Love In The Shadows

~Chapter 3~

Elizabeth's P.O.V

When I woke up, I still felt really tired and my legs felt sore. I didnt bother thinking about it too much as I was getting a little bit hungry. When I was about to sit up I felt something was pulling me back. When I looked behind me I saw him. I could feel the heat in my cheeks as I was starting to remember what happened last night. I was crossing my fingers, hoping that it was all a dream. I had only one last hope to make sure it was just a misunderstanding. I took a deep breath and lifted up my bed sheets.

I soon started screaming out of shock. Unfortunately I woke him up and then proceeded to slap him without saying anything. I think I slapped him too hard as he fell to the floor. I quickly used my bed sheets to cover myself up. When he picked himself up, i could see a red hand mark on his cheek. "What, whats wrong?" I told him exactly what was wrong but it looked like he wasn't paying attention. "are you even listening to me." He simply nodded his head as he used his own darkness to cover himself before sitting down next to me. "Here, give me your arm." I didn't want to make him mad so I did what he asked. He started to carefully inspect each cut on my arm. While he was doing this, I decided to ask him about something. "I have a question." He looked up from my arm for a bit. "Is that so?" I looked down at my arm to each cut. "It just, when you left last night I couldn't get you out of my head." When i looked up I could see that I had his full attention now. "It pained me that i couldn't see you." I soon noticed that he let go of my arm. I used my hands to grab the covers and pulled them over my head. "What is that feeling called?"

Elizabeth, not knowing this feeling let out tears of frustration and confusion as she didnt know how to make that feeling go away. On the other hand, the king knew what what she was feeling as he felt it when she was not by his side.

Meliodas' P.O.V

When she said that it made me upset. She didnt know what she was feeling. For now I'll dodged the question and try to make her feel better. I was thinking about taking her somewhere until I remembered what she wanted to do. "Hey, how about we go visit the kingdom of Liones." She stopped crying for a bit as she now looked confused. She asked me why we would go there and I simply told her that its what she wanted to do yesterday. I got up and left her room so she could change. Before I went to my room I went to the kitchen to grab a bowl of warm water and then went to get some cloths and bandages from kilia. When I got to my room, I put down the stuff I was holding. I then quickly changed into a white, sleeveless coat adorned by a batch of black X-shaped buttons from all around the high collar, black lining on the coat, and a coat's tail. I also had white pants on with a pair of black boots. I then went to my closet and pulled out a black cloak.

When I was done changing, I picked the stuff I was holding earlier and went to Elizabeth's room. I knocked on her door until I heard a come in. I notice that my hands were full so I used my darkness to opened the door. When I stepped inside i saw that she had changed into a sleeveless multi-layered, frilly dress with different shades and layers of blue, with a blue collar and a white necktie around her neck. She also wore white leggings and a pair of blue flats. I quickly put the stuff I was holding to the side and started to conduct a size check on. I thinks she was confused for a few moments until she told me to stop, to which I did. We both sat down on her bed and I started to tend to her wounds. I put the dry cloth in the warm water and let it soak for a bit. I then squeezed out the extra water and placed the wet cloth on her cuts. She winced from the pain when the cloth hit her cuts. When I moved the wet cloth away, I got the other dry cloth and started drying off her arm. I then wrapped some bandages around her arm and tied the loose ends together. "Thank you for tending to my wounds." I told her not to worry about it but to not do it again.