Chapter 5- Do I make you nervous
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton
Marissa knocked onto Alex's room door. As she heard Alex call to come in, she opened the door. "Hey," she said with a smile.
Alex looked up from a drawing she was in the middle of making. "Hey," she said with a smile. "What brings you here?"
"I wanted to see you," Marissa said as she walked over to Alex and gave her a soft kiss. "And I've been thinking. I want you to paint a picture of me." She stepped away from Alex. "But add a little Egyptian style to it," she added.
As Alex turned to look at Marissa, the other girl pulled a few strings and her clothes fell onto the floor. She smirked.
Alex looked at Marissa and gulped. "Oh," was all she managed to say. She stood up. "I…I should….um…lock the door. Yeah." She walked to the door and locked it. "So…um…lie down onto the bed."
Marissa grinned and moved to the bed. She lay down onto her right side, facing Alex. "Do I make you nervous?"
Alex looked at Marissa. "A little," she answered. She took her drawing things and sat down onto a chair near the bed.
Marissa took Alex's right hand. "I have complete confidence in you to make me look beautiful." She kissed Alex's fingers, softly and slowly.
"It wouldn't be possible to make you look ugly," Alex said with a small smile.
Alex entered the castle from the back door. She had been missing Marissa and just wanted to see her.
"Hello, Alexandra," Caleb said, walking up to Alex. "What are you doing here?"
Alex looked up at Alex. She swallowed slightly; for some reason, she didn't like Caleb. "Hello, sir. I just wanted to see Marissa."
"She isn't home. She went shopping with Summer," Caleb said. "But I wanted to talk to you about something. Come on." He put his hand onto Alex's lower back and guided her to his bedroom.
Alex looked at him and sat down onto the edge of his bed. "What did you want to talk about?"
"Trey," Caleb answered. "I don't like him. I agreed to that marriage only because Julie insisted on it. And he does come from a good family, as I'm sure you know."
Alex looked at him, frowning a little. "Where are you going with this?"
"Well, I am the Emperor. And I could throw him into jail or just have him killed for something," Caleb looked at Alex. "If you do me a favor."
Alex nodded, wondering what the favor is. "What do you want me to do?"
Caleb smiled slightly, and Alex thought she was going be sick. That smile didn't look promising. "Have sex with me," he simply said.
Alex's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open slightly. Wait. What!"
"If you have sex with me, just once, then I will make Trey disappear from the picture. Leaving Marissa free," Caleb said. "Yes or no?"
Alex stared at the floor, thinking what to say. She really hated Trey, but she was her brother. She took a deep breath. "Yes," she whispered. She stood up, looking at Caleb.
Caleb smirked and walked over to her. He put his hands onto her upper arms, and then slid his hands down. He started to untie her clothes.
Caleb stood up from the bed. He glanced at Alex, who was still lying in bed. "I'll take care of Trey as soon as possible." He put his clothes back on. "I need to go to work. Don't mention this to anyone. Especially Marissa."
Alex nodded and sat up, dragging a sheet up with her. "Of course I won't tell anyone," she said.
Caleb took out some coins and threw them onto the bed next to Alex. "That's your pay. Be gone by the time I get back." He looked at Alex and before she could say anything, he had already walked out.
Alex looked at the coins lying next to her and felt tears rolling down her cheeks. She felt so cheap and used. She stood up and quickly got dressed. The tears were fogging her sight a little already. As she walked out of the room, she wiped her eyes. She rushed downstairs as fast as she could.
"Alex," Marissa said with a smile as she saw Alex. "What are you doing here?"
Alex looked up and smiled. She really was glad to see Marissa. "I came to see you," she said and walked closer. It was a little hard to hold the tears back, but with Marissa there she knew she couldn't cry. "I missed you."
Marissa smiled and kissed Alex. "I missed you too." She put her arms around the other girl. "What do you want to do?"
Alex bit her lower lip a little. "Actually, I just came to see you. I have to go and meet up with Ryan. Sorry." She gave Marissa an overly fake smiled and pulled away.
"Oh," Marissa said, clearly disappointed. "Well, have fun with Ryan!"
"See you," Alex said and kissed Marissa onto the cheek. She walked to the front door and walked out.
Marissa watched Alex walk out. She could tell that something was wrong. And it worried her that Alex didn't tell her what. She closed her eyes, sighing.
Alex walked back to her house as fast as she could. She ran up to her room and lay down onto the bed. As she felt the tears burn her cheeks again, she closed her eyes. She just wanted to disappear. She just wanted everything to go away. The only thing she could think of was Why?
"Lexi? What's wrong?" Jodie softly asked. She had stopped by to see Alex for a little, before going to see that girl from the bathing house. She sat down onto the bed, looking quite worried.
Alex opened her eyes, looking at Jodie. She moved closer to her best friend and placed her head onto the other girl's lap. "I fucked everything up. Again," she said. She started to sob. "I slept with Caleb."
Jodie looked at Alex, stroking her hair. That gesture had always calmed Alex down; and Jodie knew how Alex loved it. "Wow, for the first time since I started talking at all, I'm speechless," she said. Straight away, she bit her lower lip. Clearly, this was not the time or place for jokes. "I mean, why? He's so old. And ew- a guy."
Alex opened her mouth to say something, but closed it quickly. She just closed her eyes and moved even closer to Jodie's body.
"Okay, sweetheart, we'll talk about it later. Just try to calm down. Get some sleep, maybe?" Jodie said. It hurt her to see her best friend so broken. "I'll stay here," she softly added before kissing Alex's head.
Trey grinned. This was just perfect. He was going to break Alex and Marissa up with this. He walked down the stairs and headed to the Emperor's palace, thinking what exactly to tell Marissa