Glitter and Gloom

Chapter 8

It was yet another summer night. Rascal sat on a bench with Sylvain next to him. With a brush in hand he pulled the buffoons out of his hair and started to brush it. "Don't jump on my head, Sylvain. The last thing I need is for you to ruin this right when I get it perfect." Sylvain rolled his eyes as if Rascal had said the dumbest thing ever. "I was the one doing this until you were sevenyears old, and you expect me to jump on you and "ruin" the worst job I've ever seen on your hair?" He then attempted to grab the brush from Rascal's hand with his mouth, but failed and poked his face on Rascal's long fingernails. His eyesight was not what it used to be. "You weren't much better. In fact, I think you might have been worse." All of a sudden, Chloe walked towards them and giggled "I didn't know you did your hair before we met up!" Rascal blushed and looked away. He wasn't sure if he was embarrassed or happy. A strange feeling started to form. Something that made him blush all the way to his shoulders. "Um...Chloe..." He didn't know what to say. "Do you have a hair tie I can borrow?" His face became an even brighter shade of red with each word. "Sure! Here you go!" She handed it to him as though it was proof of true friendship. He took it and tied his hair in a big fluffy ponytail. It felt like he was wearing a part of her. She kind of smelled like apples. 

Sylvain stared at him like he was expecting something. "We have been meaning to tell you about someone we've been looking for. Someone who hasn't been with us for a long time." Sylvain then pulled something out of Rascal's pocket. It was a photo of a family. A much younger version of Rascal, a girl with cotton-candy pink hair in two heart-shaped buns, a woman with sky blue hair and royal purple eyes, and a teenage boy who was most likely the oldest child. His hair was styled exactly the same as Rascal's, only it was purple and black. He wore a black bodysuit with lavender diamonds on the sleeves, and a ruffled white collar. He was almost a combination of Rascal and Emperor Nogo. Only, he was Nogo. In her mind she told herself "Lord Nogo, not Emperor Nogo." Was this what Nogo looked like? She then realized that she didn't see a father in the picture. What could have happened to him? 

She tried to focus on something else. She remembered how sweetly Rascal had sung just recently. "So, you're a really good singer. Maybe you could show me just how great you are." Rascal looked at the ground. "I-I'm not that good." Sylvain walked over to them and said "Actually, Lord Rascal is quite a talented singer and superior to that of most males his age." Chloe began to worry if this was going to end up like when the girls wanted him to take off his mask, but he sang a few songs and when he was done, he pulled Chloe closer.

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Their lips met, Rascal pushed his tongue into Chloe's mouth, and their tongues locked. Rascal pulled Chloe's tongue from her mouth and they kept their tongues somewhere in between their mouths. They held it like that for a while. Then they let go and moved away from each other. This was their second kiss. Chloe noticed that his mouth tasted like something. Had he eaten before they met up? Rascal moved closer. "I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me." He still remembered the first time they kissed. Chloe wrapped her arms around him. She wanted to kiss him again.