Olivier sighed, pushing her phone aside. There was no point in answering now. Instead, she turned her attention to the blade sitting beside her. This time, it would work. It had to.

One minute passed, two minutes passed and still no answer from her. The screen...

The sound of Olivier's phone ringing was easy to ignore as her nerves set fire. Her flesh stung as the blade sunk into it. She grimaced, staring down at her wrist while blood poured out. Again, she thought. One wouldn't be enough. She did not think of Edan while she did this. Her final words to him had already been written. To think of him now would only cause doubt that she knew would come back to haunt her.

[text] I love you, okay? [text] I’m sorry

[text] ya already told me that

[text] huh

[text] why are ya sorry? for loving me? i don’t know if i should take this as a compliment or an insult. ya don’t have to be sorry about that

Olivier sighed, pushing her phone aside. There was no point in answering now. Instead, she turned her attention to the blade sitting beside her. This time, it would work. It had to.

"Oh, Liv. What a cutie you can be"

"Of course you could"

"I'm really not cute."

Nonetheless, Olivier reacted eagerly. After all, why shouldn't she ?

"Hmph? What´s wrong, Liv?"

"Could I get a kiss, maybe ?"

"Tsk, stop saying that."

She was right, though. You could say Edan forgot it to kiss her. Relationships between two people in love were strange, weird bonds. And Edan didn’t understand the concept of it. Was there a certain time when you had to think of the other? A wrong and a right time to kiss them? Who knew. 

He crossed his arms in front of his chest, curled his lips. Damn, feeling her lips upon his was always nice. Actually, he missed that feeling more than he wanted to admit.

"It’s not my fault that we haven’t done it earlier. You were on holidays without me."

"Yeah, that is kind of my fault, huh ? I would have stayed home, but that would have broken Catherine's little heart."

Edan never seemed to be eager or open about his feelings, but she didn't mind that. She was the same way, in part- not wanting to show her feelings. But her feelings for Edan outweighed her desire to mask her emotions, and so she always made a point to let him know how eager she was to see him.

Olivier stepped closer to Edan, pulling him into her arms. "I missed you so much."

"….!"

"A… kiss?"

"You heard me right."

"Come on, just one little peck on the lips."

"Yeah, ya can show me every-"

No chance to express his approval to the end. Two hands pulling him closer and lips pressing against his own. Not just someone’s lips, no. The lips of his best friend! Paralysed at first Edan couldn’t believe what was happening. But it didn’t take him look to push the hands away with full force, taking a step back and covering his mouth. Cheeks heated up, eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

"What the fuck was that for?!"

You could tell that Edan didn’t agree with the kiss.

Oliver was hardly surprised when Edan pushed him away. He expected as much, given how averse he seemed to the thought of a relationship with another man.

He put his fingers to his lips for a fleeting moment, hesitant to believe that Edan's lips had been there only a moment before. "That's something I've wanted to do for a long time," he admitted. Oliver had already kissed Edan. There was no point in keeping that to himself anymore, was there ?

"I know it seems strange. But not unheard of. As I hear it, my counterpart in this world, the homunculus Greed, was able to act as an ally rather than an adversary to you." She could only imagine this would probably be shocking, but like Greed, Avara had a policy against lying, and that meant she sometimes had to state some very strange truths.

Only a few of the homunculus's words caught Olivier's attention, and they rang in her ears, repeating themselves until they were questioned. "This world ? Are you suggesting that there's more than one world ?"

     ’seriously?! i’m fuckin’ 13,           i won’t survive out here!’

"Well, I can assure you, you won't get far using that tone. I'll find you some place to sleep, but you'll be expected to work."

"Liv!!"

She just needed to call his name and excitement filled him. He pratically jump on her when he ran up to her. It was sure that she wouldn’t get away that easily now.

Just what she needed. Olivier slung her arms around Edan, burying her face into his shoulder and giving his neck a small kiss. "I missed you."

"Well, I have always been somewhat reckless, and I’ve never been up this far before, so I was curious." She gave a casual shrug. "I’m not looking for a fight though, so if violence ensues it will be entirely at your discretion."

Olivier eyed the other carefully, searching for any kind of weapon. She didn't seem to have any. Then again, homunculi's bodies in themselves were weapons. "Strange that one of your kind isn't looking to fight."