Xenos. I know it sounds strange, me being a nobody and all, but she makes me feel. That's why I always liked talking to her so much. She was easy to trust. Everyone trusted her. The only thing different with me was that she trusted me too. I knew everything about her. I knew who she was and where she came from. I even knew her true name. Things she never would have told the rest of the Organization.
But then one day it just… stopped. We didn't talk anymore. It was like… Pandora's Box, in a way. The only reason it's so tempting is because you don't know what's inside. Xenos was avoiding me. And I wanted to know why.
So I finally opened the box.
"I'm not avoiding you," she said softly. She'd always been a bad liar.
"Liar," I said, "really, why?" She answered me, but I didn't hear her. "What was that?" I asked.
"Because you make me feel weak," she mumbled.
"Oh come on, I know I'm stronger than you," I teased her, "but that's really no reason to avoid me, now is it?" I tilted her head up, forcing her to look at me.
"Not like that," she said. She wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me closer to her. Her inexperienced lips touched mine. I slid my arms around her waist, pulling her body closer… closer…
"You make me feel weak," she repeated after she had to pull away to breathe. And this time I knew exactly what she meant.
Because she made me feel the same way.
And maybe it was the white summer dress that made her look so pretty (I always kind of wondered where she got all her clothes). Or maybe it was the nervous look in her piercing blue eyes. Or maybe it was the fact that for the first time, I felt something. For whatever reason, I kissed her again.
And I continued kissing her whenever I wanted, right up until the day she left. And I would tell her I loved her once, even though she knew it couldn't be true. We both knew it wouldn't last.
But we both wanted it to.