EXCEPTance//Jilix (OT8)

8//Hug

Someone gave him a hug and moved him into their arms. A hug. It was something he hadn't experienced in a good while. He moved deeper into the person's embrace, seeking warmth. Just weeping in someone's arms can give you a different type of strength.

After a few minutes, with puffy eyes, Felix looked up at the hugging stranger. He was met with a handsome face. The mystery boy had fluffy cheeks that he had the strange urge to squish at the moment. He must have from the little giggle that emitted from the boy that was holding Felix.

Trying not to ruin the mood, the older boy asked what had been on his mind ever he saw the boy nestled in his arms, pouring his emotions out "You don't have to answer, but why were you crying?" Felix looked up at him with big doe eyes.

"It's because I'm cursed," the boy sniffled.

"Why do you think you're cursed? You seem like such a soft and sweet person," the other boy wondered.

"Ever since we moved here, a woman told me and my parents that I was a sin. Everyone keeps giving me looks and parents have been shielding their children's eyes. My mom and dad also forced me to wear these colored contacts, but you somehow can still see some blue through it. My mom just told me that I was cursed after all. I then ran away and turned up to be here," Felix rambled, a few tears pricking the corners of his eyes.

"Hey, hey," the older shushed him, delicately cradling Felix's face in his large hands. "People here are very religious and are not as accepting. They just see something they think isn't part of that nonexistent 'perfect person' everyone wants to be. You are unique just how you are, okay? Let me prove it to you. Take that contact off. I assure you that you look much better without it." Felix tried (and failed) to get it out of his eye. The other boy carefully picked it out, gasping at the ice blue eye he was met with. This caused Felix to shrink back and look away.

I got over 7 hehe :)))