Ephemeral | A Captain Puffy Fanfic

Chapter XIII - So Close yet So Far

Eventually we both pulled away from the hug, both of us at the same time. We smiled happily at each other before sitting in silence for a few moments. Then Puffy seemed to have an idea. I could tell by the sudden look of joy and sparkle in her eyes.

She grabbed me by the hand causing my face to go noticeably red again. With a firm grip down on my hand, she pulled me out to the balcony. She shut the two glass doors behind us shutting us on the balcony.

The balcony was rather small and kind of cramped for the two of us to fit on. Then Puffy did something that gave away why she had dragged me out onto the balcony. She placed her hand out in front of me again.
"A dance, again?" She asked in a wholesome way even tilted her head to the side for sympathy.

As she placed the hand out in front of me I got many flashbacks. Flashbacks to that exact moment flooded my head playing over and over like a video on repeat. It made me happy.

I wanted to respond by nodding or saying something but inside I took her hand. We both quickly got in to the position ready to dance but with the little room on the balcony it was hard to dance.

After a few failed attempts at dancing we had resorted to swaying from side-to-side and calling it dancing. It was close enough to dancing wasn't it?

After the few moments of silent dancing, Puffy started to hum. It was a nice tune that she was humming to but it was also clear she wasn't even humming on purpose. She was just subconsciously humming along to the sound of silence. And honestly it was cute.

After a minute of Puffy's humming and our continuous dancing I did what Puffy had done. I joined he subconsciously humming. I had been listening to the tune she was humming to while it was just her so I knew roughly what she was humming to. I joined her humming harmonising it with her.

As we danced and hummed it felt perfect. It felt like we were the only two in the world, if this was even real. It felt like a dream. Was this what love feels like? If so I love it. I love her. But does Puffy love me? There is no way to know and that is almost painful to think. I love her so much and she might just think of us as friends. I've admitted to myself that I love her by now so this hurts. This is almost like a knife running along my heart. Like it's not cutting but instead playing with me. This was a hard life.

I convinced myself I was overthinking existence and let myself just dance with her. I don't want my time I spend with her to be spent stressing but also I wasn't going to force her to love me. No matter how much I love her. This was going to be hard. Harder than I realise and know.

Puffy and I stopped dancing after a while. Puffy was the one who had stopped the dancing since she wanted to do something. I could tell by the look in her eyes. She grabbed onto my hand and at this point I just knew to follow her.

She took me to a room I hadn't spent a lot of time in. It was hard to even recognise what the room was. It was a weapon room, a practice room, a fighting room. It was full of swords all lined up in a rack. There were also bows and arrows lined up along the wall. What the room was mostly filled with though was the endless mannequins. They filled the room and most seemed to have crosses to a target.

I knew why Puffy had brought me here. She wanted practise but I didn't want to think if it like that. It's fun to learn this stuff and plus thinking of it like that wouldn't stress me out. I turned to Puffy for her to tell me what to do.