Mel's face never quite returned to normal that night. She was constantly watching me as though I was about to run off with Alex. I pulled her outside for 'a breath of fresh air' – a chance to interrogate her.
"Why do you keep staring at me like I'm cheating on Mike? Do you need to be reminded that I've been in love with the guy for a very, very long time?"
"It's not you I'm worried about," she sighed, "Kevin looks like he might be falling for you."
"No way, we're just friends." I disagreed with her, "He knows I'm with Mike."
"Cody knew you were with Ted. And Randy. And James. You knew that Mike was with Maryse." She was being sincere and I wanted her to stop talking.
"I heard my name." Maryse appeared beside us, "I was coming out here anyway." She was quick to assure us, "I needed to speak to Claire."
Mel went back inside, leaving Maryse and me to speak. She began in French, expressing her sorrows for dating Mike despite my feelings for him. Her apologies were true and I was thankful that no one inside could understand her. She pulled me into a surprise hug and all but begged me to forgive her and be her friend again. I was genuinely taken back by the request.
"I need someone. A friend, Claire. The other Divas don't like me." That didn't shock me at all, "They all took your side. I understand why, I was out of line." My eyes grew wide as she blamed herself and took responsibility, "You were better than me. I was jealous."
"Maryse, stop it." I held her at arm's length, "We tried to be friends again. But I'm dating your ex, how are we supposed to be friends?"
"Can we at least be civil?" she asked and I nodded my head, I'm sorry for just stopping by. It was rude of me." I shrugged at her and told her that she needed to apologise to Mike and not me.
"You were going to ask Mike about the French thing." Alex reminded me when we were alone in the kitchen, "You might want to get to him before Vince does." I laughed at the truth to the statement and we walked out of the kitchen to see that Maryse was gone and Mel was getting ready to leave with John.
"You kids be safe now." Mel hugged me and whispered in my ear, "Keep in mind what I said about Kevin." I kissed both of her cheeks before doing the same to John.
"We'll see you guys around."
I turend to Mike and then to Alex, "We never called someone about being locked out of my house." I was sheepish about my blunder.
"Then I guess we're having another sleepover." A devilish smirk graced his face as he walked over to me, pushing my hair out of my face. He kissed me for the hundredth time that day. Hands were beginning t roam and shirts began to fly – until Alex coughed and reminded us of his presence.
"Guest room is yours if you want it." Mike said offhandedly as we began to move to his formerly elusive bedroom. I put hands against Mike's bare chest and stopped him in his tracks.
"Maybe we shouldn't," I looked at Alex over Mike's shoulder and noticed that he was growing uncomfortable, "He's your guest."
"And he's human. I'm sure he'll understand." He kissed me again but refrained when I didn't kiss him back. "Claire," he groaned.
"Later, okay? Not while he's here." I moved to whisper in his ear, "When he's asleep."
-Mike's POV-
We chose to watch Fast and Furious on my Real World TV after Claire stopped our sexcapades from going any further. She didn't stay awake for very, falling asleep with her head in my lap.
"I'm sorry, man. I didn't mean to cockblock." Alex apologised. I looked down at my sleeping girlfriend and rubbed my hand up and down her thigh.
"It's cool." I said simply.
"She was going to ask you to go to Quebec with her for France day, or something."
"Bastille Day," I corrected him, "I don't know. Last time I was there Randy got kicked out and I made an ass of myself in front of her dad. Benji's out to get me."
"She was pretty excited at the thought." I looked from her to him and saw that he was fiddling with some beer bottle lids but staring at the credits on the screen, "She hates that she never gets to see you."
"I know." I mumbled, "I hate it, too." She stirred slightly when I stopped moving my hand, placing it on her hip instead. "I still cant belive she loves me, man." I smiled crookedly, "For near 10 years and she never said anything."
"Did you feel the same way?"
"I never thought about her that way. She was my friend and my number one fan. I thought she was beautiful, sure... I never thought much more than that, though."
"She's near perfect, dude." Alex's comment and the way in which he said it caught me off guard.
"But she's not," I laughed lightly, "She's psycho and moody and bat shit crazy most of the time."
"Why are you with her then?" he asked with some anger to his voice, "You're stringing her along."
"You didn't let me finish." I assured him, staring down at her and taking in how peaceful she looked as she slept. "She's all those things and then some. But she's funny, caring and the most loyal person you could ever hope to meet. She's far from perfect but she's mine. She loves me and if you ever get someone like Claire, you'd be crazy to let her go."
Silence consumed us before I finally decided that I should put Claire into a bed and avoid her getting a back injury that I'd surely be yelled at for.
As I laid her down on the bed and tried to get her out of her clothes as quickly and gently as I could, she began to stir. A tired smile was on her face as she watched me move around the room.
"What time is it?" she asked tiredly, turning over and snuggling into the pillow, almost instantly falling back asleep.
"It's just after three."
"Then why am I so tired?"
"Because it's three in the morning." She groaned childishly and moved around to get comfortable, "We don't have to go anywhere tomorrow." I reminded her, "You can sleep all you want."
I lay down beside her and leant over her, kissing the side of her head.
"I love you." She mumbled quietly and I smiled at her even though she couldn't see.
"I love you, too."
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