Shane POV-

I woke up at around 5, my arms wrapped around Claire. I smiled. She looked so beautiful in the morning with a serious case of bed head! She was lying on her back and I looked down and gave her a gentle kiss on her forehead, her eyelashes fluttered and I gently whispered in her ear, "Wake up beautiful, we're gonna miss our flight." She opened her eyes, yawned and sat up, realising that I called her beautiful she blushed.

"Today's the day," she said as if she thought that it would never come, she almost seemed that she was dreading it. "You do want to go, don't you?" I asked, not understanding why she seemed to be fearing going. "I mean, I do. I'm finally getting out of here, this hellhole, even if it's only for a couple of years," I told her. She looked at me as though she was trying to figure my thoughts out. After a minute she said, "Of course I do, this is my dream, I'm finally going to MIT," she sounded as though she was lying.

"Why are you lying to me?" I asked, really getting frustrated, why won't she tell me the truth? "I'm not," Claire snapped, defending herself. Taking a deep breath to calm myself, I put my hands on either side of her face and lifted it so she was looking into my eyes. "Tell me," I pleaded. If she was worried about something I would rather she told me instead of over thinking it, she had a tendency to do that. "I'm scared," she spoke so quietly I barely heard it. It felt like my heart ripped when she said that, she shouldn't be scared, I'm here to protect her, love her.

"What of? Leaving?" I guessed.

"No, I'm scared for Michael and Eve. Not too long ago she was in the hospital, what if there are other people who really don't like the idea of them being married and want to-" I interrupted her, "Michael's here. He won't let her out of her sight, she'll be safe. I promise." I kissed her forehead then leaned forward for her lips, but she stopped me. "Shane. What if, what if I'm not good enough? Here I am, but in MIT there are so many gifted people, what if I'm not good enough, or fast enough? What if I'm just average?" Her eyes pleaded for me to understand, and I did. I knew what it was like to feel as though you weren't good enough. I always felt as though I wasn't good enough for Claire.

"You are good enough. In fact, you're so much more better than good enough. You were accepted, that shows how good you are," I said in an attempt to comfort her. She didn't look as though she was comforted.

"There's something else. I need to know before we go. Are you only coming with me because you don't trust me?" She looked apologetic, though I did understand why she had asked. Not too long ago I thought that she was with my best friend Michael behind my back, but I was wrong. I did trust her but before I was just so insecure and believed a lie because of my own stupid trust issues. "No. I'm coming because we finally have the chance to get out of here. Together. You're following your dream and I'm following mine," I said.

"What's your dream?" Claire asked me, as if she didn't know.

"A chance for us to live a normal life. Together. Now can I please have a kiss?" She smiled and I could tell that she wasn't worried anymore. She leaned forward and pressed her lips to mine; the kiss was passionate and seemed to last forever. She pulled back and I groaned. Her kiss took my breath away and left me blank, like they always do.

Just then the alarm clock went off, I groaned again. Claire smirked slapped the alarm clock and the shrill alarm stopped. "Race you to the shower," she said as she jumped up and ran to the bathroom.

I jumped out of her bed and ran to the bathroom, but I was too late as she was already in and had started h shower. Dammit I thought. I was about to walk to my room when Michael came out of his and called my name. "What's up?" I replied.

"Me and Eve won't be there anymore," he stalled, not getting to the point.

"I know that." I said. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Shane. Man, this is hard. What I'm trying to say is that, we're gonna miss you both. Look after her, okay?" I wasn't the only one who loved Claire, she meant a lot to Michael and Eve. "You PMS-ing dude? I asked trying to lighten the mood. He scoffed.

"I'm being serious."

"I know, and I will look after her."

"Good." He turned and walked back to his room.

About 45 minutes later Claire walked out the bathroom, showered, changed and hair dried. "You took your time!" I exclaimed.

"Well, it takes time achieving this perfection!" Claire smiled. "I wanted to make sure I had scrubbed everything off. You know making sure there's no traces of silver or strange chemicals from Myrnin's lab. I'm not sure that it'll go down well with the people at the airport if I turned up with some with some ancient acid residue!" She explained.

"I didn't think about that," I replied.

"That's why I took the liberty of cleaning out your suitcase before you packed," Claire informed me. "I knew you wouldn't have done it!"

"Thanks." I stood up and walked to the bathroom but not before holding her hands, leaning my forehead against hers and pressing my lips to hers.

It was only supposed to be a small peck, but somehow it grew bigger and more passionate. I licked her lips asking for entrance and she opened her mouth. I could feel her love and excitement and I tried to show her my love for her. I had to stop myself from taking it further. She pulled away and took a deep breath. "I should go shower," I breathlessly said. She nodded and dizzyingly walked downstairs.

Hey! Sorry that this has taken so long, this was my first week back at school and I've had a ton of homework! Hopefully from now on you should be getting at least 2 updates a week!