The Dawn of Our Love

Getting Closer: Camus

It's been a few weeks since Camus and Arcadia went on a walk together with his dog. From what Arcadia had told the other members of DAWN, they expected Camus to be slightly nicer to her, but his attitude didn't change at all. He was still rude to her and in turn, she was still rude to him. The pair fought with each other at random times, which bothered everyone around them. One moment they could be talking nicely and even seemed happy with each other, but then the next moment they would be throwing insults at one another. It finally all led to where they were now. Camus had said something insulting about Arcadia's loner-type personality which offended the girl. Instead of getting angry and yelling at him, Arcadia went silent and casually stood up and walked away from the man. Camus instantly knew that he had actually upset the girl and had a bad feeling begin to grow within him. It was guilt, but he, of course, refused to acknowledge it as that.

After a few days of the female not leaving her room, her roommate Serin began to be completely over the other girl not taking care of herself. Since Arcadia was a recluse by nature, she was completely fine with remaining in her room for a long period of time to watch anime or read manga. It was worrying to the other female so she questioned Arcadia multiple times about it, but the female wouldn't say anything until she finally got annoyed with Serin questioning her and told her that "Camus is an icy bastard". Knowing who was the reason for Arcadia's sudden withdrawn behavior, Serin went after the man. She informed him that he was to fix her friend or else.

Of course, that didn't go well and it resulted in a full argument between the icy man and the concerned friend. It got to the point that Ranmaru had to step in and pull his companion away from Camus to ensure she didn't attack him or anything. However, she had gotten her message across and Camus had finally realized the full extent of what he'd done and knew that he had to make the emotionally wounded female feel better. He just wasn't sure how to go about it, so he went to the only person he could ask.

Camus couldn't trust Reiji to keep his mouth shut and he'd just be annoying to him, Ranmaru would just be an asshole to him and not help anything, so there was only one person left he was close enough to ask. Well, not really a person, but a robot; Ai. Ai had told him to take Arcadia somewhere that she'd like to be or to do a fun activity that she enjoyed. An act of kindness would be best for her type of person. His advice led Camus to an answer and also led him to Arcadia's door.

"So you want to take me ice skating, so I can learn to properly ice skate?" Arcadia was still sitting on her bed watching anime when the icy male knocked on her door. Serin had opened it and let him in despite Arcadia telling her friend not to. Camus had informed the female that he was going to take her to a skating rink for the sake of her poor ice skating abilities. He refused to say it was so he could help cheer her up, but Arcadia had heard about Serin's threats so she was aware that it's why he was making such a suggestion to her randomly.

"Correct. We will start tomorrow." Camus turned to Serin and then began to speak to her. "Please ensure she takes a shower and wears warm clothing." Camus then departed the room but spoke once more before closing the door. "I will be here at 9:00 am. Be ready."

"Take a shower? How rude." Arcadia grumbled to herself.

"No no, please. For the love of all the Gods and Satan himself, take a damn shower." Serin retorted as she went to the side of the room furthest away from the other female to start some songwriting. Arcadia looked at her in confusion and then sniffed herself. She hadn't taken care of herself for a few days, so she was a little horrified at her smell.