Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Romance

    A couple hours have passed from the incident. I'm surprisingly feeling better, however, I'm not close to feeling excellent. When I get better, Kagura promised to show me around the Hidden Mist village! I'm kind of excited, but also nervous. See, I never had a good experience with villages ever since the war between the "outsiders" and forest tribes. I started to think about what the village would look like, and how the villagers would react to seeing someone from the Ebott forest in village surrounded by water.
    Kagura noticed my face and chuckled. "What 'cha thinking about, Lyoko?" 
    I snapped out of my thinking state and looked at him. "N-nothing."
    He looked at me in a questioning way. "Are you sure? You seem to have something on your mind.."
    I nodded.
    Kagura nodded too.
    After that little "chat", I felt completely better. 'That was fast..' I thought to myself.
    Kagura noticed that I wasn't in pain anymore. "Hm? You feel better already? Damn, that was fast." Kagura said.
     I giggled and looked at him.
     "Well, a promise is a promise. Let's go out,  and I can show you around the village." Kagura said.
    I nodded and started to put my shoes on. Once I was ready, we went out. When we entered the shopping plaza, my eyes widened with excitement. I've never seen something so beautiful— other than going to Los Angeles.
    Kagura noticed my expression and chuckles. "Are you enjoying this so far?" He asked.
    I nodded. "This is just like LA!" I exclaimed, sounding all happy.
    Kagura smiled. "You're so cute, Lyoko." He said to me, playing with my super long platinum blonde hair.
    I blushed sapphire blue when I saw him playing with my hair. "W-what the hell are you doing?" I question him.
    "What? I'm not allowed to admire your beauty?" He looked towards me and smiled.
    I honestly never heard those words before......... Beauty...... admire...... I mean...... not in the good way. People from school always wanted to look at me because I'm beautiful and admirable........ I never asked to be beautiful or admirable, but...... I never look at myself that way. All I see is...... a very depressed teenager who constantly cuts herself because of her horrible past. I've been used, and abused. What's so beautiful about that? I'd love to show people my scars from cutting, but I can't. I'd get in trouble, and my aunt and uncle would never forgive me. I honestly can't........ As a start to think about all of this, I start to get depressed.
    Kagura looked at me and hugged me as a way of saying, "it'll be ok.... I promise."
    I look down and say nothing.