𝔖𝔞𝔩𝔲𝔱𝔢 (𝔄𝔱𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔫 𝔵 ℜ𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯)

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 13: 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔

⚀3ʀᴅ Pᴏᴠ⚀

After the heated discussion between the mourning members, Audrey left the dorm and searched for Connor. From every open room of the underground base to every corner she could turn to, she found nothing. It was already 11:59 pm when she started to walk back to the dorm in failure but suddenly remembered where Connor might be.

♡Aᴜᴅʀᴇʏ's Pᴏᴠ♡

I walked out of the restricted base and into the cold and starry night. "Connor!" I yelled, looking at the dark surroundings before spotting a dark figure up in the trees. I smiled a bit before jogging into the trees. I looked at the top before stepping on a root, jumping high, and grabbing onto a sturdy branch. I helped myself up on it and climbed up some more. After a while, I was just a few branches away from him, I looked at my hands and saw how dirty it was. I didn't mind about it and continued my journey toward him. After a couple of minutes, I landed on his branch after jumping on the previous one to his.

I saw how cast down he was, chugging down a beer bottle one after another. I put myself into a sitting position and placed my head on his left shoulder. The moon was glistening with its moonlight, the stars twinkled in the night making it a mesmerizing starry one.

"It wasn't your fault." I started as he chuckled lightly. "And how is that? I let her sacrifice herself and now I fought Valentina verbally too." Connor answered, I gulped. I sighed heavily before grabbing one beer bottle, opening it, and drinking it down. "We are all affected by it. You were experiencing the stages of grief, that's why you suddenly hated Valentina. Don't blame yourself just because of what happened, it's normal." I added.

"I know that Y/N's death made you like this since you saw her as your own little sister but you need to consider that Valentina, I, and the others are mourning too," I explained as he stopped drinking but wasn't replying, he was just listening. "We all have our own ways of handling pain and sadness, Valentina is doing her best not to break down in front of us, she's strong physically and mentally. That's why Y/N chose her as the second-in-command." I said as he started to finally let out the tears he has been stopping since 3 days ago.

"I want to apologize to her so bad," he said, I smiled a bit. "You can but give her some time and space first. She's been handling too many problems at once and the least we could do is give her some rest for herself." I stated as I patted him on the back. "I'll cook her favorite foods too." Connor said, I giggled lightly as he looked at me with confusion.

"Why are you giggling?" he asked. "Food is really your love language," I responded. "Of course, I learned to cook and bake for us." Connor replied as looked at him in the eyes in admiration. He too stared at mine, we both sat in silence while observing each other's eyes. The glistening starry night became our background as the hoots of the owls became our music.

"Eyes blue like the Atlantic and I'm going down like the Titanic," he suddenly sang softly as he was looking straight at my eyes. "Eyes amber, warm, and dramatic and I'm going down like the Titanic..." I sang too, loving the way we just sat in silence while staring at each other's eyes. Connor leaned in and was about to kiss me when my phone started to ring.

I took my phone and saw the contact number, Alexander was calling under the name, 'Albino Genius.'

"Hello?" I answered. "Hey, where are you?" Alexander asked. "Umm, we're I mean I'm outside." I said. "What are you doing outside in the middle of the night?" he asked. "I was just finding Connor," I said as he hummed. "Did I interrupt something?" he asked as I hurriedly said, "No you didn't interrupt anything!" He chuckled.

"Are you sure? Because looking at each others eyes for 3 minutes then was about to kiss wasn't nothing," Alexander commented making me widen my eyes. I looked everywhere and saw a small white drone flying in its place. "Its the first time you've ever failed to notice something in your surroundings, Audrey." he added before chuckling. "Oh shut up!" I replied, my cheeks began to turn red. "Oh you should have taken a look on your faces!" Alex teased. "By the way say hello to Hedwig!" Alexander said as the drone went up and down before flying to us.