A/N: It's short, yes, but it's all like… Romantic and stuff… It's a one shot… And I find it adorable. I hope you like it.
-OnlyAPerfectDisaster
Disclaimer: I do not own NLOCK. If I did, they would have ended it. But they didn't.
I stand there in front of him, just staring at him. His perfect face, his features like no others. I didn't really believe in the end of the world, but I see no better time to say it.
"Alek, I have something to tell you." He nods, so I continue, "Remember the first day we met?"
"Somewhat. Why?"
"It was a while ago. About eighth grade, I think. Anyway, you had just moved in with your aunt and cousin a week before, in the house across from mine. I had just found out my dad had died. You found me, holed up in the park, in the rain, my cheeks red from the cold and the fact that I was crying. Even though you didn't, know me, even though I was just a strange girl sitting in the rain, whose tears you couldn't even see, you sat down beside me, and pulled my damp hair away from my face and over one shoulder. Then, you sat there in front of me, right in a massive puddle, and asked me my name. Like you thought you were entitled to know it. You were cocky even then!" A smile plays at his lips, and it's almost hard for me to go on.
"The only reason I told you was because I thought you were an idiot when you sat in the puddle. Even I, wallowing in sadness, hadn't sat in the puddle. I didn't even ask yours because I was more interested in the damned puddle! D'you remember what you told me?"
He was laughing now, the memory alive in his eyes as he looked at me. "I told you I sat in the puddle because I could see you better from the puddle and because no one ever sat in puddles. So you stood up, walked over and plopped down in the puddle beside me. Then, you started to cry again, leaning against my shoulder. We stayed like that for what, two hours?"
I nod and add, "You still hadn't told me your name when we left. I didn't learn it for a year, when I heard someone calling you in the halls at school when I was in ninth grade."
His smile faded a bit, thinking back to the year in between those two dates, when he became a star, a varsity basketball player in ninth grade, while I unceasingly faded into the background. It wasn't like I had no friends. I just didn't go out of my way to know everyone and be liked by everyone. "It surprised me how fast you and Jaz became friends… She has never seemed to need anyone. But you and your friends... you welcomed her right in…" his voice faded out at the end, soft enough it was almost hard to hear.
"We were acquaintances at the start, but then you seemed to hate me. Almost as if you despised my guts."
"I got over that eventually though, didn't I?"
"You did. Which is how I came to realize… Ever since that day, the day in the puddles... I've been falling for you. A little bit more everyday… Alek... I'm in love with you." My voice broke a bit at the end, and his eyes widened. "I just had to tell you."
I was about to walk away, and give up, leave my feelings behind when he moved closer to me. Suddenly, his lips were on mine. The kiss lasted a while, we didn't move when it started to rain, and a puddle formed around our feet.