Beautiful Things (SeaChaos)

Part 12 - Fired

~Nanners' POV~

Sighing in relief when I escape the Nanners clothes and get into the more comfortable clothing, I stretch and yawn as I leave my room. That was relaxing, and seeing Chilled in that state was absolutely relieving. One thing bothered me, his tears. Usually no matter how much I teased him and how much he were to be in pain he never cried in front of me. When I told him to tell me his problems I was being serious, but if I were so considerate as Nanners, wouldn't it be suspicious? I frown, this double identity thing is even confusing me in the end. When I enter the living room I notice the house is quiet, completely quiet and empty of any noise. Cathy must be asleep by now and this time she didn't make me any dinner. Usually she leaves me like a small "good job" dessert after all do My Nanners jobs but now I feel as if we're getting more and more distant even if it is just a "break". The front door begins to make some noise, confusing me as I head over towards the door and pause in front of it. Could Chilled have followed me? No, impossible.

"Ch-Chilled...?" I stare in shock seeing Chilled as a complete mess and seeing this with a pang of guilt hitting me. His clothes are still dissheveled and messy but he's seemed to clean up everything that really mattered at least. Quickly I reach out for his hand and pull him inside immediately getting him out of the cold and shut the door behind him.  "You're a mess, what happened? Are you alright?" Chilled just stares at me blankly before smiling and I feel a terrible feeling come over me. I hate it when he smiles like this, this lying smile I ignored before today. The lying smile I pretended to acknowledge as a true one until now. Without holding back I hit him roughly on the head causing him to flinch but  no angry and spirited complaints are made like the usual Chilled I love.

"Knock out of it, will you, Chilled?! You're obviously not in the right mind right now, don't pretend to smile that only insults me. I told you if you ever needed to talk about anything talk to me, didn't I? Do you want to talk?" Chilled silently shakes his head so I feel the urge to hit him but resist it this time, only grabbing onto his shoulders tightly, shocking him as he meets my eyes for once. "Then why did you come here out of all places?" Chilled stares at me with wide eyes for a long time before I see his tears rim at his eyes and he charges at me, hugging me tightly. I hesitate as this man hugs me tightly and hesitate to touch him when another sound comes from the stairs and Cathy comes downstairs running her eyes sleepily.

"What's going-" Cathy notices Chilled and widens her eyes and spins around in a circle pretty much wondering what to do. "Chilled you're a mess. I'll go get something for you, I'll get something ready for you hold on," Cathy says as she scrambles up the stairs making me giggle as I watch her. She's cute, it is her kindness and sweetness that made me call in love with her in the first place. Glancing back down towards Chilled I notice him watching after Cathy with a sort of dazed look as if he were thinking about something. I ruffle his hair roughly before pulling away from him.

"Come on, the shower is this way. I'll put in a new set of clothes while you're in there," I say and smile when he just walks in still seeming to hold a blank expression. Did I break him? Maybe I shouldn't have left him on the ground like that but I was afraid when he would recover from being in his daze that he would jump me and attack me, capturing him. Even as Nanners I should have made sure he was alright from the moment I saw him walking up behind me stealing the hand. Just his walk was different from usual and he was being brasher than usual, charging forward to me fist first. Closing the door behind Chilled I frown and glance back feeling extremely guilty. Cathy comes down the steps holding some clothes that belonged to her brother and I nod, taking the clothes and opening the door to the bathroom again. The water is running and Chilled is most definitely taking a shower behind the curtains. For a moment I think about joining him then immediately erase those thoughts from my mind especially when he's like this.