Summary: You can never truly forget the people in your past. Especially, when one of them happens to be your ex-boyfriend. Try as you might, something always happens to bring him back to you…along with the memories you made with him.

A/N: Please don't hate me for the pairing, but it works with this song. I would suggest listening to the song while reading this.

Genre: Hurt

Rating: K/K+

Pairing: Alek/Mimi

Disclaimer: I do not own NLOCK or this song

Song: Who's That Girl?

Artist: Hilary Duff

POV: Chloe

No Longer Mine

There were places we would go at midnight
There are secrets left nobody else would know
There's a reason but
I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
I thought they all belong to me

Alek and I had dated.

It is a simple fact that not a lot of people know. Or maybe they choose to deny it. Or may they just plain forgot that it ever happened. I mean who could see me ever being with the gorgeous, popular Alek Petrov. He is an athletic genius with an accent that girls swooned over. He is constantly surrounded by people from the "in" crowd. However, just a few years ago, he was anything but the arrogant jerk that struts the halls. The Alek I knew, the Alek I fell in love with, was a sweet gentleman. Sure he was witty back then as he is now, but that's just part of his charm. We knew things about each other that no one else knew, secrets that were exclusively ours. We had places that were meant only for us. We may have been young, too young to understand what love really meant. But that didn't stop us from declaring our feelings for each other. The year we spent together was the most blissful year I ever experienced. I was naïve; I thought that we would be together forever.

Who's that girl?
Where's she from?
No, she can't be the one
That you want
That has stolen my world
It's not real
It's not right
It's my day
It's my night
By the way, who's that girl?
Living my life

Oh, no
Living my life

Everything happened too fast. I turned sixteen and suddenly I was tasked with saving the world and uniting the Mai and the humans…and possibly any other supernatural creatures there is out there. Becoming Mai, may very well have been the death and savior of my being. It brought me back to my first love, but it also brought back painful memories.

I am the Uniter and my life has been thrown into chaos. Alek is now my protector. It is his job to ensure my safety; even if that means throwing away his own life to protect one of mine. We, the Mai, are far and few; hiding ourselves from the Order. We are cursed with the inability to be intimate with humans. So for me, not only am I not a normal teenager, but I can't even have a relationship unless it's with another Mai. I often remember the times I spent with Alek and can't help but wish I could go back to the past.

She came out of nowhere. One minute Alek is flirting with the girls in our school and suddenly he's completely occupied with this girl I have never seen before. It isn't long before I'm informed that she is another Mai. Mimi, that's her name. She and Alek had met the summer before. I feel a pang in my chest. I ignore it, but what I can't ignore is the way he looks at her. I hear the whispers that follow the two in the halls. The whispers of how perfect they look together; of how lucky she is to have him; of how happy he looks whenever he's with her.

I find myself turning the other direction whenever I see the two of them. Amy, the best friend that she is, tries her best to console me. But nothing she says can ease the pain that I feel. I ask myself countless times if Mimi is the kind of girl he wants. Is she the one that he sees himself with forever? When for the longest time, I thought I was that girl.

Seems like everything's the same around here
When I look again and everything has changed
I'm not dreaming so
I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
She's everywhere I wanna be

Despite my change, I have grown accustomed to who I am. I would be lying if I said, I'm not struggling with my destiny as the Uniter. Other than this change, everything else seems to be in order. My mother has no idea of who I really am. Paul and Amy are still the best friends I could ask for. Alek is still the popular guy that every girl wants. Only this time, he no longer flirts with the human girls. He divides his free time between his jock friends and Mimi.

I was wrong. I thought my life was in order, but that is not so. Every time I see Alek, even if it's a glimpse, he is always with the other Mai girl. It has gotten to the point that she watches me along with Alek. I can hear them on my rooftop; talking, laughing, enjoying themselves. And in the meantime, my heart is breaking. Even after these years, I am still in love with Alek. You never truly forget your first love. And yet mine had.

Tonight is no different from the other nights. I can hear them talking. They are loud enough for me, but quiet enough to not rouse my mother's attention. I listen, though I know I could very well regret it. And that is exactly what happens. I hear Alek tell Mimi about this special place that he has. It's a small waterfall in a secluded area at the nearby park. I catch my breath, praying to Bastet that he is talking about another waterfall. He goes on to describe it; how there is perfect spot next to the falls that they could have a picnic at. One hand flies to my mouth, smothering the strangled cry that my throat produced. My other hand clutches at my chest, the exact spot where my heart is. The waterfall that he is talking about is the same one that he and I used to frequent. It is…was, our secret spot. The place we went to when we wanted to escape from reality. And now, he is taking another girl there. The promise he made me is broken. Did he even remember that promise?

Who's that girl?
Where's she from?
No, she can't be the one
That you want
That has stolen my world
It's not real
It's not right
It's my day
It's my night
By the way, who's that girl?
Living my life

I live everyday as if nothing bothered me. I greet my friends and focus on my studies. I make sure that I don't do anything rash that would incur the wrath of the Order. And I still train with Alek and Jasmine. I even extend my thanks to Mimi when she asks to be part of the training. I no longer complain when Jasmine or Alek chastise me for being a "scaredy" human at certain training procedures. I grit my teeth and go along with it. I work to the best of my ability during the training sessions, because I just want to be as far away from Alek and Mimi as possible. I can't watch them together. The way he looks at her. It's the same way he looked at me and I can't bear to think that at one point, I was the sole receiver of that look.

I feel like a part of me has been ripped away. Our break up is one I can't forget. He had just suddenly said that he couldn't see me anymore. He told me loved me, but that things were changing. He told me I would always be the one and that he knew I didn't understand. He promised me that one day, I would know everything. And that "one day" turned out to be my sixteenth birthday, but by then he had changed.

I'm the one
Who made you laugh
Who made feel
I made you sad
I'm not sorry
For what we did
Who we were
I'm not sorry
I'm not her

There's a new shipment of clothes that just came in and I am excited about the new outfits. It's been a few months and I can say that I am slowly healing. It helps that I haven't seen Alek or Mimi for a while so my mind was not focused on them. Unfortunately, this little break is short lived. I hear the door open to the connecting café and his laugh reaches my ears. I stiffen and quickly move to the other side of the store, the farthest from the café. This is where I curse my super hearing ability. I hear her say something and Alek laughs in response. At one point, that had been my domain. I had been the one to make him laugh; make him sad; make him worry about me. But reality sets in, and I don't hold that claim anymore. I will not wish that I was her, because I'm not. I'm my own person and I will remain the person that Alek had fallen in love with years ago. So, I turn my back on the couple and focus all my attention on my job.

Who's that girl?
Where's she from?
No, she can't be the one
That you want
That has stolen my world
It's not real
It's not right
It's my day
It's my night
By the way, who's that girl?
Living my life

Oh, no
Living my life

I run out of the room, hoping that no one notices me. I could have gone to the balcony, but that was still so close and I needed somewhere different. I rush to the top of the building and burst onto the roof top. I make my way to the railing at the edge and look down into the darkness. I can no longer stop the tears from falling down. The words keep repeating in my head like a broken record. "When this whole ordeal is over, Mimi and I are planning to get married." There is no way to mistake those words. The whole room erupted into cheers and I took that opportunity to escape. My heart which had previously been on the mend is now shattering. Flashes of our past together broke into my thoughts. The smiles, laughs, gestures; they are no longer solely mine. I let out a cry of anguish and drop to my knees, not caring if my dress got soiled. Sobs wrack my body and I think of how pathetic I must look. I didn't, for all the nine circles of hell, care one bit.

Because tonight, I lost my love; I lost my heart.

A/N: So this is intended to be a oneshot songfic, but there are some ideas rolling around in my head. I could conjure up a second part that would just be a regular oneshot, but that would be up to you, the readers, if you want it. If you do, then please review with your reply.