Encompassed by you{dnf}{fluff}

7~ Umbrella

George boiled the water for his noodles and waited. He took a long sigh and just stared at his flower. The delicacy of a flower, is so beautiful. Though his life is drained of any colour just the sight of flowers are beautiful. It hadn't been long before his noodles finished boiling. George drained the water (because ew) and added his sache of flavouring. He sat down next to the window, sighing deeply with his noodles in hand.

George looked out while eating, he saw the whole city from his motel room. Even though only being in town for a night, he knew this was definitely the most gorgeous. It was by far the biggest, and the most popular. But the whole city was charming. All the shops, the people that live there, the buildings everything!

Quickly he finished his noodles. Only 12:45, so much time to waste. George rummaged through his backpack and found a small book. It had a leather cover and inside his name was written in the corner. This was George's diary. He wrote notes about what throughout the day. 'Today I went to town. I went into a flower shop and met the fox I saved in the forest? His name was Floris, said I had to meet him at 3. It's only 12:45 :'(. I'll update later'

He had wrote in this since he was 20. He found it on the side of a bricked road. He obviously took it and wrote in it. He used to write 'Dear diary' first, but that just takes up space, so he stopped doing it.

George put the leather book back, this time he grabbed a different book with a blue cover. It was much thicker than the leather one. If you haven't guessed already, this book was a novel. He had started reading it only a few weeks ago. He's been constantly moving from place to place, so he couldn't exactly read much. Today was the perfect day to catch up!

For a few hours he had read his book, eventually it became 2:45pm. "Guess I should get going." He sighed, placed his book back in his bag grabbed his black umbrella and left. A few minutes of walking, to the flower and he was there. George stood outside of the shop. "Hows does one get to the back of a shop?" George asked himself, he walked around the block and found an alleyway. He figured that one of the buildings in the alleyway has to be the flower shop. He leaned on a brick wall and waited.

George didn't have to wait long before the ginger haired man, with fox ears and tail emerged from a wooden door. "...You actually showed up." Floris said in a serious, yet surprised tone. Floris walked over to George and stood Infront of him, leaning on the wall parallel from him. "Yep.." George replies nervously. Crossing his arms he says "To save you a question, I am a hybrid. Half human and supposedly salmon." Floris walked past George and onto the street. "Supposedly? But your half fox? How does that work?" George asks him, he placed his umbrella against the wall and jogged up next to him.

"Genetics? I don't know, I never meet my mother." He said back to him.
'It must be nice not knowing who your mother was, instead of having a homophobic one.' George thought to himself.
He ignored his thoughts and said "What were you doing in the forest? Why was your leg cut?"
"I was in the forest because I was looking for someone. My leg was cut because I had encountered a bear." Floris says, still limping of course, but instead of having a blue shirt wrapped around his leg, it was bandages. You could tell because the bandages were smoother under his pants unlike his shirt. Floris had caught him looking at his leg and said "Thanks to you it's healing nicely!". George looks up from his leg and sees there's a pole in front of him that he only just missed.

"Why didn't you transform back? You could have helped yourself."
"Hybrids can't transform when their injured." He answered.

"Are you done asking me questions?" Floris asked George.
"Yes" he simply replied while still walking side by side.
"Great, I have a question"
"Shoot"
"What were you doing in the forest?" Floris asked him while looking at the side of his head. There was a long pause in between the question and answer.
"I was running from my soulmate." George replied, looking at his feet.
"Who runs from their soulmate!?" Floris practically yells at him.
"Me! I'm want to be loved yes... But the thought of commitment scares me" George says while kicking a can, continually.
"Why run though? They could be the same as you!"
"But their not! They are in the city! They followed me here!" Once again there was silence between the two. "My compass is always lighting up." George explained.

"I don't know about you, but I would let them find me! I haven't left this city once! Except of course when I moved here."
"You didn't grow up here?" George says, darting his head up at him, desperately trying not to change the subject.
"No I grew up in a small town near by, just me and my dad."
"Was he the one you were looking for? In the forest?"
"Yeah, we haven't talked in years"
"Any clue where he is?" George asks.
"Only that he is somewhere North"

The two silently walked around a few more streets, going no where in particular. Eventually they looped back to the flower shop. "Glad we talked! Hope we meet again! Well either way, I hope you find you soulmate" Floris says to him whilst walking in the shop waving back to George. "You too" George replied back.

George walks to the back of store where he left his umbrella. He scoops it up and walks away, back to his motel room. Soon enough it starts raining. He opens his umbrella but very quickly his umbrella is taken away by the wind."I'd always knew. I'd lose it some day" George said out loud before sprinting back to his room.

'It turns out Floris was a hybrid! Quite obvious if you ask me. He and I walked around and talked a lot. We talked about how we were in the forest, and soulmates >:P' Is what George wrote in his diary, just a little recap of what happened!

This chapters music quote is "I'd lose it someday" paragraph 13. This is from 'Lost umbrella'! By Inaba Cumori! I've been obsessing over this song!

I'm sorry not sorry you have to go through all that speech writing >:). Longest chapter so far 1090 words.

One last thing, who tf has noodles with the water still in it. Like ew.