Lost in Time [AddxEve Elsword]

Chapter 8

Elesis laughs her laugh when she sees something amusing.

"See ya Eve" Elesis says imitating the hand wave. I find the sight amusing.

As I walk towards the main door I realise that the actions that the humans do is very amusing, analysing the boy I bumped into was worth while.

Now Add... I wonder if I do those hand gestures, Add will also smile...

Add's POV
Eve, Eve, Eve, where are you?

I run pass several stores, I weave through countless numbers of people, analysing each and everyone of them, none of them were Eve.

Eve's expression back then was the same expression she had when we were fighting King Nasod in Altera, I remember it wellas it was one of those few times that Eve wore and expression that wasn't bored looking or just completely neutral. Eve has that expression when she's scared, frightened, anxious, confused. These emotions are caused when she sees something that jogs one of her past memories, normally related to pain, torture and force.

Hang on a moment... Why would I know all of this? I guess my research about her benefited in many different ways.

"Add..." I hear a voice similar to Eve's shout. I feel that I must be hallucinating as all that's in my head right now is Eve.

"Add" I hear Eve's voice say again. Come on brain, focus on reality.

"Add!" This time her voice is loud and clear, her small hands grab onto my jacket from behind, I turn around to see her up close. Surprised at her sudden appearance in real life I stand still, not knowing what to do. Now that I think about it, this is the closest I've been to her ever since I've got my second job. God is she short. I then remember that Nasods can't grow, it must've been me who grew.

I was probably the only one who grew. Mentally and physically, though maybe not in the right direction.

Her golden, unwavering eyes were looking directly at me, her body was right up against mine.

"E- Eve..." I mutter, my cheeks starting to get rosy. She heaves herself on to her tiptoes, her face slowly getting closer to mine, her white skin and her somewhat sweet scent is nostalgic.

"H- hey, Eve..." I say in panic, my face feeling hot. Eve's soft hair is tickling my chin. Her small hands are on my shoulders, her weight, slowly tilting towards me. My body starts shivering, not from fright or from cold.

I occasionally take glances at her, everytime her stare is on me. Looking down at the small Eve makes me lose all the tension I had before. I settle down and I let the redness take over my face.

When I glance back at Eve again I see her gaze is no longer fixed at my eyes, but at the top of my head. Confused, I try to make eye contact, failing miserably as I was trapped in her grip. Just as I gave up in eye contact one of the grips on my shoulder loosens and disappears, I follow that hand up. My while body paralysed, my face engulfed in warmth and red, the hand that still remained on my shoulder was clenching softly, her hair, now tickling my cheek. How I wanted to wrap my arms around her and squeeze her tight, but my mental growth from my first job to second stopped me from doing so. Compared to me, Eve is straight forward as ever.

I feel her hand on top of my head, I jump from the surprise making Eve retract her hand quickly from the sudden surprise. She then goes back to my head, this time more slowly and softly. Eventually she planted her hand on top of my head. She stayed like this for some moments, in these moments I stare at her eagerly, my arms still dangling beside my body. I then realise that Eve's legs are wobbling, due to the fact I was now about a head taller than her. Seeing her struggle against such a simple task, compared to the amazing things that she usually does, makes me giggle a bit. When I let out a laugh Eve eyes me quickly, her face now surprised, but what surprised me more than her was that her cheeks were ever so slightly rosy.

"Too cute..." I mutter, soft enough that Eve couldn't hear.

Eve then starts to rub my hair furiously, her legs now trembling as much as a puppy's legs on a tightrope. Seeing her on such a pickle makes my insides tickle with warmth and happiness, knowing that Eve would do something out of her comfort zone for me, and for so long as well, makes me feel overjoyed.

Her hand ruffling my hair gives off a somewhat healing affect, as she does so I feel much lighter inside. So much tension, gone. I see that her cheeks were still rosy, I wanted to caress her softly. I quickly cover my face with my hand, trying to hide my face which was most likely full of embarrassment. Though I grew mentally, I didn't grow at all in this direction, mentally.

Eve realises I had covered my face and takes her hand off my head and gently grasps the hand that I used to cover my face. She stars intently at my face, which is exactly what I didn't want her to do. When I look over at her I see her expression had changed once again, this time it's soft and somewhat frightened, her cheeks were still rosy. I then in return start to caress her head, softly and gently, trying not to mess up her beautiful white hair.

"You can rest your legs now" I say, feeling that she had already done enough for someone like me. Eve's surprised face then quickly becomes neutral again, inside I felt slightly disappointed, but I was relieved that Eve no longer had to bare the pain.

Eve quickly turns her head, eyes averting mine. I adjust the angle of my head slightly to find a rosy cheeked Eve, though her facial expression was still neutral. I feel happy that she was reacting to what I was doing.

Eve looks at me with a gentle gaze, a gaze enough to attract all the bypasses stare. I swiftly embrace her, hiding her face by softly pressing it against my chest, I didn't want anyone to see that adorable face of hers.

"Mmm... Add?" Eve whispers, rubbing her face against my chest, trying to escape my grasp, but her force was too weak so all she could do was rub her face against my chest, her hands clutched against my body.

Eve's face pops up through my arms and she stares at me with a puzzled look on her face, her fringe now slightly ruffled. I quickly turn my head to avoid eye contact, though I could feel her eyes staring at me. I quickly pop her head back down before I exploded from the inside out.

"Just... Stay like this for a while" I murmur. Eve reacts by snuggling against my chest like a friendly kitten.

We awkwardly stay like this for some long minutes before I loosen my grip. As soon as I do so Eve pops her head up. I let go of her small body and stare at the floor.

"Umm... Well... Shall we head back to the Inn?" I ask, satisfied with the amount of time I got to stay with Eve.

She nods.

I start to walk in the direction of the inn but was stopped by Eve's tug on my back. Puzzled, I look back and see that Eve is flustered, she stares at me with her soft gaze.

"I can't... Walk..." Eve whispers softly, but loud enough for me to hear.

I had realised that Eve's legs were still trembling, analysing her face more I realise that her eyes couldn't focus, she was gently swaying from side to side.

I automatically pick her up, and automatically put her down. I forgot that I haven't worked out physically, ever... Embarrassed I quickly get a carriage and try my best to pick Eve up into the carriage, this at least I could do.

On the ride back I let Eve lean against me to rest. Her eyes were fluttering, slowly closing.

"I'm sorry" I whisper into her ear.

I feel that I pushed Eve too far today, all for my greedy needs.

Eve's eyes flutter back open. Her mouth opens as if she was to say something, but instead of speaking, she gave me an even better treat. There on Eve's face was a small, most gentle, warm smile that I've ever seen. Her eyes then slowly closed again, her weight now all against me as she rested her head on my shoulder, the swaying of the carriage helped her to rest.

I gently plant a kiss on her cheek. I quickly retreat as soon as I did so, making sure she didn't wake up. Flustered I look away, but I couldn't avert my eyes for too long and not long after I looked back at Eve. I smiled, I truly smiled, the first time in a long time.

Eve, thankyou...