Summary: Alex Russo and her family go to a skiing lodge for their winter break vacation, as well as Shane Gray and his family. What can come from a skiing accident? Alex Russo and Shane Gray go through the twists and turns of a relationship. Dodging parents and siblings, but in a life of lies how do you know what's real and what's not? Find out in: Meet Me Under the Mistletoe!

Rating: M

Author: UtterlyRandom

Disclaimer: I'm only saying this once... I don't own anything but the plot.

Chapter Name: Trips and Slips

Dedication: Thanks to Mollie for the AWESOME advice on this story! You practically own the plot, but thanks for giving the rights to me! And thanks to everyone for saying they wanted a straight Shalex story (I'll try to keep the Nalex out!), thanks to Mollie and everyone who likes Shalex...you're all bloody awesome! (Lol, I'm a Brit!) This is also for Cara, because she is everything I am not, and a lovely combination of everything that I am. Love you!

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Alex Russo was super excited. Every year, her family went somewhere cool for vacation. One year they went to Disneyland and the next year they went to the Grand Canyon. Her life was full of awesome vacations and Alex couldn't wait to hear this year's vacation destination. She walked into the living room, where the rest of her family was already seated. Her mother, Theresa, and her father, Jerry, looked as excited as she felt. Her brothers, seventeen year old Justin and thirteen year old Max, were excited as well. She sat beside her brothers and looked at her parents.

"Okay, now that you're all here, I'm proud to announce that we will once again be going on a memorable vacation! This year we will be going to Sugar Creek, Colorado. We'll be staying at Hopewell Lodge. There's so much to do there! Ice skating, hockey, snowboarding, skiing and other sports. And we're going at the best time! The day before we leave is the end of a series of competitions there! We'll get to go and see people compete! And at the end, there is a dance, won't that be fun?" Theresa asked.

"Yeah...do they have Internet access there?" Justin asked, making his whole family roll their eyes.

"Yes, Justin. Unless there's a snowstorm." Jerry answered, Justin smiled, but Internet access was the last thing on Alex's mind.

"When do we leave?" She asked. Her mother smiled at her.

"In two days, but don't worry. We got you guys some stuff for the trip." Theresa and Jerry got up and pulled bunches of items from the closets. Alex was handed a purple suitcase set, while Justin got a black set and Max got a green set. They each got a matching snowsuit, hats, gloves, earmuffs, scarves and goggles. Alex got white boots, Max got black boots and Justin got silver boots. Alex received white ice skates, Max got a green and black snowboard and Justin got some sick red and black skis with blood red poles. Alex squealed and hugged her mom.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! Oh! This is so cool!" She said, pulling her ice skates on and walking around on them.

"You're welcome, sweetie." Mrs. Russo laughed. She stared at Alex, whom was wobbling around the room in her ice skates. "Um, honey, what are you doing?" She asked. Alex didn't stop walking in the skates.

"It takes ten days minimum to break in new ice skates. So, until we leave, I'm breaking these babies in." She explained. Jerry and Theresa exchanged an amused look. Justin, on the other hand, rolled his eyes.

"We'll be there for twenty one days, Alex. You have plenty of time to break them in." He pointed out. Alex ignored him and continued to walk around in her new ice skates.

"I don't care." At that moment, she turned and fell onto the hardwood floor. Tears sprang to her eyes as she landed on her butt. Hard. Theresa and Jerry hurried to her and pulled her off the floor.

"Take them off before you break a bone." Jerry ordered. Alex sniffled and pulled off the skates. Jerry took them from her and walked away. Theresa rubbed Alex's back lovingly.

"Why don't you guys start packing? We are staying for twenty one days and you'll need extra clothes. I think you should start packing now so we aren't running around last minute. We'll go shopping while we're there. The lodge has a formal dance that they call Snow Ball. Isn't that cute?" Theresa gushed.

"Oh! Just adorable!" Justin said in a peppy voice. Theresa glared at him before smirking.

"I'm glad you feel that way, Justin. You and Max are going to go to the dance. Pack dress clothes. And dance shoes. And don't even think about not packing them because I'm checking your bags before we leave. Now, you two start packing." Theresa watched her sons grumble as they left the room, going to pack. Theresa turned back to Alex.

"We'll buy you a dress while we're there. It'll be so much fun, don't you think?" She asked. Alex smiled and gathered up her suitcase set and new clothes.

"Yes! I'm going to start packing! Mom, I swear, this sounds like it'll be the best vacation so far!" Alex exclaimed.

Theresa laughed. "Alex, you say that every year." She pointed out. Alex smiled.

"Well, you keep topping last year's awesome vacation, not that I'm complaining!" She left on that note. She ran up the stairs to her room. She dumped all her new stuff on her bed and began to pack. Most of the outfits she packed were skinny jeans, but she threw in her most comfortable pairs of sweatpants, sweaters, hoodies and skirts. She packed for every occasion. In the last bag she put in her toiletries, books and the like. It took her over three hours to make sure she had everything she wanted or could possibly need, but she was done. She wasn't tired, though. In fact, she felt like she could run all through Central Park at top speed off of her excitement high. She had a very good vibe about this vacation, but she didn't know why. She didn't mind, though. She always followed her heart and her dreams and it had worked out for her so far, so why fix what wasn't broken?

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Two days later, Alex was on a plane to Sugar Creek, Colorado. They had taken three taxis to the airport to hold all of the luggage and, of course, themselves. Alex was so giddy, she literally was bouncing in the comfortable airplane seat. She couldn't wait to get there! As an early Christmas present, her parents had given her a new camera. She had taken pictures of herself and her entire family on the plane. She planned on making a scrapbook when they got back to New York, but for now she took pictures. She could plug the camera into her laptop and edit the pictures. The rest of her family was asleep and after an hour, Alex decided sleep might be a good thing after all. She curled up into a ball on the plane and closed her eyes, not opening them until the plane hit the runway.

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Again, the Russos' took three taxis to the lodge. Alex rode with Max, Mr. and Mrs. Russo rode together and Justin rode alone.

"I can't wait to check out the hockey! I'm going to take lessons." Max told his older sister. Alex blinked in surprise.

"But you got a snowboard, I'm the one with ice skates." She pointed out. Max shrugged indifferently.

"I can rent skates at the lodge. And I'll snowboard when I'm not taking lessons. I just want to try hockey." Max said, leaning forward. Alex followed his gaze.

"Oh my gosh! There it is! Hopewell Lodge! Max, we're there!" Alex squealed, grabbing her younger brother's arm tightly, making him wince.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get off of me!" He shook her off and examined his arm before answering her squeals. "As soon as we check in, I'm signing up for sports and stuff." He decided.

"Not me. I'm stealing Justin's gear and going skiing." Alex said. Max glanced at his sister uneasily as the taxi stopped right outside of Hopewell Lodge.

"Are you sure Alex? Maybe you should take some lessons first." Max said. Alex blew his advice off.

"Lessons, schmessons. I'll be fine." She opened the taxi door and climbed out of the cab, Max on her heels. They followed their parents and older brother into the lodge.

"Hello, I'm Mr. Jerry Russo and I rented three cabins for my family and I." Jerry said. The woman at the check-in desk smiled at the family.

"Okay...Mr. Russo..." She scanned the guest list before looking up. "You have the Winter Wonderland, Gingerbread Man and the Mystic Mistletoe cabins. Please enjoy your stay here at Hopewell Lodge." The lady said, handing Alex's father three keys on three separate key chains. One key chain was shaped like a snowflake. Another one was shaped like a gingerbread man and the last key chain was shaped like mistletoe.

"Thank you." He faced his family. "Okay, your mother and I will be sharing the Winter Wonderland cabin. Justin and Max will share the Gingerbread Man cabin and Alex will have the Mystic Mistletoe cabin to herself." Jerry said, handing Justin the key with the key chain shaped like a gingerbread man and Alex the key with the key chain shaped like mistletoe, keeping the key with the key chain shaped like a snowflake for himself and Theresa.

"Hey! Why does Alex get her own cabin?" Max whined.

"Because she's a young lady." Theresa responded, giving him a look for acting so childishly in public. Alex smiled at her mom.

"Well, let's go back to our cabins to unpack. Then we can go separate ways." Theresa said as they left the lodge. They split up, Justin and Max in one taxi, Theresa and Jerry in one together, and Alex alone.

Alex's taxi had all of her stuff and Justin's ski gear. She planned on skiing as soon as she was done unpacking, anyway. Alex's cabin was closer to the slopes, but her parents' and brothers' cabins were close to the lodge. There was another cabin by her's, but it was a good ten minutes walk away. The taxi stopped outside of her cabin. Alex took out her key and unlocked the door. She and the taxi driver unloaded the trunk and carried the things into her cabin and then he left. He had been prepaid, so she didn't have to pay him. Alex shut the door to her cabin and slipped the key off of the mistletoe key chain and slipped the key onto her necklace chain, so she wouldn't lose it. She looked around her cabin.

The whole cabin was made of light tan logs and had a hardwood floor. There was a fireplace in the main room with a couch, armchair and coffee table. There was also a TV and a VCR/DVD player. Alex smiled and explored the room on her left. It was a bedroom with one king-sized bed, a heater, bedside table, dresser and closet. Alex unpacked her clothes, boots and coats and put them in the closets and dressers. She put her books on the bedside table shelves. Then she explored the bathroom, which was on the left side of the main room. She unpacked her towels, shampoo, conditioner, hair products, body wash, loofah, her straightener, blow dryer, curler, hair brush and so on. When everything was unpacked, Alex put her empty suitcases in the closet in her room and began to get dressed to go skiing.

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Shane, Jason and Nate Gray checked into their cabins with their parents, Denise and Paul Gray. Once they got the cabin arrangements, they took their separate cars to go to their cabins. Denise and Paul Gray were in the Igloo cabin, but their sons were in the cabin by the slopes in Santa's Workshop. The three brothers rode in Jason's black Chevrolet to their cabin.

"Do you see it?" Jason asked, watching the snow-covered road attentively, not wanting to crash.

"Wait! There's a cabin!" Nate called out suddenly, making his older brother Shane jump and Jason to press his foot on the brake slowly, so that they wouldn't spin off of the road. "No, wait. That's the Mystic Mistletoe cabin. Never mind." He said. Jason sighed and took his foot off the brake and placed it on the gas pedal, slowly driving on the snowy road until he got to the last cabin.

"What's this cabin's name?" He asked Shane because it was on Shane's side of the road.

Shane squinted through the thick white snow. "Santa's Workshop. Yep! This is our cabin!" Jason parked the car and shut it off. He and his brothers got out. They quickly unloaded the car and then waited for Jason to unlock the door, trying to move around the annoying Santa key chain. Once he finally got the door unlocked and opened, he and his brothers ran inside, stomping snow off their boots and shaking snow out of themselves. They dropped their luggage and equipment and began looking around.

The main room was bare with light tan log walls and tan hardwood floors. There was a couch, armchair, coffee table, TV and a VCR/DVD player by a fireplace. There were three doors. One on the left, one on the right and one straight ahead. Nate went to the right Jason took the door straight ahead and Shane took the one on the left.

Jason and Nate's rooms looked exactly the same. Both rooms had a twin bed, dresser, bedside table, heater and closet. Shane's room had a sink, toilet and tub.

"Uh...guys? I think I found the bathroom. So...where's my room?" He asked. Nate and Jason shrugged.

"It could be the living room." Jason offered.

"What? No way! I need a bed!" Shane argued.

"Well, you can't have mine." Nate stated.

"Or mine." Jason quickly added.

"Fine. Then there's only one way to settle this." Nate said, a gleam in his eyes. His brothers rushed to him, fists out.

"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!" They shouted in unison. Jason and Nate both had paper, but Shane had rock. He groaned.

"Fine, but I get to use half a closet and half a dresser." He commanded, mad at his loss.

"It's a deal." Nate said, shaking hands with Shane. Jason did the same.

"Let's go ski on some powder while it's still fresh." Jason said, looking out at the slopes from the window in his room.

"Or in Shane's case, eat the powder." Nate joked. He and Jason disappeared into their rooms. Shane grabbed his snow gear and went into the bathroom, slamming the wood door behind him.

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Alex felt like she was getting the hang of the kiddie slopes. So she went to the intermediate slope. She gulped, looking up at the huge slope. She decided to take baby steps. Well, baby slides, considering she had long skis attached to her feet. Step One: Get on the lift. It took her ten minutes to get on. A trio of people were a couple of ski lift chairs behind her and she hoped she wouldn't embarrass herself going down the hill. She tensed, getting ready to get off the lift, but she jumped off a little late, making the drop even higher. Alex sped down the slope.

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Jason, Shane and Nate stood at the top of the intermediate slope in their skiing gear, skis and all. "Last one down sleeps on the couch the entire trip!" Shane shouted, pushing off the top of the slope using his dark blue poles. He sped downhill, gathering speed. He narrowly avoided some trees and almost hit another person skiing. Nate and Jason flew by him, leaving a cloud of snow in their wake, making Shane choke and unable to see. When he finally cleared the snow cloud, he saw a person skiing hit a bump on the slope and go flying through the air. The skier landed with a loud, sickening CRUNCH! Shane slowed down the best he could, making sure the skier was okay. The skier didn't move. Shane forgot how to stop and landed on his butt, on purpose, and skidded to the skier's crumpled body, hoping to God he did not just witness a person's death.

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Okay, how was that for a first chapter? Yes, that is Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place. So, tell me what you thought. Justin and his Internet, goofball. The Gray brothers settling rooming arrangements with a game of Paper, Scissors, Rock. Don't you love them. Tell me what you think will happen, it'll happen with the next couple of chapters. Again, shout out to Mollie, YOU ROCK! Cara, again, you are my soul sister. No reference to that stupid song, though. :p

Chapter: Dates and Dinner Plans

Summary: "Are you okay?" He asked. The skier didn't move. Shane pulled off the skier's hat and goggles. A mass of long, thick and wavy brown hair pooled around the skier's head. The skier was a girl, a very pretty, very unconscious, girl. Shane took off his skis and the girl's skis and picked the girl up in his arms. He saw something silver on a chain around her neck. He peered at it.

Note: Sorry, Bethany, just HAD to put a cliffhanger in there!