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Chloe's POV

"Chloe, it's time to wake up." I heard a British voice say while shaking me.

"Go away," I mumbled into my pillow. I heard a chuckle and a second later, my pillow was quickly pulled out from under my head. After a growl, I glanced up and saw Alek holding my pillow.

"Oh, good, you're up." Alek laughed. "It's time to get ready for school."

"Give me fifteen minutes. "

"I'll go out and wait in the car then." He threw the pillow at me and started to leave out the window before he turned around, "Oh, and I have breakfast in the car." I quickly threw on some jeans, a long sleeved blue shirt, and a hoodie. After quickly combing my hair and brushing my teeth, I rushed out the door.

It was only after I was walking out the door that I realized that I didn't have another nightmare last night. I had actually gotten almost six and a half hours of sleep.

"I thought Jasmine was on protector duty." I said when he handed me a bagel with cream cheese.

"We traded off so she could go get ready for school." He explained.

"You know, I am perfectly capable of getting to school by myself." I have been doing it for years, not that anyone seemed to realize that. Or cared about that.

"I feel better knowing that you're not alone."

"It's only like a ten minute walk. Or Amy could pick me up."

"Chloe, I know you don't like protection duty, but there is no way we are leaving you alone until we deal with Scarface."

"So, there's no chance of being protector free tonight?" I tried hopefully, with no success.

"No," He quickly responded in a no nonsense voice.

"Oh, come on. It's not like you even like Brian. It's obvious that you don't want to watch us, so just take the night off. Catch up on some sleep or something."

"Are you forgetting about what happened just a few days ago? The last time I left you alone, you almost died." He took his eyes off the road and looked at me. I thought saw his eyes full of different emotions; guilt, concern, anger, but in a flash, the emotions were gone. Maybe I just imagined it. I tried not to think about how it disappointed me that I imagined it. Why should I care about that?

"Fine," I gave in as we pulled into the student parking lot. "I go to work right after school, and then I'm going over to the coffee place afterwards." It would take a lot less time just to tell him and get it over with. Besides, it's not like I'm actually going to win this argument.

"I'll drive you to work. Now are you ready to go take our science test?" I could already tell that today was going to be a long day.

"You're going on a date with Kitty Hat tonight?" Amy asked when we were walking out of our last class of the day. The statement seemed to be lacking perkiness and excitement, very unusual for Amy.

"We're going to have coffee, but it's not a date. We're just friends." Before she could respond, my cell phone buzzed. Meet you in the front of the school?

"Who's that?"

"Alek, I completely forgot that he's driving me to work." And then staying with me until school tomorrow. Or whenever Jasmine takes over. When do they ever get any sleep?

"I could drive you to work." Amy offered.

"I wish I could say yes to that. He's driving me, not to be nice, but to keep an eye out for me."

"Have a good time. I want details in the morning Chloe King!"

"Later," I called back with a smile when I opened the car door.

"Hey Chloe," Alek said. I waited for something Aleky, like a smirk, or him asking why I bothered with the human, but he didn't. Instead he just seemed happy. "Have a good day?"

"The test was a little hard, but it the rest was okay. How was your day?"

"It was pretty good. How long are you going to work?" He asked when we pulled up into the parking spot.

"I work until six."

"Okay, I'll just be at the coffee shop. Catch you later."

Work passed along slower than I imagined was possible. Luckily Jasmine came in for a little bit to find an outfit for her date tonight. Sadly, she didn't stay that long. Although I did help her find a cute dress and jacket for the date.

I saw Alek with a large cup of coffee sitting in the shop the entire time I was working. How he could sit and do nothing for that long was beyond me. Though, I guess he was doing something. Protecting. His mind was probably occupied with a whole bunch of protector stuff like observing everything, looking out for danger, ECT. Finally it was over and I got to head over to the coffee place to meet Brian.

"Hey Chloe," Brian said as I walked over to the table. A hot cup of coffee and cookies sat in front of him.

"Cold ears?" I asked when I saw that he was wearing the kitty hat.

"Still ironic and lame?"

"Maybe a just little, "I laughed.

"So, how's school?" It seemed like the conversation never stopped between us for the hour before my phone rang. I looked at the screen and saw that it was Mom.

"I'm sorry, I should take this. I'll be right back." I told Brian and then walked away from the table. "Hey, what's up?"

"Chloe," It wasn't my mother that answered me. It was Scarface.

"Stay away from her." I tried to put force behind the words, but I couldn't.

"No one in your life will ever be safe."

"What do you want?" I asked desperately. Nothing could happen to her.

"To see you, alone."

"Just tell me where.

Do you guys want me to write more about Brian? I usual don't because my biased opinion doesn't even want him into the story, but I will if you guys want the coffee dates to be longer. Oh, and the phone conversation is from episode 3 of TNLOCK if you guys recognized it. I just thought that it fit very nicely.

Spoiler- Chalek will be coming soon.

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