AlexEndedFrancescaParty

**#AlexEndedFrancescaParty** is the sixty-fourth chapter of *Push to the Limit*and the four hundred and thirty-ninth chapter of the series overall. It is 13,145 words long and told entirely in third person.

At a VMA after party, Alex and Julie confront each other about their dates. When they get too drunk, Caleb and Haley have to take care of them. Shana and Santana discuss their future and parenthood. Alex leaks video proof that Francesca switched Julie's pills, causing the internet, the media, and Julie to implode around the news. Marley tries to get Dean to change his mind about her. Amity catches the eye of a special guy.

## Plot

While arriving at a Republic Records after party, Alex complains that Crystal Army were sat behind Julie during the award ceremony despite having had more overall success than her. John thinks he is bitter that she was there with Caleb, to which Alex responds that he simply doesn't like Caleb. Julie overhears and is instantly upset that Alex is once again trashing her boyfriend, while Alex is annoyed that they are together at all. John can't wait for Haley and Lyric to arrive, as Alex can't seem to stop talking about Julie. The guys briefly talk to Travis and then go for drinks at the bar. Meanwhile, Julie and Caleb sit down and the latter shares that music award shows seem to be more about celebrities and scandals than television award shows. Julie agrees but just wants to celebrate her wins and decides to do so by drinking. She and Caleb go to the bar, sitting across from Alex and John, whom Julie finds very annoying at the moment. She drinks to her anger and watches as Haley and Lyric arrive, seeing Haley for the first time and drinking some more. Caleb is concerned that she will drink too much too fast but Julie tells him to relax and let her have fun. Elsewhere, Jake and Leila celebrate their own wins by drinking, but Leila is more fixated on Jake's acceptance speech, during which he said that he loved her. Jake notes that he has said it before but she says that it meant a lot to have him acknowledge it in front of millions on national television. Across from them, Kayli is seemingly annoyed by all the couples around, which Zoe calls being bitter. Sam agrees with Kayli, however, while Tyler is too busy texting Morgan. Kayli asks them to stop talking about couples, while Sam watches the couples around drinking and partying together.

Alex and Haley hang out at the bar while John and Lyric dance. Alex is on the verge of being drunk and still complaining about not being sat in the first row. Not understand much of what Alex is saying, Haley fears that he has had a concussion and calls Santana and Shana over for help. The women explain that this is how Alex is when he has too much to drink and offer to take them to the hotel, where an after-after party is taking place. Outside, the paparazzi swarm them but they are protected by Santana's bodyguards. Just as they are getting into their car, however, Haley is touched by a paparazzi and responds by turning around and punching him.

When Alex and Haley arrive at the after-after party, the latter tells Lyric and John about her experience with the paps. While they are talking, Alex walks over to the bar for another drink, next to where Julie is with Caleb. John goes to prevent a confrontation and arrives in time to hear Alex address Julie with a rude comment. When Caleb, Alex, and John start to argue, Haley and Lyric walk over to find out what the problem is. Julie accuses Alex of paying more attention to what she does than to his date and Haley arrives, asking if everything is ok. Alex is not comfortable when Julie calls Haley his girlfriend, but Julie is angry and leaves the party. Alex catches up with her out in a hallway and the two begin to argue. Alex believes that Julie is jealous of Haley, while, Julie resents him bringing her along, thinking that he moved on from her too quickly. This confuses Alex, who reminds her that she's the one who didn't want him to like her, but Julie says that if it was that easy to get over her he should have never confessed having feelings at all. They argue again until Julie feels sick and begins to throw up. They are then joined by Caleb and Haley, who immediately become concerned for Julie's well-being. Caleb wants to take Julie to their hotel, but Haley tells him not to, as she will be seen drunk and sick by the paparazzi. Alex then gives Caleb a key to his room and the latter takes Julie up to it. Haley suggests that Alex get some fresh air and as they are heading out to the courtyard, they see Nick and Francesca leaving the party. Alex stops them and, when Nick steps away to take a phone call, talks to Francesca about her involvement with Julie's pill swapping, pressuring her into admitting that she did in fact replace the contents of the pills with edible powder. After Francesca leaves, he starts feeling sick and Haley helps him get to his hotel room.

Caleb holds back Julie's hair as she throws up in Alex's room. When she is done, Haley and Alex arrive and Alex takes Julie's place by the toilet. Caleb and Haley help Julie get to the bed, where Haley takes care of her while Caleb goes for water. The two of them talk for the first time, bonding over their annoyance of Alex. When Caleb returns, Alex stops throwing up and Haley suggests that he also lie down. Julie and Alex fall asleep on the bed while Haley and Caleb watch over them, talking about their mutual concerns for Alex's feelings for Julie and whether or not she may reciprocate. Caleb says that she doesn't but they both agree that when Alex and Julie are together, it seems like she just might.

In the morning, Alex wakes up to find that only Julie is in the room. He wakes her up and they wonder where Haley and Caleb are. Downstairs in the hotel's restaurant, Shana and Santana have breakfast while looking at the new Billboard charts. Shana is happy that her album has gone up, wondering how it is that Crystal Army's eight month old album is still in the top 10. Santana has a look at the charts and laments that her singles haven't done as well this era as they did for her first album. She feels like a failure, especially since she hasn't had anything new come out in months, so Shana suggests that she release a non-album single with Blackbird while she's still figuring out which label she wants to continue with. They then see Caleb and Haley passing through and call them over. Haley explains that they took care of Alex and Julie through the night and then came back for breakfast. Shana tells Santana that they should take care of drunk friends too as practice for when they have kids, which makes everyone uncomfortable. When Caleb and Haley leave, Santana tells Shana that they still haven't talked about having kids. After expressing that he always thought they'd adopt by the time they were a year into their marriage, Shana apologizes for bringing up the topic, which clearly makes Santana uncomfortable. Santana, however, caves and suggests that they start looking into the adoption process soon if that's really what she wants.

Haley, Alex, Julie and Caleb leave the hotel room together. While the first two are checking out, Julie and Caleb take advantage of the moment to leave without having to say goodbye. Outside, however, Julie is hounded by the paparazzi, who seemed less concerned about her obvious hangover and her partying than about her pressing charges against Francesca. Julie is confused and on the ride away discovers that Alex released a series of Snapchat videos in which Francesca is heard confessing to swapping out her pills. Julie is upset about this, expressing concerns that it will provoke a feud between her and the model that the media will drag out for years and years to come.

In Lima, Dean is woken up by Kitty, who tells him he has a visitor. Dean goes into the house and finds Marley there with apology cookies. After Kitty leaves, Marley explains her discontent with their fight from the previous night and Dean accuses her of just wanting him to take back his judgments about her, which he refuses to do. This causes Marley to become offended and leave, taking the cookies with her.

Sam, Alex, Tyler and John are avoiding calls from Scarlet, Eddie, and Sebastian among the craziness of Alex's videos. When Julie calls John, however, he is unable to ignore her and hands the phone to Alex. Julie scolds him for what he did without consideration of whether he wanted it or not and after yet another fight hangs up on him.

Kitty picks Santana up from the airport and Santana cannot stop staring at Izzy and Gaby, the idea of her having kids becoming much more real now. When Kitty reminds Santana that she is falling behind the other glee graduates of 2012 in having kids, Santana becomes more determined to adopt.

Santana is at Rachel's house with Rachel, Kurt, Mercedes, and Quinn, telling them about the plans to adopt. Quinn is concerned that Santana doesn't seem as into the idea as Shana. Rachel tells her she'll love motherhood but Santana can't picture it. She expresses a desire to continue focusing on her career and thinks that having children will get in the way of that. Rachel suggests that she make a change to her house, which doesn't seem like Shana's house yet, so Santana agrees to give the place a makeover.

Julie is in her hotel in L.A. watching TV when Nick calls to apologize for what Francesca did, assure her they are over, and offer his support. However, Julie does not want to be involved with them in any way anymore and asks to end their friendship.

Stefan is at Adonis attempting to get info on the Julie-Francesca drama from Ryder, who would rather not discuss it. They start talking about Jake's upcoming party when Sarah arrives. After Stefan leaves, she thanks Ryder for letting her sing her new single there and says she wants to repay him somehow for his kindness. Ryder gets a text from Brooke and shares their problems with Sarah, telling her he wants to get back with Brooke but doesn't know if they can make it work or even if she'll want to after all this time. Sarah tells him she's going to be nice to him and leaves, with Ryder confused as to what she means.

Amity and Santana discuss a new song the latter has written with Blaine. Blaine then enters with Christopher and the girls are immediately distracted by the latter's presence. Santana says she'll begin recording with Blackbird, though she makes no promises about signing with them again yet. They leave to record and Amity is left alone with Christopher, who formally introduces himself to her. Santana interrupts and as she and Amity leaves tells her that she thinks Amity should ask him out. Amity refuses, claiming he's too old for her, but Santana tells her maybe that's a good thing.

## Trivia

* This chapter makes references to Secrets in which it is revealed that while drunk, Julie and Alex make `arguments that don't make much sense. There are several instances of this type of drunk at the two parties.
* This is the first chapter in which Caleb and Haley meet. They are portrayed by Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson, who were an on-screen couple on the hit teen drama, *The O.C.*
* The after-after party is at the Soho Grand Hotel, a luxurious hotel in New York notable for its celebrity guests.
* Santana refers to Caleb and Haley as Zimmerman and Vasquez 2.0. It is unknown whether she is comparing Alex to Caleb and Julie to Haley or Alex to Haley and Julie to Caleb.
* In this chapter, Alex 'exposes' Francesca's wrongdoings by secretly recording her confession and posting it on his Snapchat, after which #AlexEndedFrancescaParty begins to trend. This and the title of the chapter are a reference to #KimEndedTaylorParty, a worldwide trend set off when Kim Kardashian posted a series of Snapchat videos of a secretly recorded phone conversation of Taylor Swift approving lyrics to a Kanye West song mentioning her, a fact which she had previously denied.
	+ Julie's concerns that this would set off a media-fueled feud between her and Francesca for years to come could also be in reference to the infamous Kanye-Taylor feud, which has been going on since 2009.
		- This feud also begun the night of the VMAs.

### Billboard 200

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	+ Number 7
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	+ Peak Position: 1
	+ Weeks on Chart: 35

* "Don't Look Back" - Travis Hilton
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* "Black Roses" - Juliet Vasquez
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* "Stand Down" - Rhythmix
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* "Amity Hills" - Amity Hills
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	+ Number 6
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	+ Peak Position: 6
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* "Here" - Amity Hills
	+ Number 7
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	+ Peak Position: 7 (NEW)
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* "Jet Black Heart" - Crystal Army
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	+ Peak Position: 16 (NEW)
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* "He Could Be The One" - Juliet Vasquez
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* "Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet" - Juliet Vasquez
	+ Number 23
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* "Me and My Broken Heart" - Jake P.
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* "Photograph" - Crystal Army
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