"You're only meant to be mine" - Albether (Genshin Impact)

~Prologue~

Albedo

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Ever since the Traveler came to Mondstadt, I've always been fascinated by everything about him and when we got closer, I always had this strange feeling, which I didn't think was common in humans, around him. Even when I get closer to Aether, my heart starts beating uncontrollably, beyond my control, and my cheeks blush slightly. I knew how to hide my nervousness, but the flush on my cheeks was inevitable sometimes. I always excused myself saying that it was because it was cold in Dragonspine, it was hot, or because I simply had a cold.

In a short period of time, I came to the conclusion that I was in love with him, there was no doubt of how much I was attracted to him in every way possible. Every time I had the opportunity to be with him, I made the most of it and I felt like I was floating in the clouds or as if I were in a field full of cecilias and having him as my greatest interest and what stands out the most amongst all that beautiful nature around us.

But I've started to develop this... strange obsession, which is nothing compared to the "love" I felt when I saw him from afar and the emotional relief I felt seeing him and feel his warm hands when I had the chance to.

No, this is even more different from that past feeling... I need to spend all my free time with him, make sure he's okay and be able to see what he does in every possible hour, minute, second and tenth of a second. I couldn't get him out of my mind. When he wasn't around Mondstadt, I used to create different drawings of him on large canvases that I later exhibited in my basement room and on some walls of my laboratory with other works. Now I don't have enough space to leave them there, so I keep them in my house.

I wanted him whole, his touch, absolutely everything about him and nothing would stop me from keeping him with me, from having a future together, from not losing him, from feeling the same way about me and from being one for the other.

Every time I saw him next to another person, talked to one and seemed a little too close to them, I felt the need to get rid of them as soon as possible before they fell in love with him.

Aether, you're going to become mine sooner or later...