A post-DoC-ish chapter to compliment the rainy season. Thank you very much for CupofTeaforAliceandHatter and Erilin-chan for their comments on the last chapter and mollyn77 for the follow! I hope you'll enjoy this mini- update. Please R&R!


Love Songs and Romantic Novels


It seemed as if everything was painted black and white, the crimson colour of his eyes standing out from the monochrome.

He sat quietly on the window seat, a half-filled mug of coffee and a dog-eared book at hand. Meanwhile, the other patrons were busy drying up their clothes and belongings as they ordered for a hot drink. In the background, I faintly heard the sound of the music playing from the radio, the heavy downpour washing it away.

With my work finally done, I released myself from the constrains of work and plopped down on the seat across him.

"Great...Expectations by... Charles Dickens."

"Hn."

"Sounds old." I remarked. Outside, the rain reduced to a shower and I almost heard the song playing on the radio. But again, I got another "Hn."

"Oh gawd, look how battered that book is!"

"..." Then, he flipped the page.

"I'll guessing how many times you've read that."

"..."

"19?"

I almost fell out of my seat when he glanced from the back of his book as tendrils of his long ebony hair came loose on the side of his face with the slight movement.

"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day." I spluttered, surprising myself. Closing his book, he placed it on his lap as his eyes scanned my face, my reaction.

Standing from his seat, soft rays of the afternoon light illuminated from the glass window, stunning me how I didn't even notice that the rain had up at him, he said, "In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong." The sincerity of his words overwhelmed me, speaking those words to me as if he were the character from the book. Suddenly, he smiled at me, not barely but gently with the just corners of his mouth curved elegantly and evidently. With a gentle pat on my head, he left me frozen on the spot and exited the bar.

In the background, I could finally hear the song.

"And oh I just fall in love again..."


Disclaimer: I don't own either of these pretty pretty characters. Also, the quotes are directly from one Charles Dickens' famous novels The Tale of Two Cities And for those who dunno, the song is Karen Carpenter's I Just Fall in Love Again.

[EDIT 6-26-13] for le major major major grammar stuff and also because the quotation marks went ninja in the later paragraphs. Thanks for CupofTea for pointing them out!