AN: I'm back! After having fanfic ideas running around my head for the last year and a half or so I finally gave in to my creative side. I don't care if Critics United comes after me. Let them. I'm gonna make sure they have NOTHING against me. Without further ado, here's my first one-shot of 2019! I don't own TNLOCK! I wish!
Alek's POV:
I try to forget what Jasmine said. I really do. It keeps repeating itself in my head despite my best efforts. Somewhere between all the late night training and protecting Chloe, I started to have feelings for her. It's more than just liking her. I feel bonded to her in a way I've only heard about in Mai history lessons. That would require us being together intimately though. I gasp as a realization washes over me like a wave. I'm in love with Chloe Grace King. I want to jump for joy, but then I realize there's something I need to do. I rush out of my room and see Jasmine in the kitchen.
She turns around and smirks at me. "What are you waiting for, Alek? Go tell Chloe how you feel."
I wordlessly run downstairs and out into the cool night. As I run, I wonder why I didn't realize I love Chloe sooner. I mean I know I thought she was beautiful and I loved to mess with her at school. I just never realized that the reason I always messed with her was because I was attracted to her. Messing with her was the only way I could express it since I thought she was human. I reach her house in record time and I feel butterflies in the pit of my stomach. What if she doesn't feel the same way? What if her human, I can hear her correcting me by saying his real name, is the one she really likes? I swallow my nerves and insecurities so I can knock on the door. I hear her talking to her mom and my hand freezes.
"Mom..." Chloe's voice sounds like she's about to burst into tears.
My blood run colder than ice. I don't want her to be sad. I want her to be happy.
I hear her mom's voice. "I won't sign this if you don't want me to. We have to do this together and I don't need an answer now. We can talk about it when you're ready."
I hear her mom get out of her seat and Chloe's heavy breathing. I finally raise my hand and knock on the door. I hear Chloe getting up and I decide to wait on the stairs. I try to gather my thoughts so I won't say the wrong thing.
"Alek?" I hear Chloe's voice and turn my head to look at her. She looks beautiful and I don't know what I'm going to say to her. I swiftly look away as she walks down the stairs.
"What's wrong?" Chloe's voice sounds like an angel and I still don't know what to say. I take a deep breath as she finally reaches the step I'm on and don't look at her.
"You okay?" I finally look at Chloe and am overwhelmed by her beauty once again. I decide to say the one thing on my mind.
"We belong together." I slowly move closer to Chloe and put my arms around her waist as I smash my lips against hers. Fireworks dance behind my eyelids as Chloe tentatively kisses me back.
I pull away and just look at her. She looks stunned, but not unhappy. I smile at her and watch her eyes flicker down to my lips. This time, it's Chloe who leans in to kiss me and I meet her halfway. The kiss is electric and feels so right. I feel like everything we've been through together has been leading up to this moment.
Chloe pulls away for a minute. "Alek, how long have you liked me?" I tuck a piece of her hair behind her ear and think about it.
I sigh and decide to tell her the truth. "I've liked you for quite a few years, Chloe. I just couldn't do anything about it. That's why I stopped talking to you at the beginning of 8th grade."
I study her facial features and pay attention to her heartbeat. It's getting faster and a tear escapes her eye. I snake my arms inside her jacket and tighten them around her waist. "Chloe, don't be sad."
"But-" I cut her off with another kiss and we stand there for another minute. This kiss seems a bit more frantic and heated. I can feel all of Chloe's emotions with that one kiss. We pull away again and Chloe sighs.
I become aware of another heartbeat just as Chloe looks at the street. I'm resistant to take my eyes off her, but when I do I see the human standing on the sidewalk. He has a pained expression on his face and I know he saw us kissing.
Chloe gasps as she realizes the same thing. I feel her hands leave my shoulders. "Brian." He turns away and I feel Chloe pulling away from me. I mentally beg her not to go. She turns in my arms and I don't want to let her go. "Brian, wait."
"Let him go." I keep a grip on her as she starts to walk down the rest of the stairs. "No." That one word feels like a lightning bolt and I let her go. I watch as she runs after her human.
"Brian, please, let me explain." Explain what? That kiss changed everything, didn't it?
"No need. I get it this time." He shakes his head. Our thoughts, for once, seem to be in tandem with each other. "The visual helps."
Chloe catches up to him at his car and turns to look at him. "No, look-it-it-Brian. It just happened, okay? Nothing is going on between us." My heart cracks as her words hit my ears.
Chloe's human glances back towards me and then looks at her again. "Yeah yeah, it looked that way." Chloe looks like she's about to say something, but he holds out his hand. He's holding the scarf she was wearing the night of the gala. "Here. You dropped that the other night." He shakes the material into Chloe's hands as he talks. "I was gonna leave it on your doorstep, so..."
"I'm so sorry." Chloe tries to apologize as her human opens the door to his car and climbs in.
"Me, too." The human says that one last thing before he shuts the door.
"Brian. Brian." As Chloe calls him I walk over to her with tears in my eyes. She throws her hands up in defeat and turns around. Now it's my turn to talk.
I force words to come out of my mouth even with the lump in my throat. "Nothing?" The way Chloe is looking at me tells me she knows I was listening. "That wasn't nothing."
"Alek, please don't go." I turn away from her as she tells me not to go. "Can we at least talk about this?"
I turn around to respond, but she's watching Brian's car drive away. My heart cracks a little more as I walk away. I think I hear her start to say something else, but no words fill my ears. I fight the tears threatening to run down my face as I run to the penthouse.
Jasmine is waiting for me when I come back. She walks towards me and her smile fades as she looks at me. When a sob fills the air I realize I'm crying. I can't seem to stop as I fall to my knees. Chloe had begun to change me and make me a better person. As the tears fall, I feel the old Alek coming back.
AN: I know I made the ending super sad, but it seemed like the only logical ending based on how he acts when Chloe sees him at school. Review please!
