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Derek's Love

Derek POV

I couldn't believe how lucky I was, to be in love with someone as amazing and beautiful as Chloe.

I'd known her for only a month but, it felt like an eternity. She would say that's cheesy, that it was like a line in a crappy romantic movie she'd seen, but I didn't care. It was true. I love her more than she knows, and would give up my life to protect her. She's my mate whether she realizes it or not, but I couldn't tell her that.

If I did, she would reject me. I couldn't handle that, the look of disgust she would give me before telling me I was repulsive or something to that effect. No I had to keep this to myself.

"Hey Derek? Bro? Dude, you okay?"

I looked up to see Simon standing in front of me, I gotten so lost in my thoughts that I hadn't even noticed he'd come into our shared bedroom.

"Huh, yeah. I'm fine" Not really.

"You sure? You were totally lost in thought. I've been trying to get your attention for a couple minutes now"

At least it was only a couple minutes, not something like hours. I don't even know how long I've been sitting in here though. I glanced up at the clock on the dresser next to my bed it was now three in the afternoon, so I've been sitting up here for an hour and a half. Great.

"Really? You have? I didn't even notice."

He laughed. "Yeah bro, I noticed that you didn't notice. Anyway, I came up here to tell you that Andrew wants to talk to us, we'll be in the library"

Us meaning Simon, Chloe, Tori and I since everyone else who was staying here, wasn't actually here at the moment. And they wouldn't be here for another week at least. This was bad in some cases and good in others. The good part was that we could plan our attack on the Edison Group, but the bad thing was that we could only plan so much without the other people in the house. And Andrew never told us why the other people weren't here, he said it was their own business but we were still curious.

"Okay, tell him I'll be down in a couple minutes."

"Okay" he turned to leave but right before he closed the door he turned around. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, Simon. I'm fine." Lies

I didn't want to go down, I wanted to stay locked up here in my bland gray room. I wanted to be away from everyone like I had been doing for the past couple days. I had avoided everyone, even Chloe, because spending time with her meant that I was becoming closer to her but that didn't make me any happier. Every moment I spent with her was torture because I wanted to tell her how I felt, let her know that she was mine, that no one would ever hurt her because I was there to protect her, but I couldn't tell her any of that. So I avoided her. Probably not the most brilliant plan, but there wasn't anything else I could do.

Chloe POV

Simon came back into the library and sat down on the black leather loveseat next to me. The library made me uncomfortable. I'm not that fond of leather and the bright red walls made my eyes hurt. There were black book shelves that lined the walls, with so many books crammed on them that I thought the shelves would break. There were old leather bound books, battered old paper backs, beat up hard cover books, and even two or three shelves filled with new books, that look like they haven't been touched since the day they were bought.

"Jeez Simon, what took you so long?" Our wonderful buddy Tori, she wasn't always so bad, but lately she was getting irritated with being stuck here and not being able to go anywhere.

"I was trying to get Derek's attention, he was so lost in thought he didn't notice me" I looked over at Simon, he looked concerned but when he noticed me looking at him, he smiled, although the smile didn't quite reach his eyes.

I looked over at Andrew. His expression hadn't changed since he asked us in here. "Okay, well if he isn't down here soon someone else is going to have to go get him." Andrew would never admit it but he was kind of scared of Derek, when he saw him he didn't see the kid he used to know, so it wasn't going to be Andrew who went to go get Derek. And I know that Tori…

"I'm not going up there with him, so count me out." Yep I knew she wouldn't go.

"Andrew, I'll go get him, maybe he'll come down for me." I don't know what made me think that, because if he didn't come down for Simon, his own brother I don't know why he'd come downstairs for me. But it was worth a shot.

"Oh yes, Chloe go on, go get Derek, of course he'll come for you"

"Tori? Shut up, and stop treating Chloe so badly."

"Oh shut it Simon. Stop defending her, she can take care of herself. She's a big girl!" Okay this is getting annoying, I'm tired of all the fighting.

"Hey both of you shut it! Stop fighting. I'm going to get Derek now, I'm tired of all this bickering." I got up and stormed out, they were getting on my nerves. I've never met two people who loved fighting with each other so much!

I went up the stairs and hung a left and then was standing in front of Derek and Simon's room. I knocked, and waited, and waited but he never answered. I knocked again and just decided to open the door.

The walls of their room were painted a very boring gray, and both of their beds had black comforters on them. There was an old dresser next to Derek's bed, and a window that looked out into the backyard.

Derek was just sitting on his bed staring at the floor. Now I know what Simon meant, he was so lost in thought he didn't even noticed that Simon had walked into the room, and he didn't notice me either.

Why did that bother me?

I walked over to the far side of the room and stood in front of him. He still didn't notice me.

What could make him think so hard that he notices nothing around him?

"Hey, Derek? Hello? Derek?" I waved my hand in front of his face. Still nothing.

I tapped his shoulder, and he jumped. I couldn't help but laugh, it's not often that you get to scare the guy with super human senses.

"Oh. Uh hey Chloe…"

"So Simon came up here to get you like five minutes ago, and you're still sitting here, on your bed, lost in thought. You wanna tell me what's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong Chloe. I'll be down in a few." Okay, he's hiding something.

"Derek, you are lying to me. And don't say you aren't, I know you well enough to know you're lying. So what's wrong?"

"Chloe, I said nothing. Okay?" He glanced up at me, his expressions guarded, so I wasn't going to be getting anything out of his expression that could help me.

"No, it's not okay Derek. You're lying to me, I know it and I'm not like Simon who just believes it because he doesn't want you to worry about him worrying about your problems, so tell me." I think that made sense, I hope it did, it made sense in my head, but I was so concerned with finding out what was wrong with him that I didn't think the whole thing through.

"Fine. You wanna know what's wrong with me? You are what's wrong with me." he paused and I was too shocked to say anything. "No, wrong is a bad word to use…"

"Umm okay, Derek you lost me…" I was hurt, more than I should have been that he told me I was his problem, but I was more confused that he said wrong was a bad word to use for his issue…

"I meant, there is nothing wrong with me, and you aren't actually a problem. You are all I can think about though, and it's driving me nuts."

An 'oh' was all I could come up with. I was on Derek's mind all the time now? But the why did he always leave when he thought he been around me too long? Yeah, this isn't confusing or anything.

"Wh-what do you mean Derek?" I felt my heart start beating faster and my throat go dry again, and then I couldn't think as I was suddenly bombarded with different thoughts as to what he meant. Was I on his mind for something bad I did, for him having to protect me all the time? Or for a different reason? Did he like me? Or love me?

Why did I wish that it was one of the last two?

"Chloe, never mind. Forget I said anything."

"Derek, please tell me." Please, please, please, this is killing me not knowing.

"Chloe…" he looked me right in the eyes and I couldn't breathe. "I love you."

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