Chapter 34: A Little Comfort
Eirin closed her eyes and felt the embarrassment seeping into her soul. "This is not what you think it is!" she said while trying to move away from Shade’s grasp.
"Oh, don’t worry. I saw how you two fought each other like children," Cali said, causing Eirin’s face to turn red like a tomato. "Come here, let me heal that bruise." She approached Eirin and pulled her away from Shade’s grasp.
"I won," Shade said.
Eirin rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right." She soon grimaced after feeling her cheeks hurting and she could taste blood inside her mouth. Cali then helped her walk which caught Eirin off guard. It was already baffling hearing Cali talk so well, receiving help from the Ice Queen adds more confusion to the teenage girl.
"Want me to heal you too?" Eirin turned to Shade after Cali asked him that, but the wounds Eirin inflicted were already healing.
’How the heck?’ Eirin thought with her forehead creasing. Shade’s wounds were healing on their own. "How is that possible?" the teenage girl could not stop expressing her curiosity. "Does he have healing abilities too?"
Cali stared at Shade who was already glaring at them. "No, he’s just different," she said and reached out her hand to Eirin. "Let’s go."
’Different how? And why is Cali being kind to me?’ Eirin gulped and accepted Cali’s hand. Despite the remaining questions inside her head, the teenage girl decided to keep quiet as she was still embarrassed by what she had shown. It was dark in the hallway, and as the two of them reached the empty infirmary, Eirin sat on one of the beds and felt the lingering coldness from Cali’s hand on hers.
"I have never seen you as someone that would fight with Shade Cromwell... so well."
Eirin flinched after feeling Cali’s piercing gaze on her. "Ha-ha-ha. I-I just got caught with my emotions." She forced a laugh, avoiding Cali’s eyes. "I don’t know why, but that guy really knows how to push my buttons," Eirin muttered which Cali heard, making her chuckle.
’Did the cool and snob girl Calixta just laugh at me?’ Eirin was baffled while blinking lots of times. ’So, she also knows how to laugh like that,’ she thought in awe.