Thank you all for the follows and kind reviews they make writing all the more rewarding, BTW I'm sorry I'm English so I don't know the Adult learning system in America so based it around English Adult Education
This is set before Alex has come out to Kara.
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Mon-El dashed out of the room, half scared he would lose his nerve and turn round, sweep her into his arms, but that was wrong for her, and their fragile friendship, he was in such a hurry he nearly ran straight into Alex.
"Sorry, " he mumbled eyes down not wanting to make eye contact or stop for conversation, Alex, Kara's elder sister was not a big fan of the young Daxamite, and he knew that, she would be less than pleased to know there was anything between them.
Alex barely noticed him, her head full of her problems, and the troublesome boy was not much of a concern to her.
He rushed to the shower, cleaned up, dressed in some faded blue jeans and a grey t-shirt and grey hoodie, put some product in his hair and grabbed his bag to go to his class, grabbing the glasses Kara had given him from the bottom of his locker.
He rather liked being Mike at his college classes. It took him away from the reality of his life, a refugee on an alien planet, alone, homeless, sleeping in a locker room of the DEO, no privacy, no freedom, considered a danger because of his powers, and totally alone, with no one who understood Daxam to talk to about how he felt. In fact the only people he was friendly with pushed him to arm's length because they were Kara's friends firstly and worried about him causing her problems. Female company was easy to obtain, it appeared he was attractive to the women of this planet, but none wanted a long term commitment. To be honest he didn't either, just someone to talk about everything with could help. There lay the irony, he thought, studying Psychology, would help talk about these concerns, but he couldn't tell any of them he was an Alien, no, he was Mike, new in town, looking for a career change.
He grabbed a banana, strange fruit, odd taste, and texture, he liked it, as a snack and left for his course. He couldn't be bothered with the stairs or bumping into Winn, who he knew had a crush on Kara, so jumped out of a window, landing with ease on the ground. He ran his fingers through his short dark hair to neaten it, he started walking.
Kara watched Mon-El walk out of the room, and caught her breath, fighting the urges of zooming to block his exit she decided not to. Deep down she knew he was right, they were in a very strange place, and maybe just the need to have someone who understood the loss of their home as well, so finally and totally lost, the total destruction had bonded them too closely, too quickly.
She decided to work out a few more minutes, enough time for him to go to the break room, or his locker room so she wouldn't bump into him. She decided to lift some weights for a bit, and put some Nsync on to exercise.
After 10 minutes she gave up, she couldn't get the taste of Mon-El out of her mind, how he felt, the softness of his hair. It annoyed her. "Kara, Kara, Kara, pull yourself together she shouted" shockingly she said it out loud and glanced around to check she was alone, "Right" she said to herself, "Home, Pizza and a nice romantic comedy, and something to take your mind off him"
"Who is he?" demanded Alex from behind her
Kara froze, really not sure what to say
"Work!" she finally exclaimed, "Rough week, need to destress"
"Are you sure?" teased her sister, "that doesn't look like work stress" she pointed to the plaster on the wall from where she and Mon-El had been slamming each other into the wall
"That's fine, I was training with Mon-El earlier" and she flushed slightly at the mention of his name, if Alex picked up on her cheeks reddening she was kind enough not to say anything. Alex nodded and Kara grabbed her bag and rushed out of the room.
Class was interesting, Mon-El was enjoying studying. He was tempted to suggest to Kara that he went to college or university full time, so he could learn. Some of the other students had been talking about different options and before he realised he had signed up for a History course under an accelerated learning program. This was appealing, he realised he could learn more about Earth, his new home, and not knowing much would not be a problem as the others were learning as well.
The other students were interesting all different ages with different back grounds, all kind and friendly. A few of them had gone for a meal after, well they said a meal, it was bar food and watching the end of an English Premier League Football match. Mon-El was really enjoying it, one of the guys, Steve seemed to know a lot.
"So, there are 11 on each side and the aim is to get the ball into the net?" Mon-El asked
"Yes and stop the other team from scoring more than you," Smiled Steve, clearly pleased at having male company to share this information with. Steve was late 40s, starting to lose his hair, and slightly overweight, but very kind, he was from London England and had married an American woman 10 years ago.
"And the Blue team is called Chelsea?" Mon-El questioned, Steven Nodded, "The Red Team is called Arsenal?"
"Yes and Im a Chelsea fan, and we really don't like Arsenal" he shared his wisdom freely
"So Mike do you have a young lady?" Martha a lady in her late 50s asked, she was very maternal towards the members of the class often bringing cookies and cakes in for the group.
"Nnno, I I I don't know!" he stammered
Cindy a 23 year old looked up from her phone at this comment and looked at him, "What do you mean!" she exclaimed, and Martha chuckled.
"I really don't know," He realised he was going very red, "My friend kissed me earlier" and there he shocked himself telling strangers about him and Kara, "I like her, she's lovely, but I don't think she really wants to be with me in that way, she's helping me settle over here, and I don't want to ruin that"
"Don't ruin your friendship!" exclaimed Cindy, "I can be your girlfriend". Mon-El smiled at her, but Martha saved him from having to say something
"Cindy dear, I think it's wise that you do not distract this young man from his studies, poor lad joined us late he has a lot to catch up on, and he wouldn't be able to focus if dating you as studying as well" Martha winked at Mon-El Cindy nodded, Martha then turned to Mon-El "Mike, you need to decide is she more important to you as a friend or something more, you are young and attractive, you will have no problem with female attention, but friendship, that's harder to replace" He smiled and nodded, what he and Kara had as friends could not be replaced.
"Yes!" Screamed Steve jumping up from his chair, "Costa you beauty" Mon-El glanced at the screen to see someone called Diego Costa had scored a goal, he badly wanted to asked where the dragons were, but decided that was a question for the DEO not normal people, "What a header" gushed Steve.
Suddenly Mon-El's phone buzzed
Kara dried her eyes as the credits rolled, she had eaten pizza, ice cream and watched Pride and Prejudice, and cried at the ending and didn't feel much better about Mon-El. It had made her think of him more, as Mr Darcy and Lizzy falling for each other even though they came from such different worlds and their misunderstandings had caused problems they had fallen for each other.
So she did something she thought may be pretty silly in the long run
She texted Mon-El
"Hi we need a chat, come to mine after college? X"
She considered the use of a kiss for a while and then decided she should, once she pressed send she regretted it
20 minutes later there was a knock on the door
Kara felt her stomach tighten, she was nervous, this wasn't good, she shouldn't be nervous, he was just a boy, she had liked boys before, thinking about it she had now kissed 3 of the 4 guys she worked closest with. Straightening her dress she got up and answered the door. She had changed outfits 3 times trying to look casual. She settled on a soft pink knee length skater dress.
"Hi" smiled Mon-El looking dashing as normal thought Kara
"Hi" she replied feeling flustered, they both stood there, he found her funny when she was bashful, she looked pretty this evening, the soft pink dress and her hair curled slightly.
"Should I come in? or Not?" he asked
"Oh, yes yes yes come in, " she grabbed his hand pulling him into her flat. She quickly let go of his hand when she realised. "Do you want a drink?"
"No Im good thank you" he replied, looking confused, "You look nice, have you been doing anything nice this evening?"
"No, Just picked up a dress, couldn't see you in my PJs" she replied
"I wouldn't mind" he smiled, then back tracked "Not in that way, just you don't need to dress up for me" he said, "Never feel you need to make an effort", he moved to sit on the sofa next to her, where she was gesturing to, he felt very nervy, which was an odd feeling for him as he was super confident with women
"So I've been thinking about us," she started, biting her bottom lip
"Me too" he nodded
"And?" she asked her blue eyes looking questioningly at him
"Its safer if we are just friends for a while" he said there was a lot of sorrow in his voice. "I need your friendship so much, you are so important to me, and I cant risk messing that up, and we both know I will disappoint you very quickly, so don't want to risk it"
Tears started to well in her eyes as she sadly nodded, it made sense
He noticed the tears and pulled her in for a hug, wrapping his strong arms around her, she breathed in his scent and felt secure. "I really do care for you," He signed, "I just cant hurt you," he moved back slightly to look at her, tears were falling from her eyes and he moved to rub them away. Suddenly they were kissing, neither knew who started it, but they were. Kara giggled slightly, he pulled away to ask her about it, and she pulled him back into the kiss, tasking him, exploring his mouth, as her hands ran through his hair.
Suddenly they both froze as there was a knock on the door, neither moved, and again there was a knock
"Kara" are you decent, I'm letting myself in!" Called Alex from the hallway
The 2 aliens smirked at each other, they really didn't want to be caught out by Alex, Kara pointed towards her bedroom, he shook his head and grabbed his bag, "Talk tomorrow" he whispered, kissing her gently, before jumping off the balcony just in time to miss Alex.