I'm Not Helpless |1|

Part Nine

Alexander set his phone down looking at the woman in front of him. He had to admit she really was beautiful, no one in their right mind could deny it, but he never thought of her as too good for him. Maybe his friends were right? No, surely they weren't, Alexander was pretty sure of it. "How are you out of my league?" He asked causing Eliza to look up at him and rais an eyebrow.

"What'd you mean? Are you talking about what your friends said?" She asked him with a somewhat amused look appearing on her face. She personally hadn't thought herself too good for him either but she did find it a bit funny how insecure he got about it. Even when it was pretty clear to her he had nothing to worry about.

"Yeah.... But I mean you can't be out of my league, it's not possible." He told her, trying to sound as confident as he possibly could.

"What do you mean it's not possible?"

"Well... we already slept together, which kind of means I'm at least, in your league..." He replied causing Eliza to laugh.

"You think just because you slept with someone, you're in their league?"

"Isn't that how it works?"

"No.... did you ever consider the possibility that I was doing it out of sympathy?"

"No, why would I- you're so mean, you sex with me cause you felt bad for me?" Alexander questioned a mixture of sadness, disappointment and confusion ringing through his voice. He'd never thought about that before, but didn't she say that she didn't think she was too good for him? 'God this woman is so confusing,' he thought.

"I mean no, but it could've happened that way..." she told him.

"Oh.." Alexander replies letting out a breath of relief.

"Awe you were really worried for a moment, weren't you?"

"No." He replied shaking his head as if the idea was completely crazy.

"Yes you were worried I didn't like you..." she cooed, pointing a finger at him.

"No, no I wasn't." He protested crossing his arms looking away from her.

Eliza laughed softly. "You know sometimes you're really cute." She said which was returned with an eye rolling from Alexander. "And then other times you're just annoying." She added on.

"Okay, come on we've been in break for way too long."

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"Hey Liza?" Alexander questioned glancing from his laptop.

"Yes Alexander?" She replied as she stared at her laptop, clearly in deep thought.

"I think I'm going to be done for the night.." he told her pretending to yawn, this caused her to look up at him.

"Tired are you?" She inquired raising her eyebrows.

"Yeah... I'm all... tuckered out.." He said stretching and once again feigning sleepiness.

"So you wanting to be done with work has nothing to do with the cute, new, intern?"

"What? No, of course not... no.. not at all, no." He rambled out as Eliza rolled her eyes.

"God Alexander, no."