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and
looked back to the computer.
    “Did you really?”
    I turned back to realize that his eyes never
left me.
    I looked down. “That’s two questions; you
only get one.”
    “Fine then." He pulled my chair and whipped
it toward him so hard that I couldn’t even think or catch my
breath.
    “Ow, Ace." I rubbed the back of my neck,
feeling the exact spot where there was still a bruise from where
Magpie choked me.
    “Why would you ask me a question like that
anyway? If I like you?" His stare was so deep I felt like I could
actually feel his eyes drill into mine.
    I tried to look anywhere but at him. But any
time I moved, his eyes would always find mine again. I let out the
weakest shrug I could under the pressure. “I don’t know. Some of
the other interns were just talking about the way you looked at me
the other day.”
    He sighed as if my words were the final punch
that defeated him, and he sat back down in his chair, shaking his
head. “You know aliens and humans aren’t supposed to have any kind
of relations other than professional, right?”
    I arched a brow, inching my chair just a
little closer, hoping that it was safe to do so. “Well I mean we’re
friends, right? Can we not do that or something?”
    This time he was the one trying not to look
at me. “Technically yes and technically no.”
    I crossed my legs and I leaned in closer.
“That didn’t make any sense.”
    He finally turned toward me, but this time
instead of his eyes looking intense and frightening, they had
softened with an expression that made him look like a scared puppy.
“I wasn’t supposed to save you that day. I shouldn’t have gotten
involved.”
    For the first time his hands trailed to my
fingertips, tracing along my nail line. I felt the warmth from his
fingers explode through my body. “But when I saw you laying there,
so helpless…” He didn’t take his eyes off my fingers as he
intertwined them with his own, letting their heat lock into me. “I
knew that I had to do something,” he finished, looking up.
    His face was so close to mine that I could
see every line, as if it were molded by the Greeks themselves into
a picturesque statue. My lips trembled as his words fell onto them,
parting ever so slightly as he leaned in closer.
    The sound of the metal doors being pushed
open startled us and we both almost jumped out of our chairs. Ace
quickly released his hands from mine and started furiously typing
away on the screen. I was too shocked to even move, so I just sat
there trying to catch my breath as my dad walked through the
door.
    “Hey, Alex." My dad put his hand on my
shoulder and nodded in Ace’s direction. “Ace.”
    He couldn’t have seen anything; he had been
behind the door. But even if he did see something, was there
anything to see? Holding hands and an almost-kiss couldn’t be a
crime. Or maybe it was in the alien world.
    Ace nodded in my dad’s direction, not looking
away from the screen. "Colonel."
    “Uh, what are you doing here, Dad?" I looked
up at him, trying to stop the shaking in my knees. “Checking up on
me?”
    “Is there a reason I need to be checking up
on you?" My dad raised an eyebrow, giving me the dad death
stare.
    “Well, no." I looked down at my feet, trying
to grasp at what to say without sounding guilty.
    Ace sighed. “Just tell him, Alex.”
    I looked up and over at Ace, trying to hide
the panic in my eyes. Was it okay to be telling my dad that I just
had a very close encounter with an alien?
    Ace took his eyes off me and looked up at my
dad. “She figured out how to hack other people’s accounts, and we
were looking at what sort of e-mails her classmates were sending
back and forth. I know it’s against protocol.” He shrugged as he
turned back to the computer screen. “But she was curious.”
    I gulped, forcing a weak smile as I looked
back up at my dad.
    “Well, I guess I can let it slide for you
this time." He patted my shoulder. “Just don’t go snooping around
again,