The afternoon shifted into the evening quickly and Vilkas was successful in teaching June how to dance, a few times she's almost tripped over her feet but Vilkas caught her every time. And each time it happened they both laughed. It was the first time Vilkas saw June relax and smile like she meant it since she showed up at Jorrvaskr. June's feet were getting sore and she was out of breath from the fast pacing music that they had to dance too. "You okay?" Vilkas asked. "Yea, just..a little wore out." She said with a small chuckle.
Farkas and Seradia had stopped dancing a while ago and were now sitting down on the steps watching everybody. "So uh..You having fun?" Farkas slowly asked. "Oh yes! Don't get to do something fun like this very often." She looked at him and smiled. "It's nice to have a break once in a while." Farkas smiled back. "Agreed." She nodded. They both then became silent again and turned back towards the crowd. 'Now what?...' Farkas tried thinking of something to say.
He than perked up realizing he had almost forgotten about the flower. He reached into his pouch and pulled it out, surprisingly it was still alive and pretty. He smiled as he looked at it, he slightly shifted his eyes to Seradia trying to figure out how to give it to her. "Hey, you want to go take a walk?" He asked. Seradia looked at him a bit surprised. "You want to leave the party?" She asked. "Only for a bit, my head hurts from all this noise. I just need a break and it'd be nice to have company." He explained. "It's also a nice night for walk, since pretty much everybody in Solitude is here, the city is nice and quiet." Farkas smiled and crossed his fingers in his mind.
Seradia thought about it for a moment and than smiled back. "Alright, I suppose a break wouldn't hurt." She shrugged and than stood up. Farkas stood up with her and than they both walked away from the party. Ancano glared at the stranger who was taking his Seradia away, even though she wasn't his any longer.
Farkas and Seradia was walking down the street in silence. Farkas felt nervous now that they were alone. He took in a deep breath and quickly came to a stop. Seradia stopped and looked at him confused. "You okay?" She asked. "Yea." He held the flower behind his back. "I just..want to give you this." He slowly showed her the flower. She looked down at it and smiled. It was beautiful. "I..saw it and thought of you.." Farkas watched her face.
Seradia slowly took the flower and sniffed it. "Why's that?" She asked looking back up at him. "Well..Because..." Farkas struggled to find his words. "It's bright and beautiful..Like you..." He slowly explained. Seradia blinked and felt her cheeks grow warm. She looked at him confused. "You think..I'm Beautiful?" She asked nervously. Farkas swallowed hard, he felt like his heart was going to burst out of his chest.
Seradia just stood there staring at him. Their eyes met and they started at each other for a moment. She felt her cheeks grow warm and she felt butterflies stir in her stomach. 'Oh no.' She clenched her jaw and quickly looked down. 'Not again, it's too soon...' She tightened her grip on the flower. She than quickly looked up and gave him a sweet smile. "Thank you for the flower. I love flowers." She quickly spoke.
Farkas looked at her confused. "Well, I think I'm going to return to the party. I'll see you later." She quickly turned around and started to walk away. She didn't even give Farkas enough time to say anything. 'I don't want to get hurt again..' She gripped her stomach as painful memories flooded into her mind.
When Seradia returned to the party she saw that a few of the patrons had left but it was still full of people and there was still plenty of mead. "There you are." June walked up to her. Seradia looked at her. "I just went for a walk." She smiled at June. June examined her. "Where's Farkas?" Vilkas walked up to her as well. "He is still walking around." She answered. "So you guys went together?" June grinned. "Yes, just to get some fresh air, I'm going to go back to playing." Seradia quickly walked past them and back to her spot with the other bards.
June watched her. She could sense that something was wrong but didn't bother to ask. "I'm going to go find Farkas." Vilkas told her and than walked away. June looked around and she didn't see Ancano anywhere. 'They must of finally left.' June felt relieved. She decided that it was now safe enough for her to leave the crowded place. There was enough people to where nothing would happen to Seradia so June left to go to the Inn to get mead there. It was quiet there.
Instead of playing with a long the other bards Seradia just sat there looking down. She felt bummed out now and she felt bad for leaving Farkas alone. She did it without thinking, she panicked. She was too afraid. She let out a sigh as she examined the lute that was given to her. "Sera." She jumped and quickly looked up. Once she did, she felt her heart stop and her blood freeze. It was Ancano, she didn't know what to do. She just sat there staring at him.
'What's he doing here?' She felt like she was going to be sick. She hoped and thought that she would never see him again. She felt her heart beat increase, he still didn't know. He had no idea what he truly did to her. She always regretted not tell him, she wanted him to feel bad for taking such a thing away from her. But now that he was standing in front of her she couldn't speak, it was as if a daedra was standing right in front of her.
Ancano had been waiting all evening for June to leave and once she finally did he decided to speak to her. But now he regretted it, she was just sitting there not saying anything. Had he truley hurt her that bad. He clenched his jaw and swallowed hard. "It's been a while, I'm surprised to see you here." He spoke with a normal voice. "I thought you would be at the college." He crossed his arms.
Seradia quickly looked away from him. "I decided to travel.." She said quietly. "With the Dragonborn?" He sounded angry at that. Seradia wrinkled her nose up and quickly looked up at him. She glared at him a little. He was a bit surprised by her hateful look towards him but than again, he shouldn't of been surprised. He quickly cleared his throat and was about to say something else but she quickly got up stopping him. "I should get going. It's getting late." She started to walk away but he quickly grabbed her arm stopping her.
"Wait." He pleaded. "Let go." She turned around and tried pulling her arm free but his grip only tightened. "I need to tell you something." He grabbed her other arm and pulled her close. "I don't want to talk to you. Let me go!" She said a little louder. "Keep your voice down!" He hissed at her. Seradia could feel tears begin to weld in her eyes. Ancano started to pull her closer but he suddenly got shoved away hard forcing him to let go of her.
Seradia rubbed her arms and looked up seeing it was June. She was the one who pushed Ancano down to the ground. "The hell you think you're doing!" She yelled at him. Ancano looked up and glared deeply at her. "Mind your own business Dragonborn!" Ancano quickly got up. "I told you to stay away from her!" June shouted. Ancano glared at her some more. They both started to argue and yell at each other, it looked like they were about to get into a serious fight. Seradia started to back away from them, she could feel tears begin to roll down her cheeks.
It took her a long time to be able to sleep with out crying, it took her a long time to be able to smile and mean it. But seeing Ancao brought it all back, he brought back the memories. Seradia quickly turned around and ran off. June and Ancano stopped fighting once they saw her run away. June quickly glared at Ancano again and started yelling at him again. Seradia ran all the way down the street and to the Inn but before she could reach it she hit a large body making her fall down to the ground.
"Oh sorry!" It was Farkas. He looked down seeing that it was Seradia. His eyes widened as he saw the tears running down her cheeks. "Hey are you okay!" He quickly bent down in front of her. Seradia slowly looked at him, she felt embarrassed that he was seeing her like this. She quickly got up from the ground dusting herself off. "Sorry." She apologized and than ran towards the Inn quickly going inside.
"Hey wait." Farkas went after her. Vilkas was inside the Inn now ordering some drinks. He jumped hearing the door slam open. He turned and saw it Seradia, she ran inside and was now running towards the stairs. Vilkas watched her and than saw Farkas run in and after her. "Hey!" He finally caught up with her and grabbed her arm. He turned her around to look at him. Once she faced him her usual sweet smile appeared on her face.
He looked at her confused, she may of been smiling but he could sense her emotions and see the wiped away tear stains on her cheeks. "What is it Farkas?" She asked a bit out of breath. "Are you..Are you okay?" He asked examining her face. "Yea I'm fine, it just got overwhelming at the party is all." She said with a shrug. Farkas blinked and examined her more. "A-are you sure?" He asked. She nodded and then back away from him. "I just wanna read alone is all." She gave him one more smile and then turned around walked up the stairs.
He watched her and than turned around hearing footsteps quickly approach him. It was June, she started to go up the stairs after Seradia but Farkas stopped her. "Hey." He said. She turned around to look at him. "What happened?" He asked. June just looked away. "Nothing." She quickly went up the stairs going after Seradia. Farkas blinked confused, Vilkas walked up to him. "Do you really think she's okay?" Farkas asked. "No, but if she doesn't want to talk about it than there is nothing we can do." Vilkas said with a shrug and than walked to the bar taking a seat.
Farkas frowned and joined his brother, he ordered himself some mead. He felt foolish for earlier when they took a walk. 'Maybe I moved to fast for her...' He let out a sigh and started to drink his mead. "So you two went for a walk aye?" Vilkas asked. Farkas just nodded and took another drink. "What happened?" Vilkas asked with a small grin. "Nothing." Farkas quickly answered finishing off his mead and than ordering some more.
An hour passed since June went after Seradia and now she was finally coming back down stairs. Vilkas turned smelling her scent near by. "So did you find out what was wrong?" Vilkas asked. "Nothing was wrong she just wanted to read and I took a nap." June lied with a shrug. "Yea right!" Farkas yelled. He was well drunk. June raised an eyebrow at him. "You wanna know what it is!" He got up from his chair and stumbled near her almost falling on her. "It's because..It's because..." He had to lean on the bar to keep himself up.
"It's because I tried to tell her how I thought about her earlier and it freaked her out." Farkas said with a frown. "I promise that's not it." June chuckled. "Liar!" Farkas pointed at her. "Calm down brother." Vilkas put his hand on Farkas's shoulder. Farkas shrugged his hand away. "You know what I should do?" Farkas stood up straight. "I should just go up there and tell her how it is. Let her know that she made me feel embarrassed and made a fool out of me!" He started to charge right for the stairs.
June leaned her back on the bar as she watched him. "You gonna stop him?" Vilkas furrowed his eyebrows down at her. "Should I?" She tilted her head as she kept watching. "Yes." Vilkas looked at her a bit surprised. "Hmmm.." She laid her head back and looked at the ceiling. "I don't know..It might be funny..." She shrugged. "You're a terrible person." Vilkas sighed. "I love it when you talk dirty." She faced him and winked. Vilkas sneered at her and than got up from his seat quickly going after Farkas who was already upstairs.
Seradia was sitting in a chair with her legs crossed and reading a book. It was a book that belonged to the Inn. She jumped at the door slamming open, Farkas stumbled in almost falling over but he caught himself on the wall. "Farkas?" Seradia closed her book and got up from the chair. "Are you okay?" She asked him. Farkas slowly stood up straight and than looked at her. "No, I'm not okay! You want to know why?!" He walked towards her. He almost fell again but quickly grabbed her shoulders balancing himself, she helped him.
"W-why?" She could smell the mead off of him. "Becuase you embarrassed me earlier! That's why!" He slurred his words. "How?" She tilted her head. "Because I was trying to tell you my feelings and how I thought about you and than you just ran off as if I offended you or something. Than later you run by me crying and than act like nothing is wrong!" Seradia was having a hard time keeping him up. "Farkas, I think you're just drunk." She gave him a small smile. "No! I'm being serious and I'm a little hor-"
Vilkas quickly walked into the room interrupting him. "Woah there brother! Don't finish that sentence." Vilkas quickly grabbed his shoulders making him back away from Seradia. Seradia put her ands on her hips as she watched them. "Hey get off me. I need to-" Farkas tried to push Vilkas off of him but he was unsuccessful. "No you don't. Come on let's get you to bed." Vilkas tried pulling him out of the room but he resisted. June walked in laughing at him, Vilkas glared at her a bit. "A little help here please." He watched her. She just laughed some more. "I don't know it's pretty funny." She said with a shrug like she did downstairs. Vilkas let out a loud sigh at her letting her know he was getting impatient.
"Oh alright fine." June walked over to Farkas. "Come on big guy." She grabbed his arm but he resisted. "No. Now hold on!" He pushed her and Vilkas away. "I need to-" This time is was Seradia who cut him off. "You need to go to bed." She walked up to him keeping her smile on her face. "W-what..." He looked at confused. "You'll feel better and probably not remember any of this. Come on I'll help you." She wrapped arms around his arm. "Well..Alright.." He let her walk him to his room.
Vilkas and June both watched them a bit surprised, they than looked to each other and shrugged. Vilkas left the room to help Seradia put Farkas down and than they all called it a night.