"I'm sorry for your loss."
Her aunt had already passed away when she realized how much she really cared for her. She remembers the days when her aunt would actually care for her, when her mother was still alive. Diana stood silently, next to her weeping cousins in front of the coffin of her aunt Daryl.
She hated to admit it, but she did not want her aunt to die. She felt enough of the empty filling in her stomach and in her heart when her mother had passed away, and now all she has left that are her blood relatives are her spoiled cousins.
She realizes that maybe this experience would help them change their ways, but she knows that as of now, they would have to go through the five stages of grieving. Just like she did when she was younger.
So when she was left alone to stand in front of her deceased relative, she couldn't help but weep softly. Silently, so no one would hear her cries.
But even so, she feels a hand on her shoulder, shaking her away from the gloominess she feels. She looked up, surprised to see Akko staring at her with sympathetic eyes.
"I'm sorry for your loss." She says gently but with a sort of firmness and comfort in her voice. Her grip on Diana's shoulder tightened, just to make sure Diana knows that she's there for her. And at that moment, Diana figures that maybe God was being cruel – as the weather starts to become just as gloomy as she was. She let her tears fall, she let her perfect posture suddenly stop being so perfect and she just cried. Cried for her loss.
She heard an umbrella open above her and she knew that Akko was shielding her from the rain.
She's thankful for Akko. She really is.
Minutes, or maybe even hours had passed when Diana had stopped crying; The entire area was deserted, except for the two girls who stood silently in front of the tomb. At this point, the rain had stopped completely and Akko had an arm around Diana's waist, as to give her a protection of some sort.
The feeling was warm and needed, Diana decides when she unconsciously presses her body against Akko's. She took her handkerchief out and wiped the remnants of her tears, then turned around to snuggle her face against the crook of Akko's neck.
At this point, she no longer can register the embarrassment she was supposed to feel when she does so, because all that matters is that Akko is with her, and that Akko's body and scent was enveloping her.
She decides that she wants this in life.
She decides that Akko needs to be here beside her if she wanted to get through life.
I want to marry her.