From the Start
Chapter 37
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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Winter's POV
"So, Winter, how did you get those scars?" Gina asks.
"What scars?" I try to play dumb. I notice that Sakuya looks towards me with a stern look but she does not say anything.
"Don't play dumb, the scars that Alisa noticed when she was sitting next to you." She replies. I see that she, as well as Sakuya and Kanon, have taken to looking to my torso to try to locate the scars.
"Y'know, I didn't bring this up before but I noticed that you had a lot of scars on your back as well." Sakuya says with a hint of concern and Kanon pushes on my shoulder in an attempt to turn me around to view the scars but I stay strong and avoid being pushed. For a little extra protection, I use my wings to wrap around my body to hide any scars that might have been noticed.
'Smooth move, Winter. Now they're sure to be suspicious.' I think to myself but Kanon's worried voice takes me away from my thoughts,
"Winter, why are you covering yourself?"
"Well, it's not nice to have everyone staring at your body." I tell her matter of factly.
"Why not? You've got nothing to hide, right?" Gina asks with a sly smirk on her face.
"If you tell us how you got those scars then we won't need to continue looking at your body." Sakuya says, comfortingly.
"I need to." Gina said and I just decide to ignore her. The rest of the trip to the Den is silent, with the girls waiting or me to speak or uncoil my wings. When we land though, I am the first one off the helicopter but the three girls are right behind me. I hear them whisper about something and I turn my head slightly to see that Sakuya is beckoning for the others, who had landed before us, to come over. A few seconds later and the others have joined us and the whispering started again. I hear a sharp gasp from Annette and she runs in front of us, looking as if she is in a mood. She gets into the lift and leaves without us, leaving us stranded on the roof until the lift comes back up.
"Now!" I hear Sakuya shout and they grab onto my coiled wings and try to force them apart. Three of them on each wing. As they attempt to uncoil my wings, I use all of my strength to keep them together.
*SNAP*
Kanon's POV
When I heard about Winter being littered in scars I looked towards him for a better look. Luckily he was sitting beside me in the helicopter and it isn't very strange for your girlfriend to be looking at their boyfriend's body. I seen a few almost faded scars before he coiled his wings around his torso.
"Winter, why are you covering yourself?" I say worriedly, trying to give him a guilt trip so that he'd uncoil his wings. He didn't though and he remained silent for the rest of the flight.
'It's obvious that he wants to keep it hidden but why? What happened for him to be covered in so many scars?' I think to myself throughout the remainder of the flight. Once we arrived on the roof, I noticed that Winter almost sprang too his feet in order to get out of the helicopter. I got out straight after him and attempted to catch up but the other two held me back from walking alongside him.
"Listen, it's obvious that he's not going to talk or show us his scars so we need to force him to uncoil himself to see how bad it really is." Sakuya whispered and I remained silent. I must admit that I am curious as to his condition.
"Yeah, but we're going to need help. I doubt that the three of us could pull on his wings with enough strength to unwrap himself." Gina says as she notices that Sakuya had noticed that the others had landed. Sakuya beckons them over.
"Now, we're going to force his wings open so we can see the extent of his injuries. When I say so, three people grab onto his left wing and three grab onto his four of us grab onto his right wing." Sakuya whispers once the others have made it over. I see Annette gasp sharply before she storms off ahead of us.
"Well, three on each wing then." Sakuya whispers, assuming that Annette didn't want to participate in the plan. And so, we waited. Annette's abrupt departure gave us an ample opportunity to execute the plan.
"Now!" Sakuya shouted and I grabbed onto his right wing with Kota and Alisa beside me, the others had grabbed the left wing.
'I'm really sorry Winter but this is for the best.' I repeat this thought over and over as I continue to pull. I can hear Winter's grunts and begin to feel guilty for forcing him into this but the deafening sound of a snap brings my attention to the wing I now hold in my hand. I see that Sakuya and Gina are also holding onto a wing with a pale face. That's when we all heard the owner of the wings shriek in pain. The shriek was loud enough to bring Tsubaki to the roof where she gasped in horror at the scene. She immediately rushed back in, possibly to get a medic. Winter had long since collapsed to ground with blood pouring from the remains of his wings. His painful shriek was enough to bring tears to my eyes and the pained expression on his face as well as the tears he shed was enough for the other girls to cry as well. Nobody dared to make their sobs heard as Kota proceeded to wrap one of Winter's right arm around his neck before helping him to walk over to the lift. My eyes followed them but I was stuck in place. I could see the scars on Winter's back but I didn't care because I am on of the causes for possibly the biggest scar he has. I heard the lift doors open where I had seen a few people from the medical team, get out and put Winter face down on a stretcher before carrying him away. Tsubaki was in the lift with them and didn't look very pleased.