12-06-2013, 06:09 PM
Shadow had kept sitting on the floor, legs in the lotus position and continued to slowly brush her hair. The act was soothing to her and she often did it before going to bed at night. She didn't know how long she sat there, continuously looking over at Reino's cell while she brushed.
Then it finally happened, the shades vanished but she didn't see it. Not yet at least. Her mind had drifted off to another place. It had drifted to her darkest time, the place she hated to go to. Tearing up Shadow shook her head and dropped the hairbrush. Raising her hands to her face she wiped away her tears and looked up.
Reino was laying on the floor and staring at her. She caught him seconds before he snapped up to his feet and turned away. Frowning Shadow watched him grab a board and write something. When he flipped it towards her she couldn't help but gasp. He was finally going to talk to her. After reading the first thing he wrote she gracefully got to her feet and grabbed her own board and marker. When he was done writing Shadow walked closer to her glass door and shook her head.
She didn't reply yet, she was entranced in the look he was giving her. Reaching out her own hand she placed it on her glass, in the exact spot that Reino's hand was on. Shadow could see in his eyes how much he wanted to just be simply touched. Whatever caused him to be upset every year on this day had to be horrible to cause so much emotion. She was just about to start writing back when he mouthed something to her.
"What is it like to be in love?"
Biting her lip and looking away Shadow squeezed her eyes shut and tried not to let her tears fall. Taking a step back from the glass she quickly wrote something and flipped the board so Reino could see. She wrote in an elegant calligraphy, one you would see in the old n days where they wrote with ink and quills. "That's ok and memories can either be good or bad." She wiped the board off and wrote again. "You are not a crybaby Reino." Again it was wiped off. Shadow stood there biting her lip again. She wasn't sure what she wanted to say to him. Shaking her head she began to write. "It's like you have the whole world in your hands." That was wiped off and replaced with. "You feel like you're floating and that nothing could ever break you." Again she wiped it off and finished with, "Reino it's the best feeling in the world. One day you'll know it." Shadow smiled softly to him.
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