Chapter 24
[A/N: I have replied to the PMs.. Strangely, I received an awful lot! :P Okay, read. Enjoy.]
He had circled his arms around her waist now, and she held him close. Her hands had found his hair again, and she was still regaling in the softness of them.
She wasn't thinking too much at his comment just now. How strangely mortals thought at times.
She felt him loosen up his hold a little, and she shifted herself now to sit with him, on his bed, and caressed his cheeks, to now wipe away the salty remnants of what were his tears.
"Why won't you ask anything?" She questioned, diverting his mind from the frightful thoughts of his mother.
"I am too tired to. And anyways, Would you answer if I asked?" He asked back.
She laughed that tinkling laugh that was filled with the sound of wind chimes.
"I don't think you know the right questions to ask, My precious..."She answered him truly, of course she would. There was no point in lying anyways, that's what she had been always told.
"Can I ask something?" He questioned, a strange steely resolve shining in his eyes.
She didn't know what he wanted to ask, but she felt amused at the fact that he had picked up his pieces so fast. Maybe he was used to doing that.
She nodded, and answered, "Yes, Go Ahead."
"Can I kissyou?"