Onto the Villa.

You hastily make your way to the Sunrider Villa, making a bee-line straight to Lexie's room. The handful of Sunriders or Syndicate warriors that were awake this early tried to stop you to talk, you mainly just said hello but kept walking "Sorry!" you say as you push through a group of them, you needed to get to Lexie and needed to do it fast. The cool morning air and your brisk pace quickly brush off your hangover and you start to feel much better. You eventually make it to the Villa, standing outside her room, just looking at that closed wooden door. "Here goes nothing..." you take a deep breath as you quietly knock on the door, waiting a few moments.

Nothing.

You knock again, a little bit louder.

Still nothing.

You try the doorknob and it slowly turns, you're able to slowly push the door open into Lexie's room "Lexie...?" you question out as you stick your head in, your eyes focusing to the slightly dimmed room, the only light coming in through the window, the curtain is pulled back allowing some of the torchlight from the courtyard of the villa to shine into the room.

As you peer through the room, you see Lexie sitting on one of her wooden chairs by a small table, her chin resting in one of her hands as her head is tilted and looking out the window, into the Sunrider Villa.

"Lexie..." you say again as you step inside, closing the door behind you "How are you?" you try to ask as you walk up to her, grabbing the other wooden chair and sitting down across from her.

She doesn't even look at you, not even caring at the moment that you are here, her face still turned to the window, her eyes peering out into the distance.

"Please..." you reach out, carefully grabbing her wrist that was holding her chin you, you pull her hand down, gripping her right hand with both yours, her head still doesn't look your direction, still holding strong staring out the window. "Lexie, I'm sorry..." you use your thumbs to lightly massage her fingers. "I'm so sorry."

You see her swallow but she still doesn't say anything or even look your direction.

"Lexie, please...please look at me." your voice is quiet "I fucked up. I"m sorry. I'm so sorry." You continue to look at the gorgeous Sunrider ahead of you, both your hands still holding her right hand, kneading her fingers, her palm and her knuckles.

After many long moments in silence, you see Lexie's eyes break from the window, looking down to the table before they peer up, finally making contact with yours. She still stays silent though.

You stay locked into her eyes "Are you okay?" you whisper to her.

You see a glisten in her eyes as the light comes in from the window "No, Darien. No, I'm not okay." her voice sounds sad "You hurt me last night, Darien" she swallows "A lot..." her eyes go back to the window, not wanting to look at you anymore. "The words you said to me..." she trails off.

You grip her hand tighter "I don't know what I was thinking, Lexie. All those people, it got to my head. I've never been in this situation before...I...I don't know how to act. Please, please forgive me. I don't want you to be mad at me. I need you, Lexie. I need you in my life."

She stays silent once more, continuing her gaze out the window.

"I know I messed up. I know I did. So much has happened in my life and since I got to the Syndicate you have been the one person I can trust. You have been my rock, Lexie. It's just...when for the second night in a row you didn't want to be with me. It's just...oh god...I don't know, I got mad. I got mad because I felt like you didn't want to be with me anymore. But, but...it's not your fault, I know it's not your fault. I'm an asshole for what I said to you. It was uncalled for, disgusting and inconsiderate." her eyes begin to move from the window, tilting down towards the table, looking at your hands that are cupping hers so tenderly "You have always been there for me, I know that. What I said last night, I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry." you shake your head lightly as your brows tilt downward, your body feeling bad at what you did "I did stupid things last night...I yelled at you, I complained at you, I bitched at you...and" you close your eyes briefly "you didn't deserve any of it. I'm sorry I blew up on you. I'm sorry I was a dick. I'm sorry, Lexie." you open your eyes again, looking at her "Will you...will you please..." you clear your throat "please forgive me?"

The two of you sit there in nothing but silence, your two hands still holding hers, your eyes connected to each other, but for many long moments, no more words were said.