<The Devil's Desire> |Xiaother|

Beach Day! |Part 2|

After a few Minutes. The Chaos seemed to have died down and everything was going well, Everyone seemed to be doing what they wanted to do in the beach, Bennett and Kazuha are Swimming in the ocean, Xinqiu and Chongyun are sitting behind a palm tree resting together, Thoma is sun bathing but keeps getting interrupted by some girls who kept flirting with him and Razor is on a bench holding 3 sticks of barbecue with bacon on the sticks he was holding as he was eating a chicken leg, Aether seemed to be setting up a chair for him to sit on and relax in,

Xiao: Aether.

Aether: Ah!

Aether shouted in surprise but when he looked behind him, he realized that it was just Xiao and regained his composure,

Aether: Oh. Xiao, it's just you...what do you need?

Aether said still recalling the incident they had a few minutes back, he couldn't help but feel a bit awkward and flustered,

Xiao: what are you doing?

Aether: I'm setting up my seat?

Xiao stared silently at Aether as he looked at the seat that Aether was putting up and then back at Aether,

Xiao: why don't you swim?

Aether: NO-! mean...I don't want to get wet

When Xiao said whether Aether wanted to swim, Aether quickly grabbed his hair with an anxious expression and started clinching and twirling his braided hair making Xiao hesitant to ask more questions about swimming and just decided to lend a hand with preparing Aether's seat, Aether politely agreed to Xiao's help,

"After a few Minutes"

Aether: Thank you for helping me, Xiao!

Aether said cheerfully making Xiao feel funny to his stomach watching Aether smile,

Aether: Do you know where we could get drinks? I'm a bit thirsty.

Xiao shrugged his shoulders until Childe came up behind him and said,

Childe: your looking for something to drink? Come with me! I've already seen a place where we could drink!

Childe said as he tried to grab Aether's hand but Xiao suddenly grabbed Childe's wrist tightly and stopped him from grabbing Aether's hand, Childe looked at Xiao and realized Xiao's glare towards him looked very violent, that's when Childe slapped Xiao's hand away from his and decided to grab Aether's wrist instead, As Childe was dragging Aether to the place where he could buy some drinks, Xiao followed. The drink place was an open bar at the beach. Aether's eyes filled with joy as he didn't realize there was one, Aether went rushing towards it. As Aether was running towards the open bar, he saw a familiar face, he had red hair and looked a bit upset, Aether stopped rushing towards the bar stand as Childe was behind him wondering why he stopped and decided to ask him as Aether answered,

Aether: I feel like I've seen that red haired guy before...but I don't remember...

Xiao: Oh, it's the one who had a battle with the blue haired guy at the bar.

Aether looked at Xiao who seemed to have remembered and then looked back at the bar where red haired male was at to make sure if he really was the one who fought with Kaeya at the bar and realized it was him, Aether seemed shocked since he wasn't expecting for him to be there and remembered that he didn't know that he was a boy that time at the bar,

Childe: What's wrong?

Childe said confused, Aether hesitated to go to the bar as he would reveal that he was a boy and that the red haired male might think that he lied, Aether was also considering that he would be called a sick pervert just like what Kaeya said, Aether started thinking if he should reveal himself as a male or whether to still keep it a secret, as Aether was thinking, Xiao knew what Aether was thinking about, Xiao then went towards Aether, Xiao then grabbed Aether's hair and tried to untie his braid causing a reaction for Aether to slap away Xiao's hand from his hair and spoke,