It's you
“MAH!” Such an intelligent word to say, but it was all that would come out of Mora Kota’s mouth as she pressed her back against a wall eyes staring at the appearingly innocent dog. The stupid mutt was held loosely by some idiot who was, like her, also waiting for a train to central.
The dog took an interest in her, big brown eyes staring up at her as if knowing she was terrified of it, and at the same time not caring. It moved forward on black paws straining to reach her.
“Bad dog! Shoo shoo!” She whispered, pressing closer to the wall half tempted to hiss like her kitten Lynk would.
The doors to the train opened and the person pulled themselves towards the front steps, pulling the mutt with him. Mora sighed a breath of relief, peeling herself from the wall to hurry onto the train and find a seat.
Sitting down in the back corner of the train by herself, she tucked a fallen chunk of her waist length burgundy hair behind her ear. She rested her head against the back wall of the train and listened halfheartedly to the conductor’s announcements before the metal squealed and the train lurched forward.
Mora stared out the window, emerald eyes searching for something that she didn’t think anyone knew of.
Footsteps klopped noisily on the wooden floors until they reached Mora’s seat. A woman sat down next to her, she had shoulder length blonde hair and kind eyes. But that wasn’t what Mora noticed the most about her, because that woman also had a small black and white dog on her lap.
“GAH!” Mora pushed herself towards the window of the train, pressing close to the side of the car and as far away from the dog as she could get.
The woman lifted her head to look at Mora who probably looked like a giant dork with the way she was acting. “Are you afraid of dogs?” The woman asked.
Mora let out a strangled laugh, red creeping up the fair skin of her neck and face. “Terrified.”
The woman smiled kindly and set the dog on the floor by her feet towards the aisle. She reached out one hand for Mora to shake. “Riza Hawkeye.”
Mora smiled kindly, scooting away from the wall and taking her hand in a friendly shake. “Mora Kota.”
“It’s very nice to meet you. Where are you headed?”
“Central. What about you?”
“Central as well, do you live there?”
Mora nodded. “Yes, I own a small flower shop in the city. I’m just returning from meeting with my mother in another city.”
“Well, I hope I get to see more of you. It’s always nice to meet new people.”
“Where do you work?” Mora asked, genuinely curious.
“I’m a Lutenint (spell-check sucks.) for the Military.” She smiled at Mora’s curiosity.
“So you know a lot of interesting people then?”
Riza thought of all of the people she knows; people she has met and fought with and all the strange things she has seen. She scratched the back of her neck, laughing awkwardly. “Ah….you could say that.”
“It must be fun, being in the military. Something different. Out of the ordinary, no?”
Riza laughed. “You should try telling that to the people in the military, I’m sure they’d get a kick out of that.”
Mora laughed as well. “Yes I suppose it is an odd statement.”
The train lurched to a stop throwing the people forward and off their seats.
Riza picked up her dog and looked back at Mora. “Drop by sometime, it would be fun to have another girl around sometime.”
“I will. It was nice meeting you.” Mora waved as Riza left into the aisle.
Riza stepped off the train thinking to herself. She seems like such a nice innocent naive girl, I wonder if she’s single. She’d be good with Kain. They’re both so damn soft.
Mora stood up pulling her bag with her and sprinting to the luggage cars to go get her bags and her kitten.
“LYNK!” She squealed, pulling the kitten out of the cage. The small dependant animal looked up at her and purred, nuzzling into her neck. “AWWW I love you too!” Mora nuzzled back happily. “Come on Lynk, let’s go back home, I betcha wanna see that really cute girl kitty you’ve been mewling to.”
Lynk nuzzled closer in response.
~~
Colonel Mustang flopped the flyer on his desk, leaving all of his subordinates to stare at it in a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me-way.
“What’s the meaning of this?”Riza asked her superior, staring at the brightly colored announcement.
Mustang looked at her, a hidden smirk clearly evident on his features. “It’s a dance Hawkeye; I suggest you find a date beforehand.”
Kain stumbled on his words raising his hand as if still thinking he was in a classroom. “Uh- Mustang sir? Is a date required for this?”
Colonel mustang turned on his subordinate. “Yes. Now if there are no more questions you can take your leave.”
Riza walked with Kain out of the room.
Kain on the other hand was struggling.
Riza remembered something from her ride back to central.
Mora nodded. “Yes I own a small flower shop in the city….”
That girl, perhaps…..
“Fuery, we have a few days until the dance correct?”
Kain nodded, confused at what she was getting at.
“Perhaps you should go get some flowers to put on late Hughes’ grave, Fuery.”
“Hawkeye?”
“It’s just a wise suggestion, who knows, you might find something you were looking for.”
Riza walked faster and branched off in a different direction towards her car, leaving Kain very confused.
But if there was one thing Kain knew about Riza, it was that she WAS intelligent, and it would probably be wise to follow her suggestion.
So, that’s pretty much how Kain Fuery ended up looking like a total dork.
~~
The bells from the door to Mora’s flower shop tinkled lightly, announcing a customer.
“Coming!” Mora called from the back room, pushing heavily on a box to get it onto the cursed top shelf she couldn’t reach.
Lynk trotted out from the back room first, going to greet the customer with a heavy purr as he twined though their legs.
“Such an adorable little kitten you have!” The male voice announced.
“Why thank you!” Mora called back, finally getting enough leverage and scooting the box onto the shelf. She walked out of the back room wiping her hands on her apron and looking up at the new customer.
Mora’s heart did a little back flip as soon as her eyes connected with the man.
“H-hello. Can I help you?” She asked, cursing herself for stuttering.
The man watched her for a second, blackish brown eyes never straying from her face even as he talked.
“I just came to get some flowers for a friend of mine.”
Mora’s heart sank. A girlfriend? Of course he would have a girlfriend.
She didn’t stop smiling though; always have to please the customers. “How can I be of assistance?”
“What kind of flowers do you think a guy would like?”
Mora’s face flushed and she could only stare at him. So he’s that kind of persuasion eh?
“Um, it depends really, but most guys that come into the store like more of a white or blue color, a lot of times it’s just wildflowers or lilies.” She stuttered slightly.
“Nothing too fancy, he wasn’t really a fancy guy.” The man laughed to himself shaking his head and looking back at her.
“Wasn’t?” Mora yelled at herself inwardly, way to jump to conclusions there, Mora.
“Yeah.” He scratched the back of his neck, smiling a weak half smile. “He kinda died.”
“Oh, I’m so sorry for your loss.” She stepped forward, walking over to a display with a very small orangred clay ceramic pot that was full of a variety of colorful wildflowers. She picked it up and walked towards the man. “I’m sure he would like this very much.”
The man looked at it and nodded. “Yes, I think he would.”
Mora walked back behind the counter and set the pot on the top of it.
“I don’t think I mentioned it, but my name is Kain. Kain Fuery.”
Mora smiled at him. “Mora Kota, very nice to meet you.” She clanked a couple buttons on the register. “That’ll be $9.95”
Kain dug in his pockets for his wallet. “Did you, by any chance, ever talk to a woman named Riza Hawkeye?”
Mora dug around in her memory, an image of the woman with blonde hair from the train station popping up almost immediately. “Yes, I have. Did she have blonde hair and a black and white dog?”
Kain smiled, so Riza had known this was what he would find. That he’d find her. “Yes, that’s the one. I was just curious. You see we have an upcoming dance down at the military to celebrate something or another and there was thing in which a date is required…..”
Mora’s heart skipped another beat as she took the money Kain held out and dispensed his change.
“And well you see, I’m kind of shy and I was a little flustered so Hawkeye suggested I go get some flowers for Hughes’ grave.”
“Your friend.” Mora stated as a fact, not as a question.
“Yes, my friend. She also said I might something that I was looking for.”
Mora’s face blushed slightly and she carefully wrapped the flowers with a ribbon and some colorful tissue paper. “And did you find what you were looking for?”
Kain laughed and leaned forward, placing one hand gently on the counter. “Yes, I think I did. Miss Kota? Would you like to go to the dance with me?”
~~
Kain waited for her outside of her flower shop. He hasn’t been able to get the image of her out of his head ever since he first met her.
Those beautiful emerald eyes, that silky soft burgundy hair. She was absolutely beautiful, like an angel to him.
He looked up above her flower shop; the lights to her apartment were finally turned off, which should mean that she would be coming down the stairs right about now.
As soon as the thought left his mind the bell to the store tinkled and Mora stepped out.
The sight of her took his breath away all over again.
Her emerald eyes glistened in the moonlight, and that soft burgundy hair was swept up into a tangled up-do, bits of it leaking out and over her shoulders perfectly and elegantly. She wore a sea green dress that highlighted her hourglass figure and made her look every bit the angel she was to Kain.
“You look handsome.” She said with a sweet smile that made his knees turn to jelly, nodding at him.
Kain looked down at his black suit with the matching sea green carnation from her shop. He felt her only paled in comparison to her.
“You look….” He couldn’t come up with the right word. “Absolutely perfect.”
Mora blushed and linked her arm through his. “Come on; let’s go to that dance shall we?”
~~
The room was decorated heavily with sparkly useless things that twinkled under the multicolored flashing lights. Overall the effect would make you stare in awe and wonder how there was a budget for it.
Mora held onto Kain’s arm tightly, amazed at all the people in the room. “This is perfect.” She smiled up at Kain.
Riza smiled at the two as she arrived with her date- none other than her superior Colonel Mustang.
“Find what you were looking for Kain?” She asked as she passed them.
Kain smiled at Hawkeye’s back. “Yes!” He called out.
Riza only smiled to herself. A match made in heaven.
The music began to spin around the couple, pulling them towards the dance floor.
“I like this song.” Mora said, swaying to the gentle beat.
Kain released his hold on their linked arms and held out a hand to her gallantly. “Would you like to dance?”
Mora blushed and laughed at the same time. “Of course.”
“There’s always something in the way…….”
Kain pulled the girl gently to the dance floor, a blush rising on his face as he held her at arm’s length, hands resting on her waist.
“There’s always something getting through…..but it’s not me….”
Mora shook her head, pulling his hands down to her hips and resting her hands on his shoulders. Kain gulped and blushed at the close contact.
“It’s you.”
With her help he managed to find a quiet rhythm, one that erased all of the other people swirling around them. There was something about her that made it easy to forget everything and everyone else as long as he was looking at her.
“Sometimes ignorance rings true….”
Mora wanted to ask him about his job, about what it was like. Ask him about who he was so she could get to know him. So they’d no longer be strangers.
But for some reason she forgot as their feet found a perfect rhythm together, the dance floor swirling into a colorful array of blurs.
Until she felt it was just them. No one else.
“But hope is not in what I know……it’s not in me….”
Kain pulled her just a step closer smiling down at her, his body getting caught up in the moment as they danced across the floor like it was made for them.
Here was a girl who could make the things he knows disappear, that could make the world disappear until it was just the two of them.
“It’s in you.”
Mora stared into his eyes, wanting to remember that childish look, that smile that made her heart beat faster.
“What do you like?”
“Huh?” Kain asked, confused.
“I want to know what you like. What you don’t like. What interests you. I want to know about you.” She smiled brighter, making Kain miss a step distractedly.
“It’s all I know….”
“Well if that’s the case then I must insist that you go first.”
Mora laughed and ducked her head down for a minute before looking up at him with renewed spark lighting in her chest.
“Well you know my flower store, and you’ve met Lynk, that little adorable kitten so….. I like warm sunny days, sundresses, and strawberry cheesecake. But I dislike untruthful people, rainy days, and pineapples.”
“And I find peace when I’m confused…..”
“Is that so?” He asked, watching her smile with her eyes lit up like fireworks.
“And I find hope when I’m let down….”
“Are you going to tell me about yourself now?” Mora asked.
Kain spun her in a quick circle to avoid a nearby couple, the dance move somehow still graceful. “There’s only one thing that comes to my mind right now when I think of my likes right now.”
“Not in me…..”
“Oh? And what is that?” She acted like an eager puppy; it was interesting, enchanting, and entirely cute.
“In you…..It’s in you…..”
“You.”
“I hope to lose myself for good...... I hope to find it in the end….. But not in me…….”
Mora blushed and rested her cheek against his chest, causing Kain to stutter another step and blush furiously.
“In you.”
“I think I’m falling Mr.Fuery.” Mora smiled against his chest.
“It’s all I know……….in you…..”
“I’ll make sure to catch you Miss Kota.”
Mora laughed. “You’ve already got me, Kain.”
“There’s always something in the way…….. There’s always something getting through…..but it’s not me……”
Kain moved one hand from her hip to her chin, lifting her face up with two fingers.
“You’ve got me too.” His voice was a whisper and before either of them knew it, their lips touched.
Yet they never stopped dancing, even when the song was over.
“It’s you.”
EPILOGUE
The bell to the store twinkled, letting in a blast of hot afternoon air.
“I’ll be right out!!” Mora called from the back room.
She struggled to put that stupid box back up on the shelf, jumping up and down on her tiptoes.
She didn’t hear the footsteps, only felt the hands brush her arms as they pushed the box all the way onto the shelving complex.
Mora spun around quickly, a surprised fear lasting in her gut for only a moment before seeing the person’s face.
“I came to get some flowers for my girlfriend…” The voice started with a smirk.
Mora laughed and pushed at his chest, leaning up on her tiptoes to capture those smirking lips in a kiss.
“I think I’ve got all the flowers I need.”
“Uh- huh.” Kain wrapped an arm around her waist. “Okay then, how about a picnic instead? Do you have enough of those?”
Mora chuckled and reached for her keys. “Just let me lock up.”
“Take your time.” Kain smiled watching her sundress flit about her as she flew up the stairs to fetch her keys.
“Definitely what I was looking for.” He spoke softly to himself, startling the sleeping kitten under the counter.
The dog took an interest in her, big brown eyes staring up at her as if knowing she was terrified of it, and at the same time not caring. It moved forward on black paws straining to reach her.
“Bad dog! Shoo shoo!” She whispered, pressing closer to the wall half tempted to hiss like her kitten Lynk would.
The doors to the train opened and the person pulled themselves towards the front steps, pulling the mutt with him. Mora sighed a breath of relief, peeling herself from the wall to hurry onto the train and find a seat.
Sitting down in the back corner of the train by herself, she tucked a fallen chunk of her waist length burgundy hair behind her ear. She rested her head against the back wall of the train and listened halfheartedly to the conductor’s announcements before the metal squealed and the train lurched forward.
Mora stared out the window, emerald eyes searching for something that she didn’t think anyone knew of.
Footsteps klopped noisily on the wooden floors until they reached Mora’s seat. A woman sat down next to her, she had shoulder length blonde hair and kind eyes. But that wasn’t what Mora noticed the most about her, because that woman also had a small black and white dog on her lap.
“GAH!” Mora pushed herself towards the window of the train, pressing close to the side of the car and as far away from the dog as she could get.
The woman lifted her head to look at Mora who probably looked like a giant dork with the way she was acting. “Are you afraid of dogs?” The woman asked.
Mora let out a strangled laugh, red creeping up the fair skin of her neck and face. “Terrified.”
The woman smiled kindly and set the dog on the floor by her feet towards the aisle. She reached out one hand for Mora to shake. “Riza Hawkeye.”
Mora smiled kindly, scooting away from the wall and taking her hand in a friendly shake. “Mora Kota.”
“It’s very nice to meet you. Where are you headed?”
“Central. What about you?”
“Central as well, do you live there?”
Mora nodded. “Yes, I own a small flower shop in the city. I’m just returning from meeting with my mother in another city.”
“Well, I hope I get to see more of you. It’s always nice to meet new people.”
“Where do you work?” Mora asked, genuinely curious.
“I’m a Lutenint (spell-check sucks.) for the Military.” She smiled at Mora’s curiosity.
“So you know a lot of interesting people then?”
Riza thought of all of the people she knows; people she has met and fought with and all the strange things she has seen. She scratched the back of her neck, laughing awkwardly. “Ah….you could say that.”
“It must be fun, being in the military. Something different. Out of the ordinary, no?”
Riza laughed. “You should try telling that to the people in the military, I’m sure they’d get a kick out of that.”
Mora laughed as well. “Yes I suppose it is an odd statement.”
The train lurched to a stop throwing the people forward and off their seats.
Riza picked up her dog and looked back at Mora. “Drop by sometime, it would be fun to have another girl around sometime.”
“I will. It was nice meeting you.” Mora waved as Riza left into the aisle.
Riza stepped off the train thinking to herself. She seems like such a nice innocent naive girl, I wonder if she’s single. She’d be good with Kain. They’re both so damn soft.
Mora stood up pulling her bag with her and sprinting to the luggage cars to go get her bags and her kitten.
“LYNK!” She squealed, pulling the kitten out of the cage. The small dependant animal looked up at her and purred, nuzzling into her neck. “AWWW I love you too!” Mora nuzzled back happily. “Come on Lynk, let’s go back home, I betcha wanna see that really cute girl kitty you’ve been mewling to.”
Lynk nuzzled closer in response.
~~
Colonel Mustang flopped the flyer on his desk, leaving all of his subordinates to stare at it in a you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me-way.
“What’s the meaning of this?”Riza asked her superior, staring at the brightly colored announcement.
Mustang looked at her, a hidden smirk clearly evident on his features. “It’s a dance Hawkeye; I suggest you find a date beforehand.”
Kain stumbled on his words raising his hand as if still thinking he was in a classroom. “Uh- Mustang sir? Is a date required for this?”
Colonel mustang turned on his subordinate. “Yes. Now if there are no more questions you can take your leave.”
Riza walked with Kain out of the room.
Kain on the other hand was struggling.
Riza remembered something from her ride back to central.
Mora nodded. “Yes I own a small flower shop in the city….”
That girl, perhaps…..
“Fuery, we have a few days until the dance correct?”
Kain nodded, confused at what she was getting at.
“Perhaps you should go get some flowers to put on late Hughes’ grave, Fuery.”
“Hawkeye?”
“It’s just a wise suggestion, who knows, you might find something you were looking for.”
Riza walked faster and branched off in a different direction towards her car, leaving Kain very confused.
But if there was one thing Kain knew about Riza, it was that she WAS intelligent, and it would probably be wise to follow her suggestion.
So, that’s pretty much how Kain Fuery ended up looking like a total dork.
~~
The bells from the door to Mora’s flower shop tinkled lightly, announcing a customer.
“Coming!” Mora called from the back room, pushing heavily on a box to get it onto the cursed top shelf she couldn’t reach.
Lynk trotted out from the back room first, going to greet the customer with a heavy purr as he twined though their legs.
“Such an adorable little kitten you have!” The male voice announced.
“Why thank you!” Mora called back, finally getting enough leverage and scooting the box onto the shelf. She walked out of the back room wiping her hands on her apron and looking up at the new customer.
Mora’s heart did a little back flip as soon as her eyes connected with the man.
“H-hello. Can I help you?” She asked, cursing herself for stuttering.
The man watched her for a second, blackish brown eyes never straying from her face even as he talked.
“I just came to get some flowers for a friend of mine.”
Mora’s heart sank. A girlfriend? Of course he would have a girlfriend.
She didn’t stop smiling though; always have to please the customers. “How can I be of assistance?”
“What kind of flowers do you think a guy would like?”
Mora’s face flushed and she could only stare at him. So he’s that kind of persuasion eh?
“Um, it depends really, but most guys that come into the store like more of a white or blue color, a lot of times it’s just wildflowers or lilies.” She stuttered slightly.
“Nothing too fancy, he wasn’t really a fancy guy.” The man laughed to himself shaking his head and looking back at her.
“Wasn’t?” Mora yelled at herself inwardly, way to jump to conclusions there, Mora.
“Yeah.” He scratched the back of his neck, smiling a weak half smile. “He kinda died.”
“Oh, I’m so sorry for your loss.” She stepped forward, walking over to a display with a very small orangred clay ceramic pot that was full of a variety of colorful wildflowers. She picked it up and walked towards the man. “I’m sure he would like this very much.”
The man looked at it and nodded. “Yes, I think he would.”
Mora walked back behind the counter and set the pot on the top of it.
“I don’t think I mentioned it, but my name is Kain. Kain Fuery.”
Mora smiled at him. “Mora Kota, very nice to meet you.” She clanked a couple buttons on the register. “That’ll be $9.95”
Kain dug in his pockets for his wallet. “Did you, by any chance, ever talk to a woman named Riza Hawkeye?”
Mora dug around in her memory, an image of the woman with blonde hair from the train station popping up almost immediately. “Yes, I have. Did she have blonde hair and a black and white dog?”
Kain smiled, so Riza had known this was what he would find. That he’d find her. “Yes, that’s the one. I was just curious. You see we have an upcoming dance down at the military to celebrate something or another and there was thing in which a date is required…..”
Mora’s heart skipped another beat as she took the money Kain held out and dispensed his change.
“And well you see, I’m kind of shy and I was a little flustered so Hawkeye suggested I go get some flowers for Hughes’ grave.”
“Your friend.” Mora stated as a fact, not as a question.
“Yes, my friend. She also said I might something that I was looking for.”
Mora’s face blushed slightly and she carefully wrapped the flowers with a ribbon and some colorful tissue paper. “And did you find what you were looking for?”
Kain laughed and leaned forward, placing one hand gently on the counter. “Yes, I think I did. Miss Kota? Would you like to go to the dance with me?”
~~
Kain waited for her outside of her flower shop. He hasn’t been able to get the image of her out of his head ever since he first met her.
Those beautiful emerald eyes, that silky soft burgundy hair. She was absolutely beautiful, like an angel to him.
He looked up above her flower shop; the lights to her apartment were finally turned off, which should mean that she would be coming down the stairs right about now.
As soon as the thought left his mind the bell to the store tinkled and Mora stepped out.
The sight of her took his breath away all over again.
Her emerald eyes glistened in the moonlight, and that soft burgundy hair was swept up into a tangled up-do, bits of it leaking out and over her shoulders perfectly and elegantly. She wore a sea green dress that highlighted her hourglass figure and made her look every bit the angel she was to Kain.
“You look handsome.” She said with a sweet smile that made his knees turn to jelly, nodding at him.
Kain looked down at his black suit with the matching sea green carnation from her shop. He felt her only paled in comparison to her.
“You look….” He couldn’t come up with the right word. “Absolutely perfect.”
Mora blushed and linked her arm through his. “Come on; let’s go to that dance shall we?”
~~
The room was decorated heavily with sparkly useless things that twinkled under the multicolored flashing lights. Overall the effect would make you stare in awe and wonder how there was a budget for it.
Mora held onto Kain’s arm tightly, amazed at all the people in the room. “This is perfect.” She smiled up at Kain.
Riza smiled at the two as she arrived with her date- none other than her superior Colonel Mustang.
“Find what you were looking for Kain?” She asked as she passed them.
Kain smiled at Hawkeye’s back. “Yes!” He called out.
Riza only smiled to herself. A match made in heaven.
The music began to spin around the couple, pulling them towards the dance floor.
“I like this song.” Mora said, swaying to the gentle beat.
Kain released his hold on their linked arms and held out a hand to her gallantly. “Would you like to dance?”
Mora blushed and laughed at the same time. “Of course.”
“There’s always something in the way…….”
Kain pulled the girl gently to the dance floor, a blush rising on his face as he held her at arm’s length, hands resting on her waist.
“There’s always something getting through…..but it’s not me….”
Mora shook her head, pulling his hands down to her hips and resting her hands on his shoulders. Kain gulped and blushed at the close contact.
“It’s you.”
With her help he managed to find a quiet rhythm, one that erased all of the other people swirling around them. There was something about her that made it easy to forget everything and everyone else as long as he was looking at her.
“Sometimes ignorance rings true….”
Mora wanted to ask him about his job, about what it was like. Ask him about who he was so she could get to know him. So they’d no longer be strangers.
But for some reason she forgot as their feet found a perfect rhythm together, the dance floor swirling into a colorful array of blurs.
Until she felt it was just them. No one else.
“But hope is not in what I know……it’s not in me….”
Kain pulled her just a step closer smiling down at her, his body getting caught up in the moment as they danced across the floor like it was made for them.
Here was a girl who could make the things he knows disappear, that could make the world disappear until it was just the two of them.
“It’s in you.”
Mora stared into his eyes, wanting to remember that childish look, that smile that made her heart beat faster.
“What do you like?”
“Huh?” Kain asked, confused.
“I want to know what you like. What you don’t like. What interests you. I want to know about you.” She smiled brighter, making Kain miss a step distractedly.
“It’s all I know….”
“Well if that’s the case then I must insist that you go first.”
Mora laughed and ducked her head down for a minute before looking up at him with renewed spark lighting in her chest.
“Well you know my flower store, and you’ve met Lynk, that little adorable kitten so….. I like warm sunny days, sundresses, and strawberry cheesecake. But I dislike untruthful people, rainy days, and pineapples.”
“And I find peace when I’m confused…..”
“Is that so?” He asked, watching her smile with her eyes lit up like fireworks.
“And I find hope when I’m let down….”
“Are you going to tell me about yourself now?” Mora asked.
Kain spun her in a quick circle to avoid a nearby couple, the dance move somehow still graceful. “There’s only one thing that comes to my mind right now when I think of my likes right now.”
“Not in me…..”
“Oh? And what is that?” She acted like an eager puppy; it was interesting, enchanting, and entirely cute.
“In you…..It’s in you…..”
“You.”
“I hope to lose myself for good...... I hope to find it in the end….. But not in me…….”
Mora blushed and rested her cheek against his chest, causing Kain to stutter another step and blush furiously.
“In you.”
“I think I’m falling Mr.Fuery.” Mora smiled against his chest.
“It’s all I know……….in you…..”
“I’ll make sure to catch you Miss Kota.”
Mora laughed. “You’ve already got me, Kain.”
“There’s always something in the way…….. There’s always something getting through…..but it’s not me……”
Kain moved one hand from her hip to her chin, lifting her face up with two fingers.
“You’ve got me too.” His voice was a whisper and before either of them knew it, their lips touched.
Yet they never stopped dancing, even when the song was over.
“It’s you.”
EPILOGUE
The bell to the store twinkled, letting in a blast of hot afternoon air.
“I’ll be right out!!” Mora called from the back room.
She struggled to put that stupid box back up on the shelf, jumping up and down on her tiptoes.
She didn’t hear the footsteps, only felt the hands brush her arms as they pushed the box all the way onto the shelving complex.
Mora spun around quickly, a surprised fear lasting in her gut for only a moment before seeing the person’s face.
“I came to get some flowers for my girlfriend…” The voice started with a smirk.
Mora laughed and pushed at his chest, leaning up on her tiptoes to capture those smirking lips in a kiss.
“I think I’ve got all the flowers I need.”
“Uh- huh.” Kain wrapped an arm around her waist. “Okay then, how about a picnic instead? Do you have enough of those?”
Mora chuckled and reached for her keys. “Just let me lock up.”
“Take your time.” Kain smiled watching her sundress flit about her as she flew up the stairs to fetch her keys.
“Definitely what I was looking for.” He spoke softly to himself, startling the sleeping kitten under the counter.