"Miguel?" Alaska answered her phone. "Where are you?"

"Outside." he said before hanging up.

Alaska left the boys inside without an explanation, walking out her front door to see him standing there. His hands where in his pockets with a guilty expression. "I heard what happened."

"Right." she exhaled. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, i'm okay." he nodded, rocking slightly. There was a large space between them, she didn't move from her front porch and he stayed in the grass. "Are you?"

"No, i'm not actually." Alaskas tone was bitter, she didn't realize how angry she was until she knew he was okay. "How could you just take off like that? And not even tell me or at least tell me you were okay? Who does that?"

"I'm sorry." Miguel apologized, but she could tell by his face that he didn't understand why he was apologizing to her. "I felt like I had to go."

"And I can understand that, but you could have gone about it in a completely different way." now she was really mad, her tone gave it away more then anything. "I mean, did you even stop to think about any of this? Would it have killed you to tell the people that love you where you were going? You're seventeen, Miguel. We were worried. I was worried!"

"I was scared you'd try to make me stay." he defended himself. "I wanted to ask you to come with me, but I couldn't figure out how."

"Okay." she laughed in disbelief. "Maybe it's not your responsibility to take care of me, but after what happened at the All Valley, I needed you here with me. I was suffering with my sobriety so bad and no one understands. Not like you do!"

"That's why you're mad?" now he was angry at her. "How can you make this about yourself? You have no idea why I needed to go."

"I'm making it about myself because you aren't the only person that's affected by your actions Miguel!" she yelled back, they got closer each sentence until they were right in each other's faces. "How would I know why you needed to go? You left and ignored me so I had no clue! Now you just show up because you what? You feel bad for not being there for what happened at The All Valley?"

"Yeah, it was." Miguel snapped at her. "But, you know what? I came to say i'm sorry, but you clearly don't wanna hear that so I'm gonna go."

"Yeah, you should go see your Mom. Or Sam. Or your Grandma. Or literally any of your friends because we were all here worried out of our minds that something had happened to you!" she yelled at him as he began to walk away. "But, like away, it's never your fault."

He turned a her with a harsh glare. "Why are you being so mean!"

"Because I thought you were dead, or kidnapped, or lost!" Alaska yelled at him. "And the fact that you wanna leave instead of understanding why i'm so angry at you pisses me off!"

"Because i'm not like you. I don't like to just sit around and yell at each other and then make up a few days later." he dug at her relationship and every friendship she's ever had. She knew it too, but she let him. "You think you're such a saint, that you always have a reason to yell at people and make yourself the victim, but maybe you just like to argue constantly!"

"Right, that's exactly what I like." she laughed at him with a nod. "But you're wrong, I don't think i'm some saint. I can actually admit when i'm in the wrong unlike you that can't take responsibility for anything you've messed up! You just let everyone else suffer from your actions!"

She dug at his relationship too, and he knew it.

"I'm not arguing with you. I'm so sorry for coming here to try and apologize." Miguel spoke with sarcasm as he turned away again. "Won't happen again."

She was angry. She'd been angry ever since the All Valley but had pushed it away as much as she could. So much anger that had built up right in her chest, traveling to her knuckles. She grabbed Miguel's shoulder and yanked him around. Miguel ducked down as she tossed her fist at him, pushing her away and holding his fist infront of him. "Oh, you wanna fight?"

"Why not? You missed the last one." Alaska swung at him again as Miguel blocked it, wincing when her leg wrapped around his waist and swung him around.

"Hey, guys!" Eli yelled as he looked out of the window. "I think there's a fight going on."

"A fight?" Wyatt hurried down the hallway first. "With who?"

Miguel elbowed Alaska and twisted her arm, kicking her in the side to get away from him. She turned back to face him, waving her hand. "Come on. You know you wanna strike first."

"No, I don't. That's your thing." Migeul mocked her. Alaska glared as she hurried at him, tricking him to think she was going for his face as he blocked it, getting a foot to the gut as he winced, dropping his arms as she got him right in the jaw. Miguel winced but swung at the same time, punching her right in the jaw. As Alaskas head turned, Miguel tackled her to the ground.

She pulled her leg around, locking it around his face and swinging him backwards. She tried to get ontop of him, Miguel's feet pushed into her lower stomach and threw her against the tree next to them.

"Damn!" Kody yelled from the window. "She better not let that slide!"

Miguel got up as Alaska let out a battle cry from the ground, getting up and body slamming him into the flower beds.

"She didn't let that slide!" Wyatt yelled.

"What are they even fighting for?" Demetri looked at Eli with an insane look.

"I have no idea, they never fight." he shook his head.

"I'm not responsible for your sobriety!" Miguel yelled as he fought her off.

"And i'm not responsible for anything you do yet i'm always there!" she pushed his hands away and they ended up head butting, completely destroying Gina's flower beds.

"I don't ask you to be!" he pushed her off of him again, dirt smeared across both of them.

"No, I just am!" Alaska yelled back, ducking down as he swung at her. They took turns trying to punch each other, both blocking it because their technique was so similar. She got mad at how she hadn't been able to hit him, shoving against his hold as they both stumbled. Miguel spun around and hit her in the face, making her stumble into the wall. She winced at the impact, pushing off of it and kicking him in the gut to make him hunch over. She took the second to use her right foot to kick off the wall, getting high enough in the air so when Miguel looked up, her foot collided with his face.

"Damn!" Wyatt and Kody yelled from the window.

"We better get out there right now." Demetri yanked the door open as Miguel fell to the ground. Headlights shined as a car pulled into the drive way. He kicked her legs out from under her so they both ended up on the ground. Before either had the chance to strike again, Eli had a hold of Alaska and Wyatt had Miguel.

"What the hell are the two of you doing?" Eli asked in disbelief, holding her back as they both tried to break free. "We're all on the same side!"

"What is going on here?" Zane got out of the car first, Gina helping Beth out as she held Georgia. "It's Beth's first day home and this is what she's coming back to?"

Miguel and Alaska both felt guilty by the looks on their faces. Alaska broke free from Eli, yanking away from him as she walked to her front door. Her and Miguel had never even argued before, a fight was the last thing anyone had expected. What hurt her the most was that he was right. He wasn't responding for her sobriety, he wasn't responsible for being there for that final fight. It would have made everything so much easier, but he wasn't responsible for it. She had a right to be angry at him up for leaving like that, but at the end of the day, he proved many points in their few sentences together.

She did like to fight, she did like to strike first, she did try to make herself out to be a saint and the "middle man" like Terry said. Alaska questioned if they were right, if she was the hypocrite everyone made her out to be, if she was more evil then she'd been good. Maybe, she thought, maybe she was the toxic one that she tried to run away from. What happened at the All Valley affected her worse then what she thought it did. And the worst part was she had no clue of it.

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