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wolfshadowstorm

2011-02-05 . chapter 3

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Russo: Party – Busted!

July 4th, 2010

1700 hours

Waverly SubStation,

Waverly SubStation Kitchen,

Russo's loft,

Hawaii hotel room 801 and 802

Born This Way was playing in the background. More than twenty people were in the SubStation dancing to Lady GaGa's latest hit single.

Justin, Max, Theresa and Jerry had left Manhattan to enjoy their summer vacation, leaving Alex alone back home with Harper. They felt that Harper was responsible enough to make sure Alex did not get into any trouble. After all, they would only be gone for less than a week. But they were wrong. Just three hours after they left for Hawaii, more than twenty people were in the SubStation dancing to Born This Way. There was punch, loose corn, and biscuits. All of Alex's favorite food was placed on the only table that was not ruined yet.

"Hey Alex, I broke the table with all the snacks and stuff! Now we can just focus on the dancing and not the eating," said one of the boys among those dancing in the SubStation.

"Awwww... But I wasn't even done with my lose corn yet..."

Alex wanted to do something fun before school started, and the idea of throwing a party immediately popped up in her mind.

Harper squeezed through the crowd, took Alex's hand and dragged Alex into the kitchen.

"Look Alex, I only agreed to this because you promised that you would be the one getting lunch for the both of us for the next three days. But this party is getting to crazy! Look at all the furniture! Or what's left of it..." Harper said as she pointed to the boys kicking the broken tables around the SubStation.

"Relax... I can fix it with magic later. Plus mum and dad won't be back until next week."

"Alright. But only because I don't have to be the one making sandwiches for the next three days."

Harper was hesitant about letting the party carry on, but she knew Alex too well. Alex wouldn't listen to anybody if her mind was made up. No one could change it. And anyway, what further damage could the people dancing in the SubStation do? Almost everything was already broken.

Justin, Max, Theresa and Jerry had just checked into their hotel. Justin and Max shared one room, room 801, while Theresa and Jerry shared another, room 802.

"Hey Jerry, did you see my camera?" Theresa asked while rummaging through her hand luggage.

"Did you leave it at home?" Jerry was lying on the bed, half-asleep. "Hey, this hotel provides really comfy beds!"

Theresa looks at Jerry awkwardly for a while, with that 'Why did I even marry you in the first place?' face, which soon turns into a worried look.

"Oh no. We must have been in such a hurry to desert Alex that I must have left it back home! I need to go back and get it."

Upon hearing this, Jerry opens his eyes widely and sits up.

"But that's a few hundred dollars for the plane ticket! We don't have that kind of money!"

"And that's the only good thing about having children with magical abilities. I'll be back in half an hour, one hour tops. Please try not to let Max tear down the hotel while I'm away."

Theresa walks out of the room and closes the door behind her. Once Jerry's convinced that she won't be coming back for a while, he plops back down on the bed.

"JUSTIN! OPEN UP!" Theresa banged on the door of room 802.

"Okay! I'm coming!"

Justin looks into the peep hole and opens up the door. Theresa lets herself into the room and Justin closes the door behind her. She stares at the room in shock. Clothes, dirty underwear and knick-knacks were all over the room.

"Justin! It smells like an armpit in here!" "I begged you not to let me share a room with Max! I begged you!"

It took a whole five minutes for Theresa to accept what she had just seen, given the fact that they had only just checked in fifteen minutes ago.

"Okay. Justin, I need you to flash me back home."

"But mom, don't you always say not to use magic whenever we're on vacation?"

"Yeah... Just make an exception. I think I may have left my camera back home, and we can't afford to fly back just to take my camera."

Justin nodded. He wasn't itching to use magic, but he just felt like waving his wand. Justin obeys all the rules that his parents, teachers, the school, and practically anyone gives. He hardly has any cravings against the rules. Even if he does, he would just dissuade himself from doing it. Sometimes, this led the entire Russo family, including Harper, wondering how Alex and Justin could be biological siblings.

"Justin, Theresa, Russo's loft, flash me to where we want to go, help us save on transport dough."

"Do you hear something playing downstairs? And the voices of about 20 or so people?" Theresa was hoping that the twenty people were customers. She trusted Harper not to let Alex destroy their home or business with say, a party.

"Yeah. Hey! 'Give Me Your Guts' by UGH is playing." Alex and Stevie's favorite band was UGH. Alex blasted UGH's latest album so much that Justin was familiar with their songs, and had kind of grown to the heavy rock they played.

"I'm hoping that Alex is just using the music to draw customers, if the people downstairs are actually even customers."

When Theresa was on the staircase going down before she could catch sight of the SubStation, she had already kind of figured out what was going on; Alex was throwing a party. She just wished that what she would see later would not be what she figured out was going on. She had trusted Harper to keep Alex out of trouble while they were gone.

Theresa found Alex and Harper in the crowd of 17-year-olds dancing, and dragged them into the kitchen before Alex had spotted her. Justin followed them. He was happy. He knew that Alex would get into trouble. That's what she gets for throwing my Captain Jim Bob Sherwood action figure into the toilet bowl. It felt like déjà vu for Alex, being dragged into the kitchen once again, this time by her mom.

Harper walked into a corner of the kitchen, not knowing how to face Theresa.

"Before we left, your dad and I warned you not to destroy anything, and just do a good job running the SubStation. All we wanted was to be able to come home a week from now and see nothing damaged. Even if we had no customers for the entire week, we'll be happy just seeing the place intact. But no... You had to throw a party!" Theresa was angry. She knew that Alex was bad but she didn't know that she was this bad. Until now.

"I just wanted to do something fun before I had to go back for summer school. Plus, nothing much is damaged..."

"Nothing much? There isn't any tables or chairs standing on its four legs anymore! Some of the tables even have holes in them!"

By now, someone had paused the music that was playing, and the whole building was completely silent. Everyone was just staring at Theresa and Alex. Suddenly, one of the guys in the party shouted "It's the Knock It Off Lady! Everyone run!" He had recognized Theresa from Max's homemade video of him trying to do stunts. Everyone followed him and ran out of the SubStation. Within minutes, Alex, Harper and Theresa were left alone in the SubStation with the broken tables and chairs all over the floor.

"Turn the SubStation back to the way it should be, so my mom will not stay angry with me." Alex pointed towards the SubStation through a window in the kitchen and waved the wand.

"Not stay angry with you? You threw a party when we weren't around! And Harper, I thought I could trust you with making sure everything is okay. But I don't completely blame you. I know how Alex is."

Harper felt relieved hearing this come out of Theresa's mouth.

"Alexandra Margarita Russo, you're grounded from two weeks starting from now. You're not allowed to use magic, invite anyone over, or go out with anyone these two weeks. Harper, make sure you list it down if Alex breaks any of these rules while we're away. Inform me if she broke any of these rules when I get back from Hawaii next week. Please don't disappoint me again."

Justin and Theresa went back upstairs to grab the camera that was lying on the master bedroom table, before grabbing it and flashing back to Hawaii to enjoy the rest of their vacation.