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[5.5] 𝘊𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

"Of course I am upset! I just found out that my siblings are being trafficked and we don't even know if they're still alive! Do you know how much that hurts!? I loved all of those kids as if they were my own-and now...!" My voice cracked, it hurts too much to say it verbally but I knew he got what I was trying to say.
"I know Y/n and I'm sorry you had to find out the truth this way, but there isn't exactly an easy way to tell anyone this." He told me as he looked up at the old worn-out brown ceiling. I began getting teary-eyed again and looked at my knees. I guess Ray noticed this because he got up and gave me his hand.
"Come on, get up N/n." He said bluntly, looking away from me. I could have sworn he was blushing.

I hesitantly grabbed his hand, facing him with my glossy eyes as he looked back at me seemingly shy
"Ray what are we doing...?" I asked him, confused on why he made me stand up, he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly and made eyes context with me
"Remember when Aidlen was well"adopted"?" Oh, Aidlen. I remember I was the closest to him when he lived here. He was my older brother by six years and well, I loved him dearly so when he left to "meet his new family" I remember crying for days, so much in fact Mama came to check on me every hour to make sure I was doing alright
"Yes, of course I remember him he was my older brother, why...?" I asked him with curious eyes.

 "Well I don't know if you remember, right after he left I caught you crying upstairs in the kid's room while everybody else listened to the new record player Kaia got?" He asked me, I hesitantly nodded
"I found you crying when I went up to get Marcie's barrette she asked me to get. So I went over to you and tried calming you down but nothing would work so I got up and asked you to dance with me. After that, you stopped crying and were happy for the rest of the day." He really remembered that? I just recalled the memory right now but I don't really see any relevance to it right now.
"And that useful how...?" I asked him, tilting my head as I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Since that time the only thing that got you to stop crying, I'm going to be using that method once again." He raised my hand which was still holding his and looked me dead in the eye and smirked 

"May I have this dance...?" 'Oh boy...' I thought as I blushed a deep crimson red, I nodded. 

He placed one of my hands on his shoulder while the other was holding his, he put his free hand on my waist as he pulled me in closer to him, I swear to god I could feel his hot breath on my face

 "U-um, what are we going to do? We don't have music." I asked him with red cheeks 

"Who said you needed music?" He started humming a familiar tune 'This is the song that Kaia always played on her record player...' I thought as I began slow dancing with Ray to his humming. His singing was so beautiful, so soft I couldn't believe it was him humming.

♪♬ 𝑾𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒏♬♪

We slowly swayed side to side, not making eye contact as it was a little too embarrassing to do so, so instead, I stared at the ground, blushing.

♪♬𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖♬♪

'Oh right this is a love song' I blushed at the thought. We continued slow dancing as I took a peek to see Ray's face, he was also blushing a crimson red as he stared at me with a shy look on his face.

♪♬𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚? 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏?♬♪

His grip on my hand and waist became tighter, making me make eye contact with him, he gave me a small smile as his gaze went back to the floor, a light tint of pink grazing his cheeks, my heart skipped a beat.