Chapter 7: The love revealing

The heavy footprints of the two travelers once left marks on the sand now were left behind on the white snow. They were trying to get out of it because of the heavy snow before them. They eventually got a place to rest in a cave. The day was really tired to them because sometimes the wind went by was so strong that could blow them away of they didn't hide behind the columns; and also, they had to deal with the stone creatures again. But at the end they still got over them.

It had been about 8 months since they started traveling. But during the past few days, Rianna noticed that he sometimes was like staring at her and blushed slightly. She was curious, but decided not to ask fro some reasons.

But anyway, it was nighttime; they lied on the mattress and tried to get some sleep, but they couldn't for some reasons. Sohka sat up and rubbed his head.

"Urg… I can't sleep." He groaned.

"Me either." Rianna replied and sat up beside him.

Sohka took a peek out from their tent. "The snow storm still hasn't died down though. I hope it will go away tomorrow."

"Yes, I hope so too. But now we have to deal with our sleeping problem…" She yawned.

A short silence came across them. He spoke up. "H… hey, why don't we chat a little to find out about each other more? We have been companions for a long time anyway."

Rianna thought for a while and nodded. "Okay… this may help us go to sleep. So… how about you tell me why you want to meet the Gods? I'm kinda curious."

He paused for a few seconds as if he was thinking of something else, but eventually spoke up again. "It's because… of my father's illness."

"Huh?! Your father is ill?"

"Yes, I can say he's very sick. It's… um… a very strange illness and I have tried everything to help him, but found no effort. I decided to go to the Gods to wish for his health."

"But… But who takes care of him while you're gone?"

He paused again like he was unsure about something. "… My mom takes care of him."

Rianna touched his shoulders. "I… I'm sorry Sohka… I didn't know that-"

He cut her off and smiled gently. "It's okay Rianna."

Another silence came.

"Oh, I'm always curious about one thing." He said.

"What is it?"

"Um… We both live in a same village, so why didn't I know you then?"

Hearing this, the shame of hers back at the start rose in her mind again. Memories flooded back while she was trying to hold back tears. She didn't want to remember about those days when she was being treated badly, but she brought courage to set that aside and tried to speak properly.

"Did you ever hear about 'a useless Red' from the other villagers?"

"Well, I did. I heard some people say that that Red was very… useless and weak, like they said. But what does that person have to do about you?"

"You know what… that Red is me."

"What?!" he said surprisingly. "It was… you?"

"Yes, I know you're surprise, but it was really me." Tears had successfully escaped from the corner of her eyes. "I'm the only Red there and was always the unloved and mistreated one. They treated me badly, they said terrible things about me although I didn't do anything wrong! They even made fun of my beautiful, innocence and only friendship!"

"Rianna…"

"You didn't know me because I was remained unknown by the villagers that live far away from my area. I come to the Gods because I want to be a White just like them, so they won't do those things to me again!"

"Rianna, I-"

"But if they didn't do that then I'll just live my normal live at the village. I just to be treated rightfully, to love and even to be loved by someone. But if I ever love a man then I'm sure that he'll reject me because he already knows my history being a Red…"

Ended her speech, she finally cried out and used her hands to cover her face without realizing that Sohka had became really strangely quiet. She wiped her tears away.

"Sorry about that, I-"

"Rianna…" He cut her off again. "Don't you know something?"

"Know what?" She asked confusingly.

"The man that loves you… is right next to you."

"I don't know, Sohka, I-" She stopped in the middle of her speech when she realized what he meant. "Wait, what do you mea-"

Without time to react, he had quickly pulled down her hood and pressed his lips to hers. Her eyes widened in surprise and her face turned bright red. She wanted to push him off but somehow changed her mind. The kiss was sweet and passionate and she had never had a chance to feel it. As if they were moving by themselves, her hands wrapped around his neck. They broke the kiss and he pushed her down to the mattress, making her back hit the soft surface with him above her. He put his hands on the pillow on both sides of her head while looking at her deeply. She stared back at him with a blushing face; she was so surprise that she didn't know what she was supposed to do.

He finally had a chance to look at her eyes. Their color was a deep ocean-like blue; they were so bright and beautiful that he couldn't take his eyes away from.

"You're beautiful Rianna." He mumbled out.

"Sohka…" She whispered, her voice was like music when she did that.

Couldn't hold himself back anymore, he brought his face down to kiss her again which she returned. They kissed and kissed again until they both asleep in each other hands without knowing.

Um… why I skip time so fast? Because, well, now I don't think they're really necessary or have anything special. If I add them then the story would be too long or uninteresting, that's what I think though.

But anyway, hope you like this chapter. Bye!