Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of the Abyss
Spoilers: until you meet Neprhy
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At first they were friends, both chasing after their loves, one for the other's sister, the other for his professor. They confided into each other, about their worries, their doubts, and their progress with their crush.
But then the professor died, and one of them was crushed. The other relied heavy on the other, but before they knew it the other's love was married to another.
They both knew how it felt to have broken hearts and they both knew each other so well, so the first time they did it, it felt so good to be loved, to be needed, to be cared for.
They had thought that they were only doing it to satisfy their own private needs, but when the other had went on a journey to save the world, both of them desperately needed to see the other, and that's when they realized they were in true love.
But when one of them was on the journey to save the world and word reached the other that one of them had died, and when everyone had given hope that he was still alive, he had almost lost it. First he had lost his first love, and now this?
And when he had came back, and that he was truly alive, and when they met with each other again, and their lips crushed against each other, they realized it'll be hard to part with each other again.
"Hey, Jade, don't leave me again, okay?" He nuzzled his face into the other's chest, and before the other answered he had fallen asleep.
He waited and putting his hand on the other's head, "Of course not, I love you, Peony."
And with that sentence said, both felt at eternal peace.
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