"We can't." She whispered. A milk white hand shifted, and was rested gently on her hands that were clenched in her lap.
"And why not?" His soft breath in her ear, one hand sliding around her bare shoulders. She looked away quickly, her mind racing, searching for some kind of excuse, anything to hide her true feelings.
"Because... Well- You're twenty-four! I'm sixteen, for God's sake, compared to you, I'm a little kid!"
"You're more intelligent than many girls older than you. Age is but a number, surely you understand that?" His long blonde hair fluttered a little in the breeze, tickling her neck. She turned her body away from him.
"We were former adversaries! What would V-"
"I don't care what that damned rogue says about this. It isn't his decision. It's yours." She shivered. A stray Ixa'Takan leaf found its way into her long hair, and she felt him gently pluck it out.
"I... I don't know..." Part of her wanted to turn around, hold him to her, run her hands through his long thick platinum hair, solace the strange boy whose breathing sounded as though he was near to tears.
"Don't... Please don't leave me like this... Alone... Again. I feel that you, you can understand the loneliness, no family, few friends, all betraying me..." At last she turned to him.
"I was never betrayed." She was startled to see tears starting in his verdure eyes.
"I feel like you're betraying me. Please, please, just... love me. Give me something to love. That's all I want." His pale cold hands on her face, turning her to look at him. His face drew closer, and, making a quick decision, she decided to let her eyes close, and let everything take place. Here and Now.
He let the younger girl's hair trail through his fingers as he kissed her, holding her close to him. At last, after so many years of loneliness, of solitude, he had found someone to share his pain, to make him smile, someone that made him so light inside he found it difficult to breathe. Aika sighed quietly, and let him pull her with him as he lay back against the trunk of a tree, their arms still entwined.