"I think we should talk more about this" My mom said after everyone left, including Alek. Not that he ever really just leaves, he just pretends to.

"About what, Alek and me? or about me, because if I have to remind you that there is nothing going on between us one more time I'm going to run away"

"Cat's always come back for dinner" She made me laugh when she said that, I hugged my mom because she was so cool with this. How many other mom's would be cool with this? None what-so-ever. They'd have me ripped apart or disected whichever might hurt more. "You're my daughter, I know you better than any body else. Right now I know you more than anyone else because we have that little secret" BIG SECRET "out of the way... so when you say We're just friends, and then you look at him like that, when he looks at you like that" Big romantic alert was sounding off in my head like war seriens "I just know that you two are meant to be!"

I think I looked green, or maybe just shocked at what she was saying. Then I heard a loud crash into the bushes outside, first thought Someone was here to kill me second thought someone just fell off the roof. "Alek" I groaned as I walked outside to see the damage. Sure enough, Alek was dusting himself off. "Nice trip? See you next fall?"

"Ha that was only slightly annoying, last time I heard that I fell off my dinosaur" We both needed to work on our come backs. Alek got up and was about to jump back on the roof.

"Alek- Wait... Come inside" I smiled one of my nicest smiles and opened the door for him, of course all I got in return was his dashing smirk.

"Is this an invite to your bedroom? Or more specific to your bed?" I hit him once more in the chest so he would shut- up. "Under the covers, I'd keep you warm."

"I'll call Valentina" I felt like we were five years old, snitching on each other to our parents or guardians making a big deal about little things. When Alek and I finally found ourselves back to my mom we sat in front of her. She was giving us the look. "Oh not the look, Mom please!" Hadn't she embarassed me enough today?

"I just love the way you two bicker" Look, now we're an old married couple. Alek chuckled softly at my mother's words, first she hates him, now she loves him. I can't win for losing! EVER. "It's cute." I got why her mood change towards Alek, he protected me from danger that she couldn't. Alek was my savior. Thinking like that made me want to thank him in private later. Alek would be on my roof for the next eight hours, we could be in a little world where High School didn't exist and the lines between us didn't either. I was the no body, and He was the some body that no body wanted me to even talk to. I hopped each stair looking back at my mom who was sitting in silence with a sweet smile on her face, covered in her red snuggie drinking a coffee or tea. It was nice that she knew... I walked to my room and smiled at the clutter that was simply Chloe King. Blue walls, peace signs and everything else. Own bathroom, nice sized closet and all. That was me, only child me.

I whistled like a bird and was met with a very handsome laugh "Yes Chloe?" His voice coming from outside.

"Come in here" I said pulling up a chair so he knew the boundaries of sitting on my bed, and not sitting on my bed. I was still shocked with that amount of trust my mom was giving the two of us. Thinking that we were mated and all, I would assume she'd make me keep the door open or something.

"This keeps getting better and better" Alek said as his feet made light steps into my room, he noticed the chair and sat down but rolled himself closer to me.

"Thank You" I said sitting on the edge of my bed "You do so much for me, and I wanted to thank you. What should I call you. You save me from everything bad, even heartbreak sometimes. I'm the Uniter, and you do the saving. You have to have some kind of name."

"I'm your sidekick" I winced playfully at the word sidekick.

"Paul won't be happy" The chair moved closer to me "but we don't have to tell him, right?"

"Nope" Alek backed up as he heard my mom's human footsteps on the stairs, "I got to go... Protect and serve blah blah blah you know the drill"

"Goodbye Alek" I whispered as my mom's feet lingered outside my door, "Or Goodnight" he flashed a grin and then vanished with the night. It felt total Twilightish. My mom knocked on my door as I shoved the chair across the floor making as little noise as I could. "Come in"

"Hey, Sweetie...No school tomorrow because of a storm" A storm? I hated storms...

"UM! ALEK! YOU'RE STAYING IN THE GUEST ROOM" I yelled, waiting for a reaction from him. My mom gave me a look. "What?"

"He can stay in your room to protect you" She said "I mean the door would have to be open"

"YES!" I heard Alek say jumping through the window, "Slumber party Chlo!" Thanks mom, I really want to hurt you now. How could you do this to me? It's Alek freakin' Petrov! Just because we're mai doesn't mean we aren't teenagers, just because he's my protector doesn't mean that things won't lead to other things. "Hey, Can I stay in here tonight too?"

"Sure... just in case it rains." My mom said making sure the door was open, Alek pulled off his shirt right in front of her. "What are you doing?" She asked him slightly amused by it.

"I'm getting comfortable, all do respect but Mrs. King I sleep on a roof sometimes. If I get a chance to sleep in a bed, I am going to get comfortable" He put his feet on my pillow like Paul did when he slept over.

"Goodnight kids" Oh, Now Alek was her son. That made everything better in life, not. My mom shut her door, defeating the purpose of me keeping my door open. I pulled another pillow from my bed and a blanket from my closet and got on the floor.

"What are you doing?" Alek laid on his side looking at me, I tried not to look at that perfect body but I couldn't really not see it. The way my covers were on him made that really hard, they covered up the bottom half of him.

"I'm sleeping on the floor" I looked away from him shyly and then fluffed my pillow a little distracting myself from him.

"Why?" that silly smirk threatened on his lips, those nice pink lips. That were so not kissable...

"Because you're sleeping in my bed?" I said like it was the most obvious thing in the world "I just don't want awkward"

"Awkward is what you make it" Alek's eyes had that humor filled look in them, "It's a sleepover.. Pretend I'm Paul"

"O.K. Let's watch a movie" He sighed as I got in my large bed and put the pillows between my face and his feet, it didn't last long though because I had to switch my side. We watched 'Beastly' making jokes about how the guy looked a lot like Alek, and then saying the Vanessa Ann Hudgen's sex tape rumors were pretty crazy when we were younger. I told him how I didn't like Zac Efron in the first place. No school felt good, I stretched as I watched Alek go downstairs to get popcorn, hmm. Make yourself comfortable in my house, but don't get used to it.

Alek was sweet, and not that "Jocko" I thought he was, he had a cute smile and a very hot smirk. He did everything that I asked him to. Even if it didn't seem like it to most, he knew that I had boundaries when it came to perv jokes and such. I admired that so much, if I didn't want to kiss him. I wasn't going to kiss him, and he never tried to push that on me. Like Brian, Brian was blah. He was just a guy that I had to get over. Some days, I would think about him. I knew that much, I would probably miss him too. I also knew that I would have great friends there, even if I didn't want them there.

"Hey, so I got you a seperate bowl because I like cheese on mine" He held a silver bowl and a plastic green bowl in his hand "here"

"I like mine with cheese on it" I looked at him taking his bowl instead, he chuckled and got on my left side "It's good" he put his hand in my bowl taking a piece and eating it one by one. While I took hand fulls and stuffed my face. I heard a knock on my window..."Who is that?"

"Jasmine, she smells popcorn" Alek rolled his eyes trying to lock her out, the window opened despite his efforts.

"What are you two doing?" She asked looking around at the mess we made, DVD cases on the ground and snack wrappers around the bed. We were under the blankets, trying to keep our legs warm. "This looks suspicious"

"Just two friends, Chillin'" I smiled at her "Join us"

"I'd rather not..." She said taking the other bowl of popcorn "I was just checking in on you Alek, but you seem comfortable so I'm going to go home"

"Bring the bowl back later" I pointed to her "Or else" Jasmine nodded and gave Alek a look and winked. He threw popcorn at her and she slipped out the window. It looked like we were pulling an all- nighter "You're warm" I commented to Alek as he shifted brushing up against me.

"Usually people say, I'm hot" He pulled me closer to him "but if you're cold" Which I was "I can keep you warm" The hangover was making me laugh. He put his arm around me, a little more closer to me. "Is this O.K.?" he asked me, with a husky voice.

"Yeah, it's fine" I said, my heartbeat increasing only a little. This meant nothing to him, so it was going to stay that way. My hair fell in my face, I blew it out of my eyes then returned to the movie. "Alek" I said and he responded with a tired.

"Hmm"

"You're a really good friend" His eyes were droopy, I was going to let him sleep but he seemed to be about to say something. I leaned closer so I could hear him but instead I met his lips. It was a little kiss, not open mouth or anything. Still, it meant the world to me. We were both tired, so I let him go to sleep. Just like he let me. I woke up to the sound of rain hitting the roof and warm skin. My mom was downstairs rushing around, I had only been asleep for three hours. I was on school schedule and internal alarm clock world, my phone was ringing steadily. I moved a little, only to be pulled back in.

"Don't" Alek said against my shoulder, this was not normal "get up" I pushed the remote button to switch back T.V. Cable, I looked at the weather channel. "Hey, Looks like you'll be stuck with me for awhile"

A few days with Alek, that's great...