I CAN SEE YOU
track 19: i won't stay
- a week later -
“I think we should just keep it,” says the man who is currently walking beside you on the way back to your units from the admin office.
“Poor little guy…” The ‘it’ in question lightly meows in your gentle hold. “It’s been a week since we told the landlord to notify the neighborhood about the stray kitten we picked up… but no one has reached out.”
A hand makes its way into your view, his palm lightly ruffling the fur on the little feline’s head. “That’s why I’m telling you we should just keep it. Besides, it does seem like a stray.”
You find no fault in his idea, honestly. If there was no one else to take care of the kitten, who better than you two who found and started caring for it? There’s just something. Something important you unconsciously buried in the back of your mind, only for it to crawl back up into the surface again when you least needed it to. Your brain tends to do that, you realize. It seems to follow a cruel routine — when it senses how light-hearted you feel, it’s as if it automatically calls up the claws of gloom to envelop your heart and drag it back down.
Like when you have a light, bright precious shade of yellow, suddenly smeared with a deep, gloomy blue. And suddenly everything turns dark green, like that of depressing, murky waters.
“Hey, what are you thinking about?” Scaramouche’s voice was low, hushed. Yet lacking the usual bite his remarks usually have.
You frown and start unconsciously fiddling with stray furs. “Just that… I’m thinking… Maybe it’d be better if the kitten stays in your place, Scara.”
“And why would that be? Is this you escaping responsibility for our —”
“...You know I won’t stay here for long.”
The steps that used to match your own just a second ago paused. That totally slipped his mind.
“So, I think it’d be really sad if he gets used to my place, and me, probably, when in fact… I’d be returning to Mondstadt in barely two months.”
also little bonus from me hehe our cuties scarayn this chapter <3 (this isn't meant to be indicative or to portray yn in any way :> pls just think of it like a fanart hahdsha imy all (╥﹏╥) !!)
I CAN SEE YOU — scara x reader smau
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