Electrify My Heart

chapter 10: comforting and confronting

warning/s: ITALICS ARE NATHANIEL'S COMIC SHENANIGANS also, fluff?? idk

unedited!

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The rain had stopped pouring and Nathaniel found himself at the front of your house. He went to ring the doorbell but it didn't work. He pressed it again and he heard nothing from the inside. He only noticed that the whole building was blacked out. He started knocking harshly on the glass door. Soon, he saw your dad coming out with a flashlight in his hands.

"Good evening, sir," Nathaniel began. "Has Y/N come home yet?"

Your father had wordlessly pointed his flashlight at the light switch that was surrounded with burnt marks on the painted wall.

Nathaniel had convinced him to let himself talk to her and he did. Now he was running up the stairs with his own flashlight and headed towards your room. He saw your mother standing by the door of your room. Your mother had turned her head at the sound of his footsteps. "Oh, Nathaniel."

He nodded in respect and hastily forwarded to your door. He hesitantly called your name. "Don't worry, Y/N. I'm sure he doesn't know about it. He may think it's because of the thunder."

"Nonsense. He would've known that he was hurt because of me!" You explained from the other side of the door. And when he heard your broken voice, he couldn't breathe.

He placed the side of his head on the wooden door. He let out a sigh. "Has Adrien told you that he likes you?"

"I can't be with anyone with this weird power. I'm not normal! We can't be together!"

"It's not weird, okay? It's not!"

Your head rose up from your hands. "You've drawn about this before, haven't you?" Your voice had cracked, knowing that it was true that he knew this was going to happen. That drawing of you holding Adrien's arm with his picture plastered in it, while he was being electrocuted...

Nathaniel winced at the memory and guilt flooded through his veins. "I'm sorry. At that time, we're not that close yet and we don't know each other very well."

He then heard paper being slid under your door and he saw a shredded piece of it. He bent down and pick it up. Both he and your mother shone the light and it read;

Please, just go back home.

The both of them only stood there, feeling hopeless and upset. With a gentle, assuring pat on his back, your mother had retreated downstairs to give him some space.

Nathaniel looked on the ground, his shoulders slagging down in defeat. He walked back to the things he had basically thrown on the floor. The light made him focused on the tote bag he had been carrying since the past hour, when he suddenly had an idea.

Meanwhile, you were listening to the sound of rain as your head was placed on your arms while you were sitting on your floor. This was it. You had officially given up. You were drained and helpless and there's nothing you could do but atleast accept the harsh truth and cold reality. In the midst of your sniffling, you heard ruffling from outside your door. You slowly lifted up your head and saw a paper being slid inside your room from the outside.

With the flashlight in your hand, you crawled towards the paper with all the strength left in you. You picked it up and saw that it was the drawing of you hugging 'Adrien' while he was electrocuting in your arms.

In frustration, you crumbled up the paper in your hands and threw it at the far corner of your room. More tears formed in your eyes. Great. He gave you one simple reminder of what had happened today. The last thing you wanted to do was hurt him, and now because of the incident, he may never look at you the same way again, or worse, he may call you a monster-