And now for chapter 11
Thank you all so much for the reviews! I appreciate each and every one of them!
Unfortunately, this story is soon coming to a close. I'm predicting three more chapters after this. Maybe four. Five max. But I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate everyone who read the story, who reviewed the story, who helped me think of ideas. I am eternally grateful
Also, later in the chapter (you'll see when) there is a song accompanying a scene. It's "Feeling Good" by Michael Bublé.
Anyways, without further ado, here's chapter 11
Alek looked down at his girlfriend with such pride. He couldn't believe how lucky he was. He had yet to figure out what he had done to deserve the opportunity to call this angel his.
The two lovebirds were walking down the hallway hand in hand. Recently, the school's social website had deemed these two the hottest commodity. They always looked perfect together. Sometimes, even when they didn't notice it, the two of them matched in clothing. No one pointed it out to them, but some people would mention it to their friends, just point and smile at the adorable couple. When Amy noticed this, and she always noticed it, she would tug on Paul's sleeve and whisper "isn't that just too cute?".
Ever since Chloe had become Alek's girlfriend, her popularity had slowly started to rise. She wasn't becoming a mean girl, but, whenever they'd walk down the hall together, Alek would notice how at least five people, boys and girls, would smile at Chloe and say hello. But, what Alek admired the most about the entire scenario was that, while she could totally forget about Amy and Paul and continue to rise in the ranks, she decided to ignore all of these new acquaintances and remained best friends with only Amy and Paul. This meant that Alek was being dragged along for the ride. But he didn't mind one bit.
Most people had already grown accustomed to the couple. The girls that pined for Alek had eventually given up, realizing that they were just completely in love with his appearance and the idea of being popular. I mean, they weren't blind. They all saw how Alek looked at Chloe. If they were to break up tomorrow, Alek would sulk for months and not even think of taking a girl for a rebound or even to make Chloe jealous. It was a lost cause so the girls just let it go.
Well, most of the girls.
There was one girl. Her name was Chelsea. She was the head cheerleader. She was the classic head cheerleader that you would see in all of those movies, the ones where the girls like Chelsea were the means girls and ended up losing in the end. She wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. She had long straight blonde hair and always walked in the middle of the hallway with her posy behind her, expecting the student body to part for her like the red sea. Most of the time, they did. But not because they admired her or respected her. She was just such a pain in the ass that they did everything they could to simply not deal with her.
Chelsea had proclaimed herself Alek's soul mate, simply based on stereotypes and clichés. She had figured that Alek's infatuation with this Chloe King girl was simply to get her in bed and then dump her. She gave them a week. Almost two weeks had gone by, and she was growing less and less patient each and every day. She was tired of hearing all of the rubbish about those two being the perfect couple. Today, she had had the final straw.
"Alek, baby!" She strutted up to Alek and Chloe, followed by her army of clones.
Alek and Chloe simply exchanged looks of both confusion and amusement. This ought to be good…
"Um… Can I help you?" Alek glanced around to make sure that he wasn't going completely insane and hallucinating, hoping that there was another Alek in the hallway
"Alek, baby. You know what I'm here for."
"I honestly having no clue…" Alek had decided that it wasn't he who was insane, but Chelsea. Although most people already knew that. "Feel free to enlighten me though, I'm insanely curious." His usage of sarcasm seemed to go over Chelsea's head.
"Alek, I know that you've been going through a phase but it's been two weeks. You can come back to me now. You know that we belong together." Chelsea tried to be seductive, but, honestly, this entire scenario looked so pathetic.
Chloe had been trying to hold in a giggle for a few minutes now, but that statement mixed with Alek's "What the hell?" expression pushed Chloe over the line. She gave a burst of laughter, but silenced herself immediately.
Chelsea heard Chloe laugh and snapped her head towards her. She walked up closer to her in an attempt to seem menacing. The attempt resulted in a fail, however, although Chelsea couldn't see that.
"And what do you think is so funny?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." Chloe responded while trying so hard not to burst into a fit of giggles. She felt Alek squeeze her hand and stole a glance at him only find him on the edge of laughter just like her.
"Let me make this clear, King." She made a point of stressing Chloe's name, once again in a vain attempt to sound intimidating. "Alek Petrov is mine. You better back off."
"Aw, it's so adorable how delusional you are, Chels!" Chloe was pushing a button or two by calling her what her "friends" call her. This may have seemed like an extremely bitchy thing to say according to someone who hadn't gone to their school or didn't have an insight of the life of the surrounding students. However, to those who did attend this particular high school, the fact that Chloe had said that to Chelsea caused everyone to smile inwardly and think finally.
Chelsea's mouth drops open in shock. It takes her a few seconds to regain herself, partially because she was trying to think of some witty retort. When she failed to do that, she turned towards Alek and resorted to her back up plan.
"Alek, sweetheart, please tell her the truth. It'll hurt less now than it will later. You know that you belong with me!" Chelsea was practically whining.
"Actually, I don't. I completely and utterly belong to Chloe." Alek had let go of Chloe's hand and instead snaked his arm around her waist, pulling her closer. "I'd say I was sorry. But I'm not." And with that, the two of them continued down their path, leaving a scorned cheerleader who would probably never live this down behind.
Alek and Chloe had separated after he walked her to her class. This was one of the three subjects that they didn't have together. The moment that Alek entered his classroom, he was greeted by various raised eyebrows and smirks from his basketball friends. A few of them must have witnessed the run in with Chelsea this morning, and, if someone hadn't already known about it, he had most definitely already been filled in.
Alek's theory of being accused as being "whipped" was finally about to become a moment in history…
"Well, hello, there, Alek." Matt, one of the only sane jockos, said, wearing a grin that screamed "I know what you've been up to!". "How was your morning?"
"It was fine, thanks…" Alek trailed off, attempting to avoid the inevitable.
"So, Alek," John piped in. While some boys wanted the dance around the subject, he was the one about to get to the point, Alek could feel it. "When were you going to plan on telling us how whipped you were?" Yep, Alek was totally psychic.
Alek just dropped his chin to his chest and shook it, chuckling to himself a little bit. Here we go…
"I thought that it was relatively obvious, didn't you?" He smiled at his "friends". Well, some of them actually were, but half of the guys in the group, which was currently made out of six, were just sort of there…
Tyler used to be the seventh. But then, after the entire incident with Chloe, the guys on the team backed Alek up and began to shun him. Alek would occasionally glance over to Tyler and feel a little bit bad for him, but then he remembered how much he scared Chloe and how he had yet to apologize, and the sympathy disappeared in an instant.
"Well, we thought that it was a honeymoon phase. And guys like you don't last in honeymoon phases for more than a week. Unless if they become whipped, of course. Which you are. Totally whipped." Sean put in his two cents.
"You sound like you're trying to convince me that I'm whipped…" even though Alek had just admitted that he was…
"We know, dude. We're just making sure. Double checking, you know?" Mike said.
"Yeah, Alek. So, is 'yes, I am whipped' your final answer?" Sean pushed a little bit, curious for this piece of gossip.
"Yes, it is. I am whipped for—or by, I don't know the correct terminology—Chloe King. Happy?" Alek chuckled again.
"Sure. But, dude, Alek. We just never pictured you to be the 'whipped' kind of guy…" Matt declared.
"Don't worry, I never did either. But, trust me, with a girl as amazing as Chloe, you would be completely okay with proclaiming yourself whipped." With a last smile to his teammates and the entrance of the teacher, the conversation was over. And Alek could now live his life in peace. He'd probably endure more teasing for this later, but, for now, all was good.
It was around 6:30 in the King household when Chloe ran downstairs, dressed in white skinny jeans, black ankle boots with about a one inch heel and an off the shoulder top that was a soft green and was quite loose, paired with a white belt in the middle of it.
Alek had decided that, since it was, after all, a Friday night, the two of them should head out on a date. Chloe knew that he had something up his sleeves, but he just wouldn't tell her. He said that he wanted to surprise her.
"Hey, mom?"
"I'm on the patio!" Chloe made her way towards her mother, who was looking up at the stars admirably. "Doesn't the sky just look beautiful tonight?"
"Yeah, it really does." Chloe and Meredith stood there in silence for a minute, looking at the stars, before Chloe spoke up. "I'm going out with Alek tonight, if that's alright with you…" She knew that it was, her mother had fallen in love with her boyfriend, platonically, thank goodness, but there was no harm in asking.
"Of course, sweetheart! That's not a problem at all! Just be back by midnight! When is he coming to pick you up?"
"In about half an hour."
"Nice. Where is he taking you?"
"I have no idea. He said that he wanted to 'surprise me'," Chloe mocked.
"Oh, surprises! Surprises are always fun! And I'm sure with someone like Alek, you two will have one romantic Friday evening!" Meredith nudged her daughter, excited for her and her luck in her love life.
"I don't know about that. I'm kind of nervous…"
"Are you sure that it's not Alek making you nervous?"
"Mom, please. He and I have been dating for two weeks and have been friends and have been hanging out for almost two months. I'm pretty sure that I have surpassed the whole 'being nervous around him' phase."
"Oh, honey, please. When I was still dating your father, I would get nervous for any date with him, even if it wasn't a surprise, and even after we had been dating for over a year. Trust me, that rush of butterflies you get, it never gets old and it never goes away." Meredith smiled at her daughter.
"Good. I'm kind of beginning to like those butterflies."
The two King girls spent the rest of the time before Alek showed up outside looking at the sky. Finally, the doorbell rang, and Chloe jumped with anticipation.
"Don't forget your jacket, and tell Alek I say 'hi'!" Meredith called out as Chloe was making her way towards the door, grabbing her black leather jacket and her phone on the way out.
"Okay, mom. Love you, bye!"
"Implied!"
Chloe came to the door and took a deep breath while she walked, even though she knew that it wouldn't help her calm down, especially since Alek would hear her. She then opened to door to be greeted by practically the same sight that had greeted her the night before. And the butterflies from last night came back, too.
Alek was glad in one if his tight shirts, again. This one was white and had a few buttons on the tops, three of which were unbuttoned. He was wearing dark jeans, lighter than the ones he wore yesterday, but dark nonetheless.
"Hey, there, handsome." Chloe stepped out of her house and closed the door before she reached up and pecked Alek on the lips.
In response, he took her hand and led her to the passenger seat of his car. It still seemed weird to Chloe that Alek had a car, since she was so used to seeing him walk everywhere.
"At the risk of sounding redundant, I must say you look quite lovely, love." This made Chloe blush and look down.
Suddenly, she lost the warmth of Alek's hand in hers. She looked up to see what he was doing and saw him pull out a piece of black fabric from his back pocket. Chloe stared at it for a moment before managing to put two and two together.
"No, no, no, no, no. There is no way in hell, Alek Petrov, that you are blindfolding me. No way."
"Oh, come on, Chloe. Please?" Alek begged. "I promise that I won't hurt you and I promise that you will love it!"
Chloe looked at Alek hesitantly. He looked like such a little boy for a moment, pleading with slightly puppy dog eyes that Chloe couldn't stand to say no.
"Ugh, fine." Chloe sighed. She saw Alek's face light up as she turned around so that he could place the blindfold over her eyes and tie a knot in the back of her head.
Once Alek was sure that the blindfold was secure, he let his hands fall down as they ran along Chloe's arms, sending a noticeable shiver down her spine. He leaned down and placed a gentle kiss on her neck and mumbled a "thank you" into her ear before he gently led her into the car.
The car ride was relatively silent, most of the dialogue consisting of Chloe asking where they were going and Alek simply responding with a chuckle and a "we'll be there soon".
Finally, after what seemed like forever, Chloe could feel the car come to a stop. Before Chloe even had time to unbuckl her seatbelt, due to her having no idea where it was, Alek was already waiting for her with an open door. Chloe carefully made her way out of the car. She then heard Alek close her door before speaking up.
"Alright, Romeo. Lead the way." Chloe stuck out her hand, waiting for Alek to take it and show her wherever they were. Instead, she was caught by surprise to feel Alek's hand around her back and under her knees, lifting her up into his arms as Chloe squealed. "Alek! What the hell?" she giggled.
"Trust me, it would take much longer for us to get to the place if you walked blindly than if I just carried you there."
Chloe felt herself being carried up a flight of stairs as she secured her arms around Alek's neck and rested her head on his shoulder. She felt her feet touch the ground momentarily as she heard Alek pulling out a set of keys and unlocking a door before taking Chloe back up into his arms, kicking the door closed behind him. She felt him walk a little bit more before he set her down one final time.
"We're here. Just hold on one minute." Alek said as he rummaged through the set of keys again to open yet another door. Chloe heard the click of the lock and felt Alek's hand on the small of her back, pushing her forward. "Here we are."
Chloe reached behind her head to untie the blindfold, but what she in front of her was the last thing that she ever expected.
Alek had taken her to a dancing studio, and he had set it up just for her.
The lights were turned off, but candles colored red, orange and yellow surrounded all four walls. The room was a moderate size. It had light brown flooring and there was one wall that was entirely full of mirrors. There was also a stereo resting in the corner. It was beautiful.
"Alek, this is…" Chloe couldn't find the right word to describe it all. "You did this all for me?"
"No, I did this for my other girlfriend, but she bailed on me last minute, so I brought you here instead." Chloe turned around to see Alek smiling, no, beaming at her. She shot him a playful glare before continuing deeper into the room to admire it.
"How in the world did you manage this?"
"A friend of Valentina's owns this place. He's a pretty cool guy, kind of fell into the role of that crazy uncle to me. So, I asked him for a favor and… viola."
"This is absolutely magnificent. But, what are we doing her?"
"I," Alek approached Chloe seductively, "am going to teach you how to tango." Alek then pulled out a remote control from his back pocket and pressed play, resulting in smooth music beginning to play. "May I have this dance?" Alek slowly bowed and offered Chloe her hand.
The moment she placed her hand in his, he pulled her quickly into him, so that their bodies were pressed against each other in all possible places. He put his other hand right underneath Chloe's shoulder blade as she put hers on Alek's shoulder, right on the edge were his arm started.
"Just follow my lead," Alek spoke quietly and huskily before he began to lead Chloe.
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me
Alek gently pushed Chloe forward, left foot, then right foot. Chloe wanted to look down at her feet to make sure that they were going in the right place, but she was captivated by Alek's intense gaze that she couldn't seem to tear her eyes away from him.
And I'm feeling good
Suddenly Alek jerked Chloe to his left, lowering her just a bit, before pulling her abruptly towards a standing position once again. He pushed them forward just a few more steps before take a sharp spin, practically lifting Chloe off of her feet.
I'm feeling good
She was drifting while she was dancing with him, lost in a daze of sensuality. Chloe had rapidly fallen in love with the tango, mostly because she loved being flush against Alek's chest. She also seemed to fall into even deeper love with Alek. She loved this side of him, the suave man. She loved this dominant side of him, how he looked down to her with a look that told her that he's got everything under control.
Fish in the sea, you know how I feel.
River running free, you know how I feel
Blossom on the tree, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me
Alek lead Chloe around the room, stepping and turning sharply. He could feel the electricity and adrenaline running between himself and Chloe. He loved the sense of having her in his arms. He loved the feeling that he was the one in control and that he was showing Chloe how to do what so she couldn't fight back and take the control away from him. He loved the sense of having Chloe be dependent on him and how she allowed him to lead her and silently tell her what to do. He loved dancing with her.
And I'm feeling good
Alek abruptly let go of his hold on Chloe's back and pushed her straight backwards, causing Chloe to drop in a dip. He then, just as sharply, pulled her back into position, causing her hair to fly all over the place, some landing in her face and some brushing on Alek's face and resting in a disarray on her shoulders. Alek couldn't remember the last time he had ever seen something so sexy.
Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done, that's what I mean
And this old world is a new world and a bold world for me
The tempo sped up a little bit, causing Alek to lead Chloe around the room at a quicker pace. Sometimes, when he'd make a turn or spin the two of them around, they were so sudden that Chloe's feet actually left the ground. This resulted in Alek pushing Chloe's chest closer to his, something that Chloe was definitely not complaining about.
For me
Alek let Chloe out to spin her around various times. He loved how her hair flew in the air, lagging behind a bit because of its length, once again making its way onto Chloe's face. He sharply reeled Chloe back in dipped her to side, letting her hang in his arms for a moment, staring into her eyes, which held a slightly startled emotion, before slowly pulling her back into a standing position.
Stars when you shine, you know how I feel
Scent of the pine, you know how I feel
Oh, freedom is mine, and I know how I feel
Alek's hand lowered from under Chloe's shoulder to the side of her waist. He then swung her and lunged to the side. Chloe caught along, having seen a few films with the tango in it. She swung on leg over Alek's which was bent and slowly dragged her other leg behind, kicking it up and crossing her legs. She was now sitting on Alek's thigh, smirking at him, showing him that she wasn't completely clueless in the art of the tango.
Alek smirked back, proud of his girl and slowly bent Chloe backwards to that her back and thighs were horizontal to the ground while her legs remained crossed on Alek's thigh.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life
Alek slowly let Chloe move her way upwards, maintaining eye contact with such passion that anyone else would feel like they've intruded in the most private moment possible. Which they would have.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life
Alek had had enough of Chloe's slow climb to a straight position, so he jerked her upwards, allowing her to flow out of his arms, but remaining hand in hand. He then quickly reeled her back in.
It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good
Once Chloe was securely back in his arms, he didn't even give her a chance to regain her steps as he dipped her to the side once again. Chloe leaned her head downwards, exposing her neck towards Alek. He then leaned down to place a soft kiss on Chloe's skin, not being able to let the opportunity slip away.
I feel so good, I feel so good.
Chloe then tilted her head back up to Alek, looking into his eyes with an intense stare. As the music faded out, Alek and Chloe remained in this position, gazing into each other's eyes, not saying a word as they slowly began to catch their breaths.
All too soon, it was over, and Alek pulled Chloe back up into a standing position. Neither of them moved out of the other's hold, neither of them spoke a word. They stood in silence, simply listening to each other regain their breath and listening to each other's heartbeats begin to slow down a bit.
"That was…" Chloe began, but she couldn't find the proper word to describe how she felt at the moment. Or how she felt about dancing with Alek. Saying that it felt absolutely magnificent and wonderful would do injustice to her feelings. It would be the understatement of the century.
For the next hour or two, Alek and Chloe danced a little bit more around the room. They goofed off occasionally, he chased her if she teased him, resulting in a tickling fight or in a wrestling match, where Alek would always end up winning, but would make Chloe feel better by chastely kissing her each and every time.
Alek had continued teaching Chloe how to tango, only doing so for a few songs, but no dance was as sensual and as personal as the first one. Alek also decided to teach Chloe the waltz, where Chloe caught along quite quickly. However, when Alek tried to show Chloe how to do the fox trot or any other extremely fast paced dances, that would result in more laughter than dancing, as Chloe would somehow manage to either trip over her feet or to step on Alek's. All in all, it was a perfect date.
All too soon, the dancing had to come to an end. Alek began blowing out the candles and Chloe helped.
"What should we do with them?" Chloe asked once it had become completely dark in the room.
"Leave them. They're always here, just in case, for special occasions. Like this one. James is always prepared." Chloe figured James was the Mai who owned the dance studio as Alek led her out of the room.
Suddenly, Alek pulled the blindfold out of his pocket once again, earning himself a raised eyebrow from his girlfriend.
"Really? Again?" Chloe crossed her arms.
"Oh, come on, did this surprise hurt? Just one more!" Alek pleaded with her once again. Soon, Chloe gave in and allowed Alek to tie the blindfold at the back of her head once again. She once again expected to be simply lead somewhere by Alek, but was not as surprised as the first time when Alek picked her up in his arms.
She felt him move for a minute, stop for about fifteen seconds and then move another three or four steps before stopping once again. After about another fifteen seconds, Chloe became curious concerning the lack of Alek moving.
"Alek?"
"Yes, Chloe?"
"You're not moving…"
"We're in an elevator."
"In that case, you can put me down."
"I don't want to." Chloe could hear Alek's genuine smile through his voice.
"I love you." She whispered to him.
"I love you."
There was a pause in the conversation before Chloe spoke up.
"How come you don't say the 'too' part?"
"Because I want you to know that it's not just a response."
Chloe could feel her heart melt inside of her and herself melt in his arms and she rested her head on his shoulders and snuggled a little bit closer to him. She then felt Alek press his lips to her forehead, making her smile to herself even more.
The rest of the ride, which was much longer than Chloe would have expected it to be, was spent in a comfortable and sweet silence. Chloe felt the elevator stop and Alek began walking. He soon placed Chloe gently on the ground, keeping his hand on her back as he rummaged through his set of keys again and opened another door.
"Alright, we're basically there," Alek said as he took Chloe's hands in his and slowly led her. She felt a rush of cold wind, making her shiver a little bit, although she wasn't entirely sure that that was from just the wind.
After what seemed like forever, she felt Alek's fingers on the back of her head, undoing the knot of the blindfold. Once the fabric slipped off of her eyes, Chloe gasped in awe.
The sight before her was absolutely stunning. They were on the rooftop of a high rise, looking out over San Francisco. Chloe hadn't realized that the dance studio was on the bottom floor, but that would explain the long elevator ride.
It was one of the only places in the center of the city where you could see the stars. And boy, were they bright tonight. Along with the full moon, everything was perfect. Chloe could stare at the sky for ages, just like she had with her mother a few hours ago. And she was so happy that she could share this view with Alek.
As she turned to Alek to thank him and to praise him for his romantic bone, her eye caught a light over his shoulder. When she paid more attention to it, she saw that it was a picnic set up. The blanket was the classic white and red checkered kind. There were a few pillows lying around to make sitting on the hard surface of the roof more comfortable. Once again, there was no lighting. Just the candles surrounding the blanket, the sky and the city. There was a woven picnic basket in the middle of the blanket, awaiting the two lovers.
"Alek…" Chloe couldn't finish her sentence, she didn't know with what to finish it. But she didn't have to. She figured that Alek understood what she was trying to convey when she saw him blushing just a little bit, something that he obviously trying to hide.
"Shall we eat?" Alek said, gesturing towards the picnic. Chloe simply nodded in response, allowing Alek to lead her to it.
They took a seat on the blanket, easing themselves onto the pillows. Alek then opened the picnic basket and produced two different sandwiches.
"I know it's not much of a dinner, but I didn't exactly want the food to be attacked by bugs, so prepackaging had to be used…"
"Alek, don't worry about it." Chloe placed her hand on Alek's wrist in a relieving manner. "It's perfect."
Alek simply smiled in response and handed a sandwich to Chloe. He then pulled out two bottles of strawberry soda, surprising Chloe, to say the least.
"How did you know that that's my favorite drink?" Chloe exclaimed.
"Well, I'd say that it was a lucky guess, but, in truth, I got Amy to tell me." Alek smiled sheepishly, earning himself a chuckled from Chloe.
She took the bottle of soda from Alek and found herself somehow falling even deeper in love with the boy than she thought possible.
Their dinner was full of witty banter and talk of endless subjects that never really mattered. It was such easy conversation, even Alek was surprised. He had never felt so comfortable with anyone like this ever since his parents died and his adoptive parents shunned him. Well, maybe sometimes, with Jasmine or Valentina, but even with that in mind, the fluidity of the conversation with Chloe astonished him.
When it came time for dessert, Alek managed to surprise Chloe once more as he pulled out two pieces of chocolate cake.
"You thought of everything, didn't you?"
"Chloe, I've been planning this date for over a week now." Alek smiled, causing Chloe to erupt in laughter, titling her head back and looking at him once again with a smile. Alek's gaze was still on her, which made her smile laughter turn into a smile of blushing. "To our two week anniversary." Chloe's heart melted once again and the two of them clinked their soda bottles and drank some of the remaining liquid.
Once their dinner was done, Alek put all of the trash back into the basket and blew out all of the candles. He then lay back on the blanket and pillows and opened his arms, inviting Chloe to come and snuggle into him. Which is exactly what she did.
"So, where are we, exactly?"
"See that blue building right over there?" Alek pointed to a building that, when Chloe raised her head to see, seemed to be about four or five blocks away from the one that they were on. "That's the building where my apartment is." Chloe simply nodded in understanding.
Chloe settled back into her boyfriend's arms and began to enjoy the stars again.
She still couldn't wrap her mind around the fact that Alek was her boyfriend. If someone had told her two years ago that she would fall in love with the cocky new blonde British boy that almost instantly was sucked into the whirlwind of high school popularity, she would have been convinced that that person should be committed to a mental institution. But now, she was doing the farthest thing from complaining about it. She had a beautiful, protective, intelligent, loving and caring boyfriend and she honestly couldn't ask for anything more.
Alek's mind was on the same train. Had someone told him two years that he would fall in love with the girl that was friends with Crazy Amy and the comic-obsessed boy, he would have stared at them as if they were a dancing lollipop from Pluto. He would have deemed it impossible. But he still couldn't believe that he had gotten this lucky with such a perfect girlfriend, and he thanked Bastet every day for the chance to love her.
Unfortunately, the night soon had to come to an end. It was almost 11:30 and Chloe had to be home by midnight.
Once Alek drove up to Chloe's house, he got out of the car to open the door for Chloe and walk her to the door. However, Chloe was still not used to the chivalry that Alek would constantly express.
Alek had to jump and slide over the front of his car in order to make it in time to open Chloe's door. He bought himself some time as well, as Chloe's jaw dropped due to the shock of seeing Alek doing something so spy-like and smooth. It was a move she could swear she'd only seen in a James Bond film or something along those lines.
"Show off," she muttered as Alek opened the door for her, smirking at her. He then placed his arm around her shoulders and put his hand on Chloe's upper arm, pulling her closer to him. Once they were right in front of Chloe's door, Alek turned towards her.
"So, I'm just going to go clean up a bit at the studio and I should be in your room in about an hour."
"Oh, Alek, you should have let me help you clean up there!"
"Don't worry about it, love. I don't mind cleaning it up. It shouldn't take that long."
"You're the perfect gentleman, you know," Chloe whispered as she stepped closer to Alek and placed her hands on his chest, looking up towards him in anticipation of a kiss.
"I've been told," Alek replied smugly before placing his hands on her hips and lowering his lips onto hers.
This kiss was unlike any other kiss that they had shared. It was delicate but passionate. Their tongues didn't ensue in a battle for dominance, but they lit each other's lips on fire.
It all ended too quickly, unfortunately, when they heard Meredith open the door. They instantly pulled apart, leaving them both blushing.
"It's exactly midnight. Punctual. Good job, Alek." Meredith smiled at the two kids. Not smugly, and not with accusation, but genuinely.
"Hi, Ms. King." Alek spoke shyly. That's not something you encounter every day. "We'll, I'll be off, then." Alek turned to Chloe as Meredith averted her gaze. "Chloe, I had a wonderful time. Thank you." He leaned down to place a soft and quick kiss on Chloe's lips.
"Thank you for taking me." Chloe smiled up at him.
"Good night, Ms. King."
"Good night, Alek." And, with that, he was on his way, leaving Chloe to turn to her mother and raise a brow.
"Mom, be honest. Were you spying on me?"
"Chloe, you know I wouldn't. And, honestly, if I had been, I wouldn't have interrupted your kiss. Although someone would have had to eventually, or you'd be standing out here all night."
"Mom!"
"What? I said I didn't spy! I just… heard his car pull up, that's all!"
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say." Chloe smiled at her mother as she made her way into the house.
"Oh, so, I just wanted to let you know that I won't be here when you wake up tomorrow. I'm not going anywhere for long, I'm just going on an overnight trip to LA and I have to be at the train station at seven in the morning. I'm sorry I've been skipping out on you so much lately." Meredith tucked a loose strand of hair behind her daughter's ear.
"Don't worry about it, mom. I totally understand. I'm just glad that things are going really well at work for you."
"Thanks, sweetie." They stood there silently for a moment, smiling at each other. "Well, anyways, I'm going off to bed. I've got a long day tomorrow. Good night, Chloe! Love you!"
"Implied. Have fun!" And with that, both King girls went off to bed, one falling asleep and the other waiting for her prince charming.
Chloe and Alek spent the night simply cuddling together under the covers, whispering sweet nothings into each other's ear until they fell asleep. It was the perfect end to the perfect evening.
Chloe awoke to an empty bed, but had a feeling that Alek was downstairs in the kitchen. He wouldn't leave her house without leaving her a note of some sort. Or at least one red rose, since that seemed to be their little signal now.
Chloe stretched and yawned before finally getting out of bed, brushing her teeth and making her way downstairs. The sight that greeted her both made her smile and frightened her a bit at the same time.
Alek was shirtless and clad only in his boxers, showing off his chest and his legs perfectly, but his face was rigid. Angry, even. He looked as if he was reading something that he really didn't like.
He must have heard Chloe come downstairs and turned to face her. The smile on her face immediately disappeared.
"What the hell is this?" Alek said, holding up a piece of paper.
Chloe recognized it to be the letter she had gotten earlier in the week from Brian.
Shit.
CLIFF HANGER
Woot! 6,500 words! Wow, that's a long chapter. I hope that that makes up for all of the spontaneous delays recently! Or at least starts to…
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