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CHAPTER: 3
Derek's POV
I walk in the living room to see just Tori sitting on the couch. "Where's Chloe?" I ask. "Out there." She says, gesturing to the back porch with her head, never taking her eyes off the TV. I nod and walk to the door to watch Simon kiss Chloe. Oh. No. He. Just. Didn't. I thought he said that he gave up on Chloe, that I could have Chloe. What the heck! My anger surfaces and I yank open the door and shriek, "Simon!" Chloe looks at me and jumps out of Simon's grasp. She runs towards me, but at the last minute, swerves to avoid me, and runs through the doorway. I hear a sniffling noise, and then I realize. She's crying. Simon made her cry. I could do some serious cussing right now, but, no. Come on, Derek, get yourself under control. I think to myself. "Simon! What did you do to her!? She's crying, and it's all your fault!" I explode. Simon's expression is full of fear, but it quickly changes to anger and determination. "So?" He says. That's all it takes. "So!? What the heck does that mean!? That you don't care that you made Chloe cry or you don't care about me? Or yourself? Or what Chloe's decision is?" I explode, again. And that won't be the last time either. Simon scowls at me, "No. I didn't mean that. I meant, I'm not sure that I care that I told you that you could have Chloe. You don't deserve her." I take a deep breath and say in a low growl, "Simon. Listen to me. You think I don't deserve her? Think again. You don't deserve her. You kissed her when she doesn't like you like that. You can't force someone to like you." "So!? You forced Chloe to like you!" Simon explodes. "What!? I did not! Chloe likes me because she likes me, not because I forced her to!" I say. Simon doesn't say anything, but sets his facial expression into cold, hard determination. He takes a swing at me, but I grab his wrist and say, "Simon! We're brothers! Best friends! And you're trying to hit me?" I say. "Is that what we've become?" I drop his wrist and run inside, leaving him out there. I have to find Chloe.
Chloe's POV
I lay on my bed with the door locked, thinking about everything that's gone wrong. I don't like Simon like that! I like Derek! And now, Simon and Derek are probably fighting, and it's all my fault! There's a knock on my door and I ask, "Who is it?" I hear a sigh, and the person says, "It's me, Derek." I nod to myself, but say, "What do you want?" This time, I hear a frustrated growl, "I want to talk to you, now please open the door, Chloe." I sigh but get up and unlock the door, I go back and sit down on my bed and say, "It's open." The door creaks open slowly and a angry-looking Derek appears in front of me. "What happened?" I ask. "Simon… Simon and I almost got into a fight. Like, a fist-fight." He says. I gasp, "Over what? If this is about me… Over me? Oh, no. No, no, no, no. This is NOT happening right now. This is not-." I say, panicking. "Chloe." Derek cuts me off. "Chloe, calm down. I'll tell you what happened. Okay?" He says. I nod and he says, "Alright. Okay, when I came into the living room, only Tori was there, so I asked where you were. She said out back. I went to look, and I saw Simon kiss you. That's when I yelled Simon's name. You broke away from him and ran inside. I realized you were crying, so I went and yelled at Simon. He and I started arguing, and he swung at me. I grabbed his wrist and told is this what we've become, as in, we're brothers, you know. So, yeah. That's what happened." I nod slowly. "Okay and this has anything to do with me, how…?" I say, trailing off. He says, "Um… I like you Chloe. Remember how Simon said earlier that he'd given up on you?" I nod. "Yeah. He went against that, and kissed you. He didn't listen to what you had to say, did he?" I shake my head, "No. He didn't. I tried to say, before he kissed me, that I didn't like him like that. He didn't listen, and he kissed me. I didn't break away, because I was stunned. And when you yelled at Simon, it was kind of like, 'Oh, thank God'. You know?" He nods. We stay in silence for what seems like forever, even though it was only, like, five minutes, when Derek broke the silence. "Chloe, I just want to tell you, no matter what anybody else says, that you're a beautiful girl. You're smart, pretty, and everything anybody could-." "You." Simon walks in and cuts off Derek. Who's Simon talking to? Me? Derek? Simon walks up to Derek and jabs a finger in his chest. "You. What are you doing in here with her?" Derek glares at him, "What am I doing? You don't own Chloe. If Chloe didn't want me in here, she would have told me, 'Go away'." He says. Simon glares, and then turns to me, and says, "Did you let him in here, or did he force his way in here?" I sigh, "Simon, I let him in here. He couldn't have forced himself in here anyways. The door was locked." Simon can be such a jerk-wad when he's mad. He really could. "What if you're lying? Are you? I bet you-." "Simon!" Derek yells, and cuts him off. "How dare you accuse Chloe of lying!? You're just as low as anybody else!" Simon scowls and takes a swing at Derek. He hits Derek in the face. His head snaps back and a stream of blood comes out of his nose. Suddenly, I'm really mad. I charge at Simon and pin him on the wall. "What did you do to him?" It comes out more of a low growl. He looks scared, but he replaces it with anger and determination. He pushes me off him, and I let him. He and Derek start to fight. They only get a few hits in before I step in between them calmly, and say, "If you care for me at all, stop. Stop fighting." They stop but look at me like, 'Why the heck did you do that?' Simon walks out of the room and Derek sits down on my bed. I gasp, "Oh, my God."
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