SPOILER!!: GOOD!
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Mell
This was going to be one of those times when he regretted not listening to his father when he spoke about females. All those times of nodding his head and not taking in one word because he thought his dad was old and had no idea about these things. Yeah sure he had been a teenager once but that was years and years ago. Things were different now.
Maybe there weren't though.
All Michael knew was that only moments ago he had felt as though he was on top of the world when she had kissed him only to be brought crashing down minutes later. He felt stupid to think that she would want him. He was still practically a kid.
He had started to duck out from the cloak when she spoke and he couldn't help the little flare of hope that bubbled up inside of him, but once again he was shot down. Michael took a deep breath, stepped in closer to her again and gently placed a soft kiss on her lips. "How could I not be friends with you Alexa Cambridge?" He took a step back again and smiled at her even though she probably couldn't see him. "I just need some time to get my head together." Or something like that, he just wanted to be on his own right now.
But before he left he just had to say this to her. "Hey Lex? I'm no expert on relationships but I would never rule them out and I don't think you should either. Loving someone can't be that horrible." With that he finally moved out from underneath the cloak and made his way back to the fat lady's portrait.
Lex was very much still waiting on a response to that. Last time something like this happened --nevermind how horrid the other turned out in comparison to this one--she'd stopped talking to one of her closest friends for a month, a whole frickin' month of her being miserable. She wasn't about to let that happen again. Imagine her relief when he actually waited.
The kiss wasn't expected, not after everything that just got explained but it happened and this time he wasn't offering pretense after. That was improvement already.
The girl shrugged and smiled at his response, not sure what to say exactly. She knew the potential situations like this had and the fact that this wasn't turning into one of them. She could give him some time, he could have all the time in the world--so long as he didn't start avoiding her. That was a big no. With him giving his word that they were still friends she was relaxed enough to be okay with him needing time. Time was a reasonable request.
Lex's eyebrows arched a bit when it seemed he had more to say but they sunk and knitted only a moment later. He was gone before she could think of a proper response but that was probably for the best. Truthfully, relationships didn't interest her. She couldn't see the point in them or their appeal and there wasn't much you could do in them that you couldn't do
out of them.