"Good morning Miss Blake" Dennis says with a stern look as he begins the interview. Alex could hear her heartbeat thumping in her ears as she shuffled around nervously in her seat.
Alex looks up from her hands but she still fiddled with her fingers, her eyes darting anxiously around the room as she looked at all of the faces
"Good morning" Alex replies respectfully whilst she sends Dennis a small nod and a smile
"My name is Dennis Vasquez representing
Andrew and Olivia Baker and this is a deposition" Dennis says as he looks at the small girl "I'll be asking you some questions and you must answer all of them truthfully.
Unless your atorney clearly instructs you otherwise. Do you understand?"
"Yes Sir" she says quietly to him and looks him in the eyes while confirming it "yes I understand"
"There is no judge present however this is a formal legal proceeding and you are under the same legal obligation to tell the truth. To tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth" Dennis says. Alex nods her head, shifting around in her seat as she feels uncomfortable under Olivias firm eye.
The woman had treated her like a daughter, she had fed her, hugged her, gave her advice and now she couldn't help but feel that the woman hated her "do you understand?"
Alex looks between Olivia and Dennis and then nods her head "yes sir I understand"
"Okay good thank you" Dennis says "could you please state your full name, your age, what school you go to, and what year you are currently in for us please for the record"
"My name is Alexandra Anne Blake, I am seventeen and I'm a Junior at liberty high school" Alex says softly as she looks at the camera for a second and then clears her throat and looks back over at Dennis who was ready to start asking her his first question
"Okay Alex. When and where did you first meet Hannah Baker?" Dennis asks her
"One of my good friends Kat invited me to a party that was at Hannah's house. I guess Hannah was having it so she could get to know people before school started. It was right before sophomore year and Kat introduced me to her. I don't know I guess we kind of clicked pretty easily, she was super nice and had a great sense of humour," Alex mumbles as she looks back at Olivia who had a tired and sad look on her face
"Hannah was just that girl that seemed really cool, you know what I mean?" Alex muttered out softly as she thought back to when she had first met Hannah, "like she's the type of person that would be great to have as a friend."
Olivia smiled softly, her hand covering her mouth as she thought back to Hannah. Hannah talked about Alex all the time, they were good friends. Of course, Hannah would sometimes tell her mum when the two of them would argue, but she would always be happy to talk about Alex. It was clear that the two had quite a strong bond.
"Great. And how well did you know hannah?"
Dennis questions the girl. She looks back at him
"We were close. I considered her one of my best friends though it wasn't rare for us to have a few arguments but I loved her and I tried my best to make sure she was alright" Alex mumbles "I went over to her house a lot and we watched movies together down at the crestmont quite often"
"Were you aware of anyone bullying
Hannah?" Dennis asks
"W-" Alex starts but is cut off by her attorney
"I'm sorry Dennis but we are going to have to reject that question" Alex's attorney says which causes the girl to look over at the man who gave her a small nod which she copied,
"that asks her to qualify behaviour"
"Well then did you ever hear anyone say any unkind things to Hannah" Dennis says, rewording his question.
Alex looks over at her attorney and he nods his head so she begins to answer the question
"yes. Things were said about her. Liberty high is big on rumours. High school sucks and I heard lots of things said about her but I always defended her"
"What were your arguments usually about?"
Dennis asks the girl
"Objection" Alex's attorney states
Olivia looked over at the girl with a great deal of sadness. It was clear that Alex was prepared to answer these questions, to try and help Hannah.
Alex sighed as she walked up to Justin, locking her phone as she tucked it away in the pocket of her jeans
"What's up? What did you want to tell me about?" Alex asks and pulls him in for a hug and then pulls away with a worried smile.
Her small figure stood in front of his taller one
"I'm leaving" he says quickly and she was shocked. She thought that she had to have miss heard him or that he was joking but the look in his face showed that he was being serious
"You're kidding right?" Alex says with hopefulness but he shakes his head
"I gotta get away from here Lex. I need to start fresh" Justin tells the girl quietly, a guilty feeling bubbling in the pit of his stomach
"Well how long are you going?" Alex asked in confusion, "only a week or so right? And then you're gonna come back?" She asked hopefully
"A long time Lex. Maybe even forever," he explained to her, hoping that she would understand. He thought that this was necessary.
"What about me Justin? I need you. I can't loose you too" Alex says as tears begin to form in her eyes
"I'm so sorry Alex, but Ive got to go" Justin tells her
"You're really leaving me?" She barely whispers out and she felt her heart breaking as she looked up at the boy who was broken just like her
"We grew you together and it's been hard for us. But you always told me that you can never trust anyone to stay" Justin tells the girl
Tears were running down her face
"yeah? Well I thought you would be the exception. You're my brother" she said to him painfully but she could tell that he needed this, and she didn't want to be selfish, "when are you leaving?"
"I'm leaving today" Justin says and looks away from the girl as he too started crying, the look on her face and the sound of her voice cracking was enough to send sharp pains through his body
"I-if you Le-leave me. I will never forgive you" she chokes out. She needed him and she though he needed her too but at this very moment it became very clear to her that he didn't need her.
He turned away from her and began to walk off. He didn't want the girl to see him break down and crying and he couldn't dare to see her like this anymore
The words that had left her lips cut him deeper than he thought ever possible, but he couldn't stick around. Not anymore.
He turned back to her slightly "I'm so sorry poo bear. I never wanted to hurt you. But I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry" then he turned around again and continued to walk
Alex watched him leave with wide eyes, her knees went weak and she struggled to continue to keep herself standing up
"Go on then. Leave. Just leave like everyone else" she cries harshly her heart now completely shattered and he didn't say anything. He just left.
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Protector - Montgomery De La Cruz
Fanfiction"I did it for you Alexandra, everything that I have ever done, has been for you" He said while he held her dedicate face, softly in his hands "i would do anything for you and there is nothing that you could ever say or do that could change that, and...
