Don't plagiarize my work…it's wrong. Chanda and Delia (also great fanfic writers) created certain characters, others are MIB The Animated Series creations (love the show), the rest are mine…..yawn, on with the story! ^_^

Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance

Chapter 4: I Won't Say I'm In Love!

Down the hall Elle was stretched across her bed, face down. Agent Val sat on the edge if the bed and gently stroked her friend's shoulders.

"Urgh! I can't believe it!" Elle groaned, her voice muffled by the sheets, "I CAN'T be in love with X! He's so arrogant, so rude, so--HE'S A JERK!! That's what he is!"

Val grinned down at her friend. She had known Elle ever since they were kids and she had never given a guy the time of day before. This whole thing with her partner was just so new to Elle that it was depressing her. I mean, what fun is it to toy with a guy that you actually have feelings for?!

"So what if he's an alien Elle?" Val calmly tried to rationalize, "You never really striked me as the type that would fall for just ANY guy! And ya gotta admit, that on this planet, human guys are a dime a dozen!"

Elle rolled onto her side and looked up at her friend. She couldn't hold back a smile that was working its way to the corners of her mouth. "And exactly how long have you been dying to say that to me?!"

"Years," Val chuckled.

"Read my lips---" Elle stressed, "I DO NOT, nor have I or will I ever, like X!"

Val rolled her eyes and retorted, "And that little scene in the medical lab was just an attempt to bite each others' faces off huh?"

"No!" Elle couldn't believe that her friend was insisting that she give a relationship with X a chance!

"Well then, what was it?!" Val demanded.

"A mistake, that's what it was!"

"Mmm-hmm…." Val replied sarcastically, "Girl just admit it, you're in love!"

"I won't say I'm in love! Especially with that pointy eared, green, long nosed, clawed, HUMAN HATING! alien!!" Elle screamed.

"Dang girl," Val replied, "Who are you trying to convince here? Me or you??"

Elle REALLY didn't want to answer that! Truthfully, because she really wasn't sure herself. She reluctantly found herself thinking back to the scene in the medical lab. A chill ran down her spine and she felt the tingling of butterflies in her stomach. "Oh nooo!!!!" she moaned as she sat up and laid her head on her knees.

"Just say it girl," Val prompted her.

"No," Elle persisted as the realization hit her, "I won't say I'm in love!"

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