Christmas Came Early

She gave him no time to consider her words before she was shifting their conversation. She knew he felt bad, but Lil wasn’t about to dwell on his self depreciation. The girl loved him, everything about him including his imperfections. He wasn’t perfect, and she was so far from that goalpost. They were imperfect together, and that was everything Lillith wanted. She gathered up the boy’s attention with a kiss as she led him over to her work table. Lilith tried not to look to closely, a little nervous about his reaction after he’d revealed his insecurities to her. The girl couldn’t help but look as silence filled the room for a moment. She was heartened by the look of awe on his face.

The cape was nowhere near a perfect example of armor, but Lillith had poured her heart into the project. Her limbs shook slightly, relife and nerves all in one as Roman admired the pelt of the cat they had overcome. His praise was all she needed, but Lil’s attention was all his as he lifted her chin. She looked deeply into his liquid silver gaze with her garnet faceted eyes. Lilith felt nothing but the love and adoration that had been building since the day they met. She felt incomplete without Romulus around. Despite their youth and short friendship there was real love growing between them. He cared deeply for her and Lillith mirrored the emotion, she wanted to be his partner.

He tried to argue that she was far too good for a wolf like him, he only got away with it because of his gentle touch against her chin and his lips pressed to hers. Lillith closed her eyes, able to feel the love that Romulus had for her as he poured himself into their sweet kiss. His unneeded apology, her gift, everything was forgotten and all that mastered was her lips against his. Lil dropped the armor from her paws, forgetting it as she wrapped her arms around Roman’s silver furred neck. Nothing mattered as long as they had this, each other, relatively safe and sound.

She pulled away just slightly to answer him, happily getting lost in their kiss. "Just right, I’d argue.” She retorted with a grin, leaning forward again and pressing her nose to his as she looked up into his tarnished gaze.

"Speech"