"Sup"
The sun had set by now, and Nephis was sitting on a bench across from him. Of course he knew that she would be here, after all he planned the whole day out just to meet her at this time.
He may have done a little stalking of her schedule to figure it out, but that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
This was actually the first time they have met in a good while, so it was quite awkward in all honesty.
"Wanna grab something to eat?"
Her expression softened a little before a sigh escaped her usually chapped lips.
"Yeah, sure."
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He was going to take her to the diner him and Jet ate at, but in the end they banned him from ever coming back. So in a spur of the moment panic he ended up bringing her back to her own estate and dug through the fridge.
He cut up the beef, drizzling oil onto it before mixing on various dried herbs and seasonings. He cut off some of the fat from it and let it sit in the pan on a low heat, that way all the oils and juices come out of the fat, and then he cooked the meat in that oil made from it's own fat, putting the lid of the pan on top to let it simmer.
The grains were also almost done, so with that he cut up garlic, took some of the juices that were in the pan, and cooked that garlic in those juices in another pan before cracking eggs on top of it.
Once again putting a top on that pan, letting the eggs cook in the garlic and juices on a medium low heat, he grabbed a stepping stool to get wine from the top cabinet, setting it on the table she was sitting at with two glasses on opposite ends.
By the time the egg was done so was the meat, so plating everything together he turned off the lights, taking out candles he had totally not stolen because he forgot them at his old house, and set them down on the table as well.
The meal wasn't very fancy, neither were their clothes.. but still. He supposed he wanted to impress her a little.
He poured the wine into the glasses before taking a bite of the food he had made, neither of them had said a word. Eventually Nephis also took a bite, he carefully studied her face to see if he could get a reaction out of her.. sadly she just simply nodded.
But for her that must mean it's quite good. She took a sip of wine before locking eyes with him, and then she spoke.
"Do you believe life to be insignificant? Do you think that because we all shall die in the end that it's something of no importance?"
Damnation! This was a peaceful moment you know! Despite the awkwardness atleast it wasn't talking about some early life crisis.
Still, with a smile on his face he took a sip of the wine, his eye's meeting her's.
"If life is insignificant then what is the gravity that keeps us tethered on earth? If it had no hold then we would all simply fly away."
She gave him a sour face causing him to cough, taking another sip which she shortly followed.
"What I'm trying to say is.. while it can be insignificant I think we give it meaning, that meaning is equated to gravity and I believe that the gravity is love."
He thought back to all the things he had loved, and still loves. While alot of those things he couldn't grasp at the moment, they would always be his gravity.
"The more love we have the more gravity we have and the more grounded to the world we are.. what I'm trying to say is no it's not insignificant."
She paused for a moment before finishing the whole glass, it wouldn't really matter though, awakened have higher tolerances than mundane.
"So then, how much weight do you hold Sunny."
It was a heavy question, so he took a bit to awnser. But the awnser didn't need to be thought on since it was quite obvious.
So with a smile on his face he spoke.
"It's as if the gravity is crushing me.. every step I take is heavy and it's as if I don't use all my strength then I would fall through the floor."
He took another bite of the food, and she did the same shortly after. Not a word was spoken the whole time they finished the meal and the bottle of wine.
"How much gravity.. how much gravity would you say I contribute?"
This time no hesitation came from him, the words were spoken immediately after.
"If I didn't have your gravity then I would be in space, or on the moon like a creep would be."
For the first time since they came back from the dream realm Nephis smiled at him, it was a smile he wanted to see one last time.
He looked at the old grandfather clock, midnight was aproaching.
His eyes drifted back to Nephis only to see the smile still on her face, he supposed that was a satisfactory answer.
"Well then.. it's getting late, do you have a guest bedroom I can stay in? I can't really go back to my place for.. reasons."
She also glanced at the clock before nodding her head and standing up out her seat.
"I do have some guest bedrooms."
"Tha-"
"But you can't stay in them."
Damnation.
"Am I being kicked out already? It's been a while since I've had to sleep on the cold hard concrete."
She glanced at him before walking to the stairs and began heading up.
"You'll be in my room, with me."
Oh yeah they did do that, he forgot. It was a habit by now so it's kind of weird it brushed past his mind.
He followed her up the stairs, trailing down the long halls and finding her room which stood at the very end of the hall. He wasted no time, not even bothering to change out his clothes, and jumped on the bed.
"I call dibs on this pillow! Look at this quality silk! This is like out of fanta-"
His words were caught off by a small thud coming from behind him, he turnt around only to see a pile of clothes on the floor. The clothes Nephis had just been wearing. She must have changed into pajamas or something.
So looking up a bit more he saw that she was indeed not wearing pajamas, rather she wasn't wearing anything at all.
He slowly turnt around, feeling a bit ashamed for accidentally looking.
"What are you doing? Take off your clothes."
"Huh?"
His whole body shook, goosebumps ran down his body as he looked for a nearby window to escape out of.
But for some reason, the nature of this request and her actions didn't seem like how he would usually think of them.
Eventually the sound of rustles came from on top of the bed before another thud came.
He looked at her and she looked at him, so that was it. They were seeing eachother in their most natural forms.
He layed down as if gravity itself was forcing him down, and Nephis had laid right next to him.
Her hand found his face before her body scooted towards his, pressing them together.
Yet still he couldn't find anything sexual in nature about this.
Eventually the gravity that already holds him down rested on top of his body, soon after him and that gravity joined in a union that was created in order to create a new gravity.
That gravity smiled down at him, her red cheeks standing out against her pale skin, silver eyes, and white hair.
"Why are you crying..?"
He couldn't give her an awnser.
He wanted to give her an awnser and yet he couldn't.
The union between him and his gravity went on, and midnight came.
The next morning his gravity reached over into the bed in order to grab onto her gravity.
Yet she knew it wasn't there.
Sunny was gone.
In a pod next to Cassie's lied a black haired boy.
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Sorry for the inconsistent uploads 😭 anyways I think this is a good note to take a bit to think how I want to handle the rest so no chapters for a bit so sorry about that
While I think about that I plan on doing a short little fanfic that's probably around 6 or 7 chapters, that way I can get better at writing longer chapters and prepare for my next fanfic after I finish this one.
I want my next one to be a more grounded and canon story, so would start after Sunny becomes an awakened rather than have the entire plot change and characters change