Young Love

She hopped up from the sofa where she was as she hurried went to the other room to change.

"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Alex asked her.

"None of your business." She told Alex. "Besides, if I have to watch the both of you kiss one more time, I could kill you in your sleep." She told Alex.

"You don't have to look." Alex responded in a smallish voice as Ella was going back to the bedroom.

"What was that?" Ella asked her, peeking from the door.

"Nothing." She said under her breath in a muffled tone.

"Better be. You're this close to being on the newspaper for homicide." Ella said as she went back to sorting clothes and humming a happy tune.

"You wouldn't." Alex said under her breath as she returned to burying her face in Fred's.