ToonieVilla AU

Chapter 12 - Snow Has Strange Effects Doesn't It?

---Chapter 12---

Snow Has Strange Effects Doesn't It

The tears continue to stream down my face and dampen my scarlet red cheeks, as I sniffle every couple of seconds to stop the snot running out of my nose in the most un-appealing fashion. The blonde sat silently by my side as I told him my painful past. He didn't interrupt, he didn't ask questions, hell he didn't even make a peep until I had finished talking. I don't know whether it was out of respect or whether it was because he didn't know what to say, maybe it was both? I didn't know.

TL looked like he wanted to say something, like he wanted to tell me everything was okay, but he didn't. What would he say? He'd just found my dad hated me, shamed me in front of the entire village, got bullied for months on end by my classmates which resulted in me attacking a student twice. And he found out the one thing I didn't want him to know, more than anything. I was gay.

"Villa..." Quiet whispers slip out of his lips as he looks at me, his eyes filled with a mix of worry and fear. "Why...Why didn't you tell anybody?" I simply shrug him off, not sure what to say. I didn't want mom to know, or she'd never get anything done. I didn't want m new friends here to know because...well would you want to tell people you'd just met that you'd have such a horrific past?

"I...I really don't know..." I hiccup and wipe my jumper sleeve across my cheeks. Having to re-think all of this had been an emotional rollercoaster and holding back my tears was a impossible task to ask of me, of anyone really. I couldn't control myself anymore and water continued to pour out of my tear ducts.

"Hey..."The teen scooted closer to me and carefully placed his hand on my shoulder. "Don't cry Villa. I hate seeing my friends cry." My cheeks blossom red at his touch but it wasn't really noticeable. I snuggle closer to him and sneak my arms around his waist, burying my face into his chest. We both sat like this for a while, not exchanging any words with each other. It was nothing new for us to be sat in a comfortable silence, however this was far from comfortable. Calling this comfortable was like saying a wooden bench was a better place to sleep then on a mattress. No this quietude was tense and awkward, nothing like what we usually experienced. I mean it wasn't as if he could just say 'oh don't worry, come on let's have a pillow fight!' and leave it at that. Pretend that everything that had been said had just suddenly evaporated into nothingness and didn't matter.

"Thanks for telling me. I know that must have been hard for you." He wasn't wrong. It was hard, very much so. But at the same time I feel as though a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Telling someone, even if only one person, what had happened was just so...there wasn't a way to describe the way I felt. Overjoyed? Relieved? Ecstatic? That was probably the closet I could get and even then it still wasn't close to how I truly felt.

I pulled back away from the blonde adolescent and stared into his beautiful ocean irises. They were so mesmerising and hypnotising I just couldn't look away from them.

"Villa? Are you okay?" I don't reply for a few seconds.

"O-oh! Yeah I just...sorry for staring."

"Nah, no worries." He smiles at me. God I loved his smile. Every time I saw it I felt so relaxed and I felt like he wanted to protect me. I felt so safe around him. Like nothing could touch me.

Without realising it, I had started to lean in closer to TL until we were only millimetres apart. My cheeks are on fire and I can't seem to stop myself. Before I know it our lips meet and I'm raising my hand up to feel and caress his cheek gently. I tilt my head a little bit to try and get a better taste. Finally it hits me; I'm kissing him. I'm kissing my crush. I'M KISSING MY CRUSH, WHO ISN'T GAY. I widen my eyes as the realisation has finally hit me and I instantly pull back. His eyes were blank, I couldn't read what his thoughts were and I knew I'd made the another mistake, possible even bigger than he one I'd made back in Animal Crossing. I was mortified. What had I done?