So this chapter... actually... story... has a song to go along with it. It's called Moon Without the Stars. You all should listen to it. I think you'd agree that it deserves to be this stories theme song. :3
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Watching Daniel leave me just broke me even more. I didn't want him to leave. Not now, not later, not ever again. I wanted him to stay with me forever, like he had promised all those days ago. I didn't want him to be hurt anymore, I didn't want to break him anymore. Not now. Not as I watched him walking away from me, hurt and broken because I hadn't responded to his words. I don't know why I had ever wanted to hurt him. It didn't make any sense to me. It looked like it didn't make much sense to him, either, as he walked away from me sullenly, hands shoved deep into his pockets and shoulders hunched over in defeat as he made his way to the food pavilion doors. I didn't want him to feel pain anymore. It hurt me just seeing him in that pain.
"Daniel..." I croaked out. He didn't respond to me as he continued to walk away. I cleared my throat and tried to get his attention again. "Danny..."
He stopped when I called him "Danny", though he didn't turn around to look at me. "What?" He asked quietly. "What do you want, Ty?"
I sniffed and wiped at my tears that were silently falling, rolling off of my cheeks and into my lap. Before I knew what I was doing, I was out of my seat and running towards Danny. At the sound of my quick footsteps, he turned around, just in time to catch me as I collided into him, crying as I threw my arms around him, sending both of us to the ground. Danny appeared shocked by the impact, both the grounds and mine. I buried my face in shirt as I cried, and he wrapped his arms around me as I cried, holding me to his body tightly like he once had before Cyril had found out about us. He held me tightly, like he had that first day we had kissed.
"I don't want you to leave me again," I cried. "Danny, please. Please don't leave me. I need you. I can't lose you for good. Please. Please, stay."
"Ty... love... I..." Danny seemed at a loss of words as I cried in his arms. He sat up and held me in his lap so we weren't on the floor anymore. "You... you seemed like you didn't love me anymore. Like... like you wanted me to go away, like you wanted me to stay away from you forever..."
I shook my head desperately. "No. No, I don't w-want that, D-Danny. I-I want you t-to stay. P-please."
He bit his lip and pulled me closer to him. "Love, Ty, please stop crying. Please. You're going to make me cry..."
I tried to stop my tears, but I couldn't. I didn't want him to leave me. Not anymore. Not ever. I had never wanted him to leave me. Never. "Dont... don't leave me. Please."
"I won't. I'm not going to leave you. Not if you don't want me to."
"I don't want you to leave me, Danny. I love you. Please... don't leave me again."
A wet something landed on the top of my head, and I wiped my tears away, looking up to see Danny crying. But I could tell from his expression that they weren't tears of sadness, but tears of joy. Hesitantly, he pressed his lips to my forehead, kissing it lightly. "Then I won't leave you, Ty. I won't. Not ever again. Never will I leave you." He nuzzled my cheek softly, smiling as he cried. "I love you, too, Ty. I love you so much. Forever and always."
I smiled at that, wiping away my tears as I did. I wiped away my tears, tears that had once fallen as droplets of liquefied grief and loss, but now fell as droplets of relief and joy. I pulled away from him, and he gave me a confused look as to why I did. I gazed at his face for awhile before I leaned forward and pressed my lips to his. He hummed for a brief moment, kissing me back as he brought a hand to my face, cupping it as he tried pulling me closer to his body than I already was, sitting in his arms, the same arms that made me feel safe and loved every time he held me in them.
People shuffled past us every now and then to leave the food court. A few watched for awhile as we kissed, but we didn't care. We kissed and we kissed, and we kept on kissing, making up for all of the lost kisses the past week had made no room for. And we cried all the while. Our tears mingled as we cried, falling as one onto our laps. It felt like we could never get enough as we sat there on the floor, loving each other. For the first time that week, I knew that Danny truly loved me, that he would never leave me. How did I know? The way he kissed me told me more than he could ever put into words. It told me just how sorry he was for leaving me, told me how much he loved me. The gentle yet firm way he held me as we kissed told me that he never intended to let me go again, not in a thousand years, not in a million, not ever.
We kissed for what seemed to be only a mere five seconds, but what we both knew was actually five or so minutes. We had finally pulled away when we had sensed one pair of eyes in particular that wouldn't leave us, glowering. Danny rested his forehead against mine, breathing heavily from our long kiss, a kiss we had barely allowed breath for in between. I was breathing much the same way as I tried to catch my breath. I'm sure that if we didnt need to breath, and if the set of eyes glowering at us weren't there, we would have kept kissing forever till death did us part, and even then we would have kept kissing each other.
"Is there anything you'd like to say, Gadreel?" Danny breathed, it looking away from me as I gave his nose a small kiss. He smiled at the kiss and gave me his own.
Gadreel snorted. "Hell I do. Is he seriously the reason you locked yourself in your cabin for a week?" He asked me. I bit my lip as Danny's deep blue eyes widened.
"That's where you've been?" He asked. "I thought you were just avoiding me, so I tried coming to the food pavilion earlier andearlier, hoping I'd catch you... and then yesterday I stayed here all day, but I still didn't see you, so I figured you had someone bringing you food, and..." He took one of my hands in his and held it I. His larger one. "Gods. Why are you so skinny, love? Didn't you eat?"
I guilty shook my head. "No..."
"Why not?"
"I-"
"She was too busy feeling sorry for her ass to do anything but sit and cry." Gadreel interjected. "Sat in her cabin all week, and I just managed to get her to come out today."
"Because of me?" Danny asked sadly. I looked away from him as I nodded. He hugged me to him tightly, though carefully in a noticeable fear of physically breaking me like he had emotionally for a week. "I'm never letting you go again." He murmured.
Please don't, I thought. Just hold me forever. Never let me go again.
I glanced up at Gadreel, and noticed he had a sort of look of yearning. I was confused, at first, as to what he wanted, till I realized he wanted what me and Danny had. Askira never let him hold her like this, let alone kiss her. He barely even saw her these days. She was always busy with one thing or the other, or was in a downward spiral, wishing to die despite all the love she got from her brother Ben and Gadreel. She didn't seem to care about the pain that her death would put them in during her moments of severe depression, and I could see that it hurt Gadreel in a way he couldn't even express, because he loved her, despite their history before they had gotten together. And what hurt him more was when she screamed at him that she didn't deserve him, that he shouldn't waste his time with her, and that hurt him more because he loved her, and he wanted her to see that he did. He just didn't know how to express it without angering her further or sending her deeper into her dark pit of depression.
Gadreel noticed me looking at him after awhile, and I gave him a small, reassuring smile, silently telling him that things would get better between him and Askira. He bit his lip for awhile before dragging a hand through his hair. He gave me a small nod and soft, hopeful smile before leaving the food pavilion.
Danny held me for awhile longer before he softly kissed my cheek. "Have you eaten yet?" He asked softly.
"Just a little." I answered honestly, seeing no point in lying to him about eating. " But I'm not really hungry..."
"Ty. Ty, look at me, okay?" I looked at him, and he gave me a small smile. "You have to eat, okay? That's just an empty stomach that's gone so long without being fed talking, understood?"
"But I'm not hungry..." I murmured again.
Danny gave my cheek a small kiss. "Please, love? For me?"
I hesitated before I nodded. The half-hippocampus smiled gently and stood up, still holding me in his arms, and sat me down in a booth. He sat down next to me, and before I knew it, he had coaxed me into eating.
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Hngnh. Chapter. XD
