☆Color My World☆ Rainbowcy (Update 5/7)
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My eyes were threatening to close on me even when walking through the front door with my arms full of luggage. To be honest, I was exhausted enough that the floor looked like a good enough bed. I only forced myself to make it to the couch because Eden was coming in behind me. The return trip had been the worst flight of my life so far. A storm delayed our original plane. Sap's parents were lucky enough to find us another flight not long afterwards, but in order to claim our position at the last second we had to take economy seats instead of first class ones the Spring family typically booked. None of them were together. I ended up in a middle seat with a grumpy old man on my left and a chatty couple on my right. A crying baby was a few rows behind, and the turbulence the whole ride was awful. I felt banged up, beaten, and sore by the time the plane landed.
I sunk into the couch cushions like they were cushions straight from heaven. Glad that I had at least thought to wear comfortable, lazy clothing for the trip, I had no qualms about making the couch my bed that night. I sat there, half-asleep, too exhausted to give Button the petting she wanted. She had to make do with simply sitting at my feet instead.
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I was slipping away into unconsciousness when Eden's obnoxious and poorly contained chuckles broke me out of it. Opening my right eye ever so slightly, I glared at him with a passion. That only made him laugh harder.
"You are so lucky that I don't have the energy to kill you right now." I mumbled the warning at him, forcing myself to sit up better in hopes of getting him to shut up.
"Sorry. I just can't help myself. You know I go into that weird 'parent' mode from time to time. Seeing you just splaying yourself on the couch like that, well, it just brought up a plethora of quite humorous memories from the time when you were young and didn't care where you were or what position you were in when you wanted to sleep. I walked in for one of my visits to find your top half lying on your nightstand with your bottom half planked across onto the bed. Oh, how many amazing opportunity for the greatest photos I missed! I forgot to take my phone out of my pocket once, and they practically tackled me to the ground when I made my way towards your room."
A thousand question popped into my mind. My rational thinking wanted to know more about the building attached to my room. I wanted to know what it was like, how the security was set up, and exactly how many other people worked there. My heart, however, had no desire to hear the answers. It was already too much to know what I knew. Hearing more about the cold world I had been surrounded by wouldn't do me any good. Thankfully, Eden was generally as adamant about staying away from such topics as well. He gave slight mentions from time to time, like now, about the whole system, but he otherwise kept his lips sealed. In this instance, he didn't even dwell on his own words.
"It just has me in awe that you can still occasionally have some tendencies of your younger self despite the fact that you are getting older." he concluded his explanation with a lighthearted shrug.
Once more, his words brought thoughts into my mind. One was even something I had been worrying about greatly since the previous evening. It had kept me awake deep into the morning, which had frustrated me badly considering I had finally gotten the situation with Amaranth out of my head. I had continued to fret over it during the trip home, and I wondered if it was best to simply address it in that moment.
"Getting older..." I mumbled once more, not entirely certain how to bring up the subject.
"Hmm?"
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Eden looked at me in mild curiosity. I had trouble continuing, but when he saw my expression turning more serious he sat down next to me and made it easier for me to speak.
"I am getting older," I started, "And I've been thinking, well, there's a certain thing people my age start doing around this time. However, I can't image that you'd ever allow me to do it too."
"Are you talking about sleeping with someone? Because if you are, you know very well-"
"No, no. I'm talking about dating, Eden. Gosh."
"Oh. That's fine then."
"Is it though?"
"What?"
"For me to date?"
"Why wouldn't it be?" Eden asked in confusion.
"You've been staying away from a romantic relationship because you don't want to drag a woman into our mess or pull her through a bunch of lies. Wouldn't me dating be doing the exact same thing? Don't you think it's a bad idea for me to trick some boy into believing I'm a certain person or give him a heart attack if he ever learns the truth about who I really am?"
Eden stared at the opposite wall deep in thought. I shifted in my seat, both expectant and nervous about his answer.
"No, I don't think it's a bad idea," Eden revealed, shocking me, "Your situation is different than mine. Any woman I would date, especially if she is around my age, would almost be guaranteed to be looking for marriage. That's something I definitely can't get myself tangled into. High school dating is not quite the same thing. I don't think I have to tell you that most relationships that start there don't last until marriage. Most don't even last a year. I think it'd be perfectly fine for you to test the waters a bit. In fact, I think you should. Do it now while you're Meadow. Do it now while you don't have the worries about being an albino trying to find love. At the moment, you don't have to question if a boy likes you because he likes you or if he likes you because you're white. You can have the reassurance that you're liked for who you are as a person and the opportunity to learn the difference between what's genuine and what's fake. I know you're still somewhat pessimistic, but I want to be as optimistic as I can about hoping that we'll bring The Company down by the time you graduate. On the chance that any relationship you've started has lasted, I can almost guarantee you that the boy won't mind. He'll probably be ecstatic to find out you're actually white. You might see a shallower side appear to him then, but that's unfortunately just something you're going to have to deal with being as you are."
He glanced at me. I was still processing the fact that he was so eagerly giving me permission, heck, encouragement, to do something I thought he would outright deny, but I managed a nod and tiny smile.
"You don't happen to have Sap in mind, do you?" Eden guessed knowingly.
"Maybe, "I admitted, "I don't know where things are going to go just yet."
"Whatever happens, remember, absolutely no se-"
"I know, Eden. I know." I laughed in exasperation.
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