Welcome to New York

After thirty minutes of driving. They have finally reached Alejandro's place.

It was a bungalow house, with a garden and a small gate.

Alejandro opened the door for her, she got down and followed him towards the gate.

After Alejandro pinned the key into the keyhole, he pushed the door opened.

Selena's feet moved to enter his place and there it was, the familiar scent of Alejandro was lingering around the house.

Her eyes roamed to scan the place, there are three doors in the house, she's guessing it must be the bedroom and the bathroom.

"I will be quick," Alejandro said and rushed to one of the doors, before Alejandro's figure disappeared, Selena called out his name.

"Maybe you would like to bring some jacket or sweater," she said, a relief was let out from her throat as she remembered where they are heading.

"why?"

"Well, James is living in the island next to Japan, it's cold right now," she faintly smiled.

An oh sounded from Alejandro's lips. Then he nodded and left.

When he left, Selena paced around the room.

From its design, no one could have mistaken it for a woman's house, everything in the house, from the furniture to the design was all made for a man.

She absently smiled and walked around, checking every corner of his place. She stopped by the wall; a few picture frames were hanging on it.

Her head elevated to look at it, a picture of Alejandro with his mom at his graduation day was on a big wooden frame, next to it were few other frames with different pictures of him during childhood.

She giggled, her hand lifted to touch the picture.

(He's so cute,) she thought as she nibbled on her lower lips.

Then her eyes shifted to the next frame; and at that moment, her smile faded.

It was Alejandro with Killian, they both had a young face, she's guessing that they must be around ten- years old when the picture was taken.

Seeing the smile and the boy's eyes shinning, she had realized that they must have been very closed before.

Then her finger touched Killian's face, her eyes narrowed as she thought of his behavior.

(What happened to you Killian?) she wondered.

(How could you hate your brother?) she continued thinking between her sigh.

The two were brothers yet so different. She shut her eyes for a moment when she opened it, she saw Alejandro's reflection through the glass frame.

She smiled and turned around, their space is too close, the tip of her nose was touching his chin.

She chinned up to look at him, the first thing she saw was his thin lips slightly parting, as if he wanted to say something.

Selena gulped, if Alejandro will kiss her, she will not stop him and accept it wholeheartedly.

But he just smiled and, placed a hand on her head.

"Let's go," he said and turned around.

Selena bit her lips, she was somehow disappointed that he didn't kiss her.

As they left the house, Alejandro was following Selena's trail, one hand holding his suitcase while the other was formed into a fist.

He really wanted to kiss her but, he stopped himself even he knows that she was waiting for him to move.

They just met, that's what he had in his mind earlier. Trying to know each other, the last thing he wanted was for Selena to think that he's rushing her.

When he started the car, he heard Selena talking to someone on the phone. His eyebrows creased when he heard her saying 'ready the chopper'.

When she hung up the phone, Alejandro moved closer to put her seatbelt on.

"What chopper?" he asked. He thought they would be taking the passenger flight.

"Daniella said it would be easy if we will use the chopper. Danny and his wife will be visiting them so they can use the chopper to come here," she said casually.

"Ok, if your Uncle Danny is coming here. Where are we going to stay? is there a hotel on the island?" he was starting the car as he said it.

"No, it's a remote island. Since Danny will not be there. It will just be you and me."

Her words shocked him, with his heart beating so fast, hit feet accidentally kicked the accelerator, causing for the car to speed up.

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When Selena and Alejandro arrived at the airport, a chopper was waiting for them at the runway.

Alejandro took one of her luggage with him while Selena carried the remaining.

She raced towards the chopper while Alejandro stopped when he noticed that it didn't have a pilot.

With confusion, he turned at Selena.

"Where's the pilot?" he said in almost a shout, there was an airplane about to take off a few kilometers from them, and the sound coming from the airplane is to loud to speak in a normal volume.

"You are looking at her," Selena proudly replied, pointing a finger at her chest.

Alejandro gulped and, switched his eyes between Selena and the chopper.

Selena sat on the pilot's chair, soon Alejandro followed her.

Excitedly, her palms brushed together, she had the face of a girl who's excited to open her present.

One by one, Selena pressed all the button, preparing to take off, before starting the chopper, she turned at Alejandro, he was busy tapping on the screen of his phone.

"What are you doing?" she suspiciously said.

Alejandro's finger frost, with his face paling in a fright she turned at Selena.

"Nothing," he even stuttered as he said that.

Selena's lips pouted. Without a word, her hand-stretched to take his phone.

As her eyes lowered to look at the screen of his phone, her heart skipped a beat.

'Barney, would you look after my plants? I will be gon-'

Then the message stopped there. Feeling guilty, Selena returned the phone to Alejandro.

She thought he was about to write his will but, it turns outs, he just cared about his plants.

"Here," her voice was low as she said it. Her hand stretched to give his phone back, lip pouting with embarrassment.

"I am -" the rest of her word was interrupted when Alejandro suddenly pulled her arm closer to him and buried her face on his chest.

Sniffing his familiar scent, Selena gulped hard. She could hear his heart beating abnormally while his breath on top of her head was shaking.

Her hand wrapped around his waist, while her face – buried in his chest rose to look at him.

Her lips parted to speak but, Alejandro shook his head, "I trust you, Selena. Anyway, if we crash, at least we are together."

Those words were enough for her heart to level the beating on Alejandro's chest. She gulped hard and buried her blushing face on his chest.

His body was broad, she could feel his muscles tightening as she pressed herself on him.

Then she felt a heavy thing poking on her head.

(Did he kiss me?) She asked herself.

She wanted to look at him, but Alejandro gently unlocked their body and fixed his seatbelt.

"Let's go," hearing those words, Selena nodded and put on her headset.