Yami sat on the couch, listening to Serenity tell him about her feelings on Joey's death.
"I wanted to invite you guys to the funeral, but my mom wanted it to be just a family one. It made me so angry, because I know that Joey would've wanted his friends to go. Well, it didn't go too well for me anyway. Before the funeral, we visited him at the mortuary. They had cleaned him up, and made him look nice, he wasn't grey and bloody. In fact, he just looked asleep, only, he was wearing a nice suit, which I also didn't like. My own parents were getting Joey all wrong."
Yami listened to all of this, because it was making Serenity feel a lot better. As she talked, it looked like she was getting calmer and calmer. Healing. He continued listening.
"I touched his hand. It was stone cold, and it was so frightening, I couldn't hold back tears. If you stared at his eyes enough, it looked like they were trying to open. That was the only hope I had now, and it wasn't good enough to bring him back."
Yami hugged Serenity tight. "It wasn't your fault, Ren. He died, but you still have your whole life ahead of you. You'll never forget about him, but you will feel better about it as life goes on. Trust me."
Serenity told Yami that at the funeral, she had gotten so upset that she yelled that she was going to kill the murderer, even if she died doing it. As her mother came up to calm her down, she ran off back to her house, and buried her face in her pillow. Yami smiled at Serenity.
"Ren, you are the most hopeful, and courageous person that I know. You probably don't know how special you are. This world needs more people like you."
"But, Yami, I gave up. I couldn't keep going last night, it seemed pointless."
"Lucky that we were there for you. You can always count on us to be there, Serenity, because we care. We were Joey's friends too, and we still are. We're not going to give up on you that easily. You felt hopeless, and we're here to give you hope, to save you. Serenity..."
Yami's voice trailed off, and Serenity's lips met his. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever felt. They stood there for who knows how long, it seemed like hours. And then, Yami heard something. It wasn't bad though, it was beautiful, but the notes and words weren't exactly clear, they didn't know what was going to happen in the future. Sometimes they went from high to low in a second, as fast as it takes for your whole life to change. But, even as Yami listened to it, it was very true, that he and Serenity both knew, that love was spoken here.
