Megin Levin's POV

Chapter 5

We had finally squeezed through the last of the vents, and were on top of a catwalk, overlooking a huge warehouse, bustling with DNAliens. I looked on them with disgust.

"Why are they still here? Didn't we beat their sorry asses and send them scuttling back to whatever pit they came from?" I asked Ben, who was creeping along beside me. He nodded.

"Yeah we did, but after the dust cleared there was a lot of high-tech merchandise to be found in the debris. A few of the aliens saw a profit, and they stayed around to work the black market. Nothing like the world domination they were after before, but still illegal" He finished. I nodded, and we kept on moving.

It wasn't until we were far away from the main loading dock and in some wide, empty corridors I asked him,

"So, what were you going to say to me? You know, back at the training center?" I asked. What? I know I hate the guy, but I'm curious. I mean, this could be the long awaited apology I had been waiting for. So sue me for wanting to know what he was going to say next.

A small smile crossed his lips.

"Um, well I," he looked a little nervous. Despite myself, I found myself thinking it extremely adorable. There must be something wrong with me.

"Spit it out." I said. I was getting a little impatient, aside from the adorable thing.

He took a deep breath and said, "I broke up with Julie."

I stopped dead in my tracks. What the hell? Julie? What did she have to do with it?

"Julie? Why would you want to tell me that?" What was he thinking?

Ben looked confused. He wasn't the only one. "I thought that was why you've been mad at me. You know, for the past couple of months. For dating Julie." He said.

I blinked once. Twice. Then it set in.

"You thought I was jealous?" I said, my voice rising uncomfortably. What was his damage? Why that egotistical—

"Well, yeah, because when you got here you sorta, y'know, sending signals—" chauvinistic, pig-headed, idiotic— "and then you got angry and stopped hanging out with me awhile after you found out I was dating Julie—" Y-chromosome, impertinent, assuming bastard! "So I broke up with her, because I realized that she really isn't who I thought she was, and I miss—"

"Shut up." I turned and began walking down the corridor.

"But I was going to say—" he started, but I wasn't hearing it.

"And I said shut up."

"But I—"

"Wow, you just don't shut up do you?" I couldn't believe it. He thought this whole thing had been about something as cavalier as jealousy. What a-a-a….well I couldn't really think of anything else to call him. Maybe a douche, but that just sounded too weak. Who did he think I was? I had felt exactly nothing when I found out he was dating Julie. Less than nothing. I honestly could not care when I had met her for the first time and she just came right over and placed her stupid, fakey, pink lips on his perfect ones, without so much as a 'Hello' or ' Excuse me' in my direction. The way she kept holding onto his hand like she owned it. Or the way she expected all of his attention all the time.

I was not jealous. I wasn't.

We walked in silence for awhile. We were getting very close, when Ben brought it up again.

"So, what have you been mad about then? I was sure you were pretty green with envy" he asked from behind me. I whirled around him.

"Oh my God, you think so much of yourself! As if there is anything to be jealous of! It's not like I thought you were my boyfriend or anything!" I just wanted to find Kevin and get out of here. I never even wanted him to come. His eyes narrowed and he glared at me.

"Well what then? It has to be something or you wouldn't hold on to it for so long. Or maybe you just been stuck in a pissed off mood ever since you've had people to tell you what to do!" he spat back at me. God, I wanted to hit him so bad.

"You are so dense! And I thought you knew! It's Kevin! You know, my brother? The one you mutilated?" I was all up in his face now and spitting angry.

"Wh—" Confusion, then realization, passed over his face. "That's what you've been so mad at me? That wasn't my fault! The Omnitrix freaked out!"

"Because you were messing with it! You couldn't just do anything the hard way, you just had to find a shortcut, and now Kevin has to suffer for it! And you haven't even apologized! You should be like that, not Kev—" I stopped as I was suddenly aware of how close we had gotten. Practically nose to nose. Probably impossible to get physically any closer. Ben realized it to, because his face went from twisted with anger, to smooth with apprehension and caution. My heart was beating double-time, my breath short and rapid, and I found I was losing myself in his eyes. Eyes where I saw, for the very first time, regret. Real regret.

"I'm sorry." He merely whispered. I was scrambling for words when he slid his hand around the back of my neck, pulled me even closer (it turns out it was possible) and kissed me. Simple as that. He just…kissed me. And it was like fireworks exploding in my head, a balloon swelling in my chest, butterflies going crazy in my stomach. I felt warm were his hands touched on my neck and waist, and everywhere else inside. His lips where exactly as soft and perfect as they looked, and he seemed to be very talented with his toungue. My heart went even faster than it had two minutes ago when we had just been arguing.

Oh yeah. Arguing. What had that been about again? It was kinda hard to remember...

Kevin.

That snapped me out of my fireworks/balloon/butterflies sensation. My eyes snapped open and I found that in the heat of the moment I had tangled my fingers in his soft, silky brown curls, and was kissing him back. Enthusiastically. This was both good and bad. Bad because I found out that I have absolutely no self-control. Good because I was able to leverage my position and dig my knee into his stomach.

While he was doubled over for a minute, I took it to catch my breath and say,

"Say that to Kevin." And I quickly turned and walked away, without seeing if he was following me.

Farther down the hall, I heard voices. I had to check really quick that I wasn't going crazy from Ben's kiss (yes, it was that good). But no, I distinctly heard a voice that could only be my brother's. I ran towards it, but as soon as I got close, I fell.