Purple Is Just A Color|| vkook

9.5~light as a feather

"Friends?"
"Friends."

My lips curl up into a smile and I turn my head, to see my friend who just had turned her head too and smiles at me with the most beautiful smile I have ever seen and I feel my heart flutter. 

"We should've been friends all along, you know?" 
Her voice is quiet but I can hear the happiness out of it. 
"I know, but what is a friendship without the dramatic beginning?" 
"That's true." A chuckle leaves her mouth, then she twists her face in pain, which causes my brows to furrow and I look at her, sorrow in my voice. 
"You okay?" 
"Yeah, my ribs just hurt a lot." 

I nod slightly. 

“Actually my whole body hurts.”
“Mutual feelings here, my head feels like it’s been run over by the Hogwarts Express for more times than I can even count.”
“God I am sorry, I never should’ve shot that Bludger at you.”
“Well I caused you to fall too, so I think that makes us even.”
“But your head is way worse than my body, you have way more injuries! And also you causing me to fall was an accident, me causing yours was my intention.”
“We all have those moments where we wanna kick somebody off a broom at 30 metres height, that is normal.”
Her chuckle lets me experience a feeling I haven't felt in a long time, or ever... 
and I want to hold on to it as long as I can.
The warmth spreading through my body, making me feel light as a feather, when suddenly another tear runs down my face. Not a tear of sadness, a tear of happiness watering my cheek and I don’t dare to wipe it away. 

“Thank you.”
I turn to her in wonder, her voice quiet. 
“What?...why are you thanking me?”
“For instance; you’ve cared about my drunk self, you've cared about my crying self, you've cared about my annoying self. You care for me even if I hated you at the time! You… bothered and at least tried to look beneath the bitch." 
I slightly tilt my head. 
"Well you're welcome." 
I smile at her, widely, and grin when I speak up again.
“Also… I had liked you for longer, really. For instance when I stole your clothes in the prefect bathroom and left you that note with the pride and prejudice reference? Or-”
Her laughter interrupts me and I look at her, as he is clutching her ribs while giggling.
“Me too”, she forces out, “I think that is when I first acknowledged that you were not completely… fucking stupid, I guess.”
“Charming”, I say dryly but can not stop grinning.
“It’s also interesting to see that you started liking me after you saw me with my clothes off. Usually that doesn’t go anywhere but here we are… as friends.”
She groans loudly and I know it isn’t due to her pain.
“Of course you’d say something like that. But I guess I found it fascinating that you could be so nonchalant all the goddamn time but you know… read something about true love and a couple overcoming everything that is thrown their way, including their own pride.”
I sigh quietly… if she only knew what her saying that means to me…
“Well… “ I say, raising my voice after a short silence had filled the air between us, “I think I liked you from the moment you told me to get the fuck out of your way and ran after me to try and stop me from smoking. I liked your hopeless dedication and determination. And it’s not like we could avoid each other so I… figured why not try and look at all the good inside you.”
There is no immediate answer and I lift my upper body off the mattress to get a better look at her.
She has rolled onto her side and looks at me with the fondest smile I have ever seen on her lips.
Her brown and blue eyes are filled to the brim with adoration and, with a breathless wince, she stretches her arm out to me and I take her hand between mine after sitting on the edge of the bed.
“I tried to see the good in you, too, … Tae. And see how much I found already.”
My heart flutters in my chest and I grin at her, not able to put the warmth I feel inside of me into words.
I think we are going to be really good for each other.
Maybe even meant to be, who knows.