Chapter 150: Truth: the foundation part two

I could see the nurse get up and leave from my peripheral vision. Great job, Miss Nurse! I wished I'd at least memorized her name already. 

Marg's smile warped to a smile of regret. "I thought maybe, I could use your name, your family, and perhaps even secure my future with you. That's why- that's why I didn't let you use any protection." She chuckled. "Selfish, I know."

I stayed quiet. But then the thought came to me. "Hey, you're not pregnant right?"

Because that would have been very bad. 

She looked at me, blinked twice, and gave me a smirk. "You're swimmers weren't that strong."

I didn't know why but I felt like jumping off a cliff into a glass of water and end my life. "P-please continue."

Yeah, I was kind of glad, but I also kind of died. 

She resumed her gaze on the ceiling, pretending this never happened. "But- I later learned that… perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps I was wrong about my own feelings. Perhaps-" She looked at me, dead serious. "I did love you. I did have feelings for you. And it was from the very first day when you saved from Eve's sword." Her smile was genuine, not a shred of lies. "That's why I didn't want to get you involved and that's why I lied to you. Can you forgive me for everything?"

I actually didn't think there were this many things going on in her mind. In my mind all I had were I wanted her and wanted to take responsibility and as I kept on whining about it, I got rejected. Only then did I realize I might have had feelings for her, and yet even then I wasn't sure. Heck, even now I wasn't that sure. But even if I didn't love her, even if I didn't have feelings for her, I wanted to protect that smile.

If this wasn't love, I didn't know what was. 

If I was a total hypocrite then so be it! "Of course. All was forgiven the moment you chose Lord Helio- the god of the sun!" I struck a pose while still lying on my left side. It was hard as hell but oh well.

Marg giggled, chuckled, and finally burst out laughing. "It's Helios, idiot." She couldn't contain her laughter. It was the first time I saw her laugh like that. 

And yet, I wanted her to laugh like that for all her life. I liked her like this way more than that cold attitude she'd shown all this time. 

Making a joke with my own name and my grandfather's name was worth it. Sorry, gramps and thanks as well. 

Marg cleared her throat, controlled her laughter. "I don't have much money but I can work and maybe- maybe we can live on our own in the city behind the academy." Marg's tone went to the bashful zone. "I'm okay with not going to this academy anymore."

"NO that won't do. We'll both complete our studies. At least till high school level. I'm not sure about College as I have no plans for it. But- if you want it, I'd even do that for you-" I paused. "Wait, we're going to move in together and live alone?"

Mom talked about it too but I thought she was joking. But now that I thought about it, how else would we live together and have our romantic nights- ahem!

Just thinking about all the things we could do… made me smirk a lot more than I thought. 

Marg sighed and then giggled. "At least try not to sound like a total-" She lied flat on her back. "Let's move in together."

"Roger that."

And so, a decision of a lifetime was made. 

And I wholeheartedly wished I didn't regret this later. 

***

Today was mom's day off, so she hung around. 

She made sure I ate a healthy lunch. She even fed me. kinda felt awkward seeing Marg and the nurse giggling in the background but I didn't care. If mom was feeding, I was willing to eat anything, as long as it had nothing to do with yams, celery, and broccoli.

Around 3, uncle came to visit, just when mom left. 

Was he waiting for this chance or something?

Marg pretended to be asleep and I knew for a fact she wasn't. 

"How's my nephew doing?"

"After literally cutting me and making me suffer endlessly, you say that?" With a sigh, I sat down. All this lying on my sides was starting to hurt too. As if just the pain from the cuts weren't enough!

He laughed loud. Did God forget to give him a mute switch or something? "I had something to discuss."

"Let me guess, they tried to bribe you?"

I actually got an anonymous tip about that. My tip also said that I should be more careful. 

I kind of wanted to know how he knew all that, but considering he could read minds and all, it wasn't that surprising.

Oops, it wasn't all that anonymous now, was it?

He laughed some more, god this guy was annoying! "Yeah, but- this actually might not be that bad of an offer."

I kind of wanted to puke. Didn't expect my uncle of all people to say that. "Are you okay?"

He looked serious, I was glad he didn't rip off that shirt of his. "She offered me a piece of Zurkomim."

"Zurko- wha?"

"Funny, he also had that same reaction." He giggled to himself, remembering something. This really wasn't helping. "It's something used in restricting powers of Kin, if they ever pop up. It can also heavily restrict our powers."

"And they're giving it to you, because?"

"To make sure you go to the party and not break anything there. They won't try to take Marg and they won't harm you either. They just want to have tea with you."

"And I'm supposed to believe that?"

He looked at my eyes, dead serious for a minute. What the hell was he staring at me for? Just when I was about to say something- he burst out laughing and the whole building shook. Seriously, someone stop him already! "Hell no! Why would you even think of believing them?"

Wasn't this guy saying this was a good offer just a minute ago?