Chapter 5

"Well I didn't tell anyone, but a bird flew by

Saw what I'd done

He set up a nest outside, and he sang about what I'd become.

He sang so loud, sang so clear

I was afraid all the neighbors would hear."

"Oh my God..." Natalia's eyes opened during the kiss, and it was only then that she realized the magnitude of what she had been doing. She shoved Alek away, and she held her head in her hands. "What did I just do? What did you just do? What did we just do?" She gaped at him, shaking her head. She stood up, walking towards the edge of the roof. She had to get out of there. Anywhere was fine, just as long as he wasn't there.

"Nat, you know that-"

"I know that I have a boyfriend, and that's all that matters." She was still in shock. How could she have been so stupid? "And you knew that. You still kissed me, and you knew that."

"I'm not the only one to blame." His lips went into a thin line. Alek folded his arms over his chest. He was walling himself up so that he didn't have to deal with the pain that was coming. Kissing her was stupid, but he hadn't cared at the time. He had wanted to be with her so badly that all that mattered was that one kiss. He had ruined it, and now it wouldn't have been able to be fixed. But then again, she had kissed him back, and the both of them were fully-aware of that. She didn't even know why she had done it. Her mind started to race as fast as her heartbeats with questions like, "What if I had feelings for him? What if he was better for me than Sebastian? Why did I kiss him back?"

"Well, it was a mistake." She jumped off the edge of the roof, landing swiftly on the ground. She took off running, without even glancing back. Chloe had come to attention from the sound, and she saw Alek standing on the roof, alone. "Where's Nat?"

He didn't say a single word. He had his mouth opened, but nothing was coming out. A mistake. That's all that it was, and all that it ever would be to her. Chloe walked in front of him, and he wouldn't even look at her. His eyes were fixated on the spot where Natalia had been only a few moments ago. She had to have had feelings for him. Why else would she have kissed him back? Suddenly, the expression of confusion on the Uniter's face morphed into horror. There was only one explanation for this.

"Alek, what did you do?"

Every time Sebastian looked at her with his green eyes, she could only see Alek's brown ones. She could have worn that his French accent had turned into an English one more than once. She couldn't get Alek off her mind. "Hm?" She asked him. She hadn't heard what he had said. There was no possible way that she could pay attention now.

"I asked you how Uniter duty was last night."

"It was fine." She mumbled, toying with her coffee cup. The guilt was burning inside of her. How was she supposed to tell Sebastian that she kissed Alek?

"Was Alek there?"

She looked up at him with a panicked expression. "Uh...yeah. He was." Did he know anything? Was she letting on to it? She stopped fiddling with her coffee cup, and acted like she was paying complete attention to him. "Um...Seb...I have to tell you something."

He looked up at her with a puzzled expression, raising one of his eyebrows. "Sure."

"...I...Alek...he...Alek kissed me, Seb."

"What?" His voice cracked because he was in so much shock. There was no way that this was happening. He balled his fists under the table, trying to keep himself from knocking it over.

"I know you're mad, and I-"

"I'm not mad at you, ma belle." He was going to snap Alek's neck. Shove him off the San Francisco bridge. Crack every single one of his ribs, one by one. "You told me, and that's the only thing that matters." Obviously, he was afraid that something was going to happen to their relationship. He saw Alek as the clear competition now, and nothing else. He sat back in his chair, with his mind in as many places as hers was. He trusted her, he just didn't trust Alek. He glanced at his watch from the corner of his eye. He was too uncomfortable about everything to even think straight. "I have to go."

"What's wrong?" They had set aside this time just so that they could see each other with any interruptions.

"I forgot that I had Uniter duty. With Jasmine. You know." He shrugged, grabbing his leather jacket off the back of the chair. They both stood up, and he kissed her goodbye. He definitely didn't have Uniter duty, and the both of them knew that.

Because Chloe's house was the opposite way he was walking.

Sebastian wasn't going to play nice anymore. He was sick of it. Now Alek had crossed the line, there was no doubt about it. "PETROV!" His voice echoed into the park. He knew that Alek was here. His car was parked by the sidewalk. Seb punched the windows out of the white Camaro, making the sirens blare into the night.

"What the fuck, Sebastian!" Alek ran over to him, running his hands through his hair.

"Stay the hell away from my girlfriend, you son of a bitch." He spat, connecting his fist with Alek's jaw.

Alek was more than ready for a fight. He had been preparing since day one, and now he couldn't wait to make Sebastian regret ever setting foot in San Francisco. He grabbed him by the collar, dragging him to the ground. "YOU ARE SUCH A DOUCHEBAG! I AM SO SICK OF YOU BEING HERE!" Alek screamed, hitting Sebastian in the face harder with each word. "You know that she belongs with me!"

The French Mai shoved Alek off him, and then pinned him against a tree. His knee met with Alek's abdomen multiple times, blowing against his rib cage. He knew that he had cracked at least one. Only twenty-three to go. "You missed out on your chance. And you are never, ever going to get another one." He growled, slamming Alek against the tree.

By then, a significant number of people had come outside from the shops because they heard the sound of Alek's car sirens. Conveniently, the clothing store that Chloe worked at was one of the shops. "What's the dea-...oh my God, that's Alek's car!" Chloe yelled, running across the street.

Alek's pupils narrowed, and his claws sprung out. He slashed at Sebastian's chest, ripping his shirt open. Blood poured from both of their wounds, but there was no way that either of them were giving up until one of them got what they deserved. Seb's claws protracted, and he made a quick swipe at Alek's face.

Chloe ran over to them, pulling Sebastian off Alek before he could cause any more damage. "What's gotten into the both of you!"

By then, the adrenaline flow in their systems had stopped, and all they felt was pain. They couldn't even open their mouths to make a sound, except for wincing. Alek wanted to curl up on his side to make the pain go away, but his broken rib was preventing him from even moving. At least of three of Sebastian's fingers were fractured from all the force he used to hit Alek. There were three slash marks on Sebastian's chest, and they were all pouring vast amounts of blood. Chloe took off his shirt, and used it to try to stop the bleeding while she called an ambulance. They were both pulling at the grass by their hands in pure agony, just trying to grip onto something. The worst part was that they didn't even pass out to numb the pain. Their eyes were wide open, just staring at the sky above them.

"I picked up the bird and above the dim I said,

'That's the last song you'll ever sing'

Held him down, broke his neck

Taught him a lesson he wouldn't forget."

Okay, so this chapter is set up a little differently in terms of the lyric that I put in the beginning, but this song fits so well at all the parts I decided to put a few more in!

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