The rays of moonlight slowly descended and illuminated the soft womanly curves of Rikku. Her nude back was exposed, a pleasure for my eyes. She seemed peaceful, oblivious to my presence. The mere sight of her skin was enough to stir dormant emotions in my stone heart. I wanted to see every part of her, feel her touching my skin, lips sharing passionate exchanges...
But that would never happen.
Countless times I've heard her mumbling an unknown name in her sleep, blushing when Yuna talked about that person. She would smile shyly, friendly punch Yuna, and say something in Al-Bhed.
When we locked eyes, I thought I could almost feel her lips on my neck, mumbling lusting words, her hands exploring clumsily my body, and inappropriate thoughts would rise up.
As I fought my urge to wake her up and have a moment of forced pleasure, I sensed someone behind me. I did not move. The breathing was somewhat irregular. It came closer, and closer, and closer. It was cold, freezing, even. I tried to reach for my sword, which was lying on the floor, waiting to be used. In wain. The moment I moved my fingertips, the assaulter was on me, suffocating me with my covers. As I desperately tried to breathe, I felt the rhythm of my heart. Boom. Boom. Boom. The rhythm of my death was playing it's slow and torturing tune.
A voice filled with sickening excitement whispered in my ear the words I had feared all my life. A swift caress. I pleaded for air. Boom. Boom. An overwhelming pain pushing against my chest. A disgusting laughter.
"Painy?" Time seemed to flow away with a tightening grip. I was dying in the arms of an unknown. With all my strength I pushed the killer on the floor, gasping for air. I felt dizzy, blood filled my mouth, colors faded away. I closed my eyes wondering if this was the end.
"Paine? Hey Paine? Wake up!" A familiar voice echoed endlessly in my head. Pain filled my veins, how ironic. "Paine? Come on!" Wait a minute. Just a minute. "Paine!" Who is calling me? I don't want to know. My head is going to burst. It hurts.
Silence. Are they gone? Silence enters my pores and fills me whole. I can't hear my heart beating, I can't hear my breathing. Silence... Suffocates me.
"Paine?" A distant voice. Nudging me with it's insistence. I carefully open my eyes. A blur of colors like a painters 'Matisse' have replaced my usual sight. The blinding light told me Yuna was near. I must've got really hurt.
"You're wrong" I heard someone say. Who was? "You are." Pure coincidence. Nothing more. I only knew one person capable of... No. Impossible. A genuine laughter. I closed my eyes again.
I felt the heat of someone on me. I tried to speak but was hushed with a kiss. A passionate kiss. I opened my eyes and was startled, it was unbelievable. It couldn't be.
"Aelle?"
"Painy?"
A careful murmur, as though she was unable to speak. She seemed pale, unaware of the beads of sweat on her forehead. I was taken aback. She was dead, wasn't she?
I was scared, her presence chilled my soul to the bones. I must've felt delighted to see her again. But, I felt guilty, having explored in my mind the confines of Rikku's body over and over again. To the point of never being able to satiate my need for her.
The pain in my heart decreased gradually, so did my sight. The noises around me slowly melted down to become silent feathers in the wind. I was soothed, nevertheless, the fact of not understanding what was happening bewildered me. What happened that night? Who tried to kill me? Where was I?
My eyes closed like a curtain falls, and I knew this was just an 'entrée' of the series of unexplainable events that would change my life.