Chapter 20

Charlies POV the next day.

I was kinda pissed at Bill. Alright, 'kinda' was an understatement. I couldn't quite believe that he slept in the same bed as her. He knew that I liked her and still laid with her, touching her, while I watched. You think being my brother and what not he would have let me stay with her. To top it off she told me she didn't want me there, I was pissed at myself as well for getting her upset again. I couldn't understand how I could do something so stupid again, you think after kissing her once I would realise it was a bad idea but no, I had to go and do it again last night. And then didn't have the balls to tell her why I did it. I couldn't tell her now, I didn't know how.

I found her sitting in the living room, curled up on the couch with a book listening to her muggle musicy thing. I went and sat on the other end of the couch, waiting for her to look up. As soon as she did, she averted her eyes back to her book, ignoring me.

I sighed and reached over to take her earphones out; she slapped my hand away, glaring at me.

"Obviously she doesn't want to speak to you Charlie." Bill said, coming in to the room.

"Bill just shut up would you?"

He went and sat in an armchair opposite Alexis, pulling the coffee table between them. He pulled out his chessboard and two sets of chess pieces, one his and one hers. She grinned and set up her pieces, still not turning off her music. I sat and watched the pair of them play in complete silence, the only sound in the room was the soft clunk of the pieces when they were placed back on the board. The game was getting intense and they we both taking their time to think out their moves before they made them. Alexis was starting to fall behind and the concentration was clearly visible on her face. Her eyes darted around the board, seeking possible moves and imagining Bills counter attacks.

She began to sing under her breath as she was thinking.

Bill smiled at her and she stopped, taking one of her earphones out, "I was doing it again wasn't I?"

He laughed, "Yeah, you always do when you concentrate."

"I've really go to stop doing that."

"It's kinda cute." I added.

Alexis turned to look at me, "Charlie, it's not going to work. You can sit there and tell me as much shit as you like but it's nothing is going to convince me to be your plaything."

She turned back to the game and made her move.

"Alexis, I don't want that."

"What do you want Charlie?"

"Can we just go and talk somewhere privately please?"

She glanced at Bill, "I'm playing at the moment. After this game I'll talk to you."

"Okay, thank you. I'll meet you out by the tree."

She shrugged as she turned back to the game and I left. I went and sat behind the tree and she joined me about fifteen minutes later.

"Did you win?" I asked.

She nodded, "Yeah, eventually. What did you want to talk about?"

"Everything. All this stuff that keeps going on between us. Just let me get this all out, please don't interrupt. Alright, firstly I'm sorry that I kissed you again, I don't know why it happened, it just did. You are the only person that really understands me. No one outside of work understands dragons and my love for them and while everyone else in the family loves Quidditch it's different. You love both of those things and we just have so much in common. I just want to go back to how things were between us before, when we could just talk for hours on end about everything. When we weren't fighting like this. Lexy you are practically my best friend, I don't want to fight with you over stupid things and I know you don't want to fight either. I want my friend back."

"Okay."

"Can I ask one thing?"

"You just did." She pointed out.

"Other than that, was what Katie said last night/ this morning true?"

"What in particular, Katie talks a lot, it's hard to keep track of."

"About you loving me." I supplied quietly.

"Of course it's true. Your amazing, one of my best friends so of course I love you." She said, as she played with pieces of grass.

"Okay."

"Why?"

"Cause I just wanted to know. Just so we're on the same page."

She smiled, "Alrighty, Bill demanded a rematch so I've got to get going."

She stood and headed back to the house without a backward glance.