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It's the summer! Yay!


Chapter 9 – Lullaby

He stood still, eyes unfocused, mind astray. He was lost in this majestic paradise of sweet melody. Is there any other sound more heavenly than the one he was hearing? It was too wonderful, too phenomenal, too amazing and too beautiful to describe it. Wave after wave washed over him, soothing his mind and bringing peace to his soul.

It was like floating in a lagoon of bliss, feeling and thinking only of the sound, his sound. He felt as if he could swim to the depths of the seas or fly to the boundaries of the starry galaxies. It gave him strength and vigor. No matter how many battles, how many missions, how many Akuma he fought, he would be instantly revive, renew and alive again after a mere hum of his salvation.

Even if the sound got angry and snapped, he endured its fury, waiting patiently for it to abide. He would wait forever if that was what it took to hear its lull return to its gentleness. Besides, the sound could never stay angry for long. It hated to get angry. It itself doesn't like the harsh, cutting tone it produced. But he didn't mind and he told the sound that. It laughed and he was drowned in his delight.

More captivating than the sound was its laughter. Its song was high, uplifting and light, as if it was flying away into the sky beyond his reach. Whenever the sound laughed, he brimmed with untold happiness and thrill. He would do anything to hear that laughter. That astounding unearthly, mesmerizing, extraordinary, remarkable –

" Are you even listening to me, Allen-kun?" Lenalee interrupted.

He blinked dumbly and his paradise vanished as the momentary interlude of silence began. " Yes," he absently nodded, silently urging for the sound to come back, desperate to hear it again.

Lenalee sighed, a shake of her head. " You were daydreaming again, weren't you? I don't know why you don't seem to listen whenever I talk. I know me lecturing you can't be fun but you can't –"

Her voice sounded beautiful even when it was scolding him.