Guess what? I. Have. Not. Slept. In. One. Week. So I figured, might as well update. Sorry it's a short chapter, but there's some useful information here. I know the final part is mushy. Thanks for reading my last chapter =D Please read the A/N at the end.

Alex had gotten a Mani and a Pedi, and decided to get something to eat. Something sweet, like an ice-cream. But as she stood in front of the ice-cream booth, she met someone she hadn't expected to see ever again.

"Alex?"

Crap. "Hey, Gigi…"

Gigi grimaced and used a sweet voice which was so thick and fake that it made her seem retarded. "Oh bestie, it's been such a long time! How have you been, honey?"

Hypocrite, thought Alex, but was polite and replied nicely, "I've been alright. What about you?"

"Oh, same old, you know, just hanging at the mall…I see you had a Mani done. What are you gonna do right now?"

"I'm gonna have an ice-cream and then I'll go baby shopping…"

"Baby shopping?"

"Yeah, I have a son."

"Oh, God! You do? How do you cope with college, motherhood and being married?"

"Actually," Alex explained, "I had to quit college…I'm going back in a year. And I'm not married; Dean is in Italy right now."

"Dean? Oh, yeah! You had a crush on him and I told the whole school!" she squeaked excitedly, clapping like crazy

"Yes."

Gigi looked at each side, and Alex would have sworn she had heard her whisper, 'slut'.

"Anyway, it was nice seeing you again Gigi," lied Alex. "Hope to see you again some other day."

"Yes, of course, honey. Bye!"

Alex rolled her eyes and suddenly didn't feel so hungry anymore. She decided to just do her shopping and get back home to get some rest.

She arrived home and before anything else, Alex put on her pajamas and threw herself on her bed.

Alex saw herself surrounded by a place so alien to her that she felt her eyes watering in realization of being lost. Tall buildings, shining lights; the only words that came to her mind were…New York.

But her sight contradicted her logic. The place looked somehow like New York, but it was so wrong that she ended up convincing herself she was in a parallel universe.

All the buildings were covered in a red liquid that spilled from everywhere. The people she loved, gone. She walked toward a graveyard, and saw the ten epitaphs for the ten people she loved the most; the ones that, in another universe, a much happier one, were a great part of her life. Her mother, her father, her two brothers, her best friend, her boyfriend, her son, her three famous best friends. Ten people she would die for. Ten who were already dead, here.

Alex looked around, thinking that if she blinked, it might all change again. She did. It didn't. She blinked some more, but the only thing she caused was getting small fragments of what was going on instead of seeing everything as one whole scene; bombs falling from airplanes; screams; children's cries; guns; the sound of bodies hitting the concrete floor. And blood flooding the streets.

She looked for the mean one, the one that was causing all this. She thought about all her enemies.

Gigi, she thought. I saw her earlier today. But then she realized Gigi couldn't be smart enough to do this. Scratch her off.

Malini? She did try to harm Justin once…she could be after me now… Alex deeply considered that. To the suspicious list.

Jerko Philips? He did molest many girls…but molesting has nothing to do with destroying a city, Alex reasoned. Scratch him off.

Ronald… Yes, her mind told her. It's him. Who else could it be? He got rid of your family so that he could be with you without any problems!

Alex wanted to scream in all her rage. Had Ronald really done all this just to be with her? Even then, she wouldn't say yes to him!

She raised her head and looked at one of the tallest buildings and saw a black figure.

"WHY?" she shouted helplessly. "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO ALL THIS?"

"Because I never forgot you," she heard a voice say. And she could tell it was not Ronald's voice.

"Riley?"

Alex woke up sweating. She gasped for air and her hand wandered around until she got a grip on the baby's crib. She rocked it a little, and when there was no response, she started crying. Theresa heard and desperately started banging at the door

"Alex? Sweetie, are you alright? Alex?"

Theresa, tired of all the knocking, just opened the door and turned the lights on. Alex stood up and ran to her, hugging her as tightly as she could.

"Mom?"

"Here I am, Alex. What happened?"

"Mom…where's Dean?"

"He's downstairs; your father and the Jonas are taking care of him. Do you want me to bring him up here?"

She nodded, tears still running down her cheeks. Theresa stormed out of the room as Alex sat on her bed cross-legged. After a minute, more or less, her mother was in the room, with the baby in her arms.

"Here you go, sweetie."

"Thanks…Mom?" Alex called, taking the baby in her arms and rocking back and forth.

"Yes?"

"I had a very weird dream…can we talk later?" Alex said groggily.

"Of course we can."

"Mom?"

"Yes, honey?"

"What time is it?"

"Six forty-five. You slept for a good hour. Dinner's gonna be read in a few minutes."

"I'm not hungry…"

"Well, just in case. Call me if you need me, sweetie."

"Thanks, Mom."

Theresa left the room, closing the door behind her. Alex sighed and looked at her son. He looked back at her.

"Baby, do you have any idea how much you mean to me?" she asked him, caressing his small head delicately. "When I woke up and thought that you were gone, it was like everything inside me broke… I could not live without you and your dad."

The baby cuddled against Alex's chest, burrowing against the warmth. She held him as close to her as she could, and stayed like that for a very long time.

You've reached the A/N. I just wanted to inform y'all that my cousin is writing a Sonny With A Chance story, and I'm gonna lend her this account to post it. Guys...her story is SO UTTERLY COOL AND AMAZING, SO ADDICTIVE. So please, make sure to check it out =D Tell me what you about that in a review.