His hug felt like heaven. His hug felt like flowers bloomed in my heart, flowers bloomed in my mind, flowers bloomed in my stomach with a hint of feeling something flying in it, maybe butterflies.
My brain and my head felt lighter after I hugged someone after so many long years. The years that felt like decades. Years that felt like centuries. I dreamed of hugging someone and cry my heart out. I wished to hug someone and cry my pain out.
I never felt like this with Valerius before. It was different. I have always felt teased, annoyed, and uncomfortable with him, but this time it was different.
It was comfortable. It was soothing.
I wiped my tears off as I broke the hug, "Th-Thank you, Valerious!"
Valerious was never bad. It was just my own negative imagination about him that made me feel that way. Nothing else.
He was a person I had never met before. He was a person I had never liked before. He was something else. He was someone unique. He was someone different. He was cool.
"No problem, Honey Bear! Whenever you feel like that, you can come to me."
He was holding my hands. His skin was warm against my cold hands. His hold was firm but not painful. Instead, it calmed me. It calmed my stress and my body.
I nodded in response. My nose and eyes were still red from crying. I smiled a little, breaking the tear layer resting on my skin.
I looked at his white shirt, which now revealed his hot, muscular chest. It was wet from my tears.
"Oh my, Valerius! Are those my tears?"
My eyes were wide open. I didn't even realize that I cried that much. I didn't even realize that so much time had passed. It just felt like half or one minute. His body felt more cozy, softer, and harder at the same time, more comfortable, and more homely.
"Oh, don't worry about them! It's just our prince's tears."
He smirked, revealing his dimple again, as he brushed his hands through his brunette, silky hair.
I smiled back at him, hesitating a little. I have never been so frank with anyone else in many years.
"A-are you sure?"
I asked him, concerned. His expression was still cool.
"Yes, I am!" Again, so cool.