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R-Rain:

Sitting still was something Rosette had never been good at and the rain only reminded her of that simple fact. She couldn't go running around freely in the rain, not without an umbrella of course and even then she risked getting ill which, in the middle of this adventure, could not be allowed. So as the rain fell over the quiet city where she and the other three were trapped, she just stared out of the window, her breath coming out as fog.

Why couldn't she just go out?

Sighing, Rosette slumped against the windowsill when a sudden noise caught her attention. She whirled and saw Chrno sleeping on the hotel's queen sized bed, his arms folded underneath his head and legs brought up to his chest. It had been years since she had seen him in such a cute position when he was sleeping, and it brought a slight smile to her face.

He always fell asleep when the rain rolled in, he never failed to. But he had never looked so cute before.

Wait, cute?

Rosette blushed at her inner thoughts and fought the urge to slap herself. Of course there had always been that tiny part of her that liked her demon partner, but did she, dare mention it, like like him? She rolled her eyes at the girlish term and shook her head back and forth.

He was sweet to her, and accepted her faults in ways that no one else had. For some reason he seemed to mold to her personality perfectly, he was her voice of reason at times, and sometimes he was someone who listened to her inner most thoughts and secrets. Was it because of the bond their shared? Or was it something else?

"Rosette?"

She perked and felt her cheeks warm again. "What?"

"Are you…alright?"

She crossed her arms. "I'm fine," she declared, doing her best to appear confident. "Go back to sleep, you've been busy for the past few days."

"Sorry." Chrno rubbed his cheek against the fluffy pillow on the bed. "You know how I get when it rains…"

"Yeah."

The blonde turned around to face the window once more, her thoughts echoing through her head. She liked Chrno in a way that made them more then friends, and yet when she admitted it to herself, a burning pain flared in the middle of her chest. Bringing her clenched fist to her chest, she inhaled through her nostrils and suppressed the urge to follow her gut instinct and flat out tell him. Now was not the time, not with the weight of the world on their shoulders, it wouldn't be fair to her, to him, to Josuha, everyone else. And even that sounded unfair, but she had no choice. There were others to worry about, another fate to meet, and villains that needed to be put down; there wasn't time for a relationship, at least not one that the two of the deserved.

The rain always brings about change.

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