Together for a moment

Chapter three: A girl named Chloe

Chapter three: A girl named Chloe

Alex's POV

I closed the door behind me, I had just seen Nat off and wished him good luck, I walked down the street a little bit with ET hoping she would go but she just seem to wanna sniff people on the street. I took ET back up to the apartment and locked the door.

"Hope everything goes okay ET, I don't wanna see anything bad happen" I crouched down by all the boxes.

I had just started going though a box when I heard a loud crashing noise next door and leaped up and hurried out into the hall. I saw a girl open the door across the way her light brown hair all in her face, I began to laugh cause she looked ridiculous.

"Did you hear that crashing noise?" I said this with some difficulty as I couldn't breathe.

"Ya...sorry that was me...I was working on something" the girl look down at her feet "sorry about that"

"It's fine" I smiled at her "I'm Alex I just moved in next door, what are you working on?"

"Well come in and see" I noticed she was excited about me asking her so I gladly went in to see, I noticed a sheet of metal and a sledge hammer "what's with the hammer?"

"Here I'll show you" she picked up the hammer, and I watched her hit it on the metal making a loud noise "you see I'm making my new art work, again sorry about the noise"

I laughed "that's ok, it looks fun can I try?" I asked giving her a big smile.

"Of course! It's like playing the drums, you know?" she smiled at me and held out the hammer, I took it and noticed her brown eyes, I loved that shade of brown. I watched her pull her long hair back into a messy bun, I looked away cause I could the feeling she thought it was weird me staring at her.

"ya I know I'm a musician, I can play the drums" I hit the metal with the hammer.

"Cool, nice hit by the way" then we took turns hitting it for a while. 

We sat down on her couch after a while and she asked me if I wanted to see her other art work that she had done, I agree and we went into one of the rooms filled with art work, I went over to a painting of New York at night. She had done an amazing job on it.

"This is really good, did you do all of this art yourself?" I asked looking around amazed, I went and stood by her

"Ya I did it all" she blushed "took a while too"

"I bet it did too!" I continued to look around at all of it, I moved over slightly and my hand brushed hers for a brief moment, she didn't seem to mind it either. I smiled at her "you never told me what your name was"

"it's Chloe" she held out her hand "it's nice to meet you Alex"

"It's nice to meet you too Chloe" I took her hand in mine, her hand felt incredible soft for someone who used their hands a lot, I could see her eyes more closely. I thought to my self "I think I really like this girl...I shouldn't risk anything to soon I don't think"  

We went back into the living room, she explained to me how she was gonna use paint on the metal, after a while of talking I looked at my phone and noticed that it was 1 in the morning.

"wow it's getting late, I guess I should go" I looked at her and she seemed a little disappointed about it.

'Okay...you can come over anytime you want to, I'm here by myself in the evenings and night time" she looked at her hands "my dad works nights a lot"

"I'd love to come over again" I smiled and we headed for the door. I went out into the hall with her and we said goodnight to each other, I opened my apartment door then looked back at her as she gave me a little smile and a wave, I smiled back at her and went inside. I headed to my room and noticed Nat hadn't came back yet.

"I hope everything's okay, ET come to bed" I watched ET get up lazily and follow me into my room, I turned on the lamp next to bed, I slipped off my clothes and put on my pyjamas and got into bed.

"Chloe....I'll have to remember that" I turned off the lamp and laid in the darkness for a bit drifting off to sleep thinking about tonight, and the girl named Chloe.