I'm horrible. I know. I'm soooo sorry. It's just a lot of stuff is going. Oh, I want to send a shout out to panaricanchick for giving me the golden gate bridge part of the chapter. Thanks for reading. (I promise I will update more often. At least once a week.)

Alek didn't tell me where we were going; instead we got into his car and started driving. He stopped the car when we reached the pier and we both got out of the car.

"Alek, this is so beautiful." I said as I saw the Golden Gate Bridge in the moonlight.

"It really is." Before he could say anything else, my cell phone rang. I looked at the screen and saw Brian's name, and then quickly put it down. I didn't want to talk to him and ruin the perfect moment. "You're not going to answer it?"

"Nope." Alek quickly turned away, but not before I could see the smile stretched on his face. "Come on, it's a beautiful night. Let's take a walk."

"Sounds good,"

"I'll race you." Alek said not five minutes later. I followed his gaze at the row of buildings in front of us.

"You're so on." I laughed. "First one to the pizza shop?"

"On your mark, get set," And with that he took off.

"Cheater!" I yelled when I took after him. We ran for only a minute until we reached the fire stairs on the side of the building. He was a good ten feet in front of me by the time we got to the top of the building. Alek turned around and stuck his tongue out at me, making him lose three feet of a head start.

We jumped across a few gaps of the buildings before; I looked ahead of us and saw a huge cap between the two buildings. A lot bigger than the ones before, I was about to stop before the gap, but the idea of Alek's smirk made me fly higher than I ever did before.

By the time we got to the pizza place, Alek was only a stride of ahead of me. "Loser," He teased with a big smile. I whacked him playfully before my stomach lowly growled. "Want to grab some pizza?"

"Sounds good," We jumped down from the building and went around the front.

"After you," Alek said, holding the door open for me. I saw Alek glance around the pizza place. Knowing that he was in protector mode, I went to sit at a booth. He came and sat on the other side of the booth while still scoping out the place.

"What can I get started for you?" A waitress said. Alek snapped out of protector mode and looked at me.

"Any preference?" I shook my head. "We'll get large meat lovers pizza with two Pepsi's."

"It should be around fifteen minutes."

"So," Alek said as he turned back towards me.

"So," Alek and I have never actually had small talk with each other before. A few things here and there, but never for as long as this.

"Are you actually going out with your human tomorrow?" I thought that I heard a low growl from Alek, but decided that I was just hearing things.

"It is not a date," I sighed. "We're just friends."

"Here's your Pepsi's," The waitress said as she laid down the drinks before leaving.

"How's basketball doing?" I asked, trying to steer the subject away from Brian.

"The coach is out for a few days with some personal reasons no one knows, so we're stuck with the assistant coach Mr. Jones."

"I know him; he was my P.E. coach when I was a freshman." I refrained from saying anything else, incase Alek actually thought he was a good coach.

"Wasn't he horrible?" I laughed. I didn't think that he would hate him. "All the yelling almost takes the fun out of basketball."

"When is your next game?"

"Our next game is Wednesday. We're playing against the biggest competitor. They're the only team, other than us, that hasn't lost yet." I nodded my head like I knew what team he was talking about. "You should come to the game."

"I don't know anything about basketball."

"That's fine. If you sit close to team's bench, when I'm not playing, I'll fill you in."

"That sounds amazing." I said with a big smile.

"Here's the pizza. Can I get you anything else?" The waitress went off to the other table when Alek shook his head.

We sat in silence eating the pizza with Alek fidgeting. Finally, I couldn't take it. "Okay, spit it out. What is it?"

"What's what?"

"Something's bothering you. Just say whatever you need to say."

"What was the nightmare about?"

"It's nothing."

"Yeah, I'll believe that." He scoffed. I hesitated before speaking. Trying to decide if I wanted to tell him or not.

"I'm tied up by Scarface in a warehouse near a pool of water. Nobody is near us. No one is there to help. He taunts me then pushes me into water. I quickly sink in the water and I can't do anything about it. I slowly feel myself drowning." When I finished explaining, I'm looking down at my plate. "It just feels so real that it's hard to forget like any other nightmare."

"I won't let that happen. " He said confidently, but still somehow comforting. "I'll always be there to protect you, but I could ask Valentina to put some more Mai on your protection duty."

"I don't even want you and Jasmine to protect me. Besides, they're only nightmares. They don't mean anything."

"Come on, let's get out of here." I looked up and saw him place some bills on the table.

"Are you staying on the room tonight?" I asked Alek when we arrived back to my room. I glanced at the clock by my bed and saw that it was only eleven meaning that I might actually get some sleep tonight.

"Jasmine will be here in a little bit. I need to take care of a few things tonight. I'll see you tomorrow at school." He gave me a quick smile then started to leave out the window.

"Alek," He turned around. "Thanks for tonight. It really helped."

"Anytime," And with a smile, he left.

Alek POV

"Alek, is everything okay with Chloe?" Valentina asked.

"She's not hurt." I told her. "But I want more Mai to be added to her security detail." Man, she was going to kill me if she ever found out about this. She hated when Jasmine and I were protecting her, let alone anybody else.

"Why? Chloe didn't get attacked or anything, did she?"

"No, she's just worried. Chloe won't admit it, but the nightmares she's having are freaking her out and since the nightmares are actually true, I think it would be better if she had more protection. Just in case,"

"I'll do what I can. I can get someone down in a week or so."

"I guess that will work. Thanks Valentina." I just hope that the new person would get here soon enough.