Haha! So Sheba Arc is over! Be prepared for a shitton of drama! But not yet though... I'll let you all suffer a bit more... ;-)
Too many questions, with little to no answers.
But the most loud and prominent voice in his head was,
Is the ring on the wrong girl?
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Sheba and Aladdin went back to their hotel room, the apartment was with a content silence.
The members of the household had each gone to their rooms to sleep.
All except Solomon.
He stood up and went to a room.
He raised his hand...
and knocked.
The door was opened not too long later.
"Solomon?"
"Ugo,' he nodded to his friend,'May we talk?"
Ugo nodded, opening the door wider for him.
"Alright."
Without a word, the blunette went in.
And they both made a move to sit down somewhere in Ugo's messy, library like room.
"..."
"..."
Ugo cleared his throat,"What is it you want to talk about, Solomon?"
"Did you know about this?"
Straight, blunt and to the point. Such was the way of Solomon Jehoaz Abraham.
Ugo sighed, clearly expecting this,"Yes."
"Since when?"
"Since 6 years ago."
"So you've always known?"
"Yes."
Ugo's eyes were calculating and blank. Both men aware of the tension in the room.
"Why did you not tell me?"
"Because she said not to."
Ugo felt a bit childish for saying a response like that, but he shook it off.
"Why did she not want to tell me?"
Ugo paused, brows furrowing and confused, tilting his head to the side,
"Did she not tell you already? She did and still does not want to separate you and Arba. She did not want Aladdin to grow up with a father who does not love him. But most of all,' He paused.
'She did not want to be stuck in a loveless marriage."
His eyes searched Solomon's, seeing shock, feeling satisfied with this response, he continued.
He lowered his head, his voice and eyes softening.
"She cried a lot you know, and it was really hard for her, and as her friend, it pained me to see her like that. She confessed to me that she had many reasons, valid reasons, that she did not want to tie a relationship with you. But... at the time she said that,'
He listened to her sobbing, and sighed, running his hand on her back and shushing her softly.
"U-ugoo----I---don't---
"There, there, Sheba. Calm down."
"I don't want to be in a loveless marriage!"
He saw the fear in her eyes, the scared look she had. Honestly, she looked nothing like the strong woman he always saw.
"You won't be, there's nothing to fear."
She sobbed again.
"Shhh... Shhh... Just let it all out. There, there."
He ran his hand down on her back again.
That was the only time she cried so much.
The only time he saw true fear in her eyes.
And by the gods, he swore that he never wanted that look to appear ever again.
'There was so much fear in her eyes that just wasn't her... I'm not accusing you, Solomon, no one is. Not even Sheba. She knows it's just a matter of circumstance."
"Mm."
Solomon nodded,'That doesn't help with the guilt I'm feeling though.' He thought.
Ugo sighed, seeing the guilt and remorse in his eyes,"Look, if you really feel guilty, then go talk things out with her. She's coming back tomorrow, talk then."
Solomon, again nodded and said,"I will."
He stood up and made his way to get out of Ugo's room, but when he was near the exit, he said,
"Thank you, Ugo."
Ugo smiled, and nodded his head,
"No problem, Solomon...'
But then his eyes turned hard, dark and steely. His look was as threatening as they come, a look one can never expect on such a cinnamon roll like Ugo himself.
'Sheba is... content right now. Don't do anything you might regret... again."
Solomon promptly turned around and nodded.
He wouldn't mess up, he couldn't... not again.
-------TIMESKIP TO TOMORROW!DESU~------
That morning, around 9:45 a.m., a visitor entered. Two, actually.
Yup, you guessed it! Sheba and Aladdin (the lil cinnamon roll :-))
"Sheba! Aladdin-kun! Come in!"
A smiling Arba opened the door.
"Thank you, Arba-chan."
Sheba nodded and smiled back to the glowing bride-to-be.
"Mm! Arigatou, Arba-obasan."
The child beamed and skipped in.
"Aladdin!"
"Tess-nii!"
Tess was in the living room with his parents, with his mother scolding him to 'like finish eating first, aru!'
"Have you eaten?"
Sheba was nudged away from her son's and nephew's banter.
"Yes at the hotel, thank you for asking, Solomon."
The dark blue-haired man nodded and went back to sit down.
Sheba's P.O.V. (And we're back, folks!)
After that question, I went back to watching my son and nephew play.
Then his stomach growled.
And my stomach also growled.
Ugo then came storming in,"Guys! I came as fast as I could! That sounded like an earthquake!"
My face reddened even more, I was pretty sure I looked like a tomato.
Everyone laughed, hell, I think Solomon cracked a smile.
"That was actually... me and Aladdin."
Ugo's confused face turned into one trying to keep in muffled laughter, in short, he looked like a constipated cinnamon roll.
"Pfft... why don't you guys eat then? We have some food."
"No, we can't possibly impose------
"Yay! Food!"
I facepalmed at my son, he was cute but... why did he have to get my denseness? I pity his future girlfriend...
"Aladdin! We can't just impose like that! Besides, didn't you devour half of that buffet-like meal me and Momo made?! Why are you still hungry? You have a bottomless pit for a stomach!"
I yelled a tad bit dramatically, flailing my arms around for emphasis.
He then whined and hugged me,
"But, mooooomm~,' His stomach growled again,'I'm still really hungry! Also, you ate half of the breakfast you and Momo-ojisan made!"
I blushed, Gahhh! Curse my son's denseness! And they say he got Solomon's I.Q. TT-TT
"Okay!' I said covering his mouth,'You can eat, but not too much, you'll get a stomachache. Now stop embarrassing Mommy."
With that said, we both went into the kitchen to settle our appetites.
Change P.O.V.!(For the first time in fore--- Yeah, sorry, too much?)
Solomon's P.O.V. (*Le gasp*)
I felt my lips twitch upward at the somewhat... cute (Yes, he thought cute) display of her and our son.
I thought back to what Ugo said last night,
"Don't do anything you might regret... again."
I took an unnoticable breath to steady my nerves and go talk to her again.
She and Aladdin both came out with a mountain of food on their plates.
I smiled, hardly noticable, it reminded me of the old times when she would do that.
I looked at her, more or less amused.
She stopped eating, a blush on her face.
"Don't look at me like that!"
I smirked,"But you've eaten the last three full plates."
She blushed harder and averted her eyes.
I then noticed a speck of food near her lips.
I brushed it away using my thumb.
She turned redder now.
"You had some food near your lips."
She turned further away so I couldn't see her face.
"O-oh, thanks..."
I could see the tips of her ears reddening.
How cute.
Then another person barged in with no warning whatsoever.
It was...
"Momo?!'
Sheba exclaimed,'What are you doing here?"
She made a move to get up and go greet him.
I felt a pang of... something, in me, that made me want to hurt Momo.
Strange... I usually don't feel like that.
Perhaps I've caught a sort of illness.
"Weren't you supposed to be going back to Reim today?"
"Well,' he ruffled his hair,'there's still time. And I was still going to tell you that your j------urmphrmmphemfhpmh."
I felt another rush of this queer feeling go through me as Sheba covers his mouth with her hand.
She quickly drags him out of the room amd outside, perhaps to talk privately.
They were there a while, and when they came back, Momo was a bit more agitated then he was before, and Sheba was pouting like a child.
Cute.
"Sorry about that, guys, I suppose I'll have to go now. Take care of yourself, Sheba. Goodbye, everyone."
Momo bid us farewell, although I could see Sheba twitch when she was greeted.
We then returned to the peaceful, albeit somewhat awkward silence there was before.
Until Ugo broke it by saying,"Would you and Aladdin like to go with me to this new library, Sheba?"
Sheba perked up immediately, but then Aladdin pouted,
"But Mom, I wanted to play with Tess-nii a bit more."
I wanted to chuckle at the childish request, he definetely took up a bit more of Sheba's personality.
She looked conflicted, biting her lip,"Well...err... I don't know Aladdin, do you all mind him staying here while I go with Ugo?"
Arba voiced out everyone's response,"No, not at all! He'll have fun here, go live a little, Sheba-chan."
Sheba blushed at her, muttered a feeble thank you, and bowed her head.
She bid goodbye to Aladdin before leaving,
"I'll be back before dinner. I'll buy something sweet for you, so don't eat dessert before your dinner, 'kay?"
Our son nodded obediently and hugged her before she left with an 'I love you.'
Another pang went through me after witnessing that, only this felt very different as to what I experienced when Momo was here.
As she and Ugo were about to leave, I rose from my seat and said,
"May I go with you both?"