Aʜ, ᴍʏ Wɪɴᴅʙʟᴜᴍᴇ! [Vᴇɴᴛɪ x Isᴇᴋᴀɪ'ᴅ! Mᴀʟᴇ]

XIX

Aᴛ ʜɪs sɪᴅᴇ

"Take good care of my brother, I need to travel to Liyue for some medicine for him. When I return, I'll explain what he was mumbling about. Diluc already knows and I feel that I can trust you and Ashe with this information."Venti nods his head and then bids Kaeya a safe trip. While Kaeya left to take a trip, Diluc used his connections to find some cream for M/n's scar.
"It's so strange how they work together when it involves M/n."

"That's because they hate each other but love M/n to bits."

"Gah! Can't you use the door like a normal person, Ashe?"

"Newsflash I'm not normal, so I picked the window. Anyway, I brought you some wine to kill the time, I'm sure he's going to sleep for a while. I, on the other hand, will find a nice fling since Diluc and I didn't work out too well, he was cute until he attempted to dominate me.." Venti blinks for a moment, where was this conversation going. Venti made the mistake of not catching on and asked what the blondie meant.
"Tsk, we're both tops which sucks but I guess you can say we're just friends now."

"Yikes, that must of been awkward."

"Very! Anyway, Barbara said not to let him out of bed if he does wake. She was able to heal him but not completely, she said it was like something was blocking her from fully healing him. Meaning M/n is going to be very sore and moving will be his worst enemy."The two share a knowing chuckle, M/n wasn't one to sit still for long so knowing that he can't get out of bed would make the male pout.

Only leaving a sleeping M/n and a still worried Venti, he settles for reading a random book he found scattered across the room.
"How can your room be so tidy yet messy at the same? Is this what Kaeya called control chaos?"Venti was expecting an answer but quickly remembers that M/n was still sleeping.
"So silent... Usually, you'd have something sassy to say back to me when I make compliments about your chaotic method of organization. Wake up soon, yeah?"Venti felt lonely and a tab impatient but knew all things took time and if he had to wait he would.
"Ah, a poem book!"Venti beams as he flips through the book, the majority of the poems were old, so old that Venti personally knew who wrote them.
"Yikes, am I really that old?"He chuckles to himself for a moment.

To fill the seemingly empty room, he reads nearly all of the poems out loud in hopes that M/n could hear them.
"

When early morn walks forth in sober gray,
Then to my black-eyed maid, I haste away,
When evening sits beneath her dusky bower
And gently sighs away the silent hour,
The village bell alarms, away I go,
And the vale darkens at my pensive woe.
To that sweet village, where my black-eyed maid
Doth drop a tear beneath the silent shade,
I turn my eyes; and pensive as I go
Curse my black stars, and bless my pleasing woe.
Oft when the summer sleeps among the trees,
Whispering faint murmurs to the scanty breeze,
I walk the village round; if at her side
A youth doth walk in stolen joy and pride-"A voice all too familiar cuts Venti off, though tried in tone, it was still loud enough to jump Venti out of his trance.
"I curse my stars in bitter grief and woe,
That made my love so high, and me so low.
O should she e'er prove false, his limbs I'd tear,
And throw all pity on the burning air;
I'd curse bright fortune for my mixed lot,
And then I'd die in peace, and be forgot."

"Nice of you to pitch in on the very last poem, my Windblume. How are you feeling, any pain?"

"My back feels like someone threw a mountain at it..."

"I know that feeling but not so much a mountain but a rather large rock, Ehe!"M/n wanted to laugh hearing a tad bit of Venti's past dealing with Zhongli but his entire body screams in pain, even breathing felt like a hassle for him.
"Oi, oi! Venti, could you do me a favor?"

"Of course."

"Breathe for me, it hurts to do it myself."

"Unfortunately, that's something I can't do my love!"