My head quickly turns to look at the scene. Kace's leg had a deep wound in it, the dark red blood spilling out. I rush over in a hurry.
"I'm sorry! It was an accident!"
Dyrk yelled in a panic.
Oh wow, one of the rare times he speaks. I pick up Kace's knife, cutting my sleeve off and I tie it tightly around his leg. He winces a little, but he'll be fine. I help him to his feet and start helping him to the bench.
"Oh please, I'm sure he's fine. He deals with worse during missions."
Hadrian says, scoffing.
I shoot him a glare. Times like these make me want to knock some sense into him. I turn back to Kace.
"Ignore him. Are you going to be alright sitting out?"
He sits there silent for a moment before nodding.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Sucks, obviously, but I'm alright. Could I possibly get my knife back?"
He asks this eyeing his knife that is currently in my hand. I give it to him, albeit pretty awkwardly considering I forgot I was holding it. He put it next to him on the bench. Everybody had apparently went back to training not paying attention anymore, or so I thought.
"Ol' boss back there is giving us a side eye."
Kace snickered nodding in the direction of Hadrian.
I slightly turn my head to look and there he is, doing exactly what Kace said. What's his problem? I swear I can talk to anybody but when I talk to Kace it's a problem. I personally don't understand, but oh well that's Hadrian's problem. Not mine.
"That's his issue. Not ours."
I state blatantly.
I sit next to him, avoiding the knife.
"How's Candie?"
He looks at me. I guess he wasn't expecting me to ask about his girlfriend because he looked slightly confused.
"She's good. Still working that job at the circus. Why do you ask?"
He stares at me with a curious expression.
"Because I haven't talked to her in a while. You do realize we're friends right?"
I respond. It's kind of funny how confused he looks.
"Oh. Right. Forgot about that. But nothing much has been going on with either of us."
He pauses before looking back at the others.
"How's your sister? Heard she got engaged."
Right. Forgot about that. I wish I would've kept forgetting until the actually time came.
"She's fine. Just wish she wouldn't have gotten engaged to Hiraya."
It came out sounding way more annoyed than I meant for it to.
"You sound agitated anytime you mention him. What's your problem with him? I know everybody on the team is supposed to hate him, but it's mainly Hadrian that does. None of us really have anything against him, but you do. I can get Hadrian, but why do you hate him?"
Valid question. I'm not sure I have a very good answer.
"Um...well we were friends at some point as children. Hadrian got bullied at school and shit, and it's like Hiraya was the most obvlivious creature ever because he didn't notice any of it. Any time I tried to tell him, he'd tell me that his friends wouldn't do that since you know, he was friends with practically everybody. So that pissed me off. It resulted in an argument and then we just, stopped talking to each other."
I never usually like talking about it. I only really write about my anger in my journals. Hell, I'm not even really in the right to be mad about that. It just irked me at the time.
"Alrighty then. I feel like that was more Hadrian's situation, but you do you I guess."
He said calmly.
Before I could respond, I was yanked up by my hand. I looked to see Hadrian. Oh God, what does he want now-
Oh. Everybody is done training. He has errands to run. I give a wave to Kace, seeing Dyrk help him up. He could probably walk just fine, but it was a pretty deep cut, so I guess it's sorta understandable. Hadrian starts walking with me, and once he knows I'm following he lets go of my hand. I sorta miss the feeling of his hand. He leads me outside heading towards the garden. Right, he likes his walks. I suppose I can't blame him, walks out here are peaceful and the garden is lovely. Even if the place always looks like a dark foggy night. It's almost never sunny here. No wonder why so little people live in the kingdom.
It's silent for a long time until he speaks.
"You look nice."
Nice? I'm wearing armor. Sure it's not bulky but it's also not like the armor dudes design women to be wearing in most RPGs, but I smile a little.
"Thank you. You look nice as well. I mean, you usually do, but today you look a little fancy too."
I wasn't lying or exaggerating there. He's wearing a dark purple suit. He always looks nice and fancy. He smiles at that, a small blush appearing on his cheeks. Wow, does it take that small of a compliment to make him blush? Maybe I should do it more often. He looks sweet when he blushes. Almost like when he was younger. He was such a sweet guy, but he kinda went on some sort of villain arc because of the bullying. I can sorta get it though. He would end up extremely bruised and bleeding after dealing with them. He was too much of a pushover at the time to try and defend himself. That's one of the reasons I was hired. To protect him from those shitheads. Obviously it wasn't enough though considering how he is now. He made some sort of dumb decision and ended up with a bunch of magic he used to kill almost every person there. It damaged his right eye. That's why he now wears a eye patch over it. I've never even seen it after it was damaged.
He leads me over to the fountain in the middle of the garden, decaying roses surrounding it that used to be beautifully red. He stares down at the water.
"Esmeray, we're friends right?"
I look over from the water to him.
"I mean, personally I thought I was just your knight to you, but yes, I consider us friends."
There's silence for a moment again.
"Then can we talk about something kind of personal?"
(A/N) Okay so my goal was to reach 1,000 words so yippee I reached it. Anyways, I don't know if anybody has any questions about any of this, but if you do, please feel free to ask away. I'll try and work on chapter four sooner or later. Hope you enjoyed!
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RomanceI don't really describe much so just know the two main characters are Esmeray and Hadrian. Shout out to my silly friends who helped me- Triantáfyllo and Helloimweird64931! Oh, check out my friend's channel Therandomgoofy_corpse :D