Important note!
I have made a small edit in chapter 12. Seriously, it's a tiny one, but it's very important and makes a lot more sense than how it was written before. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I do promise this is the first and last one I'll ever have to make.
With that being said, have a good read!
Chapter 13
…
Eventually, their tears stopped, and so did their wailing.
Thereafter, utter exhaustion, both emotional and physical settled in firmly, and they fell flat into the thick of snow. As they did, the pair slowly, but surely managed to roll themselves onto their backs. And then had just enough strength to keep their eyes open. His blue, her lilac fixed into the night sky, or at least that's where their gazes pointed to.
Voicelessly, they just lay there. Too tired to even have many thoughts in their minds, and the ones that they had, were different as well. They didn't think of themselves, of their past, of mistakes and everything they lost. Instead, they thought of a moment at hand.
This one very moment.
And as they did, his blue, her lilac, they found a single most shimmering star. A truly bright, unyielding ball of light.
"Hey, Yang?"
"Yea?"
"Is it really a mistake? Us being together right now?"
"You think it isn't?"
"I…I don't know, really. But it'd be better if it wasn't, right?" He inquired, and she let herself think for a moment. Remember. Remember things she didn't want to. Memories which hurt. Her own mistakes and the failure she was.
And then, as she blinked, and found herself gazing again at that ever so beautiful star, she thought of nothing but him. Just him alone, and her lilac soon found his face.
"Yea…Us being together, it'd be better if it wasn't a mistake," She said, and only a second later realized she did. Thereafter, looking back to that star.
He quietly exhaled, parted his lips, but then closed them shut. A moment later, his lips parting again, and he said, "Hey, can I hold your hand for a bit?"
"Sure. It's quite cold, actually," She said, and his fingers soon wrapped around hers. Hers around his.
He started to think. Of his mistakes, and…he stopped. He didn't think anymore. He simply parted his gaze from the star, and fixed his blue into her face. Stared long enough for her to notice, and she then set her eyes into his. Just that. A simple stare and they thought of nothing. There weren't any demons dwelling behind his blue, and there weren't any behind her lilac. They simply saw each other.
"It's a bit warmer now, I think," He said.
"It is," She replayed, and then their eyes stared back to the night sky. Soon after, both of them being too tired to do anything at all. And so, they fell asleep and just lay there. The warmth of each other's hand being slightly comforting.
A little, but just enough.