Spring days

Chapter 1- Guilt

Lumine's POV

"Lumine??"

"LUMINE WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU???!!"
I hear kody shouting at my from downstairs. He was having a real shit day, so I simply obliged to whatever he asked from me.
"I-I'm upstairs in my room! D-did you need me?" I shout back. I hear him groan and go up the stairs. He scares me, sometimes when he's like this.
BAM
Kody kicks my door open with a brightly coloured box in his hands. "Why weren't you downstairs? You've been in this room all day!" He scolds me. "I've just been doing a lot of thinking recently... I'm sorry," I reply sheepishly. He sighs and hands me the box, then lays next to me on my bed.
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"What's in the box?" I ask him. "I didn't know when your birthday was so I decided to make it today," he sighs. I feel my face heat up a bit. I try and resist the urge to hug him, but I couldn't help it. I thank him a million times and slowly open the box. Inside there was a large snow globe with what looks like me and Kody playing in it. I shake the snow globe and the little figures inside started moving around on their own! It was absolutely amazing, and I was held speechless.

"So did you like it or not?" Kody asks me. "Of course I like it! It's amazing!" I laugh. I see a small grin form on his face for the first time in a while. I placed the harry-Potter-like snow globe on my bedside table and laid down next to Kody. "So... you told me you've been thinking a lot recently. What have you been thinking about?" Kody says after a few minutes of dead silence. I felt my face heat up a bit. I had a crush on Kody, and I've been trying to clear my mind of him. I barely even see him much, since I enclosed myself in my room. I couldn't tell him what's on my mind. That'd ruin everything we've built up until today. Think, Lumine, THINK! "I've been thinking about... things. I've been thinking about many things, but you wouldn't want to hear about my boring thoughts. Ahahaha..." he laid on his side to face me with a dead serious look on his face. "I'm being serious. What's wrong?" He says sternly. We're only inches apart, and I can feel his light breathing on my neck. "I think I should talk about it a different time. Now isn't a good time" I reply softly. He shook his head and proceeded to walk out of my room with his head lowered.

I hear him making something in the kitchen, so I instinctively looked to see if he needed help.
He's making soup.. is someone sick? "hey k-Kody" I stutter. Fuck, why did I stutter. He waves with a ladle in his hand and continues cooking. I smells glorious in there, so I step in slowly to get a better whiff. "Do you wanna try some of it? I dunno if I added enough salt," he asks while still stirring the pot. I nod my head eagerly and run up to taste it. "Hmm.. I think I needs a bit more.. it's super good though!" I blurted after tasting it. He nods and adds a bit more salt, stirring it again every so often. "It'll be done in about.. 25 minutes. Go do something else in the meantime," Kody tells me. I nod and go outside in the treehouse. The floor of it was still damp from yesterday, when I was crying. I try to ignore the event that occurred yesterday, even if it's still freshly imprinted in my mind.

~*flashback*~

The door to my room creeks open... wait. Nobody's home to do that.
I hop out of my bed to investigate what that was about, since the ac was off and there was no wind outside. Everything moved in slow motion. I heard a person crying in the kitchen. They hissed and whimpered, as if they were in pain.
That's when I saw Kody in there, leaning against a table leg.
I was about to say something, but decided to watch and see what happens.
It was a horrible decision on my behalf.
"That stupid white mutt won't stop bothering me... and now here I am.. cutting my arms just to show him that he should be scared of me. And to think I was his friend" he muttered.
I rush out to the treehouse in case he saw me. I cry silently until I cry myself to sleep.
Spring days never got along with me until today. The day I cried myself to sleep outside. The spring warmth of the night cradled me, and I thank it.

~*end flashback*~

Tsk... "I'm pretty pathetic if I'm going to be honest with myself." Guilt flowed through my body as I looked at the damp spots. I shouldn't even feel guilty. It's not my fault I'm a weakling... is it?

Kody's POV

25 minutes is up... I should find Lumine. The soup I made for Lumine was finally ready, but where the fuck is he?? I look in the places he usually hides in and I eventually found him in the treehouse looking at the wooden floor of it. "I'm pretty pathetic if I'm going to be honest with myself," I hear him whisper. He looks like he's on the verge of tears. "Lumine, are you alright in there?" I shout to him. He yelps in surprise and looks down at me with his blue and yellow eyes. I never noticed the dark circles around them until them until now. "H-how much did you hear?" He says softly, wiping his eyes of the threatening tears. "Nothing.." I lie. He looks at me with suspicion. "Ok fine! I only heard that last line... is something bothering you?" I ask. I climb the ladder and look Lumine straight in his eyes. He adverts his gaze and cups his hands in his lap.
"I said 'I'm pretty pathetic if I'm going to be honest with myself'. It's nothing that should have concerned you... now I feel guilty for dragging you along my train of thoughts," he said. I grabbed his shoulders and pulled him close to me-something I'll regret later on in the story but the fourth wall will have to wait and figure out why because ceiling~Chan is too busy to post weekly now. "You shouldn't feel guilty if I'm the one that didn't notice earlier you weren't ok!" Tears threaten to spill again from his glass-like eyes. His small hands ball up into a tight fist (I'm ready, fist me daddy) and begin to shake. I place my hands over them and bring them up a bit, making him relax slightly. "Now that we have that cleared up... what's wrong?"

"Well.."

HENLO ITS CEILING~CHAN. Yes, I left this on a cliff hanger. Either way, I hope you enjoy this story so far :)