you don't have to...but anyway, here's Chapter one of the sequel to A Summer to Remember, Hidden Secrets!

Hidden Secrets

Chapter One

"So, did you have fun at Camp Rockamania?" Justin asked, smirking. He probably thought Alex was going to complain about Camp Rock for hours.

"As a matter of face, I did." Alex replied, satisfied by the disappearance of the smirk on Justin's face. "And did you have fun doing your little geek project?" She looked around as if looking for the project.

"Um, yeah, see," Justin stuttered, "It didn't actually work because I put the worms in the microwave and they blew up."

Alex stared at Justin, then, realizing he wasn't joking, burst out laughing. "You put worms in the microwave?"

Justin looked a little hurt. "Yeah, it was all part of the experiment!"

Alex, still laughing, headed upstairs to put her stuff away. Justin looked at Max. "Did something happen during camp that made her this happy?"

Max nodded. "Yeah, remember that kid from 7 years ago? Nate? He lived next door to us and they met at camp, then became boyfriend and girlfriend in 3 days. What a shock." He made little whirly motions with his hands then ran up the stairs to check on 3 week old peanut butter sandwich.

Justin looked around, and seeing that there was no one around, went to the shop to get his parents. "Mom! Dad! Alex and Max are back!"

Theresa looked at Jerry and her eyes lit up. "My babies! They're back!" She ran inside.

Jerry looked at Theresa with a weird look on his face. "Sometimes I wonder why I ever married that woman." He whispered to Justin.

They followed Theresa inside, seeing her hug Alex and Max as if she hadn't seen them in years.

"Alex! Maxie!" she was saying, "I've missed you so much!"

"Mom," Alex said, trying to pull away. "We know you've missed us, and you don't have to choke us to let us know that."

Theresa let them go, sighing happily. "I'm sorry, it's just I've missed seeing your faces inside this house every morning! Did you kids have fun?"

Alex nodded. "Yeah! And I met Connie Torres, your cousin."

Theresa's eyes widened. "You did? That's great!" She started to hug Alex again but Alex ran to the other side of the room just in time.

"And remember Nate?" Alex asked, "My best friend that lived next door to us 7 years ago?"

Theresa and Jerry nodded. They liked that little kid, Alex always had fun with him.

"Well I met him at camp too! He's part of the Connect 3 now." Alex told them, smiling proudly for her boyfriend. She couldn't wait to see his adorable face again.

"And," Max added, "He's now her boyfriend."

Theresa's eyes got bigger with tears. "Oh my little girl's growing up!"

Jerry looked thoughtful. "I always knew you two would get together somehow. He'd better visit sometime, I'd like to talk about baseball with him again."

"That's the great part," Alex smiled, "He's coming to New York for one whole year!"

"He is?" Justin and Max asked at the same time.

"Yeah!" Alex said, clearly excited for the big day to come.

Theresa looked at Jerry. "Oh we have to invite his family over for dinner! We have to make something delicious! When's he coming?" She looked at Alex, waiting for the answer.

"In a week."

The phone rang just as Theresa gasped. She quickly ran to answer it. "Hello? Oh, hi Connie!"

Alex pointed at the phone. "Connie is Mitchie's mom! She makes the best food ever!"

Jerry's eyebrows went up. "Better than our food?"

"Uh," Alex said, thinking of an answer that he would believe, "Uh no, of course not! It's just that it's the best food at camp."

Suddenly, Jerry looked at Alex sternly. "You didn't tell anyone about your wizard powers did you?"

"No, of course not! I didn't even have them so I wouldn't have been able to prove it anyway." She laughed it off as if it wasn't an important thing. "Oh by the way, I'd like to have them back now."

"Me too!" Max joined in.

Jerry gave them back without protesting, glad that his kids weren't talking about their powers without parents around.

"Oh yes! Alex will be so happy!" Theresa exclaimed.

She locked herself and the phone in a room and blabbered on and on with Connie about something Alex couldn't understand. The only parts she could hear were 'Alex will be so surprised!', and 'We had a dog once that pooped all over the carpet!' That wasn't exactly what Alex wanted to hear.

"Are we there yet?" Mitchie asked for the third time.

"No, Mitchie!" Connie replied, "Be patient. We only have about ten miles to go."

Mitchie slumped back in her seat. She had done the lame crossword puzzles her dad had given her to do, talked to Shane about six times, eaten two bars of chocolate, and they still weren't there. Waiting to see the surprised look Alex's face was going to have was just too unbearable.

Shane had tried to get her to cheer up with the news that he and Jason were coming along to New York with Nate. At first she'd been all excited but afterward, after hanging up, she was back down to her gloomy mood.

"We're almost there." Connie promised. Her dad nodded in agreement, still absorbed in that boring old crossword puzzle about Abe Lincoln. Who actually knows real info about the president anyway?

Mitchie stared out the window, listening to the hamburger meats in the trunk bounce up and down. The boxes were moving around, giving a scraping noise to listen to.

Connie turned into a driveway on a street, right in front of a sandwich shop. "We're here!"

Mitchie jumped out the door. "Yes!" She raced to the front door of the house and knocked loudly, hoping the door would open quickly. Besides the fact that she was excited to see Alex, she also needed to go to the bathroom. Badly.

Alex opened the door, expecting another Girl Scout selling cookies or something. She looked at Mitchie, not quite recognizing her yet. Then her eyes got wider and wider and she screamed, pulling Mitchie into a tight hug.

"Oh my gosh Mitchie! You're here!" she said.

Mitchie laughed. "That was my surprise. We moved here! Aren't you glad you waited this long to find it out?"

Alex let her go and glared at her. "No, I would've liked to know right before camp ended!"

Mitchie stepped inside. "Well you know now, so no need to get all mad, and where's the bathroom?"

Alex pointed to a door. "There. I'll go get my mom and dad so you guys can meet them."

She pulled the door open. "Mom! Dad! Mitchie's here!" she yelled.

Her parents came running into the house with sandwich bread loaves in their hands. "Where?" Theresa asked. She threw her loaf into her husband's hands and ran outside to greet them. "Oh, Connie!"

Connie turned around and grinned. "Theresa! How are you? This is my husband, Dave." (A/N: I don't know what his name was, so I just made it up. :D)

Theresa grinned and shook Dave's hand. "Jerry! Come out here!" She yelled.

Jerry came running out, this time with no bread in his hands.

"This is Jerry. Alex, Max, and Justin are inside the house."

"Oh I've met Alex and Max. They're very cute!" Connie said, following her sister.

"Wait 'till you see Justin." Jerry said.

They went into the house, only to find the living room empty. Alex and Mitchie had gone to Alex's room to talk, Justin was somewhere talking to Miranda, and Max was nowhere to be seen.

"Um, wait here." Theresa said, she ran up the stairs and hollered, "Kids! Come down here!"

Alex and Mitchie came bounding down the steps. "What? What is it?"

Max came running down, half his face covered in green goo. Justin came, still talking on the phone with Miranda.

"Kids, this is Connie."

Justin dropped the phone. "Whoa! You look exactly like each other!" Then, realizing he'd just dropped the phone while talking to his girlfriend, he hastily picked it up and told her 'he'd call her right back.'

Theresa faced the adults. "Well," She said, clapping her hands, "Let me show you around!"

Mitchie and Alex watched them march into the shop one by one. It was a pretty funny scene; they adults kinda looked like soldiers. They ran upstairs back into Alex's room.

Mitchie and her family actually knew about Theresa's family being wizards, so Alex didn't need to hide anything from Mitchie. She liked it that way; she wouldn't have to lie about why there was a wand in her room and why it glowed everytime she said a spell.

"Alex, are you ever going to tell Nate about being a wizard?" Mitchie asked, playing with a strand of her hair.

"Well I'm sure I'll have to tell him sometime. We can't keep secrets from each other, he's been honest with me since the beginning."

"Why don't you tell him when he comes back to New York?" Mitchie suggested.

"But how will I say it? He'll probably laugh in my face." Alex said. "Plus, my dad was all 'Did you tell anybody about being a wizard?', and I'm sure he doesn't want me to tell anybody else. I mean, I haven't even told Harper."

"But you've gotta tell him sometime." Mitchie reminded her.

Alex sighed. "Yeah. I just need to figure out a way."

Well, there's the first chappy! Hope you liked it, next chapter will be out soon. And if I don't get enough reviews, I'm gonna start charging you guys! :) Review!