Winter - Part. IV

"I'm sorry, Avain, I didn't put myself in your place, I was just... oh I'm sorry."

"It's okay. I'm okay. In the end, the queen started a war with the Albtraum Kingdom for another reason. She probably doesn't know I'm still alive."

"Oh no, she probably knows, honey. That old wrinkled spider. I like witches, but not that one. That bitch is evil incarnate."

"I know. I only met her once and I almost died," they shared a look and then turned at me again.

"You met the queen?" her voice assumed a serious tone.

"Unfortunately yes. Bad memories."

"This means she doesn't want to talk about it, mom."

"I already know that," she rolled her eyes at him. Almost like saying she didn't know.

"So, this is a story for another time. Mom, Sam is probably waiting for you in the library, you know she doesn't like to wait," she smiles at him.

"Oh, I know that old witch. She scared me like hell when I was younger," I couldn't help but laugh. "For real."

"I know the feeling. She looks sweet but when she shows her true self, she looks more dangerous than Kai," she looked at me with an understandable gaze.

"Except that Kai doesn't look dangerous, he looks like a cinnamon roll."

"Mom!"

"What? You're my little cinnamon roll."

"I'm not a kid anymore, mom!"

"You will always be a kid in front of your mother, Kai," she said with a serious look that looks exactly equal to his. Damn.

She kissed his cheek and winked at me before leaving the room in the dimensional gate Kai open up to her. "Don't let her fool you, sweetheart, she may not look like, but she is dangerous."

"I feel it. And even if I couldn't, with that look she gave you, I could guess."

"But she's the best mother I could ever ask the gods for," I can feel it too.

"She looks like a good mother. And I could notice how she loves you and all the others."

"So... I'm gonna go. When you get ready, wait for me here, then we'll go down for breakfast in a faster way than yesterday."

"Hahaha funny, I won't forget how you made me climb all those steps, you bastard. When you could open a dimensional-"

"It wouldn't be the same," what does he mean by that?

"Just go, I'll wait for you here if I get ready first."

"Fine," when he was leaving, he stopped and turned around to find my eyes looking at his. "I've forgotten, did you like the hot bath?" are you kidding me?

"I took the cold one."

"Liar. Your pride is so big that you can't even assume you bathe with it?"

"Why you such an asshole?"

"Are you sure I'm the one being an asshole here?" he said with that smile I hate so much and finally close my door, leaving me alone.

I am not being an asshole because I want to, you stupid bastard. It's not like I have another choice.