"Em...I don't understand..." he said with a pained voice, stretching out his hand towards the woman he loved so much and who seemed to be about to lose.
"Wade, I'm sorry... but I have to go..." said the fiery one.
She was sheltered by her purple and bluish-toned sweater and at her feet was a small suitcase. Wade could only feel how his heart was about to explode, because if what was about to happen was true, he preferred to evaporate and never return.
"Ember, Please…" he took a few steps towards his lover, who had her head lowered in melancholy.
"I-I must...i-go..." Ember said in a small voice, almost struggling to speak and not break down in tears at that precise moment.
That light that made Wade Ripple fall through her heart engulfed in flames was consuming itself for the first time, ready to become nothing along with the air and the stars above the sky that illuminated them when the moon greeted element City and said goodbye to its brother the sun, transforming into the night...nights where their love radiated more than any sparkle.
"I have to go..." Ember murmured back, cold as ice, but inside holding back her pain.
"But... why Em?" Wade asked, feeling the weight of his tears in his eyes. "Did i did something bad to you? Did I hurt you without realizing it?..."
"..."
"My love..." he called angelically for the second time, resting his hand on her cheek, he had caressed so many things in his life, but nothing was the same as caressing the figure of the woman of his life "Did I hurt you?..."
A tear began to spill down Ember's cheek the moment her boyfriend held her like that. That simple show of affection caused painful wrinkles to take place on her face... she didn't want to, she couldn't live without him. But she had no other choice.
Hearing that last question, her heart broke to pieces.
"N-no! ... W-wade no ~ ..." The fire girl denied immediately, she also brought her hands to his cheeks. "Of course not, you've never hurt me."
"Then why do you want to leave?"
"Of course I don't want to leave!..." It didn't take long for her to have the courage to raise her head and return to see him again. "...I love you Wade Ripple, but we both know that I won't be able to stay here." ..
Standing in front of the entrance of the house, Ember's eyes began to spill lava, just as her hands moved away from her boyfriend's face.
"I don't want to do this... but I don't have a choice, I have to leave now..." Ember answered between soft whispers, beginning to distance herself from him.
Wade reached for her, carefully seeking the warmth of her slender hands before she could take another step. Ember gasped as she was pulled and just felt how she fell between Wade's chest, while his arms in a gentle embrace held her back and waist and kept her clinging. The fiery woman was paralyzed when she felt how the figure of her partner began to boil against her hot touch, a chemical reaction that to this day drove her crazy every time they touched, no matter how she was.
"You said that you couldn't live in a world where I wasn't there. What makes you believe that I could do the same without you? If I've gotten so used to your beautiful light" Wade said, closing his eyes as he was consumed by Ember Lumen, his only great love of his.
The fire girl, unable to resist, reciprocated that hug, hiding her face in his shoulder, sobbing, forgetting to be strong. No matter how much she boasted, once he opened her heart, she had been made fragile by love, but at the same time, this very love was what kept her from falling to pieces. They separated, so they could meet in each others eyes for the last time.
"I love you, Ember Lumen." Wade said between soft tears, which ran down his cheeks like torrents. "I'm very lucky that my life has been intertwined with yours... and even when you're not here, you will be in my mind and heart, and I will be happy knowing that you feel the same thing.
"And I love you, Wade Ripple... and I promise that even if I can't be here anymore, loving you, I will always carry you in my heart and I will hold on to that little drop of water that you left in it" Ember commented with tenderness, showing a weak smile on her lips, which Wade caressed with his thumb.
Sharing tears and hearts broken by melancholy, the two pairs of lovers brushed lips that ended up becoming a tender kiss from which steam released, for just a second causing their hearts to collide and that love of theirs burned one last time.
"OH FOR GOD'S SAKE, EMBER!" Brook yelled, clearly irritated and hysterical. "WE'RE JUST GOING TO SEE THE WEDDING DRESSES!" IT'S NOT EVEN THAT FAR, IT'S ALMOST 5 MINUTES WALKING!"
"LEAVE THAT THEATER NOW, THE STORE IS GOING TO CLOSE IN THREE HOURS GOD DAMN! CAN WE GO NOW?!" Cinder exclaimed equally irritated as she held her bag, she loved her daughter and her son-in-law very much, but sometimes they coul get wat to dramatic
Couldn't they just say goodbye without the need to look like a scene from a Television drama?
"Don't forget me, precious..." the man of water said to her beloved with a deep and very flirtatious tone, uniting her forehead while holding her carefully by her neck.
"Of course not." Ember replied lovingly, closing her eyes to place a kiss on his forehead "Wait for me, I know we'll be together again."
And so, Ember turned away from Wade and went with Brook and Cinder, the three of them prepared to see a stylist who would guide them in finding the perfect wedding dress for young Lumen and her future wedding to Wade Ripple. Ember only saw two and a half hours of her mother-in-law and her mother driving her crazy and changing minds with each white dress that the lady in the store offered them.
However, along the way, Brook still didn't assimilate her son and daughter-in-law saying goodbye like characters from a movie, since the day Wade told her about Ember, she knew that this girl was special... but she never believed that they could be SO arrowed by the other
"They just had to be boyfriends.." that was all she thought, as she rolled her eyes.