bright lights and secrets

Pain

"Amazing?" he said in his surprise. "no," he thought "i'm dreaming... this, this can't be real, it- it just can't!" Amalia stared down at her feet, too scared to see his reaction. Yugo winced, as the tears flowed down his cheeks. He pinched himself and felt the pain rushing through his arm. He cried, and pinched himself again, with more force, refusing to believe this was real. Amalia almost immediately looked up as soon as she heard a cry of pain. Upon realizing her friend's fragile state, she ran to him and embraced him in a tight hug.

"What are you doing to yourself? I said that your amazing!" she protested. "no! this is too good to be true! I can't believe it, I won't believe it! it can't be real no matter how much I want it to be real!" he cried as he tried to struggle free from her grip. "Yugo, I understand your pain is driving you mad, but believe me when I say this entirely real! Your not dreaming, it's not too good to be true!" Amalia replied painfully, seeing her friend act this way. "it's not real.. it not real.. it's not real! " Yugo told himself. He pinched himself once more with much more strength than he intended. The eliatrope screamed for a small period of time reacting to the pain he inflicted on himself. The scream was loud enough for the brotherhood to hear, catching their attention.

Eva yelped in pain as her sensitive cra ears caught the sound. Dally perked up suddenly, "a damsel in distress? Eva we need to save her!" Dally said enthusiastically. "That's not a girl Dally, that's Yugo, and I swear to cra, if someone touches a hair on his head, i'll make them regret it." Eva ran off into the direction of the scream, not waiting for anyone to follow.

Amalia let go of Yugo, quickly asking if he was ok. "i'm not dreaming." he paused "This is real, I- I don't know what to say... i'm... i... i'm..-" before he could finish, he had arms wrapped around him, a warm hand softly caressing his hair. "It's alright Yugo, I understand. You've been thinking and dreading the day one of us will find out, you expected hate, anger, disgust, all sorts of horrible responses, the last thing you were expecting was for us to accept it. When that happened, you completely freaked out, and couldn't believe that it was true." Amalia stated calmly. Yugo whimpered and cried, trying to talk in between sobs.

The princess smiled, "shh.. just relax Yugo, it's ok, it's gonna be ok.." she said continuing to run her fingers through his hair. As she did so, she felt something warm and fluid like touch her fingers, she looked and as she realized what she was touching, she smiled and kept stroking his hair and wings.

Eva ran in, panting for breath, closely followed by an eager Dally. To their surprise, no one was hurt or injured. All they could see was Amalia embracing a small crying boy in a hug. "Well look what we have here," Eva said surprised. Amalia looked up at Eva and smiled, "don't worry he's fine, just a little shaken up, that's all." Eva looked at Yugo and then at Amalia. "that's really Yugo?" "Yes." Amalia replied calmly.