Little | Future Jerza

Chapter 21 - Wishing Star

"It's a lot easier to be angry at someone,
than it is to tell them you're hurt."

– Tom Gates

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C h a p t e r⠀XXI -
⠀⠀⠀W i s h i n g⠀S t a r

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"He stopped. . . Breathing."

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Jellal tucked his fingers in the palms of his hands tightly, clenching his fists. He felt his body heating up in fury, although it was mixed up with the water that he felt was forming in his eyes. He was waiting patiently for it; he was expecting for anyone or his daughter or even, his wife to kill him now. Hearing her voice in pain from the quick second loss of her son, he knew what was about to coming.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Eric-kun. . ." Jeraline whimpered, as tears began falling off her face as her cheekbones rose up, giving her wrinkles of dysphoria. She could hear herself stuffing her nose and beginning to feel locked up in a room with no happiness at all.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Silence began to crept into the space, only hearing the sound of quiet sobs filling the air. Kagura and the others only tried to support Erza and the others, but she could do no more than that. Instead of paying close attention to her, she looked at Jellal with protruding eyes.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Do you really care about what the consequences would be if you only focus on one situation even if there's already two?" Kagura asked, in a dark toned manner.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Jellal didn't look at her. He didn't look at anyone, but the cold stoned ground. He bent his knees down fully, as he began controlling his tears. He gritted his teeth but he had no courage to say anything, or else, things would go bad.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"This was your fault, isn't it, Fernandes?" Maikeru asked, while cracking his knuckles. "You're like a mouse accidentally grabbing some rotten cheese and giving it to one of your loved mice and giving another a fresh cheese to another loved mice. I could compare you so lowly with an animal."

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Erza raised a sharp gesture at Maikeru, gasping on what his comments were. It wasn't only her that was feeling like that but also Jeraline, glaring at the man with her eyes. Maikeru was about to add something to what he was going to say until a voice started speaking abruptly.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Kill me."

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Everyone all turned to Jellal looked at him as if he was already killing himself. He was only sitting there, but then he looked at Erza with the eyes she had never seen in forever, the manic pacing appearance that appeared on her face.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"I'm sorry — I'm. . ." Jellal was asking himself why he can't seem to finish his sentence until he realized his voice was cracking from the amount of times he was trying to control himself to show his emotions in front of different people. Erza already knew this side of him and she knew how he didn't like showing this to other people; of course they would think he's a weakling.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Death?" Jun began talking then. "If that's what you want, then let me make my bombs ready and make your head pops out!"

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Erza, Jeraline and the others immediately dropped their jaw, as Erza covered her mouth with a possibly dead body she couldn't believe she was still holding. She watched her husband's actions, but he wasn't responding with any emotional states towards the man. Jellal was only averting his gaze reacting defensively, but nothing more.