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𝚅𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚖𝚎 2 : 𝙲𝙰𝚃 𝚅𝚂 𝚅𝙰𝙼𝙿𝙸𝚁𝙴

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𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙿𝚃𝙴𝚁 2

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2 𝙔𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙎 𝘼𝙂𝙊. . .

𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. . .

𝑇ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑦..

"𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡..𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡.."

"𝑁𝑜..𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛.."

"𝐻𝑒𝑦, 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦?"

𝑆ℎ𝑖𝑡..

𝑭𝑬𝑾 𝑴𝑰𝑵𝑼𝑻𝑬𝑺 𝑳𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹. . .

"𝑈𝑔ℎ..𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑚 𝐼?" 𝐼 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡! 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟?!

"𝐼𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑚 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛?" 𝐼 ℎ𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠. 𝑀𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑧𝑦 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑘.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒?"

"𝑌𝑒𝑎ℎ. 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢?" 𝐼 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑦 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠.

"𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛. 𝐴 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒?" 𝐻𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑙, "𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟."

"𝐴 𝑐𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑦𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑, ℎ𝑚?" 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑜." 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑠.

"𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑎𝑚. 𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢?" 𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ, "𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒.."

"𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑒."

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡..

"𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘, 𝑛𝑜. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟.." 𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, "𝐺𝑜 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑗𝑒𝑟𝑘.."

𝐻𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒, "𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤. 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢.."

"𝑁𝑜!" 𝐼 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ, "𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘, 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠. 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙-"

"𝑁𝑜!" 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑, "𝐺-𝐺𝑜 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦.."

"𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛.. 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢.." 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑛𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝, "𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢.. 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠.."

"𝑁-𝑁𝑔ℎ..𝑁𝑜.." 𝐼 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒.

"𝐹-𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘, 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝.." 𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒, "𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒.." 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟..

"𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟.. 𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡.."

𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥'𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗩

"Al.. It's okay.." He kissed my forehead gently and I looked at him with sad eyes.

𝑁𝑜...

Then I felt his hand on my shoulder and I looked away while sniffling.

𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙...

"Alastor.." He gently wrapped his arms around my waist, "It's okay.. Crying is not a weakness, you know.."

I paused for a second and looked at him while sniffling, "But you are so strong.. I have never seen you cry. I am such a-"

I got cut off by his soft lips on mine and I closed my eyes while tears rolled down my cheeks.

"Al, I don't want to force you or stress you out. Let's go home first.. shall we?" his eyes were filled with concern while he wiped my never-ending tears with his thumbs.

"Please say something.." He whispered while slowly pulling me against his chest and I sniffled, "Sorry.."

"Shh.. You have nothing to sorry about..." He whispered while stroking my hair and I buried my face in his shoulder while letting out sniffles amd hiccups.

Then I felt his lips on my cheek and his voice sounded so soothing....

"I will always be by your side, I promise. Let's go home now."

I nodded while wiping my eyes and then we got on his bike.

"Relax.." He said with concern and started to ride home.

𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡...

𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕. . .

"𝑁𝑜! 𝑆𝑇𝑂𝑃!" 𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡

𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒...

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒..

"𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑...𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑐ℎ, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑠𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘.

"𝑁𝑜! 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡!" 𝐼 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔.

"𝐹-𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘, 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡.." 𝐼 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝.

"𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢?" 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑟, "𝑆-𝑆𝑖𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛.."

"𝐻𝑚.." 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ, 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓-𝑛𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡.."

𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑵𝑬𝑿𝑻 𝑫𝑨𝒀. . .

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝..

𝑈𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑, 𝐼 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠, "𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡! 𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝑂ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠-"

"𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔~" 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝, 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑.

"𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑜, 𝑗𝑒𝑟𝑘!" 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑐𝑘 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.

"𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑤." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒.

"𝐹-"

"𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, "𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒." 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒, "𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢."

"𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠?" 𝐼 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑡-𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑜. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒.

"𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑? 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑤?" ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑤.

"𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐼 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑐-"

𝐴 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒.

"𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠." 𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑.

𝐼 𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑤, "𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦. 𝐼 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑠ℎ."

"𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏, "𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡?"

"𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠.." 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.

"𝐹𝑢𝑐𝑘.. 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚? 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡!" 𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚.

"𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒.

𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑒.

"𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑦, 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒.." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠, "𝐷𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒.. 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑗𝑒𝑟𝑘.."

"𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠, "𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛, 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒."

"𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡." 𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑, "𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟.."

"𝑆ℎ𝑢𝑡 𝑢𝑝! 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢? 𝐴 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠?" 𝐼 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.

"𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑦𝑒𝑠. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 18 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑤." 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠, "𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔.. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑.. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢.."

"𝑆𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟." 𝐼 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒...𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒?

𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜, 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔!

"𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡, 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒.." 𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠.

"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆.."

𝐼𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒...ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙..

𝐼 𝑓𝑢𝑐-

𝑁𝑜..

𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢..

𝐴-𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛..

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠' 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑑, "𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒.."

𝐼 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛'𝑡..

𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘..

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡..

"𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐴𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛.."

𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑟, "𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜𝑜, 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒.."

"𝑆𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛?" 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠.

"𝑂ℎ, 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒, 𝑏𝑜𝑦."

"Al, we are home.. Let's go to your room, okay?"

𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒...

"Are you listening to me.. Hey.."

𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑠 𝑚𝑒...

"Alastor.. ALASTOR!"

I flinched and snapped out of my thoughts, "Y-Yes?"

"I am so fucking worried.." he looked at me with sad, yet concerned eyes while wrapping his arms around me.

"We are... already home?" I asked while looking down and I realized that we were at the doorstep.

"Yes.." He gently rubbed my head and sighed, "I... I want you to rest.."

"Alex.." I felt tears well up in my eyes when I looked at him, wanting to be selfish for his love but...

𝐷𝑜 𝐼 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒...?

"I fucking love you too much so stop making me worried..."

I closed my eyes after feeling his lips on my forehead while I also felt somewhat calmness and safety in me.

"I love you, okay?" He said softly while kissing my cheek amd I looked at him, "I love you too.."

𝐴𝑚 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥...?

"No more sadness." He kissed my cheek one more time and quickly lifted me up, "You have been ignoring me since we got on the bike."

"What.. I was?" I looked up at him, surprised.

"Yes. You weren't replying and just..staring or something.." He lowered his gaze too..

𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑠𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥..?

"Alex.. I am sorry.." I looked down while wrapping my arms around his neck, "It's because of these readers.."

"And what did our loyal readers do, huh? You blaming them for what?" He asked and kissed my nose.

"Well.. I.." I looked down and mumbled, "..While letting the readers know about my past, I ended up ignoring you..."

"So now the readers know about your past?" He asked with a sigh and I nodded while looking down, "Just half-" but then my lips got captured by his.

"No more gloomy thoughts now. You let the readers know about your past, so you have to tell me too. But LATER. Because you need to eat and rest and relax, right now. Do you understand that?" he kissed my cheek and forehead while rubbing my other cheek with his thumb.

I nodded a little and looked at his chest for a second. Suddenly, he pulled into his arms and stroked my hair, "or we can just cuddle like this.."

"yeah.." I murmured and closed my eyes while sighing softly.

This felt safer, warmer and...nicer.

"I love you.." He kissed the top of my head and I felt relaxed...

"I love you too..."

𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚...

𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥..