Love Me Through it All (KidxCrona AU)

Chapter 13 - Kid

Kid

It's been about a month since I...revived...or something. I don't really know. The whole process still confuses the hell out of me. Crona and I both haven't stepped out of the house other than to buy necessities. The school had called Crona a few times, and she always answers telling them she isn't mentally ready to attend again. Other than that things have been going pretty well. We are searching and discussing where we are going to eventually move, and how we are going to leave without being seen. Crona and I have been getting closer by the day. Lots of flirting. Lots of cuddling. Lots of hugs. Lots of kisses. We can't keep our hands off each other...it's actually...kinda nice to feel so in love...

"Kiddo...y-y-your on top o-of me..." Crona mumbled half asleep. I didn't realize it but I was laying flat across her stomach. I don't even know how I ended up there.

"Oops, sorry." I giggled a bit and rolled off of her.

"It's o...kay......" She curled up into my side and fell asleep. I could hear her even breathing. It's quite peaceful.

I'm actually kinda surprised we haven't gotten too handsy. At the moment Crona is wearing shorts and a tank top, and I'm wearing...just shorts. I mean you can't blame us. My apartment doesn't have air conditioning. It gets extremely hot. We would be on summer vacation by now but our school has one of those year round schedules.

Crona is such a cutie...

I kissed the top of her head and wrapped my arms around her.

I wonder...why me? Why her? Why now? It's funny how this works. I fell head over heals  for her years ago. In reality the guy never gets the girl he crushes on. Why do I get to live the fairy tale? What makes our relationship different? Destiny? Fate? What exactly is destiny and fate? She hated me at first, what changed? Is it because we share the same pain? Because opposites attract? But we aren't magnets. We're people. How do people work? How do we move our muscles? How is it that we can think? Why do we rely on oxygen? Why do we die? Why is there sickness? Why is there-

"Kid s-s-stop thinking..." Crona muttered. I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at her sleepy face.

"I thought you fell asleep..."

"I did. But I w-w-woke u-up. Y-you need t-to stop thinking Kid. No, I c-can't read your mind b-b-but I can read facial e-expressions. Y-you d-do that a-lot, you k-know? Y-you space out a-and g-g-get a very w-worried look on your f-f-face. I k-know your t-thinking about something s-serious, s-s-something deep...but I c-can tell it's s-s-stressing you out. I-I know t-t-there's a lot going on b-but I-I-I don't want you t-t-to make things w-w-worse for yourself....uh umm...Do y-you w-w-want to t-talk a-about the t-the t-things your t-t-t-thing about...?" I smiled slightly at her caringness, and the way she can read me.

"It's nothing really. I just started thinking about life, why and how things happen. I uhh...do that a lot. I don't know what else to think about at night..." she sat up and moved some of the hair out of my eyes and kissed me softly.

"O-or you c-can fall asleep w-w-with me..." She mumbled against my lips.

"Ahh, but baby it's not that simple..." She blushed and pulled away slowly while looking down in embarrassment.

"A-a-a-a-and why is t-that...?"

"It's soooo hard to fall asleep." I whined. Crona looked up at me with those big, mesmerizing eyes.

"Well, m-maybe I could h-h-help you..."

"And how would you do that?"

"I-I have my w-ways..." I gave her a small look then sighed.

"Alright. Fine. But promise me this, in the morning can we finally try to come to a decision about a new location?" Crona nodded.

"I-it's probably t-t-time we c-c-came to a conclusion about that. Anyways, l-lay down K-kiddo." She pushed me down onto the bed slowly so that I was laying down on my back and tucked the blanket in around the both of us. She curled up in a ball next to me and placed her head on my bare chest. "A-are y-you comfortable?" I nodded. "N-now close y-y-your eyes..." I closed my eyes as she commanded and she began to sing a lullaby. Not exactly the type you'd sing to baby, but the type that works for all ages. Very soothing, calming. Her voice was beautiful...

"Why weren't you in choir?" I asked her.

"Shhh......K-kid. Sleep." Almost instantly I did. No reoccurring nightmares, no waking up in the middle of the night. I fell asleep to the sound of her voice...

...And woke up to the smell of pancakes. Of course that instantly put a smile on my face. I rolled out of bed and threw on a plain black shirt and walked into the kitchen to see Crona flipping pancakes like no one's business.

"G-g-good morning K-kiddo!" She smiled at me. "I-I hope y-y-you l-l-like pancakes!"

"Who doesn't love pancakes?" I giggled and walked over to her and and kissed her cheek. She smiled and handed me a plate of pancakes.

"E-e-eat up!" She made herself a plate of pancakes and sat down at the dinner table. I sat down across from her and took a bite of the pancakes. They were decent...... "Cooking I-i-isn't really my s-s-speciality..." She laughed awkwardly.

"They aren't too bad...at least they aren't burnt..." she nodded.

"T-true."

"Anyways, I believe you owe me a conversation about where we should move to." I said changing the topic.

"R-r-right," Crona nodded getting very serious. "I w-w-was thinking about i-i-it a b-bit l-l-last night..."

"And...?"

"W-w-w-what about N-n-n-nevada?"