Author's Note: So yeah, I uploaded fast this time. I have nothing to do, well actually I do. I should be reviewing for my exam tomorrow but here I am updating this one. So another oneshot up, some characters from Grey's Anatomy (specifically Izzie, Mark and Derek) will appear but they have small parts only. I decided to do another one soon because when if I will not update, the idea will be gone from my anyway, I should stop with the ramblings, go read. Enjoy! Oh by the way, this is AU. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone or anything from here.

"I can be your hero, baby

I can kiss away the pain

I will stand by you forever

You can take my breath away."

~ Hero by Enrique Iglesias~

-Kindergarten Days-

"Haha! Look at her, always crying. Bohoo, mommy, mommy! Haha" said a blonde kid to a little girl.

The little girl just keeps on crying and the blonde kid and his friends were just laughing and throwing crumpled papers at her until a boy came and pushed the blonde kid.

"Hey! You shouldn't do that!" said the newly arrived kid.

"Did you just push me? You want to fight, huh?!" shouted the blonde kid.

The two of them started to fight, not noticing the teacher approaching them until she separated the two.

"Now, kids what did I say about fighting? Both of you will have a time out, go," said the teacher.

"But Miss, it's not my fault. He just came to us then pushed me," pouted the blonde kid.

"Alex, I know you're just new here but you can't just pick fights with other kids," explained the teacher.

"But Miss, I didn't start it. I'm telling the truth," argued Alex.

"He's not, he's lying," said the blonde kid.

"No, Alex is twelling the twuth," mumbled the little girl.

The blonde kid and his friends heard this and then glared at her. They thought that their teacher didn't hear her but she did.

"What did you say Addison?" asked the teacher to the crying little girl.

"I was pwaying here, then they just stawted thwowing things at me. All those cwumpled papers, they threw those at me. Then Alex just defended me," explained Addison.

When she finished explaining, the teacher looked at the blonde kid and she can see in their eyes that what Addison said was true. The teacher asked them to go inside so that she can talk to them. While the teacher was ushering the children inside, Alex went near to Addison.

"Are you okay now?" asked Alex.

"Yeah, I'm fwine now. Thank you," answered Addison.

"Sure. Uhm, do you want to go inside already?" asked Alex.

"No, I still want to play here," said Addison.

"Okay then, see you inside," Alex said, walking towards their room but still keeping an eye on the little girl.

After a few minutes, the teacher called those kids who were still outside. When they were all inside now, the teacher gave them coloring materials for their activity. She explained to them what they have to make, they have to make a card for their parents. When the materials were given to them, they started working on their cards. When the teacher was roaming around the room, she noticed Alex wasn't doing anything.

"Is there anything wrong Alex? Do you still need colors or papers?" asked the teacher to the young boy.

"Uhm, no, the materials are okay," answered Alex.

"Then why don't you proceed with your card making?" asked the teacher again.

"Well, can I not give it to my parents? Or can I just make a card but not for them? They won't even read it, they'll probably throw it away or something," mumbled Alex.

Sensing the discomfort of her student on that topic, the teacher allowed Alex to make a card for another person. When Alex heard that, he smiled and then started to draw on his blank paper. Seeing her student working already, the teacher left him alone to and continued roaming around. By the end of the period, every kid in the room showed their cards to their teacher and then they all ran outside to the playground. The teacher noticed Alex still sitting in his seat, looking intently in his card so she approached him.

"Is there something wrong with your card, Alex?" the teacher asked him.

"Nope, it's fine. But I'm not sure if I want to give it," said Alex.

"Why? Can I look at it?" asked the teacher again.

After a few seconds Alex gave the card to her. When she saw to whom Alex will give his card, she smiled and told him to give it to her.

"All of your efforts will be put into waste if you don't give it to her. And maybe that card will make her happy," said the teacher, giving back the card to Alex.

Alex picked the card and went outside, looking around for that certain little girl. When he saw her, he walked slowly to her and stopped in front of her. The girl stopped building sand castles when a shadow was blocking her sight. She looked up and smiled when she saw Alex.

"Hey, Alex! Want to pway with me?" asked Addison.

"Uhm, here," said Alex, giving Addison his card.

Addison reached for it and slowly opened the card. She read the card, and was smiling all throughout. Alex was looking at her, waiting for her reaction. Then she closed it, and looked at Alex with that very wide smile and blue smiling eyes. Alex can't help but to smile also.

"Come on, let's play," said Addison, tugging at Alex's hand, the hand of that kid who wrote her a card saying he'll always protect and be there for her.

-High School Days-

"Hey Addie!" shouted a guy running in the corridor, trying to avoid bumping to the people.

Hearing her name, she stopped walking then waited for the person to appear. And when he did, he nearly collided with her.

"Oops, sorry," said Alex.

"Could you please be more careful, and stop yelling," said Addison.

"Okay, okay. No need to lecture me. What's your next class?" asked Alex.

"It's been four months Alex and you still don't know my schedule?" Addison asked.

"Why would he memorize your schedule? He's not your boyfriend," said someone beside Alex.

"Oh, hey Iz, uh, Addison this is Izzie, she's the cheer captain. Izzie, this is Addison, she's –" said Alex but was cut off by a guy behind Izzie.

"A geek!" laughed the guy, Jackson, who was in the football team with Alex.

Seeing all of Alex's teammates in the football laugh, Addison was almost in tears. She expectantly looked at Alex to do something, but what she saw shocked her. He was also laughing with them, and then she was more shocked when Izzie kissed him on the lips. Addison dropped her things on the floor which made them laugh even more. Some went away chanting 'geek' until they reached their respective rooms. Alex was left alone with Addison, looked around and then helped his friend with her things but she just slapped his hand.

"What the hell, Adds?! I'm helping you here, you know," said Alex, rubbing the hand that was slapped.

"Really? You're helping me? Well, where were you when they were laughing at me and I needed your help, huh?!" shouted Addison.

"Geez, I thought no shouting in the hallway," joked Alex but sensed that Addison was not in the mood for jokes.

"Look, they're my teammates. They're going to tease me all my high school life for that. I mean, they're already teasing me so much right now just because I'm talking to you. Believe me, I'm defending you to them but I can't always do that, it'll ruin my reputation" explained Alex.

"Reputation, huh? Reputation your face! If you don't want to be seen with me talking then don't come near me and I won't talk to you too! It'll make your life easier, no geek around you," said Addison.

"Addison, it's not like that, it's just that—" Alex said but was cut off by Addison.

"Here, take this. I won't be needing that, that's the only thing that keeps me going through my day but now I don't think so," said Addison, throwing Alex a paper, or more like a card.

Alex looked at the retreating figure of his friend and picked up the paper. He felt so guilty with what he did, especially after seeing what Addison threw at him. It was the card that he gave to her back in kindergarten, he also saw marks of teardrops on it.

"I'll always be here for you and don't worry I'll protect you from bad people"

'Damn it,' thought Alex, after reading what he wrote on the card.

All throughout the day, Alex kept on thinking about Addison's face that morning, after what he did to her. He decided to go see her before he go to their football practice. The bell rung and students started to arrange their things so they can go home. Alex ran in order to meet Addison before she went home, as he neared Addison's locker he heard some guys laughing. There in front of Addison's locker was Jackson and his other teammates, they were vandalizing her locker. And then, that's where he saw Izzie, writing GEEK with a red spray paint on it then they all saw Addison. She saw what they did to her locker and then she slapped Izzie that made the blonde girl stop laughing. Jackson snatched Addison's bag and threw all of its content on the ground then stomped in it. Izzie picked up the notebook and then poured water on it. Addison screamed at them, trying to make them stop on ruining her things but some guys were holding her back. Then a loud slap from Izzie made her stop screaming and put Alex out of his reverie. Alex ran to them and when Izzie was about to slap her again, he grabbed Izzie's hand and pushed her out of the way. He punched those guys holding Addison and tackled Jackson. They were just stopped by the principal, telling them to go to his office.

After an hour of waiting, Alex and Jackson were still inside the principal's office and Addison was about to go insane on what's happening then the door opened. The first one to come out was Jackson, glaring at Addison which made her flinch, followed by a smug looking Alex. When Addison saw Alex, she slapped him in the head.

"Ahh! I got beaten up already so no need to beat me up more," said Alex, rubbing his head.

"Oh don't be such a baby! My slap wasn't that hard anyway," said Addison.

"Well, yours might not hurt but Jackson's did. Damn, he can really be a football player," muttered Alex.

"About that, thanks for beating them up for me. Well not really about the beating up part, 'cause even though it's for my honor I don't want you getting in trouble. And you're a part of the football team, which means if you do something stupid you can be kicked out of the varsity, so next time stop beating people up. Okay?" ranted Addison.

"Geez, sure Mom," Alex said sarcastically.

"But seriously Alex, thanks," smiled Addison.

"No problem. Oh, here, I think you might want this back," said Alex, giving back the card.

"It's a bit crumpled now, so yeah, sorry about that," he sheepishly said.

"It's fine, after all I don't expect you to be organized about things," teased Addison.

"Hey!" shouted Alex jokingly.

They were outside the school already when it started raining and neither of them had umbrellas.

"Damn it! Let's just run up until the bus stop!" shouted Alex.

"Can't we just wait for it to pass? We'll get sick!" screamed Addison from the main entrance of their school.

"We'll die from waiting, it might be dark before this stops, come on!" said Alex, who was still running.

"But the card might get wet!" Addison answered back. When Alex heard her answer, he came back and snatched the card from her. Then he dropped it on the puddle near them, which made Addison scream.

"AAAAHH! Alex, why did you do that?!" screeched Addison.

"Aww, my ear! It's a material thing, Add. What matters is what's inside. And I promise you I'll make another card for you with more promises, I'll keep that one, okay? I'm very sure you memorized what's inside anyway," said Alex, holding out his hand for Addison which she took after a few moments of pondering. Together both of them ran and laughed under the rain.

-College Days-

"I can't believe this, I mean how can I have a 99 on my grade?! There must be something wrong with the grading!" screeched Addison.

"Come on Addison, you've been complaining about your grade for hours already. I mean, you should even be happy with it. I got a 59 Addison, a 59! One more point then I should've passed the test!" said Alex.

"Well, it's not my fault you're distracted and what about my 99, huh? One more point and my score's perfect, but no. Damn," answered Addison.

"Let's just go eat, I'm hungry," said Alex, dragging Addison to the cafeteria.

"Fine, fine," sighed Addison.

The two of them have been inseparable since kindergarten and they thought that in college they would have to separate ways but shock came to both of them when they saw each other on their homeroom. Now, they've been closer than ever, they spend their vacant time with each other and sometimes even during classes because they are classmates in most of it. Since high school, Addison changed a lot. She was not the geeky looking redhead girl anymore she was a foxy one now. She doesn't wear glasses now, so you can see her oceanic blue eyes clearly. Her style of clothing has changed also, instead of wearing those baggy clothes she used to wear before she now wears skirts and blouses with matching glittering jewelries and expensive bags and high heeled shoes. As for Alex, he didn't change much except that he's much manlier and muscular now than before. He's still stubborn and hotheaded, and sometimes even childish. Because of their looks and their closeness, most of the people envy them. Most of the girl was jealous of Addison because she's so close to the "hunk" of the campus and the guys like to punch Alex because of his closeness to the "sexy redhead".

When the bell rung, which signaled that lunch is over, Alex said bye to Addison because his next class was Biology while Addison has Psychology. As Addison went to her class, she saw a group of guys who cat called when she passed by and she just rolled her eyes. She's used to these situations already, at first she finds it flattering but now she just finds it annoying. When she arrived to her classroom, she noticed someone sitting on her usual seat, and it was a guy. She approached him and asked him nicely to get up because it was her seat. The guy turned around when he heard the voice and saw who was talking, his eyes roamed her body and when she finished talking, he answered her.

"Oh, I'm sorry is this your seat? Well, now I'm sitting here. Why don't you just sit on my lap, we can have so much fun with that. You look so hot by the way," smirked the guy grazing his hand on the thigh of Addison.

*SLAP*

"What the fuck?!" shouted the guy.

"That's what you get for being a pervert!" gritted Addison.

"I'm so sorry about that, he's an autistic pervert," apologized the dark haired guy behind him.

"I am not an autistic and especially not a pervert! Can't a guy admire a girl's body?" asked the guy.

"Shut up, Mark. If that's how you admire a girl's body you'll be in jail now for millions of sexual harassment filed against you," said the dark haired guy.

Mark stood up and went to the seat beside the other guy, still rubbing his cheek while Addison was smirking at him.

"Hi, I'm Derek. Once again, I apologize about my friend's behavior," said Derek, holding out his hand which Addison shook.

"He's your friend, seriously? How can you be friends with him?" asked Addison which made Derek laugh.

The professor entered the room so Addison sat down on her seat which was just in front of Derek's. As the professor was writing something on the board, Addison turned around which startled Derek a bit considering he was staring at Addison's back. Addison grinned when she saw Derek was staring her the whole time.

"By the way, my name is Addison," she grinned then faced the front again.

After class, Addison remained for a while in the room because the professor wanted to talk to her and her partner for the project, and it was Derek. As the professor talking to them, Alex was waiting outside the room for Addison. When the door opened, Alex straightened up and was shocked to see someone with Addison so he approached them. Addison sensed someone else's presence and smiled when she saw it was Alex.

"Derek, this is Alex my best friend. Alex this is Derek, my classmate in Psychology and my partner for the project also," said Addison. As Addison finished with the introduction, they both shook hands. Derek then said bye to them because he still have a next class.

Weeks passed by and Addison and Derek became so close that made Alex very jealous. She spent every vacant with Derek now, which either left Alex alone or spend his time with some of his friends. It was during lunch time that he realized he was in love with Addison. He was looking at her and Derek and just seeing them sitting so close to each other made his blood boil, he wanted nothing but to beat the crap out of him. After lunch time, he decided to talk to Addison about his feelings for her later that evening during her party. That night, Alex arrived at Addison's house and he walked inside. He saw a lot of people from their school, some of them he knows by just face. He then proceeded to go to Addison's room because he's sure she's still there applying makeup. But when he opened the door, he didn't know what to feel. There in the bed in the middle of the room was a half-naked Derek below an almost naked Addison. Addison covered both of their bodies with her blanket and asked Alex to go downstairs and they'll be down there in a minute. Alex still in shock just closed the door and went outside the pool area to get some fresh air. After a minute or so, Addison joined him, nudging his shoulder.

"So, since when?" asked Alex.

"Uhm, just now actually, he came early and we talked then I agreed to be his girlfriend," grinned Addison.

"That's good. Well go inside, spend time with your boyfriend, I just need some fresh air," said Alex.

"Thanks for approving about my decision," said Addison.

"I'll beat him if he hurts you, you know," said Alex.

"I know, that's why you're my best friend. You look out for me, it's like having a great brother" whispered Addison while hugging Alex.

"Yeah, that's me your big brother who will always look out for you," Alex whispered back, hugging Addison tightly.

"Why don't you go inside, your boyfriend's probably looking for you now," said Alex.

When Addison went inside, Alex took out the card that was in his jacket and then threw it on the garbage then proceeded to go inside to join the party.

What he didn't know was a dark-haired blue eyed guy saw what he threw and he got curious. He went outside and dug out what Alex threw. When he saw it was a card, he read it and after reading it he tore it to pieces and dropped it on the garbage. After that, he went inside and trying to erase in his mind what the card said which was:

Dear Add,

Happy Birthday! So, uhm, remember when my last (well only) card for you was destroyed by the rain and I promised you I will make you another one and with more promises, well here it is! Here's the card and an additional promise.

As I said before to that card, I'll always be here for you and I'll protect you from bad people. And when we graduate, I will still do that I don't know how but I will definitely find a way because I can't let you get hurt. I'd rather take all of your pain than let you experience it. We've known each other since kindergarten and we're inseparable since. We know every single detail we could ever know about each other, but I'm very sure you don't know one thing. And I'll bet my life for this one.

Addison, I love you. No wait, let me rephrase that, I'm in love with you. I don't know how stupid I am to realize it just now, but here I am telling you that. So, that's it. I'm in love with you. I guess that's another addition to my promise for you: I will always be here for you, I'll always protect you and I will always love you.

Love,

Alex

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