-Chapter 23-
Music video of Creed-One Last Breath

•Derek's POV•

I pulled back remembering that I couldn't do this with Alex right now, since he's still a little sore, I laughed when he groaned.

"We have to get going, remember?" I said kissing his neck, he was pouting and crossing his arms.

"So you're just gonna leave me wanting more?" He said still pouting, I kissed his lips and he smiled.

"I'm sorry I forgot, but hey at least you're not the only one with a..." I said looking down at my crotch, he laughed.

"Well that's your fault." He said getting off of me straightening his shirt, I chuckled and pulled him down once again.

"I couldn't help it." I kissed him and got up with him on me still.

"Put me down!" He said laughing, I shook my head.

"I can't take you seriously if you're laughing, so I don't think I'll put down, where's your bag?" I asked trying to hold Alex up but he kept wiggling around laughing.

"I don't know, please put me down." He said giving me his best puppy dog eyes, Damn it why do I always have to give into him when he uses his puppy eyes, I sighed putting him down.

"So puppy dog eyes work on you then?" I said smiling sweetly.

"Don't get used to doing that on me, I'm gonna ask your mom, Jane and Ollie to teach me how to resist your puppy dog eyes." I said kissing his lips and he smiled.

"Good luck with that, ok let's get going then." He said grabbing his book bag and his phone, I nodded and grabbed my sweater throwing it on.

I started walking down the stairs and saw that he was walking towards his mom's room, I kept walking and heard him whisper something that I couldn't hear, then I heard his mom whisper something that I couldn't heard either.

"Mom! Really!!? Ugh bye, I love you!" Alex said closing her door and his mom was laughing from the other side of the door. Alex was walking towards the stairs shaking his head but laughing a little, I don't think he was paying attention because he tripped and almost fell, but he caught himself before hurting himself, I had a mini heart attack and I don't know when or how I got to his side.

"Are you ok?! Do I have to carry you again?" I asked still worried, he shook his head.

"No I'm fine, I just lost my balance for a second there." He said taking a deep breath, I still held his hand walking down the stairs just incase. I was looking at some pictures that were on the wall that weren't there before, or maybe I just didn't notice them before. There was one with Alex when he was little, he was laying down in the middle of the floor with crayons around him, he looked really concentrated on the drawing that he was doing with his tongue sticking out and his eyebrows furrowed, I smiled at the picture not noticing that I had stopped walking to stare at the picture.

"I was about 6 in that picture, I had already decided that I wanted to be an artist, I told my mom that instead of giving me an allowance, to save it in a piggy bank so that I could save up enough money to get materials that I would need in the future. My dad always said that I had a big imagination and that I could become what ever I wanted as long as I was happy, so I told him that I wanted to paint and draw for others to see my pretty art." He said with an almost sad expression on his face.

"It sounds like that dream was shattered." I said looking at him while he tried to smile but his smile fell.

"In a way it did." He said.

"What happened?" I asked, curiosity getting the best of me, but something was telling me that I shouldn't have asked that.

"Emmet happened." That's all he said and nothing else, I wanted to ask what he meant by that but I could tell that he didn't want to talk about it. So I left it alone, I felt jealous of this Emmet person and I had no idea who he was or what he did.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, I'm just not ready to talk about it, but I will tell you about it when I do feel like I can talk about it." He said as he gave me his famous 'Alex hug'.

"It's ok baby, I'm all ears for when you want to talk about anything, if you're not ready I'm not going to force you to tell me anything." I said to him giving him a tight hug and a kiss on the forehead, he means so much to me and I don't want to push him away, I don't want him to feel like he's forced to do things he doesn't want to do.

"Thank you Derek, I usually don't trust anybody right away, but with you I feel like I can tell you anything, just that one thing I feel like it should wait for the right moment." He said, and I could hear the honesty in his voice, I felt glad that he feels like he can trust me, because a relationship without trust never works.

"I usually don't trust people right away either, but like you said I feel like I can trust you. I don't know what it is about you, but you drive me crazy with out even trying, your eyes, your lips, your personality specially I love your personality." I said holding his face in my hands, he blushed and smiled big, I gave him a kiss full of different emotions and passion.

"I'm glad you can trust me, now can we go because I actually wanna take a nap and cuddle." He said starting to walk down the stairs, I laughed and followed him, he grabbed his keys and we walked out of his house, I unlocked my truck and waited for Alex to lock his front door and we headed to my car. I took his book bag and threw it in the back as he tried to get in the passenger seat, I picked him up and sat him in the seat, I laughed when I saw him pouting and crossing his arms.

"I know I know, you don't like to be carried but you obviously needed my help because you know, you being-" I was cut off by him.

"Don't you dare say 'it's because you're short' I am not short! I'm fun sized!" He said in a mocking way, I couldn't help but laugh.

"I wasn't going to say it's because your short, I was going to say because you're still a bit sore.....but your still short." I said the last part kind of low but loud enough that he heard me as I closed his door.

"I'M NOT SHORT!!" I heard him scream inside my truck, I opened the diver's door laughing and closed it once I was seated, before I put on my seat belt I leaned in and gave Alex a kiss on the lips, making him smile again.

"Jerk." He said trying to pout again but failed as the corners of his lips curled up.

"I've been called worst." I said shrugging and smiling as I pulled out of his driveway. Alex took his phone out and connected his phone to the USB cable in my car and started playing some music, 'One Last Breath' by CREED started playing.

"I love this song, I think I'm addicted to creed." Alex said as the song started playing.

"I love this song too, actually I love all their songs." I said and then the song started playing and Alex was singing to the song, but he wasn't singing loud enough because I couldn't hear him, and I wanted to hear him sing.

"I can't hear you, sing louder." I said holding his hand, he turned to me and shook his head, he was blushing and looked nervous.

"Are you shy?" I asked kind of shocked because Alex wasn't the kind of person to be shy, or at least I didn't think he was, he looked down to his lap.

"No baby, don't be shy it's ok, how about I sing for you? But I must warn you I kinda suck." He looked up at me and gave me a smirk.

"You dirty little boy, I didn't mean it like that." I said laughing making him laugh a bit too, so I cleared my throat a bit and started singing the song.

-I'm looking down now that it's over
Reflecting on all of my mistakes

I thought I found the road to somewhere
Somewhere in His grace
I cried out heaven save me (save me)
But I'm down to one last breath
And with it let me say, let me say

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down, I'm so far down

Sad eyes follow me
But I still believe there's something left for me
So please come stay with me

'Cause I still believe there's something left for you and me
For you and me for you and me

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down

Please come now I think I'm falling
I'm holding on to all I think is safe.-

I took a deep breath when I finally finished singing my favorite song, I had almost forgotten that Alex was in the car with me, I turned to see a wide eyed Alex with his mouth slightly open.

"What?" I asked confused, he blinked and smiled.

"That was amazing! You sound almost like him, holy crap you have an amazing voice." He said taking a deep breath when he finished talking, I laughed.

"It's not that great." I said shaking my head, I laughed again when I saw Alex giving me a 'Bitch Please' look.

"Are you kidding me right now! There are people who can sing, you know nice voice, and then there's people who should be artists doing concerts and selling albums and be famous! You're the kind of singer that should be famous, I'm being honest here." Alex said and I could see it in his eyes that he was being honest about what he was saying, I didn't think I was that good because I'd never sang in front of anybody but my dad and my best friend, they both have told me that I could become a great singer if I wanted too, but I had too much going on to be thinking about that.

"Maybe I am that good, but I still want to hear your voice, I bet you have an amazing voice too." I said giving his hand a little squeeze, he blushed again.

"Maybe someday." He said smiling.

I pulled into my driveway and opened the garage and parked inside, I hopped out and ran to the other side to help Alex out, but when I got there he was already out.

"See I'm a big boy, I can do things myself." He said still sounding like a child but it was cute, I got mine and his bags from the back and took out my keys, he wanted to take his book bag from me but I didn't let him.

"I'm trying to be a gentleman here, let me help you." I said pecking his lips.

"Gentlemen don't call their partners short!" He said, I started laughing because I had forgotten about that.

"You're not gonna let that go are you?" I asked hoping he would let it go.

"Nope." He said popping the 'P'.

"I guess I'll have to get used to that then, come on let's go inside, it's time for you to meet my dad." I said grabbing his hand and stopped when I noticed he wasn't walking.

"Don't worry baby, he's gonna love you, he likes people who laugh and joke a lot, he's a child himself." I said reassuring him that everything would be fine, he nodded and started walking with me.

{A/N}
FINALLY!!!

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