ᏔᎻY Ꭺ ᎠᎡᎪᏩNᎬᎬᏞ

Time

I feel myself slowly wake up as I grab what felt like my pillow, I quickly realized it wasn't. I lift my head, waiting for the blurriness from being unconscious to go away the picture becomes clear as I see Grey doing the same. Our eyes widen as our faces are an inch apart. "Ah!", we react quickly separating, but still staring at each other. I can feel my face burn up once again as the air fills with awkward silence, till we hear a little snore. We look down to see Hikari asleep, our faces have the same expression as we look back up causing us to smile. We get up fixing our clothes and realize everyone is asleep.

"What happened?" I ask in a whisper. "How should I know?" he whispers back. I roll my eyes turning back picking Hikari off the floor. I pat her back so she stays asleep. "Guess everyone decided to have a sleepover," Grey whispers, scratching the back of his head. I look around to see everyone snuggled up together on different parts of the guild floors, I smile at the silly sight. "Hey, let's take her to the infirmary," I whisper, walking next to him. "They have a bed there, and I really don't feel like walking home," my whisper turns into a yawn. He nods before guiding me past our snoring guild members. Entering the infirmary in the guild, a flash back to when I first woke up after being attacked comes to mind.

I shake it away after walking towards a bed. The same bed I was once in, in the corner of the room I place Hikari down. She turns as I cover her with the blanket. It's the middle of the night and the moon light shines into the room through a big glass window. I see Grey pat Hikari's head before we sit down on the floor leaning against the bed for support. I let out a sigh. "What's up", he asks. I turn to look into those deep dark blue eyes. Before I lose myself in them I look away, up towards the ceiling. "The guy, you know Hikari's kidnapper, when I questioned him earlier today he told me where they took Hikari from," I say. I look down from the ceiling and straight ahead, "And?" he asks. "And... I don't want to take her back," I say grabbing my forehead before pushing the hairs that fell to my face back. I turn to look at him, forcing a smile. He frowns, "I don't either -" it made me happy to hear him say that.

"But we have to," he continues, and I knowing the reality I end up frowning as . "She doesn't even remember her family. What if she doesn't have one-" I begin. "What if she does?... What if her parents are worried about her right now?" Grey cuts me off.

I stop to think about the possibility, "You're right." I look at the ground. "Damn, I'm horrible," I say in a chuckle. "No, you're not...", he tells me. After a short pause I suddenly feel his arm wrap around my shoulder I turn to look at him, "I thought about it too", he continues trying to comfort me. My body relaxes as I let out a sigh. "Don't fight me on this one Frosty, but let me borrow your shoulder for a minute ok" I say positioning myself as I lay on his shoulder.

He doesn't say anything, letting me rest. Everything about this seemed right. I felt so warm under his touch, I felt safe. His smell is like fresh mountain air after the ice melts becoming streams of water, it was peaceful. I lower my head towards his chest and listen to his heart beat. It increases suddenly causing me to look up slowly. Hard to see in the moonlight his face was flustered though he tried keeping a serious face. I couldn't take my eyes off of his being so close where we now share a breath I wanted to feel more. We slowly lean towards each other with a hesitant feeling.

The moments cut short as I see a shadow form heading closer towards the infirmary's window, Grey turns as well. The window suddenly breaks causing us to spring up. We walk cautiously in front of the now broken window. Seeing something in the distance grow closer, it was the same creature that attacked me months ago and they had returned. Grey glares at the being putting his arm in front of me, but I push him away, "No, I'm ready for you this time," I say, blasting the creature away.