"Have you visited before?"
"I've only passed outside." I confessed, I didn't know that citizen's were allowed tours. Even if they did offer I don't think I would have checked it out.
"Don't worry, you'll like it." Kaworu gave me a reassuring smile, before we entered the tall building. "I have lived here my entire life." I wanted to ask about his family, but was it to personal? Sensing my discomfort, Kaworu told me that it happened a long time ago, and it didn't bother him to much to talk about it.
"Do you remember your parents?"
"No, I was handed over right after I was born." He told me calmly.
"Why?" I inquired. Kaworu seemed almost perfect, who would have wanted to give up someone like that? I hate my father, Kaworu didn't have a father.
Guilt.
My lips turned into a grimace.
Kaworu didn't even have a father, I wished my father was gone. I didn't deserve one. I should be grateful for having one, even if he wasn't around much. But I'm not really. That is what made it painful.
"Albinism," he answered, "the condition is undesirable in our society, my parents where embarrassed, and the orphanage was their best option. I don't blame them." Kaworu explained. His pale skin and thick white hair was not unwanted in my opinion. It made him look different. But in a good way.
"You look cool. I'm just ordinary." It's true, with my dark hair and eyes, I was neither tall nor short. Fat or skinny. My face was not handsome or cute to say the least.
"I think you look beautiful." What?
I cleared my throat.
"Do you hate them? Your parents?"
"No."
"Why not?! They abandoned you." I couldn't believe my ears. His family practically gave him away. "How can you not hate them Kaworu?"
"Is your mother alive?" Was his response to my outburst.
"...no."
"Then she abandoned you. Do you hate her?" It's parents had a choice.
"I love her."
"Then that is how it is for me. Shinji do you ever eat grapes?" I chuckled at the odd metaphor.
"Sometimes."
"Which grapes do you eat first?"
"The ones that look the best."
"And what do you do with the ugly ones, once you are finished with the good fruit?"
"I throw them away."
But you are not ugly.
I hadn't noticed that we where standing by the staircase for a while, until we were interrupted by a short child bumping into my waist.
"H-hi." I greeted her softly. The blonde pigtails shook when she lifted her head to look me in the eye, her arms wrapping around my torso, swinging. I flinched as I noticed that her left eye was not there, stitches replacing it. She grinned up at me, not noticing my uncertainty.
"Lily, meet Shinji." Kaworu introduced us.
"Hi Shinji! Are you Kaworu's friend?" She spoke cheerfully, more clearly than I thought she would for her age. Lily looked around three or four.
"F-friend?" I've never had a friend before. Is that what we are?
"Yes. He is a friend. I'm going to play the piano, would you like to hear?" Kaworu asked the small girl.
"Yes your so good! I love hearing you play!" Letting go of my waist, she ran up the stairs, and down the hall, into what I believed to be Kaworu's room. I was about to follow her, when Kaworu stopped me.
"Are you ok?" Oh no. "You flinched." He noticed.
"I didn't mean to." I avoided his eyes.
"If you didn't mean to, it wouldn't have happened." I glanced at his face, his eyebrows seemed to almost knit together, more confused than upset.
"I was just startled."
"Where you startled when you met me?"
"Not really, I was distracted by your playing."
"The music distracted you from what the grape really was?"
"No Kaworu-" I started. "Don't be angry."
"I'm not angry. Everyone would have chosen the nicer grapes, you're no different really."
"Kaworu are you coming?" Lily shouted from upstairs.
"Are you coming Shinji?" Kaworu asked. It took me a while to register what just happened. I nodded and followed the albino boy upstairs.
I wrote this last week but forgot to post...
I feel like Kaworu is a little OC but it's hard having him agree with everything Shinji says :/
Sorry for the weird grape metaphor it just happen to be what I was eating at the time lol
Next chapter will have gay piano I promise
