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CHAPTER THEME SONG: Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You), by A Flock of Seagulls
(argento's pov)
It was a new day, and y/n and I were adventuring together now. She was wearing a new ruby-themed outfit, and I couldn't lie to myself -- she looked absolutely stunning. A grass-green dress with earrings, a necklace, and ornaments, and she was just gorgeous. I couldn't stand it! I did my best to walk a little behind her so she didn't see how tight my pants were getting...
I still couldn't decide just what it was about her. Her laughing green eyes. Her smile. Her hair. Everything was just so perfect. A scent of roses hung about her, but no, it couldn't be that, it had to be something more...
She laughed when she saw my head in the clouds. That laughter was perfect. "What are you thinking about?" she asked in that sweet, musical voice. Perfect.
"Oh, nothing." I lied. I couldn't let her know how perfect I though she was...
"Y'know, you really do space out a lot, Argento. I can see you're not stupid, or you couldn't do all the things you do, but... why? What's really on your mind?"
Damn, she'd seen through my lie. She was perfect. Damn it damn it damn it!! "I was just thinking about how beautiful it is out here, and that I never knew because I was holed up in that cave making weapons and teasing Norzie-- oh morning Norza! How's it going?" My favorite person in the world had shown up.
Norza smirked. God I hate it when he does that! "Good to see you two getting along," he said smoothly. "I wonder what you'll do later, when it comes time to sleep... I just wanted to see what you were up to. You still owe me that sword, Argento." I mentally smacked myself. The sword! I'd bet my favorite sword that I could beat him in poker and, well, things hadn't happened the way I'd hoped. "Ugh fine Norza, you win! Here you go!" I snapped my fingers and the blade appeared in my hand. I pretended to look at it one more time, when I was really casting a spell on it to make it off-balance. He snatched it from me before I could finish, and the results were better than I'd dared to hope. He threw it back at me. "Devilry!" he cried. "How do you use this, Argento?! This is the most off-balance thing I've ever put my hands on! You keep that garbage to yourself. Goodbye!"
I would've called him Norzie, but I just wanted y/n all to myself and for him to go away, which he promptly did, to my amazement and delight.
y/n looked at me incredulously. "Is he your friend?!" I gasped in affront. "WHAT?? You actually think I would associate with that loser out of choice? Jeez y/n I have standards too y'know. Now lemme fix this...?! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT I HATE YOU NORZAAAAAA" I yelled in fury. "What?" she asked me. "I put this thing off balance so that he'd give it back to me, and now he's fixed it that way! Oh fuck you Norza."
We sat down by a river and talked for a while. When night fell we decided to camp out here, and we fell asleep peacefully. God, how I wished there'd been more...
