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Angel looked up to see Erik come in with a tray of food in his hands.
"Hungry?" he asked.
She nodded and dug into her food ravenously.
"How was your nap?" he asked. He poured himself a glass of wine.
"Restful except for someone's loud, melancholy playing of the organ." She gave him a look.
"Don't say that about my organ! My organ is my treasure!" He grumbled. Melancholy!
They sat there glaring at each other for a while. Finally Erik took a sip of wine, snickering.
"What are you laughing at!" she demanded. She was quite enjoying this hostility between them.
"Have you looked in a mirror lately?" he asked, still grinning.
She touched her face and then glowered at him. "Well have you seen your shirt lately?"
Erik looked down at his white shirt that he had just changed (the other one was covered in blood) and saw that some wine had dribbled on it, probably from when he was laughing at Angel's appearance.
He picked up a hand mirror and shoved it at, showing her reflection. Her face was smudged with dirt and blood, her long red hair was a matted mess. She gasped.
"See? The truth hurts!" Erik sneered, still lamenting over his stained shirt. He decided to go change since he was not going to go around with his clothes looking so unkempt.
Once he left, Angel quickly started to rub her face, trying to get the smears of grime off. She noticed that Erik had left her a napkin. She dipped it in the glass of water he had also provided and started to rub her face. Soon, she got all of the dirt off although her hair was still a mess. She hurriedly ran her fingers through the ruby locks, smoothing them out a bit.
At that moment, Erik came back into the room with a clean shirt and carrying some boxes. He looked up and saw her now cleaned up and, out of surprise, dropped the boxes, one of them accidentally landing on his foot. He flinched, not so much out of pain but embarrassment.
"What?" she asked, even more self conscious than before with him staring at her like that!
"Um, nothing…?" Erik stuttered. Wow! Lucky for me she's pretty!
Angel looked at the boxes curiously. "What's in those?" she asked.
Erik suddenly came to his senses and looked down at the pile on the floor, momentarily forgetting. "Um…oh! Oh yeah. These are…uh…for you!" He quickly shoved them into her arms, looking away, not wanting her to see his face that was a color scarlet enough to match her hair.
"That's a lovely shade of red you're turning," she said teasingly.
He muttered, "Just open them!"
Angel quickly tore open the boxes. Inside was a lovely emerald green dress, in the latest fashions. All of the other boxes were filled with dresses, all very beautiful, stylish, and probably rather pricey too.
Angel didn't know what to say. No one had ever given her such an extravagant gift. She was rather touched by it.
Aw, he's so sweet! she thought to herself with a smile. She looked up at him, her face glowing.
"Well, I'm, uh, glad you like it," stammered Erik, a little uncomfortably. He started to turn and leave, not knowing what else there was to say.
Angel was a little disappointed to see him go. "Wait! Where are you going?" she asked.
Erik turned around slowly and said, "I'm, uh, going to…sleep…because that's what people do at night." He continued on his way.
How cute! He's nervous! Angel was delighted at this little turn of events.
As she watched him go, she was thinking how gracefully he held himself…
That is until he forgot about one of the boxes lying on the ground. He probably should've watched his step. He tumbled to the ground as a result of tripping over it. He quickly jumped up, his face even redder than before, and walked out. Once he was out of eye sight he seized his nose and silently gasped. Stupid ground! Why did it have to hit his nose?
Angel couldn't help but giggle. Well, he's still cute…
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