Nine lives || Lee Felix

"Why do you like me?"

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A few days had passed. I had a chill weekend and a boring life at school but it was okay. The girl I met started hanging out with me on the school rooftops for lunch. I learned that she prefers to keep to herself but she has a soft spot for hybrids.

She's really respectful and she's a wonderful cook. She makes sushi for lunch and shares it with me at school. She is so pretty. It feels weird to know that someone as pretty as her would hang out with someone as weird looking as me. This makes me realise... What does she actually feel about me? Is she just being nice to me because she pities me? Is she doing this for some sort of self gain or because other kids dared her to do it?

"Felix, are you okay?" I tilted my head up to look at her. Her long, brown hair flowed in the wind and she moved it from her face as the breeze pushed it in the wrong direction.

My gaze lowered as I looked through the metal fencing and down at the sport's ground below us. "Why do you like me?" I queried, feeling the lump in my throat as I felt like I was about to cry. My emotions were extremely unstable, being hurled inside me in continuous loops as if they were in a washing machine. My heart was breakable like china plates as my insecurities started to show. I didn't want to let go of my only friend but I was desperate to know what she sees in me.

"I like you because you are you." She appeared to be concerned as she answered my question, sitting beside me as she spoke.

"But I don't even look good-" I stumbled out, my voice shaky, failing me with every word as it wavered out of stability.

She cut me off briskly, flushing away the negativity with words of encouragement that meant so much more to me when her voice made them audible. She made an impact on my weighed down heart, kickstarting it like an engine.

"What do you mean you 'don't look good?!' You're really handsome, your smile is pretty and I like your cat ears and tail! You mean so much to me, you should value yourself more!"

The heavy tension pressed within me like a pressurised balloon began to ease. It mellowed instantly after Y/N's statement, being replaced by foreign feelings I couldn't comprehend and heat flushes that warmed my ears with which I assumed was just an effect of too much serotonin.

My cheeks began to burn as if it suddenly became a hot summer's day and my tail slightly came up, my fur standing from the unexpected surprise of what I thought would never escape her soft lips, that sometimes made my mind travel to an idealised world within my imagination.

I actually mean something to her?! My lips curved into a pleasantly satisfied grin with which she returned.

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