It was Christmas Eve, and I was sitting on the bed while buttoning the sleeves of the shirt I was wearing. I glanced outside the window and it was prominently dark outside as I picked up the long coat beside and walked towards the door.
"Hoo… you're getting ready?" I heard Lilith's voice from behind as I turned around and noticed her staring at with a grin on her face, "Got plans?"
"Yeah… going to hang out with my friends." I replied as she tilted her head in confusion, "Friends? What about that girlfriend?"
"Well… she said that she already had plans with her friends."
I rember asking Suzuha about going out on Christmas Eve out of obligation because I read on the internet that going out with your partner on Christmas Eve was a rather necessary thing to do.
Though she told that she had plans with Moriko and others. I wasn't interested in her anymore, so I was searching for ways to turn her down and not waste my Christmas Eve with a girl I don't even like.
I thought about striking up a deal to break up with her, but then I decided not to ruin her Christmas Eve because of my selfish wish to cut connections with her as soon as possible and she didn't appear to be in the mindset to let go.
Even though she loved because Asmodeus manipulated her to do so.
It wouldn't take long to wear down the effects of his brainwash. And even if it didn't, that wouldn't concern anyway because I'll cut my ties with her sooner or later because she would end up hindering my work.
I was actually relieved when she said that she was busy and couldn't spend ti with .
"Aww… that must suck!" I could feel the sarcasm was dripping from that statent as I narrowed my eyes at her and replied, "Don't play with ."
"Jeez… why so cold?" She said, punching my shoulder lightly with furrowed eyebrows, but soon her lips curved into a smug smile as she asked, "Perhaps you're pissed that your girlfriend rejected your date offer on such an auspicious day?"
After staring at her for a few monts, saying nothing, I took a deep breath and asked, "Do I really look like that sort of guy to you?"
"I don't know… you tell ."
"Well I'm not interested in Suzuha anymore." I told her exactly what was going in my mind and before she could make any dumb comnts, I added, "She is basically useless to ."
"Well… that's not what the frown on your face says."
"I'm going for Adachi now." I stared into crimson eyes but she was in a rather light-hearted mood that day as she chuckled and continued, "Ah… an uncommon setting, where the…"
"Stop…"
"...boy ends up falling for his girlfriend's bestie…" She laughed and strolled around while holding my hand and pulling towards her, "How romantic!"
"Yeah, cut it out." I said, and a frown ford on her face as she complained, "You're no fun… how are you even popular among girls?"
"I don't know." I shrugged, getting my hand out of her grip subtly, as she puffed up her cheek and let out a sigh, "Those girls must have a really foul taste then."
She is saying that as if she didn't just kiss a few days ago.
Maybe I was overthinking about that incident and she did it in the heat of the mont without giving it much thought. But every ti I looked at her, I couldn't help the mories from that day being washed over inside my mind.
"You seem quite cheerful today… what's the matter?" I asked, as she stopped smiling for an instance and her eyes shifted towards , "Not really… I'm usually like this.
She was quite bad at lying.
For the past couple of months, she has been way too stressed and I could tell that by looking at her behaviour, worrying about every little thing and carrying the weight of her past while I was being rather considerate of her.
But I wasn't wrong from my perspective because she was just a stranger to at that point and I was under no obligation to be considerate about her, especially when she dragged into her problems.
"You look like a person who forces themselves to smile…" I said as my sentence trailed off at the end and she chuckled softly, "You're imagining things… give your mind so rest."
"So… what are you going to do?" I asked, walking towards the door as it was a rather joyful day and she was going to spend it inside, locked out from the outside world.
"Ah, I will probably sleep or read a book." She laughed and stared at for a mont as I asked, "Don't you wanna go out once in a while?"
"I do… but then I think it's pointless."
When she said, I reminisced about all the tis she had been confined in this tiny little apartnt. Instead of going out and roaming around, for so reason, she enjoyed staying here except for that one ti she went shopping with .
"Wait a minute… don't tell you're feeling bad for leaving alone today?" She asked, nudging in the stomach with a smug smile as I brushed it off, "Are you sick?"
"...of this life… ha ha ha!"
That was such a terrible joke.
"But always staying inside the house is bad for you… you really need so fresh air." I said, and she replied with a plain, "I'm alright."
"Yeah, say that to the bags under your eyes… hag."
"The fuck you called ?" She glared at as I gulped down hard and turned away from her, "Nevermind… please yourself."
I walked towards the door. Wearing my shoes, I was about to turn the knob as she said, "By the way, rember what I said."
"Don't worry, if I get the chance… I'll take it.." Turning around, I nodded at her and she smiled softly while waving her arm at , "Alright then… see you later, I guess."
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