Song for Isabelle *A Luka Couffaine Love story*

Chapter 21

I wake up to a tapping coming from my window. Hmm, that's strange. I reach for my phone sitting on the nightstand, and adjust to the light of the screen. 2:33 am. What the hell. The tapping continued and my heart began to quicken, I reached for the nearest thing I could find. I slowly make my way towards the window and pull back the curtain. Blue eyes meet mine and I jump back. Fuck! I whisper yell. I place my hands on my knees and try to calm down, as he opens the window and lets himself in. "Bells, are you okay?" he asks, coming towards me. "Yes I'm fine- just a bit startled" I say trying to calm down. "What the fuck are you doing here?" "Well there was an akuma in the neighborhood and I thought I might drop by. He says scratching the back of his neck. I look up at him and stay silent. "Mhmmm" An akuma, in Versailles? Yeah right. What are the odds the same day I run into Tobio, Viperion comes to visit me. If I had any doubt about who he was under the mask this little coincidence just solidifies what I already knew. Tobio is Viperion. I could catch him in his lie right now just by asking how he knew where I lived, but something about it felt wrong. "You know it's not safe to keep your window unlocked, anyone can just climb through it" he says, turning around and shutting it closed. "We're on the second floor? I don't think that should be an issue. Besides I got it covered, ''I say, raising my hand to show the object in my hand. " Ahh yes, the lovely smell of strawberry pound cake should stop them" he says, taking it into his hand. "What?" I say reaching for it back and taking a look at what I had grabbed. Which happened to be none other than my spray. I mentally facepalm myself and begin to feel a bit embarrassed. Before I can dwell on it for too long I feel a strong set of arms around me. A sweet caramel scent filled my nose and my heart skipped a beat. I slowly begin to raise my arms up and return his embrace. Why does this feel so right when he's Viperion but so wrong when he was out of the mask. "I missed you so much Bells, why did you leave so suddenly? I passed by your apartment one night and all your stuff was gone. There was someone else living there." he whispers into my hair.
"I'm sorry, i just had to get out of there" i say, my voice cracking a bit. There was a long silence after that, he didn't move an inch away from me. He just stood there with his arms wrapped around me and I let him. The familiarity of it all was overwhelming and I couldn't help myself from letting my tears fall from my face.''shhh it's okay, it'll be okay" he said with his hand petting my head. I begin to pull away and I feel him tense up but he doesn't stop me. "Umm i'll get us something to drink," I say as i make my way out of the room. He begins to say something but then stops himself as I close the door behind me.

Viperion/Luka P.O.V

She was in my arms, and once again I let her slip away. I missed her so much, and having her so close but so far is driving me insane. I take a look at her bedroom and smile at the guitar in the corner of the room. I pick it up and make my way to her bed. I begin to strum a few chords before she walks in holding two water bottles. "You play?" she asks, setting them down on the bed and sitting across from me at the edge of her bed. I chuckle at how flustered she is, her cheeks burning red barely noticeable in the moonlight. "I dabble '' I say not wanting to reveal too much of my secret identity.
I play around with a few of the chords for a bit before looking over at her. "Great another guitar boy" she says, rolling her eyes playfully. "Mmm, well hope guitar boys are your type" I say with a wink and a smile leaving my lips. "It seems you are," she said barely above a whisper. My heart skips a beat and I try to control the need to pull her closer to me.
"So have you written anything new?" I say handing her the guitar. "Just a few songs here and there nothing special. I came to Versaillies to get a bit of a break... a fresh start if you will, so writing songs about past experiences, Well that kinda defeats the purpose... Don't you think?" She says as she strums the chords lightly with her finger. Her hair falling softly from behind her ear, her smile faltering a bit. "So- how did you know where to find me?.. Are you perhaps stalking me ? mmm ill have you know that's not very heroic...i'm sure ladybug would agree" she says tilting her head back letting out a small chuckle. "Well in honesty there wasn't an akuma in the area.. I just came up looking for a relative I couldn't get a hold of, when I saw you walking around.. At first I couldn't believe it was you... you had disappeared so suddenly and here you were in my path once again.. So i took the chance and now i'm here" i say scratching the back of my neck hoping she believes me, i mean i'm not lying but i'm also not being completely honest with her. I came here looking for her, I needed to find her.
"Well isn't that a funny coincidence, well i'm glad i got to see you again, Viperion '' her eyes twinkling under the soft glow of the moonlight. She sighed and stood up walking towards her window. "You know I want to go back... but I'm just afraid," she said, taking a strand of her hair and twisting it softly around her finger. "Bells, why did you leave paris?" i said, the knot in my throat forming as the words came out. She looked back at me and then back at the window, the soft wind blowing the hair out of her face softly. "Remember that guy i told you about a while back, well we talked and things... kinda got fixed ...and one thing led to another and we had..you know.." she said moving around frantically. "And I panicked, there were a million things running through my head and I needed a moment, I needed time and space to figure out if this was really what I needed... So I packed up all my stuff and left. I just couldn't deal with it. Everything was so overwhelming and I just felt like I needed space to breathe and I feel like no matter who I talk to, they still don't understand why I did what I did... like i understand i broke his heart. I'm well aware, I ran away and I left all the pieces behind and I just don't know what I can do.. But I know I did what was best for me in that situation. I did what was best for me and that is not a crime. I finally put myself first and I feel like such a terrible person for doing so." her eyes held the clearest of tears, they fell from her face slowly as she walked back and forth in front of her bed before finally picking a side of the bed and sitting on it. She held her face in her palms and broke down in sobs. I reached over to her and held her in my arms. Her body was shaking underneath mine. I didn't say anything. I didn't have to have all she needed right now was to be held. So that's what I did. I let her use me, because that's what she needed. She didn't need solutions, she didn't need a response. All she wanted to do was be heard, she had been holding everything in for awhile and she just needed to unburden herself. So i'll provide her with a safespace and just hold her until she wants me to go. Because that's what you do for the one you love.