A/N: Hey, Everyone! Sorry for the short chapter f(-.-;). I promise to make it up with a longer chapter next, I'm currently working on it (^v^)

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"We're back" Luce shouted out when they got back to the villa.

Luce led the child down a long corridor to the dressing room outside the bathroom.

"Wait here" Luce said soothingly as she prepared the water for the tub. She mixed in some strawberry soap to create the tub full of bubbles. She went out and took out some towels from the cabinet and placed them o the counter. She turned around and saw the boy staring at her.

"Could you take of your clothes, dear?" the boy tilted his head and looked at her confused.

Luce softly chuckled and smiled at his expression of confusion shown in his eyes. She kneeled down and said "I'm going to give you a bath".

The boy continued looking at her in confusion; Luce smiled and helped giving the boy a hand.

Although the child was frozen still when Luce reached out to take off his clothing, he did not reject the hands that were trying to help him with his clothing. After the clothes were removed, they proceeded into the bathroom. Luce carried the child carefully into the tub; the child tilted his head at the tub full white clouds.

Luce had to suppress the urge to squeal at the cute scene before her. The boy raised his hands in the tub to scoop up the bubbles, they were pretty, shiny and fluffy. Luce giggled when she saw the child's eyes sparkled and shined a little as he looked at the bubbles in his hands. She squirted some vanilla-flavored shampoo onto her hands.

"I'm going to wash your hair now, alright?" Luce told the child gently and started reaching out for the boy slowly as to not frighten him.

The child looked at Luce warily but nodded his head in answer. Luce started gently rubbing the child's scalp with the shampoo creating tiny bubbles and foam to be formed on the adorable child's head, whom seem to be closing an eye cutely. When the little child was convinced that Luce was not going to harm him. The little child relaxed and started lifting up more bubble from the tub. After getting the dirt in his hair and scalp off. Luce proceeded to rinse his head to rid off the tiny bubbles and foam.

"I'm going to wash your body now, alright, dear?" Luce asked again.

The child nodded obliviously to Luce, still staring at the bubbles in his hands. Luce smiled at his interest in bubbles before reaching for strawberry-flavored body wash. As Luce was washing his body, she realized the child would stiffen and tense whenever she had too close a contact for his taste. Fortunately, Luce quickly washed and rinsed off the dirt on his body before bringing him out to dry his hair.

Luce looked through her wardrobe before picking out the smallest shirt she has. She fitted the shirt onto the child's body.

"Hmm...a little large in size" Luce muttered under a breath with her hand under her chin in a thinking pose as she look at the child wearing the shirt sliding off one shoulder and was reaching the knees.

"Oh well, we'll just have to go shopping for clothes after meeting everyone" Luce clapped her hands and said brightly with sparkles all around. Afterall, she loves shopping the most.

"Now then, shall we head down?" Luce kneels down and held out her hand with a smile for the child to come forward.

The child only tilts his head staring at her before taking a few small steps forward. Luce gave a smile of happiness at the actions the child did before slowly moving forward to close the gap between them. When they were close enough, Luce slowly brought the child into a hug and rising slowly, carrying him. The child gave a small squeak and held onto Luce's dress tightly, however, did nothing to reject the movements.

Luce gave another smile at the trust given by the child. From why she has seen, she knew the boy did not like close contacts and were mostly afraid of others. For the boy to trust her so much in such a short time, she was really elated.

Slowly, she descended down the flight of stairs. She was about to find the others, when she walked past the living room to see everybody gathered together. Seems like everyone had heard the greeting she gave when she was back.