I put on the dress and head outside to go down the elevator. As I make eyes with Mprax as I step off the elevator I see him blush. Did I? No way! Did I make him blush? I didn't know Morax could blush.
"Wow! Y/n you look incredible!" Paimon exclaims and she circles around me. "Oh-"
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(Without the cane)
As we walk to Liyue we arrive pretty fast. "Xiao!" I say as I run up to him. He is next to the bridge where I told him to be. "I'm so glad you decided to come!" I ruffle his hair.
He smiles at me. "D-did Xiao j-just s-s-smile?!" Paimon exclaims. Xiao immediately glares at her. Paimon hides behind Aether. "Well we should probably go now, see you later"
As Zhongli and I link arms and walk over the bridge he whispers in my ear "You look lovely"
My heart stops. "Oh why thank you, you look very handsome"
Zhongli sighs happily "You always have to give a compliment back don't you"
I shrug "It feels wrong not to. I mean if I gave you a compliment and you didn't compliment me back I wouldn't care but if someone gave me a compliment it would pain me not to give them a compliment back"
I sigh and look down. "If that makes any sense"
"It did."
I smile and look at him. "Well if it isn't the couple of the hour." A familiar man said.
"Childe." Zhongli and I both say.
"That is my name, you both look incredible! I'll get out of your way, enjoy the night you two!" He says. Before he leaves he winks at us.
"May I have this dance?"
I smile and take Zhongli's hand. I nod and we walk onto the dance floor. He puts his hands on my waist. I realize how close we are and I put my arms on his shoulders with my hands touching one another behind his neck.
"I haven't danced like this in many years"
"Really? And why is that so?"
"I don't know. I just didn't dance with anyone, probably because everyone is a bit scared of me in Mondstat"
"Scared of you?"
I nod and look at him. "Yeah, people always tell me how intimating I am, I don't have the most approachable resting face."
"Well I find it approachable."
"Well you have also known me for many years" I say back to him.
The next song starts and it's a bit faster. "Here take my hand" He tells me.
I take one of my hands off his shoulder and hold his hand. We start to spin as we dance. I laugh and say "I haven't danced in so long, at least I haven't danced with anyone in so long."
Pure joy fills my face as I look up at Zhongli. He seems to get distracted and one of his feet accidently trips mine. We both go falling to the ground. I brace for the impact but before I hit the ground Zhongli somehow turned his body around so he landed on the ground.
I close my eyes as we both fall. My face falls an inch or so under his neck. I notice his legs aren't pressed together so I quickly get off him and sit on my knees in-between his legs. I start to giggle. "Thanks for breaking my fall Zhongli" I stand up and lens my hand to him.
He laughs and looks up at me. The man stares at me for some time. "You going to take my hand or not?"
Zhongli takes my hand and I help him get up off the ground. "Thank you"
"Shall we continue?" I ask him. Morax smirks and grabs my hand and my waist. He must be really confident right now even though he just tripped me a second ago.
We continue to dance with one another until the song ends. As the song stops I turn and see lanterns flying into the sky. "Woah" I say in amazement. "It's beautiful"
"Want to go-" he begins. He turn to look at Zhongli "Yes I'd love to!"
We both walk to the dock. Zhongli leads me as he holds my hand and I walk behind him. As we go onto the dock we talked at the first day we reunited. He had a Xiao lantern in his hand. How'd he get that? I must have been to focused by the lanterns he probably bought one on the way here.
"Here lets let go of it together since we only have one" Zhongli tells me. I smile at him and he lets go of my hand and holds the lantern in both of his. I put my hands on the other side of the lantern and face him. "Ready?"
I nod and we both lift it and let go of the lantern. It flies away into the air going above the water. I watch as it flies away. I hear someone sit down. Looking at Zhongli sit where we sat when we reunited I joined him. We sat together and watched the lanterns fly, it was silent. But it was a comfortable silence.
As lights filled the sky we sat and lifted our chins to see the dancing lanterns in the sky.
I feel something touch my hand. Before I pull away it grabs my hand and I quickly realize that Zhongli is now holding my hand.
The last time I saw him he did try to flirt with me every once in a while but he never did anything this bold. I feel his eyes gaze on me. "I'm glad you decided to join me tonight Ethereal"
I notice how close we are sitting. Not even a foot apart from one another. "Thanks for bringing me as your date" I thank him. I had no idea if he had considered it a date. I just meant it as like your date to a dance. Now it was my turn to do something bold.
I rest my head on his shoulder. "Tired already?"
I giggle lightly. "A bit"
Looking into the dark blue sky I spot many yellow and orange lights. They shine bright in the darkness.
As the night slowly gets softer and softer by the hour we decide to head home.
