The bracelet that leads to the future

Chapter 8: The unstoppable

Notes: Hi everyone!

Before I say anything let me say thank you to PipeDreamPrayer for Beta reading and giving advice. Without the help this chapter would have never seen the light of day.

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Chapter 8: The unstoppable

It was an Instinctive motion that made her turn around to see who was walking behind her, she did it without even thinking about it, her mind was still filled with heavy thoughts about the past days and about her promise to Yuri and Yusaku, the promise that she would find both of them.

Only half focusing, Serena saw a young man wearing a white shirt underneath a black jacket and a blue tie, loosely hanging around his collar. His spiky hair was blue and pink, but the thing that caught Serena's eyes the most was a flash of his emerald eyes.

Serena almost fell out of her chair from the shock. She had to grip onto it so she wouldn't land on the ground.

After managing to hold on and steadying herself, she jumped out of the chair.

The green eyes, the same eyes she had seen on the large screen, the same eyes she never wanted to see sadness on, the eyes she had seen hiding tears so often. They completely absorbed her.

Her son was standing in front of her. Yusaku was standing in front of her. She had searched for him since coming here and now...

The realization hit her and her mind was blank, she could only look for a long moment into the green eyes.

She only stopped staring as Yusaku closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Immediately her mind started to race.

Her heart was suddenly beating so quickly, her chest hurt and her mind could barely form a coherent thought.

Yusaku...

Immediately Serena wanted to do something, anything. She wanted to tell him how much she loved him, how sorry she was. A few times Serena opened her mouth to speak, but found that she didn't know what to say.

She cursed herself, why couldn't finding the right words to speak about things like this be easy for her, like it seemed to be for Yuzu? Why can't she think of something?

For almost eleven years she couldn't find the right words to reach him and now she stood there like every other time, an invisible abyss between Yusaku and her that she could not cross.

Her heart was aching and beating even faster, Serena was about to speak when Yusaku's eyes suddenly opened.

"Good afternoon, Serena-san." He said, quietly and without emotion. The coldness of his word immediately making her heart sting.

His voice was almost clear, almost calm, but Serena had looked into his suffering eyes too often not to see them ever so slightly tremble, struggling not to look away or blink. She knew that Yusaku was forming his hands into fists and forcefully holding his body strait to stop it from shaking.

Serena had often seen this fight, but Yusaku never won. It still sent a rush of pain through her body.

She felt how the tense silence was grinding on Yusaku, how hard it was for him. No more time for thinking.

"Hello Yusaku... It's good to see you again." Serena greeted, she wanted it to sound warm, to somehow tell him how she felt and to not be swallowed up by the abyss.