Engaged? You're only Fifteen!
Finral stepped out of the Portal and into the living room of the Black Bulls Hideout. He walked past the chair Yami usually sat in and flopped face first onto the couch. He didn't even notice Yami was already back from his mission with Vangeance.
"What's with you?" Yami asked watching as Finral stared off into space. "You're not sick, are you? Your face is a bit red."
Come on Finral. Captain Yami is talking to you. And if I can hear him, I know you can, Fatry said trying yet again to break Finral out of his trance.
"You got a stomach ache or something?" Yami asked standing up and walking over to him.
Finral, I think you're starting to worry him, and he's obviously not the type to worry easily. I know she's pretty but you need to snap out of it.
"Pretty?" Finral subconsciously replied out loud. "She's beyond pretty..."
"Idiot!" Yami said kicking him off the couch and into the wall, leaving cracks in it.
"OUCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"
"YOU WALKED IN HERE IN A DAZE, FACE FLUSHED, FLOPPED ON THE COUCH LIKE YOU COULDN'T HOLD YOURSELF UP ANY LONGER, AND NOT HEARING A DAMN THING I SAID! AND ALL BECAUSE OF SOME GIRL! I THOUGHT YOU WERE SERIOUSLY SICK!"
"Oh... Sorry..."
"I thought you went home to visit, not somewhere to flirt?"
"I did! ...Er... I mean, I did go home not somewhere to flirt... It just so happened that Father had the most beautiful girl in the kingdom, probably even the world, over, from House Kira."
"Is that so? Why would someone from the castle be at your place?"
"Father arranged a marriage between her and the next head of House Vaude..."
"So you're engaged? And you're only fifteen."
Finral looked at the ground as he slowly shook his head, "No, Sir."
"But you just said..."
"I said she's engaged to the next head of House Vaude... I may be the oldest of two sons... but the next head is going to be my little brother, Langris. He's a much better mage then I am."
"Sounds to me like you want to be head of your family."
"What?! N-no!" Finral said frantically waving his hands in front of his face before scratching the back of his head, "besides... even if I did... It's Father's decision, not mine. And he has to do what he feels is best for the family. I mean he hasn't come out and said Langris is taking over the family when he's older but everyone knows it."
"So if you're father hasn't made anything official yet, then doesn't that mean you still have time to prove that you're just as capable as your brother?"
"I-I mean... I... I guess... But I'm not. So I don't see how that would ever be possible... I think I'm going to head to bed, now."
"Hold up!" Yami said, grabbing Finral by the shoulder as he turned away.
"Hmm? ...Wait... I thought you said you wouldn't be back till tomorrow."
"The mission went better then we thought it would. The enemies were weaker then expected... That's not important right now. We need to talk. And if you try changing the subject again, I'll kill ya."
"W-what?"
"Other then meeting a 'the most beautiful girl in the world', as you put it, how was your visit?"
"F-fine... Great actually... I spent most of the time talking with Finesse... Or rather listening to her talk. Her voice was so kind and gentle."
"You don't get much of that, do you?"
"Much of what?" Finral asked tilting his head to the side.
The answer would be 'no', Finral, Fatry said, having already figured it out.
"Kind and gentle voices spoken to you?"
Finral began to sputter a bunch of incoherent and incomplete words before letting out a fake yawn, "gosh, I'm really tired. I'll see you in the morning!" He quickly jumped threw a portal before Yami had the chance to stop him.
"Damn it. He's dead... I don't even know where Henry moved his room today... On the other hand, the speed he cast that spell was impressive."
Finral sat on his bed with his knees pulled up to his chest, arms folded across his knees, and face buried in his arms.
Why don't you just talk to him?
"There's nothing to talk about, Fatry."
It's wrong the way they treat you.
"It's not wrong when they're right. I'm weak and a coward. I'm unfit to be head of house and I'm no where near deserving of a girl like Lady Finesse."
That's not true. You are a good mage. And they're letting their arrogance blind them from seeing that.
"No... I'm not."
Finral...